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Canned Food
<p>Hope you’re hungry because today we’re opening a can of historical worms as we discover the origins of canned food. </p><br><p>How did canned food go from something only explorers would consider eating to the centrepiece of kitchen cupbo
Rise and Fall of Zeppelins
<p>They were cigars the size of ocean liners that floated through the clouds. Cow intestines filled with hydrogen held them up. The world’s first flight attendant served champagne and caviar.</p><br><p>Zeppelins seem almost too strange to h
Online Advertising
<p>What was the first ever internet ad? When was the last time someone actually clicked on one? What happened to all the proper ads with catchy jingles?</p><br><p>Today Dallas investigates one of the most infuriating aspects of modern life,
Paranormal Technology
<p>Welcome to <em>Patented-Gone-Paranormal</em>!! Thomas Edison tried to make a telephone that called the spirit world. One of the pioneers of radio believed he could talk with his dead son through the 'Ether'.</p><br><p>Technology might se
Nuclear Fusion Power
<p>For almost a century we’ve been trying to build a star on earth. Not easy with temperatures reaching 150,000,000℃.</p><br><p>Today on Patented it’s the story of our efforts to make a nuclear fusion reactor with Arthur Turrell author of<e
Linoleum
<p>Linoleum, or “lino”, once ruled the world (of flooring). It appeared everywhere from the Titanic to your gran’s kitchen. But where did it come from?</p><br><p>We hear the story of the Victorian inventor, Frederick Walton, who came up wit
How The Victorians Took Us To The Moon
<p>If a Victorian met Elon Musk they would completely get him. The world’s richest man, determined to use technology that doesn’t yet exist to colonise Mars. Classic Victorian thinking.</p><br><p>The Victorians didn’t really take us to the
Eco Farming
<p>George Washington Carver is well known to Americans as the Peanut Man. It’s been written of him that ‘peanuts were like paintbrushes: They were tools to express his imagination’.</p><br><p>If that sounds a bit ridiculous, it’s because it
FORENSICS: DNA
<p>The birth of DNA fingerprinting will forever be tied to Leicester, England. It was invented in a lab in the city’s university by Alec Jeffreys in 1984. And it was in the outskirts of the city that it was first used to catch a murderer –
Punk & the Sex Pistols
<p>Have you ever heard the story of how punk began?</p><br><p>“They are Dickensian-like urchins who with ragged clothes and pockmarked faces roam the streets of foggy gaslit London…Some of these ragamuffin gangs jump up on tables amidst the
