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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1942: The Power of Air and Steam

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 11, 2020 · Episode: 1942 Before the steam engine: seeing solidity in air and steam. Today, we just begin to invent the steam engine.

Tags air alchemy alexander aristotle atomism atoms Ctesibios Ctsebios gases Hellenic Hellenistic world Hero's turbine Heron of Alexandria Ktesibios Ktsebios Philon of Byzantium pneumatics steam engines water organ

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1938: Discovering Air

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 9, 2020 · Episode: 1938 Three M-names help us to understand air: Meeting the Zeitgiest. Today, we learn what air is made of.

Tags air Aristotelianism atomism atoms barometer earth fire galileo gases Gassendi hydrodynamics Magiotti Magnenus Magni Torricelli vacuum von Guericke water

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1898: Pierre Gassendi

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 26, 2020 · Episode: 1898 What happened after Galileo? Pierre Gassendi happened! Today, what happened after Galileo?

Tags air pressure analytical mechanics Aristotelianism aristotle atomism Cyrano de Bergerac Empedocles galileo gravity newton physics Pierre Gassendi speed of sound

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1411: John Dalton’s Notation

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 13, 2017 · Episode: 1411 The role of notation in John Dalton’s atomic theory. Today, we wonder how to draw an atom.  

Tags atomism chemical reaction chemistry physics Quakers

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