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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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