Sound: Tanker Docking

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

152

Length of issue (in feet)

495

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Sound: Stress And Attention
2. 2Sound: Electronic Tuner
3. 3Sound: Tanker Docking
4. 4Sound: Dawkins Organ
5. 5Sound: Concrete Nibbler

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

COI synopsis: Docking a quarter-of-a-million ton tanker is rather like trying to park a car beside a pavement of egg shells. Pulses of sound are beamed through the water and activate visual signals to aid the harassed pilot.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Transport; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 51 [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 54 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/152

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Editor

Peter Greenaway

Cutter

Peter Greenaway

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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