American Idol shows the future of text messaging
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:40
The story of engineer Saul Griffith and his machine that instantly makes lenses for developing countries.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:29
What risks do we run from living in a high tech society. They likely different that you'd expect.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
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Tunneling through the ground has a long and important history in human affairs.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:45
The lessons from the August 14, 2003 blackout of the United States and Canada.
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- Length: 03:01
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
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It seems like we live in a time where things become obsolete quickly, but for every eight-track tape that has gone by the way side, there are age-o...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:47
The cleverness and ingenuity of engineering in designing objects for mass production.
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- Length: 02:27
The story of the invention of the phillips screw.
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- Length: 02:43
The story of the invention of the Geiger Counter.
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- Length: 03:07
The story of the global positioning system
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- Length: 02:50
Cruise control was invited by a blind engineer.
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- Length: 02:31
Vaseline was first sold as a cure-all for all types of ills.
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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 "...
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Bill Hammack tells to story of the invention of the blue LED
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:42
There is no more high tech spots than cycle: From the bikes, to the clothing to the training.
Bought by KUT
- 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
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.
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- Length: 02:46
Every decade or so someone proposes resurrecting Zeppelins -- it happens so often the tendency has been given a name: Helium Headiness.
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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
- Length: 02:37
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...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- 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
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...
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- Length: 02:35
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
- Length: 02:43
A bathtub may will be the greatest engineering achievement of American ingenuity.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:35