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  1. Silicone Rubber For Undersea Lungs

    Date released
    1969
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    18
    NoS ID
    350829
    Story no
    5 / 5

    COI synopsis: Already mice can be made to breathe underwater using artificial gills made of silicone rubber. This new material holds great promise for man in undersea exploration and advanced medical...

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  2. Silicone Rubber For Undersea Lungs

    Date released
    1969
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    18
    NoS ID
    350832
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Already mice can be made to breathe underwater using artificial gills made of silicone rubber. This new material holds great promise for man in undersea exploration and advanced medical...

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  3. Silicone Rubber

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    100
    NoS ID
    325448
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: "Unlikely to be of any use to man"... the assessment of the first scientist to research silicon compounds in 1926, but in 1972 silicon rubber in thin sheets is beginning to do the work of the...

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  4. Shatterproof Bulbs

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    71
    NoS ID
    351144
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: No need to worry any more about exploding electric light bulbs and flying glass. A specially developed skin of silicone rubber holds the broken pieces together - simple, but effective.

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  5. Shatterproof Bulbs

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    71
    NoS ID
    329449
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: No need to worry any more about exploding electric light bulbs and flying glass. A specially developed skin of silicone rubber holds the broken pieces together - simple, but effective.

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  6. 'Cat’ for the ‘Catcracker’

    Date released
    1953
    Series name
    Unilever Magazine
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    349873
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI Summary - chemical plant at Warrington making catalysts for breaking down crude oil NWFA synopsis: building of the oil refinery at Warrington - involvement of Joseph Crossfields in supplying the silicone...

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  7. Pinpoint Precision: Freeze Dry

    Date released
    1976
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    178
    NoS ID
    325753
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Hitting the core of a problem with pinpoint precision can mean a whole new order of efficiency - or even new life-saving possibilities. A new way of pinpointing the problem of damp-proofing...

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  8. Radar Research

    Date released
    28 Apr 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1508
    NoS ID
    022350
    Story no
    3 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Radar Research - Malvern. DESCRIPTION: Now, for a spot of science: the mysteries of the Royal Radar Establishment, at Malvern. For example, experimental tactical control radar: giving...

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  9. You Can’t Lick ‘Em

    Date released
    10 Feb 1964
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1810
    NoS ID
    025425
    Story no
    3 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: You Can’t Lick ‘Em. DESCRIPTION: It’s been called the most dramatic innovation since the introduction of the Penny Post in 1840. A postage stamp for Sierra Leone shaped like a map...

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  10. Materials For Safety: Fireproof Cable

    Date released
    1979
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    239
    NoS ID
    325989
    Story no
    2 / 3

    COI synopsis: New materials are developed for strength, for lightness, for cheapness or to improve industrial processes. But some materials, as we discover this week, are developed purely to increase safety....

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