Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity
Hosted by Houston Public Media · EN
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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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1611: Benjamin Franklin and Cotton Mather
2d ago00:03:46Tap to summarizeEpisode: 1611 Benjamin Franklin and Cotton Mather: ideologies diverge and converge. Today, Benjamin Franklin and Cotton Mather.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1610: Experimental Proof
3d ago00:03:44Tap to summarizeEpisode: 1610 Thoughts on the nature and purpose of experiments. Today, we wonder why people do experiments.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1609: Franklin’s Heat Experiment
4d ago00:03:41Tap to summarizeEpisode: 1609 Benjamin Franklin's experiments in thermal radiation. Today, Benjamin Franklin thinks about theoretical and applied science.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2623: Thomas Carlyle’s Past and Present
5d ago00:03:49Tap to summarizeEpisode: 2623 Thomas Carlyle and the Working of Free Markets. Today, economic salvation.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3393: Curtiss Robin
6d ago00:03:58Tap to summarizeEpisode: 3393 In which the 1928 Curtiss Robin airplane was far more than it seemed to be. Today, a ride in a bland airplane.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3392: Orientalism
1w ago00:03:56Tap to summarizeEpisode: 3392 The Rise of Orientalism and its crescendo in the Roaring ‘20s. Today, strange happenings in the 1920s.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3391: Project Mohole
1w ago00:03:47Tap to summarizeEpisode: 3391 In which Project Mohole looks inside Earth while Sputnik reaches outside. Today, Inner Space versus Outer Space.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1608: Members in Tension
1w ago00:03:43Tap to summarizeEpisode: 1608 Three scale models of structures, with vastly different weights. Today, we design for tension.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1607: Fire Control
1w ago00:03:43Tap to summarizeEpisode: 1607 Continuous-aim firing: a diagnosis of an ill-received idea. Today, we aim a gun from a rocking platform.
Transcribe →The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1606: The Skycity
2w ago00:03:45Tap to summarizeEpisode: 1606 The Skycity: a concept struggling against its own Gothic weight. Today, the skycity.
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