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  1. Frost Proof Statues

    Date released
    1975
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    168
    NoS ID
    325712
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: Marble statues often used to spend the winter wrapped in blankets to protect them from the frost. Now, under a huge plastic bag sealed round the statue, air is forced out of the stone by...

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  2. Metal Foam

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    71
    NoS ID
    351148
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Take a piece of plastic foam - electroplate it with copper, zinc even gold - burn off the plastic and you’re left with one of industries’ most exciting new materials, metal foam. Its...

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  3. Inshore Rescue Craft

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    37
    NoS ID
    325362
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: For almost 150 years, the Royal Naval Lifeboat Institution has looked after the safety of sailors around Britain’s shores. ‘Living Tomorrow’ reports on the new materials and techniques...

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  4. Wear

    Date released
    1964
    Series name
    Frontier
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    324969
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NoS synopsis: Research into the wear of materials, primarily metals and the equipment used to test this phenomenon. Includes interviews with Dr Hirst, Dr Welsh, Dr Lancaster and Dr Archard.

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  5. Inshore Rescue Craft

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    37
    NoS ID
    329414
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: For almost 150 years, the Royal Naval Lifeboat Institution has looked after the safety of sailors around Britain’s shores. ‘Tomorrow Today’ reports on the new materials and techniques...

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  6. Pollution: Sodium-Sulphur Battery

    Date released
    1974
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    148
    NoS ID
    325617
    Story no
    3 / 5

    COI synopsis: As production increases on the one hand, we’ve realised that we can’t accept the pollution that increases on the other. This issue examines a few products of the latest growth industry: the...

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  7. Keep It Simple: Plastic Bridges

    Date released
    1981
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    266
    NoS ID
    326062
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: The most efficient way to deal with a problem is not always the most expensive or complicated. Good business sense is at work in today’s programme, with simple but excellent solutions to very...

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  8. Whodunnit

    Date released
    1978
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    219
    NoS ID
    325923
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: It’s London, nine thirty in the morning. And in a fashionable jeweller’s the day has an unwelcome start: armed robbery. For the police... the hunt is on for the villain. And the new...

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  9. The problem of smoke elimination

    Date released
    Jan 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    334736
    Story no
    1 / 2

    NoS Summary - The work of the Fuel Research Station in trying to eliminate smoke from ships’ furnaces is profiled. A machine has been made that can do it. This principle is now being applied on land in...

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