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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1960: Inventing Speed

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

Posted on November 22, 2020 · Episode: 1962 Rockets, jets, and other (inherently fast) recoil propulsion systems. Today, jets and rockets.

Posted on September 13, 2020 · Episode: 1932 1790 to 1836: Ten thousand lost patents. Today, we lose ten thousand patents.

Posted on May 1, 2020 · Episode: 1866 Another first steamboat, the Charlote Dundas. Today, another first steamboat.

Posted on January 5, 2020 · Episode: 1804 Timewarp in an 1852 painting of New York Harbor. Today, an artist catches history in flight.

Posted on July 17, 2017 · Episode: 1373 Pittsburgh in 1816. Today, let’s visit embryonic Pittsburgh.

Posted on April 10, 2017 · Episode:1331 The Mississipi and Mark Twain’s time warp. Today, a River in 1883.