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Advances in aviation technology give computers a central role in the control of modern jet aircraft. For many years military aircraft have incorporated fly-by-wire technology. The first fly-by-wire civil...
1870-1950 is a period characterised by a succession of innovations with remarkable effects in everyday life from new sources of power, new modes of transport, new clinical techniques to a great leisure...
A debate about oil depletion policy with leading figures in the oil business. The argument is structured around a hypothetical oil policy review by a new oil minister. Moderated by a barrister Marc Cran, the...
Studies combined heat and power (CHP), and district heating systems, and shows examples of both - Rotterdam, where a centrally situated power station, Schiehaven, has been converted to CHP and supplies how...
Considers how wind energy was used in the past to perform a range of tasks, from draining the land to grinding corn and sugar cane. With the invention of the steam engine during the Industrial Revolution the...
Part 1: Distillation, the principal separation carried out at refineries, separating hydrocarbon molecules of both crude oil and partially defined fractions. Part 2: The ‘cracking’ process - reducing the...
Visits a large-scale electricity power station, Didcot in Oxfordshire. The sheer scale of the station , which was designed to produce some 2000Mw, is contrasted with the combined heat AND power stations...
Few technological developments so captured the popular imagination during the first half of the 20th century as did motor vehicles. Using archive film from Germany and the United States the film shows how in...
Cornflakes were a new foodstuff created by industrialisation. The programmes traces how the food, first developed as part of a religious health regime, had become ‘the nation’s breakfast’ in America....
Looks at how fashion designs are produced and sold. Focuses on a new collection by Darlajane Gilroy following each stage of the process from sourcing fabrics and pattern cutting, to manufacturing, promotion...
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