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Industrial Enterprises - Million Pound Order

Date released

10 May 1956

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1405A

NoS ID

020922

Story no

3 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Million Pound Order. DESCRIPTION: An order valued at about a million pounds, is for the supply of installation of high voltage submarine cable for Vancouver. It was seen at Salford...

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Electricity Distribution (2000 Video)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min., 2001 sale: £47.00 (inc VAT +p&p)

Describes how electricity is distributed from power stations to the end user. Key elements of the distribution process are addressed. These include line loss; transformers; the high voltage network;...

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Plane crash in Essex (1994)

Genre

News report; Interview

Jeff Collins reports on a plane crash in Essex which killed four people. It’s believed the Robin 210 aircraft hit a high voltage power cable at the village of Stapleford Tawney, near Ongar. Police are...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ocean Sound This Week No.51: Programme 51 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 51 Programme 51 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 11 October 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER....

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Seeing The Invisible: Hot Spot Cables

Date released

1980

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

256

NoS ID

326036

Story no

1 / 3

COI synopsis: Novel forms of photography that are making our society safer, is the theme of this week’s programme. Infra-red cameras, activated by heat rather than light. Image intensifiers that can boost...

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Building in a Balloon

Date released

8 Apr 1965

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1870A

NoS ID

025942

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Building in a Balloon. DESCRIPTION: At a power station in Nottinghamshire, engineers are working round the clock to assemble a huge high voltage transformer. A huge plastic balloon,...

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HIGH TENSION

Date released

Jan 1952

Series name

Mining Review 5th Year

Issue no

5

NoS ID

345729

Story no

2 / 4

BFI synopsis: Leatherhead Electricity Research Station power lines, and high voltage experiments by the B.E.A. NCB Commentary - This is a common enough happening - and this. What’s being done about it?...

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Machine Farm: Electric Weedkiller

Date released

1980

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

251

NoS ID

326022

Story no

2 / 3

COI synopsis: High costs, labour shortage and a hungry world have brought about a revolution down on the farm. This week’s programme looks at new ways to deal with perennial problems. Sugar beet production...

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Second Time Around: Canal Cables

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

250

NoS ID

326018

Story no

1 / 3

COI synopsis: A return to some tried and true methods from the past - but modified for modern living. 150 years ago, a new transport system was built - canals. They eventually fell into disuse, but now are...

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Electromagnetic Induction: Transformers (1996 Video)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 28 min., 2004 sale: £29.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Explains the operating principles of the transformer and gathers empirical evidence to deduce the relationships among the important variables at work. Assesses the benefits of high-voltage transmission and...

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