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: 2228 Ancient Explanations of Bird Migrations
Episode: 2227 A Late Night Movie: Beatrice Lillie and a glimpse of another time
Episode: 2913 The price of making a commercial airline seat
Episode: 2912 David Hume and the Is-Ought Problem in Philosophy
Episode: 2226 Aesop's Fables and scientific illustration
Episode: 2225 Jean-Charles Borda: More than just a name on an orifice meter
Episode: 2224 Thomas Jefferson and megalonyx, the great-clawed ground sloth
Episode: 2312 How we finally put crews of computers to work on our desktops
Episode: 2223 Charlie Taylor, builder of the Wright brothers' engines
Episode: 2222 Jeremiah Horrocks, the 23-year-old "Father of English Astronomy"
Episode: 2221 Who owns the streets: the invention of jaywalking
Episode: 2160 The day the Dix went down: Puget Sound's worst maritime disaster
Episode: 2159 An old book with two stories about technological change
Episode: 2898 Keynes and Hayek: The nuances of their economic perspective.
Episode: 2897 A (Very) Short History of Privacy and Technology