Herbert Dow: Reselling the German Bromide Cartel's Own Dumped Stock
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Herbert Henry Dow founded his chemical company in Midland, Michigan in 1897 to extract bromine f...
21 Loka 20min
Heathrow: The Hexagram Runways, the 3 p.m. Swap and the Third Runway Fight
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!London Heathrow opened as a small airfield in 1930, became London Airport in 1946 and took the H...
21 Loka 23min
Tokyo Haneda Airport: Insect Cargo, a 48-Hour Eviction and a River Runway
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Tokyo's Haneda Airport opened on August 25, 1931, when the Postal Ministry turned a 53-hectare p...
21 Loka 24min
M142 HIMARS: The Shelved 1982 Rocket Truck That Reshaped Ukraine's War
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The M142 HIMARS is a three-person crew cab and a single rocket pod mounted on the Army's standar...
21 Loka 19min
Gillette: Escape-Map Razors, a $12 Million Fraud and the Blade Wars
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1895 traveling salesman King Camp Gillette took advice from William Painter, inventor of the ...
21 Loka 22min
Genentech: A $1,000 Bet, Bacterial Insulin, Herceptin and Avastin
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1976 venture capitalist Robert Swanson, 28, cold-called biochemist Herbert Boyer, and over be...
21 Loka 25min
Gatwick: One Runway, 43 Million Passengers and a 12-Metre Runway Shift
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!London Gatwick in Crawley, West Sussex, handles over 43 million passengers a year, the second-bu...
21 Loka 23min
Garmin: The Gary-and-Min GPS 100, the G1000 Cockpit and Autoland
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2023 the U.S. Space Force gave over 6,000 smartwatches to its Guardians to test whether weara...
21 Loka 18min
