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Proven Principle. On the same day, Esso Petroleum of Great Britain held an oil disposal demonstration at its Fawley refinery near Southampton. Technicians poured a barrel of crude oil on a pond, then covered the slick with a shredded polyurethane foam developed by J. Bibby & Sons of Liverpool. The foam quickly turned black as it absorbed the oil. The oil-soaked foam was then simply trapped and towed ashore, where Esso showed how the oil could be pressed out for reuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Mopping Up Oily Oceans | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

This week, to celebrate its tenth birth day, TEE puts its plush new Rembrandt onto the daily run between Amsterdam and Munich. Passengers relax in form-hugging, foam-rubber seats while a blurred landscape speeds past the vast picture windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: Luxury on the Track | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...wide strips that are taped together on the underside. In one day, it can be laid over an existing clay or asphalt court with only a layer of honeycomb wire in between for drainage. It can also be laid on bare, level ground over a preparatory layer of polystyrene foam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Mod Sod | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...Wall of Foam. For most U.S. police, the only such weapon now available is the old-fashioned billy club-and the trouble is that many policemen are surprisingly unskilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Police: Disabling Without Killing | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...higher pressure meant that the fire spread five times as fast as it would have in a normal atmosphere. A new quick-opening hatch is also being designed, and the surprising number of combustible items aboard-including the astronauts' own space suits and the craft's insulating foam-are being redesigned using materials that are more fire-resistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: How Soon the Moon? | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

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