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: 2251 Engine: Englisch Für Ingenieure — in which I better learn my own language
Episode: 2250 Sir Michael James Lighthill, the man who could do everything
Episode: 2249 Mrs. Coade's remarkable stones
Episode: 2248 Arc lights, glow lamps, incandescant bulbs — Edison's in there somewhere
Episode: 1073 In which I live to see the Third Millenium — sooner than I'd thought
Episode: 2038 Putting a leap second in an elastic year
Episode: 2245 Slats Rodgers' Old Soggy No. 1, the first Texas-Built aeroplane to fly
Episode: 2918 Norman Brinker and the History of Restaurant Chains
Episode: 2247 The Voyageurs: sailors, monks, and chain gangs — in harmony
Episode: 1018 Medieval barns: a metaphor, worldly and spiritual
Episode: 1191 X-mas 1996: the difference between hope and expectation
Episode: 2246 Sailing into the wind: vectors, language, and a fine summer's day
Episode: 2917 The NBC Opera Theatre
Episode: 2244 The Gentleman traveler: Victorian polymath, Francis Galton
Episode: 2243 Organizing for disaster: One place where New Orleans did it right
