Engines of Our Ingenuity
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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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 3 minutes
- Episodes
- 170
- Years Active
- 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2577: The Frankfurter Küche
Episode: 2577 Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky's "Frankfurter Kuche" — The Birth of the Modern Kitchen. Today, UH architecture professor, Dietmar Froehlich tells us about Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and he…
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Tue 27 May 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1380: Indian Telegraph
Episode: 1380 William O'Shaughnessy and India's telegraph system. Today, telegraphy comes to India.
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Mon 26 May 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1379: Frank and Peter Griffin
Episode: 1379 Frank and Peter Griffin: teaching calculus. Today, an obituary brings back memories.
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Sun 25 May 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1378: S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald
Episode: 1378 The wreck of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald; "Only a lake!" Today, just a lake!
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Sat 24 May 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1377: Ben Franklin and Music
Episode: 1377 Benjamin Franklin writes about music and electricity. Today, Ben Franklin talks about music.
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Fri 23 May 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2463: Serendipity
Episode: 2463 Serendipity and the Inventive Mind. Today, not-so-dumb luck.
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Thu 22 May 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3314: The Navier Stokes Equations
Episode: 3314 The Navier Stokes Equations in Movies, Video Games and Hurricane Forecasts. Today, the Navier Stokes equations.
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Wed 21 May 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3313: Shimmering Iridescence
Episode: 3313 The Allure of Shimmering Iridescence. Today we observe shimmering "Iridescence".
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Tue 20 May 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1376: Frére Jacques
Episode: 1376 Frére Jacques: The canonical hours and mechanical clocks. Today, religious practice and the mechanical clock.
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Mon 19 May 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1375: Newton vs Leibniz
Episode: 1375 Leibniz, Newton, and the great calculus dispute. Today, we throw Leibniz's cat into the super collider.
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Sun 18 May 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1373: Pittsburgh in 1816
Episode: 1373 Pittsburgh in 1816. Today, let's visit embryonic Pittsburgh.
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Sat 17 May 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1372: The Paige Compositor
Episode: 1372 Mark Twain and the Paige Compositor. Today, meet the man who bankrupted Mark Twain.
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Fri 16 May 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2461: Nanotechnology
Episode: 2461 The Growth of Nanotechnology. Today, small is big.
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Thu 15 May 2025
The Engines of Out Ingenuity 2426: Charles Dow
Episode: 2426 Charles Dow and the Creation of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Today, an "average" guy.
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Wed 14 May 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2619: Space Medicine
Episode: 2619 Practicing Medicine Off the Planet; A New Physiology. Today, Astronaut Michael Barratt talks about medicine in space.
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Tue 13 May 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1371: Soapy Sam and Huxley
Episode: 1371 The great evolution war at Oxford in 1860. Today, we join the first major battle in a long war.
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Mon 12 May 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1370: Anno Domini 1370
Episode: 1370 Anno Domini 1370: So much going on just below the surface. Today, the story behind an arbitrary date.
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Sun 11 May 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1369: Fokker’s Interrupter Mechanism
Episode: 1369 Fokker and the machine gun interrupter mechanism. Today, we meet a nice young man and his killing machines.
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Sat 10 May 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1368: Baron Grimthorpe
Episode: 1368 Edmund Beckett, Lord Grimthorpe: of clockwork and convervatism. Today, clocks for the rich and clocks for the poor.
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Fri 09 May 2025
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2458: The Container Port of Houston
Episode: 2458 A Visit to the Container Port of Houston. Today, working on the dock of the bay.
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Thu 08 May 2025
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