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Adam Hart-Davis investigates why the Millennium Bridge wobbled and how it was fixed by building his own wobbling bridge.
Shows the first blast, the building of the world highest steel bridge, and the construction of Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River.
The bridge, opened at the end of October 1973 to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic, is the longest single span suspension bridge in Europe. The film covers the project from...
Robert Stephenson’s Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1970. Shows the reconstruction of the bridge, with steel arches supporting and eventually replacing...
Demonstrates the basic principles of design of posterior adhesive (Maryland) bridges on laboratory models. Shows the step-by-step preparation of the abutments (a molar and pre-molar tooth) on a technique model.
A documentary filmed over six years that charts the building of the Forth Road Bridge, from the driving of the first pile to the bridge’s opening by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in September 1964. DVD...
The bridge was destroyed when its central span, the third longest in the world at the time, went into oscillation in a high wind. Dramatic shots of the disaster itself are preceded by brief scenes of the...
Surveys the problems encountered in designing a plate girder bridge in steel. Discusses basic concepts and considers the strength of materials, stability, fatigue and additional stresses.
A reversible, rewarding, low stress and low cost alternative to traditional bridgework. Single or multiple missing teeth can be replaced with a bonded prosthesis that requires minimal, if any, tooth...
Shows movement sessions with mentally handicapped adolescents and adults in which Veronica Sherbourne works in a training centre and a subnormality hospital. These activities are presented as enjoyable...
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