Josiah Wedgwood's Pottery Science: Creamware, Kiln Beads and Jasperware
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Born in 1730 in Stoke-on-Trent, Josiah Wedgwood trained with his older brother, partnered with t...
23 Okt 22min
Josiah Wedgwood, Marketing Pioneer: Queen's Ware, Catalogs, Money-Back
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Josiah Wedgwood was born in 1730 in Burslem, Staffordshire, the 13th child of a family of potter...
23 Okt 22min
Jacques Cartier: Spruce Beer Scurvy Cure, a Kidnapped Chief, Fake Diamonds
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jacques Cartier, born in Saint-Malo in 1491, married into a leading local family in 1520 and in ...
23 Okt 23min
Henry Bessemer: Rotten Steel, Mushet's Fix and $18-a-Ton Carnegie Rails
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the winter of 1854, after meeting Napoleon III, whose cast-iron cannons were bursting in the ...
23 Okt 27min
Gustavus Adolphus: Leather Cannons, Breitenfeld and Death in Lützen's Fog
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gustavus Adolphus was born in 1594 to Charles IX, who had taken the Swedish throne from his Cath...
23 Okt 22min
1857 Indian Rebellion: Greased Cartridges and the East India Company's End
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The British East India Company arrived in India in 1612 as a trading firm, and victories at Plas...
23 Okt 25min
Gorbachev vs Yeltsin: Chernobyl, Glasnost and the Last Soviet Flag, 1991
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Konstantin Chernenko died in March 1985 at 73, and just over four hours later the Politburo chos...
23 Okt 22min
Gorbachev's Perestroika: Price Controls, Cooperatives and No Bush Bailout
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When Mikhail Gorbachev took power in 1985, the Soviet Union was in what its own citizens called ...
23 Okt 24min
