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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2224: Megalonyx

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 9, 2022 · Episode: 2224 Thomas Jefferson and megalonyx, the great-clawed ground sloth. Today, Jefferson meets Great Claw.

Tags animal size Buffon extinction fossils ground sloth Ice Age megalonyx megatherium moose paleontology species Thomas Jefferson zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2199: Who Were the Irish?

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 20, 2022 · Episode: 2199 Who were the Irish long ago? Today, when the Irish were Egyptians.

Tags Algles anthropology archaeology Basgue language celtic dna early Britons ethnicity evolution farming global warming Great Britain Ice Age ireland Irish linguistics modern human emicgrations saxons Stephen Oppenheimer Turkey Vikings

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2329: Thurston and Fulton

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 23, 2022 · Episode: 2329 Robert Thurston looks at Robert Fulton and sees beyond the folly. Today, Thurston looks at Fulton.

Tags ASME demologos education engineering intellectual property naval warfare patents Robert Fulton Robert H. Thurston steam warships steamboats submarine Thomas Jefferson torpedoes underwater US Navy War of 1812

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2319: Flying to the Arctic

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 12, 2022 · Episode: 2319 Trying to get to the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon. Today, we fly to the North Pole.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2228: Ancient Explanations of Bird Migration

Richard H. Armstrong

Posted on September 7, 2022 · Episode: 2228 Ancient Explanations of Bird Migrations. Today, our guest, classicist Richard Armstrong, watches the ancients studying bird migrations.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2226: Old Scientific Illustrations

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 20, 2022 · Episode: 2226 Aesop’s Fables and scientific illustration. Today, Aesop’s fables illustrate a new science.

Tags chameleon Francis Bacon Gheeraerts Aesop's Fables representation science scientific illustration method William Gilbert zoology

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