Conducting Concrete

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

218

Length of issue (in feet)

522

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Conducting Concrete
2. 2Mouse Detector
3. 3No-Needle Knitting
4. 4Clearscan

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: Roads, runways, pavements, houses: the most common material for their construction is concrete. But now, there’s concrete with a difference; concrete with carbon granules, a by-product of oil refining. Attach this concrete to a power supply and it will heat up. It will mean house walls that can be warmed cheaply, floors that will allow electrostatic to seep away and miles of roadways that will remain ice-free the whole year round.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Science and technology; Engineering

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/218

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Cutter

Maurice Tarling

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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Notes

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