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July 22, 2003

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Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam - S1 - E2

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

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Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam: Season 1 - 6 Episode s

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's Age of Steam: All seasons

S1: Season 1
6 Episode s