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Source: BBC Radio 4 "The Eureka Years"
Roundup

1901 with Adam Hart-Davis [30min]

Adam Hart-Davis explores spectacular years in the long history of science, when brilliant ideas emerged from the maelstrom of mad, bad and dangerous thinking. Tarmac, the electrocardiogram, and the Texas oil industry all made a splash in 1901, as did the first Royal Navy submarine, built with every secrecy at Barrow and launched 'as an experiment' without ceremony on October 2. But why did the navy consider the submarine an un-British way to wage war, and how did the sanitary arrangements threaten to undermine the superiority of the officer class?
Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "The Eureka Years"