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  1. Computers

    Series name
    Middle East Newspots
    Issue no
    39
    NoS ID
    327085

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  2. Sounds of Doom

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    78
    NoS ID
    329456
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: A suspension bridge buckling and twisting til it collapses demonstrates one of the more spectacularly catastrophic results of stress in metals... but more frequently the effects of stress...

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  3. Atlas

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    112
    NoS ID
    329536
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Telecommunication in the computer age. It usually takes at least fifteen seconds to dial a number on a conventional telephone... double that if you make a mistake first time. The Atlas...

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  4. Pocketphone

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    112
    NoS ID
    329537
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: Another telephone to save time, designed for those who are out of reach of a conventional telephone. This pocketphone is a development of the radio telephone with its own dialling system which...

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  5. Fire Alarm for the Deaf

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    112
    NoS ID
    329538
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Communication, when other systems fail. The most elaborate system of fire alarm bells is only useful if they can be heard. For those who are deaf some other warning is needed, and this device...

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  6. Radio Heartbeats

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    112
    NoS ID
    329539
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: A radio telephone to save time and life. An ambulance is fitted with an electro cardiograph to record the pulses from the heart of an emergency patient. These pulses are printed simultaneously...

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  7. Dialon

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    66
    NoS ID
    351120
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: No more the frustration of ringing and finding there’s no-one there. With this little box switched on just dial your own number when you get no reply at the other end. This has really got it...

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  8. Dialon

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    66
    NoS ID
    351124
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: No more the frustration of ringing and finding there’s no-one there. With this little box switched on just dial your own number when you get no reply at the other end. This has really got it...

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  9. Tales of the Tall Timber

    Series name
    Rhodesian Spotlight
    Issue no
    45
    NoS ID
    351971
    Story no
    2 / 3

    Rhodesian Spotlight synopsis: Two uses of Blue Gum in Nyasaland are for poles to carry power and telephone lines, and by the Tobacco Industry in housing and making barrels for the export of tobacco....

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  10. Source To Sea: Computer Rain

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    301
    NoS ID
    352414
    Story no
    1 / 6

    COI synopsis: Water. It rolls from sea to sky, sky to land, land to sea. We’re walking columns of the stuff; part of the same timeless cycle. This programme examines the cycle and the problems it presents...

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