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  1. Radar Ornithology (1963 Video)

    Subject
    Biology; Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 25, 10 min., 1995 sale: £12.00 (+p&p)

    Part 1 (1963): A film about starlines made for the Granada Television series ANOTHER WORLD. In 1963 Douglas Fisher was filming starling roosts near Colchester when he heard that Dr Eastwood and members of...

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  2. Fighting for Space (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Astronomy; Information technology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In the hundred years since Marconi transmitted his first wireless message, our communications base has been expanded many times over. Marconi’s wireless systems allowed the first men on the moon to tell us...

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  3. Reflections on Waves (1983 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    AVAILABLE ONLY AS PART OF S271/VC3, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    A case study of a new airfield surveillance radar system being developed by Marconi. Intended to help students revise key concepts about electromagnetism.

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  4. Edge, The (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Business studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Profiles four companies - GEC Marconi, Cookson Group, BNFL and Rotork - that are developing specialist skills to help them not only to remain at the forefront of their fields but to keep their businesses...

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  5. Satellite Communications (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Free loan Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 22 min. Teachers’ and students’ notes supplied

    Looks at satellite communications from Marconi’s pioneering work with radio waves to Arthur C Clarke’s vision of worldwide communication using geostationary satellites, to Intelsat VI. Other topics...

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  6. Troposcatter (1983)

    Director
    Chris Georgiou
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 20 min.

    Discusses offshore communications explaining the principle of troposcatter, discovered in 1933 by Marconi, which bounces radio waves off the troposphere, the lowest layer of the earth’s atmosphere. The...

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  7. Scenes of Essex Life (1991 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 45 min., 1996 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

    Sequences include the Fleet at Southend 1909, oyster fisheries at Brightlingsea 1920, Marconi works at Chelmsford 1934, holiday makers at Clacton, Alan Cobham’s Flying Circus at Brentwood, newspaper...

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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. Synthetic Sapphire (1956 Film)

    Subject
    Chemistry
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Examples of synthetic sapphires in use. The manufacturing process. Ammonium alum is reduced in a furnace to aluminium oxide. After sifting through fine gauze the powder is melted in an oxyhydrogen flame in a...

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  10. Bird Migration in South-East England (1959 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale (Douglas Fisher), Videocassette. VHS. st. b&w. 18 min.

    A record made from work over a number of years using high-power radar. Radar echoes from aeroplanes and birds are shown, and spectacular examples given of movements at different times of year. Also shown are...

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