American Technology History

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    • Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
    • By: Jon Gertner
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,009 ratings
    • In The Idea Factory, New York Times Magazine writer Jon Gertner reveals how Bell Labs served as an incubator for scientific innovation from the 1920s through the 1980s....

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    • The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
    • By: Earl Swift
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • From author Earl Swift comes the surprising history of the U.S. interstate system, a fascinating route through the dreams, discoveries, and protests that shaped these mighty roads....

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    • How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best
    • By: Neal Bascomb
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph over Hitler’s fearsome Silver Arrows during the golden age of auto racing....

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    • The Bridge to the Moon
    • By: TD Barnes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 17 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-24
    • Language: English
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    • Embark on a thrilling journey through one of NASA's most pivotal space programs in "Project Gemini: The Bridge to the Moon." Spanning twelve ...

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    • How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
    • By: T.R. Reid
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce hit upon the stunning discovery that would make possible the silicon microchip, a work that would ultimately earn Kilby the Nobel Prize for physics in 2000....

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    • David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
    • By: Victoria Johnson
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • When Dr. David Hosack tilled the country's first botanical garden in the Manhattan soil more than 200 years ago, he didn't just dramatically alter the New York landscape; he left a monumental legacy of advocacy for public health and wide-ranging support for the sciences....

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    • Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
    • By: Kim TallBear
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful - and problematic - scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives....

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    • Yellowstone National Park and the Evolution of an American Cultural Icon
    • By: John Clayton
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 138 ratings
    • As the National Park system enters its second century, Wonderlandscape allows us to reflect on the values and heritage that Yellowstone alone has come to represent - how it will shape the America's relationship with her land for generations to come....

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    • The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
    • By: Gretchen Bakke
    • Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,324 ratings
    • The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....

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    • The Life and Times of John A. Roebling
    • By: Richard Haw
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 28 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • John Roebling was one of the 19th century's most brilliant engineers, ingenious inventors, successful manufacturers, and fascinating personalities. Raised in a German backwater amid the war-torn chaos of the Napoleonic Wars, he immigrated to the US in 1831....

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    • The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    • By: Margot Lee Shetterly
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,595 ratings
    • The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....

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    • The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles
    • By: Jon Wilkman
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 07-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, a 20-story-high concrete structure just fifty miles north of Los Angeles, suddenly collapsed, releasing a devastating flood that roared 54 miles to the Pacific Ocean, destroying everything in its path....

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    • How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War
    • By: Tom Wheeler
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The Civil War was the first "modern war." Because of the rapid changes in American society, Abraham Lincoln became president of a divided United States during a period of technological and social revolution....

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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,682 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
    • By: Douglas Brinkley
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 470 ratings
    • As the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award-winning historian and perennial New York Times best-selling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge, and America’s race to the moon....

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    • Inside the Mind of an American Family
    • By: Robert Kolker
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,089 ratings
    • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with 12 children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease....

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    • The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
    • By: William D. Cohan
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 28 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 246 ratings
    • The dramatic rise—and unimaginable fall—of America's most iconic corporation by New York Times bestselling author and pre-eminent financial journalist William D. Cohan....

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    • A Journey Through the Deep State
    • By: Kerry Howley
    • Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • Who are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections—a culmination of everything you have ever posted, searched, emailed, liked, and followed....

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    • A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare
    • By: David Stumpf
    • Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
    • Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • David K. Stumpf demystifies the intercontinental ballistic missile program that was conceived at the end of the Eisenhower administration as a key component of the US nuclear strategy of massive retaliation....

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