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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2536: Scapa Flow

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 25, 2023 · Episode: 2536 The Scapa Flow ship cemetery. Today, Scapa Flow.

Tags German Navy HMS Vanguard naval warfare Navy Orkney Islands Royal Oak Scapa Flow scotland shipwrecks torpedoes U-boats war WW-I WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2431: Fieseler Stork

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 10, 2022 · Episode: 2431 The Fieseler Stork in a last dogfight — between two very unlikely combatants. Today, a last dogfight.

Tags aerial aerial combat airplanes Fi 156 Fieseler Stork flaps L-4 Grasshopper last dogfight in WW-II liaison lift mussolini Piper Cub STOL war

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2428: Electric Hope in 1889

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 5, 2022 · Episode: 2428 Electric hope in 1889: drunk on the new elixir of electricity. Today, we “discover” electricity.

Tags cocaine electric chair electric motors electricity elevators Garfield Edison lighting Lights Navy prediction telegraph telephones torpedoes trolleys war WW-I

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2332: The Automobile in 1915

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 26, 2022 · Episode: 2332 Learning who we were in 1915 by looking at automobiles. Today, the automobile in transition.

Tags automobiles electric cars highway system infrastructure military sierra madre mountains war women's suffrage

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2266: The Cairo Rises

Mark DiClaudio

Posted on July 22, 2022 · Episode: 2266 In which the Cairo’s ghost rises from the Yazoo mud. Today, ghosts in a river.

Tags anthropology archaeology army city class ironclads civil war confederate domestic technology gunboat James Eads Navy ship St. Louis Bridge steamboat union war

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2233: GeeBee and Other Fast Planes

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 29, 2022 · Episode: 2233 Gee Bee, Macchi-Castoldi, and the age of speed. Today, we go for speed.

Tags 1942 Tokyo raid amateurs Bendix Gee Bee Granville Jimmy Doolittle Lowell Bayles Macchi-Castoldi Mystery racing airplane National Air Race Pulitzer schneider Supermarine Spitfire Thompson Trophy war

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2184: The Aeroplane Speaks

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on February 25, 2022 · Episode: 2184 The Aeroplane Speaks: A 1917 book plays counterpoint to war. Today, the airplane speaks.

Tags airplane Blood April 1917 Charles Grey early flight Horatio Barber Morane Nieuport Red Baron von Richthoven The Aeroplane Speaks war WW-I

Houston Matters

A Veteran Returns To Iraq To Reflect On The ‘Places And Names’ Where He Fought

Michael Hagerty

Posted on June 17, 2019 · Elliot Ackerman discusses his memoir of fighting in Iraq and returning as a writer.

Tags afghanistan authors books Brazos Bookstore Dark at the Crossing Elliot Ackerman iraq Michael Hagerty Places and Names veterans war

The Mark of War Faces - Promotional Montage

Houston Matters

Film Explores The Psychological Toll Of The Vietnam War

Michael Hagerty

Posted on April 30, 2019 · Psychologist and director Ricardo Ainslie talks about his documentary, The Mark of War.

Tags film film screening Michael Hagerty psychoanalyst psychologist ptsd Ricardo Ainslie Rice Cinema veterans Vietnam Vietnam veterans Vietnam War war

Battleship Texas - Guns on Deck

Houston Matters

Battleship Texas Faces Danger In Both War And Peace Time

Michael Hagerty

Posted on February 6, 2019 · Houston Matters tours the ship and learns about the threats it faces from the elements.

Tags Andy Smith battleship texas d day history Michael Hagerty Navy texas parks and wildlife USS Texas war

Houston Matters

Full Show: Political Roundup, New Restaurants, And The Battleship Texas (Feb. 6, 2019)

Abner Fletcher

Posted on February 6, 2019 · On Wednesday's Houston Matters: Sugar Land convict remains, the latest political news, the best new restaurants, and a tour of the Battleship Texas.

Tags battleship texas convict leasing Fort Bend County full menu history Navy Political Roundup politics State of the State state of the union sugar land Sugar Land remains USS Texas war

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Houston Matters

Historian Michael Beschloss Examines Lessons Learned From ‘Presidents Of War’

Abner Fletcher

Posted on November 15, 2018 · 'Presidents of War' examines the difficulties of being a wartime leader and how over our 200-year-plus history executive war decisions have evolved.

Tags history Michael Beschloss Presidents of War US Presidents war Wars wartime President

Houston Matters

How Postcards From WWI Made Their Way From A Battlefield To Houston

Abner Fletcher

Posted on November 7, 2018 · Dr. Irene Guenther discusses her book, a collection of postcards hand-painted by artist Otto Schubert while fighting The Great War.

Tags art artist German Artist Germans and Americans history Irene Guenther Otto Schubert Postcards from the Trenches Visualize the Great War war World War I

A Soldier's Judgment

Houston Matters

Houston Short Film Depicts PTSD Firsthand

Abner Fletcher

Posted on November 6, 2018 · Filmmakers Darren Tompkins and David Black talk about A Soldier’s Judgment.

Tags A Soldier's Judgment Darren Tompkins David Black film Michael Hagerty short films veterans war

Houston Matters

Using New Data Techniques To Estimate The Number Syrian Of War Dead

Abner Fletcher

Posted on June 12, 2018 · Rice University researchers are among those using data science and statistics to make a more accurate estimate of casualties in Syria.

Tags Anshumali Shrivastava big data casualties civilians data HRDAG Human Rights Data Analysis Group innocent civilians dead syria syrian civil war war

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2632: Edith Cavell

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 2, 2023 · Episode: 2632 Edith Cavell — a mountain, a nurse, a smuggler, a heroine. Today, Edith Cavell.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2616: A Golden Age of Popular Song

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 22, 2023 · Episode: 2616 When radio and singing met: The Golden Age of popular singing. Today, a time when popular singers really sang.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2612: A Prelude to War

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 20, 2023 · Episode: 2612 America’s ceremony of innocence, about to drowned in WW-I. Today, an American ceremony of innocence.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2607: Steam Comes to China

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 14, 2023 · Episode: 2607 The steam engine comes to China, and even greater change follows. Today, steam comes to China.

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