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: 2625 Strange inhabitants of Amy Darlington Sharpless's Natural Philosophy book. Today, Amy's Book.
Episode: 2624 John Winthrop, jr. brings Christian Alchemy to an ironworks on the Saugus. Today, iron and alchemy in the Plymouth Colony.
Episode: 2907 Quantum Computing. Today, it’s magic.
Episode: 2820 A Spectacular Series of Spectaculars: Remaking Ben-Hur. Today, remaking Ben-Hur.
Episode: 2862 Randomness out of Nothingness. Today, let's talk about how to pick random numbers out of thin air.
Episode: 2616 When radio and singing met: The Golden Age of popular singing. Today, a time when popular singers really sang.
Episode: 2615 Water for 9,000,000 New Yorkers, beginning with The Old Croton Aqueduct. Today, water for New York City.
Episode: 2612 America's ceremony of innocence, about to drowned in WW-I. Today, an American ceremony of innocence.
Episode: 2610 Everyday Electricity: Looking for the Connecticut Yankee. Today, everyday electricity.
Episode: 2906 The Octopus Mind. Today, alien intelligence.
Episode: 2469 Ancel Keys and the Link between Diet and Heart Disease. Today, a heart doctor who wasn’t.
Episode: 2768 Percy Spencer and the microwave oven. Today, our guest, NASA engineer Fitz Walker considers the Microwave Oven.
Episode: 2609 Brewster Buffalo vs. Grumman Wildcat: a parable about technological change. Today, the texture of change.
Episode: 2607 The steam engine comes to China, and even greater change follows. Today, steam comes to China.
Episode: 2605 To hold our new skyscrapers, we reinvent foundations. Today, we reinvent foundations.
