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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2287: Fritz Haber

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 13, 2022 · Episode: 2287 The ceremony of innocence is drowned: Fritz Haber swallowed by wars. Today, innocence is drowned.

Tags ammonia fertilizer chemistry chlorine Clara Immerwahr Franco-Prussian War Fritz Haber gas chambers Holocaust innocence is drowned Jewish Judaism poison gas Second Reich W. B. Yeats WW-I WW-II Zyklon-B

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2896: Nadezhda Popova

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 23, 2023 · Episode: 2896 In which Nadezhda Popova beats off the Wehrmacht in a crop-duster. Today, Nadia Popova.

Tags 588th Night Bomber Regiment aerial tactics airplanes biplanes bombers bombing crop-duster Kukuruznik Marina Raskova Nachthexen Nadia Nadezhda Popova Night Witches Polikarpov Po-2 Russian Air Force women WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2876: The Scientists Speak

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 16, 2023 · Episode: 2876 In which engineers and scientists assess their work in 1945. Today, scientists speak as WW-II ends.

Tags atom bomb biology Edwin Hubble Edwin Land future prediction gas-filled light bulb helicopter Igor Sikorsky Irving Langmuir J. Robert Oppenheimer Polaroid T. S. Painter technology assessment Telescope The Scientists Speak Warren Weaver WW-II

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2812: Flying the Atlantic

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 2, 2023 · Episode: 2812 poised to begin transatlantic flight in 1938. How it came out in 1945. Today, we fly the Atlantic.

Tags Air Transport Command B-29 Boeing B-314 C-54 Douglas DC-4 Ferrying bombers flying boats lindbergh Popular Aviation technology prediction transatlantic flight Wrong Way Douglas Corrigan WW-II

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2792: Silent Revolutions

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 27, 2023 · Episode: 2792 Glorious revolutions – which we see only after they’ve passed. Today, silent revolutions.

Tags Allen Ginsberg American Civil War antibiotics artists Beat Generation Beatniks Belle Epoque Degas electronics Ernest Hemingway Franco-Prussian War Gertrude Stein heart pump Jack Lerouac Jackson Pollock John Cage literature lost generation Luis Bunuel Midnight in Paris Milton Babbitt Neo-orthodoxy Pablo Picasso quantum mechanics Renoir Roaring Twenties Salvador Dali Social revolutions T. S. Eliot Toulouse-Latrec Woody Allen writers WW-I

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