Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2128: Ken Richmond and the Gong
Posted on · Episode: 2128 Ken Richmond, James Blades, and the J. Arthur Rank gong. Today, the death of an icon.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2127: How It Works
Posted on · Episode: 2127 How It Works vs. How to Make It: An early 20th-C case history. Today, How It Works.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2125: Religious Cartoons
Posted on · Episode: 2125 Religious cartoons: a window into the mechanics of media persuasion. Today, a window into the mechanics of media persuasion.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2124: A Crystal Ball
Posted on · Episode: 2124 On Crystal Ballgazing: A 1918 airplane of the future. Today, a crystal ball.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2122: Other People’s Money
Posted on · Episode: 2122 Other people’s money: Thoughts about diamonds and con games. Today, other people’s money.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2121: How Soon We Forget
Posted on · Episode: 2121 Reading about domestic mechanics in 1918 — how soon we forget. Today, how soon we forget.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2120: The ME-163B KOMET
Posted on · Episode: 2120 ME-163B Komet: a secret weapon that almost worked. Today, the problem with secret weapons.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2119: Casting and Optics
Posted on · Episode: 2119 Gutenberg, spherical mirrors, and cast type. Today, we see into the Renaissance.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2118: We Are the Machines’ Media
Posted on · Episode: 2118 We are the machines’ media – metaphors of function and metaphors of form. Today, our machines speak through us.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2115: The Color of Water
Posted on · Episode: 2115 The color of water, the color of air, the color of God. Today, let’s measure the color of water.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2116: Hydraulic Ram
Posted on · Episode: 2116 Balloons and hydraulic rams — unexpected bedfellows. Today, gravity versus the incredible lightness of being.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2114: Blimp
Posted on · Episode: 2114 A house for the blimps that saved us from submarines. Today, blimps and houses made to hold them.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2112: Röntgen in 1896
Posted on · Episode: 2112 In which Röntgen struggles to put fact before fame — not so easy to do. Today, Röntgen’s rays.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2113: Moral Equivalent of War
Posted on · Episode: 2113 William James seeks to replace war with its moral equivalent. Today, we try to replace war.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2111: Rogue Waves
Posted on · Episode: 2111 Rogue Waves, In which sea legends become real. Today, a tall tale turns into dangerous reality.