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: 2147 Technological survival in metaphors of the human body. Today, we wonder which technologies last.
Episode: 2731 Invention from Injury: The Story of Louis Braille. Today, injury sparks creativity.
Episode: 3001 Archimedes to the Rescue. Today, Archimedes to the rescue.
Episode: 2909 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Providing Renewable Energy, A Comparison of Hydrogen Fuel Cell and Lithium Ion Battery. Today, a neat way to get energy.
Episode: 2139 Old Sears and Roebuck catalogs tell us about buying power then and now. Today, old catalogs and buying power.
Episode: 3263 Standard Time's slow victory of common sense over individualism. Today, clocks, railways ... and individualism.
Episode: 2137 Tenement Houses: Trying to keep a roof over the poor. Today, we look for affordable housing.
Episode: 2727 Quantum Theory's Copenhagen Interpretation and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) Paper. Today, we get spooky.
Episode: 2654 Recumbent bicycles and the One Hour record. Today, variations on a bicycle.
Episode: 2999 Hannibal's Grand Strategy: Genius or Failure? Today, Hannibal at the gates.
Episode: 2136 Hi-Tech in 1740: The Musical Instrument Maker of Williamsburg. Today, we make the machines that make our music.
Episode: 2135 Zeitgeist: a dangerous guest, or ghost, who walks among us. Today, more about ghosts and machines.
Episode: 2133 Industrial Arts vs. Arts and Crafts: The perfect marriage of opposite. Today, we remember the industrial arts.
Episode: 2720 Project Habbakuk: Ice Aircraft Carriers and Pykrete. Today, something simple.
Episode: 2035 The Gunpowder Plot: Terrorism little-changed in four hundred years. Today, historian Cathy Patterson asks us to "Remember, remember, the fifth of November.
