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

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Film Archive

Name
British Film Institute (BFI)
Email
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Phone
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Fax
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Address
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Notes
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