
Fred Dibnah traces the development of steam power from the earliest experiments in the ancient world to the modern nuclear power station.
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Air Date: 2003-07-15
A visit to Cornwall illuminates the early history of the steam engine in Britain, which was developed to pump water f...
Air Date: 2003-07-22
How the advent of steam power radically changed the way people travelled.
Air Date: 2003-07-29
The Lancastrian steeplejack’s continuing history of steam power charts the role of steam in Britain’s 18th- and 19th-...
Air Date: 2003-08-05
The Lancastrian steeplejack’s continuing history of steam power looks at experiments in the use of steam for road tra...
Air Date: 2003-08-12
A look at how steam power revolutionised shipping, from the earliest paddle steamers with screw propellers to more mo...
Air Date: 2003-08-19
The Lancastrian steeplejack’s history of steam power concludes with a look at today’s powerful steam turbines that ge...