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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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30:36

Tupperware

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/12/14

Today it’s a Tupperware party and you’re all invited! Tupperware epitomises the post-war suburban dream. But pop open the lid and peep inside and not all is as it seems. There was a battle for the soul of Tupperware. A battle fought between the inventor of the Tupperware box, Earl Tupper, and the woman who made it famous through her Tupperware parties, Brownie Wise.Helping Dallas uncover the true nature of Tupperware is the wonderful Alison Clarke, professor of design history and theory at the

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24:57

Emojis 😊💩🍆

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/12/11

The hieroglyphs seem to hold a lot of secrets about Ancient Egyptians. What do emojis say about us? What on earth is their story?Emojis originate in the notebooks of 1970’s Japanese schoolgirls obsessed with adding cute illustrations between words.Their story ends in boardroom meetings in California where the emojis that we are all allowed, and the ones we aren’t, are decided.What a strange journey for a form of communication to take. It must all mean something…but what?Today’s guest is Philip

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28:22

Chickens

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/12/07

Why did the chicken cross the road? What came first, the chicken or the egg? Who invented the chicken anyway?We answer at least one of these questions on today’s show.We follow the chicken from the time of the dinosaurs (the chicken is the closest living relative to T-Rex) until today’s genetically engineered bird with today’s guest Sally Coulthard, author of Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate.Produced by Freddy Chick, edited by Lewis Mason, senior producer Charlotte

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33:41

LEGO

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/12/04

Who invented LEGO, the world's favourite toy? To find out we have to head to a Danish fishing village where a family of toy makers live. A family who over the course of three generations, created the LEGO world we know today.Dallas’s guest is Daniel Konstanski, a lifelong LEGO fanatic who builds breathtaking LEGO models and has recently published a book called The Secret Life of Lego.Produced by Freddy Chick. Editing and sound design by Anish Deva. Senior producer Charlotte Long.For more History Hit

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25:36

Croissants

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/11/30

CROISSANTS WEREN’T INVENTED IN FRANCE. Mon dieu! C’est pas vrai!Today Dallas finds out about the person responsible for bringing the croissant to France.It wasn’t Marie Antoinette and it has nothing to do with the Turkish flag.The person we have to thank is an Austrian entrepreneur called August Zang who set up a wildly popular Viennese bakery in Paris in the early nineteenth century. In amongst the Viennese goodies on show was a certain crescent shaped roll….Our guest today is Jim Chevallier,

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41:10

Aliens

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/11/27

Who invented aliens? We did. Each age invents its own. When we invented robots, aliens became robotic beings. In the Cold War, intergalactic peacemakers appear. Aliens came to abduct us in a decade when the news was full of kidnappings.In this episode Dallas discovers when we first started to think about alien life and explores how our ideas about aliens have evolved over time. And we hear three stories of people who claimed to have met aliens.His guide to alien lifeforms is Greg Eghigian, professor

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37:30

Roller Coasters

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/11/23

The world’s first Loop-the-Loop roller coaster gave so many people whiplash that they kept a medical team on the payroll.Find out where roller coasters began; why your hands sweat when you’re on them; and how long it takes the human brain to realise that it’s fallen to its death (perhaps).Dallas’s guest today is the world’s only thrill engineer Brendan Walker, the guy roller coaster designers turn to for advice on how to make their rides as thrilling as possible.Keep your arms and legs inside the

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31:15

Frozen Food

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/11/20

The Frozen Food industry was invented by the Birdseye company. And that company was started by a living breathing Birdseye; Clarence Birdseye.Clarence Birdseye was a small, bespectacled New Yorker who lived a life somewhere between Buffalo Bill and Thomas Edison.He came up with the idea for frozen food while starting a family in the barren wastes of North Eastern Canada, where he ate polar bears, skunks, lynx stewed in sherry, and horned owls.He became a self made millionaire who invented not only

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31:53

Warhammer

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/11/16

***Real life inventor alert*** We speak to Rick Priestley the co-creator of the weird world of Warhammer where valiant humans, noble elves, savage orcs and a variety of monstrous creatures battle eternally. How on earth do you invent something like this?If you have no idea what Warhammer is then don't worry; neither did Dallas before this! In his chat with Rick, Dallas tries to work out where Warhammer came from and how you invent a fantasy world that people will actually believe in. Whether that's

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32:54

Batteries

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/11/13

Hold onto your fishing rods guys. We’re tracking down the origins of batteries and it turns out it has a lot to do with a fish with a nasty sting in its tail. Zzzaaap!!Human’s have known that an electrical force existed for thousands of years. But it wasn’t until the turn of the nineteenth century that we were able to harness it for the first time in a battery. It opened the doors for a whole new way of life.Get ready for stories of reanimated corpses, bitter scientific rivalries, shocking ancient

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34:07

Canned Food

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/11/09

Hope you’re hungry because today we’re opening a can of historical worms as we discover the origins of canned food.How did canned food go from something only explorers would consider eating to the centrepiece of kitchen cupboards? What does a competition run by Napoleon have to do with things? And is it true that the can opener wasn't invented until decades after the can was?Our guest today is Anna Zeide, author of Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food

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40:46

Rise and Fall of Zeppelins

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/11/06

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.Zeppelins seem almost too strange to have been real now. But they once carried paying passengers across the Atlantic in style. People foresaw a time when Zeppelins would dock at the top of the Empire State Building. For a moment they looked like the future.And then came that awful day in May 1937 when the greatest

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29:22

Online Advertising

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/11/02

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?Today Dallas investigates one of the most infuriating aspects of modern life, online advertising. We discover how they started and the mind-boggling ways they work.Is it possible that online advertising is a bubble that will one day burst? A world without online ads might sound appealing until you consider all the free services they underwrite, from

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41:01

Paranormal Technology

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/10/30

Welcome to Patented-Gone-Paranormal!! 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'.Technology might seem the antithesis of the spirit world. But just at that point in our history when technology began to dominate our way of life, it also sprouted supernatural arms and legs.Spiritualism emerged in the middle of the nineteenth century. A new form of an old belief that it is possible to

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37:56

Nuclear Fusion Power

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/10/26

For almost a century we’ve been trying to build a star on earth. Not easy with temperatures reaching 150,000,000℃.Today on Patented it’s the story of our efforts to make a nuclear fusion reactor with Arthur Turrell author of The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet.Find out what people used to believe the sun was made out of; just how powerful the world’s biggest laser is, and what Argentinian fake news has to do with all this.Produced by Freddy ChickExecutive Producer

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32:51

Linoleum

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/10/23

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?We hear the story of the Victorian inventor, Frederick Walton, who came up with lino whilst trying to find an alternative to rubber.And we discover the Scottish town that was at the epicentre of world lino production during the golden years.Our guests to tell the story is Lily Barnes, curator of Flooring the World, a project to celebrate Fife’s history

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25:36

How The Victorians Took Us To The Moon

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/10/19

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.The Victorians didn’t really take us to the moon. But what they did do was give us a way of thinking about the future that helped us to.Before the Victorians, people assumed the future would look a lot like the present.After the Victorians, we started assuming that great inventors would make the future wildly different

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39:16

Eco Farming

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/10/16

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’.If that sounds a bit ridiculous, it’s because it is.George Washington Carver was far more radical and innovative than ‘the guy who did stuff with peanuts’.At a time when the scientific consensus was pushing farmers to use more and more chemicals and machinery on their lands, Carver urged them to learn how to farm in harmony

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47:33

FORENSICS: DNA

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/10/12

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 – Colin Pitchfork who raped and killed the young girls Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth.It has gone on to revolutionise policing.Our guest to tell this story is Turi King who was taught by Alec Jeffreys and is now professor of public engagement at Leicester University and

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29:53

Punk & the Sex Pistols

Patented: History of Inventions ·

2022/10/09

Have you ever heard the story of how punk began?“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 charred debris and with burning torches play rock and roll…One of these gangs call themselves the Sex Pistols.”Those are the words of Malcolm McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols. Together with other artists & designers who worked with the band, Malcolm created the image of the

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