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  1. Fabric Dam

    Filmed
    Nov 1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    95
    NoS ID
    325429
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Dams, spectacular edifices of concrete and steel, and months of major engineering. But one hour’s work can install an extremely effective barrier across a stream or river which in concept is...

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  2. Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson (1999 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    An interactive investigation into the work and theories of architect Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson. Features text, audio, images, drawings, and QuickTime movies, which contribute to a game that allows the...

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  3. Sweet William (1993 Radio)

    Series
    Monday Play, The
    Director
    Nigel Bryant

    Radio play about a father and son making a pilgrimage to Stratford, obsessed with finding memorabilia of Shakespeare.

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  4. Permagrip

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    96
    NoS ID
    325434
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: Combine a permanent magnet and an electromagnet so that one will counteract the other and you have a means of getting steel plates unstuck... where and when they’re intended...

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  5. Helical Extrusion

    Filmed
    Nov 1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    95
    NoS ID
    325430
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: Producing wire by conventional methods occupies a vast area of factory space, but the helical extrusion machine can reduce a heavy copper billet 15,000 times to a filament of wire in one...

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  6. Remcalc

    Filmed
    Nov 1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    95
    NoS ID
    325432
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: A hundred thousand ton tanker can take up to six miles to stop, three miles to turn, two miles to deflect. One plastic disc, and a few eccentric curves, could prevent these leviathans from...

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  7. Fabric Dam

    Filmed
    Nov 1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    95
    NoS ID
    329481
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Dams, spectacular edifices of concrete and steel, and months of major engineering. But one hour’s work can install an extremely effective barrier across a stream or river which in concept is...

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  8. Electric Carpet Tape

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    97
    NoS ID
    325437
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Stick one carpet to another and you can’t see the join! It’s all done by a special strip of foil and a five second burst of electricity.

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  9. Bug Eats Bug

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    96
    NoS ID
    325433
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: If the ladybird flies into the house it may arrive in a biological control kit, and its concern would be not for its children, but to satiate its craving for greenfly or aphids. In an...

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  10. Cerebral Function Monitor

    Filmed
    Nov 1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    95
    NoS ID
    325431
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: The electro-encephelograph has a prolific output of pen-traces registering activity in the brain. The Cerebral Function Monitor reduces these to one simple trace and provides a clear, immediate...

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