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Tag: thermodynamics

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1955: Stahl, Phlogiston, and Anima

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 15, 2020 · Episode: 1955 Stahl, Phlogiston, Anima, and Understanding. Today, heat as substance.

Tags anima Aristotelian essences Becher combustion medicine mind and body philosophy phlogiston Stahl thermodynamics vitalism vitalist

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1902: Heat in the Shadow of Rouen

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 6, 2020 · Episode: 1902 Heat in the Shadow of Rouen Cathedral. Today, heat and cold in Rouen.  

Tags Achille Cazin education heat phenomena Rouen Cathedral science and religion textbooks thermodynamics translation Wordsworth

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1863: Alexis Carrel

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 19, 2020 · Episode: 1863 Alexis Carrel, the murky pioneer of organ transplants. Today, a president killed, and a Nobel Prize given.

Tags Alexis Carrel Charles Lindbergh eugenics france kidneys liver Lyon medicine Nicholas Tilney organ transplants Sadi Carnot silk sutures thermodynamics Time Magazine transplantation WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1834: A Billion Heartbeats

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 2, 2020 · Episode: 1834 In which all the beasts are allotted one billion heartbeats. Today, a billion heartbeats.

Tags anatomy animal life spans heartbeats My Grandfather's Clock physiology respiration Stephen Jay Gould thermodynamics time zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1800: All-Embracing Sciences

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 27, 2019 · Episode: 1800 A concern about sciences that encompass everything. Today, a single science for all things?

Tags Dava Sobel etymology generality history philosophy psychology specific specificity technology thermodynamics Witold Rybczynski

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1796: Blow Hot; Blow Cold

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 15, 2019 · Episode: 1796 Thoughts on blowing hot and cold. Today, let us blow hot and cold.

Tags adiabatic depressurization bible blowing hot and cold consistency folklore gas dynamics thermodynamics Wright Brothers

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1782: Human Energy

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 22, 2019 · Episode: 1782 Thoughts about energy and the human motor. Today, human energy.

Tags calories industrial energy consumption metabolism Mt. Washington cog railway penology power punishment thermodynamics treadmill

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1768: On the Cutting-Room Floor

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 27, 2019 · Episode: 1768 On the cutting room floor — When we don’t have the rest of the story. Today, let us pick up some loose ends.

Tags blood Esau genesis Henry Ford hyponathremia hyponatremia incomplete stories Jacob James Prescot Joule Lord Kelvin Massai mischief Newcomen steam engine valving Paul Harvey pranks Salt temperature thermodynamics

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1764: Temperature

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 21, 2019 · Episode: 1764 In which we wonder just what our thermometer measures. Today, we ask what temperature is.

Tags education heat kinetic theory of gases pedagogy teaching temperature thermodynamics thermometers Christopher Morely

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1746: Evaporation

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 22, 2019 · Episode: 1746 In which a water glass lets me know that things are not as bad as they seem. Today, I learn from a water glass as I come out of sleep.

Tags balance of nature disease ebola evaporation kinetic theory of gases phase change phase equilibrium terrorism The Principle of LeChatelier and Braun thermodynamics

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1732: E. M. Forster & Thermodynamics

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 19, 2019 · Episode: 1732 E. M. Forster thinks about Emilie du Chatelet, Voltaire, and Thermodynamics. Today, E. M Forster, Voltaire, and thermodynamics.

Tags caloric Emile de Bretieul Enlightment French Revolution literature Marquise of Chatelet mechanical theory of heat phlogiston physics thermodynamics Voltaire

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1714: “Infinite Reservoire” of Space

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 8, 2019 · Episode: 1714 The mischief, in space, of the “infinite reservoir” thought model. Today, let us fill infinity.

Tags ecology geosynchronous orbit nasa space debris space program thermal pollution thermal reservoir thermodynamics

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1592: Specialized Language

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 31, 2018 · Episode: 1592 In which we use fancy words instead of simple ones. Today, the quotidian denominator.

Tags dentists heat transfer language librarians libraries library Prandtl Number thermodynamics writing

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1333: Energy Is Pure Delight

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 14, 2017 · Episode: 1333 Energy is pure delight, the conservation of energy. Today, we chase a will-o-the-wisp.

Tags definitions heat physical concepts thermodynamics work

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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