Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1656: Power in Colorado
Posted on · Episode: 1656 Electric power comes to Telluride, Colorado. Today, we install a dynamo on a mountaintop.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1655: Après le Déluge
Posted on · Episode: 1655 After the flood: Freeze-drying the history of desegragation. Today, we Freeze-dry our past.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1654: Tidal Power, 1921
Posted on · Episode: 1654 The forgotten renewable energy source, tidal (or lunar) power. Today, solar power and lunar power.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1653: Aeolian Vibration
Posted on · Episode: 1653 Aeolian harps, transmission wires, and vortex wakes. Today, the Aeolian harp.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1652: Justus von Liebig
Posted on · Episode: 1652 Justus von Liebig and the first R&D laboratory. Today, we create the first research laboratory.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1650: Inherent Stability in 1916
Posted on · Episode: 1650 Learning about the stability of aeroplanes in 1916. Today, we worry about airplane stability in 1916.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1649: Fessenden and Radio Sound
Posted on · Episode: 1649 Reginald Fessenden endows radio with sound. Today, we add sound to radio.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1648: An American Dirigible
Posted on · Episode: 1648 Building a dirigible to get to the California gold rush. Today, some thoughts on success, failure, and flying to California.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1646: Who Did What By When?
Posted on · Episode: 1646 Thinking about who had done what by what age. Today, who did what by when?
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1645: Pi
Posted on · Episode: 1645 Figuring out the value of Pi. Today, let’s talk about pi — and not the kind you eat.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1644: Hufeland on Infants
Posted on · Episode: 1644 An 18th-century doctor helps great-grandmother raise grandpa. Today, we raise a nineteenth-century child.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1643: Athanasius Kircher
Posted on · Episode: 1643 In which Athanasius Kircher softens the 17th-C scientific revolution. Today, — after Galileo.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1642: Halley’s Comet
Posted on · Episode: 1642 Reflections upon Halley’s, and other, Comets. Today, a comet approaches.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1641: Aaron Montgomery Ward
Posted on · Episode: 1641 Aaron Montgomery Ward and the catalog that didn't belong in a store. Today, meet Montgomery Ward.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1640: Learning Electricity
Posted on · Episode: 1640 Learning electricity and learning about technological revolutions. Today, we become electrified.