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  1. OUT OF OUR PAST

    Date released
    Nov 1975
    Series name
    Review 29th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    346675
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NCB synopsis: About the importance of industrial archaeology to the coal mining industry in the U.K. Intended for general audiences.

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  2. Forth and Clyde Canal, The (1977 Film)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Illustrates the difficulties experienced in planning and cutting the Forth and Clyde Canal between 1768 and 1790. Discusses the canal today, dealing with the problems of preservation, restoration and use of...

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  3. 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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  4. Craftsmen of Dinorwic (1974 Video)

    Director
    Romola Christopherson
    Subject
    Archaeology; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 20 min.

    Shows the Dinorwic slate quarry, Llanberis, North Wales, and the men and crafts associated with it and its workshops. Retired men returned to Dinorwic to demonstrate their skills for the camera. A quarryman...

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  5. Old Glengowla Lead Mine (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Engineering
    Distribution
    out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 15 min.

    The Old Glengowla lead mine in County Galway, Ireland, operated from 1851 to 1865. Today, an underground trip down to water level shows old equipment and and a variety of minerals, and on the surface can be...

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  6. Sources of Power (1984 Video)

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

    The need for power was fundamental to the expanding industries of the 18th and 19th centuries. Water power was the first answer, but the geographical limitations led to the development of steam power in the...

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  7. Acting in Turn (1974)

    Director
    Robin Jackson
    Producer
    George Seager
    Subject
    Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 20 min.

    Traces the development of the gear from the first recorded use in a crude form over two thousand years ago to its widespread use in many forms today. A lever is a means of transferring power. The gear wheel...

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  8. 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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  9. Early Textile Manufacturing Processes (1979 Video)

    Director
    Gordon Thomson
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 17, 17, 5 min., 1996 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    3: The last piecing machine to operate in Britain was filmed at Bridgend on the Isle of Islay. The piecing machine’s function was to join the strips of wool, produced by the carding machine, to form...

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  10. Etna Brickworks (1986 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Civil Engineering & Building
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS col. 11 min., 2005sale: 15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Etna Brickworks in West Lothian was opened in 1880 and for over a century produced refractories and common building bricks using a method that remained largely unchanged. In addition to the 28-chamber kiln...

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