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  1. Flexible Gabions for Coastal Protection (1970 Film)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows ways in which gabions are used for walls, groynes and outfalls on the coast and in tidal waters. First or second year undergraduates in civil engineering.*

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  2. Flexible Gabions for River Bed Control Works (1970 Film)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Weirs and groyning systems in rivers. The film covers only one of several techniques in the field. Shows a variety of structures.

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  3. Build Yourself a World, H S (1969 Film)

    Director
    Richard J Need
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Looks at the contribution that civil engineers make in achievements such as bridges, dams and harbours, and in less spectacular work.

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  4. Operation Glen Canyon: The Construction of the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River (1957 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Free loan, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., Free loan

    Shows the first blast, the building of the world highest steel bridge, and the construction of Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River.

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  5. Story of the Hoover Dam, The (1955 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Free loan, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min., Free loan

    Contemporary account of the construction and operation of the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, completed in 1936 as Boulder Dam and given it original name in 1947.

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  6. Harbour Goes to France, A (1944 Film)

    Subject
    Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Archive copy in the Imperial War Museum. The story of ‘Mulberry’, a prefabricated harbour larger than Dover Harbour, designed, tested and built in Britain, towed across the English Channel, and set down...

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  7. Operation ‘Pluto’: The Development and Production of the Hamel Pipelines (1944 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering; History
    Distribution
    Free loan, Videocassette. VHS. col. 36 min., Free loan

    Looks at the Hamel piplines, the purpose of which was to delivering petrol wherever required, without harbours or ships, on the invasion coast of France during World War 2. The success of this top-secret...

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  8. Failure of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, The (1940 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The Tacoma Narrows is near Seattle, Washington, and is exposed to westerly winds from the Pacific Ocean. The construction of a suspension bridge across the narrows began in Novermber 1938 and in July 1940...

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  9. Story of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, The (1940 Film)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The Tacoma Narrows is near Seattle, Washington, and is exposed to westerly winds from the Pacific Ocean. The construction of a suspension bridge across the narrows began in November 1938 and in July 1940 the...

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  10. Oscillations of a Model Suspension Bridge in Wind & The Story of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge 1938-1940 (Video)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Free loan, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. st. b&w. 15 min.

    To assist the designers of the proposed Severn bridge, experiments were carried out by the National Physical Laboratory on behalf of the Ministry of Transport. Followed by THE STORY OF THE TACOMA NARROWS...

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