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  1. GUESS WHAT?

    Date released
    Aug 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    345968
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: 96-year-old winding engine NCB Commentary - What is it? ... that’s the question. A merry ground? A stirring machine perhaps? - No, it’s not either of them. Maybe this will give you a clue -...

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  2. Internal Combustion Engine, The (1984 Video)

    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    The internal combustion engine was a key source of power in late 19th-century Britain - long before its role in transport. Gas engines, oil engines, petrol engines - all played their part in running the...

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  3. "Your Film Archives" search engine launched

    Date
    6 Jul 2011, 14:06
    Author
    bufvcsergio
    Post Type
    Post

    [caption id="attachment_9178" align="alignright" width="195" caption="http://unionsearch.bfi.org.uk/"][/caption] The data from some of the major national and regional film archives in the UK can now be...

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  4. Approaching Technology, The (1990 Video)

    aka: Electronics for Engine Management

    Producer
    Philip Ashby
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    A review of the increasing need for electronics in car engine management. Using a range of classic vintage cars from the British Motor Heritage Collection, shows how car ignition systems, although growing in...

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  5. Thermodynamics in Action (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    By looking at everyday devices such as refrigerators and cars shows how the basic laws of thermodynamics apply to all machines. Demonstrates the differences between the adiabatic and isothermal changes and...

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  6. Instruments in Flight (1986 Video)

    Producer
    John Stratford
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Looks at the flight instrumentation on the BA 146. Shows how the sensors fitted to engine no 3 are used to alert the crew to an engine fire and how those sensors are able to present the pilot with a...

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  7. Cleared for Take-Off (1994 Video)

    Director
    Karl Sabbagh
    Producer
    Karl Sabbagh
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., £20.00

    The programme covers the year leading up to the first flight. The Boeing 777 is the company’s latest attempt to stay ahead in the civil aviation field, in the face of competition from McDonnell Douglas and...

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  8. Acting in Turn (1974)

    Director
    Robin Jackson
    Producer
    George Seager
    Subject
    Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 20 min.

    Traces the development of the gear from the first recorded use in a crude form over two thousand years ago to its widespread use in many forms today. A lever is a means of transferring power. The gear wheel...

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  9. OLD HANDS

    Date released
    Feb 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345948
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The story of an old winding engine and of the two men who operate it. NCB Commentary - Once again near St. Helens stands Lea Green Colliery. On shift comes Jack Howard, 66 years old, to take...

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  10. 119 NOT OUT

    Date released
    Jan 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345858
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: an old steam engine at work at Warden Law colliery. NCB Commentary - Still in the county of Durham, across the high moorland country inland from Sunderland’s busy port, 62-year-old Alfred...

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