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  1. Flight On A Cushion

    Date released
    1959
    Series name
    Look At Life
    Issue no
    21
    NoS ID
    349645
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: Looks at the hovercraft. On-screen participants include Christopher Sydney Cockerell, inventor of the hovercraft, and Peter Lamb, test pilot for the hovercraft.

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  2. Ship of the Future

    Date released
    12 Jun 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1514A
    NoS ID
    022429
    Story no
    2 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Flying Saucer of the Sea. DESCRIPTION: It could be a sort of Flying Saucer, supported just above the water on an air cushion, created by powerful fans. This is a British discovery, the...

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  3. Hovercraft to Hoverbed

    Date released
    1968
    Series name
    London Line (Colour series 2)
    Issue no
    30
    NoS ID
    350222
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: ... for the hospital - an invention designed to help with the treatment of the severely burned. The hoverbed makes use of the hover principle to float the burned patient on a sterile cushion of...

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  4. The Gravel Arrester

    Date released
    1968
    Series name
    London Line (Colour series 2)
    Issue no
    27
    NoS ID
    326126
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Gravel to the rescue... a new safety device for the airport... easier, cheaper, and it works all by itself. The new idea is the Gravel Arrester - a bed of common or garden gravel to cushion...

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  5. Air Pallets

    Date released
    1977
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    216
    NoS ID
    325913
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: A new type of pallet consists of a polythene bag which when inflated literally lifts loads on a cushion of air so that they can be moved by fork-lift trucks. Lighter and less wasteful of...

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  6. Ingenuity: Scoop Boat

    Date released
    1975
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    170
    NoS ID
    325719
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Solutions to some everyday problems that didn’t need high technology to be resolved, but just a bit of ingenuity. A boat that can "scoop" an injured man quickly and painlessly out of water by...

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  7. Weightless Mothers-To-Be

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    20
    NoS ID
    350842
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Resting on a cushion of air - a remarkable table can detect the vibrations of an unborn baby’s heartbeat and actually give doctors accurate information about its heart and blood system...

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  8. Instant Armchair

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    32
    NoS ID
    350920
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: A fifteen second reaction between two chemicals producing a cushion of flexible foam has been used by a go ahead manufacturer to produce what is described as the first "instant armchair".

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  9. Posture Curve

    Date released
    1973
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    124
    NoS ID
    351999
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: Most people have to spend much of their lives sitting down, blissfully ignorant that their spines were not designed for a sedentary existence, but for crawling about on all fours. Backache is...

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  10. Hovertow

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    49
    NoS ID
    351035
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Runways closed by stranded aircraft. Not any more. Just insert one or more hover-platforms, switch on, and gently tow the offending object away on a cushion of air.

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