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  1. Painting by Numbers 1 (1982 Video)

    Producer
    Alec Nisbett
    Subject
    Art; Design
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Investigates the development of computer graphics. Analyses the uses of the technology and examines new developments.

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  2. Hard Rock (1983 Video)

    Producer
    Robin Brightwell
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the problems encountered during the digging of a five-mile tunnel to carry excess water in winter from the River Derwent in Derbyshire to a new reservoir at Carsington. Follows the miners...

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  3. Goddess of the Earth (1985 Video)

    Producer
    John Groom
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines the Dr James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis which argues that life itself actively controls the environment to enhance its own chances of survival and that the earth an all living things upon it are...

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  4. Killing Rain, A (1982 Video)

    Producer
    Jeremy Taylor
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines the problem of acid rain concentrating particularly on Sweden. Looks at sources of pollutants, how fish and tree deaths occur and at ways of halting the rain. Discusses the political arguments and...

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  5. Mathematical Mystery Tour, A (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Jon Palfreman
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A look at pure mathematics, featuring the Japanese mathematicians who broke their own world record calculating pi to 16 m decimal points, a $25,000 prize for the first person to prove that there is an...

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  6. What Einstein Never Knew (1985 Video)

    Producer
    James Burge; Andrew Millington
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Discusses the latest developments in theoretical physics. The goal is to unify the four forces of nature: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force into a single law. Einstein died...

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  7. Supercharged: The Grand Prix Car (1924-1939) (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Brian Johnson
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The history of Grand Prix motor racing from 1924, when a British Sunbeam raced with a supercharged engine, to 1939. Uses archive film and restored historic cars driven by Grand Prix driver John Watson.

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  8. Mysterious Mr Tesla, The (1982 Video)

    Producer
    Robin Bootle
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Profiles the Yugoslav-American scientist Nikola Tesla, whose experiments with electricity and wireless foreshadowed the discoveries of Edison and Marconi. The programme seeks to explain how he should be...

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  9. Spies in the Wires (1984 Video)

    Producer
    John Groom
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at ways in which computer security can be breached and at efforts to prevent this and to preserve the privacy of electronic data. Discusses the Data Encryptation Standard (DES), used by the London...

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  10. Fatal Bargain, The (1983 Video)

    Producer
    Peter Kinkeard; Sophy Robinson
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In 1981 an unidentified disease affected over 17,000 people across Spain, killing over 300 in a single year. The programme examines the events and subsequent investigations into what is now known as toxic...

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