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  1. Intumescent Honeycomb

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    77
    NoS ID
    325403
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Take a paint that forms a hard carbon crust when heated, and a paper honeycomb. Use them together in ventilators and doors, and you have a means of stifling a fire by cutting off its oxygen...

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  2. Electronic Car

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    77
    NoS ID
    351181
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: Developed at a cost of £55,000 this modified saloon car incorporates several electronic "black boxes". Anti-lock braking, fuel injection and a motorway cruising device, all under electronic...

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  3. British Museum - The Past Restored

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    77
    NoS ID
    351182
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: 1800 years ago the bronze mask of Emperor Lucius Verus was squashed in an earthquake. Its restoration at the British Museum is just one example of the salvaging of antiquities that goes on...

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  4. Corneal Grafting

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    77
    NoS ID
    351183
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: A surgical operation on the eye - and a very delicate one. The cornea is a transparent disc through which light passes into the eye; damage it and blindness can result. Working with the aid of...

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  5. Intumescent Honeycomb

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    77
    NoS ID
    329455
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Take a paint that forms a hard carbon crust when heated, and a paper honeycomb. Use them together in ventilators and doors, and you have a means of stifling a fire by cutting off its oxygen...

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  6. Instant Emergency Lighting

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    77
    NoS ID
    351184
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: Metallites - portable, battery operated neon lights, provide a new emergency lighting system for airport runways. Safer and cheaper than existing systems, they illuminate automatically the...

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  7. British Museum - The Past Restored

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    77
    NoS ID
    351185
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: 1800 years ago the bronze mask of Emperor Lucius Verus was squashed in an earthquake. Its restoration at the British Museum is just one example of the salvaging of antiquities that goes on...

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  8. Corneal Grafting

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    77
    NoS ID
    351186
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: A surgical operation on the eye - and a very delicate one. The cornea is a transparent disc through which light passes into the eye; damage it and blindness can result. Working with the aid of...

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