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  1. Is There a Future for Research in Telecommunications? (2006)

    Subject
    Technology

    The 41st Appleton lecture given by Dr David Cleevely on 12 January 2006.. Over the past thirty years telecommunications operators have changed their relationship with their suppliers, doing less research...

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  2. Telepresence: A Video Interview with Claus Knudsen (2006)

    Subject
    Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    Rachel Hunter talks to Claus Knudsen about his research into video and telepresence, the idea of using technology to create the presence of someone who is not actually there.Recorded in Lillehammer, Norway,...

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  3. 30s Britain Volume 2: North Sea (2006)

    Director
    John Grierson; Alberto Cavalcanti; Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Elton
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 86 minutes), £12.99

    Collection of films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘North Sea’ (1938) directed by Harry Watt. An Aberdeen trawler in trouble gets assistance from Wick coastguard radio station, operated by the GPO. The first...

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  4. New Laws of Life, The (2005)

    Subject
    Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Technology

    Peter Day explores the implications of some of the principles that underlie new technology, which are beginning to have a profound effect on our daily lives. Big ideas - such as the Theory of Relativity -...

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  5. Galileo: Europe Shows the Way (2005)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    CD-ROM (PC Version, 10 minutes), free (Tren)

    The deployment phase for GALILEO, the European programme of civil radio-navigation by satellite will begin in 2006. GALILEO is compatible and interoperable with the American GPS but will furnish a more...

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  6. Bbs Documentary (2005)

    Director
    Jason Scott
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 330 minutes), $40.00

    A series of 8 short documentaries about the history of Bulletin Board Systems or BBSes, the forerunner of the Internet. It was established by a pioneering band of computer users who set up their home...

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  7. Mobile Phones - Safe? (2003)

    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Free streamed access on Vega website Online, 35 min.

    An early pilot programme for the series THE NEXT BIG THING. The panel, chaired by Peter Evans and consisting of Professor Peter Excell (University of Bradford), Dr Camelia Gabriel (Microwave Consultants...

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  8. Fire at Seven Dials (2002)

    Subject
    Civil Engineering & Building; Health & safety
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 14 minutes), £47.00

    In September 1999, the London Fire Brigade attended what at first appeared to be a routine fire at a video editing company, which occupied one of the commercial units of an old warehouse in the fashionable...

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  9. Science in Focus Special: Time and Place in the Communication Age

    Subject
    Physics; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 2 x 20 minutes), £19.99

    The history of measuring time with exact precision is taken for granted - yet only a few generations ago, clocks were set locally by the sun. Now modern electronic technology allows time to be measured...

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