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  1. Newcomen’s Atmospheric Engine

    Date released
    1952
    Series name
    Shell Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    20
    NoS ID
    349968
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI Summary - one of the oldest steam engines in the world at work Shell synopsis: The first feature is entitled ‘Newcomen’s Atmospheric Engine’.  In 1705 Thomas Newcomen, a Devonshire ironmonger,...

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  2. Ploughing by Steam (1973 Film, Video)

    Director
    John Rogers
    Subject
    Agriculture; Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes steam engines and shows in action - ploughing and cultivating in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, mole draining in Essex, dredging a lake in Warwickshire and a moat in Middlesex, moving a barn in...

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  3. Steam As It was (1985 Video)

    Director
    Ken Wrench
    Producer
    Ken Wrench
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col.

    Finely constructed working models are used to trace the development of steam power from Heron of Alexandria and Branca, via Newcomen and Trevithick to heavy industrial and marine engines.

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  4. 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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  5. Donisthorpe Colliery (1990 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 37 min., 1998 sale: £11.75 (inclusive)

    Recording of the last working steam winding engine in Leicestershire. The Donisthorpe Colliery officially closed at 12 noon on Thursday 12 April 1990 - the day the recording wa made. Shows the steam engine...

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  6. West Highland (2001)

    Subject
    History; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 30 minutes), £19.99

    A classic 1960 BBC Scotland documentary made by John Gray about life and workings on the West Highland Railway in the last days of steam.

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  7. Hampshire’s Steam Pumping Stations (2 Parts) (1975 Video)

    Producer
    Judith S Leathart
    Subject
    Archaeology; Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 4, 10 min., 1996 sale: £35.00 (inclulsive) each part

    1 (1972): Shows a water pumping station in 1926 that survived virtually unchanged until 1971. Shows a general view of the pumping station, and then moves step-by-step from the hand stoking of the steam...

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  8. Launching Steam Engines from Beardmore’s Works

    Date released
    14 Jan 1924
    Series name
    Gaumont Graphic
    Issue no
    1337
    NoS ID
    079615
    Story no
    4 / 4

    Small train tows another.

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  9. The Bluebell Line

    Date released
    1980
    Series name
    This Week In Britain
    Issue no
    1110
    NoS ID
    329351
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: In Britain the age of steam is still alive and puffing, with over 100 steam railway companies now operating. Maggie Palmer visits the Bluebell Line in Sussex and meets the Reverend Awdry,...

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  10. 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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