Andrew Carnegie: Edgar Thomson Works, the Homestead Strike and a $492M Sale
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1872 Andrew Carnegie began building the Edgar Thomson Steel Works in Braddock, Pennsylvania, ...
21 Okt 17min
Canon: Borrowed Nikon Lenses, the AE-1 Microchip and Nanoimprint Chipmaking
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Canon began in 1933 as the Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory, founded by Takeshi Mitarai,...
21 Okt 23min
Cambridge Analytica: The $4 Quiz That Exposed 87 Million Facebook Users
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Cambridge Analytica was founded in 2013 by Alexander Nix, Nigel Oakes and Alexander Oakes as a s...
21 Okt 22min
Caterpillar: Benjamin Holt's Delta Mud, Redwood Tracks and the First Tanks
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the 1890s, Benjamin Holt watched his steam tractors, which weighed 1,000 pounds for every uni...
21 Okt 21min
Cablevision: Charles Dolan's Oscar Blackout and the West Side Stadium War
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On March 7, 2010, Cablevision customers in the New York area tuned to ABC for the 82nd Academy A...
21 Okt 20min
Bristol Myers Squibb: A Burned Brooklyn Lab, Channel Stuffing and Opdivo
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On Christmas Eve 1858, former Navy surgeon Edward Robinson Squibb watched his new Brooklyn labor...
21 Okt 25min
Booking Holdings: From Priceline Grocery Bids to 1.2 Billion Room Nights
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jay S. Walker founded Priceline.com in 1996 in Stamford, Connecticut, around its trademarked nam...
21 Okt 18min
Bell Labs: Transistors, Unix, Shannon's Bits and the Echo of the Big Bang
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Bell Labs traces back to the Volta Prize of 50,000 francs that France awarded Alexander Graham B...
21 Okt 21min
