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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 8,661 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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    • By: Vannevar Bush
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Over a 60-year career in public affairs, Vannevar Bush—engineer, inventor, educator, and public face of government-funded science—sought to eliminate roadblocks to innovation in science and technology....

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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 1,351 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: James May, Phil Dolling
    • Narrated by: James May
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 247 ratings
    • How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related....

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    • By: Tony Reinke
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • New technologies can inspire us, but the breakneck pace of change can also frighten us. To build a biblical theology of technology, journalist and tech optimist Tony Reinke examines nine key texts from Scripture to show how the world’s discoveries are divinely orchestrated....

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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 355 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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    • What It Is and How It Evolves
    • By: W. Brian Arthur
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking work, pioneering technology thinker and economist W. Brian Arthur sets forth a boldly original way of thinking about technology....

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    • Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Steven Johnson
    • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • This adaptation of New York Times best-selling author Steven Johnson's adult book and popular PBS series explores the fascinating and interconnected stories of innovations - like clean drinking water and electricity - that changed the way people live....

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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 60 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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    • Journey into the Ingenious Mind of a Scientific Maverick
    • By: Nikola Tesla
    • Narrated by: John H. Fehskens
    • Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-23
    • Language: English
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    • Embark on an enlightening journey with "My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla". In this intimate memoir, the famed inventor and visionary pulls back the curtain on his remarkable life, offering an unprecedented look at his prolific mind and innumerable accomplishments....

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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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    • Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women
    • By: Catherine Thimmesh
    • Narrated by: Karen Zippler
    • Length: 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The stories of women inventors and pioneers will make you believe that nothing is impossible....

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    • The Creative Power of Collaboration
    • By: Keith Sawyer
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • In this authoritative and fascinating new audiobook, Keith Sawyer tears down some of the most popular myths about creativity and erects new principles in their place....

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    • By: William Pene du Bois
    • Narrated by: Hal Hollings
    • Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 249 ratings
    • Professor Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But in a twist, he lands on Krakatoa, and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions....

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    • A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success
    • By: Tom Eisenmann
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 ratings
    • Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out....

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    • A Life from Beginning to End
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Jimmy Kieffer
    • Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Thomas Edison passed on many decades ago, but his inventions still echo loudly through time. If you watch TV, listen to your favorite songs, or simply click on the lamp next to your bed, it was Thomas Edison who brought all of these innovations into the world....

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    • By: James Buckley, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Series: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • As young boys, Orville and Wilbur Wright loved all things mechanical. As adults, the brothers worked together to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful airplane. This is the fascinating story of the two inventors and aviation pioneers....

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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 38 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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