Inventive Brits: Mosquito Trap
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 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. Mosquitos, a transmitter of killer disease, are waterborne. Essential to their survival is a need to surface for oxygen. Professor McMullen has used a substance - lipid - to develop a foam preventing their access to fresh air and sealing the mosquitos to a watery grave.
- Researcher Comments
- First shown in ‘Living Tomorrow No. 215’ under the title ‘Blackfly Foam’
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Science and technology; Insects; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/303
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Mike Murray
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- British Film Institute (BFI)
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