ANGUS, D.: Great Inventors and their Great Inventions (Unabridged)

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Great Inventors and their Great Inventions (more info)
Benjamin Soames, reader


1. Introduction - 4:49
2. Archimedes 287 - 212 BC - 3:57
3. Archimedes was himself, first and foremost … - 3:01
4. Of course it was in the bath that Archimedes … - 4:56
5. King Heiron died in 216 BC … - 4:35
6. Johann Gutenberg 1400 - 1468 - 4:14
7. North of Strasbourg lay the city of Aachen … - 4:04
8. It is not hard to imagine how the idea … - 4:01
9. Gutenberg had been going to print a missal … - 4:19
10. Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 - 3:54
11. Benjamin headed north to New York … - 4:40
12. The stove was a great success … - 4:35
13. But his most famous invention came … - 3:44
14. Two years later he was sent back to London … - 4:25
15. Alfred Nobel 1833 - 1896 - 4:52
16. By the time Alfred Nobel was born … - 3:58
17. They built a small factory, where they produced … - 4:13
18. In 1888 Nobel produced a new, smokeless gunpowder … - 3:08

Great Inventors and their Great Inventions (more info)
Benjamin Soames, reader


1. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 - 1922 - 3:54
2. Aleck spent a year at Edinburgh University … - 4:09
3. Aleck began helping his father to teach … - 4:05
4. Bell’s second idea was what he called the ‘harp’ telephone … - 3:43
5. In 1876, it was the hundredth anniversary … - 4:50
6. Guglielmo Marconi 1874 - 1937 - 4:16
7. When he was 20 and on holiday in the Italian Alps … - 4:16
8. By now, even his father was beginning … - 4:05
9. On 26th April 1900, Marconi took out his patent number … - 5:18
10. The Wright Brothers : Wilbur Wright 1867 - 1912 Orville Wright 1871 - 1948 - 4:18
11. Around 1890, the first bicycles were being imported … - 5:00
12. In 1900, after consulting the United States Weather Bureau … - 4:37
13. When the brothers went to companies … - 4:15
14. By the end of that year they had made over a hundred … - 4:44
15. Thomas Alva Edison 1847 - 1931 - 4:15
16. One day, as he was walking to the train … - 4:24
17. The office manager was so delighted that he hired Edison … - 3:38
18. Edison had a flash of inspiration … - 3:43

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