All Pieces for William S. Hammack
A piece of technology forklore is that batteries last longer if stored in the frig. The decisive answer? Yes and no ... but mostly no.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:39
Although voice mail is annoying, that wasn't the intent of its prolific inventor, engineer Gordon Matthews, author of some thirty patents. He said,...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:38
The word "Gridlock" seems to have been with us forever, but it is only of recent origin. It appeared first in 1980, and it was coined by an enginee...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:07
A good package blends technical know-how and psychology. This commentary tells the story of the grand daddy of all packagers: Gale Borden.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:48
- Purchases: 1
This commentary celebrates the Sears Tower as an American Masterpiece
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 03:48
The story of the wonder fiber nylon, which begins with my underwear.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:53
Fox Sports made the hockey puck glow on the TV screen. This piece explains how they did it and how difficult it was to do.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:31
This commentary highlights the risk we run from container ship - the blood supply for our global economy. They could be prime targets for terrorists.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:52
I spent a night sleeping in one of the most incredible structures in the world: The Ice Hotel in the Arctic Circle of Sweden.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:50
Although the Olympic Flame is an ancient tradition, it is now a very media savvy tradition. Television cameras cover the Torch's journey as 11,500 ...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:48
J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings enchants because it let's us escape into another world called "Middle Earth." Yet, odd as this fantasy world is,...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:40
We often think of the digital economy as "clean", but this pieces argues that the electronic revolution also takes an environmental toll.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:40
The existence of more than forty species of birds, and other wildlife is in peril. Their survival depends on whether or not the wine cork survives.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:41
How we spell the word disk affects how you view laws about copying recordings of music and movies. Lying in the balance is billions of dollars, and...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:30
Gore-tex is an amazing material. It is used in
mountaineering gear, fishing equipment and ski outfits. Gore-Tex is usually advertised as waterproo...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:52
This commentary spells out how science and engineering have impacted baseballl.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:29
The story of the invention of color film
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:42
The QWERTY keyboard (a normal computer keyboard) illustrates a fundamental truth about technology and the marketplace: To dislodge an existing te...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 03:01
The waterless urinal is less a technological object that a political one.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:31
How many people attend a demonstration on, say, the Mall in Washington D.C.?The answer is "we don't know" because no one is really counting.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:35
