Results: Stories
12 results found for '"William Woollard"' in Credits.
Sand Bed
- Date released
- 1974
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 132
- NoS ID
- 329601
- Story no
- 1 / 4
COI synopsis: Sandy beaches cure bedsores. A hospital bed has a "mattress" of sand, and a supply of air under pressure to fluidise it, moulding it to the shape of the body - just as a sandy seashore "gives"...
Vorsyl Separator
- Date released
- 1974
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 132
- NoS ID
- 329602
- Story no
- 2 / 4
COI synopsis: Let the bath water go and you’ll see the principle of a machine to separate coal from rock. That twisting spiral of water takes rocks to the bottom and floats coal out at the top. Vorsyl...
Coloured Cash
- Date released
- 1974
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 132
- NoS ID
- 329603
- Story no
- 3 / 4
COI synopsis: A cash box with an electronic lock which dyes its contents bright orange if opened illegally.
Bone Setting
- Date released
- 1974
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 132
- NoS ID
- 329604
- Story no
- 4 / 4
COI synopsis: Sometimes a badly broken leg bone will never "knit", even if the broken sections are held together with a plate. Amputation was normally the only course left until a Birmingham surgeon designed...
No Steering Wheels
- Date released
- 1974
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 135
- NoS ID
- 329613
- Story no
- 1 / 4
COI synopsis: Now back-seat-drivers can take the wheel into the back seat with them - while the driver steers by foot. It’s not a gimmick, but one way in which severely disabled people can drive around...
Desk Top Planetarium
- Date released
- 1974
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 135
- NoS ID
- 329614
- Story no
- 2 / 4
COI synopsis: A journey into space - the dream of many school children, who can plan their trip round the planets on this working model of the solar system. The model illuminates and illustrates many of the...
Sterile Glasses
- Date released
- 1974
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 135
- NoS ID
- 329615
- Story no
- 3 / 4
COI synopsis: Dirty glasses, the biggest headache on the "morning after"? Our little machine washes, dries, and sterilises them at the rate of one every three seconds.
Cell Pumps
- Date released
- 1974
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 135
- NoS ID
- 329616
- Story no
- 4 / 4
COI synopsis: Research at St Andrew’s University into the survival mechanisms of the human cell. Millions of tiny pumps in each cell wall maintain the right chemical balance within the cell, and the...
Hi-Fi Vacuum
- Date released
- 1974
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 135
- NoS ID
- 329617
- Story no
- 1 / 4
COI synopsis: A vacuum cleaner to extract dust from the groove in a micro-groove disc, and remove the plops from the hifi addict’s loudspeakers.
Computer Saw
- Date released
- 1974
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 135
- NoS ID
- 329618
- Story no
- 2 / 4
COI synopsis: Not all trees grow the same, and timber reaches the sawmill in many shapes and sizes. A computer controlled saw works out the best way of cutting up the incoming timber so that there is very...