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  1. BLAST IT!

    Date released
    Jun 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    346211
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: at the Stanton and Stavely Ironworks, near Nottingham, coal is used to fire No. 5 blast furnace. NCB Commentary - Once iron was smelted - extracted from the iron ore - with charcoal. Then...

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  2. Ideal Sounds (1986 Video)

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

    The speed of sound depends on the medium in which it is moving. A simple experiment is set up to test this statement using several different gases from which is derived the adiabatic equation indicating that...

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  3. 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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  4. Basic Oxygen Steelmaking (1974 Video)

    Director
    David Stevens
    Producer
    Glynn Jones
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 17 min.

    Follows the process of turning iron from the blast furnace, plus scrap, into steel by the use of the basic oxygen converter.

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  5. Licence to Share (1967 Film)

    Director
    Robin Hardy
    Producer
    Shaffer Tony
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Compares early method of batch distillation process with later electrolytic and vertical retort continuous processes. Modern automatic process makes use of a blast furnace for which the feed stock is...

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  6. ANY OLD IRON

    Date released
    May 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345958
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS synopsis: a small iron foundry operating on colliery premises. NCB Commentary - In 1856 the sinking of Shireoaks Colliery began. Already at that time a foundry had been established on the colliery...

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  7. COAL FOR CARS

    Date released
    Jan 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345988
    Story no
    3 / 3

    NoS synopsis: the part coal plays in the British motor car industry illustrated at the Ford factory in Dagenham NCB Commentary - As in any big industry, motor transport today plays a big part in the...

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  8. COAL FOR STEEL

    Date released
    Jun 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    346005
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: coal’s part in the production of steel NCB Commentary - Into this major British steel works streams coal, essential raw material. To start with, it will be turned into coke to feed the blast...

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  9. Steam for Steel

    Date released
    1957
    Series name
    Babcock Review
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    352823
    Story no
    4 / 4

    Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: This item shows something of the dramatic process of steel making at the new Ravenscraig Works of Colvilles Ltd., in Scotland. It indicates that much of the steel plate used by...

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  10. FUTURE DEFINITE

    Date released
    Aug 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    345967
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: inauguration of Parkside colliery, Lancashire, and the first coal from Kinneil NCB Commentary - A new name joins the list of British collieries - the first pit to be sunk in Lancashire for over...

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