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: 2896 In which Nadezhda Popova beats off the Wehrmacht in a crop-duster
Episode: 2157 The web-fed press and the limits of useful production output
Episode: 2156 Earth without people: What would it be without us?
Episode: 2895 Measuring Up: How we measure and perceive inclines.
Episode: 2155 From Jamestown 'til now: the glass bottle in America
Episode: 2154 Wieliczka Sol, Poland's "Great Salt Treasure"
Episode: 2153 Of cliques and connections: graph theory, society and surveillance
Episode: 2151 Earth Abides: Thinking about Apocalypses and lesser ills
Episode: 2894 Wastewater Treatment
Episode: 2893 How the batteries work; The electrodes and electrolytes; The Wonders of Electrochemistry
Episode: 2892 Steampunk: An exercise in writing science fiction without predicting the future
Episode: 2149 Electrical words and a vision of the future
Episode: 2148 The selling of phrenology — and other would-be sciences
Episode: 2284 Books by the foot: the ultimate reductio ad absurdum
Episode: 2237 Modeling the atom: Making quantum uncertainty reveal corpoeal solidity
