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  1. Great Bore, The (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Jack Emery
    Subject
    Drama; Engineering
    Distribution
    Free loan, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., Free loan

    A drama-documentary about the Channel Tunnel and the Thames Tunnes. Isambard Kingdom Brunel returns from the dead to inspect, admire and assess the Channel Tunnel before it is opened by the Queen. He...

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  2. Science Shack: The Millennium Bridge (2004)

    aka: Building Blocks

    Subject
    Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building
    Distribution
    VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), off air recording under licence

    Adam Hart-Davis investigates why the Millennium Bridge wobbled and how it was fixed by building his own wobbling bridge.

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  3. To Engineer is Human1 (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Alex Nisbett
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows how engineeering science is subject to human limitations. Professor Henry Petroski contends that structures can fail in ways that have been dismissed as virtually impossible. Uses footage of some of...

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  4. Spacesuit (1991 Video)

    Director
    Patrick Uden
    Producer
    Patrick Uden
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1993 sale: £20.00

    The currently used shuttle spacesuit will be unsuitable for human beings who may colonise Mars in the future because it is bulky and heavy. The programme looks at the latest experiments to solve the problem...

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  5. Piper Alpha: The Human Price of Oil (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Charles Furneaux
    Subject
    Engineering; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 40 minutes), £195.00

    In July 1988, 167 men were killed in the world’s worst oil industry disaster to date. Using interviews with eyewitnesses who were aboard the ‘Piper Alpha’ oil rig, questions the standards of design and...

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  6. Ford Guide to Cadcam, A (1984 Video)

    Director
    Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Free loan, Videocassette. VHS. col. 23 min.

    Shows Ford’s computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacture systems in the design and manufacture of Ford vehicles.

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  7. Channel tunnel break through links UK and France (1990)

    Genre
    News report; News bulletin

    IRN 22.00 news bulletin with Katherine Kelly, focusing on the breaking through by bore hole in the Channel Tunnel linking Britain and France – the first time since the Ice Age. Includes report by Leon...

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  8. Propping Up Pisa (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Cynthia Page
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examimes theories behind the tilt of the leaning tower of Pisa and its acceleration, leading to the prediction of the tower’s imminent collapse. One theory is that expansion caused by the heat of the sun...

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  9. New Broadcast Standards and Systems (1990 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, 23 videocassettes. VHS. col. 20 hours.

    A video-based distance-learning package based on the IEE Vacation School held at Southampton University in July 1990. The course is a comprehensive review of a range of topics affecting present and future...

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  10. After the Flood 2 (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Bettina Lerner
    Subject
    Engineering; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

    The Mississippi is one of the most rigorously controlled and engineered rivers in the world, yet in the summer of 1993 it suffered the worst flooding in its history. Fundamental questions are being asked...

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