Age of Steam
(2003)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 1
Steam and the Modern Age
Episode 6 - 8-19-2003
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.
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Steam on the Water
Episode 5 - 8-12-2003
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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.
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Steam down the Road
Episode 4 - 8-05-2003
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.
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Driving the Wheels of Industry
Episode 3 - 7-29-2003
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.
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The Transport Revolution
Episode 2 - 7-22-2003
How the advent of steam power radically changed the way people travelled.
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The Early Pioneers
Episode 1 - 7-15-2003
A visit to Cornwall illuminates the early history of the steam engine in Britain, which was developed to pump water from the tin mines.
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