Engines of Our Ingenuity

Episode: 2614 Engineering Pictures Made of Pixels.  Today, painting with pixels.

Episode: 2036 Edward Frankland: A brilliant chemist with a weighty secret.  Today, a remarkable Victorian chemist,and his dark secret.

Episode: 2034 The High-Wheeler, a brief and remarkable moment in bicycle evolution.  Today, the brief day of the high-wheeler.

Episode: 2033 Milton Grosvenor Howe's remarkable drafting textbook.  Today, an intimate look at America emerging.

Episode: 2611 Early science fiction: Kepler's Somnium.  Today, a dream.

Episode: Ancel Keys and the Link between Diet and Heart Disease.  Today, a heart doctor who wasn’t.

Episode: 2608 Maria Telkes: Solar Energy Pioneer.  Today, here comes the sun.

Episode: 2032 Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps: revolution and conservativism entwined.  Today, a conservative voice in a radical cause.

Episode: 2030 In which we listen to ghosts, and they explain history to us.  Today, we learn history from ghosts.

Episode: 2029 The last great biplane fighter -- the Polikarpov beyond its prime.  Today, an airplane in the shifting skies of war.

Episode: 2606 More Beautiful Books: revisiting books by the foot.  Today, the measure of a book.

Episode: 2707 Models of the world.  Today, let’s talk about models.

Episode: 3253 Teaching Computers to Think.  Today, Teaching a Computer.

Episode: 2028 The B-36: an airplane that fell in the crack of technological change.  Today, we fall into a technological crack.

Episode: 2026 Ritual origins of technology: balance and metaphor.  Today, we meet the mother of invention, and she's not the lady we expected.