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Date released

5 Oct 1969

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

69/81

NoS ID

113801

Story no

5 / 8

Extras

1 film clip

400,000 volt live power lines are no longer a deterrent to line-men of the Electricity Board. A specially developed safety unit allows them to work while the current flows.

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Hidden Power (1994 Video)

Producer

Philip Ashby

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Explores the materials science behind the engineering of national electricity supplies, both above and below ground. Shows work inside a high-voltage test lab and inside the production areas for porcelain...

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Miners strike - Energy Secretary urges resolution (1984)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Energy Secretary Peter Walker on the need for the TUC to meet the NCB to reach an agreement towards ending the continuing miners’ strike, on violence on the picket lines, and on the effect...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.52: Programme 52 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 52 Programme 52 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 18 October 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER....

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Megavolt Power Lines

Date released

1974

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

133

NoS ID

325557

Story no

1 / 3

COI synopsis: Engineers are competing with the elements to produce over five million volts of man-made lightning. On a test rig, the feasability of transmitting electricity at this huge voltage is being...

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Danger of Death

Subject

Civil Engineering & Building; Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, minutes), £99.00

Features Ian Smith who lost both hands and feet as a result of contact with an overhead electricity cable. This and other reconstructions of past accidents are used to show how they can be avoided. The video...

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HIGH TENSION

Date released

Jan 1952

Series name

Mining Review 5th Year

Issue no

5

NoS ID

345729

Story no

2 / 4

BFI synopsis: Leatherhead Electricity Research Station power lines, and high voltage experiments by the B.E.A. NCB Commentary - This is a common enough happening - and this. What’s being done about it?...

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Check It out Before You Dig It out (2000)

Subject

Civil Engineering & Building; FE; Health & safety

Distribution

Sale Hire, VHS (PAL, 16 minutes), £13.25 (hire) £105.75 (sale)

Gives essential safety training for contractors working near underground cables and overhead lines. It will help employers to meet their legal responsibility for health and safety. Highlights the dangers of...

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National Grid, The (1982 Video)

Subject

Engineering; Mathematics

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 22 min.

Examines the UK National Grid, looking at its structure in terms of power generation, transmision lines and sinks of power, and at the problems of coping with fluctuating power demands. Eric Chefneux,...

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Line Overload Indicator

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

69

NoS ID

351134

Story no

2 / 4

COI synopsis: When lightning strikes electricity power lines and there’s black-out, this neat, automatic device immediately helps to pinpoint the break, saving hours of frustrating checking.

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