Willis Carrier: How Fixing Wrinkled Paper Gave the World Air Conditioning
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the summer of 1902 the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing and Publishing Company in Brooklyn was ...
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Elizabeth Blackwell: The Prank Vote That Made America's First Woman MD
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Elizabeth Blackwell was born in Bristol, England, in 1821 to Samuel Blackwell, a sugar refiner s...
26 Okt 24min
Artificial Intelligence: Invisible Machines, Human Judgment and the Future We Choose
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Flip a light switch, and an enormous technological system quietly delivers what you need. Could ...
24 Okt 49min
The War of the Worlds: Heat Rays, Imperial Panic and Humanity’s Fall
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A cylinder lands on Horsell Common, curious neighbors gather, and an ordinary evening becomes th...
23 Okt 40min
Woodrow Wilson: Princeton Eating Clubs, Segregated Clerks and a Stroke
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Woodrow Wilson was three years old in Augusta, Georgia, when a passing stranger announced that L...
23 Okt 25min
William Penn's Holy Experiment: Debtor's Prison and the Walking Purchase
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Penn was the son of Admiral Sir William Penn, who served Oliver Cromwell, helped restore...
23 Okt 21min
Warsaw Pact: Molotov's NATO Bid, White-Cross Tanks and Romania's Defiance
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1954, hoping to block a rearmed West Germany from joining NATO, Soviet foreign minister Vyach...
23 Okt 20min
Marshall Plan 1948: Stalin's Walkout and the 83% of Aid Spent in America
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1946 many Europeans lived on fewer than 1,500 calories a day. Bombing had wrecked railway hub...
23 Okt 20min
