Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1490: Germs
Episode: 1490 Germs, John Snow, and the Broad Street Well. Today, we talk about germs.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1489 Helicopter
Episode: 1489 Inventing the helicopter: harder than it looked. Today, we invent the helicopter.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1488: The Roeblings
Episode: 1488 John, Washington, & Emily Roebling, and the Brooklyn Bridge. Today, a family gives us the Brooklyn Bridge.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1492: Necessity in the Siege of Paris
Episode: 1492 Necessity and invention during the 1870 siege of Paris. Today, necessity, invention, and the Siege of Paris.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1487: Telephone Use
Episode: 1487 Teaching the American public to use the telephone. Today, would you buy the first telephone?
Curious City - The first Black-owned airport in the U.S. was in Robbins, Illinois
The Robbins Airport, just southwest of Chicago, was the first Black-owned and -operated airport in the country. Its founders were pivotal to Black aviation.
Bay Curious - SFO’s One-of-a-Kind Art Museum
Barry Asin flies through SFO about once a month and often stops to take a look at the art exhibits dotted throughout the terminals. He particularly loves the history exhibits that showcase what makes the Bay Area unique, seeing it as a nice welcome to travelers visiting the area. He wants to know more about who curates the exhibits, how they decide what to bring in and what we can expect in the future.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2545: Milton Bradley
Episode: 2545 Game Maker Milton Bradley. Today, a game maker.
Curious City - A museum, a mayor and a road: How Lake Shore Drive became a runway … intentionally
Lake Shore Drive has served as a makeshift runway for emergency landings. But it’s also been an *intentional* runway for planned arrivals. We go back to 1983 to get the story of how a Chicago institution helped turn our lakeside expressway into an airstrip, at least twice.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2617: Facebooking
Episode: 2617 Facebook, social networking website, or new medium? Today, Facebooking.