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No. 19 Bravo, Stanley!
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: The Stanley Museum (2006)
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
No. 18 Rolls-Royce Catalogue 1910/11
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: Bonanza Books/Crown Publishers, Inc.
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
No. 17 Race Car Vehicle Dynamics
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: SAE International
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
No. 16 Advanced Engine Development at Pratt & Whitney
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: SAE International, 2001
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
No. 15 Flying Wings of Jack Northrop
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. (1994)
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
No. 14 Haynes-Apperson and America's First Practical Automobile, A History
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2003
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
No. 13 Vikings At Waterloo
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
No. 12 The Marmon Heritage
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: Doyle Hyk Publishing Company, 1985
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
No. 11 Some Unusual Engines
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: Mechanical Engineering Publications Limited (1975)
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
No. 10 Flying Fox
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. (2012)
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
No. 9 The Jordan Automobile
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2005
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
No. 8 Wilmington & Raleigh Railroad
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2011
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
No. 7 Eagle. Henry Royce's First Aero Engine
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: The Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
No. 6 The Stanley Steamer
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: The Stanley Museum (2004)
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
No. 5 Rocket Development With Liquid Propellants
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust, 2005
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
No. 4 The Steamboat Era
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: McFarland & Company, Inc.
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
No. 3 Tatra: The Legacy of Hans Ledwinka
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: McFarland & Company, Inc.
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
No. 2 The Horten Brothers
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1998
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
No. 1 Carriages Without Horses
From: William Ingalls
Series: Wild Willy's Five-Minute Book Review
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: Society of Automotive Engineers
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
His Boy Elroy
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library
Matt Novak of the blog "Paleofuture" talks about "The Jetsons," the show that helped define American ideas of future technology without thinking mu...

Bought by WOUB, New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 4
Life on Mars?
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library
Maria Lane, author of Geographies of Mars, relates what Percival Lowell observed on the red planet. This segment comes from BackStory's episode "Th...

Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 09:02
  • Purchases: 2
On Top of the World
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library
Bradley Boyd and reporter Ashley Creek head to the top of an old hotel in Birmingham, Alabama, which made provisions for a future that never came. ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 3
The New End of Old New York
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library
Historian Max Page talks about why New York City is so often the target of destruction on the page and the silver screen. This segment comes from t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 09:10
  • Purchases: 1
Anarchism and Dissent in Medieval Islam
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Religion & Politics
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Professor Hayrettin Yucesoy explores the turbulent political and religious climate of the medieval Islamic world.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Ruth Coker Burks and Paul Wineland
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Ruth Coker Burks and Paul Wineland.
Ruth Coker Burks tells her friend Paul Wineland about caring for AIDS patients during the...

Bought by WUTC, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU


  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 3

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