Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1942: The Power of Air and Steam
Posted on · Episode: 1942 Before the steam engine: seeing solidity in air and steam. Today, we just begin to invent the steam engine.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1898: Pierre Gassendi
Posted on · Episode: 1898 What happened after Galileo? Pierre Gassendi happened! Today, what happened after Galileo?
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1891: Earth, Air, Fire, & Water
Posted on · Episode: 1891 Earth, Air, Fire, & Water — Love & Hate. Today, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3051: Rhetoric
Posted on · Episode: 3051 The Art of Rhetoric. Today, do facts speak for themselves?
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2228: Ancient Explanations of Bird Migration
Posted on · Episode: 2228 Ancient Explanations of Bird Migrations. Today, our guest, classicist Richard Armstrong, watches the ancients studying bird migrations.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2868: Scholasticism
Posted on · Episode: 2868 Scholasticism: Reason or Revelation? Today, reason or revelation?
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1543: Ceredi’s Pump
Posted on · Episode: 1543 Archimedes’ pump, rediscovered by Ceredi, heralds the new science. Today, meet the person who reinvented Archimedes’ pump.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1508: Alchemy
Posted on · Episode: 1508 The alchemists and chemistry before the middle 19th century. Today, we remember alchemy.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1447: Eighteenth-Century Factory Maintenance
Posted on · Episode: 1447 18th-C factory maintenance: messier than Diderot showed us. Today, a question of image and reality.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2594: Ptolemy’s Geographia
Posted on · Episode: 2594 Mapping the World: Ptolemy's Geographia. Today, a man and a map.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2229: Children and Science
Posted on · Episode: 2229 Hurdles that children must leap to learn science. Today, children and science.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2542: Hippodamus of Miletus
Posted on · Episode: 2542 Hippodamus of Miletus and Urban Design. Today, a grid for the ages.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1221: Acoustics
Posted on · Episode: 1221 Large hall acoustics: drifting away from reality Today, we try to hear the music in a large hall.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3051: Rhetoric
Posted on · Episode: 3051 The Art of Rhetoric Today, do facts speak for themselves?