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Engines of Our Ingenuity (Science-Technology)

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  • Host: John Lienhard
  • The Engines of Our Ingenuity is a radio program that tells the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. 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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Napoleon's Theorem

Fri, Nov 13 Listen
Episode # 2550 Could Napoleon have proved Napoleon's Theorem?

Cahokia

Thu, Nov 12 Listen
Episode # 2549 Cahokia, an Ancient American Metropolis.

INFORMS

Thu, Nov 12 Listen
Episode # 2548 INFORMS and the mathematics of problem solving.

Charging Interest

Thu, Nov 12 Listen
Episode # 2547 Changing views on charging interest throughout history.

William Froude

Wed, Nov 11 Listen
Episode # 2546 In which William Froude shows us how to model ships, and much more.

Milton Bradley

Wed, Nov 11 Listen
Episode # 2545 Game Maker Milton Bradley

Face Recognition

Wed, Nov 4 Listen
Episode #2544 How humans and computers recognize faces

Clara Adams Takes Flight

Wed, Nov 4 Listen
Episode #2543 Clara Adams: 150,000 miles of maiden flights.

Hippodamus of Miletus

Thu, Oct 8 Listen
Episode # 2542 Hippodamus of Miletus and Urban Design

Reliving Charlotte's Web

Thu, Oct 8 Listen
Episode # 2541 Charlotte, of Charlotte's Web, in real life.

Semi-Submersible Ships

Wed, Oct 7 Listen
Episode # 2540 Semi-Submersible Ships, or how the USS Cole hitched a ride home.

Techne, Tacit and Spoken

Wed, Oct 7 Listen
Episode # 2539 Define technology? Why, it's as easy as riding a bike

Cheese

Wed, Sep 30 Listen
Episode # 2538 Engineering Cheese Through the Millenia.

Vredefort and Apophis

Wed, Sep 30 Listen
Episode 2537 Vredefort, Chicxulub, Apophis — once and future threats to Earth

Scapa Flow

Wed, Sep 30 Listen
Episode # 2536 The Scapa Flow ship cemetery.

Times Tables

Wed, Sep 30 Listen
Episode # 2535 The base of a number system: times tables and memorization.

History and Epidemic Disease

Fri, Sep 18 Listen
Episode # 2534 History and Epidemic Disease

The Power of Three

Wed, Sep 16 Listen
Episode # 2533 On Table Legs and Flat Surfaces.

Fanny Kemble

Fri, Sep 11 Listen
Episode # 2532 Fanny Kemble, technology, and London's circle of radical intellectual women.

Reading Vienna

Thu, Sep 10 Listen
Episode # 2531 Reading Vienna—A history through architecture

Observation and Explanation

Fri, Sep 4 Listen
Episode # 2530 The observation is evolution - the theory is natural selection.

Comparing Fingerprints

Fri, Aug 28 Listen
Episode # 2529 Comparing Fingerprints: What's Involved and What can go Wrong

Weights and Measures

Fri, Aug 21 Listen
Episode # 2528 le Systeme international d'unites, our real standard of units

Alphonse Bertillon

Fri, Aug 21 Listen
Episode # 2527 Alphonse Bertillon: Measuring the Man.

Montagu/Sandwich

Fri, Aug 21 Listen
Episode # 2526 John Montagu, Lord Sandwich, and a little-known island chain

Protruding Land

Fri, Aug 21 Listen
Episode # 2525 Reflections on protruding land, shipwrecks and lighthouses.

Art Arfons and Speed

Fri, Aug 21 Listen
Episode # 2524 Art Arfons' last Hurrah

Georges-Eugene Hausmann

Wed, Aug 12 Listen
Episode # 2523 Georges-Eug?ne Haussmann Reshapes Paris.

Farnum Fish

Wed, Aug 12 Listen
Episode # 2522 Farnum Thayer Fish, first airplane combat casualty

Radical Buildings

Wed, Aug 12 Listen
Episode # 2521 The Stata Center, Caligari's Cabinet, and radical buildings

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