The Re-Inventors (UK)

All Episodes 2006

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  • 2006-11-20T20:00:00Z
  • 45m
  • 3h 45m (5 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Documentary
In this brand new show exclusive to UKTV Documentary, Dick Strawbridge (Scrapheap Challenge) and his son James are on a mission: to “re-invent” some great inventions from the past and to discover what they reveal about how we used to live.

5 episodes

Series Premiere

2006-11-20T20:00:00Z

1x01 The Life-Saving Apparatus

Series Premiere

1x01 The Life-Saving Apparatus

  • 2006-11-20T20:00:00Z45m

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.

2006-11-21T20:00:00Z

1x02 Stephenson’s Rocket

1x02 Stephenson’s Rocket

  • 2006-11-21T20:00:00Z45m

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.

2006-11-22T20:00:00Z

1x03 The Parish Fire Pump

1x03 The Parish Fire Pump

  • 2006-11-22T20:00:00Z45m

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?

2006-11-23T20:00:00Z

1x04 The Power Loom

1x04 The Power Loom

  • 2006-11-23T20:00:00Z45m

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

2006-11-24T20:00:00Z

1x05 The Threshing Machine

1x05 The Threshing Machine

  • 2006-11-24T20:00:00Z45m

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.

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