Engines of Our Ingenuity
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Engines of Our Ingenuity
The story of technological progress is one of drama and intrigue, sudden insight and plain hard work. Let’s explore technology’s spectacular failures and many magnificent success stories. This content is in service of Houston Public Media’s education mission and is sponsored by th...
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1580: Su-Sung’s Clock
Episode: 1580 Su-Sung's wonderful eleventh-century water clock. Today, Su-Sung's wonderful clock.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1579: The Hidden Wright Brothers
Episode: 1579 Five years before we found out about the Wright Brothers! Today, we gradually learn about the Wright Brothers' flight.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2598: The Three Body Problem
Episode: 2598 Henri Poincaré, the three body problem, and chaos. Today, three bodies.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3377: Burning Zinc
Episode: 3377 An 1880 article seeks to anticipate the creation of electric power, beginning with Zinc. Today, we burn Zinc.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3376: Staples
Episode: 3376 In which our common desk stapler earns its name. Today, Let’s talk about staples.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3298: Optic Yellow
Episode: 3298 Gender, Color, and Dichotomy in Tennis. Today, we take sides in tennis.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1578: Seaplanes
Episode: 1578 The brief day of the great flying boats. Today, we ask what ever became of flying boats.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1577: The Monte Hall Problem
Episode: 1577 The Monty Hall Problem and the unexpected value of information. Today, we learn not to turn our back on information.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1576: The Wind
Episode: 1576 The wind and its technologies in the ancient mind. Today, wind and the medieval mind.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2596: Golf Club Grooves
Episode: 2596 Golf Club Grooves: How small changes in technology can cause controversy. Today's episode is brought to you by the letters U and V.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3375: Poetry
Episode: 3375 The complex relationship among language, speech, music, and poetry. Today, what is Poetry?
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3374: Board Game Design
Episode 3374: Monte Carlo simulations and board game design. Today, Monte Carlo simulations and board games.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1575: Fields and Continua
Episode: 1575 Fields and continua: A secret art of engineering. Today, a look at a secret abstraction.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1572: High-Pressure Steam Engines
Episode: 1572 High-pressure steam engines and transportation. Today, the first locomotive.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1571: Oz and Electricity
Episode: 1571 In which the author of Oz contemplates electricity. Today, Dorothy, Kansas, and the new forces of electricity.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2594: Ptolemy’s Geographia
Episode: 2594 Mapping the World: Ptolemy's Geographia. Today, a man and a map.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3029: Model Citizen
Episode: 3029 Model Citizen. Today, lets talk about models.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2081: A Monstrosity and a Skeptic
Episode: 2081 A Monstrosity, a Skeptic, and a new view of the 16th century. Today, guest historian Cathy Patterson gives birth to a cat.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1568: The Age of the Earth
Episode: 1568 Lord Kelvin's miscalculation of the age of the earth. Today, a Victorian scientist miscalculates the age of the earth.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2591: Instant Runoff Voting
Episode: 2591 Instant runoff voting and the Academy Awards. Today, what's best?
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3371: Mary Colter
Episode: 3371 The creative work and relative anonymity of Mary Coulter, and her Native American architecturally themed designs. Today, meet Mary Colt...
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1567: Christopher Wren, Physician
Episode: 1567 Christopher Wren: a great architect first learns medicine. Today, an unexpected student of medicine.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1566: Glottochronology
Episode: 1566 Glottochronology: In which language decays like carbon-14. Today, a new word for you: glottochronology.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1565: Hysplex
Episode: 1565 Using the hysplex to start an ancient Greek foot race. Today, we learn how to start a foot race.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1562: Guido da Viegevano
Episode: 1562 Guido da Vigevano uses war as an excuse to invent. Today, a medieval inventor goes to war -- almost.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2585: Measuring Race Times
Episode: 2585 The technology of timing races. Today, who won that race?
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2942: Hilton Hotels in Space
Episode: 2942 Hilton Hotels in Space. Today, we reach for the stars.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2638: Artificial Gravity
Episode: 2638 Artificial Gravity for Human Spaceflight; What is Gained, What is Lost. Today, astronaut Michael Barratt discusses the pros and cons of...
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1556: The Manual Arts
Episode: 1556 In which we run out of manual arts teachers for our schools. Today, let's work with our hands.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2583: Children and Their Goals
Episode: 2583 Children and their Goals. Today, president, pope, astronaut.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1554: Scientific Instruments
Episode: 1554 In which new science yields new instruments: 1500 to 1950. Today, a new class of machines and new viewpoint.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2578: Water Towers
Episode: 2578 The Wonders of Water Towers. Today, water flows downhill.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1539: Boundary Layers
Episode: 1539 In which a thin layer of fluid determines whether an airplane flies. Today, a wind blows by us.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1538: The Face of a Century
Episode: 1538 In which the various centuries show their faces. Today, we ask what a century looks like.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1537: Life on the Moon
Episode: 1537 John Wilkins talks about life on the Moon, in 1638. Today, life on the moon.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1532: Typewriters
Episode: 1532 The invention and selling of the typewriter. Today, the typewriter teaches us its purpose.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2562: Paul Samuelson and the textbook Economics
Episode: 2562 Paul Samuelson and the textbook Economics. Today, a book that helped educate the world.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3354: Wharton Esherick
Episode: 3354 Wharton Esherick's finely-crafted furniture, objects, and art enliven the studio building he designed and constructed. Today, building...
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1525: Liberty Ships
Episode: 1525 Liberty ships: an amateur takes over the trade. Today, an amateur builds ships.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1524: The Great Peshtigo Fire
Episode: 1524 The other great fire of 1871: Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Today, the other great fire.