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  1. Sounds of Doom

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    78
    NoS ID
    325404
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: A suspension bridge buckling and twisting till it collapses demonstrates one of the more spectacularly catastrophic results of stress in metals... but more frequently the effects of stress...

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  2. Sounds of Doom

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    78
    NoS ID
    329456
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: A suspension bridge buckling and twisting til it collapses demonstrates one of the more spectacularly catastrophic results of stress in metals... but more frequently the effects of stress...

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  3. Infra-Red Binoculars

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    93
    NoS ID
    325424
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Binoculars not only to see through - but to talk through. They use a pulse-code system of infra-red light to transmit sounds to the man at the other end of the conversation - who receives on...

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  4. Language Study

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    121
    NoS ID
    325518
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: The sounds a child utters in early life are often meaningful only to its mother. But gradually the child learns a language familiar to us all. Just how it does this is the subject of research...

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  5. Language Study

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    121
    NoS ID
    329566
    Story no
    1 / 2

    COI synopsis: The sounds a child utters in early life are often meaningful only to its mother. But gradually the child learns a language familiar to us all. Just how it does this is the subject of research...

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  6. Aids To Perception: Fire Torch

    Date released
    1976
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    187
    NoS ID
    325797
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: The source of a fire is often disguised by the presence of smoke and fumes. Now firemen can walk into the densest smoke and be guided straight to the source by a small hand-held "torch" - but...

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  7. Breathing in Science Fiction (2016)

    Subject
    Literature; Science

    From Darth Vader’s laboured respiration, to the divers gasping for air in James Cameron’s The Abyss, the sounds of breathing in science fiction are not only memorable, they also draw attention to the act...

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  8. Displays: Speech Patterns

    Date released
    1977
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    207
    NoS ID
    325885
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Scientists in Cambridge, in their research into human language, have used computer models which create line displays representing the shape of the vocal tract during speech. Their computer...

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  9. Ear Testing Children

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    90
    NoS ID
    351234
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: A portable testing instrument mounted in an attache case tests young children’s hearing objectively. Electrical measurements of the reflections of sounds played into the ear help diagnose ear...

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  10. Infra-Red Binoculars

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    93
    NoS ID
    351515
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Binoculars not only to see through - but to talk through. They use a pulse-code system of infra-red light to transmit sounds to the man at the other end of the conversation - who receives on...

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