🎧 Spacesuits
🎧 Patented: History of Inventions • 34m
It required borrowing skills from some surprising places to pull it off...namely, women's underwear.
With the help of Ryan Nagata, artist and replica spacesuit maker, we chart the evolution of the spacesuit from the Wiley Posts, to the iconic Apollo suits and beyond.
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🎧 Breakfast Cereal
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🎧 The Atomic Bomb
In a world at war, and with no end in sight, the atomic bomb was positioned to be the one weapon that could end the conflict for good.
In this episode Dallas is joined by Dr Campbell Craig, who argues that it may have put an end to World War 2 — but also laid the foundations for the Cold War tha...
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🎧 Military Drones
Drone technology has transformed the way we wage war today. They have been key in every major conflict since at least 2008, including the current war in Ukraine. But military drones have a much longer history than you might imagine, dating all the way back to the First World War.
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