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  1. 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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  2. Thermic Lance

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    74
    NoS ID
    351164
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: A specially equipped lorry armed with this powerful tool gives the demolition expert a highly mobile weapon that cuts through concrete like a knife through butter - and an underwater lance...

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  3. Floating Tunnel

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    74
    NoS ID
    325400
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: An imaginative prize-winning design project for a road-rail link across the Straits of Messina between Italy and Sicily. Concrete tubes buoyant enough not to sink completely span the straits...

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  4. The Power of Oxygen

    Date released
    4 Aug 1966
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    606
    NoS ID
    121788
    Story no
    2 / 2
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Oxygen - it’s in the air we breathe; without it there’s no fire, no life. See some of the spectacular demonstrations carried out at the Crawley labs of Britain’s biggest oxygen...

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  5. Designer - Man Or Machine?

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    20
    NoS ID
    350844
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Ever since the time of Leonardo da Vinci - builders have worked from detailed drawings - involving thousands of man hours of painstakingly accurate labour. Now a firm of consulting engineers...

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  6. Things Aren’t Always What They Seem: Wood Wool Walls

    Date released
    1976
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    181
    NoS ID
    325767
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: In science, as in every-day life, things aren’t always quite what they seem... A new way of building: slabs based on wood shavings are clipped together into a type of hollow wall that serves...

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  7. Thermic Lance

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    74
    NoS ID
    351167
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: A specially equipped lorry armed with this powerful tool gives the demolition expert a highly mobile weapon that cuts through concrete like a knife through butter - and an underwater lance...

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  8. Washing Machine / Vacuum Cleaner (1988 Video)

    Director
    Andrew Snell
    Producer
    Elizabeth Queenan
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £14.99 (+VAT +p&p)

    Tim Hunkin humorously explains the workings of some familiar domestic machines. His technique is to present the scientific principles and show how the machines evolved by using demonstrations and animated...

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  9. Floating Tunnel

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    74
    NoS ID
    329452
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: An imaginative prize-winning design project for a road-rail link across the Straits of Messina between Italy and Sicily. Concrete tubes buoyant enough not to sink completely span the straits...

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  10. Matching Market Demands (1991 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 15 min., 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)

    Addresses the lack of marketing for new appropriate technologies such as fibre concrete roofing (FCR) tiles. Focuses on the quality and availability of FCR tiles and the satisfaction of customers who have...

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