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Engines of Our Ingenuity

100 Episodes

4 minutes | May 28, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2230: James Herman Banning
Episode: 2230 James Banning, pioneering Black pilot.  Today, James Herman Banning.
4 minutes | May 27, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2229: Children and Science
Episode: 2229 Hurdles that children must leap to learn science.  Today, children and science.
4 minutes | May 26, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2785: Killer-App
Episode: 2785 VisiCalc: early killer-app.  Today, column D, row 3.
4 minutes | May 25, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3107: Expectations of Brilliance
Episode: 3107 Why it matters that we expect boys to be brilliant and girls to work hard.  Today, let’s talk about who we expect to be brilliant.
4 minutes | May 24, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2897: Privacy and Technology
Episode: 2897 A (Very) Short History of Privacy and Technology.  Today, privacy and technology.
4 minutes | May 23, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3269: Cyanotype
Episode: 3269 Blueprint: Once a thing, now only a metaphor.  Today, a thing lingers as a metaphor.
4 minutes | May 22, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2227: A Late Night Movie
Episode: 2227 A Late Night Movie: Beatrice Lillie and a glimpse of another time.  Today, let us go to a very old movie.
4 minutes | May 21, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2232: History and Mystery
Episode: 2232 The real story behind Amelia Earhart, and other tales to good to be true.  Today, I'm in trouble.
4 minutes | May 20, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2226: Old Scientific Illustrations
Episode: 2226 Aesop's Fables and scientific illustration.  Today, Aesop's fables illustrate a new science.
4 minutes | May 19, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2784: Green Golf Courses
Episode: 2784 Environmentally Sustainable Golf Courses.  Today, where the grass is always greener.
4 minutes | May 18, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3072: William Gosset
Episode: 3072 The brewer, chemist and statistician William Sealy Gosset.  Today, a master brewer and a statistician.
4 minutes | May 16, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2225: Jean-Charles Borda
Episode: 2225 Jean-Charles Borda: More than just a name on an orifice meter.  Today, let's meet Jean-Charles Borda.
4 minutes | May 13, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2223: Charlie Taylor
Episode: 2223 Charlie Taylor, builder of the Wright brothers' engines.  Today, the Wright brother's engine.
4 minutes | May 12, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2762: Aunt Sammy
Episode: 2762 Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes.  Today, Uncle Sam's better half.
4 minutes | May 11, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3078: Restoring the Parthenon
Episode: 3078 Restoring the Parthenon: The Acropolis Restoration Service and 40+ Years of Hard Work.  Today, how to rebuild a ruin.
4 minutes | May 10, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2222: Jeremiah Horrocks
Episode: 2222 Jeremiah Horrocks, the 23-year-old "Father of English Astronomy."  Today, a planetary prodigy.
4 minutes | May 9, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2221: Jaywalking
Episode: 2221 Who owns the streets: the invention of jaywalking.  Today, who owns the streets.
4 minutes | May 9, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2224: Megalonyx
Episode: 2224 Thomas Jefferson and megalonyx, the great-clawed ground sloth.  Today, Jefferson meets Great Claw.
4 minutes | Apr 29, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2217: Magic Stairways
Episode: 2217 Escalator: the Not-All-Purpose Magical Stairway.  Today, magic stairways.
4 minutes | Apr 28, 2022
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2778: Qualia
Episode: 2778 Qualia and Mary's Black and White Room.  Today, there's something about Mary.
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