The Dude Who Burned Down the Greatest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Because of Reasons

The BrainFood Show

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Documentary, Society & Culture, Education, History

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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*Note: This is still a little out of order, as we are needing to further delay publishing of the Tech History Part 3 owing to, ironically enough, technical difficulties. We’ll have it up within the week most likely though. In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at what literal battleships had to do with the [...]

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to the brain food show. In this one, the dude who burned down the temple of Artemis,
0:08.0	and this dude has an epic name, but we're going to get into that in a bit.
0:12.0	How's it going?
0:12.6	David, welcome.
0:14.6	Good.
0:17.4	Shall we?
0:18.6	How do you want to roll into this today?
0:20.0	I know the current format of the show.
0:21.6	Quick Fact Main content, Follow Upup, we're doing follow-up
0:25.0	I've actually done this week. I think last week we talked about I would go to get some spam and I would
0:30.9	eat the spam. I didn't do that, but I do have some amazing follow-up about what
0:35.8	you would call a crosswalk and I would call a pedestrian crossing. So you'll look forward
0:40.6	to that follow-up later in the show, I bet.
0:43.0	Thrilling?
0:44.0	You want to you want to crack on with that quick fact?
0:47.0	Yeah, so the quick fact today is going to be on the slinky, the invention of the slinky which is interesting.
0:52.0	There is a marine engineer Richard James in the night The invention of the slinky, which is interesting.
0:53.0	There is a marine engineer, Richard James, in the 1940s,
0:56.0	early 1940s, I think it was 1942.
0:58.0	He's sitting there at his desk,
1:00.0	developing a device to measure horsepower output on battleships for the U.S. Navy.
1:06.2	And he's sitting there and he accidentally knocks one of the springs he was working on off the
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