Season 1
6 episodes · Jul 15, 2003
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- S1E1
The Early Pioneers
Jul 15, 200330mA visit to Cornwall illuminates the early history of the steam engine in Britain, which was developed to pump water from the tin mines.
- S1E2
The Transport Revolution
Jul 22, 200330mHow the advent of steam power radically changed the way people travelled.
- S1E3
Driving the Wheels of Industry
Jul 29, 200330mThe Lancastrian steeplejack’s continuing history of steam power charts the role of steam in Britain’s 18th- and 19th-century industrial expansion, and the use of huge stationary steam engines in mills, collieries and steel works until well into the 20th century.
- S1E4
Steam down the Road
Aug 5, 200330mThe Lancastrian steeplejack’s continuing history of steam power looks at experiments in the use of steam for road transport that took place a full century before the invention of the car.
- S1E5
Steam on the Water
Aug 12, 200330mA look at how steam power revolutionised shipping, from the earliest paddle steamers with screw propellers to more modern vessels like the Royal Yacht Britannia.
- S1E6
Steam and the Modern Age
Aug 19, 200330mThe Lancastrian steeplejack’s history of steam power concludes with a look at today’s powerful steam turbines that generate electricity and the preservation of our steam heritage in museums.