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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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30:51

Filing Cabinets: How They Changed the World

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/03/01

It’s perhaps the most overlooked invention of all time. Consigned to a forgotten corner in the basement of history. The Filing Cabinet.Yet the humble Filing Cabinet was at the centre of an information revolution and became critical to the infrastructure of 20th century nation states and businesses. One sign of the deep mark it has left on us are the names we give things on our computers - Files, Folders, Tabs.To help us restore the filing cabinet to its rightful place is Craig Robertson, author of

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30:03

Instant Noodles

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/02/26

In the year 2000 Japan was asked what its greatest invention of the twentieth century was. They had a LOT to choose from. The Walkman. The bullet train. Digital Cameras. Pokemon. But the winner was Instant Noodles.Today Dallas learns about Momofuku Ando, the inventor-cum-tax-evader who invented instant noodles. Listen to Dallas’s chat with Barak Kushner, author of “Slurp! A Social and Culinary History of Ramen”, to discover:Who invented the original ramen dish that these noodles are based on;What

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12:02

The Rise and Fall of the BlackBerry

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/02/22

At its peak, the BlackBerry was the world’s most popular smartphone with almost 50% of the US market. They were called the ‘CrackBerry’ so many people wanted one. Now they have a 0% share of the market. This is the story of their rise-and-fall.Today on Patented we’re handing over the mic to a podcast we think you’ll like called ‘Today In History…with The Retrospectors’. A podcast where hosts Arion, Rebecca and Olly tell a ten minute story from this day in history in each episode.If you enjoy what

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40:25

God

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/02/19

If God invented Heaven and Earth, then who invented God? To explain how gods ‘are invented’, how they evolve and why so many seem to have vanished, Dallas is joined by FrancescaStavrakopoulou, author of ‘God: An Anatomy’. They explore the human instinct to create deities and the origins of the God of Abraham, of Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Who, it turns out, was once a lowly storm deity with black eyeliner and a pierced ear.Produced by Freddie Chick. Mixed by Benjie Guy. Senior Producer:

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36:29

Archimedes & the Eureka! moment

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/02/15

It’s the most famous bath of all time. But what exactly was Archimedes so excited about?We discover the truth behind the legend of Archimedes, and find out about the industrial revolution that almost happened in Ancient Greece, with today’s guest Armand D’Angour. He’s a Professor of Classics at Oxford University and author ofHow To Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking.Edited by Joseph Knight. Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.For more History Hit content,

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27:20

Snakes & Ladders: Tantric Mysticism, Cosmic Serpents...

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/02/12

It turns out that all those times you played Snakes and Ladders (Chutes and Ladders) as a child you were playing a game that once symbolised the whole universe and our place in it. Instead of crying when you landed on a snake you should really have been reflecting upon the nature of reality.Get ready for a story that takes us back through Victorian England, to an India where boardgames were steeped in mysticism, and on to the empty nothingness at the heart of the universe. Leading Dallas down the

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31:51

Farming

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/02/08

Exactly when, where, how, why our ancient ancestors ‘invented’ farming is one of the great questions of archaeology.Surely if we can answer it we will understand something profound about humanity and the journey we are on.But like all good invention stories, this one isn’t straightforward.Dallas’s guest today is Robert Spengler, director of the Paleoethnobotany Laboratories at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, author of Fruit from the Sands, with an upcoming book about

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41:40

Spam: Birth of a Monster

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/02/05

Spam Spam Spam, glorious Spam! Who invented Spam Emails? Just how much Spam activity is there online? And how will we survive once Spam AI gets going?Spam has been the nemesis of the internet since its earliest days. And soon AI-powered spambots will force us to radically change our online behaviour if we don’t want to be perpetually duped.Taking us on a tour of the murky world of spammers is Finn Brunton, Professor at UC Davis in Science and Technology Studies and author of the book Spam: a Shadow

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32:42

Fonts

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/02/01

Fonts are usually invisible to us; we absorb the written word without noticing the medium (unless someone sends you an email incomic sansand then you can’t see past the choice of font!)But every font is a piece of design, created for a specific purpose at a specific point in time. Laden with meanings, some of which we subconsciously absorb when we see it.Today’s guest is Sarah Hyndman, author ofWhy Fonts Matterand whose company Type Tasting delves into the power that typography has over us.Edited by

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32:16

The IQ Test

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/01/29

How would you feel if you found out you had a very high or a very low IQ? Would it change you? The IQ test has an awful allure to it. A single number that ranks your mental ability against everyone else’s, for better or for worse.Helping Dallas explore the origins of this blasted test is John Carson, historian and author ofThe Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940.Edited by Joseph Knight, produced by Freddy Chick, senior producer is

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26:22

Toilets

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/01/25

It’s time to talk about the toilet, or crapper, or bog, or the john, head, the comfort station, khazi, dunny, can, throne, pissoir.Join Dallas and his guest, Rose George - author ofThe Big Necessity, on a trip down the toilet bowl of history as they uncover the origins of the flush toilet.Listen in to find out how Queen Elizabeth’s naughty cousin tried to win back her favour, why sewers don’t smell as bad as we think, and what a condom filled with miso paste has to do with all this.Edited by Aidan

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28:16

Caesarean section

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/01/22

A hundred years ago next to no one was born via Caesarean Section. Today, one in five new arrivals on planet earth come via a Caesarean. Its meteoric rise is down to an invention most people won’t know. The Foetal Heart Monitor.This is a story about how the law of unintended consequences led to Caesarean Section becoming the world’s most common major surgery.Our guest today is Jackie Wolf, is a historian of medicine and author of Caesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and

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30:04

Sawing Someone in Half Trick

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/01/18

When this trick was first performed, ushers poured buckets of blood down the gutter outside the theatre to entice people into the macabre spectacle. Today Dallas is joined by Jim Steinmeyer to talk about the invention and development of the most iconic magic trick of all - Sawing Someone In Half.It turns out that Dallas is something of a magician himself and has been fascinated by the history of magic for a long time. And Jim, author of Hiding the Elephant and many other books on magic, is something

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28:05

Levi's Jeans

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/01/15

150 years ago a patent was lodged for the first ever pair of jeans (what we’d think of as jeans today at least). There were two names on it. One was the inventor Jacob Davis. The other was the company he was going into business with: Levi Strauss & Co.How did Levi’s jeans come to be? Why are there a pair of horses on the label? What’s with the tiny rivets on all the pockets? And why are they called ‘501s’?Find out on today’s episode of Patented with our guest Tracey Panek, historian for Levi Strauss

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22:13

Sex (and the fish who invented it)

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/01/11

250 million years ago the armour-plated Placoderm fish invented the act of sex as we know it. Hubba Hubba. Dive in the historical sack as we go in search of the origins of nature’s greatest ever invention.Dallas’s guest on this episode is Australian palaeontologist John Long, author of The Dawn of the Deed.Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior producer is Charlotte Long.

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31:24

Plastic

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/01/08

You can argue that plastics were invented to save nature from human depredation…that plan backfired a bit!Early plastics were designed as substitutes for scarce natural products like ivory and shellac or the shells of endangered snails. But it didn’t take long for things to get out of hand.In this episode we trace the story of plastic past, present and future by way of three inventions.The invention of plasticsThe dawn of disposable plastic cultureThe possibly new creatures that will emerge in

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27:34

Open Plan Office

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2023/01/04

The Open Plan Office. A little bit of you might die inside every time you hear those words. But we promise you the history of how they came to be is worth hearing.Born at the same time as the counter cultural revolution of the 60s, Open Plan was supposed to create the offices that the egalitarian, free-thinking children of that revolution would want to work in.The Open Plan Office was supposed to do away with stultifying hierarchies of post-war offices (think Mad Men). To give workers the

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24:29

Timekeeping

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/12/28

Today we’re bringing you an episode from Dan Snow’s History Hit. Normal Patented service will resume in the New Year.Accurate timekeeping is at the very root of all of the technological advances in the modern world, but how did it all begin? From Roman sundials to mediaeval water-clocks, people of all cultures have made and used clocks for thousands of years. Dan speaks to horologist, historian and former curator of timekeeping at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, David Rooney, about the importance

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22:41

Christmas Crackers

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/12/21

Ho ho ho! Come with us on a Christmas tale of invention as we talk to the world’s only Christmas Cracker historian, Peter Kimpton of Norwich.🎄Hear about Tom Smith the inventor of the Christmas Cracker🎁Discover the strangest Christmas Cracker ever made🧑‍🎄Learn what makes the “CRACK”!Produced by Freddy Chick, senior producer is Charlotte LongFor more History Hit content, subscribe to our newsletters here.

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27:53

Monopoly

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/12/18

There’s so many versions of Monopoly these days. Which one is the original? London? No. Atlantic City? Uh uh. The original had property names like ‘Poverty Place’ and ‘La Swell Hotel’ and was designed as an anti-Capitalist game.Our guest to tell the story of Lizzie Magie, the real inventor of the game we now know as Monopoly, is David Parlett a games historian and inventor.And don’t all rush off to play Monopoly at the end because we’ve got a special update to one of our previous episodes.After news

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