{"author_name":"Bill Bryson's Appliance of Science","author_url":"https://art19.com/shows/bill-bryson-s-appliance-of-science","description":"  Sunday Times  best-selling author of  A Short History of Nearly Everything , Bill Bryson, teams up with The Science Museum to celebrate the ideas and inventions of the incurably curious.  Across this five-episode series, Bill Bryson, with the help of The Science Museum's curators, takes us object-by-object through some of the museum's lesser known inventions and discoveries - and the human stories behind them.  Discover how a teenage inventor, a pig's head, a lump of plywood and a famous British record label made medical history or how some inventions simply happen by accident. This 'museum for your ears' looks at how experimentation, competition, hard work and a desire to change our lives for the better have contributed to the progress of mankind.  This is an Audible Original Podcast. Free for members. You can download all 5 episodes to your Library now. ","html":"<iframe src=\"https://art19.com/shows/bill-bryson-s-appliance-of-science/embed\" style=\"width: 720px; height: 505px; border: 0 none;\" width=\"720\" height=\"505\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"></iframe>","provider_name":"ART19","provider_url":"https://art19.com","title":"Bill Bryson's Appliance of Science","type":"rich","version":"1.0","width":720,"height":505}