Warships
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today we are talking warships: from the revolutionary Tudor ships to modern aircraft carriers, and all the innovations along the way.
In this episode of Patented: History of Inventions Dan, a self-confessed Maritime history nerd, joins Dallas on a whistle-stop tour of nearly 200 years of naval history. From the rise of wooden warships, to how these feats of engineering were built and how they transformed the world, forever.
This episode was produced by Emily Whalley
The senior producer is Charlotte Long
Edited and mixed by Seyi Adaobi
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| 1:11.4 | Hi there, history at listeners. I'm really happy that Dallas Campbell has joined |
| 1:14.6 | team history. He's one of the best broadcasters out there. |
| 1:17.0 | He makes science shows. People watch them. They're great. |
| 1:19.6 | He has a knack of infusing about things you never remember to get excited by. |
| 1:24.8 | That's what he does. On patented history of inventions, he talks about the things that have |
| 1:29.2 | transformed our world. You know, our story is really one of inventions. |
| 1:33.6 | It's about these apes with these opposable thumbs working stuff out. |
| 1:38.6 | So from bronze to iron to putting a drone on Mars, we're just on one mad health |
| 1:44.3 | of the skeleton journey. Who knows what's going to end. If you want to have a few guesses, you want to see where we've come from. |
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| 1:55.0 | I basically went to an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf during the Iraq war and I landed on this little plane. |
| 2:00.3 | What plane? You landed on an aircraft carrier. |
| 2:02.0 | They have a little supply plane called a mail plane and we landed on the arrester wire. |
| 2:05.5 | And then the arth dors slowly opened the ramp open. I was like, well, |
| 2:09.6 | everybody don't think about top gun, whatever you don't think about top gun. And we landed and it was like the sun was low in the sky. |
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