Aired: 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.
Aired: 7/22/2003
How the advent of steam power radically changed the way people travelled.
Aired: 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.
Aired: 8/5/2003
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.
Aired: 8/12/2003
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.
Aired: 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.
