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: 3251 Alma Mahler, Composer of Haunting Songs. Today, music that blooms forth.
Episode: 2015 Five Hornblowers and three generations of steam engine development. Today, five Hornblowers.
Episode: 2013 Battleship Texas: a lesson in technological change. Today, Battleship Texas.
Episode: 2012 In which we use 125 questions to explain science. Today, 125 Questions.
Episode: 2594 Mapping the World: Ptolemy's Geographia. Today, a man and a map.
Episode: 2448 Sergei Rachmaninoff visits a hypnotist to remove his writer's block. Today, a composer unblocked.
Episode: 2591 Instant runoff voting and the Academy Awards. Today, what’s best?
Episode: 2011 Doubt and Leadership: The value of finding our own ignorance. Today, thoughts on leadership and doubt.
Episode: 2009 The End of Books, as seen in 1894. Today, a surprising vision of a future.
Episode: 2008 Figuring Out Science: Our surprising scientifically-savvy great-grandparents. Today, figuring out science in 1876.
Episode: 2588 Synthetic Sound Waves. Today, the sound of music.
Episode: 2824 An 18th-century catalogue of brass objects, an early approach to marketing, and decorative drawer handles. Today, we look at a mysterious catalogue.
Episode: 2585 The technology of timing races. Today, who won that race?
Episode: 2007 The Canonical Inventor, stepping over the tipping point. Today, canonical inventors.
Episode: 2005 Abram S. Hewitt: The other side of genius. Today, the other side of genius.
