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:

December 22, 2024 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1302: Francois Marcet’s Steam Globe
Episode: 1302 Francois Marcet's steam globe: measuring vapor-pressure. Today, a piece of apparatus and a piece of history.
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December 21, 2024 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1301: The Boy Mechanic
Episode: 1301 The Boy Mechanic: endangering boys seeking danger. Today, a boy's world, a century ago.
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December 20, 2024 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1300: Daniel Fahrenheit
Episode: 1300 Daniel Fahrenheit invents the thermometer and its scale. Today, we invent the thermometer.
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December 19, 2024 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2399: Engineering Freeways
Episode: 2399 The Many Facets of Engineering a Freeway. Today, stuck in traffic.
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December 18, 2024 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2951: Going To Sea
Episode: 2951 Scurvy, Vitamin C, and the Origins of the Modern Clinical Trial. Today, we go to sea.
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December 17, 2024 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2367: Georgie Clark
Episode: 2367 Georgie Clark and the invention of white-water rafting. Today, let's go whitewater rafting.
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December 16, 2024 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1299: Stability of Pagodas
Episode: 1299 The improbable earth-quakeproof Japanese pagoda. Today, pagodas and earthquakes.
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December 15, 2024 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1298: Edward Ritchie
Episode: 1298 Edward Ritchie: building instruments and shaping education. Today, let's watch machines shape education -- and invention.
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December 14, 2024 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1297: Verea’s Calculating Machine
Episode: 1297 Ramon Verea's calculating machine: inventing to make a point. Today, invention serves an unexpected purpose.
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December 13, 2024 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1296: Carnegie Looks at Watt
Episode: 1296 In which Andrew Carnegie contemplates James Watt. Today, Andrew Carnegie looks at James Watt.
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The podcast currently has 1,890 episodes available.