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Tag: John Tyndall

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1760: The Christmas Lectures

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 29, 2020 · Episode: 1760 The Christmas Lectures: Michael Faraday’s Gift to children. Today, the Christmas Lectures.

Tags children Christmas Lectures education John Tyndall learning Michael Faraday teaching science the Royal Institution of London

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1959: Tyndall, Mayer, & Forebearance

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 4, 2020 · Episode: 1959 In which John Tyndall cuts through conflict to recognize both Mayer and Joule. Today, a nineteenth-century message for our times.

Tags blood flow energy conservation first law of thermodynamics James Prescott Joule John Tyndall mechanical equivalent of heat mental illness priority disputes Robert Julius Mayer theroy and experiment

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1870: Tyndall as Teacher

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 4, 2020 · Episode: 1870 John Tyndall as teacher: the metaphor of the mountain. Today, ice and snow — mountains and learning.

Tags Alps education glaciers ice John Tyndall learning mountains snow teaching the Christmas Lectures Victorian science young people

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1670: Tyndall and Sound

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 22, 2019 · Episode: 1670 John Tyndall: measuring sound without electronics. Today, how did people measure sound in the nineteenth century?

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