Helical Extrusion

Series

Series Name

Tomorrow Today

Issue

Issue No.

95

Filmed

Nov 1971

Length of issue (in feet)

517

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Fabric Dam
2. 2Cerebral Function Monitor
3. 3Helical Extrusion
4. 4Remcalc

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: Producing wire by conventional methods occupies a vast are of factory space, but the helical extrusion machine can reduce a heavy copper billet 15,000 times to a filament of wire in one operation. Anyone who’s iced "Happy Birthday" onto a cake will understand how it works.

Keywords

Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 49 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/95

Credits:

Producer

Anthony Thomson

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Presenter

Howard Williams

Director

John Lyndon

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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