https://theinventorfiles.com/ The untold stories of the inventors who changed the world. en-gb https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/hoffmann/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/hoffmann/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 20:47:44 +0000 Short Aspirin and heroin. Same man. Same lab. Eleven days apart. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/otis/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/otis/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 07:03:55 -0700 Short In 1854, a man stood on a platform high above a crowd in New York and ordered his assistant to cut the only rope holding him up. The crowd gasped. The platform did not fall. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/dally/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/dally/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 13:30:39 -0700 Short He tested Edison's X-rays on his own hand. Again and again. For years. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/tesla-long/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/tesla-long/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 07:00:09 -0700 Documentary In January 1943, a hotel maid in New York opened the door of room 3327 and found an old man, dead, alone and deeply in debt. He was the man who lit up the world. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/von-braun/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/von-braun/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:30:25 -0700 Short More people died building this rocket than it ever killed. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/slotin/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/slotin/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:00:30 -0700 Short One slip of a screwdriver. That was all it took. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/oppenheimer/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/oppenheimer/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:30:25 -0700 Short He led the team that built the most powerful weapon in human history. Nine years later, his own government decided it could no longer trust him. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/kalashnikov/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/kalashnikov/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:19 -0700 Short More than 100 million copies of his rifle have been made. Near the end of his life, he wrote a letter asking if he was guilty. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/stapp/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/stapp/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:30:15 -0700 Short In 1954, a doctor strapped himself to a rocket sled. It hit more than 1,000 km/h, and then it stopped in just over a second. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/haber/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/haber/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 01:00:04 -0700 Short His invention feeds almost half the people on Earth. He also led the first great poison gas attack in history. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/franklin/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/franklin/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:19:08 -0700 Short The most important photo in the history of biology was made in her lab. Two men saw it without her permission, and they won the Nobel Prize. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/latimer/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/latimer/ Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:31:42 -0700 Short He drew the telephone for Alexander Graham Bell. He made Edison's light bulbs last longer. And his parents had escaped from slavery. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/hedy-lamarr/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/hedy-lamarr/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 23:29:15 -0700 Short Hollywood called her the most beautiful woman in the world. She was also an inventor, and the Navy turned her idea down. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/reichelt/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/reichelt/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 04:35:19 -0700 Short On the morning of 4 February 1912, a tailor climbed onto the railing of the Eiffel Tower, wearing a suit he had invented himself. The cameras were rolling. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/morse/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/morse/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:19:52 -0700 Short His wife was dying, and he had no idea. By the time the letter reached him, she was already buried. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/diesel/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/diesel/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:28:35 -0700 Short On the night of 29 September 1913, a famous inventor boarded a steamship to England. He had dinner, said goodnight and went to his cabin. In the morning he was gone. Ten days later, a body was found in the North Sea. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/morgan/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/morgan/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:37:15 -0700 Short In the summer of 1916, men were dying in a tunnel under Lake Erie. The rescuers who went in did not come back. Then a Black inventor walked in, wearing a mask he had invented himself. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/berners-lee/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/berners-lee/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:17:07 -0700 Short You use his invention every single day. And he gave it away for free. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/lovelace/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/lovelace/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 03:43:07 -0700 Short She wrote a computer program a hundred years before the first computer existed. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/midgley/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/midgley/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:36:32 -0700 Short One man changed the air of the entire planet. Twice. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/bell/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/bell/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:28:59 -0700 Short He invented the telephone. But his mother could barely hear, and the woman he married could not hear at all. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/edison/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/edison/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:20:05 -0700 Short When Thomas Edison died in 1931, the President asked America to dim its lights for one minute. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/nobel/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/nobel/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:05:36 -0700 Short In 1888, Alfred Nobel opened a French newspaper and, as the story goes, read his own obituary: "The merchant of death is dead." He wasn't dead. His brother Ludvig was. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/wright/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/wright/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 04:20:32 -0700 Short America's best-funded scientist spent $50,000 of government money on a flying machine. It crashed into the Potomac. Twice. Nine days later, two bicycle mechanics from Ohio flew, having spent about $1,000. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/curie/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/curie/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:32:19 -0700 Short More than a century later, Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive. They are kept in lead-lined boxes in Paris. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/tesla-full/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/tesla-full/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 01:04:52 -0700 Short He imagined wireless power, radio and remote control decades before anyone else. He died alone, in debt, in room 3327 of a New York hotel. https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/turing/ https://theinventorfiles.com/episodes/turing/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:43 -0700 Short He helped crack Enigma and win the Second World War. In 1952, Britain arrested him for loving a man.