All Pieces for William S. Hammack
Satellite communications came from science fiction. Its inventor wrote science fiction as well as doing electrical engineering.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:24
Most technological "breakthroughs" aren't breakthroughs at all, instead they are the result of simple, steady engineering.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:35
Tivo changes the financial model for televsion
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:44
As terrorist uses more sophisticated technology we face a Faustian bargain in using technology to track them.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:45
The message of Fahrenheit 451 in the age of DVD and electronic books: We run the risk that the literary and intellectual canon of the coming centur...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 03:34
The story of velcro: Invited by a Swiss engineer who came up with the idea while walking with his dog in the woods. de Mestral observed that his wo...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:29
Robert Harris's novel Pompeii does an incredible job of teaching about Roman Civil engineering and waterworks, although make no mistake, this alway...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:44
The Lego toy company has hit hard times with the advent of electronic toys.
Bought by Kansas Public Radio
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 1
The escapment - the essential part of a mechanical clock that makes to go tick, tock - changed the world by allowing humans to move away from the c...
Bought by Radio Catskill
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:43
- Purchases: 1
Cruise control was invited by a blind engineer.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:31
The story of the global positioning system
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:50
A Nobel Prize winner called the disappearance of Erector sets a "disaster of modern life." He considered their replacement by Legos to herald the "...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:44
The lessons from the August 14, 2003 blackout of the United States and Canada.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 03:01
Tunneling through the ground has a long and important history in human affairs.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:45
What risks do we run from living in a high tech society. They likely different that you'd expect.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:51
The story of engineer Saul Griffith and his machine that instantly makes lenses for developing countries.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:29
American Idol shows the future of text messaging
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:40
On June 21st, 2004 the first private space flight took off, even through it hearalded a new age, it harked back to the showmen of the 19th century.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:35
The cleverness and ingenuity of engineering in designing objects for mass production.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:27
The story of the invention of the phillips screw.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:43
