Inventions 1960s

Industrial One-Arm Bandit AKA Industrial One Armed Bandit (1968)

Spooky glimpse of the year 2000, where people are served breakfast and champagne by a robot arm.

Aerotrain (1969)

Prototype of French Jet Aerotrain. France.

Aerotrain AKA French Aerotrain Clocks 235 Mph On Test Run (1967)

Test run of super fast train in France.

Concorde 001 Maiden Flight (1960)

Concorde 001 plane taking off on its Maiden Flight.

Concorde Take-Off (1969)

Great colour footage of first Concorde flight at Toulouse.

Jetaway Getaway (1966)

American rocket man at Brands Hatch & new teenage craze in London.

Laser Beam Research In America. (1967)

Demonstration of a laser beam burning through paper and marble

Laser Beam (1968)

Laser beams cut through thick industrial materials. Frankfurt, Germany.

Hover Barrow (1960)

New invention, the Hoverbarrow, is demonstrated on a wet and muddy work site in Rainham, Kent.

Aero-Propelled Ski (1969)

Russian invention propels skier across snow by means of a motor on worn on the back.

Aerotrain (1969)

Two engineers test out new speedy Aerotrain in Paris, France.

30 Second News - Scooter Nun (1966)

Nuns use scooters to do their hospital rounds in Illinois.

"Amphicar" Displayed In Sydney Harbour (1963)

Amphicar demonstrated in Sydney harbour, Australia.

America's Longest Space Flight (1962)

America's longest space flight by astronaut Commander Walter M. Schirra, Cape Canaveral.

New Style Skiing (1962)

Ski-bob scooters on snowy slopes of Mount Buffalo, Australia.

Balloon Satellite Launched From Cape Canaveral (1962)

Balloon satellite launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Robot Plough (1962)

Driverless tractor pulls plough at farm in Zeeland, Holland.

Another New Dance Craze (1963)

In tightly packed Paris club dancers perform some new dance crazes.

Us Launches Robot 'weatherman' Into Space (1960)

An American weather satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral.

30 Second News (1966)

Two stories about watery inventions and one about a cockatoo who wears a woolly jumper.

International "Twist" Championship (1964)

Dancers hit full tilt as they dance in a Twist Competition from Holland.