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The early history of flight is strewn with the wreckage of many strange devices… and the people who invented them. From foolish feathered folk flinging themselves from a far, to the powered and controlled flight pioneered by the Wright brothers, we take a look and how we learned to make the sky our playground.
Continue reading Ep290: From feathers to flying machines
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We take a look at the very beginning of rockets, including the somewhat obscure origins of gunpowder. The cherry on the top of our explosive cake is a story about how one man tried to build a huge gun that could launch things into space.
Continue reading Ep 289: Blast me to the moon
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This week we begin a look at air and space travel. We start our look with the stone age, when we began to learn what we’d need to know in order to fly.
Continue reading Ep 288: From stones to strings to space