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  1. Cold War, Hot Jets (2013)

    Director
    Simon Winchcombe
    Producer
    Simon Winchcombe
    Subject
    Engineering; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £34.99

    Britain emerged from the Second World War in financial crisis, but one technological innovation provided hope for the future: a world-leading jet aviation industry. During the Cold War, the jet engine became...

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  2. Longitude (2000 Video)

    Director
    Charles Sturridge
    Subject
    History; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 198 minutes), £12.99

    Adaptation of the Daba Sobel book telling the story of 18th-century clockmaker John Harrison’s attempts to build a chronometer, and the parallel story of Rupert Gould, who in the late 19th century...

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  3. James Burke’s Connections: The Complete Series (2017)

    Subject
    Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 500 minutes), £24.99

    Three DVD set featuring all ten episodes from the acclaimed BBC series CONNECTIONS. James Burke traces the history of science and technology. The ow did the nautical instruments of Elizabethan times give...

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  4. Mass Producing Fords (1984 Video)

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

    Henry Ford’s Model T is for many the symbol of mass production. Ford followed a tradition of scientific management, analysing work practice and reorganising so as to reduce the need for skill and...

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  5. Thomas Telford (1963 Film)

    Director
    Douglas Gray
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows a selection of Telford’s work, in the United Kingdom and abroad, and balances the relative importance of different aspects. The visual material is a mix of photography, contemporary prints and...

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  6. What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: War Machine

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

    Dan Cruickshank discovers how the Industrial Revolution created modern warfare. He looks at inventions such as The Turtle, the first submarine used in conflict; the interchangeable Baker rifle; Congreve’s...

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  7. Programmers, The (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Andrew Law
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A history of some of the main issues in computer software: Collossus, perhaps the first electronic computer; recollections of the pioneer programmers or coders - the women who worked on ENIAC, the first...

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  8. Imperial Rome and Ostia (1999 Video)

    Producer
    Charles Cooper
    Subject
    Classical studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Uses famous sites such as the ancient port of Ostia, the Baths of Caracalla and the Pantheon to examine how Imperial Rome was constructed, what materials were used, how it was defended, how it was supplied...

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  9. Design and Testing of Life Jackets, The / Artificial Respiration (1942 Video)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. st. b/w. ? min.

    A film in the Wellcome’s collection of the papers of Sir Robert Macintosh (1897-1989), anaesthetist.

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  10. United Biscuits: 50 Years on (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Business studies; Technology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 15 min.

    The present-day, highly automated, factory at Talcross, Glasgow, contrasts with the labour-intensive original factory of McVitie & Price. A black-and-white film shot in the 1930s is followed by a colour...

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