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: 2110 Goeffrey de Havilland's BE-2, and a design legacy
Episode: 2109 The Hoosac Tunnel: shipping goods under the Berkshires
Episode: 2107 The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, a trip back to 1916
Episode: 2878 U-boats in the First World War
Episode: 2106 What happens when we visit a museum?
Episode: 2105 Are we really happy when we're young and sad when we're old?
Episode: 2104 Thinking about time travel: At least we can visit the future
Episode: 2103 Inventing Kitty Litter, and making cats welcome indoors
Episode: 2877 What do bees and other creatures see with their unimaginable eyes?
Episode: 2117 The Internet of Tubes: In which a gaffe evokes the history of communication
Episode: 2102 The cradle of civilization: further north than we thought?
Episode: 2101 Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis: a flattened Earth, and the Principle of Least Action
Episode: 2100 The Mpemba Effect: heating water to make it freeze faster
Episode: 2876 In which engineers and scientists assess their work in 1945
Episode: 2875 Pierre Fauchard, Father of Modern Dentistry
