Engines of Our Ingenuity

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Engines of Our Ingenuity

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Engines of Our Ingenuity

Houston Public Media

Engines of Our Ingenuity

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Episode: 1366 Rain, Steam, and Speed: Turner's vision of modern times.  Today, a painting tells the coming of rail.
Episode: 1364 Our radar warning of the Pearl Harbor attack.  Today, devastation follows when we don't trust a new technology.
Episode: 3312 An 1861 Natural Philosophy test reveals far more than it meant to.Today, a look at physics before our Civil War.
Episode: 2454 Ruth Benerito and Wrinkle Free Cotton.  Today, we wash and wear.
Episode: 3040 Leonardo and Borelli.  Today, two hemispheres come together.
Episode: 2579 Music and Mathematics.  Today, UH Math Professor Krešo Josić talks about music and mathematics.
Episode: 1363 Man the measure -- man the meter.  Today, let's ask what meters measure.
Episode: 1362 The first twenty years of transatlantic flights.  Today, we fly the Atlantic.
Episode: 1360 A brief history of bathing ourselves.  Today, let's bathe.
Episode: 1359 The Windmill: A device that has come, gone, and which may come again.  Today, let's tilt at windmills.
Episode: 2452 Gadgets in the American Kitchen.  Today, gadgets galore.
Episode: 2268 The Lucifer Effect: From Stanford University to Abu Ghraib.  Today, our guest, UH journalist Michael Berryhill, looks at the Lucifer effect.
Episode: 2557 Linear algebra, the mathematics behind Google's ranking algorithm.  Today, let's talk about how Google ranks your search results.
Episode: 1358 William Minor helping us to understand language from an insane asylum.  Today, a great dictionary and an asylum for the criminally insane.
Episode: 1357 An airplane propeller test facility, twelve years before the Wright Brothers.  Today, we test airplane propellers, 12 years before the Wright brothers flew.
Episode: 1356 Betting on science. It's been going on for a long time.  Today, let's bet on science.
Episode: 1355 Major General George Squire, Muzak, and struggling to be generous.  Today, a story about altruism and Muzak.
Episode: 2450 A Musical Transition: The Beatles 1965-1967.  Today, a great music group changes.
Episode: 2419 Peter Schlumbohm and the invention of modern coffee-making techniques.  Today, a chemist and his coffee.
Episode: 3310 Nature, Romanticism, and the Poetry of John Clare.  Today, we look closely at Romantic nature.
Episode: 3311 A 1918 National Geographic Magazine makes propaganda as it reports WW-I aerial warfare.  Today, Aerial warfare in another century.
Episode: 1353 In which we visit a small town.  Today, let's visit a small town.
Episode: 1351 Balloonists Jean-Pierre and Marie Blanchard, the first barnstormers.  Today, we join George Washington at a balloon ascent.
Episode: 1350 Vespucci and the naming of America.  Today, we name America.
Episode: 2447 The Special Theory of Relativity in Einstein's Own Words.  Today, simple but brilliant.
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