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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2521: Radical Buildings

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 12, 2023 · Episode: 2521 The Stata Center, Caligari’s Cabinet, and radical buildings. Today, radical buildings.

Tags Christopher Wren Eiffel Tower expressionist German Expressionism invention Maya Lin Nazis Pauline Kael radical architecture Roger Ebert St. Paul's Cathedral The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari The Stata Center Viet Nam Memorial

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2417: Kill-Devil Hills

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 28, 2022 · Episode: 2417 Kill Devil Hill: the texture of the Wright Brothers’ accomplishment. Today, we watch invention unfolding.

Tags aeroplanes airplane flight gliders invention Kill Devil Hills kite Kitty Hawk North Caolina Orville Wright Outer Banks Wilbur Wright Wright Brothers

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2355: A Picture of Music

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 14, 2022 · Episode: 2355 Before Edison? Well, what can really be called recording? Today, a picture of music.

Tags Au Clair de la Lune audio recording David Giovannoni edison Éduard-Léon france invention phonautograph phonograph Scott de Martinville singing sound visual visualization

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2324: Fences

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 17, 2022 · Episode: 2324 Jumping fences and inventing things: kissin’ cousins. Today, let’s jump a fence.

Tags berlin wall fences Great Wall of China invention Maginot Line Mending Wall physics potential barriers quantum tunneling risk taking Robert Frost techni William Faulkner

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2292: Music, Creativity — & Anarchy

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 20, 2022 · Episode: 2292 Music, creativity, and anarchy: accomplishment arising from the ground up. Today, music and creativity — from the ground up.

Tags anarchy chamber music creativity invention jazz jazzhouston.com leadership organization St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3279: The Shadow of an Idea

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 19, 2022 · Episode: 3279 The machine as the physical shadow of the idea. Today, the shadow of an idea.

Tags Antikythera automobile differential creative reverie Eye of the forehead Eye of the mind hardware idea in-ventors invention machine mental creativity steering wheel worm gears

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2162: New Quotations

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 2, 2022 · Episode: 2162 A new book of quotations, and new insights into quotations. Today, some new quotations.  

Tags antecedents Boswell Boulton Erasmus Fred Shapiro Garbo Charles Darwin Heywood Broun Howard Hughes invention Joyce Kilmer Kafka Mahler napoleon pasteur quotations Rilke Robert Burton sherman Yale

Health & Science

A Quest: Insulin-Releasing Implant For Type-1 Diabetes

Joe Palca, NPR

Posted on November 7, 2017 · Clinical trials that transplant insulin-making pancreatic cells into people with diabetes have been underway for several years, with some success

Tags diabetes insulin invention type 1 diabetes

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2498: Sturzkampfflugzeug

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on February 20, 2023 · Episode: 2498 The Ju-87 Stuka, another troubling story of military technology. Today, a troubled machine.

Tags airplanes Art Deco blitzkrieg Curtiss F8C design dive bomber expressionism Hermann Pohlmann Jericho's Trumpet Junkers Ju-87 Luftwaffe military Nazis streamlining Stuka Sturzkampfflugzeug Vultee Vengeance Wehrmacht

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2417: Kill-Devil Hills

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 28, 2022 · Episode: 2417 Kill Devil Hill: the texture of the Wright Brothers’ accomplishment. Today, we watch invention unfolding.

Tags aeroplanes airplane flight gliders invention Kill Devil Hills kite Kitty Hawk North Caolina Orville Wright Outer Banks Wilbur Wright Wright Brothers

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2388: Inventing the Hyperlink

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 31, 2022 · Episode: 2388 In which Paul Otlet invents the hyperlink, and almost invents the Internet. Today, we invent the hyperlink.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2355: A Picture of Music

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 14, 2022 · Episode: 2355 Before Edison? Well, what can really be called recording? Today, a picture of music.

Tags Au Clair de la Lune audio recording David Giovannoni edison Éduard-Léon france invention phonautograph phonograph Scott de Martinville singing sound visual visualization

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