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: 1083 Pierre Lallement, one of many who invented the bicycle
Episode: 2815 The spread of ideas in social networks
Episode: 1082 The last shall be first: steam turbines and cuneiform
Episode: 3036 A fine replica is truly the ghost of Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis
Episode: 3035 Light Emitting Diodes
Episode: 1081 Paradoxes: "Skeletons in the closet of reason"
Episode: 3034 Magnets and the Mind
Episode: 1080 Food in the old Republic of Texas ("The Republic of Porkdom")
Episode: 2722 Gathering of Materials and Methods to Craft Sailing and Space-faring Vessels
Episode: 2721 Fort Trumbull — dramatic, inappropriate, icon of the history of its place
Episode: 2719 The Mathematics of Language
Episode: 2441 Temple Geometry: Sacred Mathematics in Japan's Edo Period
Episode: 3015 Hooke and Newton collide.
Episode: 3014 : Roslyn Yalow and the origins of immunoassay
Episode: 2714 Hub Motors, aka In-Wheel Motors and their applications in electric vehicles