Results: Stories
1,106 results found for '"Communications"' in Keyword.
Goonhilly
- Series name
- Letter From London
- Issue no
- 170
- NoS ID
- 325068
Satellite Communications
- Series name
- Letter From London
- Issue no
- 327
- NoS ID
- 325225
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...