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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,...
Jenny Barraclough: Filming Through the Cracks 11, 13 and 18 March 2015 The BFI Southbank is hosting a series of screenings and events celebrating the work of documentary filmmaker Jenny Barraclough. Man...
Profiles Clydebank artist Tom McKendrick and the motivation behind his work on the theme of iron and the mythology of industrial Clydeside. In two parts: ‘The Storyteller’, an interview with the artist...
Shows in the traditional methods of iron smelting and forging used by the Madi of Uganda. In Eremi only one old man knows how to smelt iron. A younger man goes digging some eight miles away for iron ore,...
Problems of anaemia in specific groups in the population are discussed with reference to inadequate intake of iron and vitamin B12. Problems of availability of iron and folate from certain foods are described.
Professor Barry Cunliffe looks at Danebury Hill Fort, Hampshire, an Iron Age site. Shows how an archaeologist works and what he can deduce from his discoveries. Life at Danebury is reconstructed with the aid...
Describes scientific investigation into the past. Couples modern techniques in archaeology with the story of early man in Britain, covering the earliest discovery in Kent’s Cavern in Devon, the decorative...
Looks at the role of the EEC, the World Bank, and multinational mining companies in the destruction of the Amazon forest and how it is related to Brazil’s national debt? Filmed over four years at Sossego,...
Follows the process of turning iron from the blast furnace, plus scrap, into steel by the use of the basic oxygen converter.
Demonstrates the properties of magnetic circuits with permanent magnets and pieces of soft iron. Shows how magnetic circuits can be shaped to give fields appropriate to particular devices and demonstrates...
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