The Past at Work

tv show

poster for The Past at Work

8 total episodes

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1 seasons

First Aired March 25, 1980

Overview

The birth and development of the Industrial Revolution is explored by visiting factories, mines, and other industrial relics where the modern world was made -- not by statesmen and philosophers, but by men, women and children with dirt on their hands.

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Steam and the Pit

Season 1 - Episode 2 - 0h 25m

Air Date

April 01, 1980

Overview

Before raw materials and coal could be taken from deep mines, an engine for pumping out water had to be developed. Anthony Burton goes underground at Britain's first colliery museum, looks at an original Newcomen steam engine and visits the oldest steam pumping engines still doing their original job.