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: 2737 Air Conditioning. Today, we cool it.
Episode: 1494 The strange persistence of X-ray hair removal. Today, we kill ourselves to remove hair.
Episode: 2736 Brought to you by our sponsor. Today, sponsorship.
Episode: 1492 Necessity and invention during the 1870 siege of Paris. Today, necessity, invention, and the Siege of Paris.
Episode: 1491 In which business schools study a leaderless orchestra. Today, we have no leader.
Episode: 3169 Percy Williams Bridgman, Operationalism, and Meaningless Questions. Today, meaningless questions.
Episode: 1490 Germs, John Snow, and the Broad Street Well. Today, we talk about germs.
Episode: 2735 The challenge of technical communication. Today, bringing ideas to life.
Episode: 1489 Inventing the helicopter: harder than it looked. Today, we invent the helicopter.
Episode: 1488 John, Washington, & Emily Roebling, and the Brooklyn Bridge. Today, a family gives us the Brooklyn Bridge.
Episode: 3168 Insights of the Enlightened Marquis de Condorcet. Today, science frees the mind.
Episode: 1487 Teaching the American public to use the telephone. Today, would you buy the first telephone?
Episode: 2733 American culture and the inscriptions on U.S. Coins. Today, money.
Episode: 1485 Ship of gold in the Deep Blue Sea: an impossible treasure recovery. Today, we hunt treasure.
Episode: 1484 Georg Cantor, the man who counted beyond infinity. Today, we wonder about counting to infinity.
