Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam (2003)
Fred Dibnah traces the development of steam power from the earliest experiments in the ancient world to the modern nuclear power station.
-
Episode 1 - The Early Pioneers
Release Date: 2003-07-15A visit to Cornwall illuminates the early history of the steam engine in Britain, which was developed to pump water from the tin mines.
-
Episode 2 - The Transport Revolution
Release Date: 2003-07-22How the advent of steam power radically changed the way people travelled.
-
Episode 3 - Driving the Wheels of Industry
Release Date: 2003-07-29The 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.
-
Episode 4 - Steam down the Road
Release Date: 2003-08-05The 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.
-
Episode 5 - Steam on the Water
Release Date: 2003-08-12A look at how steam power revolutionised shipping, from the earliest paddle steamers with screw propellers to more modern vessels like the Royal Yacht Britannia.
-
Episode 6 - Steam and the Modern Age
Release Date: 2003-08-19The 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.