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  1. Science in the Primary School (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    Aimed at heads and teachers in primary schools to encourage them to develop a policy for science teaching. Shot in six schools in two authorities in Merseyside and in Edge Hill College of Education. Brings...

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  2. Christmas Lectures 1977: The History of Mars (1977)

    Subject
    Astronomy; Science

    Carl Sagan’s introduction to the Red Planet from the Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures series from 1977 is streamed here by the Ri Channel as part of a collection of videos gathered under the...

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  3. Goethe As Scientist (1975 Video)

    Director
    David R Clark
    Producer
    David R Clark
    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. b&w. 37 min.

    Professor Heller stresses the dangers of modern scientific thinking, and gives evidence that they were foreseen by Goethe. Professor Wells shows how many scientists would reply. Among Goethe’s ideas...

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  4. World of Buckminster Fuller, The (1971)

    Director
    Robert Snyder
    Subject
    Environmental science; Philosophy; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 80 minutes), £16.99

    Architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive...

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  5. Prizewinners, The (1962 Video)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. 60 min.

    Stephen Black engages Dr Max Perutz and Dr John Kendrew, Nobel Prize winners in chemistry for their discovery of the molecular structure of haemoglobin and myoglobin, and Dr Francis Crick, Dr James Watson...

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  6. Prizewinners, The: Interview with John Kendrew (1962 Video)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. 60 min.

    Nobel Prize-winning chemist Dr John Kendrew shows how, even at the time of the Snow-Leavis ‘two cultures’ debate, some Cambridge scientists were managing effortlessly to transcend the science-arts divide...

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  7. Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940)

    Director
    D. I. Yashin
    Subject
    Biology; Science

    Controviersial Soviet medical film showing Dr Sergei S. Bryukhonenko using mechanical resuscitation techniques to induce clinical death in a dog which is then revived. Part of the film shows a seemingly...

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  8. Scientific Enquiry: Big Questions - The Nature of Scientific Enquiry

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 5 x 100 minutes), £19.00

    Five 20-minute programmes on the life, work and struggles of scientists who have made great intellectual leaps: Faraday, Darwin, Mendel, Mendeleev, and Hubble. The programmes ask how they did it, what they...

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  9. What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: Working Wonders

    Subject
    History; Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 30 minutes), £24.99

    Dan Cruickshank traces the origins of the 21st century working world in some of the innovations of the Industrial Revolution, including James Watt’s steam engine; Richard Arkwright’s spinning frame which...

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  10. What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: Modern Medicine

    Subject
    History; Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL), £24.99

    Dan Cruickshank presents a history of medical innovation during the industrial revolution, focusing on James Lind’s treatment of scurvy with oranges and lemons, in the first ever clinical trial; Edward...

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