Bubble Clicks

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

241

Date Released

1979

Length of issue (in feet)

522

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Fish Meter
2. 2Helical Pipes
3. 3Bubble Clicks

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

COI synopsis: The lungs are the last organs to develop and breathing problems kill many premature babies. At a London hospital, they’ve developed a quick and simple test which allows them to gauge the maturity of a baby’s lungs as soon as it’s born - and even while it’s still in the womb. The test depends on a phenomenon called "bubble clicking" - the strange behaviour of air bubbles when they’re mixed with a sample of the liquid from a baby’s lungs, or with a sample of the fluid which surrounds and protects the unborn child.

Researcher Comments

Story also appears in ‘Living Tomorrow No. 306’

Keywords

Health and medicine; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

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

COI Reference

MI 1458/241

Credits:

Cutter

Allen Bowry

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Cutter

Laurence Williamson

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