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The present-day, highly automated, factory at Talcross, Glasgow, contrasts with the labour-intensive original factory of McVitie & Price. A black-and-white film shot in the 1930s is followed by a colour...
Biography of the aeroplane designer Andrei Tupolev, including archive material of early aircraft, and Chkalov’s flight in the 1930s landing in the USA.
1: W Gilbert Hartley in conversation with Philip C Robinson: a survey of light microscopy. 2: An illustrated lecture with slides and demonstrations by Gerard Turner of the Royal Microscopical Society. 3: P C...
A record of the last bottle-oven firing in the Potteries in August 1978 at the Gladstone Pottery Museum. Craftsmen who had not placed saggars for twenty five years returned for this unique occasion to do it...
An appreciative look at the achievements of this great engineer with particular emphasis on the Great Western Railway. Also shows the Clifton Suspension Bridge, the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash, his...
A history of heat engine development from Hero of Alexandria to Rudolph Diesel. Includes archival film of old machinery in motion including steam engines (Crofton, Youngs Brewery at Wandsworth), ships, early...
Documents this distinctive transport system before its planned modernisation. Courses in the history of technology or history of transport.*
Shows industrial developments that transformed the cottage industries of the 18th century into the power-driven factories of the 19th. Darby’s introduction of coke iron smelting mill leads to Huntsman’s...
An outline examination of the remains of a set of kilns in northern Sutherland, relating them to the economy of the Sutherland Estates during the latter part of the 19th century.
A series of documentaries about the individuals who developed the art of photography in its earliest days. 1: The work of William Henry Fox Talbot. 2: The work of Nicephore Niepce and his partnership with...
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