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It's known for tires and blimps, but there's an alternate timeline where Goodyear is the go-to company if you want to buy a space station or a rocket plane. Let us take you through that alternate timeline.
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Sources:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Inflatable_Structures_in_Space/zqQqAAAAMAAJ
https://books.google.com/books?id=PS0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA124
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/science/space/08space.html
What did the 1950's think the future would be like? According to illustrator Frank Tinsley, it would be filled with water cannons, space rockets, and giant vegetables.
A companion to Episode 14, a full reading of Robert Goddard's short story "The High Speed Bet".
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Ep. 14 - Vacuum Trains: The Hyperloop from 1904
Airless tunnels? Check. Magnetically-levitated trains? Check. Promises of insanely-fast travel? Also check. But this isn't Elon Musk's Hyperloop, Alfred Beach and Robert Goddard had him beat by over a hundred years.
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit
https://untappedcities.com/2020/04/20/nycs-first-subway-a-one-block-pneumatic-tunnel-below-broadway/
https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/beach-pneumatic-transit-the-1870-subway-that-could-have-been
https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit
https://gizmodo.com/the-scifi-story-robert-h-goddard-published-100-years-a-1494959842
https://web.wpi.edu/Images/CMS/Goddard/goddard-high-speed-train.pdf
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2511979A/en
What if you could get to space, WIHOUT using any rockets? (Or in the case of SpinLaunch, a much smaller rocket than usual? That's what we're looking at today.
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaellaine/space-elevator-science-climb-to-the-sky-a-tethered
https://www.liftport.com/
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2000/ast07sep_1/
https://space.nss.org/wp-content/uploads/2000-Space-Elevator-NASA-CP210429.pdf
https://www.spinlaunch.com/
https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2019164472A1/en
https://spacenews.com/spinlaunch-conducts-first-test-of-suborbital-accelerator-at-spaceport-america/
Happy April Everyone!
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This episode is all about the internet's favorite food: BACON! Lean more about the first attempt at instant-bacon, and turkey bacon's older brother.
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This episode looks at some UFO-centric ideas. Like the time a Canadian company designed a flying saucer for the Air Force, and the REAL project behind the Roswell alien story.
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This episode we look at your comments and ideas! Keep them coming at pointsfortryinchannel@gmail.com
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This episode looks at some innovative uses for hydro-power: hooking up household gadgets to the sink to power them, and even using water in a computer.
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This episode looks back at the some famous (failed) inventors. Abraham Lincoln holds a patent for a device to stop boats from running aground, and Albert Einstein once designed his own airplane wing.
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This episode looks back at some attempts to ACTUALLY re-invent the wheel, from alternate ways of steering to parking-assist features.
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This episode asks the question: "will it fly"? For tanks and submarines, the answer was "sort of".
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This episode features two human-launching patents. One tried to make childbirth easier using centrifugal force, and the other tried to launch people onto the roof of a building.
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This episode features some of the many ways that animals have been used as spies and weapons: pigeon cameras, bat bombs, cat microphones, and pigeon-guided bombs.
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This episode features some unconventional ways the post office used to deliver mail: cruise missiles and underground tubes.
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This episode features two propeller-powered vehicles, Marcel Leyat's Helica car and the German Shienenzeppelin ("rail zeppelin").
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This episode features the GE Pedipulator (aka the Walking Truck) and the John Deere Timberjack.
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