Chapter 16: Men of Science
As the first Industrial Revolution was beginning to turn the world upside down, the Age of Enlightenment produced scientists whose breakthroughs helped shape that upside-down world. Today we discuss t...
28 Touko 201943min
Chapter 15: We Got Chemistry
The Industrial Revolutions were made possible thanks to the Scientific Revolution, which began centuries earlier as militaries needed to invest in new ways to gain an edge in battle. With it came the ...
17 Touko 201931min
Chapter 14: The Machine Makers
To support the National Alliance on Mental Illness: NAMI.orgWhen Joseph Bramah hired Henry Maudslay to help him make locks, little did he know his assistant would go on to change the world. Maudslay h...
10 Touko 201927min
Chapter 13: The Factory System
To support the Independent Labrador Retriever Rescue of Southern California (or to adopt a dog if you live there): http://www.indilabrescue.org -To get your favorite team’s apparel AND support the pod...
3 Touko 201943min
Chapter 12: The Steamboat
Creating the world’s first vessels of powered transportation was no joke. Several competitive inventors put everything on the line to be the first to build profitable steamboats. For most of them, the...
26 Huhti 201933min
Chapter 11: Canal-Mania
From the 1760s to the 1830s, Great Britain went crazy for canals. America did too. These waterways helped speed up trade and fuel industrialization in the age before trains and highways. In the proces...
12 Huhti 201931min
Chapter 10: Economic Ideas (Part 2: Adam Smith)
This week we discuss the life and times of the Father of Economics, including his native Scotland, his early years and education, his intellectual influences, his career, and his magnum opus: The Weal...
5 Huhti 201932min
Chapter 9: Economic Ideas (Part 1: The Oldies)
At the dawn of the First Industrial Revolution, a new academic field emerged: Economics. (Well, something called “Political Economy” anyway.) But centuries of economic thought had to be supplanted fi...
29 Maalis 201928min
