John James Audubon: Fake Bird Banding, Wired Specimens and Stolen Skulls
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John James Audubon was born Jean Rabin in 1785 in Saint-Domingue, the illegitimate son of a Fren...
27 Okt 23min
Flavius Josephus: The Jotapata Cave, Vespasian's Prophecy and Rome's Pen
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Flavius Josephus was born Joseph ben Matityahu in Jerusalem around 36 AD to a father from the fi...
27 Okt 25min
Thomas Newcomen: The Baptist Ironmonger Whose Engine Pumped Out the Mines
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Thomas Newcomen was born in 1664 in Dartmouth, Devon, and became an ironmonger selling tools to ...
27 Okt 19min
Elijah McCoy: The Railroad Oiler Who Invented the Automatic Lubricator
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Elijah J. McCoy was born free on May 2, 1844, in Colchester, Ontario, one of 12 children of Geor...
27 Okt 23min
Golden Age of Piracy: Buccaneer Pig Hunters, Pirate Articles and Chain Shot
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Golden Age of Piracy ran roughly from the 1650s to the 1730s. It began with French hunters o...
27 Okt 22min
Pytheas of Massalia: Thule, the Sea Lung and Linking the Tides to the Moon
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Pytheas of Massalia, a Greek geographer and astronomer from the colony that is now Marseille, se...
27 Okt 19min
Piet Hein: From Spanish Galley Slave to the 1628 Silver Fleet at Matanzas
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Piet Pieterszoon Hein was born in 1577 in Delfshaven, the son of a sea captain, and suffered bad...
27 Okt 22min
Carleton Watkins: Yosemite on Mammoth Glass, Then Ruin in the 1906 Fire
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Carleton Watkins was born in Oneonta, New York, in 1829 and went west in 1851 with his friend Co...
27 Okt 22min
