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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1982: Dürer’s Roman Letters

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 15, 2021 · Episode: 1982 Albrecht Dürer and Times Roman Letters: Art that endured. Today, let us write in CAPITAL LETTERS.

Tags Albrecht Dürer artists books descriptive geometry design drafting engineering drawing engraving etching fonts geometry printing Times Roman letters typefaces

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1978: Ötzi’s Shoes

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 11, 2021 · 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.

Tags anthropology Burkhard Bilger clothing ergonomics footwear historical reconstruction Ötzi's shoes Petr Hlavacek podiatry Stone Age Tyrolean Ice Man

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1980: Manuscript Demography

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 10, 2021 · Episode: 1980 Manuscript Demography: the birth and death of books. Today, manuscript demography.

Tags ancient writings demographics John Cisne manuscript demography mathematical statistics medieval books paper papyrus parchment preservation recycling scribes the Venerable Bede vellum

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1975: Asa Gray

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 8, 2021 · Episode: 1975 In which botanist Asa Gray shows us how to apply good science. Today, a botanist in a changing world.

Tags Alfred Russel Wallace Asa Gray Boston Botanical Gardens botanist botany Charles Darwin evolution by natural selection flora harvard J. Willard Gibbs Louis Agassiz plant life religion University of Michigan

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2014: Bubbles in Soda

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 6, 2021 · Episode: 2014 Boiling bubbles and fizzing bubbles: So alike, so different! Today, bubbles in soda and bubbles in teakettles.

Tags boiling bubble growth carbonated drinks champagne conductions Fick's Law fizzing heat transfer mass diffusion superheated liquid supersaturated liquids tapwater

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2038: Leap Second

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 4, 2021 · Episode: 2038 Putting a leap second in an elastic year. Today, we add a second to our lives.

Tags birth of Christ calendars cesium clock Earth's rotation measurement standards tidal friction timekeeping US Naval Observatory

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1976: Correspondence School

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 3, 2021 · Episode: 1976 An old handbook evokes a reflection on correspondence schools. Today, we go to correspondence school.

Tags Anna Ticknor Chautauqua distance education ICS International Correspondence School Pennsylania Colliery Engineer School of Mines

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1563: Toys

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 30, 2020 · Episode: 1563 Looking back at the impact of toys. Today, we play with toys.

Tags children education Erector Meccano streamlining Tinker Toys

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1760: The Christmas Lectures

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 29, 2020 · Episode: 1760 The Christmas Lectures: Michael Faraday’s Gift to children. Today, the Christmas Lectures.

Tags children Christmas Lectures education John Tyndall learning Michael Faraday teaching science the Royal Institution of London

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1861: Music for a While

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 28, 2020 · Episode: 1861 Music for a while: Thinking about sound, silence, and Henry Purcell. Today, music and silence.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1974: Inventing the Air Force

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 27, 2020 · Episode: 1974 Inventing the Air Force, 1911 to 1917. Today, we invent the Air Force.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1973: Or Organs and Engines

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 25, 2020 · Episode: 1973 Of organs and engines: St. Sulpice, Corliss, and the Barker-lever. Today, organs and engines.

Tags 1876 Philadelphis Exhibition Aristide Cavaille-Coll Barker-lever Corliss engines france George Corliss organs paris St. Sulpice steam engine valves

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1972: Baghdad Batteries

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 21, 2020 · Episode: 1972 Sorting out the mystery of the Baghdad Batteries. Today, electricity in the ancient world?

Tags Babalonia Baghdad batteries battery electric storage electricity electroplating healing Hellinistic period iraq medicine Mesopotamia pain relief

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1970: Cope and Marsh

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 20, 2020 · Episode: 1970 Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and their needless war. Today, needless anger.

Tags acquired traits Charles Darwin dinosaurs Edward Drinker Cope Eohippus evolution Othniel Charles Marsh religion Thomas Huxley vertebrate paleontology Yale

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1965: Stephenson’s Locomotives

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 18, 2020 · Episode: 1965 In which Robert and George Stephenson bring rail to its maturity. Today, the coming of rail.

Tags Catch-me-who-can Fanny Kemble firebox George Robert Stephenson rack and pinion drive railroad rails railway Richard Trevithick steam locomotives The Northumbrian The Rocket women

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