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