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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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30:55

Inventing Bond: Cocktails

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/05/10

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?Dallas' guest today is the pre-eminent historian (and maker) of cocktails David Wondrich, author of 'Imbibe! From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash'.

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29:23

Horses

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/05/07

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.Dallas's guest to explain the origins of horse transport and how it changed the world is William T. Taylor, anthropologist at the University of Boulder and expert on all things ancient horse related.Saddle up partners, it's time to gallop back into the mists of time for another exciting story of invention!Edited and produced

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31:04

First King of England

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2023/05/03

Who was the first King of England? Who invented a place called 'England' anyway? And what on earth are the 'bracelets of sincerity'?With coronations in the air Dallas is going back in search of the origins of all things regal with his guest Matt Lewis, host of the History Hit podcast 'Gone Medieval'. If you are not a listener to Gone Medieval yet then go check it out! It's a fantastic show.Edited by Stuart Beckwith, Produced by Freddy Chick, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.

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29:35

Electric Motors & Michael Faraday

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/04/30

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.Michael Faraday is a giant of invention. Here to help Dallas tell the story of how he laid the foundations of the modern world is Frank James, editor of Michael Faraday’s correspondence and author of Michael Faraday: A Very Brief Introduction.Produced by Freddy Chick, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long

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33:56

Inventing Bond: Cars

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/04/26

Fast and sleek with a satisfying rumble in the engine. What else could you want from a car?Well, for James Bond, the answer to this question is usually a couple of hidden weapons and some form of camouflage device.For this episode of 'Inventing Bond' - our series marking the 70th anniversary of Fleming's Bond - Dallas is joined by Jason Barlow, author of 'Bond Cars: The Definitive Guide'.We also spoke to David Butler, who drove some specially modified cars behind the Iron Curtain, about how close

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39:55

Books

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/04/23

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?Dallas is joined by Keith Houston, author of The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time to unpack the story of how the book came to be.Edited by Siobhan Dale, Produced by Freddy Chick, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long

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40:31

Inventing Bond: Gadgets

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/04/19

Dagger shoes, Lipstick gas grenade, Razor rimmed hat, Milk bottle Grenade…Prosthetic Nipple.We’re continuing our exploration of the inventions that have made Bond, James Bond. This time it’s gadgets, gadgets, gadgets.Dallas talks to Andre Millard, author of Equipping James Bond, about the role of inventions in the Bond books and films.And to Andrew Hammond, curator of the Spy Museum in Washington D.C., to hear about Bond-esque gadgets in the real world.Produced by Freddy Chick and Sophie Gee, Senior

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40:21

Telegraph

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/04/16

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.Dallas’s guest is Tom Standage, author of The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers and deputy editor of The Economist magazine.With special thanks to Frances Grey for her wonderful acting.Edited by Stuart Beckwith,

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41:27

Inventing Bond: The Real Q

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2023/04/12

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 solutions that they came up with.Dallas is joined by Helen Fry, author of MI9: Escape and Evasion, to find out who the inventive 'Clutty' was, and how he managed to get men out of POW camps with the help of some playing cards and a monopoly board.Edited by Tom Delargy,

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50:09

Vasectomies

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/04/09

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?Today we're handing over the mic to our sister podcast at History Hit - "Betwixt the Sheets" - to bring you the weird history of vasectomies.Host Kate Lister is joined by Georgia Grainger (https://twitter.com/sniphist) to discuss the vasectomy’s place as a contraceptive, as well as its relationship with eugenics and masculinity.*WARNING this episode

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49:23

AI

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/04/05

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 tap is coloured red)? What was King Charles’ grey goo theory all about?The first half of the show is with Matthew Sparkes of the New Scientist. Matthew spends his life covering the latest developments in the field of AI and is a regular contributor to the New

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23:05

April Fool's Day

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2023/04/02

When does spaghetti grow on trees? When can you milk a duck? When does Google read your brainwaves? On April Fool’s Day!Come with us into the chaotic world of April 1st as we explore where the tradition originated and how many kinds of hilarious pranks there are.Dallas’s guest today is Moira Marsh, a folklorist at Indiana University and author of Practically Joking.Edited and Produced by Freddy Chick, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long

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30:34

Fish Tanks and Aquariums

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/03/29

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.Taking Dallas through the surprising history of fish tanks and aquariums is the world's only fish tank historian (that we know of) Samantha Muka, author of Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft & Science of the SeaEdited and Produced by Freddy Chick, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.

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34:21

Ouija Board

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/03/26

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.Come with us, if you dare, on a journey through the Spiritualism that rocked America in the 19th century and the wild world of inventions the movement spawned.Dallas’s guest today is the wonderful Brandon Hodge, expert on all things talking board. Find out more at Brandon’s

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35:00

The Electric Chair

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/03/22

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 delivered. at high voltage to a prisoner strapped to a chair, would do the job (though not quite, at least the first time). The terrifying prospect of the Electric Chair was also hoped to put off potential criminals. Mark Essig, author of Edison and the Electric Chair: a

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34:31

Tabasco Sauce

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/03/19

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.Joining Dallas to uncover the origin story of the world’s favourite spicy sauce is the official Tabasco historian Shane Bernard.Edited by Joseph Knight, Produced by Freddy Chick, Senior Producer is Charlotte LongFor more History Hit content, subscribe to our newslettershere.If you’d like to learn even more, we have hundreds of

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34:46

Concrete

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2023/03/15

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?To get into the nitty gritty with Dallas is Barnabas Calder who is Head of the Architectural and Urban History Research Group at the University of Liverpool and the author of “Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism”and “Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency.”Edited

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32:08

Cold War Origins of Tanks in Ukraine

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/03/12

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.One year into the war in Ukraine we explore the origins of the tanks being used to fight the battle with David Willey of the Tank Museum.Produced and edited by Freddy Chick, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long

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29:27

The First Computer Program

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/03/08

This is the story of the first modern computer program and the extraordinary woman who wrote it, Klara von Neumann.The program Klara wrote was a list of numbers eight hundred odd lines long. Gibberish to look at now but to the room-sized computer she was working with, it translated into a sophisticated set of instructions telling it how to map out the path neutrons would take inside nuclear bombs.To mark International Women’s Day we’re going in search of Klara von Neumann and giving her the

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37:48

Keyboards

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/03/05

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).Who invented the QWERTY keyboard layout and why hasn’t it been updated?What is the Shift button all about?Who else remembers the weird way it felt to type on the ZX Spectrum?To tell the stories that lurk underneath the keyboards you use every day, Dallas is joined

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