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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
The Innovators: Walter Isaacson In Conversation
From: Mateo Schimpf
Caption: Walter Isaacson, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, Credit: Patrice Gilbert
Walter Isaacson, author of "The Innovators", is in conversation with Janes Wales, President and CEO of the World Affairs Council.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 58:08
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
Technology Brings Long-Silent Voices Of 20th Century Poets Back To Life
From: Curt Nickisch
Caption: A rendered image of the etched grooves of a record. IRENE software converts these squiggles to sound., Credit: Julie Martin/NEDCC Courtesy
A innovative technology to preserve endangered sound recordings without playing them (which would further damage them) is bringing the voices of po...

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


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 4
Letters Online
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
Piece image
A team of proofreaders in Virginia has just wrapped up the three-year job of digitizing the papers of the Founding Fathers. They say ending the pro...

Bought by KENW, WABE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 4
Reading the Founding Fathers' Mail (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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More than 30 people who spent the last three years immersed in thousands of letters written by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigai...

Bought by WJCT, WABE, and WLIW


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Reading the Founding Fathers' Mail
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Piece image
More than 30 people who spent the last three years immersed in thousands of letters written by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigai...

Bought by WCNY, KUNV, KKRN, WTJU, and Accessible Media Inc.


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 5
Babies on Demand: Reproduction in a Technological Age
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: In vitro fertilization (IVF) in progress. , Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
At the beginning of the 19th century women in the United States had an average of seven or eight children. By 1900 they had only three or four, and...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 40:27
Blue screen of death
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 1
MN90: Center for Victims of Torture
From: Ampers
Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Many people who live through the tragedy of war are victims of torture...seeking asylum from volatile conditions in their home country. They immigr...

Bought by KSRQ, KVSC, WDSE, KRPR, KKWE Niijii Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 26
NanoArchaeology
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: A 17 cm carved stone figurine shown inside the SEM chamber ready for non-destructive imaging and analysis, Credit: (Timothy Rose/Smithsonian)
Modern technology reveals ancient techniques used in the production of purloined antiquities.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Imitation Game -- Groks Science Show 2014-11-19
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Barry Cooper discusses the life and work of Alan Turing.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, and KPVL


  • Added: Nov 20, 2014
  • Length: 32:48
  • Purchases: 3
When Ground Zero was known as Radio Row
From: Radio Diaries
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For more than four decades, Radio Row it was the largest collection of radio and electronics stores in the world. Then in 1966 the stores were cond...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 13:55
  • Purchases: 4

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