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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1540: The Ironclad Turtle

Posted on July 16, 2018 · Episode: 1540 The Korean Turtle Boat – the first ironclad. Today, we meet a turtle with an iron shell.

Posted on July 13, 2018 · Episode: 1539 In which a thin layer of fluid determines whether an airplane flies. Today, a wind blows by us.

Posted on July 11, 2018 · Episode: 1537 John Wilkins talks about life on the Moon, in 1638. Today, life on the moon.

Posted on July 9, 2018 · Episode: 1536 A seventy-year old picture of transcontinental flight. Today, let’s fly across American in 1930.

Posted on July 6, 2018 · Episode: 1535 The mechanical clock as tactile philosophy. Today, we invent the mechanical clock.

Posted on July 4, 2018 · Episode: 1534 Making sense of the slippery concept of acceleration. Today, let’s think about falling.

Posted on July 2, 2018 · Episode: 1533 The Triple Nickel: the first Black paratroopers become smoke jumpers. Today, a secret WW-II battle.

Posted on June 29, 2018 · Episode: 1532 The invention and selling of the typewriter. Today, the typewriter teaches us its purpose.

Posted on June 27, 2018 · Episode: 1531 On restoring the word theory. Today, let’s theorize.

Posted on June 25, 2018 · Episode: 1530 Medieval masons and the mischief of success. Today, we meet a medieval mason.

Posted on June 22, 2018 · Episode: 1529 Osborne Reynolds: of sand Reynolds Numbers. Today, a great Victorian engineer.

Posted on June 20, 2018 · Episode: 1527 How Clean Water triggered the Great Polio Epidemics. Today, we wonder where polio came from.

Posted on June 18, 2018 · Episode: 1526 Learning speech: the Paleolithic technological explosion. Today, we learn to talk.

Posted on June 15, 2018 · Episode: 1525 Liberty ships: an amateur takes over the trade. Today, an amateur builds ships.

Posted on June 13, 2018 · Episode: 1524 The other great fire of 1871: Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Today, the other great fire.