These twenty five-minute Scottish heritages download charts the history of the Steam engine from the 1700s.
• hear about the inventors of these steam engines.
• see various types of steam engines the oldest dates from the early 1820s.
• these were the first portable power plants. Self-propelled steam engines followed.
• see the steam engine powering a threshing mill, the saw bench,
• how steam traction engines were used for road haulage.
• be amazed how our ancestors had the capability to move from one type of technology to the next.
• appreciate that our ancestors handled STEM subjects with ease.
• see the modern use of steam engines at various Aberdeenshire steam fayres.
• find out about the restoration people who bring steam to todays fascinated audiences.
• see the splendour of the general purpose steam engine, the steam road roller, steam tractor, steam tar boiler and chucky stone cart, steam wagons all of which are discussed.
• the brand names such as Sentinel, Foden, Burrell, Fowler, Aveling & Porter, Tasker, Marshall and Wallis Advance can all be seen in action in this factual clip about the steam era which had its heyday from the 1880s to 1920s