Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3236: The Humble Index Card
Posted on · Episode: 3236 Analysis, Creativity, and the Humble Index Card. Today, the humble index card.
Posted on · Episode: 3236 Analysis, Creativity, and the Humble Index Card. Today, the humble index card.
Posted on · Episode: 2935 In which humpback whales revise airfoil theory with the tubercles on their flippers. Today whale aerodynamics.
Posted on · Episode: 2932 Monopoly games for POWs and the creation of myths. Today, Monopoly games and mythology.
Posted on · Episode: 2929 The treacherous Goodwin Sands give up the last Dornier-17. Today, the Goodwin Sands.
Posted on · Episode: 2925 The wreck of the Francis H. Leggett and the question: What makes history interesting? Today, Oregon’s worst shipwreck.
Posted on · Episode: 2921 The development of Italy’s Reggiane 2005 fighter plane from the American P-35 as genetic analogy. Today, airplane genetics.
Posted on · Episode: 2911 A very big spool: The Quincy Mine No. 2 Shaft Hoist, the largest in the world. Today, a very big spool.
Posted on · Episode: 2896 In which Nadezhda Popova beats off the Wehrmacht in a crop-duster. Today, Nadia Popova.
Posted on · Episode: 2892 Steampunk: An exercise in writing science fiction without predicting the future. Today, steampunk.
Posted on · Episode: 2880 Glacier Bay as seen by John Muir before 1885 — different now. Today, Glacier Bay, in another time.
Posted on · Episode: 2877 What do bees and other creatures see with their unimaginable eyes? Today, technology, engineering, and art.
Posted on · Episode: 2876 In which engineers and scientists assess their work in 1945. Today, scientists speak as WW-II ends.
Posted on · Episode: 2874 The ground effect in the service of birds and human vehicles. Today, the ground effect.
Posted on · Episode: 2871 In which Samuel P. Langley talks about solar powered engines in 1884. Today, an idea, long before its time.
Posted on · Episode: 2867 Augustin Fresnel, light, and lighthouses: from the science of light to the saving of ships. Today, Fresnel and his Lighthouses.