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: 2026 Ritual origins of technology: balance and metaphor
Episode: 2025 Looking for LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor
Episode: 2023 George Hubert Wilkins: a life brimful and running over
Episode: 2842 A Creative Way to Teach Engineering
Episode: 2843 Requiem for the Shuttle
Episode: 2022 Alexander W. Brandon's, and my father's, old surveying book
Episode: 2020 The screwdriver: archetype of subtle obviousness
Episode: 2018 The Chamberlen family secret: the invention of forceps
Episode: 2017 In which we S-T-R-E-T-C-H our imaginations
Episode: 2016 In which we invent a new word: Multigenium
Episode: 2839 The Rise and Fall of Supertankers
Episode: 2015 Five Hornblowers and three generations of steam engine development
Episode: 2014 Boiling bubbles and fizzing bubbles: So alike, so different!
Episode: 2012 In which we use 125 questions to explain science
Episode: 2035 The Gunpowder Plot: Terrorism little-changed in four hundred years
