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The Engines of Our Ingenuity is a radio program that tells the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. Written and hosted by John Lienhard, it is heard nationally on Public Radio and produced by KUHF-FM Houston. Among other features, this web site houses the transcripts for every episode heard since the show's inception in 1988. Streaming audio is available on each of the posted episodes.
Títulos/descrições breves dos 10 primeiros episódios (são 2008 no total):
Oliver Evans and an early American steam powered amphibian
[steamboat, transportation, steam engine, auto, Oructor]
2 The Jacquard loom and the invention of the computer
[weaving, Babbage, cards, textile]
3 The monk who flew in 1005 AD
[flight, medieval, Firnas, glider, Benedictine, airplane]
4 Benjamin Thompson/Count Rumford and the conservation of energy
[heat, American Revolution, Lavoisier, thermodynamics]
5 The pendulum clock escapement and the merger of science and technology
[Bacon, Galileo, Huygens, Hooke, science]
6 Jouffroy: one of the first successful steamboat makers.
[Newcomen, France, d'Auxiron, transportation]
7 Fokker and the machine gun interrupter mechanism
[flight, war, WW-1, airplane]
8 Pittsburgh in 1816
[steamboat, iron, coal, industry, glass]
9 The Cistercian order and power technology
[Benedictines, water wheels, factory, religion, White]
10 The Medieval character of the wild West
[America, saddle, whiskey, log cabin, cowboy, White]
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