Results: Stories
205 results found for '"Computers and computing"' in Keyword.
Sensamatic Looms
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 85
- NoS ID
- 325413
- Story no
- 3 / 3
COI synopsis: When a shuttle went amok up at the mill a dagger was hastily plunged into the frog: a crude mechanical way of stopping a loom in a hurry, and a terrible strain on its components. An...
Fine Drilling
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 111
- NoS ID
- 325484
- Story no
- 2 / 4
COI synopsis: A machine to drill the very accurate holes needed for computer circuit boards. We exploited its acccuracy by programming it with a photograph. It produced for us the world’s first portrait...
Water Resources
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 117
- NoS ID
- 325508
- Story no
- 4 / 4
COI synopsis: Water is vital to our food and to us, yet even in countries with heavy rainfall we are close to using more than Nature can supply. In North Wales they’re using computer control and rain...
Computerknit
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 118
- NoS ID
- 325511
- Story no
- 3 / 3
COI synopsis: An electronic knitting machine takes the clicking of needles a long way from the days of one plain, one purl... Fairisle sweaters are a mere limbering-up exercise. But the designers of knitting...
Instant World: Light Box
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 149
- NoS ID
- 325619
- Story no
- 1 / 4
COI synopsis: Science has given time a different meaning - what was once the work of years is now achieved in days; days are reduced to seconds. This issue looks at a few of the developments which are...
Coping With Complexity: Verisign
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 151
- NoS ID
- 325631
- Story no
- 3 / 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...
Sound: Electronic Tuner
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 152
- NoS ID
- 325635
- Story no
- 2 / 5
COI synopsis: No more guitar or piano strings out of tune because you can’t get hold of a professional to deal with them. An electronic ear does all the hard work for you: all that’s left is to adjust...
Sound: Dawkins Organ
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 152
- NoS ID
- 325637
- Story no
- 4 / 5
COI synopsis: Recording animal behaviour is a tricky job and any method to help the observer is a boon. Now an ingenious new instrument is under development which transforms animal behaviour into notes of...
On The Move: Auto Tracker
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 190
- NoS ID
- 325811
- Story no
- 1 / 4
COI synopsis: Achieving a greater standard of accuracy in analysing objects in motion is a big problem for scientists. This week we look at various new solutions to the problem of pinpointing moving objects....
On The Move: Computer Check
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 190
- NoS ID
- 325814
- Story no
- 4 / 4
COI synopsis: Achieving a greater standard of accuracy in analysing objects in motion is a big problem for scientists. This week we look at various new solutions to the problem of pinpointing moving objects....