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  1. Farming Yesteryear (1976 Video)

    Director
    John Macpherson
    Producer
    James Shiach
    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 33 min.

    A visit to the Agricultural Museum at Adamston, Huntly, owned by Hew McCall-Smith, to see some of the machines and agricultural practices of the 19th century.

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  2. Man the Inventor: The History of the Heat Engine (1976 Film)

    Subject
    Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  3. Shortwood Brickworks (1976 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Industrial archaeology film which records the processes of an extant Victorian brickworks north of Bristol before the site is renewed by its owners the Cattybrook Brick Company.

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  4. Building the Industrial Revolution (1975 Video)

    Director
    Mick Gold
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    The industrial architecture of the East Midlands. Discusses the functional demands that shaped the first factories and follows the development of industrial architecture from the cotton mills and industrial...

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  5. Hampshire’s Steam Pumping Stations (2 Parts) (1975 Video)

    Producer
    Judith S Leathart
    Subject
    Archaeology; Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 4, 10 min., 1996 sale: £35.00 (inclulsive) each part

    1 (1972): Shows a water pumping station in 1926 that survived virtually unchanged until 1971. Shows a general view of the pumping station, and then moves step-by-step from the hand stoking of the steam...

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  6. Lime Kilns at Heilam Ferry (1975 Video)

    Director
    John Macpherson
    Producer
    Ian Ralston
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 min.

    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.

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  7. Bessemer - The Last Blow (1973 Video)

    Director
    Frank Black
    Subject
    Archaeology; Technology
    Distribution
    Free loan (2005), video sd. col. 13 min.

    Outlines the development of the Bessemer process and records from start to finish a typical blow at the sponsor’s Workington works before the process was phased out in 1974.

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  8. How Gas was Made (1967 Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Free loan Sale, Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 5 min.

    Shows men at work in one of the last gasworks. The chemistry and history of the process is not explained and the works not identified.

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  9. From Wool to Wearer (1913 Film)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A survey of the work done in the factory of Peter Scott Ltd, with emphasis on the manufacture of’Pesco’ garments. Shows shearing of sheep, spinning, hand knitting machine, binding and seaming, scouring,...

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  10. Big Mill, The

    Subject
    Civil Engineering & Building; Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 96 minutes), £19.56

    A compilation of four films on steelmaking in the West of Scotland held in the National Library of Scotland collection: MAKE WAY FOR STEEL (1966) - The construction for David Colvilles Limited of the steel...

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