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Reference

4963

Hand-out launcher (The)

Series title

Strange Inventions

The humoristic Strange Inventions series revisits the film archives of the National office for scientific research and inventions (ONRSI, the CNRS's ancestor, by exploring fake advertisements staging real inventions. The third episode presents the hand-out launcher, a system using small mortar shells to dispatch messages.

Duration

00:01:02

Production year

Définition

HD

Color

BW

Sound

Sound

Version(s)

French

Original material

HD

Author(s)

Production

Scientific topics

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