Lee de Forest: The Audion Tube, a Mail Fraud Trial and Losing Phonofilm
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Lee de Forest grew up in Talladega, Alabama, where his minister father ran Talladega College for...
27 Okt 19min
Hanno the Navigator: 60 Ships, a Fiery Volcano and the First Gorillas
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Hanno the Navigator was a fifth century BC Carthaginian, probably of the powerful Magonid family...
27 Okt 21min
Stephen Girard: One-Eyed Cabin Boy Who Underwrote the War of 1812
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Stephen Girard was born Étienne Girard in Bordeaux in 1750, the son of a sea captain. He lost th...
27 Okt 24min
Cyrus McCormick: Joe Anderson's Reaper, a Lincoln Defeat and Haymarket
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Cyrus McCormick was born in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains in 1809 to Robert McCormick Jr., who...
27 Okt 21min
Eddie Chapman, Agent Zigzag: Jelly Gang Safecracker With a Nazi Iron Cross
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Eddie Chapman was born in County Durham in 1914, joined the Coldstream Guards at 17, and deserte...
27 Okt 23min
Bob Fitzsimmons: The Skinny-Legged Blacksmith Who Took Three World Titles
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Bob Fitzsimmons was born in Helston, Cornwall, in 1863, the youngest of 12 children, and in 1873...
27 Okt 24min
Granville Woods: Beating Edison in Court Twice and the Fail-Safe Third Rail
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Granville Woods was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1856 to Cyrus and Martha Woods, and poverty ended...
26 Okt 24min
John Brinkley Twice: Ireland's Astronomer Bishop and America's Radio Quack
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode starts from a single Wikipedia disambiguation page listing two men named John Brink...
26 Okt 15min
