Engines of Our Ingenuity (Culture)
- Next available on KUHF 88.7 Houston, TX in 1 day 14 hours 26 minutes
- 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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- Genres: Culture, History, Science-Technology
- Location: Houston, TX
- Language: English
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Engineering, Football, and a Good Prank
Thu, Nov 20
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Episode # 2432 Engineering, Football, and What Makes a Good Prank
Feiseler Storch
Wed, Nov 19
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Episode # 2131 The Fieseler Stork in a last dogfight — between two very unlikely combatants
Equiping Your Clinic
Fri, Nov 14
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Episode # 2030 How we equipped today's medical clinics in 1915
Electric Hope in 1889
Mon, Nov 10
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Episode # 2428 Electric hope in 1889: drunk on the new elixir of electricity
Arrow's Paradox
Fri, Nov 7
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Episode #2427 The Problem With Voting Systems: Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
Charles Dow
Thu, Oct 30
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Episode # 2426 Charles Dow and the Creation of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Sketches
Mon, Oct 27
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Episode # 2426 In which the Smithsonian Institution celebrates sketching
The National Institute of Standards
Fri, Oct 24
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Episode # 2424 The National Institute of Standards and Technology
William Ferrel
Tue, Oct 7
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Episode # 2421 William Ferrel: a story of genius, geophysics and coincidence
Perfecting Coffee
Fri, Oct 3
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Episode # 2419 Peter Schlumbohm and the invention of modern coffee-making techniques.
Rheticus and Copernicus
Fri, Oct 3
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Episode # 2420 Georg Rheticus, Copernicus' only student and his prophet
Luck and Las Vegas
Thu, Oct 2
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Episode # 2418 Quantifying the chance of losing at casino games.
Kill Devil Hill
Wed, Oct 1
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Episode # 2417 Kill Devil Hill: the texture of the Wright Brothers' accomplishment
Camels in Canada
Fri, Sep 26
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Episode #2415 In which camels return to their native continent and are ill-received.
The Black Sea
Thu, Sep 25
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Episode # 1192 In which a deluge transforms the Black Sea — and farming
Robert's Rules of Order
Fri, Sep 19
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Episode # 1099 Henry Robert: a civil engineer creates order at meetings
Airplanes Without Tails
Wed, Sep 10
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Episode # 2413 Of hawks and flying wings: airplanes without tails
The Past and the Future
Fri, Sep 5
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Episode # 2412 Disney's Spaceship Earth: Past and Future Communication
The Vintage of Cave Art
Wed, Sep 3
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Episode # 2410 Was cave art too good to have been made 30,000 years ago?
Birds in the Brush
Fri, Aug 29
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Episode # 2064 Seeing what we might have otherwise driven past on the South Texas coast.
The Great Balloon Disaster
Tue, Aug 19
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Episode # 2405 Jean-Fran?ois de Rozier: first aeronaut to fly, and first to die
Sir Goldsworth Gurney
Tue, Aug 12
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Episode # 2052 The many inventions of Sir Goldsworthy Gurney
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