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  1. Metal Foam

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    71
    NoS ID
    351145
    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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  2. High-Speed Camera

    Date released
    23 Jun 1963
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    443
    NoS ID
    121398
    Story no
    3 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: ... a scene from outer space. Suddenly we’ve taken a moment of time and stretched it out, at three thousand pictures a second, to show us what happens when materials are tested to breaking...

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  3. Heat Treating (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £219.00 (inclusive)

    Introduces the metallurgical changes that occur during heating and cooling. Explores the basics of thorough-hardening, surface hardening and softening processes.

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  4. Making Things Last: Soft Environment

    Date released
    1976
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    179
    NoS ID
    325757
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: New ways of preserving life, limb - and materials. An adventure playground that can’t be destroyed, because everything in it - walls, floors, structures - is soft. Even the most timid and...

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  5. Making Things Last: Heartfelt Beating

    Date released
    1976
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    179
    NoS ID
    325759
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: New ways of preserving life, limb - and materials. After a heart attack, the heart may be in a weakened state. If a pacemaker is needed, it normally imposes its own rhythm on the heart, which...

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  6. Given Enough Rope (1990 Video)

    Producer
    Philip Ashby; Pam Taylor
    Subject
    Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    All ropes require certain basic properties such as suitable tensile strength and resistance to wear and corrosion, whatever their final application to enable them to perform predictably in a particular...

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  7. Magnus: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1983 Video)

    Director
    Eleanor Morris
    Subject
    Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Discusses corrosion control of a North sea oil rig. Covers fabrication and maintenance methods.

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  8. Continuum

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    51
    NoS ID
    329428
    Story no
    1 / 2

    COI synopsis: Give three creative young men with a mutual interest in lighting and motion systems a free hand with modern materials like acrylic - and you have "Continuum" - a new art form for architecture,...

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  9. Building Research

    Date released
    13 May 1957
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    124
    NoS ID
    120384
    Story no
    3 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Out in the Hertfordshire countryside we visit a place where they put up brick walls for the satisfaction of knocking them down again, where they deliberately expose paintwork to all weathers,...

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  10. 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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