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  1. From Coal to Colour (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Paul Kafno
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at coke-making and the early history of gas lighting, and includes material on a surviving gas works at Newton Stewart in Scotland. Animation shows how coal tar collects as a by-product. Discusses...

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  2. Mass Producing Fords (1984 Video)

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

    Henry Ford’s Model T is for many the symbol of mass production. Ford followed a tradition of scientific management, analysing work practice and reorganising so as to reduce the need for skill and...

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  3. Mechanisation of Textile Spinning, The (1984 Video)

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

    Illustrates the methods of working early textile machines, from the flying shuttle to the spinning mule. Engravings, cartoons and actual examples from Helmshare Higher Mill Museum are used. The final section...

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  4. Sources of Power (1984 Video)

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

    The need for power was fundamental to the expanding industries of the 18th and 19th centuries. Water power was the first answer, but the geographical limitations led to the development of steam power in the...

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  5. Science of Aviation, The: A History (11 Parts) (1983 Video)

    Director
    Ken Wrench
    Producer
    Ken Wrench
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23, 27, 23, 28, 26, 26, 29, 32, 30, 37, 35 min.

    Part 1 (1983): An introduction to the series. Aristotle’s view of air motion over bodies. The work of Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo. Newton’s mechanics and his application of the momentum principle to...

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  6. Sulphuric Acid: The Lead Chamber Process (1983 Video)

    Director
    Brian Tomkins
    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Using laboratory demonstrations, animation and archival film (1973) of the last lead chamber process plant to be worked at Seaton Carew, County Durham, Professor Russell shows how the growing demand for...

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  7. Mysterious Mr Tesla, The (1982 Video)

    Producer
    Robin Bootle
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Profiles the Yugoslav-American scientist Nikola Tesla, whose experiments with electricity and wireless foreshadowed the discoveries of Edison and Marconi. The programme seeks to explain how he should be...

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  8. Past at Work, The. Part 4: Spindle and Shuttle (1982 Video)

    Producer
    Susanna Capon; Suzanne Davies; Michael Garrod
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Uses working museums and surviving buildings to demonstrate the impact on the landscape and the lives of working people, of inventions in the textile industry during the 18th and 19th centuries. Shows the...

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  9. Seaport, The (1982)

    Director
    Peter Mills
    Producer
    Stephanie Tennant
    Subject
    Economics
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 25 min.

    Follows the history of seaports from Roman times to the present. Great ports such as Southampton arose in the Middle Ages. As Atlantic trade developed after the discovery of the Americas, the western ports...

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  10. United Biscuits: 50 Years on (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Business studies; Technology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 15 min.

    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...

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