Nutmeg Grater Speeds Coronary Diagnosis
Series
- Series Name
- Tomorrow Today
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: In the "Why didn’t I think of that?" department - a doctor has discovered that the large number of points on the humble nutmeg grater make an ideal electrode for electrocardiograms. Eliminating time consuming and messy electrode jelly preparation, it is making mass cardiography three times as fast.
- Researcher Comments
- Marion Foster conducts an interview with the inventor Dr Lewes of Bedford Hospital
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 47 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/15
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sound
- Chris Wilden
- Camera
- Dick Ewen
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Howard Williams
- Presenter
- Ian Morrison
- Producer
- Janice Willett / Kay
- Presenter
- Marion Foster
- Director
- Mark Lawton
- Cutter
- William Hammerton
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- British Film Institute (BFI)
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How to cite this record
'Nutmeg Grater Speeds Coronary Diagnosis', Tomorrow Today Issue No. 15, 1969. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/350809 (Accessed 10 Jul 2025)