Engines of Our Ingenuity

Episode: 3007 Samuel Gragg's Unusual Chair.  Today we look at an elastic Chair.

Episode: 2703 Gravity Train.  Today, slip sliding away.

Episode: 2102 The cradle of civilization: further north than we thought?  Today, we look for the cradle of civilization.

Episode: 2101: Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis: a flattened Earth, and the Principle of Least Action.  Today, least action and a flattened Earth.

Episode: 2099 Walter George Tarrant's Tabor, an airplane that was too big.  Today, a real estate developer builds an airplane.

Episode: 2698 Galileo, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Vatican Library.  Today, of science and scripture.

Episode: 2893 How the batteries work; The electrodes and electrolytes; The Wonders of Electrochemistry.  Today, the magic of batteries.

Episode: 2694 Science and the Second Industrial Revolution.  Today, science, invention, and a revolution of sorts.

Episode: 2098 Charles Davies, more than just another textbook writer.  Today, a home-grown American Mathematician.

Episode: 2100 The Mpemba Effect: heating water to make it freeze faster.  Today, another look at an old claim.

Episode: 2097 Constantine the African bringing Arab medicine to Europe.  Today, Constantine the African.

Episode: 2692 Hotelling's Law.  Today, we meet in the middle.

Episode: 2834 Wombs and Witchcraft: Edward Jorden's Suffocation of the Mother (1603).  Today, wombs and witchcraft.

Episode: 2690 What the pharaohs didn't have: appreciating modern technology.  Today, to be a pharaoh.

Episode: 2096 In which archer fish learn to shoot straight.  Today, an archer fish learns to shoot.