Silicone Rubber

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

100

Date Released

1972

Length of issue (in feet)

486

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Mobile Environment
2. 2Air Slot Heating
3. 3Dynascope
4. 4Silicone Rubber

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: "Unlikely to be of any use to man"... the assessment of the first scientist to research silicon compounds in 1926, but in 1972 silicon rubber in thin sheets is beginning to do the work of the human lung, and is on trial in heart-lung machines which could keep a person alive for up to a month.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 49 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/100

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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Notes

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