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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. Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters

    Date
    21 Oct 2013, 12:06
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Review

    Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History by Sheldon Hall and Steve Neale (Wayne State University Press, 2010). 363 pages. ISBN: 978-0814330081 (paperback), £31 About the reviewer: Julian...

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  3. Gas and Steam Turbines (1982 Video)

    Director
    Martin Wright
    Producer
    Kevin Newport
    Subject
    Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at the theory behind gas turbine cycles using studio animations and a schematic model. A visit to the CEGB Ironbridge Power Station shows how this is used in practice. Shows the working gas and steam...

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  4. Sources of Power (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Neil Cameron
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    The need for power was fundamental to the expanding industries of the 18th and 19th centuries. Water power was the first answer, but the geographical limitations led to the development of steam power in the...

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. James Watt (1959 Film)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Life and work of the Scottish engineer and inventor, particularly his invention of the separate condenser.

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  10. 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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