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  1. Goonhilly

    Series name
    Letter From London
    Issue no
    170
    NoS ID
    325068

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  2. Satellite Communications

    Series name
    Letter From London
    Issue no
    327
    NoS ID
    325225

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  3. Sounds of Doom

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    78
    NoS ID
    325404
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: A suspension bridge buckling and twisting till 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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  4. Atlas

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    112
    NoS ID
    325487
    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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  5. Pocketphone

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    112
    NoS ID
    325488
    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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  6. Fire Alarm for the Deaf

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    112
    NoS ID
    325489
    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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  7. Radio Heartbeats

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    112
    NoS ID
    325490
    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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  8. Green For Go

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    113
    NoS ID
    325491
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: There’s nothing so frustrating to the driver of an ambulance or fire engine as a traffic light at red. In the City of Bath emergency vehicles have been fitted with a piece of electronics to...

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  9. Sound Speed

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    121
    NoS ID
    325519
    Story no
    2 / 3

    COI synopsis: The car radio makes a good travelling companion... for most of the time. But if you have been travelling fast along the motorway with the volume turned well up the loudness of the radio could...

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  10. Coping With Complexity: Ocean Buoys

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    151
    NoS ID
    325630
    Story no
    2 / 5

    COI synopsis: This issue looks at a few new ways of managing the increasingly complex problems of modern life. Computer simulations, for instance, show how to cope with the complexity of planning a modern...

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