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: 1674 Fulton's last boat: the steam-powered Battery-Catamaran. Today, Fulton's last boat.
Episode: 3207 Repairing New Zealand's Damaged Ecosystem. Today, what once was.
Episode: 1673 Who was Marie Lavoisier, amanuensis or collaborator? Today, meet Marie Lavoisier.
Episode: 2900 Hayek: the economist's contributions in neuroscience and philosophy. Today, a man who crossed over.
Episode: 1670 John Tyndall: measuring sound without electronics. Today, how did people measure sound in the nineteenth century?
Episode: 1669 Linus Torvalds, and giving away Linux. Today, a parable about giving versus selling.
Episode: 2898 Keynes and Hayek: The nuances of their economic perspectives. Today, how different were they?
Episode: 1668 Scientific instruments creating a new rhetoric. Today, new sciences, new languages.
Episode: 2895 Measuring up: How we measure, and perceive, inclines. Today, measuring "up."
Episode: 1667 In which we look at the problem of seeing what we expect to see. Today, we try to see what we're looking at.
Episode: 1666 In which we watch books growing old. Today, we watch books grow old.
Episode: 2894 Wastewater Treatment. Today, the unmentionable.
Episode: 1665 Making Artificial hearts and minds in the sixteenth century. Today, artificial hearts, minds, and voices.
Episode: 2891 Specifics and Generalities: teaching and the problem of universals. Today, what exactly is that?
Episode: 1664 Nomogram: the analog computer in one of its early incarnations. Today, nomograms, analogs, and a forgotten world.
