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Strong materials are required to make bridges, and wood or stone were replaced by iron as large blast furnaces came along. The superior tensile properties of iron allowed bridge builders to use new designs,...
The British Universities Film & Video Council were pleased to receive the following entries to the Learning on Screen Awards 2012: A Boatload of Wild Irishmen LMDÓC in association with the...
Examines the development of the European sugar beet processing industry since 1802, paying particular attention to improvements in horticulture, sugar assay and processing. Archive film from the 1920s...
Looks at how scientists working on frogs established that the genes in the cell of an adult organism are present in the embryo, and that some sort of differential expression of the genes, with some genes...
Looks at how cells respond to molecular signals from outside. Features bacterial chemotaxis and reviews current knowledge of how receptors influence the flagellar rotation. Discusses growth hormones and how...
The presenter, an historian of the chemical industry, demonstrates the chemistry involved in the three principal historical processes for the production of alkali. He visits sites associated with the...
Although Napoleon Bonaparte is regarded as a charismatic politician and a military genius who laid the foundations of the modern French state, he spent his last years in exile on St Helena deliberately...
Two of the ways in which excited states can decay involve the emission of light - as fluorescence or phosphorescence. These emissions have practical applications - fluorescence is important in chemical...
Illustrates the methods of working early textile machines, from the flying shuttle to the spinning mule. Engravings, cartoons and actual examples from Helmshare Higher Mill Museum are used. The final section...
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