Sawing Someone in Half Trick
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 ab...
18 Jan 202330min
Levi's Jeans
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...
15 Jan 202328min
Sex (and the fish who invented it)
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 inven...
11 Jan 202322min
Plastic
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...
8 Jan 202331min
Open Plan Office
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 ...
4 Jan 202327min
Timekeeping
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 th...
28 Dec 202224min
Christmas Crackers
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 Cracke...
21 Dec 202222min
Monopoly
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...
18 Dec 202227min
