Results: Stories
205 results found for '"Computers and computing"' in Keyword.
The Needle In The Haystack: Live Wire
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 237
- NoS ID
- 325982
- Story no
- 1 / 3
COI synopsis: When that first country maid lost the very first needle in the haystack on which she was sitting, neither she - nor the gallant country lad who rushed to her assistance - realised how difficult...
Seeing By Numbers 1: Computer Rain
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 270
- NoS ID
- 326078
- Story no
- 1 / 3
COI synopsis: In the past decade, the computer has grown in versatility whilst shrinking in size and cost. This programme is about its impact on our society: not in terms of automated car production, but how...
Seeing By Numbers 2: Community Computer
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 271
- NoS ID
- 326079
- Story no
- 1 / 3
COI synopsis: In the past decade, the computer has grown in versatility whilst shrinking in size and cost. The resulting impact on our society is wide-ranging. From graphic art to saving lives, the tiny...
Surprise Solution: Cyclops
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 273
- NoS ID
- 326085
- Story no
- 3 / 3
COI synopsis: How to avoid the agonies of removing a dressing; the expense of replacing a water pump that’s dropped from a corroded pipe. How students spread throughout the country can have a classroom...
3 D Analysis
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 66
- NoS ID
- 329444
- Story no
- 1 / 4
COI synopsis: The shape of a molecule, in any plane, and in 3-D as well, all presented on TV by a computer.
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...
Possum
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 91
- NoS ID
- 329473
- Story no
- 2 / 3
COI synopsis: Possum Research is a company formed to develop aids to speed up the rehabilitation of the severely disabled. People who at one time would have to face a seemingly purposeless existence can now...
Crystal Ball Farm Game
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 91
- NoS ID
- 329474
- Story no
- 3 / 3
COI synopsis: If Old Macdonald were to up-date his farm he might well find himself installing a computer terminal. It may not be able to tell him when to plough the fields and scatter the good seed on the...
Fine Drilling
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 111
- NoS ID
- 329535
- Story no
- 3 / 4
COI synopsis: A machine to drill the very accurate holes needed for computer circuit boards. We exploited its acccuracy by programming it with a photograph. It produced for us the world’s first portrait...
Water Resources
- Series name
- Tomorrow Today
- Issue no
- 117
- NoS ID
- 329556
- Story no
- 4 / 4
COI synopsis: Water is vital to our food and to us, yet even in countries with heavy rainfall we are close to using more than Nature can supply. In North Wales they’re using computer control and rain...