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Hello, and welcome back to Epox.

Today we're going to talk again all about the history of steam and steam engines and all things related to that.

And I am joined by Alex.

How are you, sir?

Hello, good afternoon.

Yes, yeah, I'm very looking forward to this.

Because last time you was on, we only really scratched the surface, didn't we?

Yes, we went off on quite a tangent.

We talked about all the earliest stuff, things like just the very, very earliest concept of a steam cylinder and newcomer and a little bit of James Ward, didn't we?

So in other words, the very, very first kernels of the thing you could even

at a push cool steam engine. So today we're going to try and get a bit more into it and a bit more of the history.

Yeah, we're going to actually get into it because we went off on a massive tangent about what would you do if you had a million slaves in ancient Greece?

Could you build a steam-powered battle trierine?

I enjoyed immensely, but it didn't quite fit the brief.

So the thing I had in mind was how do we go from sort of a nukeman pump,

pumping water out of a Cornish mine, to 120 mile per hour flying Scotsman in like the 1930s, is it?

Yeah, 1920s, 1930s.

Yeah.

Like how, the history of that, the story of that.

Yeah.

It's really good to say, yeah, it's the Cornish, because it really does come down to a

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