Inventions
Great Lives. James Dyson on Frank Whittle. Audio, 28 minutes
James Dyson chooses the inventor of the jet engine, Frank Whittle.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted26 April 2024
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- Posted4 April 2024
Witness History. The Bluetooth story. Audio, 9 minutes
The story of how a Viking inspired wireless technology.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Conversation. Women inventors. Audio, 27 minutes
Kenyan inventor Nzambi Matee and structural engineer Roma Agrawal discuss innovation.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted19 February 2024
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Video, 75 minutes
Wallace invents a 'smart gnome' that has a mind of its own - or does it?
- AttributionBBC One
- Available for 8 months
Revisionist History. Board Game Season. Audio, 49 minutes
How life shows up in games and what games teach us about risk, life, love and ... farming
- AttributionBBC Sounds
- Available for over a year
Tech Life. Searching for the Tech Factor. Audio, 27 minutes
We meet innovators from around the world hoping to bring you new technologies.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Big Little Questions. Freddie Asks... Audio, 14 minutes
Amy Gledhill and Chris Cantrill with an inventive question from Freddie.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
People Fixing The World. Disaster zone innovators. Audio, 23 minutes
Hospital trains and robot medics
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. Invention of the ballpoint pen. Audio, 9 minutes
In 1938 a Hungarian journalist László Bíró invented the ballpoint pen
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted4 February 2023
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- Posted14 January 2023
Witness History. How cat's eyes were invented. Audio, 9 minutes
In 1934, Percy Shaw invented cat's eyes, the reflective studs in the road
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Arts & Ideas. New Thinking: Breakthroughs at Being Human 2022. Audio, 42 minutes
Benjamin Franklin in the Lakes, the former slave who invented light bulbs, ganzflicker
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Witness History. The invention of the seat belt. Audio, 9 minutes
In 1958, Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin invented the three-point safety belt for cars
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted2 November 2022
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- Posted29 May 2022
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- Posted23 May 2022
The End of Invention. Audio, 28 minutes
The rate at which scientists and inventors discover new things is slowing. How to fix it?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted17 November 2021
