Results: Stories
11 results found for '"Chris Rainbow"' in Credits.
Peripheral Vision
- Date released
- 1973
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 122
- NoS ID
- 329569
- Story no
- 1 / 3
COI synopsis: Traffic signs are amongst the warnings we have to take in very quickly in modern life. Primitive man could see his natural enemies quite adequately out of the corner of his eye, but our...
Noise
- Date released
- 1973
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 122
- NoS ID
- 329570
- Story no
- 2 / 3
COI synopsis: A modern Lilliput has been built at Britain’s National Physical Laboratory for experiments into environmental noise. The results of these experiments on miniature houses in the laboratory are...
Vibration Studies
- Date released
- 1973
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 122
- NoS ID
- 351998
- Story no
- 3 / 3
COI synopsis: Everything mechanical vibrates... and vibration is no help if someone is trying to concentrate on an exacting task. Helicopter pilots are particularly vulnerable and vibration research is...
Trim-It Brushes
- Date released
- 1974
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 137
- NoS ID
- 329622
- Story no
- 1 / 4
COI synopsis: A paintbrush like a lead pencil. You don’t exactly sharpen it, but a few quick knife cuts will give you a brand new set of filaments each time they wear out.
Spastic Births
- Date released
- 1974
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 137
- NoS ID
- 329623
- Story no
- 2 / 4
COI synopsis: A mothers’ blood during pregnancy contains a hormone actually produced by her baby. A new test reveals the amount of this hormone, and gives an early warning of whether the mother should be...
Self Destroying Plastic
- Date released
- 1974
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 137
- NoS ID
- 329624
- Story no
- 3 / 4
COI synopsis: To make waste plastics auto-destruct in five weeks you just add starch to the plastic in manufacture. Bacteria in the soil will break down the starch and break up the waste plastic.
Spode Statuettes
- Date released
- 1974
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 137
- NoS ID
- 329625
- Story no
- 4 / 4
COI synopsis: Statuettes of the ballet dancers Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell exhibit virtuosity in scuplture and porcelain modelling to rival the artistry of the dancers themselves.
Long Throw Lifeline & SOS Swimsuit
- Date released
- 1974
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 140
- NoS ID
- 329635
- Story no
- 1 / 4
COI synopsis: Cord in a bottle, and air in a ring. For a person in aquatic difficulties, one of these devices could save his life. The bottle contains 40 metres of cord for fishing someone out of the water,...
Burning Tyre Furnace
- Date released
- 1974
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 140
- NoS ID
- 329636
- Story no
- 2 / 4
COI synopsis: Tyres are made to be tough, and it’s a tough job trying to get rid of them when their useful life has ended. A furnace with a tornado for a heart incinerates the tyres cleanly, and its...
Home Fit Filter
- Date released
- 1974
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 140
- NoS ID
- 329637
- Story no
- 3 / 4
COI synopsis: Portable water filter and purifier.