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  1. High Frequency Deafness

    Date released
    1978
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    233
    NoS ID
    325969
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: The piercing shrill of a kettle, the jangle of keys in the lock, the shattering of broken glass: some people just cannot hear them. But work at London University has led to the development of a...

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  2. A Life Of Their Own: High Frequency Deafness

    Date released
    1983
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    304
    NoS ID
    352437
    Story no
    4 / 6

    COI synopsis: In an ideal world, all medical problems would be preventable. As yet, that hasn’t been achieved; but medicine and its associated technology is now offering the less fortunate amongst us a new...

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  3. Sonicaid

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    83
    NoS ID
    351213
    Story no
    2 / 3

    COI synopsis: The ultra-modern burglar has specialised tools to break windows quietly when effecting an entry, but he’s in trouble if he reckons without ultrasound. The inaudible high frequency noises of...

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  4. Sound: Stress And Attention

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    152
    NoS ID
    325634
    Story no
    1 / 5

    COI synopsis: Research at Cambridge University is discovering that, contrary to everything we’ve understood, loud noise of a particular low frequency can actually improve our concentration.

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  5. Two In One: Alarm Clock

    Date released
    1978
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    230
    NoS ID
    325957
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: There’s something captivating about getting two things for the price of one. It appeals to all of us. In science and technology too, minds are constantly stretched in the search for devices...

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  6. For Tracking Satellites

    Date released
    23 Jan 1961
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1651
    NoS ID
    023958
    Story no
    5 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: For Tracking Satellites. DESCRIPTION: The Minitrack Station at Winkfield in Berkshire, where the first calibration of the interferometer was carried out, last month, is now ready. The...

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  7. Muffling the Sound

    Date released
    5 Feb 1959
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1548A
    NoS ID
    022852
    Story no
    2 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Muffling the Sound. DESCRIPTION: The problem of Jet-sound was tackled at London Airport. A member of the ground crew in a sound-proof booth received constant frequency signals, his...

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  8. BURNING BRIGHT

    Date released
    Sep 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    345843
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI Summary - teaching lamp testing station. NCB Commentary - These are bulbs for miners’ cap lamps. Thousands of them are in use at all hours of the day and night in Britain’s collieries, and of the...

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