Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1624: Garrett Morgan
Posted on · Episode: 1624 Garrett A. Morgan: Black American inventor. Today, thoughts about traffic lights, gas masks, and hair straighteners.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1623: Joel Dorman and Esther Steele
Posted on · Episode: 1623 The textbooks of J. Dorman and Esther Steele. Today, we meet two very special teachers.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1622: Fingerprints
Posted on · Episode: 1622 Fingerprints, crime detection, and identification. Today, I ask, “Who are you?”
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1621: Motherland
Posted on · Episode: 1621 Motherland: The Stalingrad Memorial. Today, we visit a really big statue.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1620: The Indian Canoe
Posted on · Episode: 1620 The Indian canoe — another perfected technology. Today, birch-bark canoes.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1619: A Theatre of Machines
Posted on · Episode: 1619 Theatre of Machines — forerunners of engineering handbooks. Today, the first handbooks.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1585: Dissonance
Posted on · Episode: 1585 In which the elephant Prathida teaches me about dissonance and Christmas. Today, dissonance, elephants, and the holiday season.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1618: Existence and Uniqueness
Posted on · Episode: 1618 Today we wonder whether something other than one solution exists. Today, the forgotten lecture in your math course.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1617: Connections
Posted on · Episode: 1617 Reflections on the dicey question of cause and effect in history. Today, the connections problem.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1616: Ivan Pulzunov
Posted on · Episode: 1616 Ivan Polzunov and early Russian steam engines. Today, the steam engine comes to Russia.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1615: Learning to Use Coal
Posted on · Episode: 1615 On learning to use coal. Today, we learn why we shouldn’t bring coals to Newcastle.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1614: Advice for Living, 1836
Posted on · Episode: 1614 Advice on how to live our lives from 1836. Today, we learn how to live our lives — in 1836.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1613: Faraday and Magnetism
Posted on · Episode: 1613 In which Michael Faraday helps us to parse the word, Genius. Today, we watch genius at work.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1612: Enemy at the Gates
Posted on · Episode: 1612 Trying to tell the story of the worst battle. Today, we wonder how to tell of history.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1611: Benjamin Franklin and Cotton Mather
Posted on · Episode: 1611 Benjamin Franklin and Cotton Mather: ideologies diverge and converge. Today, Benjamin Franklin and Cotton Mather.