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: 3117 C.R. Smith and SABRE. Today, we rattle sabres.
Episode: 1326 Lift-off: Reflections on the launch of NASA Flight STS-91. Today, we all count 3-2-1.
Episode: 2563 The Prolific Isaac Asimov. Today, science or fiction?
Episode: 1325 The day Mulholland's St. Francis Dam broke. Today, an almost-forgotten catastrophe.
Episode: 1324 C rations: Armies trying to travel on their stomachs. Today, an army tries to travel on its stomach.
Episode: 3116 Philosophical Zombies. Today, zombies.
Episode: 1323 Fleming, the light bulb, and the vacuum tube. Today, an analogy changes our world.
Episode: 2562 Paul Samuelson and the textbook Economics. Today, a book that helped educate the world.
Episode: 1321 A modern solar collector, a century before its time. Today, an idea whose time had not yet come.
Episode: 3115 A Walrus seaplane that might have saved the Battle of Sunda Strait. Today, a ruined airplane -- and what might've been.
Episode: 3114 Indivisibles. Today, indivisible.
Episode: 1320 Intellectual misdirection: looking inside and outside our heads for knowledge. Today, we wonder where to look for our new widget.
Episode: 2559 Going, Going, Gone! A look at auctions. Today, going, going, gone!
Episode: 1319 Vannevar Bush and the great Rockefeller Differential Analyzer. Today, a eulogy for a machine.
Episode: 1318 Three-field crop rotation and the origins of Western technology. Today, putting horses to work proves harder than we might think.
