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Steam and the Pit

Before raw materials and coal could be taken from deep mines an engine for pumping out water had to be developed. In the second of eight films, 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.

English
  • Originally Aired April 1, 1980
  • Network BBC Two
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