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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Sentence Maker

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    34
    NoS ID
    325359
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Quite a few children can learn to read easily, but there is a real gap between learning to read and actually writing down what you have learnt while reading. Now a team of teacher/researchers...

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  6. Cylindrical Rudder

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    34
    NoS ID
    350933
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: How do you dock a tanker over one thousand feet long and over sixty feet wide without a flotilla or tugs? Perhaps in the near future a cylindrical rudder will make this possible.

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  7. Sentence Maker

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    34
    NoS ID
    329411
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Quite a few children can learn to read easily, but there is a real gap between learning to read and actually writing down what you have learnt while reading. Now a team of teacher/researchers...

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  8. Noise Control At London Airport

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    34
    NoS ID
    350931
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: An ever-increasing headache - noise for those living near large airports throughout the world. Now with the help of a special mobile acoustics laboratory which will determine the kind of noises...

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  9. Noise Control At London Airport

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    34
    NoS ID
    350934
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: An ever-increasing headache - noise for those living near large airports throughout the world. Now with the help of a special mobile acoustics laboratory which will determine the kind of noises...

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  10. 3-Way Refrigerator

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    34
    NoS ID
    350935
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: A cooling drink at the end of that hot dusty road, but because of fire risk, legislation in certain countries forbids running your trailer refrigerator on gas or electricity while being towed....

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