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: 2095 Sidney Rix's new algebra book: Of billboards and landscapes. Today, Sidney Rix's new algebra book.
Episode: 2093 The Posillipo Tunnel, or Crypta Napoletana -- a subway to the underworld. Today, we visit the Philegraean Fields.
Episode: 2686 The Story of Frank and Lillian Moller Gilbreth. Today, cheaper by the dozen.
Episode: 3261 Meeting Global Construction Deadlines with Heavy-Lift Vessels. Today, heavy lift vessels.
Episode: 2092 Is thermodynamics a science, or it is only derived from physics? Today, we wonder what makes a science.
Episode: 2091 A wedding at the Hvalsøy Church in Greenland. The last word in AD 1408. Today, an old stone church.
Episode: 2090 Aerial soldiers of fortune: In which war is more exciting than barnstorming. Today, flying mercenaries.
Episode: 2683 Taylorism: early scientific management. Today, Neanderthal genes.
Episode: 2637 Neanderthal genes in the human genome, and Darwin's theory of Sexual Selection. Today, Neanderthal genes.
Episode: 2680 What happens when no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes? Today, we vote for president.
Episode: 2088 Johann Joachim Becher, mercantilism, phlogiston, and gold. Today, a 17th-century thinker searches for gold.
Episode: 2089 Nathan Read, Colonial inventor: a life well-lived. Today, a life well lived.
Episode: 2087 Gauss's famous calculation: an exercise in sorting fact from fiction. Today, Gauss's trick.
Episode: 2678 Hugh Everett III: Man of Many Worlds. Today, a tragedy in at least one universe.
Episode: 2765 The Mechanical Turk. Today, the chess playing automaton.
