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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1652: Justus von Liebig

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 15, 2019 · Episode: 1652 Justus von Liebig and the first R&D laboratory. Today, we create the first research laboratory.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1640: Learning Electricity

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on February 20, 2019 · Episode: 1640 Learning electricity and learning about technological revolutions.  Today, we become electrified.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1625: Elisha Gray and Miracles

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 18, 2019 · Episode: 1625 Telephone inventor Elisha Gray talks about miracles. Today, a telephone inventor talks about miracles.  

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1487: Telephone Use

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 28, 2018 · Episode: 1487 Teaching the American public to use the telephone. Today, would you buy the first telephone?  

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1398: Back To The Beginning

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 11, 2017 · Episode: 1398 Back to the Beginning: First we commit. Then we see. Today, a process within a process.

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Houston Matters

Some Popular Phrases Have Origins in the Graveyard

Michael Hagerty

Posted on October 28, 2013 · We visit Houston’s National Museum of Funeral History and learn that some very popular phrases in the English language have origins in the graveyard.

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