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The Man Behind the Projector

From: Out of the Blocks

It was a good living. If you can stay in business 53 years, that says a lot.

Innovation & Obsolescence: The Life, Death, and Occasional Rebirth of Technologies

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

Caption: Ben Gross' personal video discs and player. , Credit: Photograph by Mariel Carr.

Some technologies flash in the pan so quickly they hardly leave a trace (Google Glass anyone?); while others seem to stick around long past their u...

Bought by WTJU

The Teeth Beneath Your Feet: Oddities in Urban Archaeology

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

Caption: URS Corporation archaeologists excavate at a site beside I-95 in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia., Credit: Mariel Carr

Where can you find a teacup, the molar of a goat, and an arrowhead all in one place? At an urban archaeology site, that’s where.

Bought by WTJU

13: The Sounds of East London (Standard Length)

From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)

From bells to restaurants, and glasses to songwriting this episode explores the people and sounds of London's East end.

The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Thomas Alva Edison

From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves

Look around your daily life. There's a little piece of Thomas Edison almost everywhere.

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, XRAY.fm, KMUZ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more

34: Recalling 1993

From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds

Maybe pay phones really do encourage time travel.

Bought by XRAY.fm and WJCT

The Last of the Iron Lungs

From: Julia Scott

Caption: Martha Lillard, 65, uses her iron lung to breathe at night., Credit: Julia Scott

Sixty years after polio was eradicated in America, a dozen survivors still rely on their iron lungs to breathe. Come inside the machine Martha Lill...

Bought by KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, KOSU, Hark! and more

Library Of Congress Preserves A Treasure Trove... Underground (short version)

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: The Packard Campus is roughly 500,000 square feet, built into the side of a mountain in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains., Credit: Library of Congress/Matt Raymond

What do you get when you take a former Cold War bunker and fill it with the world’s largest collection of films, TV shows, radio broadcasts and sou...

Clever Apes: Apes in space

From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes

Caption: Ham, the first chimp in space, Credit: NASA

In this episode, host Gabriel Spitzer considers what science has to learn from flying saucers, what it might take for humans to colonize space in o...

Bought by WVTF, WTJU, KBGA 89.9 FM, WRST-FM Oshkosh, PRX Remix and more