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: 1963 In which the planet Vulcan vanishes in a non-Newtonian world
Episode: 1962 Rockets, jets, and other (inherently fast) recoil propulsion systems
Episode: 1960 Speed: the grand nineteenth-century invention
Episode: 1952 The only-possible constants of nature
Episode: 2808 Plastic encapsulation of microchips, protection from environment and loads
Episode: 1959 In which John Tyndall cuts through conflict to recognize both Mayer and Joule
Episode: 1958 Lazare Carnot, Sadi Carnot, and learning about energy
Episode: 1957 Looking for eighty-million-year old Adam and Eve
Episode: 1950 Girolamo Cardano: The tormented life of a towering renaissance thinker
Episode: 2807 3D printing provides the latest view of the downward diffusion of technologyepisode:
Episode: 1956 The forgotten William Cleghorn and his forgotten caloric
Episode: 1955 Stahl, Phlogiston, Anima, and Understanding
Episode: 128 The Liberty Bell
Episode: 2806 Thor, the god of thunder, engineering behind comic book, college courses that deal with fracture.
Episode: 2805 Gottlob Frege and Formal Logic
