Explorations: Iron Horse: The Steam Engine
Duration: 1 min 47 secs
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Background to Channel 4 'The Day the World Took Off', shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
Simon Schaffer explains that to produce an effective steam engine you do not just need specific inventions, such as the separate condenser of James Watt, but also skills from clockworking, distillation, metal working and so on. Then the steam power itself improved the metal boring which fed back into better steam engines.. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-07 17:50 |
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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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