Keyboard and Quill

From Travois to Taxis | Ep. 5


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Let’s travel back in time to explore the ways humans got around together (on land) from prehistoric times to the first taxis in the late 1800s. Tim Berglund and Rachel Pedreschi begin this excavation of transportation history where it all started: with our own two feet. With the development of trade and cities, the hunter-gatherer mode of movement was inadequate for a species that needed to expand and travel. From the invention of roads to the primitive sleds known as travois to the all-important wheel to horse-drawn carriages to railroads and the first taxis, human civilization has come a long, long way in how we hitch a ride. New episodes every Tuesday from March-June.

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SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Rachel Pedreschi and Claritype
Link: claritype.com

Dr. Brian Taylor (UCLA)
Book: The Drive for Dollars

Thanos Sgouridis for his voice acting.

Coastal Kites for the music you heard in our interlude. 

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Story by Tim Berglund and Rachel Pedreschi
Produced by Peter Furia, Noelle Gallagher, and Tim Berglund
Edited by Noelle Gallagher and Peter Furia
Original music and sound by Jeff Kite, keyboardist for The Voidz

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