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Tag: railroads

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1886: Key West Railway

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 5, 2020 · Episode: 1886 Building the Key West Railway: Building Florida. Today, we ride the Keys.

Tags concrete construction depression Florida Keys Henry Flagler highways Hurricanes luxury hotels railroads railways tourism transportation

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1777: An Un-Panama Canal

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 10, 2019 · Episode: 1777 Instead of the Panama Canal, ships on trains over the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Today, an Un-Panama Canal.

Tags cholera construction de Lesseps Eads Isthmus of Tehuantepec panama canal railroads shipping St. Louis Bridge Vollmar yellow fever

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1718: Lardner’s Steam Engines

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 15, 2019 · Episode: 1718 The Rev. Dionysius Lardner: keeping up with a world in flux. Today, old books with a message for the present.

Tags coal Conservation handbooks hydrostatics locomotives Mary Shelley pneumatics railroads steam power technological change Trevithick water power

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1572: High-Pressure Steam Engines

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 19, 2018 · Episode: 1572 High-pressure steam engines and transportation. Today, the first locomotive.  

Tags condensation Cugnot external condenser power railroads steam engines Trevithick vacuum watt

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1547: Ripe For Revolution

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 1, 2018 · Episode: 1547 Mystery at the threshhold of the Twentieth Century. Today, let’s reclaim mystery.  

Tags atonal music clipper ships einstein Henry Adams James Joyce Max Jakob modern physics mystery Niels Bohr picasso quantum mechanics railroads Romantic salon art Schönberg Schrodinger scientific revolution speed transportation Wright Brothers

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UPDATE: Trump Offers Spending Blueprint, But Congress Already Wrote The Check

David Schaper, NPR / Scott Horsley, NPR / Associated Press

Posted on February 12, 2018 · President Donald Trump unveiled a long-awaited infrastructure plan on Monday, February 12, that asks the U.S. Congress to authorize $200 billion over 10 years

Tags airports bridges congress budget federal budget highways infrastructure Infrastructure Plan President Trump railroads seaports taxes Trump water systems

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1440: Steam Engines in England

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 15, 2017 · Episode: 1440 Steam engines in England during the 18th century. Today, a look at steam engines in 18th-century England.  

Tags canals england industrial revolution newcomen power railroads railways Savery transportation Trevithick watt

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1414: Advertisments in 1869

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 20, 2017 · Episode: 1414 Viewing America through advertisements in Appleton’s magazine, 1869. Today, advertisements just after the Civil War.

Tags bonds books education Golden Spike John Stuart Mills lowell Massachusetts merchandising music making organs household goods pianos railroads union pacific Waltham watches

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1388: A Short Discourse On Tunneling

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 23, 2017 · Episode: 1388 A short history of tunneling. Today, let’s tunnel our way through history.

Tags canals Delaware aqueduct Hoosac tunnel Isambard Kingdom Brunel Marc Brunel Posilipo railroads Thames Tunnel transportation Whittier

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1211: Medora

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on August 22, 2016 · Episode: 1211 Theodore Roosevelt and the mad Marquis create Medora ND Today, we visit Medora, North Dakota.

Tags agriculture american cattle forests meat national nobel packing peace prize railroads west

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