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: 2710 The First Fatality in Powered Flight Awakens the World to the Dangers of Aviation
Episode: 2708 The first airplane prize, for June Bug's 1-km flight — and what followed
Episode: 2707 Models of the world
Episode: Gravity as magic.
Episode: 2553 Emergence and complexity in virtual and living systems
Episode: 2551 In which Daniels, Dough, Etheridge, Brinkley and Moore watch the Wright Brother's first flight
Episode: 2549 Cahokia, an Ancient American Metropolis
Episode: 2546 In which William Froude shows us how to model ships, and much more
Episode: 2986 Simon Stevin and The Rise of Decimal Currency
Episode: 2544 How humans and computers recognize faces
Episode: 2541 Charlotte, of Charlotte's Web, in real life
Episode: 2540 Semi-Submersible Ships, or how the USS Cole hitched a ride home
Episode: 2985 Relative Accuracy: Henry Beck's Map of the London Underground.
Episode: 2543 Clara Adams: 150,000 miles of maiden flights
Episode: 2984 Making Noise: When Car Engines are Too Quiet