Engines of Our Ingenuity

By Houston Public Media

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.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity episodes:

May 25, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1379: Frank and Peter Griffin
Episode: 1379 Frank and Peter Griffin: teaching calculus. Today, an obituary brings back memories.
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May 24, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1378: S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald
Episode: 1378 The wreck of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald; "Only a lake!" Today, just a lake!
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May 23, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1377: Ben Franklin and Music
Episode: 1377 Benjamin Franklin writes about music and electricity. Today, Ben Franklin talks about music.
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May 22, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2463: Serendipity
Episode: 2463 Serendipity and the Inventive Mind. Today, not-so-dumb luck.
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May 21, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3314: The Navier Stokes Equations
Episode: 3314 The Navier Stokes Equations in Movies, Video Games and Hurricane Forecasts. Today, the Navier Stokes equations.
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May 20, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3313: Shimmering Iridescence
Episode: 3313 The Allure of Shimmering Iridescence. Today we observe shimmering "Iridescence".
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May 19, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1376: Frére Jacques
Episode: 1376 Frére Jacques: The canonical hours and mechanical clocks. Today, religious practice and the mechanical clock.
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May 18, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1375: Newton vs Leibniz
Episode: 1375 Leibniz, Newton, and the great calculus dispute. Today, we throw Leibniz's cat into the super collider.
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May 17, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1373: Pittsburgh in 1816
Episode: 1373 Pittsburgh in 1816. Today, let's visit embryonic Pittsburgh.
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May 16, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1372: The Paige Compositor
Episode: 1372 Mark Twain and the Paige Compositor. Today, meet the man who bankrupted Mark Twain.
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How many episodes does Engines of Our Ingenuity have?

The podcast currently has 1,883 episodes available.