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Possum

Series name

Tomorrow Today

Issue no

91

NoS ID

329473

Story no

2 / 3

COI synopsis: Possum Research is a company formed to develop aids to speed up the rehabilitation of the severely disabled. People who at one time would have to face a seemingly purposeless existence can now...

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Traffic Control

Date released

Jun 1972

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

121

NoS ID

328099

Story no

5 / 6

COI synopsis: Television and computers aiding traffic control in London.

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Learning Geography with Computers (1989 Video)

Subject

Education; Geography; Information technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 67 min.

Six case studies concerned with the use of computers to support the geography curriculum in middle and secondary schools.

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Steve Jobs: One Last Thing

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.99

Profile of the founder of Apple Computers, Steve Jobs. This documentary looks not only at how Jobs’ talent, style and imagination have influenced the lives of many people in the developed world, through...

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To Secret Rosies (2011)

aka: Rosies: The Female Computers of Wwii

Director

LeAnn Erickson

Subject

History; Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.00

In 1942 soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a secret military program was launched to recruit female mathematicians who would become human ‘computers’ for the US military. Top Secret...

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Computers

Date released

Mar 1965

Series name

Mining Review 18th Year

Issue no

7

NoS ID

346278

Story no

1 / 3

NoS synopsis: The use of computers in the coal industry for payroll and other applications NCB Commentary - This is the inside of a computer. And these are some of the people who work with it. What has all...

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On The Move: Auto Tracker

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

190

NoS ID

325811

Story no

1 / 4

COI synopsis: Achieving a greater standard of accuracy in analysing objects in motion is a big problem for scientists. This week we look at various new solutions to the problem of pinpointing moving objects....

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Radio Astronomy

Date released

Sep 1965

Series name

Carrousel Britanico

Issue no

14

NoS ID

324652

Story no

2 / 5

COI synopsis: The giant radio telescopes at Jodrell Bank in north west England have contributed to both American and Russian space projects by helping to track the course of rockets and satellites. A new...

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Geometry and Computers (1991)

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Hire, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £5.00

Video of a lecture given by Dr P Giblin as part of the London Mathematical Society’s Popular Lecture series. Modern geometry interacts with computers in several ways. Computers can draw pictures for...

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Computerised ‘Phone Directory’

Date released

1970

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

31

NoS ID

350913

Story no

4 / 5

COI synopsis: With computers master minding the typesetting - new editions of telephone directories are being prepared in forty-five hours - a saving of weeks over the previous manual methods.

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