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: 3149 Constants of Nature. Today, the grandest machine of all.
Episode: 1426 The skyscraper: a Phoenix out of the great Chicago Fire. Today, let's talk about skyscrapers.
Episode: 2686 The Story of Frank and Lillian Moller Gilbreth. Today, cheaper by the dozen.
Episode: 1425 Laying the transatlantic telegraph cable. Today, Queen Victoria sends a telegram to President Buchanan.
Episode: 1424 La Sylphide: an elemental in the Industrial Revolution. Today, a ballet gives us an odd window into history.
Episode: 3148 Rehabilitating The Nation's Aging Water System. Today, we rehabilitate.
Episode: 1422 Technology in Alexandria, ca. 200 BC. Today, a 2200-year-old age of invention.
Episode: 2683 Taylorism: early scientific management. Today, Taylorism.
Episode: 1421 The Rocket Boys, a moving story of adolescence and engineering. Today, a book with a surprising subtext.
Episode: 1420 The Erie Canal. Today, we ride 568 feet uphill in a barge.
Episode: 3147 The Three R's: Reason, Religion and Revolution. Today, the three r's: reason, religion and revolution.
Episode: 1419 Another way of looking at the 14th century Plague. Today, population reduction by disaster.
Episode: 2678 Hugh Everett III: Man of Many Worlds. Today, a tragedy in at least one universe.
Episode: 1418 Does war influence technological evolution? Some surprising facts. Today, we wonder how war influences technology.
Episode: 1417 In which the medieval clock metaphor finally collapses. Today, a metaphor dies.
