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: 1576 The wind and its technologies in the ancient mind. Today, wind and the medieval mind.
Episode: 3187 The Raspberry Pi, a Small Computer with a Lot of Flavor. Today, a very sweet computer.
Episode: 1575 Fields and continua: A secret art of engineering. Today, a look at a secret abstraction.
Episode: 1573 Donatello: Of his age or for all time? Today, we ask: Of an age, or of all time?
Episode: 3186 Marveling. Today, we marvel.
Episode: 1572 High-pressure steam engines and transportation. Today, the first locomotive.
Episode: 2805 Gottlob Frege and Formal Logic. Today, a man of logic.
Episode: 1570 GE, light bulbs, and the product-driven innovation cycle. Today, we talk about light bulbs and product innovation.
Episode: 1569 Alkahest, the universal solvent. Today, we look for the universal solvent.
Episode: 3185 Mechanical Hummingbirds. Today, improving upon nature.
Episode: 1568 Lord Kelvin's miscalculation of the age of the earth. Today, a Victorian scientist miscalculates the age of the earth.
Episode: 3184 The Knots of Peter Guthrie Tait. Today, unweaving a tangled web.
Episode: 1576 Christopher Wren: a great architect first learns medicine. Today, an unexpected student of medicine.
Episode: 1566 Glottochronology: In which language decays like carbon-14. Today, a new word for you: glottochronology.
Episode: 2804 John Maynard Keynes and Sir Isaac Newton. Today, Newton, the man.
