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Publication date: 1 September 1963

Geoffrey Hall

TWELVE MONTHS — and a good many headaches — ago I wrote here to introduce a new venture in educational broadcasting: the BBC's television series, ‘Engineering Science’ for the…

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TWELVE MONTHS — and a good many headaches — ago I wrote here to introduce a new venture in educational broadcasting: the BBC's television series, ‘Engineering Science’ for the General Course. Reading that article now I am surprised at how confident I managed to sound, for in spite of a strong belief in the educational possibilities of television I was, to say the least, apprehensive about this particular assignment. This new type of television programme required a new way of thinking and new production techniques. The audience — students and lecturers alike — had, for the most part, little experience in the use of television as an aid to learning. The college organisation was usually not geared to take account of this inflexible intruder. Even the syllabus was new.

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Education + Training, vol. 5 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 November 1970

Geoffrey Hall and Peter Lewis

Perhaps the most surprising thing about educational programmes on the BBC is the sheer number and variety of them. In a typical week ‘in term’ some 40 hours of air time is devoted…

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Perhaps the most surprising thing about educational programmes on the BBC is the sheer number and variety of them. In a typical week ‘in term’ some 40 hours of air time is devoted to what might be called formal educational broadcasting for schools and adults, on radio and television. Ever since the early days of radio the BBC has recognised its obligation to make a systematic contribution to education, and over the years a framework of consultation and advice has built up. The School Broadcasting Council and the Further Education Advisory Council are there to provide continuing links with the world of education: they are the source from which our educational broadcasting springs.

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Education + Training, vol. 12 no. 11
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 September 1962

Geoffrey Hall

DURING THE past few months some hundreds of lecturers in Technical Colleges and Colleges of Further Education throughout the country have been invited to give their views on two…

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DURING THE past few months some hundreds of lecturers in Technical Colleges and Colleges of Further Education throughout the country have been invited to give their views on two experimental television programmes produced by the BBC and dealing with aspects of Engineering Science. A smaller number of principals and lecturers have been involved in exploratory discussions concerning the part that television and sound broadcasting might play in the Technical College curriculum. Some lecturers have even allowed ‘a man from the BBC’ to sit through lectures, to wander about the laboratory during practical sessions and to talk to their students. All this activity has been in connection with the preparation of new television and sound series designed to supplement the teaching of Engineering Science and English for the General Course in Engineering.

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Education + Training, vol. 4 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 September 1952

MID‐OCTOBER sees all library activities in process. The autumn and winter prospects are interesting and, in some senses, may be exciting. The autumn conferences have been held…

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MID‐OCTOBER sees all library activities in process. The autumn and winter prospects are interesting and, in some senses, may be exciting. The autumn conferences have been held, except that of the London and Home Counties Branch, which is at Southend for the week‐end October 17th to 20th, and is the third sectional conference to be held this month in addition to seven other meetings. These gatherings, at Torquay, Greenwich, Felixstowe, London (three), Tunbridge Wells and Leicester, show a fairly wide coverage of the lower part of Great Britain. The northerners had their go, so to speak, last month, in Durham and elsewhere, as we have previously recorded. The Programme of Meetings, 1952–53, arranged by organisations in the London and Home Counties Branch area, is a most convenient leaflet listing 33 meetings in the area. Every interest seems to be served, with two exceptions, and every L. A. member of whatever section may attend any or all of the meetings. The exceptions are the meetings of ASLIB and the Bibliographical Society. Any list of meetings for librarians would be improved if it noted all that interest them and these would be a useful, not extravagant, addition. London Library Intelligence, the editorship of which has been handed over by Mr. F. J. Hoy, who did it extremely well, to Mr. R. W. Rouse, Borough Librarian, Finsbury, E.C.1, does provide the required information we understand. It is perhaps too much to expect a list of all gatherings throughout these islands; or is it? There are 12,000 of us and, if only 50 attended a meeting once a year—a satisfactory number for discussion— there would be room for 240 meetings.

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New Library World, vol. 54 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 March 1957

This work by well‐known authors, Chief of Applied Mechanics Division, Consultant, and Co‐ordination Director respectively of the Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, has…

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This work by well‐known authors, Chief of Applied Mechanics Division, Consultant, and Co‐ordination Director respectively of the Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, has been sponsored by the Bureau of Aeronautics, Department of the Navy, who commissioned Battelle to survey the present state of knowledge. Such a survey must obviously be directed towards some particular objective. In the present case it was desired to summarize most of the information required by designers and engineers who may have some knowledge of, but no extensive practical experience in, fatigue problems.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 29 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 1 May 1965

There can be few indeed engaged in tasks of food purity control who do not feel apprehensive at some of the modern trends in food production and preparation, particularly at the…

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There can be few indeed engaged in tasks of food purity control who do not feel apprehensive at some of the modern trends in food production and preparation, particularly at the ever‐increasing range of chemicals in food, whether as additives or contaminants. Undoubtedly there are many who have strong feelings on the subject, but fears and feelings are not evidence and it is an elementary law in every branch of science—some licence may be traditionally permitted in the Arts—that you do not make a statement of fact without being able to furnish proof of it. It seems wrong, therefore, for anyone to make such statements, however well‐intentioned, as were reported to have been made at a recent rally in London organised by the Animal Machines Action Group of the Animal Defence Society. A speaker is reported to have said “that hormone dyes and pesticides used on battery hens and calves increased the incidence of cancer amongst the people who ate these products. The same thing also increased the incidence of coronary thrombosis. It is a fact, although it has been denied, that some battery chickens are born with hardening of the arteries. People who eat them and their eggs run a risk of the same disease.”

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British Food Journal, vol. 67 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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Publication date: 1 December 1956

F.H. Hooke and P.S. Langford

Fatigue of aircraft structures has become a major subject for research in the past ten years and the importance of establishing safe lifetimes for operation of aircraft or for…

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Fatigue of aircraft structures has become a major subject for research in the past ten years and the importance of establishing safe lifetimes for operation of aircraft or for replaceable structural components is now recognized. Some major contributions have been made to the knowledge of this subject, including methods of life assessment, determination of the fatigue resistance of several types of complete aircraft wing structure by laboratory test and some more fundamental studies of fatigue. The fatigue problem is considerably better understood than it was ten years ago and it can now be said with certainty where the most serious gaps lie. Information on two of these topics—namely, scatter, and the effect of random loading sequences—is being sought in the research programmes now proceeding at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories. Because of the vastness of the field a plea is made for greater inter‐change of information on the results of fatigue tests in all countries.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 28 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 1 October 1956

A new department has been formed by Bristol Aircraft Limited to design, plan, and co‐ordinate work on the interior furnishing of Britannia airliners. Known as the Britannia…

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A new department has been formed by Bristol Aircraft Limited to design, plan, and co‐ordinate work on the interior furnishing of Britannia airliners. Known as the Britannia Furnishing Department, it is believed to be the first specialist unit of its kind to be set up in the British aircraft industry. Mr A. G. L. Langfield and Mr Donald Diamond have been appointed respectively Manager and Designer.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 28 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 1 December 1949

It is announced by the Chairman of British European Airways, Lord Douglas of Kirtleside, that the Minister of Civil Aviation has approved the appointment of Mr Peter Masefield, as…

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It is announced by the Chairman of British European Airways, Lord Douglas of Kirtleside, that the Minister of Civil Aviation has approved the appointment of Mr Peter Masefield, as Chief Executive of British European Airways Corporation, of Dorland House, Lower Regent Street, S.W.I.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 21 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 31 October 2023

Felipe Almeida

This study is a comment on Geoffrey Hodgson’s “Discovering Institutionalism: One Person’s Journey.” In this self-description of the evolution of his thought, Hodgson distinctly…

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This study is a comment on Geoffrey Hodgson’s “Discovering Institutionalism: One Person’s Journey.” In this self-description of the evolution of his thought, Hodgson distinctly acknowledges Thorstein Veblen’s influence on his own institutional perspective. This is the issue that I explore in this study. My argument is that Hodgson can be understood as a Veblenian, but he does not fit in the Veblenian notion that became popular in the mid-twentieth century. I argue that Hodgson’s notion of habits is the strongest Veblen’s influence on him, and his reconstitutive downward and upward causations are in line with Veblen’s institutionalism, albeit without the mid-twentieth century Veblenian writings. I also address the approach to the content of habits as a break between Hodgson’s and Veblen’s institutionalism. By offering an unprecedented Veblenianism, I argue that Hodgson’s institutional economics can be understood as a new institutionalist segmentation.

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Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on Religion, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Rise of Liberalism
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ISBN: 978-1-83549-517-9

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