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

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Angus, David, Author.

Contributor:

Naxos Digital Services US.

Series:

Naxos Spoken Word Library.

Naxos Spoken Word Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

Spoken Word.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated, 2006.

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

Introduction ( 04 min., 49 sec. )

Archimedes 287 - 212 BC ( 03 min., 57 sec. )

Archimedes was himself, first and foremost ... ( 03 min., 01 sec. )

Of course it was in the bath that Archimedes ... ( 04 min., 56 sec. )

King Heiron died in 216 BC ... ( 04 min., 35 sec. )

Johann Gutenberg 1400 - 1468 ( 04 min., 14 sec. )

North of Strasbourg lay the city of Aachen ... ( 04 min., 04 sec. )

It is not hard to imagine how the idea ... ( 04 min., 01 sec. )

Gutenberg had been going to print a missal ... ( 04 min., 19 sec. )

Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 ( 03 min., 54 sec. )

Benjamin headed north to New York ... ( 04 min., 40 sec. )

The stove was a great success ... ( 04 min., 35 sec. )

But his most famous invention came ... ( 03 min., 44 sec. )

Two years later he was sent back to London ... ( 04 min., 25 sec. )

Alfred Nobel 1833 - 1896 ( 04 min., 52 sec. )

By the time Alfred Nobel was born ... ( 03 min., 58 sec. )

They built a small factory, where they produced ... ( 04 min., 13 sec. )

In 1888 Nobel produced a new, smokeless gunpowder ... ( 03 min., 08 sec. )

Alexander Graham Bell 1847 - 1922 ( 03 min., 54 sec. )

Aleck spent a year at Edinburgh University ... ( 04 min., 09 sec. )

Aleck began helping his father to teach ... ( 04 min., 05 sec. )

Bell's second idea was what he called the 'harp' telephone ... ( 03 min., 43 sec. )

In 1876, it was the hundredth anniversary ... ( 04 min., 50 sec. )

Guglielmo Marconi 1874 - 1937 ( 04 min., 16 sec. )

When he was 20 and on holiday in the Italian Alps ... ( 04 min., 16 sec. )

By now, even his father was beginning ... ( 04 min., 05 sec. )

On 26th April 1900, Marconi took out his patent number ... ( 05 min., 18 sec. )

The Wright Brothers : Wilbur Wright 1867 - 1912 Orville Wright 1871 - 1948 ( 04 min., 18 sec. )

Around 1890, the first bicycles were being imported ... ( 05 min. )

In 1900, after consulting the United States Weather Bureau ... ( 04 min., 37 sec. )

When the brothers went to companies ... ( 04 min., 15 sec. )

By the end of that year they had made over a hundred ... ( 04 min., 44 sec. )

Thomas Alva Edison 1847 - 1931 ( 04 min., 15 sec. )

One day, as he was walking to the train ... ( 04 min., 24 sec. )

The office manager was so delighted that he hired Edison ... ( 03 min., 38 sec. )

Edison had a flash of inspiration ... ( 03 minutes, 43 sec. )

Participant:

Soames, Benjamin, Reader -- Angus, David, Author

Notes:

Naxos Digital Services electronic collection.

Streaming audio.

Publisher Number:

9789626344194

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Restricted for use by site license.