The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Things (Part 1)

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

Education, History

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start off looking at the surprisingly interesting origin of the paperclip and why a person who had nothing to do with its design commonly gets all the credit for it, including having a giant statue of it made in his honor only a couple decades ago. Next up, we have a brief message from our sponsor Skillshare! Level up your skills and support this show all at the same time by signing up for Skillshare today: https://skillshare.com/brainfood Using that link also gets you a 2-month free trial. Big thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this podcast! Moving on to the next section of the show we’re looking at one of the most prolific inventors in American history who invented at least one thing (if not a couple) that are currently in your home right now and you probably use frequently, yet for various reasons we’ll get into, nobody remembers this guy at all and he never made much money off any of his hundreds of inventions. (And for those curious about the Lockstitch gif, click here.) After that we’re looking at the fascinating origin of the ballpoint pen and the shockingly complex way these things are made considering you’ve probably lost 3 of them in your couch cushions today already and don’t care because they are dirt cheap somehow. On another note, if you could do us a huge favor and rate and review this show in whatever podcasting platform you’re using (including hopefully giving us some feedback related to the new format), we would be extremely grateful. Thanks! (You can also discuss this episode and view references on The BrainFood Show forum here.) Don’t miss future episodes of this podcast, subscribe here: iTunes | Spotify | Google Play Music | Stitcher | RSS/XML You can also find more episodes by going here: The BrainFood Show The post The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Things (Part 1) appeared first on Today I Found Out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody welcome to another episode of the brain food show
0:05.1	broadcast live on YouTube also available as a podcast go down later as a
0:09.6	podcast that's the way well I'm sure you've got your preferred ways of listening and we've got your preferred way of listening as well.
0:16.0	And that's why a podcast.
0:18.0	If you'd like to, iTunes or Apple Podcasts, whatever it's calls.
0:22.0	Enough rambling.
0:23.0	I'm here with David.
0:24.0	How's it going?
0:25.0	Going great.
0:26.0	Monday morning, bright and early.
0:28.0	Or Sunday night where you are, yeah.
0:30.0	Yeah. Yeah, well I mean kind of Monday morning, but like 140 a.
0:33.2	Dude, I don't know why you like these crazy early hours since a bit much.
0:38.0	10 37 on a Monday morning is pretty perfect for me, but you like...
0:42.0	Well, it gets the, you know, the girls are asleep,
0:45.0	so not making noise.
0:46.0	It's good, it's good quiet.
0:48.8	Oh, what's up today?
0:49.9	What are what's on the agenda?
0:52.0	We are looking at the fascinating origin of everyday things and we're going to do two episodes today for people who want a lengthy listening experience.
0:59.3	We're going to have a broadcast place them in a row. Yeah, yeah, so we're gonna,
1:03.4	what I'll, covering like the shopping cart, the paper clip,
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