Alarm Systems: Touch-Down Monitor

Series

Series Name: Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

184

Date Released

1976

Length of issue (in feet)

522

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: Alarm systems - often a crucial element in securing safety, but they can also have a critical role to play in ensuring efficiency in other areas. Homing in on a workpiece in a lathe is often asking the human eye to gauge minute distances that are really beyond its capability. A tiny alarm system sits on the machine now to send out immediate signals when the workpiece is being approached and to indicate, precisely, the actual moment of touch-down.

Keywords

Communications; Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Engineering

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/184

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Sponsor: Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
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