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Ten YEARS ON: ROOF CONTROL

Date released

Jun 1956

Series name

Mining Review 9th Year

Issue no

10

NoS ID

345917

Story no

2 / 4

BFI synopsis: changes in the technique of roof support systems over the past ten years NCB Commentary - No branch of mining is more important than roof control underground. The pit is always slive with...

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Condensation in Domestic Pitched Roofs (1979 Video)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 min.

When condensation occurs in the interior of a house roof the timber or timber-based material absorbs water. In the long term the timber may lose strength and fail to support the roof. Shows the causes and...

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A Special Day

Date

4 May 2017, 13:48

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Review

A Special Day UK. Blu-ray and DVD. CultFilms. 102 mins. £14.99 About the reviewer: Dr Louis Bayman is Lecturer in Film at the University of Southampton. His  principle specialisms are melodrama studies...

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Fizzy Facts

Date released

Sep 1937

Series name

Ace Cinemagazine

Issue no

36

NoS ID

349010

Story no

3 / 5

NoS synopsis: the roof garden on top of Adelaide House, overlooking the Thames near London Bridge

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Roof Gardens

Series name

Letter From London

Issue no

196

NoS ID

325094

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Geodesic Domes: Math Raises the Roof (1982 Film, Video)

Producer

David Nulsen

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Discusses whether dome size should influence its geometry; how chord factors are calculated; what geometric patterns govern the design, and how a list of materials is drawn up. Many mathematical concepts are...

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SUPPORTING PROGRAMME

Date released

Jan 1963

Series name

Mining Review 16th Year

Issue no

5

NoS ID

346196

Story no

3 / 4

BFI synopsis: The Institution of Mining Engineers meet in Manchester. From nearby Bradford Colliery a demonstration of the NCB’s remotely controlled self-advancing roof support system is piped by close...

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MINI-MINES

Date released

Jul 1964

Series name

Mining Review 17th Year

Issue no

11

NoS ID

346252

Story no

2 / 4

BFI synopsis: The model making hobby of coal board employee Percy Webb. NCB Commentary - Would you say that this was an aerial view of a modern pit? No, it’s a scale-model by Percy Webb - who works...

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Modelling Heat Transfer: One-Dimensional Steady-State Heat Transfer (1982 Video)

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Investigates the practical usefulness of simple models of heat transfer, particularly conduction, using as an example the thermal insulation properties of building materials. Looks at the performance of...

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Phoenix

Date released

Oct 1968

Series name

Mining Review 22nd Year

Issue no

2

NoS ID

346426

Story no

1 / 1

NoS synopsis: Lynemouth Colliery, Northumberland, burned out and flooded just two years ago, has gone back in to production. The biggest undersea mine in Europe, it will soon produce two million tons of coal...

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