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: 2874 The ground effect in the service of birds and human vehicles
Episode: 2873 The Search for Extraterrestrial Life; Drake Equation Explained; Aliens from Other Planets
Episode: 2099 Walter George Tarrant's Tabor, an airplane that was too big
Episode: 2872 The Stimpmeter: Golf's Supremely Simple Maintenance Tool
Episode: 2871 In which Samuel P. Langley talks about solar powered engines in 1884
Episode: 2098 Charles Davies, more than just another textbook writer
Episode: 2097 Constantine the African bringing Arab medicine to Europe
Episode: 2096 In which archer fish learn to shoot straight
Episode: 2870 The Canal du Midi
Episode: 2869 James Watt's introduction of horsepower as a measurement unit
Episode: 2095 Sidney Rix's new algebra book: Of billboards and landscapes
Episode: 2093 The Posillipo Tunnel, or Crypta Napoletana — a subway to the underworld
Episode: 2092 Is thermodynamics a science, or it is only derived from phyics?
Episode: 2868 Scholasticism: Reason or Revelation?
Episode: 2867 Augustin Fresnel, light, and lighthouses: from the science of light to the saving of ships
