Engines of Our Ingenuity

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.

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.