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: 2147 Technological survival in metaphors of the human body
Episode: 2145 The far fringes of time — fringes beyond our comprehension
Episode: 2144 Arabella Buckley: Of beauty, belief, and evolution
Episode: 2143 In which Emma Lazarus reinvents the Statue of Liberty
Episode: 1188 William Billings, Colonial composer and American original
Episode: 2142 Schenectady seen as a surprising window into Amercan history
Episode: 2141 Solitude and society: An old tension plays out in architecture
Episode: 2140 Poor Old Pluto, no longer a pup or a planet, but still there
Episode: 2891 Specifics and Generalities: Teaching and the problem of universals.
Episode: 2139 Old Sears and Roebuck catalogs tell us about buying power then and now
Episode: 2138 The P-39, Bell Airacobra: lemonade from a lemon
2137 Tenement Houses: Trying to keep a roof over the poor
2136 Hi-Tech in 1740: The Musical Instrument Maker of Williamsburg
Episode: 2890 Combination of Hydraulic Fracturing and Horizontal Drilling Revolutionizes Oil Production
Episode: 2234 Spherical horses and frictionless wheels — When are we close enough to reality?
