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The first roller skates were patented by John Joseph Merlin in 1760. He showed off his new fangled wheeled shoes with an epic entrance to a party t...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Apr 15, 2022
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Topic 1: Teaching Slavery in an American Classroom. Topic 2: The London Mansion Where British Spies Eavesdropped on Nazi German Generals. Topic 3: ...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, and WYAP
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 51:23
- Purchases: 3
In 1986 the BBC released a comprehensive survey of Britain. Burned onto two LaserDiscs, the early computer encyclopedia was a technological marvel.
- Added: Dec 28, 2019
- Length: 33:04
If I read through a thousand invention patents, I hope I'd learn something, too. This is Episode 63 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal sho...
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: May 07, 2018
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 1
Cataloguing one of the world's few remaining melodic forms of language - Seeing, feeling, and smelling a city built 3000 years before the pyramids ...
- Added: Dec 01, 2017
- Length: :29
- Purchases: 2
Cataloguing one of the world's few remaining melodic forms of language - Seeing, feeling, and smelling a city built 3000 years before the pyramids ...
Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUHF, WTJU and more
- Added: Dec 01, 2017
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 12
Cataloguing one of the world's few remaining melodic forms of language - Seeing, feeling, and smelling a city built 3000 years before the pyramids ...
Bought by WJCT, KRZA, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN, WVAS and more
- Added: Dec 01, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 8
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 1
Technology's grip on us: the 4-1-1 on what's behind your selfie; an artist's computer simulation shows humans aren't as unique as we think; and how...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Oct 27, 2016
- Length: 20:52
- Purchases: 1
Social media is very prevelant in our society today, on this episode of Culture Clique, we delve into it. On Tuesday March 15th, WSU hosted the 2nd...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 51:41
Airplanes in department stores? There was a time in U.S. History when people experienced this reality. But are we any closer today to realizing the...
- Added: Nov 14, 2015
- Length: 13:22
Emoji allow communication without words. Could emoji be the universal language of the 21st century?
Bought by WABE
- Added: Jul 27, 2015
- Length: 16:54
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 02, 2009
- Length: 04:40
Pollopel Island is host to Bannerman's Castle. But its curious history goes back centuries
- Added: Mar 09, 2009
- Length: 01:46
Steve Tatko explains how he ended up with a bioler operator's license.
- Added: Jul 02, 2008
- Length: 03:09
Sir Patrick Moore talks about his life in astronomy, life on Mars, and playing music with Einstein.
- Added: Feb 19, 2008
- Length: :18
