Engines of Our Ingenuity show

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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 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2604: John Draper’s Sister | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:49

The Engines of Our Ingenuity Episode #2604 John Draper's Sister

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2904: Chatterbots | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:50

Episode: 2904 Chatterbots and the Turing Test.  Today, we chat.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 1983: Inventing the Newspaper | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:49

Episode: 1983 Inventing the newspaper in seventeenth-century England.  Today, our guest, historian Cathy Patterson reports on the invention of the newspaper.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2801: The MTT | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:50

Episode: 2801 The Maria Theresa Thaler.  Today, the almighty Thaler.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2601: America in 1900 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:48

Episode: 2601 What did we see when we looked at the new century in 1900? Not what you might expect.  Today, America in 1900.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2600: The Mysterious Aviator | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:50

Episode #2600: The mysterious Nevil Shute and his Mysterious Aviator.  Today, fact, fiction, and futures.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2595: 4’33” | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:49

Episode: 2595 4'33", John Cage's prank or penetrating insight into sound and silence.  Today, four minutes and thirty-three seconds.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2593: John Lennard Jones | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:49

Episode: 2593 John Edward Lennard Jones, and how molecules act upon one another.  Today, who was Lennard Jones?

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2903: Hummingbirds | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:50

Episode: 2903 Delicately Engineered Hummingbirds.  Today, life as a blur.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2707: Modeling | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:48

Episode: 2707 Models of the world.  Today, let's talk about models.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 3224: Disney’s Master of Illusion Fred Joerger | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:50

Episode: 3224 Fake rocks, forced perspective, and other forms of illusion in the private home of Disney Imagineer Fred Joerger.  Today, facades, both physical and personal.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2592: The Steep Ascent | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:50

Episode: 2592 The Steep Ascent: Anne Morrow Lindbergh fascinatingly fuses fact and fiction.  Today, fact and fiction meet.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2590: Orville Wright and Flight | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:49

Episode: 2590 In which Orville Wright tries to predict the future of the aeroplane.  Today, Orville Wrignt and flight.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2589: Vanishing Mathematics | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:48

Episode: 2589 In which automatic calculation leads to the black-boxing of mathematics.  Today, mathematics vanishes.

 Engines of Our Ingenuity 2587: Secret City | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:50

Episode: 2587 The existential pleasure of knowing your city's secrets.  Today, city's secrets.

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