Results

Full access to all collections is a privilege of BUFVC membership. If you are already a BUFVC member, please log in. Otherwise you may join now.
11-20 of 54 results | Page 2 of 6
« First
12345Next ›
Last »
Sort results by

  1. Computer Operation

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    96
    NoS ID
    325436
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: The computer becomes part of the electronic apparatus available to the anaesthetist during a surgical operation. With the computer’s help he can predict whether a patient has any hidden...

    News on Screen News on Screen Cinema news Cinema news To order To order Moving image Moving image

  2. Mechanical Onion Peeler

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    96
    NoS ID
    325435
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: To get an onion into a pickle you had to get under its skin, a process which cried out for a machine. Twelve years of work produced a whirlwind of knives, a sharp blast of air, and thousands of...

    News on Screen News on Screen Cinema news Cinema news To order To order Moving image Moving image

  3. 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...

    News on Screen News on Screen Cinema news Cinema news To order To order Moving image Moving image

  4. 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...

    News on Screen News on Screen Cinema news Cinema news To order To order Moving image Moving image

  5. 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...

    News on Screen News on Screen Cinema news Cinema news To order To order Moving image Moving image

  6. 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...

    News on Screen News on Screen Cinema news Cinema news To order To order Moving image Moving image

  7. 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...

    News on Screen News on Screen Cinema news Cinema news To order To order Moving image Moving image

  8. 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...

    News on Screen News on Screen Cinema news Cinema news To order To order Moving image Moving image

  9. 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...

    News on Screen News on Screen Cinema news Cinema news To order To order Moving image Moving image

  10. 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...

    News on Screen News on Screen Cinema news Cinema news To order To order Moving image Moving image
About marked records »
11-20 of 54 results | Page 2 of 6
« First
12345Next ›
Last »
Sort results by