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We owe a major step in the eradication of polio, and a host of other diseases, to one unsung person. I'd say hero, but this person never knew what ...
Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 2
Story of the inventor of the wind up radio
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:30
The importance of cryptography for the web
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:48
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
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
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
The story of James Dyson and his revolutionary vacuum cleaner
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:28
Atomic clocks affects everything from landing aircraft to telephone calls.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:36
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
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
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
Memory metal, which can remember its shape has many uses - from braces to shirts.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:51
How the Volkswagen Beetle started ... and ended.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:54
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
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
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
Determining the dates of Easter and Passover led directly to our modern calendar.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Prairie Public, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KZYX, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:54
- Purchases: 10
Thomas Stockham, an electrical engineer, pioneered digital recording.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:43
How the technology of accurate throwing separates humankind from the rest of the animal kingdom.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:36
This piece describes how a flu vaccine is prepared; it uses a short history of the deadly 1918 flu to motivate the imporance of yearly vaccine.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:40
The story of the Theremin: The first electronic instrument
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:04
The story of George Eastman and how he revolutionized photography
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 1
The story of Philo Farnsworth, a farm boy who invented television
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:38
Is sliced bread really one of the "best things?" Yes!
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:49
Why does everything come to a standstill in a blackout and what still works? The answers: 100 year old technology.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:31
