Results: Stories
15 results found for '"Ian Nowell"' in Credits.
Bug Eats Bug
- Date released
- 1972
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 96
- NoS ID
- 325433
- Story no
- 1 / 4
COI synopsis: If the ladybird flies into the house it may arrive in a biological control kit, and its concern would be not for its children, but to satiate its craving for greenfly or aphids. In an...
Permagrip
- Date released
- 1972
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 96
- NoS ID
- 325434
- Story no
- 2 / 4
COI synopsis: Combine a permanent magnet and an electromagnet so that one will counteract the other and you have a means of getting steel plates unstuck... where and when they’re intended...
Mechanical Onion Peeler
- Date released
- 1972
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 96
- NoS ID
- 325435
- Story no
- 3 / 4
COI synopsis: To get an onion into a pickle you had to get under its skin, a process which cried out for a machine. Twelve years of work produced a whirlwind of knives, a sharp blast of air, and thousands of...
Computer Operation
- Date released
- 1972
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 96
- NoS ID
- 325436
- Story no
- 4 / 4
COI synopsis: The computer becomes part of the electronic apparatus available to the anaesthetist during a surgical operation. With the computer’s help he can predict whether a patient has any hidden...
Electric Carpet Tape
- Date released
- 1972
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 97
- NoS ID
- 325437
- Story no
- 1 / 4
COI synopsis: Stick one carpet to another and you can’t see the join! It’s all done by a special strip of foil and a five second burst of electricity.
Sterile Operating Area
- Date released
- 1972
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 97
- NoS ID
- 325438
- Story no
- 2 / 4
COI synopsis: In an operating theatre every speck of dust is a potential danger, especially severe in hip-joint surgery, where a large area of tissue is exposed. An air-conditioning specialist and a surgeon...
On-The-Land Ploughing
- Date released
- 1972
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 97
- NoS ID
- 325439
- Story no
- 3 / 4
COI synopsis: Down at the bottom of the furrow there’s a problem... packed-down soil, and a danger of flooding. The cause, the weight of the tractor wheel in the furrow when ploughing. Automatic steering...
Permagrip
- Date released
- 1972
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 96
- NoS ID
- 329485
- Story no
- 1 / 4
COI synopsis: Combine a permanent magnet and an electromagnet so that one will counteract the other and you have a means of getting steel plates unstuck... where and when they’re intended...
Ethylene
- Date released
- 1972
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 96
- NoS ID
- 329486
- Story no
- 2 / 4
COI synopsis: When an apple fell on Isaac Newton’s head he blamed it all on gravity, but ethylene was just as much to blame. It makes fruit ripen, and causes fruit and leaves to fall. Research into the way...
Computer Operation
- Date released
- 1972
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 96
- NoS ID
- 329487
- Story no
- 3 / 4
COI synopsis: The computer becomes part of the electronic apparatus available to the anaesthetist during a surgical operation. With the computer’s help he can predict whether a patient has any hidden...