Engines Of Our Ingenuity
Summary: 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.
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- Artist: Dr. John Lienhard
- Copyright: Copyright 2011 KUHF
Podcasts:
Episode: 2278 Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn: friendship in the face of terrible odds
Episode: 2276 The Cascade Effect: In which we join in conclusions based on incomplete science
Episode: 2193 Matthew Arnold's honeymoon on Dover Beach: an odd Valentine's Day greeting
Episode: 2926 Nerd Night and the Etymology of the word "Nerd."
Episode: 2272 William and George Ellery Hale: A legacy of building America
Episode: 2270 Louis de Broglie: The prince and blurred pea
Episode: 2269 James David Forbes and the contradiction of fire and ice
Episode: 2925 The wreck of the Francis H. Leggett and the question: What makes history interesting?
Episode: 2924 Not in this Universe: When the possible really isn't.
Episode: 2267 Thomas Harriot, England's Galileo
Episode: 2266 In which the Cairo's ghost rises from the Yazoo mud
Episode: 2260 When metal grows tired: Trying to predict fatigue failures
Episode: 2923 The Opossum: Natue's Little Sanitary Engineer
Episode: 2264 The Mary D. Hume and history being forgotten
Episode: 2263 Delaunay Deslandes misses the Industrial Revolution
