Patented: History of Inventions

What was the first cinema? When were the heydays of cinema-going and where are we now? How has the experience of going to the cinema changed?Today’s show is about the rise and fall of cinema. Or shoul...

5 Juli 202329min

How do we go from wolves to modern dogs? And where do Killer Beavers fit into the story?Humans domesticated wolves long before any other animal (or even any plants). Yet what exactly happened is shrou...

2 Juli 202339min

"Eject! Eject!" Imagine hearing that and the next second flying out into the sky at hundreds of miles an hour, your life in the hands of a chair. Luckily it's a very special chair that has rockets, re...

28 Juni 202336min

Every second McDonald’s sells 75 hamburgers. It serves 70 million customers each day (more than the population of the UK). All this began at a roadside stand manned by two brothers: Dick and Mac McDon...

25 Juni 202334min

Who invented the Kitchen? It might seem silly to ask that but there is in fact one kitchen that people point to as the mother-of-all-kitchens. It was built in 1926 in the middle of a German housing cr...

21 Juni 202335min

The first ever Pride Flag was 30 ft high and 60 ft wide. A suitably epic beginning for a flag that has had a massive impact on the world.Who design that first flag? Why? And is Judy Garland involved i...

18 Juni 202333min

Is the pencil an example of perfect design? What is the greatest pencil of all time? What does a fallen down tree in the Lake District have to do with its invention? Dallas talks to Caroline Weaver, p...

14 Juni 202331min

In Victorian England, a prisoner was promised their freedom if only they could pick a lock...This week on Patented it's the history of locks and the wild stories of the race for perfect security durin...

11 Juni 202332min