Hi everybody and welcome to my Technology History Podcast. I am a German teacher and I am interested very much in history and in technology. So I started this podcast in German language in 2024. After 18 published episodes my wife had the idea of translating some of them which are interesting for people in other countries into English. You can find them on Spotify or on Youtube. Or you can use the following buttons.

Episode 7 (Engl.): Records, Records, Records - Part 2

In this episode, I'll talk about various records again. While last time we focused on speed, this time we'll be focusing on high altitudes.

Episode 6 (Engl.): Records, Records, Records - Part 1

The pursuit of records has always fueled the development of technology. In this and the next episode, I will report on some interesting and spectacular examples. The first part focuses on speed records on land, in the air and in space.

Episode 5 (Engl.): The space shuttle: Historic successes, another tragedy and the end

In the final episode of the three-part series on the American space shuttle program, I talk about the disasters of the space shuttles “Challenger” and “Columbia” and about the great successes that were achieved into the new millennium.

Episode 4 (Engl.): The space shuttle: The first successes and the first tragedy

The space shuttle: The first successes and the first tragedy: In the last episode I talked about the concept and development of the American space shuttle in the 1970s. Today I report on the first space flights of this then-revolutionary space transport system and the first major tragedy to strike the program.

Episode 3 (Engl.): The concept and development of the space shuttle

The concept and development of the space shuttle: What happened to American manned spaceflight after the Apollo missions, six of which even landed on the moon? What new challenges did the space agency NASA have to overcome? And what was the concept that took the Americans into space for thirty years? That's what the third episode in English of the technology history podcast is about.

Episode 2 (Engl.): Who was actually the first?

Every child knows that Lilienthal was the first aviator. Or maybe it wasn't like that at all? I explore this and similar questions in the second episode in English of the Technology History Podcast.

Episode 1 (Engl.): The "Titanic" Phenomenon

Virtually everyone knows the fate of what was once the world's largest passenger ship, the Titanic. But how can it be that two world wars and countless catastrophes later, the Titanic and her fate are still so present? How and why did it become such a myth?