Joggle Pump

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

128

Date Released

1973

Length of issue (in feet)

485

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Dry Flo
2. 2Foetal Heartbeats
3. 3Joggle Pump
4. 4Oil Filter

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: From a rice field in South East Asia comes an age old technology which depends on a length of bamboo and a smooth round pebble to make a pump. Updated and motorised, this simple pump is finding applications wherever awkward liquids have to be pumped in modern industry.

Keywords

Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries; Design

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 51 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/128

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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Phone

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Notes

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