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: 1565 Using the hysplex to start an ancient Greek foot race. Today, we learn how to start a foot race.
Episode: 2804 Fourier, the Fourier Transform, and Music. Today, music in translation.
Episode 1564: The Second Law of Thermodynamics and time's arrow. Today, we see why time goes only from then to now.
Episode: 1563 Looking back at the impact of toys. Today, we play with toys.
Episode: 3183 Mary Golda Ross Rises. Today, reaching for the sky.
Episode: 1562 Guido da Vigevano uses war as an excuse to invent. Today, a medieval inventor goes to war -- almost.
Episode: 2802 One Track Mind: the central processing unit of a computer. Today, a one track mind.
Episode: 1561 'Hustling Hinkler, Up in the Sky' - an early Australian flier leaves his mark. Today, an odd hero of early aviation.
Episode: 1560 In which we 'look' at the world through a narrow slit. Today, we look at the world through a narrow slit.
Episode: 2799 Dither and Digital Media. Today, let's get digital.
Episode: 1559 Music-making: the first technology. Today, we look for the oldest technology.
Episode: 2794 Birth of the Laser Printer. Today, tenacity.
Episode: 1558 Mastered by nature, we o'ercome by art - then as now. Today, an old debate in a new arena.
Episode: 1557 Heinrich Lienhard creates a new world - even as he discovers it. Today, we watch a new world being formed.
Episode: 3182 Looking at Magical Shapes. Today, it's all in how you look at it.
