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Engines Podcast

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1494: X-Ray Hair Removal

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 21, 2025 · Episode: 1494 The strange persistence of X-ray hair removal. Today, we kill ourselves to remove hair.

Tags atom bomb dermatology health medicine Roentgen sociology Tricho WW-II

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From Oak Ridge to Hiroshima: One family’s memories of the Atomic Age

Brenda Valdivia

Posted on August 6, 2025 · It started in secrecy and ended with a mushroom cloud. The daughter of Manhattan Project technician shares what it meant to be raised in the long shadow of the Manhattan Project.

Tags atom bomb atomic bomb books cold war Donald Schover Hiroshima historical fiction Leslie Schover Manhattan Project Oak Ridge Tennessee

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2876: The Scientists Speak

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 16, 2023 · Episode: 2876 In which engineers and scientists assess their work in 1945. Today, scientists speak as WW-II ends.

Tags atom bomb biology Edwin Hubble Edwin Land future prediction gas-filled light bulb helicopter Igor Sikorsky Irving Langmuir J. Robert Oppenheimer Polaroid T. S. Painter technology assessment Telescope The Scientists Speak Warren Weaver WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2699: Heligoland

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 14, 2023 · Episode: 2699 Heligoland, a bucolic magnet for the machines of war. Today, we visit Heligoland.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2278: Meitner and Hahn

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 1, 2022 · Episode: 2278 Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn: friendship in the face of terrible odds. Today, Meitner and Hahn, an odd couple.

Tags atom bomb atomic phyics concentration camps friendship Holocaust Lise Meitner Nazi Germany nuclear fission Otto Hahn Otto Robert Frisch women WW-II

 

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