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Patented: History of Inventions

This podcast investigates the curious history of invention and innovation. Did Thomas Edison take credit for things he didn’t actually invent? What everyday items have surprising origins? And would man have ever got to the moon without… the bra?Each episode host Dallas Campbell dives into stories of flukey discoveries, erased individuals and merky marketing ploys with the help of experts, scientists and historians.Expect new episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Hosted on Acast. See

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36:50

Recorded Sound

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/10/05

From talking sponges to voices frozen in ice, the history of recorded sound is not what you expect.People fantasised about being able to record sound long before it was possible. We begin by hearing a few of the most remarkable ways that were dreamt up. Then we meet the first person ever to record sound. *Spoiler alert* it wasn’t Thomas Edison.Our guests for this episode are Will Sutton, author of the Campbell Lawless series of Victorian mystery novels, and Patrick Feaster who is part of a small

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30:48

FORENSICS: Lie Detectors

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/10/02

What does Wonder Woman have to do with the invention of the lie detector? Does refusing to yank a donkey’s tail make you a liar? Is it folly to believe that a machine can ever peer inside the human mind?The invention of the lie detector is a strange story full of eccentric characters, fascinating true crime, and some incomplete science at its heart.These days there are lie detectors based on artificial intelligence and MRI scans and detectors are used in policing across the world. But the

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40:44

Space Food

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/09/28

If humans travel to Mars then by the time they come home all the food they eat will be five years old. Want a bite?Food often gets overlooked in stories about space flight. Yet space food has a fascinating history and will become an ever-increasing challenge the further we journey into space.Our guest today is Vickie Kloeris who worked in the NASA food program for 34 years and was head of food systems for both Shuttle and the International Space Station. She takes us on a potted history (or maybe

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41:04

FORENSICS: Fingerprinting

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/09/25

We hear from London’s most inaccessible museum, the Met police’s Crime Museum, and take you back to India in the time of the British Raj. We hear about the first murder case ever to hinge on fingerprint evidence.No one had to invent fingerprints. They’ve been around for ages…But to be able to use fingerprints in fighting crime required an obsessive colonial administrator, hard science and the invention of an ingenious filing system that would revolutionise policing around the world.Our guests today

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34:57

Perfume

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/09/21

First Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel shocked the world’s eyeballs with her fashion designs. Then she shocked its nostrils with a new smell - Chanel No. 5.“It’s punk rock but with feather boas and fragrance”. That’s how today’s guest, Suzy Nightingale, describes the impact that Coco Chanel had on society. Coco was at the heart of a revolution that was overthrowing the old world’s traditions and ideas of propriety.In 1921, in search of a perfume that would capture the smell of the modern woman, she launched

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32:28

FORENSICS: The Beginning

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/09/18

Death by tiger bites. Death by prodding. Death from sexual excess. Deaths from over-eating and over-drinking. The opening of graves.These are a few of the chapter headings in a 13th century Chinese book called ‘The Washing Away of Wrongs’. It is a compendium of grizzly, gory, bizarre murders and deaths.Its author was Song Ci, a Confucian trained bureaucrat who, like his fellow officials all over China, was responsible for investigating murders in his jurisdiction. According to the Wikipedia page for

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30:18

PowerPoint

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/09/14

We take PowerPoint for granted. It's as much a fact of life as concrete. Or rainy afternoons. But it hasn’t always been here. It has a story. And once you’ve heard it, you’ll never look at PowerPoint the same way again.Those old enough can remember the world before PowerPoint. A world where presentations were done on overhead projectors or 35mm slideshow carousels. In 1985, in the US alone, people made over 600 million 35mm slides and more than 500 million overhead transparencies. Large companies

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31:41

Virtual Assistants ft. The Real Siri

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/09/07

We talk to the real life Siri in this episode. Susan Bennett was the original voice of Siri back in 2011, although she didn't know it at the time...But before that it's a conversation with Dallas's friend Ali Maggs (from Chaos Created) about the history of virtual assistants - everything from a mechanical dog that jumps out of its kennel, to that helpful digital paperclip Clippy, to the incredibly smart assistants of today and tomorrow.Produced by Freddy ChickThe Executive Producer was Charlotte

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28:00

Contact Lenses

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/09/04

The Contact Lens. The humble Contact Lens. Oh boy, do we have a rip-roaring episode for you about the humble contact lens.Nazi villains, arrests by secret police, chance encounters on trains and fear of Soviet invasion. And in the middle of it all, an unlikely hero: a Czech chemist called Otto Wichterle.On Christmas Eve 1961, Otto Wichterle created the world’s first soft contact lens at his kitchen table with the help of his son’s toy mechanics set.Who was Otto?How did he manage to create the

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34:56

Sports Bra

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/08/31

REAL LIFE INVENTOR ALERT!!!Two jockstraps cleverly sewn together. That was how the very first sports bra was made in 1977. The product built out from this prototype, the “Jog Bra”, went on to change women’s athletics forever.Today we’re talking to Lisa Lindhal who, together with her friends Polly and Hinda, unleashed the sports bra on the world.The episode was produced by Freddy Chick.The editor was Anisha Deva.The senior producer was Charlotte LongFor more History Hit content, subscribe to our

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48:35

Cryptocurrency

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/08/28

If you feel confused and left behind by cryptocurrency then this is for you. We're taking you on a journey through the strange history of cryptocurrency. Why and how does it exist?It turns out this history isn’t so much about clever codes as good old-fashioned politics.Our guide is Finn Brunton, author of Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency.Get ready for a rip-roaring tale of Bletchley Park codebreakers, the wild west early days

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27:19

Home Security System

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/08/24

The patent for the Ring doorbell cites this as the starting point. A Heath Robinson looking design with peep holes, sliding cameras and radio controlled alarms. An invention, and an inventor, ahead of their time.Marie van Brittan Brown was an African American nurse living in Queens in New York in the 1960s. In 1969 she and her husband received a patent for what is the first modern home security system. It had many of the same fundamental features as the smart doorbells of today. But after the patent

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28:33

Play-Doh

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/08/21

Find out what Play-Doh has to do with sooty walls. And how we have a nursery teacher called Kay Zufall and a TV presenter called Captain Kangaroo to thank for it.Our guest is Chris Bensch from the Strong Museum of Play, surely the world’s funnest museum. Chris takes us for a jaunt down memory. Along the way we sniff deeply from a tub of everyone's favourite modelling compound.If you could spritz yourself with a Play-Doh scented perfume, would you?The episode was produced by Freddy ChickThe editor

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33:51

Cloud Seeding & Climate Engineering

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/08/17

Pyres on the Appalachian mountains. Planes spraying chemicals into clouds. Mirrors in space. “I can make it rain, I can make it rain, I can make it rain…by waggling my stick”.For more than a century, scientists, soldiers and charlatans have tried to manipulate the weather, wildly exaggerating what is possible.Does any of it actually work?And even if we could control the climate, should we? Whose hand would be on the thermostat?Today we’re joined by James Fleming, a leading historian of meteorology

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31:04

Vantablack: The Darkest Material On Earth

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/08/14

!!!REAL LIFE INVENTOR ALERT!!!Usually we talk about dead people on this podcast. It is history after all. But this week we’ve got living, breathing Ben Jen on talking about his invention Vantablack.Vantablack is so dark, so black, that all details of the objects it covers dissolves. 99.965% of light that hits it is absorbed. It is no longer possible to tell what you are looking at. All you see is a black hole in space.It was created by Ben and his colleagues at his company Surrey Nanosystems. They

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36:47

Pyramids

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/08/10

The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest building in the world for nearly four thousand years…until it was beaten by Lincoln Cathedral.This week Dallas is joined by Egyptologist and friend Chris Naunton for a crash course in pyramid construction and the mysteries that surround them.Discover where pharaohs were buried before pyramids came along; find out who is believed to have designed the very first pyramid; and learn why they wanted to build giant triangles in the desert in the first place.The

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32:29

Transistors & Telecommunication Satellites: Bell Labs

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/08/07

The transistor; solar panels; the first telecommunications satellite; cell phone networks; UNIX code; information theory. All these and more were invented in one place: Bell Labs.Bell Labs was where the future, which is what we now happen to call the present, was conceived and designed. It was the research and development arm of AT&T, which had monopoly control of the American phone system for much of the 20th century, and had more than ten thousand employees in its heyday.Why is Bell Labs not a

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29:29

Shipping Containers

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/08/03

90% of everything you own arrived by sea.And there’s one invention to thank above all else – the humble shipping container.Today on Patented we’re joined by Rose George - journalist and author of the book Deep Sea and Foreign Going about her experience of spending five weeks on board a container ship.Who do we have to thank for the modern shipping container?Which country provides a quarter of the world’s merchant seamen?Batten down the hatches and man the riggings as we set course for another

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29:29

Barbie

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/07/31

Barbie. What is it about Barbie? Love her or loathe her this 11 ½ inch doll gets a big reaction.Which is strange in a way because she’s over sixty years old. Few things have managed to stay relevant so long, surviving seismic cultural change.This week it’s the story of how the doll that changed childhood for millions came to be.Our guest is Tanya Stone author of The Good, the Bad and the Barbie.And we meet Tristan Piñeiro and some of his more than 600 barbies.Find out what Barbie has to do with a

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32:46

Contactless Payment

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/07/27

*tap* *tap* *tap*That’s the sound of physical cash being consigned to the dustbin of history by us tapping cards/phones/watches instead.Contactless payments are growing so rapidly that it seems a safe prediction that a cashless future is not far away.In the UK contactless payments rose 52% between 2019 and 2021. Some shops already don’t take cash. And it’s a similar picture in countries across the world.We’ve been using hard cash as the primary way to pay for things for millenia. How has this new

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