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  1. Computer X-Rays

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    105
    NoS ID
    329512
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: The problem of x-raying the brain, previously a long and painful operation, has been solved by a new technique which uses a computer to analyse the x-ray information and produce an x-ray...

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  2. Think Again: Cobalt Computer

    Date released
    1981
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    269
    NoS ID
    326076
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: Man’s compulsive search for perfection dictates a continuous re-appraisal of past success. For the enquiring mind, it’s just not enough that something works adequately - it can always be...

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  3. Fuel Injection - By Computer

    Date released
    1969
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    17
    NoS ID
    350822
    Story no
    5 / 5

    COI synopsis: Car exhaust gases must be made less noxious. The efficient solution is to give the engine exactly the amount of fuel it requires and no more. Simple - but the control required is so fine - that...

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  4. Fine Drilling

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    111
    NoS ID
    325484
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: A machine to drill the very accurate holes needed for computer circuit boards. We exploited its acccuracy by programming it with a photograph. It produced for us the world’s first portrait...

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  5. Fuel Injection - By Computer

    Date released
    1969
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    17
    NoS ID
    350825
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Car exhaust gases must be made less noxious. The efficient solution is to give the engine exactly the amount of fuel it requires and no more. Simple - but the control required is so fine - that...

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  6. Auto-Taxis

    Date released
    1969
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    18
    NoS ID
    350826
    Story no
    2 / 5

    COI synopsis: Forecast for the commuter of the future - driverless computer controlled taxis which travel on elevated tracks. Electrically driven by linear induction motors the vehicles would automatically...

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  7. Water Resources

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    117
    NoS ID
    325508
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Water is vital to our food and to us, yet even in countries with heavy rainfall we are close to using more than Nature can supply. In North Wales they’re using computer control and rain...

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  8. Ink Jet Printing

    Date released
    1979
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    245
    NoS ID
    326006
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: This revolutionary new form of printing uses electrically charged jets of ink controlled by a computer. A single jet can print over fifteen hundred characters per second on virtually any...

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  9. Auto-Taxis

    Date released
    1969
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    18
    NoS ID
    350830
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: Forecast for the commuter of the future - driverless computer controlled taxis which travel on elevated tracks. Electrically driven by linear induction motors the vehicles would automatically...

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  10. Fine Drilling

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    111
    NoS ID
    329535
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: A machine to drill the very accurate holes needed for computer circuit boards. We exploited its acccuracy by programming it with a photograph. It produced for us the world’s first portrait...

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