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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1960: Inventing Speed

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 11, 2020 · Episode: 1960 Speed: the grand nineteenth-century invention. Today, we invent speed.

Tags airplanes Aldous Huxley automobiles Bayard Taylor inventive motivation James Watt locomotives Philip Hone power-to-weight ratio railroad train Richard Trevithick speed Stanley Steamer steam cars steamboats William Turner

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