1x1 - The Early Pioneers

July 15, 2003

A visit to Cornwall illuminates the early history of the steam engine in Britain, which was developed to pump water from the tin mines.

1x2 - The Transport Revolution

July 22, 2003

How the advent of steam power radically changed the way people travelled.

1x3 - Driving the Wheels of Industry

July 29, 2003

The 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.

1x4 - Steam down the Road

August 5, 2003

The 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.

1x5 - Steam on the Water

August 12, 2003

A look at how steam power revolutionised shipping, from the earliest paddle steamers with screw propellers to more modern vessels like the Royal Yacht Britannia.

1x6 - Steam and the Modern Age

August 19, 2003

The 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.

Fred Dibnah

Self - Presenter