Engines of Our Ingenuity
Houston PR
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 Out Ingenuity 2426: Charles Dow
5/14/2025
Episode: 2426 Charles Dow and the Creation of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Today, an "average" guy.
Duration:00:03:54
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2619: Space Medicine
5/13/2025
Episode: 2619 Practicing Medicine Off the Planet; A New Physiology. Today, Astronaut Michael Barratt talks about medicine in space.
Duration:00:03:48
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1371: Soapy Sam and Huxley
5/12/2025
Episode: 1371 The great evolution war at Oxford in 1860. Today, we join the first major battle in a long war.
Duration:00:03:39
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1370: Anno Domini 1370
5/11/2025
Episode: 1370 Anno Domini 1370: So much going on just below the surface. Today, the story behind an arbitrary date.
Duration:00:03:46
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1369: Fokker’s Interrupter Mechanism
5/10/2025
Episode: 1369 Fokker and the machine gun interrupter mechanism. Today, we meet a nice young man and his killing machines.
Duration:00:03:41
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1368: Baron Grimthorpe
5/9/2025
Episode: 1368 Edmund Beckett, Lord Grimthorpe: of clockwork and convervatism. Today, clocks for the rich and clocks for the poor.
Duration:00:03:44
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2458: The Container Port of Houston
5/8/2025
Episode: 2458 A Visit to the Container Port of Houston. Today, working on the dock of the bay.
Duration:00:03:47
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3014: Measuring Almost Nothing
5/7/2025
Episode: 3014 Measuring Almost Nothing. Today, we measure almost nothing.
Duration:00:03:49
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3241: Hooker’s Green
5/6/2025
Episode: 3241 Green with Immortality. Today, we go green with immortality.
Duration:00:03:46
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1367: Struggling With Abstraction
5/5/2025
Episode: 1367 Struggling with abstraction in schools and in public. Today, we think about thinking abstractly.
Duration:00:03:43
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1366: Rain, Steam, and Speed
5/4/2025
Episode: 1366 Rain, Steam, and Speed: Turner's vision of modern times. Today, a painting tells the coming of rail.
Duration:00:03:47
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1364: Radar
5/3/2025
Episode: 1364 Our radar warning of the Pearl Harbor attack. Today, devastation follows when we don't trust a new technology.
Duration:00:03:37
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3312: Physics in 1861
5/2/2025
Episode: 3312 An 1861 Natural Philosophy test reveals far more than it meant to.Today, a look at physics before our Civil War.
Duration:00:03:44
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2454: Wrinkle Free Cotton
5/1/2025
Episode: 2454 Ruth Benerito and Wrinkle Free Cotton. Today, we wash and wear.
Duration:00:03:48
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3040: Leonardo and Borelli
4/30/2025
Episode: 3040 Leonardo and Borelli. Today, two hemispheres come together.
Duration:00:03:51
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2579: Music and Mathematics
4/29/2025
Episode: 2579 Music and Mathematics. Today, UH Math Professor Krešo Josić talks about music and mathematics.
Duration:00:03:50
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1363: Man the Treasure
4/28/2025
Episode: 1363 Man the measure -- man the meter. Today, let's ask what meters measure.
Duration:00:03:38
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1362: Flying Across the Atlantic
4/27/2025
Episode: 1362 The first twenty years of transatlantic flights. Today, we fly the Atlantic.
Duration:00:03:43
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1360: Cleaning Ourselves
4/26/2025
Episode: 1360 A brief history of bathing ourselves. Today, let's bathe.
Duration:00:03:42
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1359: Windmills
4/25/2025
Episode: 1359 The Windmill: A device that has come, gone, and which may come again. Today, let's tilt at windmills.
Duration:00:03:42