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Steam Beaten by Electricity

Date released

24 Apr 1930

Series name

Empire News Bulletin

Issue no

416

NoS ID

050533

Story no

7 / 8

Slade catalogue entry: Steam beaten by electricity. Mighty railway locomotive loses badly in tug-of-war against new type electric engine. Tacoma, USA. Two engines shown coupled together back to back. The...

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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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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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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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Lady Beardmore Gives Railway Engine Trial Steam

Date released

20 May 1920

Series name

British Moving Picture News

Issue no

235

NoS ID

157840

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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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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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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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Sammy the Steam Engine (1977 Video)

Subject

Education

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

A discussion and demonstration of aspects of reading; the place and importance of oral reading, the development of word attack skills, how to handle responses and how a teacher can provide reinforcement.

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1831 - 1933

Date released

19 Oct 1933

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

646

NoS ID

333302

Story no

1 / 6

NoS Summary - modern train is compared to an "old fashioned" locomotive British Pathe synopsis: "If you wandered to the Station the morning after the night before and saw this little effort waiting for you,...

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