120. How Four Connecticut Inventors Helped Change The Way We Live, Think, & Act
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Show Notes
State Historian Walt Woodward talks with award-winning author and materials scientists Ainissa Ramirez about her award-winning and highly acclaimed book The Alcehmy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another. On virtually every national Top Science Book of the Year List for 2020, The Alchemy of Us is a wonderfully readable, lively, smart and witty account of the development of eight inventions that have not only transformed the way we live, but have transformed us, too. Not surprisingly, half of those inventions have important Connecticut connections.
Ramirez and Woodward discuss the roles Samuel F Morse, Edwin Land, Ansonia's William Wallace and New Haven's George Coy played in creating inventions that have helped the world Convey, See, Capture and Think in new and different ways. It's a fascinating and surprising story fest with one of the science world's best story tellers.