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Nuts and Bolts

May 9, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way

2min

The Story of the Nail

2min

The History of the Nails

2min

Don't Reinvent the Wheel

2min

The History of the Wheel

2min

The Evolution of the Wheel

2min

The Seven Small Inventions That Make Up the Modern World

2min

The Power of Spring

2min

10.

The Importance of Springs in Buildings

2min

11.

The House of Music and Denmark's Springs

2min

12.

The Seven Small Inventions That Change the World

4min

13.

The Seven Inventions for Making the Modern World

3min

14.

The Importance of Magnets in Long Range Communications

3min

15.

The Importance of the Lens

2min

16.

Antony Van Leuwenhoek: The First Person to See Sperm Under the Microscope

2min

17.

The Importance of Pumps in Engineering

4min

18.

The Importance of Women in Engineering

2min

19.

The Rise and Fall of Roman Mars

2min

In her new book Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way), structural engineer Roma Agrawal identifies and examines the seven of most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world: the nail, the wheel, the spring, the lens, the magnet, the string, and the pump.

Click here to get the book! Available for pre-order at W. W. Norton in the US and Bookshop.org in the UK.

Nuts and Bolts

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