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    • By: Ken Albala, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Ken Albala
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,658 ratings
    • This course traces bourbon's entire history, from the 1700s, with Irish, Scottish, and French settlers setting up stills and making distilled spirits in the New World, through today's booming resurgence....

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    • The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
    • By: Angus Fletcher
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere - from Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, and others - each made a unique technical breakthrough that can be viewed as both a narrative and neuroscientific advancement....

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    • Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era Collection
    • By: Daniel Engber
    • Narrated by: Amy McFadden
    • Series: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era
    • Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 177 ratings
    • In the first few years of the 20th century, inventors discovered how to soar into the sky. This breathtaking true story is about two men who, on one fateful weekend, tried to show the world a way back down.

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    • The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age
    • By: Scott Woolley
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • The astonishing story of America's airwaves and the two friends - one a media mogul, the other a famous inventor - who made them available to us....

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    • Guided Problem-Solving in Inventions, Nature, Uncommon Trivia, and Business Innovation: Invent and Discover, Book 1
    • By: Invent and Discover
    • Narrated by: Helpful Matthew
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Enjoy figuring out creative solutions to real-world problems that have led to important inventions, discoveries, and innovations throughout history....

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    • By: Margaret Cheney
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 363 ratings
    • From Tesla's childhood in Yugoslavia to his death in New York in the 1940s, Cheney paints a compelling human portrait and chronicles a lifetime of discoveries....

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    • Famous People
    • By: iMinds
    • Narrated by: Leah Vandenburg
    • Length: 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Learn about the life and inventions of Thomas Edison with the iMindsJNR audio-learning series for younger minds....

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    • Inspiring Tales of Entrepreneurs and Inventors
    • By: Jeffrey Young
    • Narrated by: Michael McConnohie
    • Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Here is the fascinating story of the making of the high-tech business revolution and the birth of the Digital Age....

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    • The Natural History of Innovation
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Eric Singer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,350 ratings
    • What sparks the flash of brilliance? One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on - in exhilarating style - one of our key questions....

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    • By: Margaret Frith
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edison’s inventions, which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope....

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    • By: Trina Robbins, Cynthia Martin
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Discover the brilliant life of Hedy Lamarr. This talented film actress became an influential scientist with her invention of a secret radio system in the early 1940s, a building block of today’s wireless communications....

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    • Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era Collection
    • By: Alina Simone
    • Narrated by: Amy McFadden
    • Series: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era
    • Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • A possible genius, a smidgen of madness, a twist of science, and an invention that very nearly changed the world - all collide in a giddy, unbelievably true mystery set in turn-of-the-century Paris....

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    • A Watchmaker’s History
    • By: Rebecca Struthers
    • Narrated by: Anna Ploszajski
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Timepieces have long accompanied us on our travels, from the depths of the oceans to the summit of Everest, the ice of the arctic to the sands of the deserts, outer space to the surface of the moon....

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    • How I Invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Along the Way
    • By: Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,662 ratings
    • The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time....

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    • The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Paul E. Ceruzzi
    • Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software or the story of the Internet or the story of "smart" handheld devices....

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    • The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients
    • By: David Hatcher Childress
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 419 ratings
    • Popular Lost Cities author David Hatcher Childress takes us into the amazing world of ancient technology, from computers in antiquity to the flying machines of the gods....

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    • By: Edmund Morris
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 25 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 354 ratings
    • Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered only for the gift of universal electric light....

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    • Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,865 ratings
    • How We Got to Now investigates the secret history behind the everyday objects of contemporary life....

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