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  1. Rye House: A Generation Ahead (199 Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Free loan Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 9 min., 1995 sale: £10.00 (inclusive) Free loan

    Looks at the combined cycle gas turbine power station at Rye House near Hoddeston in Hertfordshire. Shows how natural gas burned in the turbine is used to generate electricity, and how the hot exhaust gases...

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  2. Night Mail/West Highland (2004)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 55 minutes), £19.99

    A compilation of two classic films on steam trains

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  3. Genius of Inventions, The (2013)

    Producer
    Dominic Crossley-Holland
    Subject
    Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £780.00

    This series takes twelve inventions and explores how they have changed the way people live. They explain how these inventions came about, from sparks of genius to steady incremental improvements, and...

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  4. Lord Kelvin’s Clock (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 22 min.

    About thermodynamics and the irreversibility of time. Deals with Kelvin’s attempts to establish scientifically the age of the earth. Shows the importance of steam power to 19th-century science and...

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  5. Industrial Revolution, The (1975 Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 23 min.

    Shows industrial developments that transformed the cottage industries of the 18th century into the power-driven factories of the 19th. Darby’s introduction of coke iron smelting mill leads to Huntsman’s...

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  6. What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: Working Wonders

    Subject
    History; Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 30 minutes), £24.99

    Dan Cruickshank traces the origins of the 21st century working world in some of the innovations of the Industrial Revolution, including James Watt’s steam engine; Richard Arkwright’s spinning frame which...

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  7. Man the Inventor: The History of the Heat Engine (1976 Film)

    Subject
    Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A history of heat engine development from Hero of Alexandria to Rudolph Diesel. Includes archival film of old machinery in motion including steam engines (Crofton, Youngs Brewery at Wandsworth), ships, early...

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  8. Early Textile Manufacturing Processes (1979 Video)

    Director
    Gordon Thomson
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 17, 17, 5 min., 1996 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    3: The last piecing machine to operate in Britain was filmed at Bridgend on the Isle of Islay. The piecing machine’s function was to join the strips of wool, produced by the carding machine, to form...

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  9. Watercress Line, The (1979 Video)

    Director
    Graham M Geddes
    Subject
    Archaeology; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 15 min., 1996 sale: £35.00 (inclusive)

    A record of the rise and decline of a cross-country railway and of its resuscitation as a preserved line. The construction of the Mid-Hants Railway and its opening from Alton to Winchester Junction in 1865...

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  10. Locomotion, Rail, Snow (1992 Video)

    Director
    Geoffrey Jones
    Producer
    Edgar Anstey; Geoffrey Jones
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 37 min., 1992 sale: £10.99

    LOCOMOTION (1975, 15 min), produced by Geoffrey Jones, presents a chronology of British railway history and made to commemorate the 150th anniversity of the Stockton and Darlington railway, the world’s...

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