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  1. Great Day (1956 Video)

    Subject
    Sociology; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 20 min.

    The opening by of Calder Hall, the world’s first nuclear power station.the world’s first nuclear power station, by HM Queen Elizabeth II. Describes the construction and design of the station, and shows...

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  2. From Coal to Colour (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Paul Kafno
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at coke-making and the early history of gas lighting, and includes material on a surviving gas works at Newton Stewart in Scotland. Animation shows how coal tar collects as a by-product. Discusses...

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  3. Sulphuric Acid: The Lead Chamber Process (1983 Video)

    Director
    Brian Tomkins
    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Using laboratory demonstrations, animation and archival film (1973) of the last lead chamber process plant to be worked at Seaton Carew, County Durham, Professor Russell shows how the growing demand for...

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  4. It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow1 (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Neil Cameron
    Subject
    Media studies; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    1870-1950 is a period characterised by a succession of innovations with remarkable effects in everyday life from new sources of power, new modes of transport, new clinical techniques to a great leisure...

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  5. What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: Modern Medicine

    Subject
    History; Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL), £24.99

    Dan Cruickshank presents a history of medical innovation during the industrial revolution, focusing on James Lind’s treatment of scurvy with oranges and lemons, in the first ever clinical trial; Edward...

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  6. It at Work: The Mainframe and the Micro: From Dp to It (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Traces developments in micro-electronics and information technology from the early 1970s. Specially shot film of 1960s valve-based computers is contrasted with today’s ‘supermarket’ approach to...

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  7. Childbirth and Contraception: Choices and Changes (1990 Video)

    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Traces the impact of science and technology on childbirth and contraception, and highlights how women’s choices and chances had altered by 1950. Women from Richmond, North Yorkshire, talk about their...

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  8. What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: Working Wonders

    Subject
    History; Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 30 minutes), £24.99

    Dan Cruickshank traces the origins of the 21st century working world in some of the innovations of the Industrial Revolution, including James Watt’s steam engine; Richard Arkwright’s spinning frame which...

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  9. Wheels of Progress (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Nat Taylor
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Few technological developments so captured the popular imagination during the first half of the 20th century as did motor vehicles. Using archive film from Germany and the United States the film shows how in...

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  10. Mechanisation of Textile Spinning, The (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Neil Cameron
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Illustrates the methods of working early textile machines, from the flying shuttle to the spinning mule. Engravings, cartoons and actual examples from Helmshare Higher Mill Museum are used. The final section...

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