{"id":5755,"date":"2026-08-18T19:09:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/1974-tomorrows-world-in-romania-retro-tech-bbc-archive\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T19:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:09:24","slug":"1974-tomorrows-world-in-romania-retro-tech-bbc-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/1974-tomorrows-world-in-romania-retro-tech-bbc-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"1974: Tomorrow&#8217;s World in Romania | Retro Tech | BBC Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BmVN5NRx3wg?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>This special edition of Tomorrow&#8217;s World sees Raymond Baxter visit Romania. He reports on various scientific and technological research projects in the country, including the Elmo electric bicycle, fresco preservation, the Romanian aircraft industry, and the wine industry. <\/p>\n<p>He also visits the Sadova-Corabia region, home to one of the world&#8217;s largest irrigation projects, which aims to use the water from the Danube to turn the arid soils of the Oltenia Plain into productive agricultural land.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Introduction<br \/>\n01:08 The Elmo electric moped<br \/>\n02:50 Fresco preservation<br \/>\n09:28 Romanian aviation industry<br \/>\n11:42 Sadova-Corabia irrigation project<br \/>\n19:47 Wine industry &#8211; research and development<br \/>\n21:05 Universal 411 tractor<br \/>\n22:28 Outro and end credits<\/p>\n<p>Clip taken from Tomorrow&#8217;s World, originally broadcast on BBC One, 24 October, 1974.<\/p>\n<p>You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic clips from the BBC vaults.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BBCArchive?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>You can also dive into plenty more BBC Archive on our website &#8211; https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/archive<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BmVN5NRx3wg\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This special edition of Tomorrow&#8217;s World sees Raymond Baxter visit Romania. He reports on various scientific and technological research projects in the country, including the Elmo electric bicycle, fresco preservation, the Romanian aircraft industry, and the wine industry. He also visits the Sadova-Corabia region, home to one of the world&#8217;s largest irrigation projects, which aims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":5756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1023,1019,15,1022,5509,1021,5501,5502,1020,11306,5716,5715,1026,1025,5504,5505,5500,5506,1027,11304,11305,11308,4700,11309,5503,1024,5510,11307,1028,5507],"class_list":["post-5755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-archive","tag-archive-bbc","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-archive","tag-bbc-tomorrows-world","tag-british-tv-nostalgia","tag-classic-tech","tag-classic-technology","tag-classic-tv","tag-elmo-electric-moped","tag-gadget","tag-gadgets","tag-legendary-television","tag-nostalgia","tag-outdated-science","tag-outdated-technology","tag-past-science","tag-retro-tech","tag-retro-tv","tag-romania","tag-romania-1974","tag-sadova-corabia","tag-science-and-technology","tag-sodova-corabia-irrigation-project","tag-tech","tag-the-bbc-archive","tag-tomorrows-world","tag-universal-411-tractor","tag-vintage","tag-vintage-technology","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}