Play-Doh
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 Str...
21 Aug 202228min
Cloud Seeding & Climate Engineering
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, ...
17 Aug 202233min
Vantablack: The Darkest Material On Earth
!!!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.Va...
14 Aug 202231min
Pyramids
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 Naun...
10 Aug 202236min
Transistors & Telecommunication Satellites: Bell Labs
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 t...
7 Aug 202232min
Shipping Containers
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 ...
3 Aug 202229min
Barbie
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 s...
31 Jul 202229min
Contactless Payment
*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...
27 Jul 202232min
