Explorations: Iron Horse: How did the Rocket steam engine work?
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Background to Channel 4 'The Day the World Took Off', shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
Simon Schaffer talks to a museum curator at the York railway museum about the way in which steam engines worked and the imagination and technical ability of George Stephenson. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-07 17:43 |
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| Collection: | A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off) |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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