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: 2845 Floating Islands and The Maldives Grand Experiment. Today, we float.
Episode: 2502 Computer-assisted proofs: How machines extend our mind's reach. Today, let’s ask how computers help us see mathematical truths.
Episode: 2368 In which Shakespeare and Cervantes die on the same day, but eleven days apart. Today, UH scholar, Richard Armstrong tells us about puzzles in chronology.
Episode: 2344 Transco/Williams Tower, your perfect neighborhood skyscraper. Today, a lone skyscraper.
Episode: 2342 A horrific chapter of history gives us Maya blue. Today, we have the blues.
Episode: 2339 How women traded their distaffs for a new life. Today, the distaff side.
Episode: 2337 Frank Hornby and his Meccano sets -- still there, over a century later. Today, arts, crafts and Meccano sets.
Episode: 2342 A Creative Way to Teach Engineering. Today, an open house.
Episode: 2341 Richard Wagner conceives a sound, then invents an instrument to create it. Today, horn player Roger Kaza tells us about the tuba Wagner built.
Episode: 2356 Hebrew and Yiddish struggle for ascendancy after WW-II. Today, scholar Richard Armstrong considers the world of language textbooks.
Episode: 2332 Learning who we were in 1915 by looking at automobiles. Today, the automobile in transition.
Episode: 2335 Houston's great port: the engine behind a city. Today, life in a seaport town.
Episode: 2330 Iceboats: Faster than a speeding locomotive -- when we still rode horses. Today, we go iceboating.
Episode: 2329 Robert Thurston looks at Robert Fulton and sees beyond the folly. Today, Thurston looks at Fulton.
Episode: 1940 In which Harriet Beecher Stowe and her sister build a model house to pay for a mansion.
