The Engineering History Podcast | Inventions, Builders, Hackers, Projects, and Stories from Our Past

Anna and Paul discuss skeletons, spooky season, lack of hygiene, the French, protesting, and cannibalism!

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Anna and Paul welcome Jack Brown to the show to discuss his new book, Spanning the Gilded Age: James Eads and the Great Steel Bridge. We discuss the very first steel structure in the world, the madcap guy who came up with it, and the unlikely story of its construction and continued use to this day!

For more info, and to see some great pictures, go to greatsteelbridge.com

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Anna and Paul discuss Howard Hughes, aviation, filmmaking, the Spruce Goose, pissing in jars, Kleenex, being a shut-in, mental illness, tragedy, Romaine Street, and the dark side of glamorous lives.

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Anna and Paul discuss math, finance, geometry, finance bros, Piza, pizza, New Yawk, the Yankees, and making things accessible to the common man.

Note: We refer to the author of "Finding Fibonacci" as “Kevin Devlin.” He is actually Keith Devlin.

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Further reading:

The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci’s Arithmetic Revolution By Keith Devlin

Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World By Keith Devlin

Fibonacci and the Financial Revolution By William Goetzmann 

The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets By William Goetzmann and K. Rouwenhurst  

The History of Algrebra in Italy in the 14th and 15th Centuries. Some Remarks on Recent Historiography By Rafaella Franci 

The Positional System and Base 10 | Mathematics for the Liberal Arts (lumenlearning.com)

Anna and Paul discuss the Hexagon and Gambit series of satellites, on-orbit reliability, the struggle of keeping work secrets from family, big gold orbs, classification, declassification, and the mystery of modern-day earth observation. Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)

Further reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORONA_(satellite)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_(rocket_family)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM-81_Agena

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor-Agena

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/1063/1

https://www.cia.gov/legacy/museum/exhibit/corona-americas-first-imaging-satellite-program/

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/kh-1.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belka_and_Strelka

https://www.space.com/12996-secret-spy-satellites-declassified-nro.html

https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticutmagazine/news-people/article/The-story-of-the-Hexagon-a-Danbury-built-spy-17046062.php