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  1. Steam As It was (1985 Video)

    Director
    Ken Wrench
    Producer
    Ken Wrench
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col.

    Finely constructed working models are used to trace the development of steam power from Heron of Alexandria and Branca, via Newcomen and Trevithick to heavy industrial and marine engines.

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  2. Man the Inventor: The History of the Heat Engine (1976 Film)

    Subject
    Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A history of heat engine development from Hero of Alexandria to Rudolph Diesel. Includes archival film of old machinery in motion including steam engines (Crofton, Youngs Brewery at Wandsworth), ships, early...

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  3. Engineering Cal Modules (1995 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    Thermodynamics (8 modules): heat, work, energy, steady flow energy, steam, gas laws, applications.

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  4. Fred Dibnah’s World of Steel, Steam and Stone - Part 1 (2006)

    Subject
    Engineering; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 174 minutes), £19.99

    A series of 6 30-minute programmes in which the late Lancastrian steeplejack Fred Dibnah traces the development of industrialisation in Britain.

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  5. Hampshire’s Steam Pumping Stations (2 Parts) (1975 Video)

    Producer
    Judith S Leathart
    Subject
    Archaeology; Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 4, 10 min., 1996 sale: £35.00 (inclulsive) each part

    1 (1972): Shows a water pumping station in 1926 that survived virtually unchanged until 1971. Shows a general view of the pumping station, and then moves step-by-step from the hand stoking of the steam...

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  6. Romance of Engineering, A (2009)

    Director
    Stanley Russell
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 97 minutes), £12.99

    A collection of promotional films made by Stanley L Russell for Scottish engineering companies. The compilation comprises:MEN OF IRON (c. 1947, b/w) - An overview of iron propellor manufacture at the Blair...

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  7. Locomotion, Rail, Snow (1992 Video)

    Director
    Geoffrey Jones
    Producer
    Edgar Anstey; Geoffrey Jones
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 37 min., 1992 sale: £10.99

    LOCOMOTION (1975, 15 min), produced by Geoffrey Jones, presents a chronology of British railway history and made to commemorate the 150th anniversity of the Stockton and Darlington railway, the world’s...

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  8. London Water Ring Main: Below the Surface (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Free loan, Videocassette. VHS. col. 44 min., Free loan

    Shows the London Water Ring Main, a system of gravity-fed tunnels constructed deep under London for bringing drinking water from Thames Valley treatment works into the capital. Pumping stations located at...

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  9. Fred Dibnah’s Building of Britain (2004)

    Subject
    Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 3 x 60 minutes), £10.99 each or £29.99 boxed set of 3

    A six-part series of 30-minute programmes in which steeplejack Fred Dibnah uncovers the craftsmanship behind some of the United Kingdom’s most astounding architectural feats. Each of the three tapes...

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  10. Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (7 Parts) (2004)

    Subject
    Engineering; FE; History; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 350 minutes), £39.99

    Drama-documentary series recreating epic moments in the industrial revolution. Each episode explores a specific triumphal construction of the era.

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