Iron Dome: Toy Car Parts, $800 Qassam Rockets and the Iron Beam Laser
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!During the 2006 Second Lebanon War, about 4,000 rockets, mostly unguided Katyushas fired by Hezb...
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Toshiba: Flash Memory, the Westinghouse Bet and $1.2B in Inflated Profits
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Toshiba grew from two struggling 19th century firms: Tanaka Seisakusho, founded in 1875 by inven...
21 Okt 22min
M777 Howitzer: Titanium Weight Cuts, Excalibur Shots and Ukraine's Barrels
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The M777 began in 1987 as the Ultralight Field Howitzer developed by Vickers in the United Kingd...
21 Okt 26min
Titan II: The Damascus Silo Blast, Gemini Launches and Voyager's Ride
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Titan rocket family flew 368 missions between 1959 and 2005, and it began as a weapon. The M...
21 Okt 22min
TiVo: The Blue Moon DVR, Trick Play, Tivoization and the Hardware Exit
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!TiVo began in 1997 as Teleworld, founded by Jim Barton and Mike Ramsay to build a home network d...
21 Okt 22min
Johnson Controls: The First Thermostat, a Supreme Court Loss and Tyco
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1883 Warren S. Johnson, a professor at the Whitewater Normal School in Wisconsin, patented th...
21 Okt 19min
Berlin Tempelhof: Nazi Megastructure, Airlift Runways and a Public Park
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Berlin's Tempelhof stands on land once held by the Knights Templar and later used as a Prussian ...
21 Okt 23min
NotPetya: The M.E.Doc Tax Update That Froze Maersk and Cost $10 Billion
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On June 27, 2017, radiation monitoring screens at Chernobyl went dark, Maersk's global shipping ...
21 Okt 23min
