Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2080: The Survival of Invention
Posted on · Episode: 2080 China: A case history in the survival/nonsurvival of invention. Today, we ask why only some inventions survive.
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Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2049: The deBrys and the Merians
Posted on · Episode: 2049 The deBrys and the Merians: Two views of the New World. Today, the New World, both real and Imagined.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2003: Counterfeit
Posted on · Episode: 2003 Counterfeit: On making money without delivering the goods. Today, we make money.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1982: Dürer’s Roman Letters
Posted on · Episode: 1982 Albrecht Dürer and Times Roman Letters: Art that endured. Today, let us write in CAPITAL LETTERS.
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 1775: The Book, Then and Now
Posted on · Episode: 1775 The book — as seen in 1897 and 1978. Today, the book, eighty-one years later.
Mockingbird & Armadillo
WATCH: Tee-riffic Silk Screening | Mockingbird and Armadillo
Posted on · The fine art of everyday fashion!
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 1644: Hufeland on Infants
Posted on · Episode: 1644 An 18th-century doctor helps great-grandmother raise grandpa. Today, we raise a nineteenth-century child.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1636: Of Books and Learning
Posted on · Episode: 1636 Of books and learning in nineteenth-century America. Today, thoughts on books and learning.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1372: The Paige Compositor
Posted on · Episode: 1372 Mark Twain and the Paige Compositor. Today, meet the man who bankrupted Mark Twain.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1227: Paper From Mummy Wrappings
Posted on · Episode: 1227 So, did we ever make paper from a mummy’s linen wrappings? Today, the mummy’s curse.
Houston Matters
Museum Celebrates the Printed Word
Posted on · We learn about The Museum of Printing History in Houston curator Keelin Burrows. The museum is dedicated to promoting and sharing the history of printed communication.