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Episode 524
Published 3 weeks, 4 days ago
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BBB:LHWS 060 Edward G. Budd and Rupen Eksergian...
...were design and structural engineers who forced the Age of Steam into the Modern Era with their iconic Silver Zephyr Diesel Electric car in 1934. Eksergian took his skills further during the Cold War when he was one of the people behind Atomic Annie, a mobile artillery piece with a nuclear warhead. Both men rest at Laurel Hill West.