James Ray Steam

The main character who is a boy living in Manchester is an inventor following the paths of his father and grandfather. He possesses a mechanical talent that was inherited from his family and demonstrates this in at least two instances by building a steampowered riding wheel and a steampropelled flying device. He has a youthful idealism and sincerely dislikes the employment of technology for harmful purposes. During the film his motivations are alternately swayed by the influences of his father and grandfather.