The Steam Engine and Simultaneous Invention

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🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The revolution in speed ground to a halt in the 1960s. The previous half-century saw great leaps in how quickly people could get from place to place: high-speed railways, cars, intercontinental flight. In our lifetime transport may have become safer and comfier — but we aren't getting anywhere any faster.

How did these great leaps happen? What grove this focus on transport innovation and where does collaboration come into play? And why has the focus shifted? In this episode, we talk to Matt Ridley, author of How Innovation Works, about the acceleration of transport innovation from the steam engine to space travel.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dan Snowhurt. Very excited that history hit a launching another new podcast. It's
0:05.2	called Payton Tid. It's a history of inventions. And I am so happy because it's hosted by one
0:10.9	of my friends, one of my former colleagues at the BBC. He's the science presenter. He's
0:15.7	the unstoppable Dallas Campbell. Each episode goes into the stories behind history's most
0:22.6	impactful ideas and the geniuses who created them from the steam engine to the condom. And
0:29.2	today on the show, we're going to be sharing the first episode with you. So Dallas is joined
0:32.8	by Matt Ridley, love him. He's the author of How Innovation Works. They're going to discuss
0:37.4	the revolution in speed from the steam engine to the supersonic jet. There's a pair of
0:41.9	mine folks that Queen Elizabeth II still alive today was born closer to the first intercity
0:48.1	railway, Liverpool Manchester, than to today. So we're talking about an unimaginable revolution
0:54.5	that has happened in two lifespans from an intercity steam railway to a drone flying
1:01.0	about on Mars. This is a wild journey, wrong folks. And you're going to hear all about it
1:05.5	on Dallas Campbell's new brilliant podcast. If you like what you hear, please head over
1:08.8	to the patented history of inventions feed to subscribe or follow for more. The link is
1:15.2	in the show notes. Episode two is already out on that feed. You can
1:18.5	die straight in there. Dallas talks to the geneticist friend of this podcast, but on many
1:22.3	times Adam Rutherford about how we got to where gene editing is today and debate about
1:27.2	what the future holds. Crike will I get that linguistic ability in ultra rip six pack
1:34.1	that I've been hoping for? Let's see what Adam Rutherford says about that. New episodes
1:37.6	of patented will be released every Sunday and Wednesday. There's going to be episodes
1:41.8	on tanks at the atom bomb space suits treadmills and breakfast cereal.
1:48.5	To the newcomer steam engine, suddenly you're using heat to do work. And I think that's
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