Engines of Our Ingenuity

Episode: 2725 The Atocha Bombing Memorial: Remembering the dead — creating hope.  Today, mourning and monuments.

Episode: 3319 Perhaps WWII really began when Mussolini invaded Ethiopia in 1935.  Today, when did World-War-Two begin?

Episode: 3318 Vera C. Rubin: The astronomer who brought dark matter to light.  Today, meet Vera Rubin.

Episode: 1402 Ben Franklin and Le Ray de Chaumont's house in Paris.  Today, Ben Franklin, revolution, and a house in Paris.

Episode: 1401 Theodore Roosevelt and Frederic Remington defining the West.  Today, Roosevelt and Remington go West.

Episode: 1400 Trying to catch the flavor of the past.  Today, a look back.

Episode: 2483 Public Transportation and Technology: The Harris County Metropolitan Transit Authority.  Today, we leave the car at home.

Episode: 3235 Gender, labor history, and the devaluation of film editing.  Today, the mother of all film editors.

Episode: 3317 Specialized Railcars for Heavy Cargo. Today, how railroads move the unmovable.

Episode: 3316 A look at what the word Research really means.  Today, let's think about research.

Episode: 1399 The passing of the classical circus.  Today, we go to a circus.

Episode: 1398 Back to the Beginning: First we commit. Then we see. Today, a process within a process

Episode: 1397 John Fitch and America's first successful steamboat.  Today, America's first steamboat.

Episode: 2480 Stephanie Kwolek: Inventor of Kevlar.  Today, not-so-shining armor.

Episode: 3065 Victor and Eva Saxl: Love, War and Homemade Insulin.  Today, love, war and insulin.

Episode: 2448 Sergei Rachmaninoff visits a hypnotist to remove his writer's block.  Today, a composer unblocked.

Episode: 3315 In which an engineering failure vanishes from the historical record.  Today, a fragment of history quietly disappears.

Episode: 1396 An engineer named Calder.  Today, an engineer takes up sculpture.

Episode: 1395 The World's Worst Aircraft: learning what constitutes bad.  Today, the worst airplanes ever built!

Episode: 1393 Early inventions of the electric telegraph.  Today, we look at ninety years of electric telegraphy before Morse.

Episode: 2478 Metal Wood: the Evolution of Wooden Golf Clubs.  Today, metal wood.

Episode: 2798 Behold the Mighty Transistor.  Today, a small item creates a large impact.

Episode: 2597 Mathematical models of historical events.  Today, let's see what mathematics tells us about history.

Episode: 1392 The nature of fog and of redwood trees.  Today, fog in the forest.

Episode: 1391 The Johnstown Flood. They didn't see it coming.  Today, a dam breaks.

Episode: 3133 Juan Pujol García: the Liar Who Helped Win D-Day.  Today, a great big liar saves the day.

Episode: 2475 Friedrich Fröbel and Kindergarten.  Today, we play.

Episode: 2934 Reading the Molecules of Life.  Today, we read the molecules of life.

Episode: 2499 Frederick Law Olmsted and the Texas Germans.  Today, Texas auf Deutsch.

Episode: 1389 The supply of wood: trouble along the Equator, good news to the North.  Today, some good news and some bad.

Episode: 1388 A short history of tunneling.  Today, let's tunnel our way through history.

Episode: 1387 The ghost fleet of wooden ships in Mallows Bay.  Today, a fleet of sunken ships.

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.