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: 1555 Looking behind the stories for the real Hypatia. Today, looking for the person behind the story.
Episode: 2791 The death of the floppy disk. Today, floppy, but never a flop.
Episode: 1554 In which new science yields new instruments: 1500 to 1950. Today, a new class of machines and new viewpoint.
Episode: 1553 Galileo, Torricelli, von Guericke, and the idea of a vacuum. Today, we invent vacuum.
Episode: 3181 The Fall of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Today, Goliath stumbles.
Episode: 1551 In which Gary Larson tells us the piano was invented earlier than we thought. Today, a lesson in invention from the Far Side.
Episode: 2789 The evolution from impact to non-impact printers. Today, we don’t make an impact.
Episode: 1550 Making a book of The Engines of Our Ingenuity. Today, we wonder how to make a book.
Episode: 1549 Compte Rendus, 1836: a snapshot of science at high tide. Today, we read modern science when it was first being made.
Episode: 3180 Netscape and the First Browser War. Today, David falls to Goliath.
Episode: 1547 Mystery at the threshhold of the Twentieth Century. Today, let's reclaim mystery.
Episode: 2786 Creativity Leashed: How a new way of looking at computers got away. Today, learning from an Alto.
Episode: 1546 Max Jakob: a breath of fresh air in a new land. Today, a great engineer escapes the Holocaust.
Episode: 1545 The English and 18th century ballooning. Today, we ride the first hot-air balloons in England.
Episode: 3179 Pierre Wantzel Makes History. Today, fame that wasn't.
