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 1041: Chinese Pharmacy
Episode: 1041 A Chinese pharmacopoeia -- 2000 years ago. Today, we ask how the Chinese managed to hide their candle under a bushel.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2441: Temple Geometry
Episode: 2441 Temple Geometry: Sacred Mathematics in Japan's Edo Period. Today, temple geometry.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2408: Roman Political Invective
Episode: 2408 Roman Political Invective. Today, a look at Roman mudslinging.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2249: Mrs. Coade’s Stone
Episode: 2249 Mrs. Coade's remarkable stones. Today, architectural historian Margaret Culbertson tells about a woman who made artificial stone.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1040: Humanism and Feminism
Episode: 1040 Ancient Greece and Renaissance Europe: virtues and vices. Today, an old Greek mummy tells us about the Renaissance.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1342: Wright and Langley
Episode: 1342 The Wright Brothers' fight for priority over Langley. Today, an attempt to rewrite history.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1341: Physiology in 1872
Episode: 1341 A view of physiology in 1872 -- not that long ago. Today, let's look at medicine when my grandfather was young.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1340: Animals and Emotion
Episode: 1340 Animals and emotion: figuring out what is obvious. Today, let's talk to animals.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2437: Fire in the Kitchen
Episode: 2437 Cooking With Fire In the Colonial Period and Now. Today, fire in the kitchen.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2075: Rudolph Ackerman
Episode: 2075 Rudolph Ackerman and his amazing chronicles of 19th-century art and technology. Today, architectural historian Margaret Culbertson tells us about a great chronicler of technology and a…