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: 2091 A wedding at the Hvalsøy Church in Greenland. The last word in AD 1408.
Episode: 2090 Aerial soldiers of fortune: In which war is more exciting than barnstorming
Episode: 2089 Nathan Read, Colonial inventor: a life well-lived
Episode: 2866 How many wings on an aeroplane — How many strings on a violin? Thoughts on the maturation of technologies
Episode: 2094 Thinking inside the box: the invention of contanerization
Episode: 2088 Johann Joachim Becher, mercantilism, phlogiston, and gold
Episode: 2087 Gauss's famous calculation: an exercise in sorting fact from fiction
Episode: 2086 George Henry Lewes, Victorian "man of letters"
Episode: 2865 Computer Divide: The Future of Microprocessors
Episode: 2864 The theorem of Reverend Bayes
Episode: 2085 The Eruption of Thera: a terrible volcano redirects history
Episode: 2084 Bush pilots: Opening up remote corners of the world
Episode: 2083 Trouble in the history books: Revisiting the Orukter Amphibolus
Episode: 2863 Bits, Nibbles, and Bytes
Episode: 2862 Randomness out of Nothingness
