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: Creativity
Episode: 2816 Sir William Hamilton and the Beginnings of Volcanology
Episode: 1970 Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and their needless war
Episode: 1969 Getting to the heart of the Hippocratic Oath
Episode: 1961 The Four-Color Problem — a strange old puzzle, almost resolved
Episode: 2815 How Ideas Spread
Episode: 2814 Braess's Traffic Flow Paradox
Episode: An Ancient Earthquake
Episode: 1968 Vignettes from the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition: America in transition
Episode: 1967 Of clouds and birds: Meet Felix Tournachon — Nadar
Episode: 2812 Poised to begin transatlantic flight in 1938. How it came out in 1945
Episode: Jury Duty: Deciding the size of the Jury Pool
Episode: 2810 The Concrete Revolution in Ancient Rome
Episode: 2809 Laurence Housman designs an edition of Christina Rossetti's poem Goblin Market
Episode: 1965 In which Robert and George Stephenson bring rail to its maturity