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: 2576 Are screw caps good for wine? Today, a turn of the screw.
Episode: 1335 Santos-Dumas, Zeppelin, and the great airships. Today, we ride airships.
Episode: 2575 The illustrious history of Prime Numbers. Today, some numbers for the ages.
Episode: 1334 Watching Europe go from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. Today, a story of wood, copper and iron.
Episode: 1333 Energy is pure delight, the conservation of energy. Today, we chase a will-o-the-wisp.
Episode: 3119 Math As A Humble Servant To Science. Today, strange bedfellows.
Episode: 1332 Moment of inertia, secrecy, and satellite stability. Today, government secrecy sabotages an early satellite.
Episode: 2572 Melville and Anna Bissell and the Carpet Sweeper. Today, a husband and wife engineer success.
Episode:1331 The Mississipi and Mark Twain's time warp. Today, a River in 1883.
Episode: Electric lights in the 80 years before Edison. Today, we go looking for the first electric lights.
Episode: 3118 Of Wombats and Armadillos: Using Animals to Teach Probability. Today, why did the wombat cross the road?
Episode: 1329 16th Century scientist, Christiaan Huygens, looks for alien life. Today, an old inquiry into life on other planets.
Episode: 2570 Celebrating Human Ingenuity. Today, a story in two parts.
Episode: 1328 The medieval character of the wild West. Today, the wild West holds up a mirror to medieval life.
Episode: 1327 Electricity in Everyday Life in 1904. Today, let's look for parallels.
