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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Mobile Facsimile Recorder

    Filmed
    Nov 1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    94
    NoS ID
    329477
    Story no
    1 / 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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  8. Magnascan

    Filmed
    Nov 1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    94
    NoS ID
    329479
    Story no
    3 / 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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  9. Sterile Operating Area

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    97
    NoS ID
    329490
    Story no
    2 / 3

    COI synopsis: In an operating theatre every speck of dust is a potential danger, especially severe in hip-joint surgery, where a large area of tissue is exposed. An air-conditioning specialist and a surgeon...

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  10. Mechanical Onion Peeler

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    96
    NoS ID
    329488
    Story no
    4 / 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...

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