Engines of Our Ingenuity
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The story of technological progress is one of drama and intrigue, sudden insight and plain hard work. Let’s explore technology’s spectacular failures and many magnificent success stories.
This content is in service of Houston Public Media’s education mission and is sponsored by the University of Houston. It is not a product of our news team.
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The story of technological progress is one of drama and intrigue, sudden insight and plain hard work. Let’s explore technology’s spectacular failures and many magnificent success stories. This content is in service of Houston Public Media’s education mission and is sponsored by the University of Houston. It is not a product of our news team.
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English
Episodes
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2467: Graph Theory
6/5/2025
Episode: 2467 Graph Theory and the Königsberg Bridge Problem. Today, the bridges of Königsberg.
Duration:00:03:48
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3245: Memes
6/4/2025
Episode: 3245 Memes, Internet Challenges, and the Selfish Gene. Today, memes.
Duration:00:03:45
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2946: Man or Monster?
6/3/2025
Episode: 2946 Man or Monster? The Legend of the Golem and the Age of Technology. Today, what can an old legend tell us about the future?
Duration:00:03:47
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1385: Bushnell’s Submarine
6/2/2025
Episode: 1385 How David Bushnell built his submarine for the Colonial Army. Today, a new look at a Colonial technology.
Duration:00:03:38
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1384: The Samurai Sword
6/1/2025
Episode: 1384 The samurai sword and quality control through ritual. Today, let's talk about ceremony and technology.
Duration:00:03:40
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1383: Owning Time
5/31/2025
Episode: 1383 In which we invent the watch and take possession of time. Today, we look at time as a new possession.
Duration:00:03:43
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1381: Names of Machines
5/30/2025
Episode: 1381 Naming our machines - finding out who they are! Today, we name a new machine.
Duration:00:03:46
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2464: Engineering Diapers
5/29/2025
Episode: 2464 Marion Donovan: The Woman who Engineered a Better Diaper. Today, engineering the diaper.
Duration:00:03:48
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1766: Doctors and Detectives
5/28/2025
Episode: 1766 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the man who hated Sherlock Holmes. Today, our guest, Bill Monroe, from the UH Honors College, tells us about doctors and detectives.
Duration:00:03:46
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2577: The Frankfurter Küche
5/27/2025
Episode: 2577 Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky's "Frankfurter Kuche" — The Birth of the Modern Kitchen. Today, UH architecture professor, Dietmar Froehlich tells us about Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and her kitchen.
Duration:00:03:49
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1380: Indian Telegraph
5/26/2025
Episode: 1380 William O'Shaughnessy and India's telegraph system. Today, telegraphy comes to India.
Duration:00:03:40
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1379: Frank and Peter Griffin
5/25/2025
Episode: 1379 Frank and Peter Griffin: teaching calculus. Today, an obituary brings back memories.
Duration:00:03:44
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1378: S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald
5/24/2025
Episode: 1378 The wreck of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald; "Only a lake!" Today, just a lake!
Duration:00:03:41
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1377: Ben Franklin and Music
5/23/2025
Episode: 1377 Benjamin Franklin writes about music and electricity. Today, Ben Franklin talks about music.
Duration:00:03:40
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2463: Serendipity
5/22/2025
Episode: 2463 Serendipity and the Inventive Mind. Today, not-so-dumb luck.
Duration:00:03:49
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3314: The Navier Stokes Equations
5/21/2025
Episode: 3314 The Navier Stokes Equations in Movies, Video Games and Hurricane Forecasts. Today, the Navier Stokes equations.
Duration:00:03:52
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3313: Shimmering Iridescence
5/20/2025
Episode: 3313 The Allure of Shimmering Iridescence. Today we observe shimmering "Iridescence".
Duration:00:03:50
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1376: Frére Jacques
5/19/2025
Episode: 1376 Frére Jacques: The canonical hours and mechanical clocks. Today, religious practice and the mechanical clock.
Duration:00:03:45
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1375: Newton vs Leibniz
5/18/2025
Episode: 1375 Leibniz, Newton, and the great calculus dispute. Today, we throw Leibniz's cat into the super collider.
Duration:00:03:45
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1373: Pittsburgh in 1816
5/17/2025
Episode: 1373 Pittsburgh in 1816. Today, let's visit embryonic Pittsburgh.
Duration:00:03:39