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: 1815 Super Guppy: A most implausible and useful airplane. Today, an implausible airplane.
Episode: 3020 Credit Card Error Detection. Today, the math behind credit cards.
Episode: 2770 Developing the P-51 Mustang fighter. Today, our guest, NASA engineer Fitz Walker, remembers the P-51 Mustang.
Episode: 3017 Mechanical Philosophy. Today, we lay numbers out on a dial.
Episode: 1813 Raymonde de Laroche, a brief bright flame. Today, the first woman pilot.
Episode: 1817 Scientific literacy and the confusion of units. Today, we lay numbers out on a dial.
Episode: 1812 Reinventing boyhood in the late nineteenth century. Today, we invent boys.
Episode: 3015 Hooke and Newton Collide. Today, the pudding’s in the proof.
Episode: 1813 Raymonde de Laroche, a brief bright flame. Today, the first woman pilot.
Episode: 2544 How humans and computers recognize faces. Today, UH math professor Krešo Josić recognizes your face.
Episode: 3224 Fake rocks, forced perspective, and other forms of illusion in the private home of Disney Imagineer Fred Joerger. Today, facades, both physical and personal.
Episode: 1810 Learning calculus -- or maybe we knew it already. Today, let's do calculus.
Episode: 1814 Cultural climate, invention, and labor-saving achieved through labor. Today, an unexpected cause for invention.
Episode: 3223 The problem of writing for people to read and for people to hear. Today, we read and we listen.
Episode: 3013 Alfred Kahn and Deregulation. Today, the wrath of Kahn.
