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: 1652 Justus von Liebig and the first R&D laboratory. Today, we create the first research laboratory.
Episode: U-boats in the First World War. Today, full speed ahead.
Episode: 1650 Learning about the stability of aeroplanes in 1916. Today, we worry about airplane stability in 1916.
Episode: 2875 Pierre Fauchard, Father of Modern Dentistry. Today, a profession comes of age.
Episode: 1649 Reginald Fessenden endows radio with sound. Today, we add sound to radio.
Episode: 1648 Building a dirigible to get to the California gold rush. Today, some thoughts on success, failure, and flying to California.
Episode: 2872 The Stimpmeter: Golf's Supremely Simple Maintenance Tool. Today, low tech in a high tech game.
Episode: 1646 Thinking about who had done what by what age. Today, who did what by when?
Episode: 2870 The Canal du Midi. Today, coast to coast.
Episode: 1645 Figuring out the value of Pi. Today, let's talk about -- and not the kind you eat.
Episode: 1644 An 18th-century doctor helps great-grandmother raise grandpa. Today, we raise a nineteenth-century child.
Episode: 3205 Alice Augusta Ball and Her Work on Leprosy. Today, a legacy with a sad coda.
Episode: 1643 In which Athanasius Kircher softens the 17th-C scientific revolution. Today, -- after Galileo.
Episode: 3204 Transforming Transportation from Engines to Motors. Today, our thoughts are about motors instead of engines.
Episode: 1642 Reflections upon Halley's, and other, Comets. Today, a comet approaches.
