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. This content is in service of Houston Public Media’s education mission and is sponsored by the University of Houston. It is not a product of our news team.
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Podcasts:
Episode: 3137 Igor Stravinski's The Rite of Spring. Today, a Russian revolution.
Episode: 3136 The Whale Oil Myth: The unrelated collapse of whaling and rise of petroleum. Today, did big oil save the whales?
Episode: 2618 Søren Kierkegaard: Christian Existentialist. Today, an exit.
Episode: 1379 Frank and Peter Griffin: teaching calculus. Today, an obituary brings back memories.
Episode: 1378 The wreck of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald; "Only a lake!" Today, just a lake!
Episode: 2614 Engineering Pictures Made of Pixels. Today, painting with pixels.
Episode: 1377 Benjamin Franklin writes about music and electricity. Today, Ben Franklin talks about music.
Episode: 2611 Early science fiction: Kepler’s Somnium. Today, a dream.
Episode: 1376 Frère Jacques: The canonical hours and mechanical clocks. Today, religious practice and the mechanical clock.
Episode: 3135 Nabuo Fujita returns in peace to Brookings, OR, after have waged war there. Today, a war comes to an end.
Episode: 2608 Maria Telkes: Solar Energy Pioneer. Today, here comes the sun.
Episode: 1375 Leibniz, Newton, and the great calculus dispute. Today, we throw Leibniz's cat into the super collider.
Episode: 2606 More Beautiful Books: revisiting books by the foot. Today, the measure of a book.
Episode: 1373 Pittsburgh in 1816. Today, let's visit embryonic Pittsburgh.
Episode: 1372 Mark Twain and the Paige Compositor. Today, meet the man who bankrupted Mark Twain.
