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Pencils: A Surprising History
<p>Is the pencil an example of perfect design? What is the greatest pencil of all time? What does a fallen down tree in the Lake District have to do with its invention? </p><br><p>Dallas talks to Caroline Weaver, pencil expert and author of
Locks and the Great Lock Controversy
<p>In Victorian England, a prisoner was promised their freedom if only they could pick a lock...</p><br><p>This week on Patented it's the history of locks and the wild stories of the race for perfect security during the Industrial Revolutio
Suffragette Scientists
<p>Hold onto your lab coats, because the suffragette scientists are here to shake things up! Patricia Fara, author of <em>A Lab of One's Own</em>, joins Dallas to tell the stories of forgotten pioneers of invention during the Suffragette er
Hieroglyphs
<p>Vulture. Snake. Baboon in a Basket. Get ready for hieroglyphs, history, and hilarity as Dallas talks to Egyptologist Chris Naunton.</p><br><p>We discover the mysteries of the Narmer Palette and the birth of hieroglyphs, crack the code wi
Stone Tools: The First Ever Invention
<p>Stone Tools are technology 1.0. They’re where it all begins. For millions of years, Stone Tools were our primary piece of technology. At some point we became dependent on them for survival. They became a defining part of what it meant to
Colours: from Cave Paint to Nanotube Black
<p>There's a theory that the invention of paint had something to do with the dawn of humanity. We are on a never-ending quest to create brighter, better colours. From grinding rocks, to crushing bugs, concocting chemicals and now manipulati
Inventing Disneyland: The First Themepark
<p>Giant mouse ears at the ready, we're off to Disneyland! Hop on board and travel with us inside Walt Disney's mind (for better or for worse). We discover how he came up with the idea, what it all means, and how his dream of a Utopian city
Rise and Fall of Encyclopedias
<p>The 15th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1974, cost $32 million to create. The largest investment in publishing history. And yet you can now buy the complete set for pennies.</p><br><p>Who invented encyclopedias? Who
Inventing Bond: Wiretapping
<p>We live in a world where everything is bugged. We all <em>know</em> we are being monitored. The surprising thing is that this is nothing new.</p><br><p>From tapped telegraph wires to bugged Martini olives, Dallas is finding out about the
Chicken Nuggets: A Bitesized History
<p>The most famous chicken nugget of them all, the McDonald’s McNugget, turns 40 this year. So we’re asking, who invented the Chicken Nugget? </p><br><p>Enter food-scientist Robert Baker who came up with them twenty years before the McNugge
Inventing Bond: Cocktails
<p>It's Cocktail Hour! In honour of James Bond we ask who invented cocktails? Have they always been a cool thing to drink? And where do horses bottoms fit into things?</p><br><p>Dallas' guest today is the pre-eminent historian (and maker) o
Horses
<p>In this story, the cart really does come before the horse. Horse transport doesn't begin with people riding around on horses' backs. It starts with the invention of the Chariot.</p><br><p>Dallas's guest to explain the origins of horse tr
First King of England
<p>Who was the first King of England? Who invented a place called 'England' anyway? And what on earth are the 'bracelets of sincerity'?</p><br><p>With coronations in the air Dallas is going back in search of the origins of all things regal
Electric Motors & Michael Faraday
<p>How’s this for a CV? 1821 - invented the Electric Motor. 1831 - invented the Electric Generator. Oh, and I also created the first Electric Transformer, discovered Benzene and liquidised Chlorine. </p><br><p>Michael Faraday is a giant of
Inventing Bond: Cars
<p>Fast and sleek with a satisfying rumble in the engine. What else could you want from a car?</p><br><p>Well, for James Bond, the answer to this question is usually a couple of hidden weapons and some form of camouflage device.</p><br><p>F
Books
<p>The Book. It’s the most powerful object in history (sorry Sword fans). But how did it come to be? And what was wrong with good old scrolls in the first place?</p><br><p>Dallas is joined by Keith Houston, author of <em>The Book: A Cover-t
Inventing Bond: Gadgets
<p>Dagger shoes, Lipstick gas grenade, Razor rimmed hat, Milk bottle Grenade…Prosthetic Nipple.</p><br><p>We’re continuing our exploration of the inventions that have made Bond, <em>James Bond. </em>This time it’s gadgets, gadgets, gadgets.
Telegraph
<p>Get ready for the story of how the telegraph went from a long line of monks holding hands to a technology that straddled the earth. One which foreshadowed the internet in many strange ways, from online dating to fraud.</p><br><p>Dallas’s
Inventing Bond: The Real Q
<p>Well before Bond was lasering and limboing himself out of fictional situations, these were the questions faced by the British forces trying to repatriate prisoners of war during the Second World War. In this episode, we explore the solut
Vasectomies
<p>Why did Sigmund Freud want a vasectomy at 67 years old? Why were goat gonads all the rage in the 1920s? Who was the first person to get the snip?</p><br><p>Today we're handing over the mic to our sister podcast at History Hit - "Betwixt
AI
<p>Get ready for the coming of our robot overlords by listening to this episode all about the history of AI. Who was Shakey the robot? Why did we spend thousands of hours trying to tell a machine the basic facts of life (like that the hot t
April Fool's Day
<p>When does spaghetti grow on trees? When can you milk a duck? When does Google read your brainwaves? On April Fool’s Day!</p><br><p>Come with us into the chaotic world of April 1st as we explore where the tradition originated and how many
Fish Tanks and Aquariums
<p>Early aquariums didn't have much more in them than some sorry looking trout. Yet such was the excitement at being able to see this underwater world for the first time people queued for hours to get a peak.</p><br><p>Taking Dallas through
Ouija Board
<p>The Ouija Board was patented in 1890. But in did not appear out of thin air. It was only one in a long, long line of devices attempting to pierce the veil between this world and the next.</p><br><p>Come with us, if you dare, on a journey
The Electric Chair
<p>In 1890, the Governor of New York called for a new method of capital punishment. A more modern, efficient, scientific method was being sought. There was still a buzz around the recently harnessed power of electricity, which, when deliver
Tabasco Sauce
<p>Every bottle of Tabasco sauce on earth comes from one place - Avery Island, deep down in Louisiana. The same place where the sauce was invented by one Edmund McIlhenny in 1868.</p><br><p>Joining Dallas to uncover the origin story of the
Concrete
<p>Concrete is the second most used material on earth after only water. There are more than half a trillion tons of it weighing down the earth. Which is a problem. Where did concrete come from? And why are we so addicted to it?</p><br><p>To
Cold War Origins of Tanks in Ukraine
<p>The war in Ukraine is being fought with tanks designed in the Cold War. The US Abrams. The German Leopard. The British Challenger. All have been sent to fight Russia’s soviet era machines. T-72s, T-62s, T-80s.</p><br><p>One year into the
The First Computer Program
<p>This is the story of the first modern computer program and the extraordinary woman who wrote it, Klara von Neumann.</p><br><p>The program Klara wrote was a list of numbers eight hundred odd lines long. Gibberish to look at now but to the
Keyboards
<p>The keyboard on the first ever commercially successful typewriter and the keyboard on your smartphone are separated by a gulf of time and technology. Yet their layout is essentially the same (plus or minus a few new buttons along the way
