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Tag: WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1533: The Triple

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on February 19, 2021 · Episode: 1533 The Triple Nickel: the first Black paratroopers become smoke jumpers. Today, a secret WW-II battle.

Tags african-americans Black paratroopers forest firefighting integration Japanese balloon bombs military oregon parachutes race prejudice WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1871: PBY Catalina

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 3, 2020 · Episode: 1871 The PBY Catalina, a very special old airplane. Today, the last great seaplane.

Tags amphibian airplanes Consolidated Aircraft Corporation design fire fighting Lone star Flight Museum seaplanes u.s. navy WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1863: Alexis Carrel

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 19, 2020 · Episode: 1863 Alexis Carrel, the murky pioneer of organ transplants. Today, a president killed, and a Nobel Prize given.

Tags Alexis Carrel Charles Lindbergh eugenics france kidneys liver Lyon medicine Nicholas Tilney organ transplants Sadi Carnot silk sutures thermodynamics Time Magazine transplantation WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1852: Doolittle’s First Airplane

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 10, 2020 · Episode: 1852 Popular Mechanics and Jimmy Doolittle’s first airplane. Today, Jimmy Doolittle’s first airplane.

Tags aircraft airplanes B-25 raid on Tokyo flight flying gliders Inventing Modern James H. Doolittle jimmy Popular Mechanics savage boy inventor Shangri La WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3217: Model Airplanes in 1937

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 20, 2019 · Episode: 3217 Two 1937 booklets reveal a shift in the art of model airplane building. Today, I look through a window into another time.

Tags balsa wood bamboo Casco Comet models gas-engines Great Depression Guillow lindbergh Model Aeronautics Handbook model airplanes model kits Ohlsson 23 rubber U-Control ultralight microfilm models WW-II youth creativity

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1758: Sinking the Bismarck

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 7, 2019 · Episode: 1758 Sinking the Bismarck: What is important in history? Today, we wonder how the Bismarck was sunk.

Tags battleships Bismarck diving into shipwrecks hood naval warfare submersibles Titanic WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1731: To Kill a City

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 16, 2019 · Episode: 1731 Why bombs can’t kill a city. Today, we try to kill a city.

Tags 9 11 airplanes bombing production sociology Viet Nam war WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1729: Looking Down From the Sky

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 9, 2019 · Episode: 1729 The wide angle lens: looking at earth from on high. Today, we look upon Earth from above.  

Tags aerial photography airplanes balloons ecology fascism Le Corbusier lindbergh Nazis urban design WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1722: Evergreen Flight Museum

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 24, 2019 · Episode: 1722 The Evergreen Flight Museum: Reclaiming an earlier mood of flight. Today, the Spruce Goose and river blindness.

Tags B-17 Evergreen Flight Museum flak Hughes Hercules river blindness Spruce Goose WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1621: Motherland

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 9, 2019 · Episode: 1621 Motherland: The Stalingrad Memorial. Today, we visit a really big statue.

Tags Communist concrete memorials monuments russia sculpture Soviet Union Steppe Volgograd Volvograd Vuchetich war WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1612: Enemy at the Gates

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 12, 2018 · Episode: 1612 Trying to tell the story of the worst battle. Today, we wonder how to tell of history.

Tags Battle of Stalingrad death killing Matthew Arnold Nazi Germany russia Soviet Union tank battles warfare WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1593: LST-325

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 2, 2018 · Episode: 1593 The LST-325: Thirty old men and an old ship become young again. Today, the LST-325.

Tags bp greece military naval Navy Normandy beachhead war WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1583: Glide Bombs

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 12, 2018 · Episode: 1583 Glide Bombs and the unrevealed Rohna disaster. Today, the weapon we didn’t know about.

Tags Dochterman flight germany Kamikaze merchant marine military rocket weaponry secrecy war WW-II Zuther

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1533: The Triple

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 2, 2018 · Episode: 1533 The Triple Nickel: the first Black paratroopers become smoke jumpers. Today, a secret WW-II battle.

Tags african-americans Black paratroopers forest firefighting integration Japanese balloon bombs military oregon parachutes race prejudice WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1525: Liberty Ships

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 15, 2018 · Episode: 1525 Liberty ships: an amateur takes over the trade. Today, an amateur builds ships.

Tags cargo vessels construction design Kaiser merchant marine shipbuilding transportation war WW-II

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