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: 3108 Source Material. Today, straight from the horse’s mouth.
Episode: 1304 In which we learn how musical pitches are formed. Today, we learn what makes a musical tone.
Episode: 3107 Why it matters that we expect boys to brilliant and girls to work hard. Today, let’s talk about who we expect to be brilliant.
Episode: 3106 In which Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle undoes the Fabric of Reality. Today, we look for reality.
Episode: 1302 Francois Marcet's steam globe: measuring vapor-pressure. Today, a piece of apparatus and a piece of history.
Episode 3105: Matte Painting: From Glass To Digital. Today, worlds imagined.
Episode: 1301 The Boy Mechanic: endangering boys seeking danger. Today, a boy's world, a century ago.
Episode: 2555 The brave new world of digitizing books for the Web. Today, this old book.
Episode: 1300 Daniel Fahrenheit invents the thermometer and its scale. Today, we invent the thermometer.
Episode: 1299 The improbable earth-quakeproof Japanese pagoda. Today, pagodas and earthquakes.
Episode: 3104 Special Recipe: The Biochemistry of Life. Today, a special recipe.
Episode: 1298 Edward Ritchie: building instruments and shaping education. Today, let's watch machines shape education -- and invention.
Episode: 2552 Frederick the Great, Patron of the Arts. Today, what made Frederick great?
Episode: 1297 Ramon Verea's calculating machine: inventing to make a point. Today, invention serves an unexpected purpose.
Episode: 1296 In which Andrew Carnegie contemplates James Watt. Today, Andrew Carnegie looks at James Watt.
