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  1. Spinning Asbestos

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    76
    NoS ID
    351175
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Firefighters can now be fire walkers, if they happen to be wearing suits of Fortex, a lightweight yarn spun from the fireproof mineral asbestos. A specially developed "dispersion processing"...

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  2. Students Make Jewellery

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    76
    NoS ID
    351176
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Noble metals are for traditional jewellery, but students working in stainless steel are designing jewellery in a more traditional vein.

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  3. Deaf Children

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    76
    NoS ID
    351177
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: Unrecognised deafness in a child can cause emotional and educational problems. In a new diagnostic technique the electrical impulses of the brain are monitored, and from them the child’s...

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  4. Floating Breakwater

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    76
    NoS ID
    351178
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Defences against the sea - seawalls and harbours, are very expensive and laborious to build. This floating breakwater, simply a flat plastic float fifty feet long with a stablizing outrigger,...

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  5. Spinning Asbestos

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    76
    NoS ID
    351179
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Firefighters can now be fire walkers, if they happen to be wearing suits of Fortex, a lightweight yarn spun from the fireproof mineral asbestos. A specially developed "dispersion processing"...

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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