Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1998: Fast Presses
Posted on · Episode: 1998 Fast presses and the new literacy. Today, let the presses roll.
Tag: Gutenberg
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1984: You May Go Dancing
Posted on · Episode: 1984 Burt Rutan’s airplanes: You may go dancing, by I’ll play the tune. Today, you may go dancing, but I’ll play the tune.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1862: Fine Press Incunabula
Posted on · Episode: 1862 The most beautiful book. But handsome is as handsome does. Today, the most beautiful book — but so what?
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1668: A Vocabulary of Science
Posted on · Episode: 1668 Scientific instruments creating a new rhetoric. Today, new sciences, new languages.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1666: The Aging of Books
Posted on · Episode: 1666 In which we watch books growing old. Today, we watch books grow old.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1640: Learning Electricity
Posted on · Episode: 1640 Learning electricity and learning about technological revolutions. Today, we become electrified.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1370: Anno Domini 1370
Posted on · Episode: 1370 Anno Domini 1370: So much going on just below the surface. Today, the story behind an arbitrary date.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1327: Electricity, Books, and Change
Posted on · Episode: 1327 Electricity in Everyday Life in 1904. Today, let’s look for parallels.
Houston Matters
Tour Guide Charles Criner Brings Printing Museum To Life
Posted on · In our city of world-renowned museums full of contemporary and classical art, an odd little Montrose nonprofit aims to preserve and share knowledge about printed communication — which, you can imagine, is just the thing a group of 30 rambunctious elementary school kids want to hear when they head out on a field trip. Luckily, […]