Results: Stories
4,693 results found for '"Industry and manufacture"' in Keyword.
Carworker
- Series name
- Portrait
- Issue no
- 8
- NoS ID
- 327455
- Story no
- 1 / 1
A Glassworker
- Series name
- Portrait
- Issue no
- 13
- NoS ID
- 327460
- Story no
- 1 / 1
Steelworker
- Series name
- Portrait
- Issue no
- 28
- NoS ID
- 327475
- Story no
- 1 / 1
Sensamatic Looms
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 85
- NoS ID
- 329465
- 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...
Bottleglass Fibre
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 111
- NoS ID
- 329534
- Story no
- 2 / 4
COI synopsis: Used disposable bottles, the unwanted Cinderellas of our throw-away society, are taking on a new existence. A recycling process is turning them into glass fibre, and they are being reincarnated...
Fillcheck
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 114
- NoS ID
- 329544
- Story no
- 3 / 4
COI synopsis: The dam busting bombers of World War II used a pair of angled searchlights to check their height, and the same principle is used in a machine that checks whether jars of coffee, for example,...
Fabrics
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 115
- NoS ID
- 329546
- Story no
- 1 / 5
COI synopsis: Most garments through the centuries have been made from cloth, but the way the cloth looks and feels is subtly changing in technology’s hands.
Standardisation Of Clothing
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 115
- NoS ID
- 329547
- Story no
- 2 / 5
COI synopsis: Most clothing sizes are based on statistics of height and girth as interpreted by each manufacturer, but at London’s Royal College of Art they are recording dimensions, shape, and even skin...
Pre-Shaped Clothing
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 115
- NoS ID
- 329548
- Story no
- 3 / 5
COI synopsis: Much of the art of the dressmaker lies in forming a flat piece of cloth so that it fits over the curves of the body. In the future one mould may form the cloth as effectively as paper patterns,...
Acclimatisation
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 115
- NoS ID
- 329549
- Story no
- 4 / 5
COI synopsis: The supersonic age takes technology to extremes of temperature, and if the jet set traveller is to keep up he must streamline his responses to changing climates. Clothing designed at...