Killer Inventions - Earmuffs, Popsicles & Glow Panels

From its earliest, primitive versions in the 1940s to the powerful, high-tech devices of today, the fabled 'black box' on airplanes has captured both the public imagination and the careful attention o...

12 Joulu 202354min

In 1856 William Henry Perkin was an 18 year old college student on spring break when he accidentally invented a method for creating synthetic purple dye, a storied color which also happened to be the ...

4 Joulu 202357min

The Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann was the first person to synthesize LSD in 1938. From an accidental LSD trip to today’s worldwide renaissance in government-sanctioned research, perhaps no psychedelic...

9 Marras 202348min

Introducing the newly branded Killer Means Awesome podcast and Season #3: Killer Inventions! Listen to the first two seasons of Killer Means Awesome to hear more incredible true stories. Season one ...

2 Marras 20233min

As an expert draftsman, inventor, and scientist, Lewis Howard Latimer helped Alexander Graham Bell patent the telephone and became Thomas Edison’s most trusted partner. Credited with inventing carbon ...

17 Loka 202355min

Get out of the way, it’s Fighting Shirley Chisholm coming through! Chisholm was ‘unbought and unbossed’ — from childhood poverty and time split between Barbados and Brooklyn to a pioneering career in...

29 Syys 202359min

The original work hard, play hard executive, Cleopatra is known for high profile liaisons with Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Marc Antony. Ruling over a vast Egyptian empire for more than two decades...

11 Syys 202358min

Before there was Alexander the Great, there was Cyrus the Great. Through military conquests, strategic alliances, and centralized administration, he established the first Persian empire stretching fro...

25 Elo 202357min