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: 3085 Einstein's Bigger DealToday Einstein’s bigger deal.
Episode: 1226 In which Matteo Ricci tries to convert the Chinese by building a memory palaceToday, a memory palace in an odd place and the wrong time.
Episode: 2495 Creativity Within Limits: Rules as a Source of CreativityToday, bounded creativity.
Episode: 1225 Lincoln Beachey, first great daredevil of heavier-than-air flightToday, the death of Lincoln Beachey.
Episode: 1224 On filling time and compressing time: electronic communicationToday, we compress time.
Episode: 3084 Leo Baekeland and BakeliteToday, Bakelite.
Episode: 1223 Ghosts from the sky: a visit to the Oshkosh Fly-inToday, a surprising way to preserve our past.
Episode: 2493 Child's Play: the role of play in educationToday, child’s play.
Episode: 1221 Large hall acoustics: drifting away from realityToday, we try to hear the music in a large hall.
Episode: 1220 In which Levi Hill invents color photography 80 years too soonToday, the first color photographs.
Episode: 3083 Gail Borden and Condensed MilkToday, maps, newspapers, politics, and condensed milk.
Episode: 1218 Galveston's alleys and the democratization of low incomesToday, walk with me through Galveston's alleys.
