The Engineering History Podcast | Inventions, Builders, Hackers, Projects, and Stories from Our Past

Anna and Paul discuss the complex, triumphant, and tragic life of the genius atomic physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Grab your plutonium and let's saddle up a horse to New Mexico! Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)

Anna and Paul discuss petty revenge, cat AIDS, the ASPCA, engineering ethics, living foot warmers, badly done taxidermy, and annoying Roman children in this collection of 3 zany stories from engineering history. Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)

Anna and Paul discuss probability theory, secret Nazi codes, Jurassic Park, tuberculosis, the first vegan, and sacrificing everything for your country in a deep podcast. Grab your code-breaking manual and let's head into the trenches of World War II! Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)

Anna and Paul discuss the world's greatest rocket, the Saturn V. Grab your fins, cryogenic stage, and command module and let's beat the commies to the moon!

Anna and Paul discuss the tangled web surrounding the discovery of the helical structure of DNA. Grab your x-ray crystallography lab equipment and get ready to publish someone else's research cause we're going on a crazy ride from the UK to Paris! Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)

Anna, Paul, and special guest Kelli discuss the climactic military engagement of the Gallic Wars, which involved military engineering, battle tactics, death and destruction. Grab your legionary armor and let's ride into battle! Kelli's podcast, A Popular History of Unpopular Things (APHOUT), is one of our favorites! It's a podcast that makes history more fun and accessible- featuring a...

Anna and Paul discuss the crack coven of pilots that comprised the Soviet Union’s 588th Night Bomber Regiment. Grab your witch hat and cauldron because we’re bubblin’, toilin’, and troublin’ our way to the Eastern Front! Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)

Anna and Paul discuss NASA, NACA, Hidden Figures, overcoming adversity, and earning respect in a system stacked against you. Grab a notepad and check our math as we explore the insane career of NASA’s most accomplished Computer! Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)

Anna and Paul discuss the misunderstood agricultural genius who, despite being born into slavery, brought the American South back from the edge of ecological ruin. Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)

Anna and Paul discuss the early days of trains, transportation innovations, struggling against an oppressive system, exploitation, and the future of motion. Grab your conductor hat and hop on this loco-motive! Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)

Anna and Paul discuss home security, amateur engineering turned into innovation, patents, Jamaica, Black History Month, and immigrant kids from Little Italy.  Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)

Anna and Paul discuss levees, dams, the private ownership of water infrastructure, funny names, the gold rush, and the truly massive amount of destruction that water can unleash. Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)

Anna and Paul discuss the legendary SR-71 Blackbird, a stealth plane with a truly mind-boggling amount of brilliant engineering behind it. Listen in as they discuss spying on the Soviet Union, radar cross-sections, the band U-2, the plane U-2, and the hazards of welding titanium! Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)

Anna and Paul discuss communicating with extraterrestrials, dolphin intelligence, LSD, Carl Sagan, the difference between UPenn and Penn State, and the odds of intelligent life existing in our universe. Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)

Anna and Paul discuss and rank the engineers, builders, inventors, artists, poets, heroes, and villains who appeared on the Engineering History Podcast in 2022. Favorites like Marie Curie, Jack Parsons, and Queen Hat all make appearances. Come with us to see which of our colorful cast of characters can claim the coveted S Tier ranking! (Note- due to technical issues we were unable to post the vide...

Anna and Paul discuss Christmas, the joys of the holiday season🎅, toy manufacturing, world records, magic, the wartime economy and supply chain, fun, wonderment, the Great War, Christmas cookies, and much more in a little-known Christmas story that will leave your heart warmed and your fancy tickled this holiday season! Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest u...

Anna and Paul discuss London’s sewer system, beautiful pump stations, the beauty of egg-shaped pipes, Michael Faraday, A Tale of Two Cities, sanitation, and Charles Dickens in an action-packed episode! Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)

Anna and Paul discuss epidemiology, stubborn but incorrect scientific theories, Keanu Reeves in the movie Point Break, the song Something in the Way by Nirvana, and the man who single-handedly figured out London's 19th-century cholera outbreak.

Anna, Paul, and returning guest Joe discuss ancient shipbuilding, American timber framing, Gobekli Tepe, everybody’s favorite composite, and the future of sustainable wood construction!

Anna and Paul travel to Palo Alto to speak with Dag Spicer, senior curator of the Computer History Museum, the world's leading museum of computing. They discuss the early days of Silicon Valley, Alan Turing, the first commercial PC, using AI to unroll fragile scrolls, the digital dark age, the movie Airplane, Better Call Saul, and much more! Follow @computerhistory on Instagram to keep up with the...

Anna and Paul discuss a caper that’s gripped online sleuths for over a decade, involving networking, anarchism, cryptography, reclusive engineers, scam artists, paranoia, and monetary policy! Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)

Anna, Paul, and returning guest Joe discuss Alaskan prepper cabins, augurs, Roman furniture, where to go on first dates in Oakland, Egyptian pyramids, trusses, cave paintings, and much more in a comprehensive look at wood's central role in engineering! Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)

Anna and Paul discuss ruthless businessmen, firearms, ghosts, a trick house, the Irish Republican Army, synchronized firing, the witching hour, and much more in this action-packed episode! Come listen to us celebrate spooky szn 🎃 as we discuss engineering's most haunted family! Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)

Anna and Paul discuss the man who was using electrical engineering to control the brains of cats, dogs, and even humans in the 1950s! Too wild to be true? Listen in to find out! Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)

Anna and Paul discuss the life and mysterious disappearance of the inventor of the motion picture camera. Grab your 16-lens camera, abandon your family in NYC, and come with us as we unravel this grim caper! Follow @engineering_history_podcast on Instagram to keep up with our latest updates :)