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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The Engines of Our Ingenuity Episode #2604 John Draper's Sister
Episode: 2904 Chatterbots and the Turing Test. Today, we chat.
Episode: 1983 Inventing the newspaper in seventeenth-century England. Today, our guest, historian Cathy Patterson reports on the invention of the newspaper.
Episode: 2801 The Maria Theresa Thaler. Today, the almighty Thaler.
Episode: 2601 What did we see when we looked at the new century in 1900? Not what you might expect. Today, America in 1900.
Episode #2600: The mysterious Nevil Shute and his Mysterious Aviator. Today, fact, fiction, and futures.
Episode: 2595 4'33", John Cage's prank or penetrating insight into sound and silence. Today, four minutes and thirty-three seconds.
Episode: 2593 John Edward Lennard Jones, and how molecules act upon one another. Today, who was Lennard Jones?
Episode: 2903 Delicately Engineered Hummingbirds. Today, life as a blur.
Episode: 2707 Models of the world. Today, let's talk about models.
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.
Episode: 2592 The Steep Ascent: Anne Morrow Lindbergh fascinatingly fuses fact and fiction. Today, fact and fiction meet.
Episode: 2590 In which Orville Wright tries to predict the future of the aeroplane. Today, Orville Wrignt and flight.
Episode: 2589 In which automatic calculation leads to the black-boxing of mathematics. Today, mathematics vanishes.
Episode: 2587 The existential pleasure of knowing your city's secrets. Today, city's secrets.