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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Life-Saving Apparatus

    • November 20, 2006
    • UKTV History

    Henry Trengrouse's life saving device rescued thousands of stranded sailors from certain death. The boys come up with their own and take on Her Majesties Coastguard in a rescue across Porthleven Harbour.

  • S01E02 Stephenson’s Rocket

    • November 21, 2006
    • UKTV History

    Perhaps the most famous invention of all! The Re-Inventors head to York to face their greatest challenge - creating a powered locomotive that will take on George Stephenson's iconic 'rocket' in a race.

  • S01E03 The Parish Fire Pump

    • November 22, 2006
    • UKTV History

    The 1725 Parish Fire Pump is widely considered to be the birth of the fire engine and is the brainchild of inventor Richard Newsham. Can the boys' version beat the original invention in a head to head fire fight?

  • S01E04 The Power Loom

    • November 23, 2006
    • UKTV History

    A machine that changed the face of the nation, Edmund Cartwright's Steam Powered Loom, is the challenge facing Dick and co.

  • S01E05 The Threshing Machine

    • November 24, 2006
    • UKTV History

    The Re-Inventors have just two days to rebuild Andrew Meikle's Threshing Machine from scratch - and then take on an original in a head to head contest.