Engines of Our Ingenuity

Episode: 2392 A weather report, and more, from the South Pole.  Today, a weather report.

Episode: 2391 Sopwith's WW-I airplanes, An epoch in the history of the airplane.  Today, the brief ancestry of an airplane.

Episode: 2853 Radio frequency identification and toll roads.  Today, we ease on down the road.

Episode: 2411 Hudson's Bay Company.  Today, fur traders and far-off borders.

Episode: 2776 Isaac Asimov's fantastic worlds, robots that roam among us, and energy storage methods.  Today, our guest Haleh Ardebili talks about Isaac Asimov and Energy Storage.

Episode: 2388 In which Paul Otlet invents the hyperlink, and almost invents the Internet.  Today, we invent the hyperlink.

Episode: 2386 Things we know are false, but one of them is true. Which one?  Today, one of these is true.

Episode: 2385 When cotton was king in Texas.  Today, think about cotton.

Episode: 2383 In which the ghost of E. Ball Hughes speaks from an old book on perspective.  Today, a sculptor's ghost speaks.

Episode: 2850 Centuries of Dutch Flood Control.  Today, living on the delta.

Episode: 2544 How humans and computers recognize faces.  Today, UH math professor Krešo Josić recognizes your face.

Episode: 2373 The Phrasebook: A Dangerous Invention.  Today, UH scholar, Richard Armstrong tells us about German phrasebooks.

Episode: 2380 Isaac Newton's other life as Master of the Royal Mint.  Today, Isaac Newton coins money.

Episode: 2378 Badly needed aeroplanes come to the Australian outback.  Today, aeroplanes in the outback.

Episode: 2371 Early Igor Sikorsky -- a great and largely forgotten contribution.  Today, young Sikorsky.