Killer Inventions: The Slide Guitar
The magical sound of slide guitar is a modern invention. Though long associated with American blues music, the location of its earliest pioneers may surprise you! Tune into Killer Means Awesome to fin...
12 Feb 202448min
Killer Inventions: Grace Hopper & The Information Age
Diminutive in stature but a giant in the world of inventions, the brilliant Grace Hopper talked her way into the Navy after Pearl Harbor and went on to become arguably the most pivotal innovator at th...
30 Jan 20241h 2min
Killer Inventions: The Black Box
From its earliest, primitive versions in the 1940s to the powerful, high-tech devices of today, the fabled 'black box' on airplanes has captured both the public imagination and the careful attention o...
12 Dec 202354min
Killer Inventions: Deep Purple
In 1856 William Henry Perkin was an 18 year old college student on spring break when he accidentally invented a method for creating synthetic purple dye, a storied color which also happened to be the ...
4 Dec 202357min
Killer Inventions: LSD
The Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann was the first person to synthesize LSD in 1938. From an accidental LSD trip to today’s worldwide renaissance in government-sanctioned research, perhaps no psychedelic...
9 Nov 202348min
Introducing Killer Means Awesome: Killer Inventions
Introducing the newly branded Killer Means Awesome podcast and Season #3: Killer Inventions! Listen to the first two seasons of Killer Means Awesome to hear more incredible true stories. Season one ...
2 Nov 20233min
Killer Biographies: Lewis Howard Latimer
As an expert draftsman, inventor, and scientist, Lewis Howard Latimer helped Alexander Graham Bell patent the telephone and became Thomas Edison’s most trusted partner. Credited with inventing carbon ...
17 Okt 202355min
Killer Biographies: Shirley Chisholm
Get out of the way, it’s Fighting Shirley Chisholm coming through! Chisholm was ‘unbought and unbossed’ — from childhood poverty and time split between Barbados and Brooklyn to a pioneering career in...
29 Sep 202359min
