🎧 Linoleum
🎧 Patented: History of Inventions • 31m
Linoleum, or “lino”, once ruled the world (of flooring). It appeared everywhere from the Titanic to your gran’s kitchen. But where did it come from?
We hear the story of the Victorian inventor, Frederick Walton, who came up with lino whilst trying to find an alternative to rubber.
And we discover the Scottish town that was at the epicentre of world lino production during the golden years.
Our guests to tell the story is Lily Barnes, curator of Flooring the World, a project to celebrate Fife’s history of linoleum. And Angus Fotheringhame, the General Manager at Forbo Flooring Systems UK.
Produced by Freddy Chick
Edited by Anisha Deva
Executive Producer Charlotte Long
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