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This programme looks at the historical development of instruments that allow scientists to look at small objects in detail.
This programme looks at the historical development of instruments that allow scientists to look at small objects in detail.
| Module code and title: | S103, Discovering science |
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| Item code: | S103; 09 |
| First transmission date: | 1998 |
| Published: | 1998 |
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| Duration: | 00:29:23 |
| Note: | Loan copy available on compilation video S103/VCR4. |
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| Producer: | Stephen Evanson |
| Contributors: | Savile Bradbury; Dee Breger; Peter Capaldi; Don Eigler |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Footage description: | Footage - Man sitting looking at rocky landscape. Atomic images from a scanning tunnelling microscope. Scan of atoms on computer screen. Archive b/w film of scientists at work. Images of microscopic organisms taken with electron microscope. Computer graphics of atomic structures. B/w film promoting penicillin. Lab mice. Scientists. 19th century microscope (0'13"-2'47") - Powell & Leyland microscope. Micrographia: b/w illustration of bug viewed through microscope. B/w illustration of Antony Leeuwenhoek. Replica of simple Leeuwenhoek microscope. Microscope with two lenses designed by Robert Hook. Hook's micrographia: flea, various drawings. Ornate microscope (2'48"-5'36") Formula written in ink. Art gallery: detail of painting of meadow. B/w film of William Bragg addressing the camera (5'37"-7'11") - X-ray crystallography equipment in laboratory. B/w film of scientists in lab. William Bragg with a 3D atomic model. Lawrence Bragg (7'12"-7'59"). Dorothy Hodgkin on stamp. Book: "Concerning the nature of things" by William Bragg. B/w photo of Hodgkin with children (8'00"-8'51") - B/w photo of Max Perutz. Photo of 3D model of haemoglobin. Clip from 1950s TV programme "Raymond Baxter reports". 3D model of haemoglobin. B/w film of Lawrence Bragg with atomic model (8'52"-10'38") - B/w film of salt crystals. Photo taken after x-rays were fired at a salt crystal. Animation showing x-rays firing at salt crystal. Photo taken after x-rays were fired at penicillin crystal. Hodgkin's notebook and data (10'39"-11'52") - Archive b/w film clips: Manufacturing penicillin; Penicillin injection; WWII tanks and aeroplanes. Adding machine. Tables of data showing electron densities. Hodgkin's 3D perspex model of penicillin. Hodgkin's final drawing of the structure of penicillin (11'53-14'28") Archive b/w film of Max Perutz working in lab. B/w photo of Frances Crick (14'29"-16'07"). Colour computer graphics of haemoglobin molecule. X-ray crystallographer working. Computer graphics of atomic structures. Microscopic organisms. Image of human skin taken with electron microscope. B/w photo of scientists working with microscope (16'08"-18'10") - Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a millipede. Various SEM images. Graph on computer screen. Newly developed SEM photo. Colour SEM image of radia larium shell. Various colour images from SEM (18'11"-21'00") - Micrographic artist preparing microplankton for the SEM. Images on screen. B/w SEM images of mosquito wing. Colour being added to the image (21'01"-23'38") - Man looking at landscape. Atomic images from scanning tunnelling microscope. Art gallery and detail of painting of meadow (23'39"-27'27"). Atomic images. Computers in lab. Mosquito wing SEM image on screen (27'28"-28'05"). |
| Master spool number: | DOU9519 |
| Production number: | FOUS914F |
| Videofinder number: | 5563 |
| Available to public: | no |
