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  1. Megastructures (3 Parts) (2010)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 188 minutes), £19.99

    This three-part series investigates the challenges in terms of design and technology involved in producing some of the greatest triumphs of modern engineering. Using live action, re-creations, archival...

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  2. Accidental Inventions That Changed the World (2009)

    Subject
    Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £29.99

    Accidental Inventions examines the stories behind ten significant inventions, using historical photographs, 3D graphics, and interviews with professors and professionals from the FBI to the U.S. Air Force....

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  3. From Design to Manufacture (1990 Video)

    Producer
    Ted Smith
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    When this programme was filmed Austin Rover had completed the design on their K-series engine and had just commissioned the assembly line. Discusses the design philosophy behind the engine leading to the...

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  4. Pantanal: Lifewaters (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    The river Plate Basin, South America’s second most important river system after the Amazon, is the site of a struggle between governments and development banks on one side and environmentalists and local...

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  5. Liliane Lijn (2005)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 29 minutes), £13.99

    Science and Surrealism, ancient myths, Buddhism and feminism are among the frameworks of ideas important to Liliane Lijn’s art. In Paris at the end of the 1950s, in Greece and New York, and in England...

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  6. Solar Sinter (2011)

    Subject
    Energy; Technology

    In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance. In...

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  7. Challenge, The: The Riddle of the Tay Bridge Disaster (2002)

    Subject
    Design; Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 29 minutes), £34.99

    One of Britain’s most terrible railway disasters was the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster, when everyone on board a passenger train was killed when the central section of the bridge toppled into the Firth of Tay....

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  8. Learning Through Interactive Video (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Jeremy Cooper
    Subject
    Education; Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at three examples of videodiscs used in training: the LGTB disc WHO DO YOU THINK YOU’RE TALKING TO?, used by London Transport to train bus drivers in customer relations; the BBC’s DOMESDAY DISC...

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  9. Powder Diffraction (5 Parts) (1988 Video)

    Director
    Colin Grimshaw
    Producer
    Jenny Poland; Stephen E Tarling
    Subject
    Chemistry
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 60 min.

    Powder diffraction is an extremely versatile technique which can be applied to many types of polycrystalline material - examples are cosmetic, pharmaceutical, refractory, cement, mineral, pigment and...

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  10. Digital Cemeteries (2007)

    Director
    Yorgos Avgeropoulos
    Subject
    Environmental science; Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 53 minutes), 11.04 Euros

    Documentary about the environmental impact of the huge quantity of waste generated by old and obsolete computer hardware and peripherals. Much of the west’s electronic waste ends up illegally in China. In...

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