Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1982: Dürer’s Roman Letters
Posted on · Episode: 1982 Albrecht Dürer and Times Roman Letters: Art that endured. Today, let us write in CAPITAL LETTERS.
Posted on · Episode: 1982 Albrecht Dürer and Times Roman Letters: Art that endured. Today, let us write in CAPITAL LETTERS.
Posted on · Episode: 1978 Ötzi’s shoes: a lesson in ergonomics from the Stone Age. Today, let us walk a mile in a pair of Stone Age shoes.
Posted on · Episode: 1980 Manuscript Demography: the birth and death of books. Today, manuscript demography.
Posted on · Episode: 1975 In which botanist Asa Gray shows us how to apply good science. Today, a botanist in a changing world.
Posted on · Episode: 2014 Boiling bubbles and fizzing bubbles: So alike, so different! Today, bubbles in soda and bubbles in teakettles.
Posted on · Episode: 2038 Putting a leap second in an elastic year. Today, we add a second to our lives.
Posted on · Episode: 1976 An old handbook evokes a reflection on correspondence schools. Today, we go to correspondence school.
Posted on · Episode: 1563 Looking back at the impact of toys. Today, we play with toys.
Posted on · Episode: 1760 The Christmas Lectures: Michael Faraday’s Gift to children. Today, the Christmas Lectures.
Posted on · Episode: 1861 Music for a while: Thinking about sound, silence, and Henry Purcell. Today, music and silence.
Posted on · Episode: 1974 Inventing the Air Force, 1911 to 1917. Today, we invent the Air Force.
Posted on · Episode: 1973 Of organs and engines: St. Sulpice, Corliss, and the Barker-lever. Today, organs and engines.
Posted on · Episode: 1972 Sorting out the mystery of the Baghdad Batteries. Today, electricity in the ancient world?
Posted on · Episode: 1970 Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and their needless war. Today, needless anger.
Posted on · Episode: 1965 In which Robert and George Stephenson bring rail to its maturity. Today, the coming of rail.