Science And Agriculture: Potato Wand

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

210

Date Released

1977

Length of issue (in feet)

519

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Science And Agriculture: Nest Watch
2. 2Science And Agriculture: Potato Wand
3. 3Science And Agriculture: Apples Galore
4. 4Science And Agriculture: Two-Tail Tractor

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: Science and technology is constantly at work searching for ways to help the farmer and the horticulturist to speed things up and improve output. The British potato harvest adds up to over four and a half million tons. Sorting out the rotten or scabbed potatoes from that lot is a massive task which takes time. It’s normally done by hand, but an electronic "wand" which can memorise the position of a bad potato on a conveyor belt has speeded up the process. It can now be done in a third of the time.

Researcher Comments

Story also appears in ‘Living Tomorrow No. 302’ as ‘Potato Grader’

Keywords

Agriculture; Science and technology; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

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

COI Reference

MI 1458/210

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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Film Archive

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British Film Institute (BFI)

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