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New Material For Car Bodies

Date released

1970

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

33

NoS ID

350927

Story no

5 / 5

COI synopsis: Carbon fibres have proved their value in racing cars - now Lotus are going to put carbon fibre re-inforced glass fibre cars in the hands of the ordinary motorist. Lighter and stronger than...

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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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Carbon Nanotubes: The Tiniest Man-Made Tubes (1997 Video)

aka: Nanotubes: The Materials of the 21st Century

Subject

Chemistry

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £25.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

The discovery of carbon nanotubes, made by Dr Sumio Iijima of NEC, Japan, is one of the most exciting advances of the last years of the 20th century. These tubes, some thousand times smaller thatn...

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Kayaks In Carbon Fibre

Filmed

Nov 1969

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

19

NoS ID

350835

Story no

4 / 5

COI synopsis: Carbon fibre is a radically new material. It is twice as strong as the best steel but only a quarter of the weight. For the kayak men carbon fibre is the difference between winning and losing....

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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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Meet The Fibre Of The Future - Carbon Fibres

Date released

1968

Series name

London Line (Colour series 2)

Issue no

24

NoS ID

350191

Story no

2 / 4

COI synopsis: ...and to London Line straight from the laboratory and off the technological top-secret lists - comes a totally new material which may alter the shape of our World within a decade. It’s twice...

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Structural Materials (1991 Video)

Producer

Philip Ashby

Subject

Engineering; Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the mechanical testing of materials. Tensile and impact tests are widely used to compare the performance of materials being manufactured. Here tensile tests are performed on low-carbon steel and...

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Epoxy Resin

Date released

1970

Series name

Tomorrow Today

Issue no

34

NoS ID

350936

Story no

4 / 4

COI synopsis: Epoxy resin combined with carbon fibre has the stiffness and tensile strength of steel with only one-fifth of the weight. This has caused a near revolution with sculptors, architects and...

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Shapes of the Invisible (2005)

Subject

Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 72 minutes), £16.99

A series of 22 short scientific films, each up to 3 minutes in length, providing the chance to zoom into the atomic structure of 22 objects of daily life (steel, brass, concrete, aluminium, ceramic, hair,...

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Making Stuff: Stronger, Smaller, Cleaner, Smarter (4 Parts) (2011)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 4 x 60 minutes), $19.99

We are facing a revolution in the science of materials. From carbon nanotubes to spider silk, sticky gecko feet to bulletproof foam, scientists are combining high-technology with nature’s most incredible...

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