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  1. Fabric Dam

    Filmed
    Nov 1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    95
    NoS ID
    329481
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Dams, spectacular edifices of concrete and steel, and months of major engineering. But one hour’s work can install an extremely effective barrier across a stream or river which in concept is...

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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. 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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  5. 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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  6. Electric Carpet Tape

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    97
    NoS ID
    329489
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: Stick one carpet to another and you can’t see the join! It’s all done by a special strip of foil and a five second burst of electricity.

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  7. Hoverplatform

    Filmed
    Nov 1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    94
    NoS ID
    329480
    Story no
    4 / 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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  8. Computer Operation

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    96
    NoS ID
    329487
    Story no
    3 / 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...

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  9. Ethylene

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    96
    NoS ID
    329486
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: When an apple fell on Isaac Newton’s head he blamed it all on gravity, but ethylene was just as much to blame. It makes fruit ripen, and causes fruit and leaves to fall. Research into the way...

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  10. Fused Stained Glass

    Filmed
    Nov 1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    94
    NoS ID
    329478
    Story no
    2 / 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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