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Atomic clocks affects everything from landing aircraft to telephone calls.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:36
The telegraph functioned just like the internet does today: It decreased the importance of geographical distance, led to new types of fraud, and pr...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
Memory metal, which can remember its shape has many uses - from braces to shirts.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:51
The British tea supplied J. Lyons & Co invented a computer in the 1940s to keep track of the tea at their shops.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 1
A fiber optic cable is truly an amazing and revolutionary thing: Its a piece of glass, essentially, that guides light like electricity through wires.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:37
Computers find it difficult to filter spam because it reflects the essense of what makes us human. This commentary describes how the insights of an...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:54
Determining the dates of Easter and Passover led directly to our modern calendar.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Prairie Public, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KZYX, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:54
- Purchases: 10
Thomas Stockham, an electrical engineer, pioneered digital recording.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:43
The story of the Theremin: The first electronic instrument
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:04
The story of George Eastman and how he revolutionized photography
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 1
The story of Philo Farnsworth, a farm boy who invented television
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:38
Men and women are built differently and thus their bicycles should reflect these differences.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:30
A former thief invented the surveillance tags used in most stores.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:29
As terrorist uses more sophisticated technology we face a Faustian bargain in using technology to track them.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:45
The message of Fahrenheit 451 in the age of DVD and electronic books: We run the risk that the literary and intellectual canon of the coming centur...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 03:34
The story of velcro: Invited by a Swiss engineer who came up with the idea while walking with his dog in the woods. de Mestral observed that his wo...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:29
Robert Harris's novel Pompeii does an incredible job of teaching about Roman Civil engineering and waterworks, although make no mistake, this alway...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:44
A history of the "black boxes" used in airplanes. They were inspired by Swing music.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:47
Most technological "breakthroughs" aren't breakthroughs at all, instead they are the result of simple, steady engineering.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:35
The media often reports the quanity of "proven oil reserves", but don't often nuance what is meant by this.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:44
On June 21st, 2004 the first private space flight took off, even through it hearalded a new age, it harked back to the showmen of the 19th century.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:35
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
- Length: 02:51
Tunneling through the ground has a long and important history in human affairs.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:45
