Developments In Transport - For Today... And For Tomorrow: Optical Rubber
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: A strange, unique, new material - rubber with a surface as smooth as optically ground glass. And, paradoxically, there’s so much friction on this ultra smooth surface that objects will roll along upside down. A neat party trick with a serious purpose: to develop tyres which keep a better grip on the road.
- Keywords
- Science and technology; Motor vehicles; Engineering; Design
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/192
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Maurice Tarling
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
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London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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How to cite this record
'Developments In Transport - For Today... And For Tomorrow: Optical Rubber', Living Tomorrow Issue No. 192. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/325821 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)