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Tag: James Watt

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2015: Five Hornblowers

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 29, 2021 · Episode: 2015 Five Hornblowers and three generations of steam engine development. Today, five Hornblowers.

Tags compound steam engine condensers dissidents James Watt John Schuyler Joseph Josiah Jabez Jonathan Hornblower New Jersey

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2000: The Arc of Invention

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 1, 2021 · Episode: 2000 The Arc of Inventions, and the problem of selecting a hero. Today, the Arc of Inventions.

Tags James Watt power technology priority steam engines The Arc of Inventions

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1989: I Didn’t Have a Choice

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 25, 2021 · Episode: 1989 I didn’t have a choice — or did I? Today, I have a choice.

Tags decision making engineering design Hobson's Choice James Watt Kenneth Clark Leonardo da Vinci separate condenser

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1960: Inventing Speed

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 11, 2020 · Episode: 1960 Speed: the grand nineteenth-century invention. Today, we invent speed.

Tags airplanes Aldous Huxley automobiles Bayard Taylor inventive motivation James Watt locomotives Philip Hone power-to-weight ratio railroad train Richard Trevithick speed Stanley Steamer steam cars steamboats William Turner

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1956: William Cleghorn

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 8, 2020 · Episode: 1956 The forgotten William Cleghorn and his forgotten caloric. Today, a historical footnote.

Tags Benjamin Franklin caloric Edinburgh fame George Cleghorn Horace James Watt Joseph Black latent heats phlogiston thermal expansion William Cleghron

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1953: How Can We Use Steam?

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 6, 2020 · Episode: 1953 Learning to Use Steam in the Seventeenth Century. Today, we wonder how to make use of steam.

Tags Della Porta Denis Papin early steam engines Giovanni Branca Hero's turbine Huguenots invention James Watt jet propulsion power generation priority Salomon de Caus steam jets Thomas Newcomen

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1884: Avery’s Turbine

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 1, 2020 · Episode: 1884 Avery’s turbine: Important, but little-known, nineteenth-century precursor. Today, Avery’s turbine.

Tags Charles Parsons gas Hero's turbine James Watt Lyman Power Plants power production steam turbines turbine blades water William Avery

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1686: Mysterious Heat

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 17, 2019 · Episode: 1686 In which steam engines struggle to teach us thermodynamics. Today, a story about theory and practice.

Tags analogies education energy conservation history of science James Watt pedagogy Sadi Carnot steam engines steam power teaching the second law of thermodynamics waterwheels

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1685: Lord Byron and Steam

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 15, 2019 · Episode: 1685 Lord Mad Jack Byron, James Watt, & George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron. Today, a strange connection between Lord Byron and steam power.

Tags Don Juan George Gordon Lord Byron James Watt John Mad Jack Byron scotland steam engines steam power water power waterwheels

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1661: Looking for the Engineers

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 3, 2019 · Episode: 1661 Where are all the Engineers? Appearing to be something else, it would seem. Today, where did all the engineers go?

Tags Alexander Calder Carlos Prieto Eiffel engineering education Herbert Hoover Isambard Kingdom Brunel James Watt jimmy carter Josiah Willard Gibbs liberal arts liberal education making choices Mulholland Nevil Shute profession Rickover thoreau Vetruvious

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1302: Francois Marcet’s Steam Globe

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on February 10, 2017 · Episode: 1302 Francois Marcet’s steam globe: measuring vapor-pressure. Today, a piece of apparatus and a piece of history.

Tags Francois Arago James Watt Jane Marcet science education steam engines thermodynamics women

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