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: 3096 The Learning Value of Philosophy. Today, getting ahead in the world.
Episode: 1262 An 18-century environmental disaster in Brittany, France. Today, an 18th-century environmental disaster.
Episode: 3095 Making a Revolution. Today, the Maker revolution.
Episode: 1261 Healthy equilibrium: only a platform for instability. Today, we try to keep our equilibrium.
Episode: 1260 Darwin boards the Beagle and sails into history. Today, a young man boards a ship and redirects history.
Episode: 3094 Lobster. Today, the lobster.
Episode: 1258 Inventing the steamboat, inventing the riverboat. Today, the present helps us to understand the past.
Episode: 2520 Hybrid Electric Car Technology. Today, we hit the brakes.
Episode: 1257 Digging the first Suez Canal, 4000 years ago. Today, we ask, when was the Suez Canal built?
Episode: 1254 A new look at the wheel: the problem of rotation. Today, another look at the invention of the wheel.
Episode: 3093 How Mathematicians Tell Stories. Today, math and storytelling.
Episode: 1252 Forgotten invention of manufacturing with interchangeable parts. Today, a brilliant invention is forgotten.
Episode: 3092 Descriptions of Arts and Crafts. Today, saving arts and crafts.
Episode: 1251 Katherine Stinson and her siblings help America learn to fly. Today, meet the Stinson kids.
Episode: 1250 Qanats: ancient watercourses, heroic constructions. Today, we talk about qanats. (Betcha don't know what a qanat is!)
