Episode of Series “A Pattern of People”.
John Forrest is a marine engineer leading a team of designers and engineers using a complex hybrid computer in one of the Glasgow shipyards. The film shows Forrest’s team at work on board ship, in the yards and, in an entirely different field, building a mathematical model of the blood’s chemical processes for the purposes of medical research.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
013601
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Educational & Instructional → Educational films
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Computer based information systems
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Computers
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Engineering design
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Marine engineering
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)