75 – The Making Of a Karaoke Ice Cream Truck and More Stories
The Kitchen Sisters Present
The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Stories of creativity and invention— the making of a jar of jam, the making of a fashionable 3-D printed covering for an artificial limb, the making of Muttville – a foster care rescue center for senior dogs, a Karaoke Ice Cream Truck, the arrangements for a father’s funeral, the un-making of the Typewriter, and more stories from The Making Of…What People Make in the Bay Area and Why. Produced with KQED and AIR.
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| 1:14.3 | In 1984, |
| 1:21.9 | Francis Gape received U. received US patent number 4,428,85. |
| 1:28.0 | For her invention, the world's only self-cleaning house. |
| 1:32.0 | Francis died recently. |
| 1:34.0 | She was 101 years old. |
| 1:36.0 | According to the New York Times, she died pretty much unknown, |
| 1:39.0 | but at one time her house was written up in newspapers and books and she appeared on the Phil Donahue show. |
| 1:45.0 | The weekend Australian described the house as basically a gigantic dishwasher. |
| 1:50.0 | With the press of a button, she could activate a sprinkler in the ceiling that sprayed |
| 1:55.4 | sudsy water over the walls and the floor and then it rinsed everything and then jets of air |
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