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November 2nd, 2009
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The story of the invention of the Geiger Counter.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
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The story of the global positioning system

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Cruise control was invited by a blind engineer.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
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Vaseline was first sold as a cure-all for all types of ills.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
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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
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Bill Hammack tells to story of the invention of the blue LED

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
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There is no more high tech spots than cycle: From the bikes, to the clothing to the training.

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:24
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A plasma is an electrically charge gas that makes possible silicon chips, displays and even potato chip bags.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 01:58
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I stand a top Los Angeles at the Getty Museum looking at one of the great engineering wonders of our time: The LA Water Supply.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:46
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Every decade or so someone proposes resurrecting Zeppelins -- it happens so often the tendency has been given a name: Helium Headiness.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
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The Frisbee began as something called the "Pluto Platter", and it would have stayed that way except for two things: The fanaticism of Ed Headrick, ...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
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The most important technical achievement of the twentieth century may well be that of finding a replacement for, well, the polite word is bird drop...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:43
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Ten year old Becky Schroeder, one of the world's youngest inventors, create "glo-sheets" - glowing paper.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:24
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Two of the greatest environmental threats of the twentieth century - leaded gas and freon - were the work of a single man named Thomas Midgley. His...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
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Tupperware began with Earl S. Tupper, once described as a "failed tree surgeon and archetypal reader of the Reader's Digest." Who, also "combined f...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
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A bathtub may will be the greatest engineering achievement of American ingenuity.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
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Although we live in a disposable society, there are a few things designed so well that they are never out of style. The premier example may well be...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
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The iridium satellite phone system was designed so a mobile phone at any point on the Earth - the ocean, the desert, a rain forest, or Mount Everes...

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We can draw many lessons from the World Trade Center attack of September 11th, but one thing it clearly reveals is the fragility of the incredible,...

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We associate the saxophone with the mellowness of jazz, but it roots are very hotheaded. The saxophone evolved from a bass clarinet built by the Be...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:38
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