Steam and the Pit
Show: The Past at Work --> Season: 1 - Miniseries
AirDate: 4/1/1980
Runtime: 25
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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.