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: 3068 Birch: The tree honored across the North, and the true subtance of the Spruce Goose
Episode: 2846 Coffeehouses and the Birth of a Public Sphere
Episode: 1169 From stacked stone to steel: a shift in structural concept
Episode: 1172 Trying to conserve mass, energy, momentum — and order
Episode: 3067 A Remarkable Perception of a Mathematical Oddity
Episode: 1170 A visit to an iatros — a doctor — in a 400 BC clinic
Episode: 2838 The World of Small Dimensions; Nano-Dimensions and Pico-Times
Episode: 1219 A chance encounter with a hero: Ploesti remembered
Episode: 1087 Aluminum: from a precious metal to a cheap structural material
Episode: 2454 Ruth Benerito and Wrinkle Free Cotton
Episode: 1086 Aztec obsidian, too good to give up
Episode: 2816 Sir William Hamilton and the Beginnings of Volcanology
Episode: 1085 The first American steam engine
Episode: 1084 Jouffroy's steamboat — 24 years before Fulton
Episode: 3037 Carol of the Bells
