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Tag: technological change

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2013: The Battleship Texas

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 28, 2021 · Episode: 2013 Battleship Texas: a lesson in technological change. Today, Battleship Texas.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2004: Rice and Silk

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 12, 2021 · Episode: 2004 Rice, silk, taxes, and technological change in medieval China. Today, rice and silk.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2042: Science Remaking the World

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 30, 2020 · Episode: 2042 Looking at a brave new scientific world in 1922. Today, science and change.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1943: “Modern” Blacksmithing in 1902

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 16, 2020 · Episode: 1943 “Modern” Blacksmithing in 1902. Today, we learn blacksmithing.

Tags annealing blacksmithing carbon forging hardening heat treating iron Longfellow metallurgy steel technological change tempering welding

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1875: Inventing Modern

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 15, 2020 · Episode: 1875 Inventing Modern: In which a book instructs its author. Today, history repeated.

Tags art Futurism Inventing Modern modern America science technological change technology writing

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1718: Lardner’s Steam Engines

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 15, 2019 · Episode: 1718 The Rev. Dionysius Lardner: keeping up with a world in flux. Today, old books with a message for the present.

Tags coal Conservation handbooks hydrostatics locomotives Mary Shelley pneumatics railroads steam power technological change Trevithick water power

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1662: Between Two Worlds

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 5, 2019 · Episode: 1662 A book on water: between two worlds in an old library. Today, we’re between two worlds in an old library.

Tags bathing books cleanliness climate climatology geology guysers marine life oceans rain sailing ships Seltzer water silt snowflakes stormy seas technological change Tissandier water

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1656: Power in Colorado

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 25, 2019 · Episode: 1656 Electric power comes to Telluride, Colorado. Today, we install a dynamo on a mountaintop.

Tags alternating current American West direct current dynamo edison electric generator generating electricity gold mining Keokuk Dam Pelton Pelton wheels technological change Telluride Colorado Westinghouse

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1630: Creating Nature

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 28, 2019 · Episode: 1630 In which we ponder a very subjective notion of reality. Today, nature changes before our eyes.

Tags internet perception philosophy psychology Romantic poets technological change Tintern Abbey Wordsworth

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1464: Learning Curve

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on February 5, 2018 · Episode: 1464 Trying to teach technologies that were novel for us, but not our students. Today, a thought about technological change and learning.  

Tags computers education learning movies technological change television

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