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Engines of Our Ingenuity

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. 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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3:30

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1143: Shakespeare and Medicine

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/29

Episode: 1143 Shakespeare's long-standing fascination with medicine. Today, Shakespeare's fascination with medicine.

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3:48

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1950: Girolamo Cardano

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/28

Episode: 1950 Girolamo Cardano: The tormented life of a towering renaissance thinker. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd shares a story of triumph and tragedy.

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3:49

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2714: Hub Motors

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/27

Episode: 2714 Hub Motors, aka In-Wheel Motors and their applications in electric vehicles. Today, re-inventing...wheels.

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3:47

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3296: Keeping the Lights On...

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/26

Episode: 3296 Icons of Hong Kong: Neon Signs, and Local Cinema. Today, we hope the lights never go out in Hong Kong.

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3:34

Engines of Our Ingenuity1142: Legend and Flight

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/25

Episode: 1142 The accumulation of empirical data in the legends of flight. Today, old stories turn from legend into experimental development.

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3:37

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1140: Twentieth-Century Tents

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/24

Episode: 1140 Tents: a very old and very modern architecture. Today, a new architecture -- the tent!

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3:38

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1139: The Wounded Story-Teller

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/23

Episode: 1139 The Wounded Story Teller recovers from illness. Today, we tell the story of an illness.

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3:34

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1138: The Texas City Disaster

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/22

Episode: 1138 Texas City, Roseburg, World Trade Center, Oklahoma City: a story of fertilizer and cigarettes. Today's story is about cigarettes and fertilizer.

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3:47

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1948: Lobster Shells

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/21

Episode: 1948 Sex, Love and Lobster Shells. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd asks where lobsters come from.

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3:52

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2977: Thomas Jefferson and...

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/20

Episode: 2977 Thomas Jefferson, the Maison Carrée of Nîmes, and the Virginia State Capitol. Today, Thomas Jefferson in love.

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3:53

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3016 Simpson’s Paradox

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/19

Episode: 3016 Simpson's Paradox. Today, paradoxical averages.

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3:32

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1137: America at the First...

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/18

Episode: 1137 America goes to the first modern Olympic Games. Today, amateur America goes to its first Olympic Games.

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3:32

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1135: Ol’ Man River

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/17

Episode: 1135 Trying to hold a river that doesn't want to be held. Today, the Mississippi writes a parable about going with the flow.

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3:38

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1134: Linear B

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/16

Episode: 1134 Linear A and Linear B: Decoding the old Minoan scripts. Today, we struggle to read what our ancestors are saying to us.

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3:29

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1133: Lucille Treganowan

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/15

Episode: 1133 Of Lucille Treganowan and automobile transmission repair. Today, let's meet an unexpected auto mechanic.

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3:45

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1929: Switched on Bach

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/14

Episode: 1929 Wendy Carlos and Switched-On Bach -- new technology, new music. Today, guest scientist Andy Boyd makes music.

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3:50

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2998: Evolution in a Test Tube

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/13

Episode: 2998 Test Tube Evolution. Today, evolution in a test tube.

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3:47

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2851: Unplanned Obsolescence

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/12

Episode: 2851 The Lake Breeze Fan: Unplanned Obsolescence. Today, invention and obsolescence.

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3:36

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1132: The Siege of Paris

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/11

Episode: 1132 In which balloons deliver the mail during the Siege of Paris. Today, the very first airmail service is used to break a siege.

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3:36

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1131: John Hunter

Engines of Our Ingenuity ·

2024/03/10

Episode: 1131 John Hunter: idiosyncratic medical pioneer. Today, the history of medicine provides a strange hero.

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