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: 2767 William P. Lear: Beyond the Learjet. Today, reaching for the sky.
Episode: 1524 The other great fire of 1871: Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Today, the other great fire.
Episode: 2766 Do Wrist Mounted Pedometers Really Work? Today, an investigation.
Episode: 1523 On saying goodbye to lighthouses and cabooses. Today, we say goodbye to lighthouses and cabooses.
Episode: 1522 A 1950 prediction of technology in the year 2000. Today, we go fifty years into the future.
Episode: 2764 The New Math Movement. Today, a revolutionary idea — that failed.
Episode: 1521 John P. Parker, slave, freedom-fighter, inventor, and businessman. Today, we follow a slave out of slavery.
Episode: 2762 Mathematics and the Early 1900s Progressive Education Movement. Today, Uncle Sam's better half.
Episode: 1520 In which automobile makers gradually learn aerodynamics. Today, aerodynamics and automobiles.
Episode: 1519 Learning to acquire knowledge and create it at the same time. Today, we wonder where knowledge comes from.
Episode: 3176 Graph Theory and the Königsberg Bridge Problem. Today, we take a stroll.
Episode: 1518 A concern about computers and the redefinition of reality. Today, we try to tell fact from fiction.
Episode: 2760 Mathematics and the Early 1900s Progressive Education Movement. Today, doing away with math.
Episode: 1517 The very odd bridge that Roebling almost built. Today, a strange bridge.
Episode: 1516 In which we must save the lore as well as the plants. Today, we have to save more than the endangered plants.
