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Bill Hammack's public radio commentaries

From 1999 to 2005 Bill broadcast nearly 200 commentates on public radio. They are list here thematically:

Inventions & inventors

Computers & Information Technology

Food & Cooking

Art, Literature & Music

Energy & Environment

Flight

Stamps

Technology & Society

Toys, Sports, Travel & Entertainment

Engineering Methods & Design


Inventions & Inventors

Air conditioning

Betamax vs VHS

Hazel Bishop

Blue LED

Bose wave radio

Coffee makers

Color Film Chemistry

Composting Toilets

Concrete

Constance Tipper and fracture mechanics

Contact lenses

Cornstarch Packing Peanuts

Cruise Control

Directional Sound

Duct tape

Dvorak keyboard

Dyson Vacuums

George Eastman and Kodak

Elevators

Philo Farnsworth and Television

Gas lighting

Geiger Counters

Glass

Glo-sheet

Gore-Tex

GPS

Grain elevators

High-tech swimsuit

Jack Kilby

Jell-O

Bob Kearns

Lava Lamp

Maclaren Strollers

Margaret Knight and Paper bags

Matches

Mauve

Memory Metals

Moen facuets

Mood Rings

Neon Lighting

Nylon

O-rings

Phillips Screws

Photocopier

Plastic bottle

Pop can top

Pop Rocks Candy

Projectiles

Pumpkin masters

Rapid prototyping

Razor

RFID

Scotch tape dispenser

Sliced Bread

Spam

Steadicam

Superglue

Super soaker

Surveillance tags

Television Remote Control

Tupperware

Typewriters

Ultrasound imaging

Vacuum Cleaners

Vaseline

Velcro

Video games

The Volkswagen Beetle

Waring Blender

Wind-Up Radio

Art, Literature & Music

The Beatles

Leonardo da Vinci

eBooks

Fahrenheit 451

Hammond organ

Pompeii the Novel

Project Gutenberg

Reading Jekyll and Hyde

The Saxophone

Thermin

TiVo

Tolkien and Technology

Zildjian Cymbals

Technology & Society

Anthrax

Cigarette machine

Clocks Conquer the World

Color reproduction and determinism

Coltan

Container Ships

Counting Crowds

Cryonics

Diapers

The Electric Chair

Escapement

Face Recognition Software

Flu vaccine

Genetically Modified Food

Gridlock Sam

HeLa Cells

Housework

jefferson and Science

Laundry Machines

Machine guns

Thomas Midgley

Numbers and Life

Plain Old Telephone Service

Potholes

PZEV

Railroads

Risk

Roman Engineering

SARS

The Science of Easter and Passover

Technology and Terrorism

The Electronic Paper Trail of Terrorism

Voting machines & gambling

Voting & Paper

Waterless Urinals

Computers & Information Technology

Atomic Clocks

Cell phone

Computer Mouse

Digital Data

Disk vs Disc

Fiber optics

Google

The Internet and Public Key Encryption

Ipod and IP

Iridium satellites

The LEO Computer

Linux

Monocultures and viruses

Moore’s Law

MUZAK

Open Source Software

Adam Osborne

J.R. Pierce and Satellites

Postscript: Apple’s Killer App

The Queen of Voice mail

Rolodex

Claude Shannon

The Social Impact of Electronic Communications

Spam email

Thomas Stockham

The Telegraph

Text Messages

The Birth of e-mail

Voice Over IP and 911

Who controls the internet?

Yeats and radio

Energy & Environment

Batteries in the Refrigerator

Blackout

Blackout Report

Electric cars

The Environment and microchips

Hydrogen-Powered Cars

Landfills

Local Power Plants

Los Angeles and water

Nitrogen Fixation

Proven Oil Reserves

Wind Energy

Toys, Sports, Travel & Entertainment

Baseball Stats

Bicycle

Ferris Wheels

Frisbee

Glowing Hockey Puck

Head Skis

The Ice Hotel

The Lego Toy Company

Nautilus Machines

Olympics & Technology

Olympic Torch

Ping Putter

Roller Coasters

SCUBA diving

Slinky

Terry Bicycles

Tour de France

Food & Cooking

Clarence Birdseye

Champagne

Cooking a Turkey

Corks

Ice cream

Microwave Oven

Flight

Black Boxes

Boeing vs. Airbus

Concorde

Jet Takeoff

Private Space Flights

Shuttle landing

Stall warning

Zeppelins

Zeppelins

Engineering Methods & Design

Bathtub

Bolts

Celebrating old technologies

Demolition

Henry Dreyfuss

Erector sets

Green Design

Mathematics of Lines

Nanotechnology

New vs. Old Technology

Packaging

Plasmas

Production Engineering

Sears Tower

Shower Curtains

Strobe photography

Swatch

Technological Optimism

tunnels

Why a Chair?

Stamps

Richard Feynman

Josiah Willard Gibbs

Barbara McClintock

John von Neumann