Inventive Brits: Vortex

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

303

Length of issue (in feet)

1025

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Inventive Brits: Invicta Cat
2. 2Inventive Brits: Laundering Oil
3. 3Inventive Brits: Rat Poison Horse Cure
4. 4Inventive Brits: Vortex
5. 5Inventive Brits: Mosquito Trap
6. 6Inventive Brits: Bug Eyed Optica

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Summary

COI synopsis: Some would call it the eccentricty of the British, but kinder souls define it as the British inventiveness. There’s a tradition in Britain, a compulsion to search out new ideas, to adapt them, modify them and come up with the extraordinary. A British naval architect, Roland Paxton, has eliminated the bow-wave on fast boats, by trapping it in tunnels down the keel of the boat. Vortex re-cycles lost energy and rides her own rails of spiralling water.

Researcher Comments

First shown in ‘Living Tomorrow No. 269’

Keywords

Ships and boats; Science and technology; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries; Design

Written sources

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

COI Reference

MI 1458/303

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Cutter

Mike Murray

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