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  1. Fly-By-Wire (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Ben Shephard
    Subject
    Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. Betamax. col. 52 min.

    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...

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  2. It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow1 (1989 Video)

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

    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...

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  3. Oil Game, The (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Ian Spratley
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    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...

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  4. Piping Hot (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Philip Ashby
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    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...

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  5. Power from the Wind (1989 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    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...

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  6. Principles of Refining (2 Parts) (1989)

    Subject
    Chemistry; Technology
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 2 x 13 min.

    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...

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  7. UK Power (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Philip Ashby
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    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...

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  8. Wheels of Progress (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Nat Taylor
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    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...

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  9. Cornflake Story, The (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Betty Talks
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    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....

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  10. Fashion Means Business (1988 Video)

    Director
    Margaret Williams
    Producer
    Anne Beresford
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min..

    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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