Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2013: The Battleship Texas
Posted on · Episode: 2013 Battleship Texas: a lesson in technological change. Today, Battleship Texas.
Tag: technological change
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2004: Rice and Silk
Posted on · Episode: 2004 Rice, silk, taxes, and technological change in medieval China. Today, rice and silk.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2042: Science Remaking the World
Posted on · Episode: 2042 Looking at a brave new scientific world in 1922. Today, science and change.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1943: “Modern” Blacksmithing in 1902
Posted on · Episode: 1943 “Modern” Blacksmithing in 1902. Today, we learn blacksmithing.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1875: Inventing Modern
Posted on · Episode: 1875 Inventing Modern: In which a book instructs its author. Today, history repeated.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1718: Lardner’s Steam Engines
Posted on · Episode: 1718 The Rev. Dionysius Lardner: keeping up with a world in flux. Today, old books with a message for the present.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1662: Between Two Worlds
Posted on · Episode: 1662 A book on water: between two worlds in an old library. Today, we’re between two worlds in an old library.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1656: Power in Colorado
Posted on · Episode: 1656 Electric power comes to Telluride, Colorado. Today, we install a dynamo on a mountaintop.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1630: Creating Nature
Posted on · Episode: 1630 In which we ponder a very subjective notion of reality. Today, nature changes before our eyes.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1464: Learning Curve
Posted on · Episode: 1464 Trying to teach technologies that were novel for us, but not our students. Today, a thought about technological change and learning.