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  1. Plastic Bags

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    62
    NoS ID
    351100
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Plastic bags really are useful and not just for holding things either. Place one around a swollen limb, blow the bag up and the swelling goes down!

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  2. The Queen at East Grinstead

    Date released
    1 Aug 1946
    Series name
    Universal News
    Issue no
    1674
    NoS ID
    148802
    Story no
    1 / 5

    Opens new plastic surgery wing.

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  3. Structural Materials (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Philip Ashby
    Subject
    Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the mechanical testing of materials. Tensile and impact tests are widely used to compare the performance of materials being manufactured. Here tensile tests are performed on low-carbon steel and...

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  4. Printing For Plastic Sacks

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    39
    NoS ID
    350964
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Synthetic sacks are taking the place of the old jute ones. But you still have to know exactly what is inside and the old inks used for labelling would not stay on the plastic. Here’s the...

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  5. The No-plaster Cast

    Date released
    1968
    Series name
    London Line (Colour series 2)
    Issue no
    45
    NoS ID
    350263
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: ... remember the misery of the plaster cast? British researchers have developed an ultra-lightweight plastic foam so that it can be moulded as casts for broke limbs and a multitude of surgical...

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  6. Circular House is US Latest

    Date released
    28 Mar 1946
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1573
    NoS ID
    039954
    Story no
    4 / 5

    Prefab metal and plastic dwelling, incorporating revolutionary fittings, is sensation in America.

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  7. Eyes Without a Face (1960)

    aka: Yeux Sans Visage, Les

    Director
    Georges Franju
    Subject
    Film studies; French studies; Medical sciences; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £19.99

    Guilt-ridden after recklessly crashing his car and leaving his daughter severely disfigured, celebrated plastic surgeon Dr Gennesier becomes obsessed with restoring her beauty by transplanting a new face...

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  8. Sustainable Packaging (2010)

    Subject
    Design; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 31 minutes), £45.00

    This DVD explores what the food industry is doing to use less packaging. First it looks at the role and function of packaging. It then looks at the challenges of designing reduced packaging that not only...

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  9. Surprise Solution: Tubular Wells

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    273
    NoS ID
    326084
    Story no
    2 / 3

    COI synopsis: How to avoid the agonies of removing a dressing; the expense of replacing a water pump that’s dropped from a corroded pipe. How students spread throughout the country can have a classroom...

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  10. Germ-Free Life (1988 Video)

    Subject
    Biology; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 10 min.

    The foetus ‘in utero’ is biologically sterile, yet almost from the moment of birth the organism begins to develop a highly complex intestinal bacterial flora essential for the maintenance of independent...

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