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  1. Making Steel and the Afterglow (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 32 min., 1995 sale: £220.00 (inclusive)

    Shows the production of steel from the raw materials - iron ore, coal and limestone - through to the final product. Explains the two main fabrication processes: oxysteel and electric furnace. Shows the...

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  2. Iron and Steel Production (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 14 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the manufacture of iron and steel from iron ore, showing the process of reduction, using carbon as a reducing agent; the destructive distillation of coal through pyrolysis; the production of coke in...

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  3. Looking at Steel (1971 Video)

    Director
    A Pendry
    Producer
    J Carr
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Free loan (2005), Videocassette. VHS. col. 17 min.

    The British steel industry in action. Commencing with open cast mining of iron ore, shows each stage of the main manufacturing processes that are required to produce steel for industry as sheet, rod, billet,...

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  4. Big Mill, The (1963 Video)

    Director
    Laurence Henson
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Follows the production of steel sheets and highlights different steel products. Filmed mainly at the Ravenscraig and Gartcosh works of Colvilles Ltd, Lanarkshire.

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  5. Industrial Revolution, The (1975 Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 23 min.

    Shows industrial developments that transformed the cottage industries of the 18th century into the power-driven factories of the 19th. Darby’s introduction of coke iron smelting mill leads to Huntsman’s...

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  6. Industrial Britain (1931 Video)

    Director
    Robert J Flaherty
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    History; Sociology; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 21 min.

    Looks at the craftsmanship involved in industrial processes. Shows both glassmaking and glassblowing for industrial and domestic use. In a steel works molten iron is poured into moulds. Steelwork is erected...

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  7. Lifestyles, Work and the Family (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Jack Leathem
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence SaLe, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines ways in which life has changed in the United Kingdom in the years since the Second World War. Looks at the changes at work and in the home and at how some attitudes have changed through that period....

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  8. Scrap Metal Giants (2011)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £17.95

    This is the first in a series of programmes which will compare the various machines available for dealing with different classes of scrap metal. This programme visits five sites in the UK and Europe and...

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  9. Big Melt, The (2014)

    Director
    Martin Wallace
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 70 minutes), £19.99

    A special commission as part of the 100 Years of Stainless Steel celebrations, THE BIG MELT is a feature length elegy to the men and women who toiled in Sheffield’s steelworks and a hymn to Britain’s...

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  10. Regressing to Quality (1995)

    Producer
    Andrew Law
    Subject
    Engineering; Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 25 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Shows how the statistical technique of regression analysis is used at three stages in the manufacture of steel pipes to manufacture North Sea oil by addressing the following questions: given the sulphur...

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