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  1. Light Stuff, The (1990 Video)

    Producer
    Mark J Davis
    Subject
    Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1993 price: £20.00

    Tells of a group of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who designed and built a human-powered aircraft to recreate the mythical successful flight by Daedalus.

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  2. From Coal to Colour (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Paul Kafno
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at coke-making and the early history of gas lighting, and includes material on a surviving gas works at Newton Stewart in Scotland. Animation shows how coal tar collects as a by-product. Discusses...

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  3. Great Day (1956 Video)

    Subject
    Sociology; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 20 min.

    The opening by of Calder Hall, the world’s first nuclear power station.the world’s first nuclear power station, by HM Queen Elizabeth II. Describes the construction and design of the station, and shows...

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  4. Fly-By-Wire: Technology on Trial (1990 Video)

    Director
    John Longley
    Producer
    John Longley
    Subject
    Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1993 price: £20.00

    The Airbus A320 is the first ‘fly-by-wire’ civil airliner. It crushed twice during its first two-and-a-half years in service. In both cases there was speculation that the plane’s computer software may...

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  5. Getting the Bird

    Date released
    Nov 1937
    Series name
    Ace Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    45
    NoS ID
    349059
    Story no
    2 / 5

    NoS synopsis: the work of the Retail Trading Standards Association testing samples of material for strength and wearing qualities

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  6. Planning the Production (1988 Video)

    Producer
    David Saunders
    Subject
    Information technology; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Looks at how the Digital Equipment Corporation plans the production of disk drives.

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  7. Search for Competitive Advantage, The (1989)

    Subject
    Business studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION

    David Shorrock of IBM explains how a ‘strategic application search’ approach to information technology works. A series of workshops is designed to get the company to focus on the competitive force...

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  8. Insat: Implications for a Nation (1986 Video)

    Producer
    John Stratford
    Subject
    Information technology; Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    Looks at the wider implications of satellite technology for India, focusing ib the tensions between the needs of the private television owners (mainly rich, educated and urban) and the needs of the...

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  9. Fibre Web, The (1963 Film)

    Director
    Henry Cooper
    Producer
    Alan Harper
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Raw materials required for paper-making, production processes and end products. The uses to which paper is put.

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  10. Women in the Eighties. Part 3: New Technology in Sweden (1981 Video)

    Producer
    Suzanne Davies
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at the impact of new technology on women’s work in large organisations and the ways in which women working within unions or organised groups are fighting to protect jobs in the secretarial and...

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