48. Who Invented Cars?

09/06/21 • 18 min

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The invention of the car made a major change in the way people got around. We discover that the history of the car goes back to Leonardo and that electric cars have been around for ages! James brings you his research on the history of electric cars, and you'll hear his best car jokes!

How are some questions to see how well you understood today’s episode:

Over 500 years ago, who made designs for a mechanical, wind-up car?
What was built first: a steam-powered car or the Eiffel Tower?
In 1885 who built the first car powered by a gasoline or petrol engine?
Who made assembly lines that could build lots of cars quickly?
Until 1900, what would you move to steer a car?
When was the first fully electric car that could go over 100 kilometres per hour built?

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How are some questions to see how well you understood today’s episode:

Over 500 years ago, who made designs for a mechanical, wind-up car?
What was built first: a steam-powered car or the Eiffel Tower?
In 1885 who built the first car powered by a gasoline or petrol engine?
Who made assembly lines that could build lots of cars quickly?
Until 1900, what would you move to steer a car?
When was the first fully electric car that could go over 100 kilometres per hour built?

Please rate and review us wherever you get podcasts. And share our podcast on social media and recommend it to friends – that's how we'll keep going.

We’ll be back on the first Monday of next month!

Podcast cover art by Molly Austin

All instrumental music is from https://filmmusic.io and composed by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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47. When, where and how did the Paralympic Games begin?

Ahead of the para events at Tokyo 2020 (in 2021), we investigate the history of the Paralympic Games. Our special Paralympian guest is two-time swimming medalist Peter Hill. Long before it became a Paralympic sport, Peter was also involved in the early development of murderball (yes, that’s a real sport), and he’s dabbled in many more para-sports.

How are some questions for after you listen to today’s episode:

What’s my favourite Paralympic sport?
What does the Greek word “para” mean?
What was the name of the UK hospital which used sports to try to help injured people after World War II?
And what was the name of the Jewish-German doctor who ran the program at that hospital?
What happened on 29 July 1948, the same day as the London 1948 Olympic Games began?
When did the first Winter Paralympic Games happen?

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We’ll be back on the first Monday of next month!

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49. The Cold War: when, what, why and how?

We investigate the Cold War: when did it happen? What happened during the Cold War? Why did it happen? And how? Between the USA and the USSR, things were very cold, whereas over in Korea and Vietnam things got hot-hot-hot!

Listen out in the extras for James's Cold War joke - did Dad understand it? After the outtakes, there's a bonus couple of minutes about who invented the 'cold war' - we discover the famous writer who invented the term and predicted the future!

Here are some QUESTIONS to see how well you understood today’s episode:

When did the cold war begin and end?
Why was it called the cold war?
Where did the cold war become hot?
What is the difference between the Soviet Union during the cold war and Russia today?
What was M.A.D.?
What’s going on in the world today that is the same or similar to how it was during the Cold War?