Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1955: Stahl, Phlogiston, and Anima
Posted on · Episode: 1955 Stahl, Phlogiston, Anima, and Understanding. Today, heat as substance.
Posted on · Episode: 1955 Stahl, Phlogiston, Anima, and Understanding. Today, heat as substance.
Posted on · Episode: 1902 Heat in the Shadow of Rouen Cathedral. Today, heat and cold in Rouen.
Posted on · Episode: 1863 Alexis Carrel, the murky pioneer of organ transplants. Today, a president killed, and a Nobel Prize given.
Posted on · Episode: 1834 In which all the beasts are allotted one billion heartbeats. Today, a billion heartbeats.
Posted on · Episode: 1800 A concern about sciences that encompass everything. Today, a single science for all things?
Posted on · Episode: 1796 Thoughts on blowing hot and cold. Today, let us blow hot and cold.
Posted on · Episode: 1782 Thoughts about energy and the human motor. Today, human energy.
Posted on · 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.
Posted on · Episode: 1764 In which we wonder just what our thermometer measures. Today, we ask what temperature is.
Posted on · 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.
Posted on · Episode: 1732 E. M. Forster thinks about Emilie du Chatelet, Voltaire, and Thermodynamics. Today, E. M Forster, Voltaire, and thermodynamics.
Posted on · Episode: 1714 The mischief, in space, of the “infinite reservoir” thought model. Today, let us fill infinity.
Posted on · Episode: 1592 In which we use fancy words instead of simple ones. Today, the quotidian denominator.
Posted on · Episode: 1333 Energy is pure delight, the conservation of energy. Today, we chase a will-o-the-wisp.
Posted on · Episode: 1302 Francois Marcet’s steam globe: measuring vapor-pressure. Today, a piece of apparatus and a piece of history.