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 14, 2025 The Engines of Out Ingenuity 2426: Charles Dow
Episode: 2426 Charles Dow and the Creation of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Today, an "average" guy.
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May 13, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2619: Space Medicine
Episode: 2619 Practicing Medicine Off the Planet; A New Physiology. Today, Astronaut Michael Barratt talks about medicine in space.
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May 12, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1371: Soapy Sam and Huxley
Episode: 1371 The great evolution war at Oxford in 1860. Today, we join the first major battle in a long war.
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May 11, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1370: Anno Domini 1370
Episode: 1370 Anno Domini 1370: So much going on just below the surface. Today, the story behind an arbitrary date.
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May 10, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1369: Fokker’s Interrupter Mechanism
Episode: 1369 Fokker and the machine gun interrupter mechanism. Today, we meet a nice young man and his killing machines.
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May 09, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1368: Baron Grimthorpe
Episode: 1368 Edmund Beckett, Lord Grimthorpe: of clockwork and convervatism. Today, clocks for the rich and clocks for the poor.
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May 08, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2458: The Container Port of Houston
Episode: 2458 A Visit to the Container Port of Houston. Today, working on the dock of the bay.
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May 07, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3014: Measuring Almost Nothing
Episode: 3014 Measuring Almost Nothing. Today, we measure almost nothing.
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May 06, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3241: Hooker’s Green
Episode: 3241 Green with Immortality. Today, we go green with immortality.
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May 05, 2025 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1367: Struggling With Abstraction
Episode: 1367 Struggling with abstraction in schools and in public. Today, we think about thinking abstractly.
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The podcast currently has 2,022 episodes available.