All Pieces for William S. Hammack

 
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The story of Willard Gibbs who revolutionized chemistry

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:49
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Commentary that argues that to be environmentally friendly we want products designed so that the high value materials can be removed - reserving re...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:48
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The story of Barbara McClintock's Nobel Prize winning work

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:24
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The story of the greatest engineer born on Valentine's Day: Ferris made his mark in 1893 at the World's Fair in Chicago. with his giant wheel.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:55
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The Edge razor developed by Gillette about ten years ago is a technological marvel that cost three-quarters of a billion dollars to develop.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 01:56
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Atomic clocks affects everything from landing aircraft to telephone calls.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:36
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Computers find it difficult to filter spam because it reflects the essense of what makes us human. This commentary describes how the insights of an...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:54
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The British tea supplied J. Lyons & Co invented a computer in the 1940s to keep track of the tea at their shops.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
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How the Volkswagen Beetle started ... and ended.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:54
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The story of James Dyson and his revolutionary vacuum cleaner

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:28
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Memory metal, which can remember its shape has many uses - from braces to shirts.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:51
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The story of the inventor of Neon lighting: from his signs to nazi collaboration to his hair-brained schemes to create energy.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:51
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The electric chair rose in the 19th century from an odd mixture of technology-worship and industrial sabotage.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:59
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The telegraph functioned just like the internet does today: It decreased the importance of geographical distance, led to new types of fraud, and pr...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
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Bob Kearns invented the intermittent wiper blade - the blades that flash occasionally across a windshield. This simple invention caused him much gr...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 01:20
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A fiber optic cable is truly an amazing and revolutionary thing: Its a piece of glass, essentially, that guides light like electricity through wires.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:37
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Story of the inventor of the wind up radio

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:30
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The importance of cryptography for the web

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:48
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The story of the Theremin: The first electronic instrument

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:04
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Every time I ride in a jet, I look out the window and watch the wing. When I see it's still there, I say a silence thanks to Constance Tipper

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:33