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  1. Newcomen’s Atmospheric Engine

    Date released
    1952
    Series name
    Shell Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    20
    NoS ID
    349968
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI Summary - one of the oldest steam engines in the world at work Shell synopsis: The first feature is entitled ‘Newcomen’s Atmospheric Engine’.  In 1705 Thomas Newcomen, a Devonshire ironmonger,...

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. In Air Iceing

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    69
    NoS ID
    325395
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Realistically arctic conditions at the touch of a switch - liquid nitrogen, steam, and water sprays in freezing air, are some of the techniques for producing man-made snowstorms for essential...

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  9. The Steam Train Is Alive And Well

    Date released
    1973
    Series name
    This Week In Britain
    Issue no
    752
    NoS ID
    328993
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: Steam train enthusiasts saved an old engine from the breaker’s yard and now it provides a regular service for commuters and tourists in South Devon. Michele Brown gets her first ride on the...

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  10. 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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