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: 2257 Pumping our blood, when our hearts fail us. Today, we pump blood.
Episode: 2236 Industrial Design: Showing us how function is art. Today, another look at form and function.
Episode: 2786 Creativity Leashed: How a new way of looking at computers got away. Today, learning from an Alto.
Episode: 3271 An Obsession with Round Numbers. The two-hour marathon milestone has been smashed. But what exactly does that mean? Today, an obsession with round numbers.
Episode: 3270 Marcel Leyat adapts his experience designing aircraft to disrupt automotive development. Today, car design takes flight.
Episode: 2235 John Perry, Lord Kelvin, Earth's age, and the role of conduction and convection. Today, we see history evolving.
Episode: 2233 Gee Bee, Macchi-Castoldi, and the age of speed. Today, we go for speed.
Episode: 2230 James Banning, pioneering Black pilot. Today, James Herman Banning.
Episode: 2229 Hurdles that children must leap to learn science. Today, children and science.
Episode: 2785 VisiCalc: early killer-app. Today, column D, row 3.
Episode: 3107 Why it matters that we expect boys to be brilliant and girls to work hard. Today, let’s talk about who we expect to be brilliant.
Episode: 2897 A (Very) Short History of Privacy and Technology. Today, privacy and technology.
Episode: 3269 Blueprint: Once a thing, now only a metaphor. Today, a thing lingers as a metaphor.
Episode: 2227 A Late Night Movie: Beatrice Lillie and a glimpse of another time. Today, let us go to a very old movie.
Episode: 2232 The real story behind Amelia Earhart, and other tales to good to be true. Today, I'm in trouble.
