Backbone
by Jeff Keltner and Cyrus Mistry
Latest episode
The Shipping Container: Nobody Touches the Cargo
The Shipping Container: Nobody Touches the Cargo
About this podcast
Most tech stories skip from "invention" to "winner." Backbone tells the messy middle — who resisted and why, what had to be built first, and what changed once the technology disappeared into the background. Hosted by Jeff Keltner and Cyrus Mistry.
Episodes
- The Shipping Container: Nobody Touches the Cargo · 1 h 47 min · Episode 2On a rainy Thursday in April 1956, a crane at Port Newark lifted fifty-eight truck trailers, minus their wheels, onto the deck of an old wartime tanker, and a longshoremen's…
- Refrigeration: You Don't Make Cold, You Move Heat · 1 h 52 min · Episode 1In February 1806 a Boston newspaper ran a one-line joke about a twenty-three-year-old who had loaded a ship with pond ice and sailed for the Caribbean, where nobody had anywhere…
