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  1. Object Oriented Multimedia Database with Display Tools (1996 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    1: Software comprising a set of tools for managing digital representations (images, text, video, sound, etc.) of objects, with a full object-orientated database which is fully customisable and simple-to-use...

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  2. Discovery of X-Rays: 100 Years on (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Medical sciences; Physics
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 30 min.

    To mark the 100th anniversary of the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen in 1895, this programme looks at Roentgen’s life, his laboratory where the discovery was made, and the development of...

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  3. Nobel Legacy, The (3 Parts) (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Chemistry; Medical sciences; Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 3 x 60 min., 1998 sale: £19.95 (+VAT +p&p) each

    1: Dr Dudley Hershback, a 1986 Nobel Laureate for chemistry, examines the concept of chemical synthesis and explains its applications to everyday life. Features the stories of Alfred Nobel an of Robert Burns...

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  4. Origins of Scientific Cinematography, The (1994)

    Director
    Hans-Karl Galle; Virgilio Tosi
    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £49.99

    A DVD of the 3-volume video set produced during 1990-1993 to illustrate the book of the same title by Virgilio Tosi. Part 1: A compilation of documentary film sequences arranged chronologically in six...

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  5. Clarke. Life of a Microbial Biochemist: Professor Patricia H. Clarke Frs in Conversation with Professor J. Gareth Morris Frs, 10 May 1994 (1994)

    Subject
    Biology

    Professor Patricia Hannah Clarke’s main research was on bacterial enzymes: their evolution and properties, and producing and purifying them for industrial use. She was also involved in developments in...

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  6. Culture Clash. Part 1: Form and Formula (1993 Television)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 50 min.

    An intellectually stimulating and visually extravagant exploration not just of the ‘two cultures’ debate in modern Britain, but of changing images of science and scientists in history; the place of...

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  7. Culture Clash. Part 2: The Power Houses (1993 Television)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 50 min.

    A sobering study of the arts-science divide in post-war English secondary and higher education, and of the frustrations and disappointments experienced by many scientists in Whitehall during the 1960s and...

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  8. Culture Clash. Part 3: Experiments with the Truth (1993 Television)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 50 min.

    Historians and sociologists of science gleefully dissect many of the myths and legends of scientific discovery, and look at science as a fertile source of many of the images, myths and ideologies which...

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  9. EncyclopÉdie, The (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Art; History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The ‘Encyclopédie’ is probably one of the greatest single enterprises of the 18th-century Enlightenment. Edited by Diderot and d’Alembert, it was published in France between 1751 and 1772. Giles...

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  10. Late Show, The 1 (14 January 1993) (1993 Television)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 45 min.

    Sarah Dunant chairs a round table discussion about science’s claims to unique cognitive status and its place in contemporary society and culture. With Professor Lewis Wolpert, Dr Jonathan Miller, Dr Robert...

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