
Penny & Luck: Inventing Stuff - a kids STEM podcast
claire karwowski @ wowski media
5.0from 43 ratings
- 64
- Episodes
- 3
- Transcribed
- 43
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
About Penny & Luck: Inventing Stuff - a kids STEM podcast
Calling all kid inventors, creators, and out-of-the-box thinkers! Welcome to Penny & Luck: Inventing Stuff - a kids STEM podcast (+6yrs) Did you know: - a dentist invented cotton candy? - a 16 year old designed the first trampoline inspired by a trip to the circus? - water balloons were a waterproof sock invention gone wrong? Tune in every Wednesday as we dive into a new Invention Question and share the zany, true ways they came to be! Check out the Penny & Luck Inventing Stuff episodes below & subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!
- Publisher
- claire karwowski @ wowski media
- Category
- kids & family
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 Oct 2022
- Latest episode
- 10 Jul 2026
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3 of 64 episodes have a transcript.

10 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep.57 INVENTING PERISCOPES

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EP. 56 INVENTING REEF REDBIRD

26 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
EP. 55 INVENTING SOCCER
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Ep.57 INVENTING PERISCOPES
Published 10 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] What is a periscope? It's a cool device that helps you spy around, up, and through things. It's kind of like a telescope. It uses mirrors to bend lights to help us see things. If you'll remember from your invention question on inventing telescopes, telescopes use lenses and sometimes mirrors to bend light to make things that are far away look closer, while periscopes bend light to help us see things that would normally be out of our view. They have been around for a really long time. Johannes Gutenberg invented it in 1430. Gutenberg was a German inventor born in the 14th century who was most famous for inventing the printing press, which, according to Britannica, was a, quote, history-changing invention making books widely accessible and ushering in an information revolution, unquote. […]
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- 11 ratings
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