Accurate Measurement: Hot Water Plug
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Science can frequently be startling and dramatic. But that drama is often the result of the painstaking gathering of detailed information. This programme explores how really accurate measurement can offer us greater safety or, indeed, improve our welfare. Poor old mum. Each evening is frantic: upstairs getting the kids bathed: downstairs cooking the evening meal. But help is at hand: a thermostat, wound inside a bath plug, checks the bathwater temperature and lets it drain away if it ever gets to a scalding heat, protecting the kids even when she’s not with them.
- Keywords
- Domestic life; Science and technology; Safety devices; Engineering
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/234
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Fred Goodland
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- British Film Institute (BFI)
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How to cite this record
'Accurate Measurement: Hot Water Plug', Living Tomorrow Issue No. 234. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/325971 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)