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Memory metal, which can remember its shape has many uses - from braces to shirts.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:51
How the Volkswagen Beetle started ... and ended.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:54
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
How the technology of accurate throwing separates humankind from the rest of the animal kingdom.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:36
This piece describes how a flu vaccine is prepared; it uses a short history of the deadly 1918 flu to motivate the imporance of yearly vaccine.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:40
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
Is sliced bread really one of the "best things?" Yes!
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:49
Why does everything come to a standstill in a blackout and what still works? The answers: 100 year old technology.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:31
The Maclaren Stroller: Build like aircraft landing gear.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:26
Every time I ride in a jet, I look out the window and watch the wing. When I see it's still there, I say a silence thanks to Constance Tipper
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:33
A roller coaster relies on very clever engineering in order to terrify its riders safely.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:32
We think of strobe photograph as a way to capture a drop of milk or a bullet in flight ... and indeed it did change how we see the world.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:36
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
Boeing's 7E7 jet - now the 787 - uses high tech to use less fuel
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:51
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