30 Animals That Made Us Smarter
30 Animals That Made Us Smarter
BBC World Service
Kingfisher and bullet train
14 minutes Posted Mar 25, 2019 at 1:00 am.
0:00
14:59
Download MP3
Show notes

The story of the bird and the engineer. How the kingfisher inspired the design of a train. The 500 series Shinkansen, also known as bullet train, is one of the fastest in the world. It is also quiet, but that was not always the case. This is the tale of Japanese engineer Eiji Nakatsu, the kingfisher, an owl, a penguin and biomimicry. With Patrick Aryee. #30Animals