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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.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- 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
- Purchases: 1
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
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
- Purchases: 1
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
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
- Length: 02:19
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
- Purchases: 1
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...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- 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
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
- Length: 02:24
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...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:28
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,...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:11
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...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 1
Nanotechnology offers great promise, but only if its creators shape with the public its potential problems.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:51
Plain Old Telephone Service
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:43
RFID: A technology that keeps track of the globe, but may threaten our freedom
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:38
Trash is the hallmark of human presence: From ancient Mayans to the moon - humans have left garbage. Do we have enough room for all the solid waste...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 1
The Waring Blender came from Fred Waring, leader of a 1930s Big Band.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:39
Jell-O, a stapled of our holiday tables was invented by on of the greatest American engineers of all time.
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:43
- Purchases: 1
One of the most common questions I get is why did Betamax fail when it was so much better than its competitors. From an engineers viewpoint it was...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:51
Zildjian cymbals have a long history: Beginning in 1618 with the Mustafa the First, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:57
