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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2831: Reading Cosmo

Richard H. Armstrong

Posted on September 27, 2023 · Episode: 2831 Reading the Long History of Cosmopolitan Magazine. Today, a great American magazine.

Tags American magazines American Middle Class Cosmopolitan Magazine Edith Wharton George Bernard Shaw H.G. Wells Helen Gurley Brown publishing Rudyard Kipling Sinclair Lewis The Gilded Age The War of the Worlds William Randolph Hearst

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2648: Garden City Utopia

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 9, 2023 · Episode: 2648 Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City Utopia — another might’ve been. Today, a Garden City Utopia.

Tags Chicago Fire city planning Ebenezer Howard Edward Bellamy Garden City Utopia George Bernard Shaw Looking Backward stenography typewriters

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2910: Something Big

Posted on June 8, 2023 · Episode: 2910 Something big: The world’s largest manmade enclosure. Today, something really big.

Tags Chicago Fire city planning Ebenezer Howard Edward Bellamy Garden City Utopia George Bernard Shaw Looking Backward stenography typewriters

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2601: America in 1900

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 8, 2023 · Episode: 2601 What did we see when we looked at the new century in 1900? Not what you might expect. Today, America in 1900.

Tags black Booker T. Washington Century Magazine electricity in industry James Russell Lowell James Whitcomb Riley John Burroughs poetry Rudyard Kipling Spanish America War Theodore Roosevelt Wagnerian opera stagecraft Washington Zoo yellow-crowned sparrow

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2163: Missing Fliers

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 3, 2022 · Episode: 2163 Missing Fliers: In which no conspiracy means slow sales. Today, missing fliers.

Tags amelia earhart book selling D. B. Cooper Fred Noonan conspiracy theories Glenn Miller Herbert Hinkler Howland Island Lancaster bombers Lockheed Electra 10-E Norseman C-64 publishing Roy Conyers Nesbit sales

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