Daylight Dome

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

414

Date Released

3 Dec 1962

Date recorded

2 Nov 1962

Length of issue (in feet)

760

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Window Cleaning
2. 2Daylight Dome
3. 3The Madison in Sardinia

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

NoS Summary - The Daylight Advisory Service of the Pilkington glass company advises architects designing schools. At Ruffwood Comprehensive School at Kirkby, Lancashire, light readings are taken.

Researcher Comments

Commentary: A big British glass manufacturer has started a Daylight Advisory Service to architects planning our new glass-and-concrete buildings - the first such service in the world. We visit the scientific dome where they can subject model buildings to the sky-light situation you would get when there was intense sunlight on the one hand, or typical Lancashire rain. We go to the actual school, too, whose model we tested, to see them check results.

Keywords

Science and technology; Engineering

Locations

England; Lancashire; Kirkby

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Credits:

Commentator

Tim Brinton

Length of story (in feet)

286

Story extras:

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