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  1. Getting Wet

    Date released
    1962
    Series name
    Look At Life
    Issue no
    183
    NoS ID
    349807
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: The growth of the sport of swimming and the building of swimming pools in Britain, with Frank Rudge, a civil engineer, José Juba, a swimming coach, Anne Cotterill, a swimmer, and Margaret...

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  2. I K Brunel (1979 Multimedia)

    Director
    Nita Spektorov
    Producer
    Nita Spektorov
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Hire, Audiocassette. 30 min. Philips compact cassette with slide synchronising pulses to USPEC.; 80 slides. col.

    An appreciative look at the achievements of this great engineer with particular emphasis on the Great Western Railway. Also shows the Clifton Suspension Bridge, the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash, his...

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  3. DC-10 plane safety - Interview with engineer (1979)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with unidentified British male engineer of an airline operating DC-10 aircraft. The aeroplane’s safety was called into question following a fatal crash in Chicago. Male interviewer not identified.

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  4. Ocean Sound This Week No.34: Programme 34 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

    OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 34 Programme 34 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 14 June 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER. TRACK...

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  5. Engineer says DC-10 planes are safe (1979)

    Genre
    Interview

    Unidentified male engineer says the DC-10 aeroplane is safe. (The aeroplane’s safety was called into question following a fatal crash in Chicago). He gives his views on the technology and blames negative...

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  6. Introduction to Building Services, An (2 Parts) (2004)

    Subject
    Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building; FE
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 20 minutes), £79.00 (RICS) £200.00 (Einstein) each part)

    A two-part series outlining the building services required for a typical office building,

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  7. The golden age for London - the Victorian civil engineers (1993)

    Genre
    Documentary; Interview

    The Golden Age for London - The Victorian Civil Engineers, presented by Lawrence Spicer. Looks at nineteenth-century civil engineering projects in London and the creation of the sewer system and underground...

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  8. Washing Machine / Vacuum Cleaner (1988 Video)

    Director
    Andrew Snell
    Producer
    Elizabeth Queenan
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £14.99 (+VAT +p&p)

    Tim Hunkin humorously explains the workings of some familiar domestic machines. His technique is to present the scientific principles and show how the machines evolved by using demonstrations and animated...

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  9. Inventive Brits: Bug Eyed Optica

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    303
    NoS ID
    352434
    Story no
    6 / 6

    COI synopsis: Some would call it the eccentricty of the British, but kinder souls define it as the British inventiveness. There’s a tradition in Britain, a compulsion to search out new ideas, to adapt...

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  10. 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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