Newark Airport: Christmas Trees, Bank Safes and the 1952 Elizabeth Crashes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Newark Metropolitan Airport opened in October 1928 on 68 acres of marshland, pushed by Mayor Tho...
21 Okt 23min
Roku: Netflix's Scrapped Project Griffin, the YouTube TV Fight and Fox
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2007, Netflix engineer Anthony Wood, whose earlier DVR company ReplayTV had lost to TiVo, bui...
21 Okt 25min
Motorola DynaTAC 8000X: The $3,995 Brick Phone and Its Wrong-Number Debut
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, short for Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage, stood 10 inches tall...
21 Okt 20min
Miami International: Planes Crossing Lejeune Road and the Hub War at MIA
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Miami International Airport began in 1928, when Pan American Airways bought a 116-acre plot on N...
21 Okt 23min
Medtronic: Earl Bakken's Metronome Pacemaker, Recalls and the Covidien Deal
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Medtronic was founded in 1949 by Earl Bakken and his brother-in-law Palmer Hermundslie as a Minn...
21 Okt 22min
Magnavox: The Moving Coil Speaker, the Odyssey Console and Sonobuoys
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Magnavox, Latin for great or loud voice, grew out of a Napa, California lab, the Commercial Wire...
21 Okt 22min
MCI: Truck Radio Relays, the Antitrust Suit That Broke AT&T and MCI Mail
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John D. Goeken founded Microwave Communications, Inc. in October 1963 to run a microwave radio r...
21 Okt 21min
LaGuardia: Rikers Island Garbage Fill, Compass Warnings and an $8B Rebuild
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!New York's LaGuardia Airport traces back to a 1934 protest: Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, holding a...
21 Okt 21min
