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: 2119 Gutenberg, spherical mirrors, and cast type
Episode: 2118 We are the machines' media" metaphors of function and metaphors of form
Episode: 2116 Balloons and hydraulic rams — unexpected bedfellows
Episode: 2883 A dead salmon points the way to better brain imaging
Episode: 2882 Eliezer Ben Yehuda and the Revival of Hebrew
Episode: 2881 Racial Mythologies: Hans Günther vs. Julian Huxley on the Concept of Race
Episode: 2115 The color of water, the color of air, the color of God
Episode: 2114 A house for the blimps that saved us from submarines
Episode: 2880 Glacier Bay as seen by John Muir before 1885 — different now
Episode: 2879 The Economics of Empty Shipping Containers
Episode: 2113 William James seeks to replace war with its moral equivalent
Episode: 2112 In which Röntgen struggles to put fact before fame — not so easy to do
Episode: 2108 Adult stem cells: Can I ever grow a new arm?
Episode: 2552 Frederick the Great, Patron of the Arts
Episode: 2111 Rogue Waves, In which sea legends become real
