Tales of Somerset Steam
Tales of Somerset Steam

Author: Roger Evans

Publisher: Countryside Books (GB)

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781846741708

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The discovery of steam-power changed people's lives for ever in Somerset. It fuelled the industrial revolution and was used to drive local mills, mines and trains. Later it brought great changes to the farming and craft industries. Bridgwater author Roger Evans begins with his own local childhood memories of seaside excursions taken and then takes the reader through the era that saw steam as the key to all progress especially to the development of the local railway network.

Steam in Somerset
Steam in Somerset

Author: Derek Huntriss

Publisher: Specialist Marketing International

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9780711024793

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Fred Dibnah's Age Of Steam
Fred Dibnah's Age Of Steam

Author: David Hall

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2013-03-31

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1448141400

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Britains favourite steeplejack and industrial enthusiastic, the late Fred Dibnah, takes us back to the 18th century when the invention of the steam engine gave an enormous impetus to the development of machinery of all types. He reveals how the steam engine provided the first practical means of generating power from heat to augment the old sources of power (from muscle, wind and water) and provided the main source of power for the Industrial Revolution. In Fred Dibnahs Age of Steam Fred shares his passion for steam and meets some of the characters who devote their lives to finding, preserving and restoring steam locomotives, traction engines and stationary engines, mill workings and pumps. Combined with this will be the stories of central figures of the time, including James Watts - inventor of the steam engine - and Richard Trevithick who played a key role in the expansion of industrial Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries.