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<p>Booklet (script) and instruction sheet on how to use a projector, which accompany the Fire Protection Association film 'The Nature of Fire': http://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b30011747</p>

6 pages ; 21 cm + projector instructions sheet.

The nature of fire.

<p>Starting with historical images, the film explains what was known about fire and now how fire is harnessed in life. Fire's chemical properties are explained. A number of domestic incidents followed by a major house fire are shown.</p>

1 encoded moving image (16 mins.) : sound, colour

1 film reel (16 mins.) : sound; colour, 16 mm

1 print : lithograph, printed in black and white with blue and yellow ; sheet 60.4 x 41.9 cm

A woman holding a needle (a "sharp") and syringe, with diagrams for safe disposal of used needles; representing services of Mainliners for people at risk of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Photo Co-op, Glover/Hughes and Big Active Ltd. for Mainliners, 1990/1995.

Pride : parent's role in drugs and safety education / Manchester City Council Education Department, Inspection and Advisory Service.

1 videocassette (10 min.) (DIGIBETA) : sound, colour

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 57.1 x 43.2 cm

Illustrated guidelines on good laboratory practices and precautions during testing of Infectious diseases; an AIDS prevention advertisement by Qualigens Diagnostics. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.

1 print : lithograph, printed in black, green and white ; sheet 56.8 x 43.5 cm

A father puts his arm around his son who reads a book while a mother holding a cup comforts her daughter; an AIDS prevention advertisement aimed at families for the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi. Colour lithograph by N.R. Nanda, ca. March 1994.

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A woman holding a needle (a "sharp") and syringe, with diagrams for safe disposal of used needles; representing services of Mainliners for people at risk of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Photo Co-op, Glover/Hughes and Big Active Ltd. for Mainliners, 1990/1995.

Pride : parent's role in drugs and safety education / Manchester City Council Education Department, Inspection and Advisory Service.

The nature of fire.

Illustrated guidelines on good laboratory practices and precautions during testing of Infectious diseases; an AIDS prevention advertisement by Qualigens Diagnostics. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.

A father puts his arm around his son who reads a book while a mother holding a cup comforts her daughter; an AIDS prevention advertisement aimed at families for the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi. Colour lithograph by N.R. Nanda, ca. March 1994.

Accident prone : a history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age / John C. Burnham.

Health and safety for you / Harold S. Diehl, Anita D. Laton.

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A woman holding a needle (a "sharp") and syringe, with diagrams for safe disposal of used needles; representing services of Mainliners for people at risk of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Photo Co-op, Glover/Hughes and Big Active Ltd. for Mainliners, 1990/1995.

Pride : parent's role in drugs and safety education / Manchester City Council Education Department, Inspection and Advisory Service.

The nature of fire.

Illustrated guidelines on good laboratory practices and precautions during testing of Infectious diseases; an AIDS prevention advertisement by Qualigens Diagnostics. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.

A father puts his arm around his son who reads a book while a mother holding a cup comforts her daughter; an AIDS prevention advertisement aimed at families for the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi. Colour lithograph by N.R. Nanda, ca. March 1994.

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