Future Motoring
EMI (the ecological motoring initiative) creates and facilitates conversations towards a new notion of 'forever' motoring and urban movement, the kind that can be good for the planet but that still respects all the ways we have moved up till now. The future of motoring has to understand its past.
Towards motoring within the means of the living planet.
Hosted by Andrea Hiott.
Future Motoring
Birdmen & Balance with Lawrence Goldstone
“Glenn Curtiss was more important to modern flight than the Wright brothers,” says this week's guest, Lawrence Goldstone, the award-winning author (or co-author with his wife Nancy) of more than twenty books.
We talk about Glenn Curtiss, the Wrights brothers and early flight; Lefty Gomez stopping the 1937 World Series to watch a plane, and the daredevil Lincoln Beachey. We also talk about what it means to have a healthy disrespect for authority; law, language, and ideals; justice, and why "wisdom is the willingness to look at things differently.”
Of his books, here we focus mainly on this transportation trilogy--
Birdmen: The Wrights Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies.
Drive! Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age
Going-Deep John Holland and the Invention of the Attack Submarine.
Find his other books on his website.
We also mention The Drunkard's Walk.
