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One of Britain’s most terrible railway disasters was the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster, when everyone on board a passenger train was killed when the central section of the bridge toppled into the Firth of Tay....
The programme covers the year leading up to the first flight. The Boeing 777 is the company’s latest attempt to stay ahead in the civil aviation field, in the face of competition from McDonnell Douglas and...
After the sinking of the ferry ‘Estonia’ on 28 September 1994, the programme looks at the failure of governments and ferry companies to address the real problem of roll-on roll-off car ferries - their...
A video-based training package that looks at control technology in everyday life, shows the design and construction of a controllable model, examines control systems in manufacturing (the development of the...
Looks at engineering failures and asks if anything can be done to prevent or reduce them. The collapsed hotel walkways in the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri, in July 1981; the failure of an...
The programme is about the Boeing 777, the world’s newest jet airliner, designed entirely in the memory store of a network of computers. The programme is following the design, construction and testing of...
Many technical problems remain in Berlin after reunification. Looks at how engineers are overcoming difficulties in telephones, energy, public transport and other technical systems.
The Japanese build cars that sell and they also bring a unique study of the potential markets to their design. The Japanese car companies are not just producing transport; they are producing lifestyle and...
Interviews are interspersed with factory scenes and graphics sequences to investigate the use of materials in a specific commercial product.
The currently used shuttle spacesuit will be unsuitable for human beings who may colonise Mars in the future because it is bulky and heavy. The programme looks at the latest experiments to solve the problem...
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