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  1. Hoverplatform

    Filmed
    Nov 1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    94
    NoS ID
    325427
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Take some standard steel pontoons, two locomotive-type diesel engines, bolt them together and you have a flying carpet for very heavy duties. It will hover above the ground with up to 100 tons...

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  2. Helical Extrusion

    Filmed
    Nov 1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    95
    NoS ID
    329483
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Producing wire by conventional methods occupies a vast are of factory space, but the helical extrusion machine can reduce a heavy copper billet 15,000 times to a filament of wire in one...

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  3. Remcalc

    Filmed
    Nov 1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    95
    NoS ID
    329484
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: A hundred thousand ton tanker can take up to six miles to stop, three miles to turn, two miles to deflect. One plastic disc, and a few eccentric curves, could prevent these leviathans from...

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  4. Fused Stained Glass

    Filmed
    Nov 1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    94
    NoS ID
    325428
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Traditional stained glass with lead joining the segments evolved because different colours could not be fused together without cracking. At Whitefriars Glass in London they are using specially...

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  5. On-The-Land Ploughing

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    97
    NoS ID
    325439
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Down at the bottom of the furrow there’s a problem... packed-down soil, and a danger of flooding. The cause, the weight of the tractor wheel in the furrow when ploughing. Automatic steering...

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  6. Permagrip

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    96
    NoS ID
    329485
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Combine a permanent magnet and an electromagnet so that one will counteract the other and you have a means of getting steel plates unstuck... where and when they’re intended...

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  7. News in Flashes: Stop Press: Excess Potato Crop Goes to Waste in US

    Date released
    7 Apr 1947
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1680
    NoS ID
    040485
    Story no
    2 / 6
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    Glut of potatoes in Maine, US, results in thousands of tons being left to rot.

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  8. Mobile Facsimile Recorder

    Filmed
    Nov 1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    94
    NoS ID
    325426
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: A child is lost in the crowded city streets... but within minutes every police patrol car in the area has a copy of his photograph. A mobile facsimile recorder in each car receives coded...

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  9. Cerebral Function Monitor

    Filmed
    Nov 1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    95
    NoS ID
    329482
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: The electro-encephelograph has a prolific output of pen-traces registering activity in the brain. The Cerebral Function Monitor reduces these to one simple trace and provides a clear, immediate...

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  10. Magnascan

    Filmed
    Nov 1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    94
    NoS ID
    325425
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: High quality colour printing has been available for some time, but it’s a lengthy process, unsuitable for newspapers. With television bringing up-to-the-minute news straight into the home in...

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