The godfather of manicures and India's Silicon Valley

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.

We hear about Vietnam's manicure godfather, how Bengaluru became India's Silicon Valley and how the first ever photograph from a mobile phone was sent.

Plus, the popularity of theoretical physicist Prof Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, and the windmill that revolutionised wind power.

Contributors:

Tuong Vu - Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon. Kien Nguyen - Wife of Minh Nguyen. Narayana Murthy - Founder of Infosys. Philippe Kahn - Software engineer and owner of world's first mobile phone photo. Peter Guzzardi - Publisher and editor. Britta Jensen - Teacher.

(Photo: Minh and Kien Nguyen outside beauty school in California. Credit: Kien Nguyen)

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0:00.0	abnormal transactions.
0:03.0	Some kind of cyber attack on a bank.
0:05.0	Tens of millions of dollars.
0:07.0	Something I don't think anybody has seen before.
0:09.0	It's a cyber criminal group.
0:10.0	From the BBC World Service.
0:12.0	The Lazarus-Eist is back for season two.
0:14.7	It was really like in the movies.
0:16.1	Find out more at the end of this podcast. Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson
0:29.4	the past brought to life by those who were there and And this week ideas that have shaped our world,
0:35.0	including the entrepreneurs who saw the emergence of India's Silicon Valley.
0:40.0	The company was started in one of the bedrooms of my apartment.
0:46.4	We didn't have any computer at that time.
0:48.6	Plus the visionary who put camera and phone together,
0:51.7	Stephen Hawking's theory of everything and the Danish
0:54.8	wind turbine pioneers who were generous enough to share their tech with the world.
0:59.2	The technology of those plates we made that open source so everybody could come and borrow the
1:05.8	mould for the blades and then they could make their own windmill.
1:09.5	So it was very, very important that we didn't patient everything.
1:13.2	That's all coming up later in the podcast, but we're going to begin with a business idea
1:17.7	which has helped thousands of Vietnamese immigrants to the US.
1:21.7	In November 1975, the Vietnamese Navy commander called
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