All Pieces for William S. Hammack
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
A chair seems a natural response to how we bend at our ankles, knees, and hips, but it isn't at all.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
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
Our computer-age economy depends, as did the 17th century economy of spices, on exotic materials mined from war-torn countries.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:37
The story of Robert Adler's invention in 1956 of the TV remote.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:23
We think of MUZAK as saccharine elevator music, but it really broke new ground by pioneering the technology of "carrier transmission" used today be...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:45
Why a shower curtains billows into the type ... as explaining by engineering fluid dynamics.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:36
Henry Dreyfuss, an industrial designer, create nearly anything use by humans, including great American icons like the Honeywell Thermostat and the ...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:24
Cryonics, the technology of post-mortem freezing, promises to offer a chance at second life, but the technical obstacles are immense.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:49
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
Hazel Bishop, a chemist, build a multi-million dollar cosmetics company based on smear-proof lipstick.
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:52
- Purchases: 1
Rail travel shows how technology shapes our culture, behavior, and perceptions: From time zones, to how we think about traveling, to newstands.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:31
To my engineer's eye, the SWATCH is an incredible watch, which may sound odd since the SWATCH is famous for being cheap, and mostly plastic.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:33
During December the lines may seem long, but there is a proven mathematical way to make the lines move faster.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:30
I don't much like to fly - and so have had to learn everything that happens when a plane takes off.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:30
