A Simple Solution: Scrap Cone
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Recycled scrap metal is increasingly being used as raw material for steel. Huge flat electromagnets move this scrap to furnaces for melting; but because of their shape their magnetic field captures only the top layer of scrap on the heap. Now their efficiency has been dramatically improved by a simple change in design - an electromagnet shaped like a cone, which dives deep into the scrap pile, moving twice the metal in the same time and for the same energy.
- Keywords
- Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Design
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/209
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Laurence Williamson
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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How to cite this record
'A Simple Solution: Scrap Cone', Living Tomorrow Issue No. 209, 1977. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/325892 (Accessed 28 Feb 2025)