Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam

Season 1, Episode 3: Driving the Wheels of Industry

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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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