Engines of Our Ingenuity

Episode: 1386 Benjamin Franklin invents the glass armonica -- no mouth organ, this.  Today, singing wine glasses.

Episode: 2467 Graph Theory and the Königsberg Bridge Problem.  Today, the bridges of Königsberg.

Episode: 3245 Memes, Internet Challenges, and the Selfish Gene.  Today, memes.

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?

Episode: 1385 How David Bushnell built his submarine for the Colonial Army.  Today, a new look at a Colonial technology.

Episode: 1384 The samurai sword and quality control through ritual.  Today, let's talk about ceremony and technology.

Episode: 1383 In which we invent the watch and take possession of time.  Today, we look at time as a new possession.

Episode: 1381 Naming our machines - finding out who they are!  Today, we name a new machine.

Episode: 2464 Marion Donovan: The Woman who Engineered a Better Diaper.  Today, engineering the diaper.

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.

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.

Episode: 1380 William O'Shaughnessy and India's telegraph system.  Today, telegraphy comes to India.

Episode: 1379 Frank and Peter Griffin: teaching calculus.  Today, an obituary brings back memories.

Episode: 1378 The wreck of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald; "Only a lake!"  Today, just a lake!

Episode: 1377 Benjamin Franklin writes about music and electricity.  Today, Ben Franklin talks about music.

Episode: 2463 Serendipity and the Inventive Mind.  Today, not-so-dumb luck.

Episode: 3314 The Navier Stokes Equations in Movies, Video Games and Hurricane Forecasts.  Today, the Navier Stokes equations.

Episode: 3313 The Allure of Shimmering Iridescence.  Today we observe shimmering "Iridescence".

Episode: 1376 Frére Jacques: The canonical hours and mechanical clocks.  Today, religious practice and the mechanical clock.

Episode: 1375 Leibniz, Newton, and the great calculus dispute.  Today, we throw Leibniz's cat into the super collider.

Episode: 1373 Pittsburgh in 1816.  Today, let's visit embryonic Pittsburgh.

Episode: 1372 Mark Twain and the Paige Compositor.  Today, meet the man who bankrupted Mark Twain.

Episode: 2461 The Growth of Nanotechnology.  Today, small is big.

Episode: 2426 Charles Dow and the Creation of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Today, an "average" guy.

Episode: 2619 Practicing Medicine Off the Planet; A New Physiology.  Today, Astronaut Michael Barratt talks about medicine in space.

Episode: 1371 The great evolution war at Oxford in 1860.  Today, we join the first major battle in a long war.

Episode: 1370 Anno Domini 1370: So much going on just below the surface.  Today, the story behind an arbitrary date.

Episode: 1369 Fokker and the machine gun interrupter mechanism.  Today, we meet a nice young man and his killing machines.

Episode: 1368 Edmund Beckett, Lord Grimthorpe: of clockwork and convervatism.  Today, clocks for the rich and clocks for the poor.

Episode: 2458 A Visit to the Container Port of Houston.  Today, working on the dock of the bay.

Episode: 3014 Measuring Almost Nothing.  Today, we measure almost nothing.

Episode: 3241 Green with Immortality.  Today, we go green with immortality.

Episode: 1367 Struggling with abstraction in schools and in public.  Today, we think about thinking abstractly.

Episode: 1366 Rain, Steam, and Speed: Turner's vision of modern times.  Today, a painting tells the coming of rail.

Episode: 1364 Our radar warning of the Pearl Harbor attack.  Today, devastation follows when we don't trust a new technology.

Episode: 3312 An 1861 Natural Philosophy test reveals far more than it meant to.Today, a look at physics before our Civil War.

Episode: 2454 Ruth Benerito and Wrinkle Free Cotton.  Today, we wash and wear.

Episode: 3040 Leonardo and Borelli.  Today, two hemispheres come together.

Episode: 2579 Music and Mathematics.  Today, UH Math Professor Krešo Josić talks about music and mathematics.

Episode: 1363 Man the measure -- man the meter.  Today, let's ask what meters measure.

Episode: 1362 The first twenty years of transatlantic flights.  Today, we fly the Atlantic.

Episode: 1360 A brief history of bathing ourselves.  Today, let's bathe.