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All At Sea: Gloria Two

Date released

1983

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

308

NoS ID

352460

Story no

2 / 6

COI Synopis - In this programme, we look at what the sea can offer us in terms of energy, food and minerals. It also examines its awesome power and offers some solutions for safety at sea. The sea has many...

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Undrained Triaxial Test (1975 Video)

Director

John Macpherson

Producer

Gavin Littlejohn

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats.

Description and operation of a triaxial shear test on a cylindrical clay sample subjected to an all-round pressure. No drainage is permitted. Shear stress/shear displacement diagrams are illustrated which...

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Aspects of Earth Resources (1995 Multimedia)

Subject

Geology

Distribution

CD-ROM

Teaching module on aspects of earth resources, with the aim of putting geology into the broader context of environmental management, pollution control and the water and engineering industries. It also seeks...

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City That Waits to die, The (1970 Video)

Producer

Michael Barnes

Subject

Engineering; Geology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 55 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the efforts of a small group of scientists to avert the danger the city of San Francisco faces from earthquakes.

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Oil: Finds for the Future (1985 Video)

Subject

Environmental science; Geography; Geology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £55.00 (+VAT +p&p)

An analysis of world oil production, reserves and prospects, predicting how long oil supplies will last Cconsiders factors such as new discoveries, new production technology, new extraction technology and...

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Journey from the Centre of the Earth: Architecture (2004)

aka: Building Blocks

Subject

Civil Engineering & Building; Geology

Distribution

VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), off air recording under licence

A programme from the series in which geologist Dr Iain Stewart explains how the rocks beneath our feet have shaped the human history of the Mediterranean. Here he reveals how rocks influenced the Egyptians...

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Against the Sea: A Case Study in Coast Erosion (1968 Video)

Director

W John Allen; Michael J Clark

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 17 min

Barton is a cliff-top resort in Christchurch Bay, Hampshire, England. Property and amenities are threatened by coastal retreat of up to a metre a year. The problem is caused by a combination of marine...

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Earthquakes: Seismology at Work (1987 Video)

Producer

Tony Jolly

Subject

Geology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Discusses the seismic body waves which are generated by earthquakes; how they arise, how they propagate through the Earth’s interior, and how they are detected. Opens with film of the 1964 Alaska...

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20th Century Disasters (1999 Video)

Subject

Engineering; Geology; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 60 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Footage from British Movietone newsreels and elsewhere. Shows air, road and rail crashes, buildings collapsing, fires, floods, tornadoes and earthquakes. Air crashes include: the Hindenburg explosion,...

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Glengowla (2010 Video)

Subject

Archaeology; Engineering

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 36 minutes), £12.95

Glengowla lead mine near Oughterard, County Galway in Ireland started in 1851 and mining was suspended in 1865. During that short 14 year period, "160 square fathoms" was stopped to produce 390 tonnes of...

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