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Bridges and Buildings: The structures of the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

Bridges and Buildings: The structures of the Industrial Revolution

...energy resources, especially coal, and materials such as natural fibres and iron itself. One such bridge across the Dee at Chester, was made using cast iron beams. It cracked in the middle while a train was passing over, and the carriages fell into the tidal river below killing seven (Figure 4). Robert Stephenson claimed that the train hit the bridge and caused the...
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Jonathan Edwards' giant world record leap – what can we learn from his long career?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Jonathan Edwards' giant world record leap – what can we learn from his long career?

...energy for competition and coping with pressure all need to be incrementally developed through experience. After six years of full-time training, aged 27, following disappointment at both the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games, Edwards made the World Championships podium (bronze) having leapt 17.44 metres. Jumping a whole metre further seemed impossible at that time. Athletes...
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The Life of Saint David
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint David

...energy; but his example was more powerful than his eloquence; and he has in all succeeding ages been the glory of the British church. He continued in his last see many years; and having founded several monasteries, and been the spiritual father of many saints, both British and Irish, died about the year 544, in a very advanced age. St. Kentigern saw his soul born up by...
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Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?
Education & Development

Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?

...energy in mentoring based on your ongoing personal development? Do you provide feedback that people find helpful for their professional development? Inspiration Do you articulate a compelling vision, build group pride, and foster a positive emotional tone? Do you lead by bringing out the best in people? Do you have credibility with others? Teamwork Do you solicit input...
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The history of soapmaking
History & The Arts

The history of soapmaking

...energy, leading to economies of scale and even greater production efficiency under more readily controlled conditions. The combination of better soaps and advances in plumbing, including running water and drainable bathtubs, made bathing the social norm. In 1853, Gladstone repealed the British tax on soap that had been imposed centuries earlier and the industry...
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Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...energy had only ever been produced this way for short bursts at a time – here is the context. The innovation is in applying springs to the provision of low-power electricity for consumer electronics. Baylis invented a mechanism that gave forty minutes of play from just twenty seconds of winding. The winding action coils a spring, attached to a gearbox, which is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...energy per coulomb of charge (J C−1)...An introduction to electronics: 2.2 Relationships between quantities - For many materials, current and voltage are directly proportional to each other over a wide range of values, with the resistance as the constant of proportionality, so voltage = current × resistance Such materials are said to obey Ohm’s law and are said to be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...energy analysis and life-cycle assessment. If you are familiar with these concepts you will recognise the importance of defining how far one should extend the boundary of study. Figure 1 represents the range of risk scenarios within system boundaries. You will see spatial dimensions of the system boundaries implicit in Figure 1 in practical contexts when we review several...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs