Results: Stories
101 results found for '"Maurice Tarling"' in Credits.
Developments In Transport - For Today... And For Tomorrow: Rollercraft
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 192
- NoS ID
- 325819
- Story no
- 1 / 4
COI synopsis: A new concept in amphibious vehicles - special "wheels" or rollers actually change their configuration to run equally well in water, or on land.
Developments In Transport - For Today... And For Tomorrow: Wheelchair Car
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 192
- NoS ID
- 325820
- Story no
- 2 / 4
COI synopsis: And a new concept in invalid cars. The invalid’s wheelchair itself can be rolled up to the steering wheel and locked into place to become the actual driving seat.
Developments In Transport - For Today... And For Tomorrow: Optical Rubber
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 192
- NoS ID
- 325821
- Story no
- 3 / 4
COI synopsis: A strange, unique, new material - rubber with a surface as smooth as optically ground glass. And, paradoxically, there’s so much friction on this ultra smooth surface that objects will roll...
Developments In Transport - For Today... And For Tomorrow: Antilock Brake
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 192
- NoS ID
- 325823
- Story no
- 4 / 4
COI synopsis: Motorbikes - perhaps the most dangerous vehicles on the road. Now a single new addition to the braking system can end the nightmare caused by locked brakes.
Conducting Concrete
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 218
- NoS ID
- 325919
- Story no
- 1 / 4
COI synopsis: Roads, runways, pavements, houses: the most common material for their construction is concrete. But now, there’s concrete with a difference; concrete with carbon granules, a by-product of oil...
Mouse Detector
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 218
- NoS ID
- 325920
- Story no
- 2 / 4
COI synopsis: Mice, those nocturnal marauders, cause thousands of pounds worth of damage in industry every year. So researchers at a British university have made a study of mice behavioural patterns that has...
No-Needle Knitting
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 218
- NoS ID
- 325921
- Story no
- 3 / 4
COI synopsis: Sweaters knitted from feathers and pineapple stalks are on the way. A new kind of knitting machine can knit a much wider range of fibres than conventional machines. The new knitting machine has...
Clearscan
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 218
- NoS ID
- 325922
- Story no
- 4 / 4
COI synopsis: On busy waterways like the English Channel, radar is an essential navigational aid. Yet during bad weather radar pictures can become confused by echoes picked up from the tops of waves or off...
Roundhouse
- Series name
- This Week In Britain
- Issue no
- 3
- NoS ID
- 350737
- Story no
- 1 / 1
NoS synopsis: Report on the production of a new play: ‘Quetzalcoatl - God of the Plumed Serpent’ by the Mexican writer Berta Dominguez, which was previewing at The Roundhouse theatre in London. Alberto...
Don’t Shoot The Pianist
- Date released
- 1972
- Series name
- This Week In Britain
- Issue no
- 701
- NoS ID
- 328942
- Story no
- 1 / 1
COI synopsis: From Queen Victoria’s Jubilee to the latest zingy TV commercials Britain’s National Film Archive contains over twenty thousand films from all over the world. Michele Brown visits the...