Engines of Our Ingenuity

Episode: 2932 Monopoly games for POWs and the creation of myths.  Today, Monopoly games and mythology.

Episode: 2929 The treacherous Goodwin Sands give up the last Dornier-17.  Today, the Goodwin Sands.

Episode: 2925 The wreck of the Francis H. Leggett and the question: What makes history interesting?  Today, Oregon's worst shipwreck.

Episode: 2940 Polio and Mathematics.  Today, mathematicians ask, "should we rid the world of polio?"

Episode: 2831 Reading the Long History of Cosmopolitan Magazine.  Today, a great American magazine.

Episode: 2765 The Mechanical Turk.  Today, the chess playing automaton.

Episode: 2921 The development of Italy's Reggiane 2005 fighter plane from the American P-35 as genetic analogy.  Today, airplane genetics.

Episode: 2911 A very big spool: The Quincy Mine No. 2 Shaft Hoist, the largest in the world.  Today, a very big spool.

Episode: 2896 In which Nadezhda Popova beats off the Wehrmacht in a crop-duster.  Today, Nadia Popova.

Episode: 2892 Steampunk: An exercise in writing science fiction without predicting the future.  Today, steampunk.

Episode: 2939 Getting Power Inside: Alternative Power Transmission Systems.  Today, why electricity?

Episode: 2909 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Providing Renewable Energy, A Comparison of Hydrogen Fuel Cell and Lithium Ion Battery.  Today, a neat way to get energy.

Episode: 2829 Cesare Lombroso and his Museum.  Today, a head in a jar.

Episode: 2880 Glacier Bay as seen by John Muir before 1885 — different now.  Today, Glacier Bay, in another time.

Episode: 2877 What do bees and other creatures see with their unimaginable eyes?  Today, technology, engineering, and art.

Episode: 2876 In which engineers and scientists assess their work in 1945.  Today, scientists speak as WW-II ends.

Episode: 2874 The ground effect in the service of birds and human vehicles.  Today, the ground effect.

Episode: 2938 Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth.  Today, the gospel of wealth.

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: 2621 Giovanni Gabrieli and the Venetian School of Polychoral music at St. Mark's Basilica, Venice.  Today, a marriage of sound and space.

Episode: 2871 In which Samuel P. Langley talks about solar powered engines in 1884.    Today, an idea, long before its time.

Episode: 2867 Augustin Fresnel, light, and lighthouses: from the science of light to the saving of ships.  Today, Fresnel and his Lighthouses.

Episode: 2866 How many wings on an aeroplane — How many strings on a violin? Thoughts on the maturation of technologies.  Today, How many wings or strings on an aeroplane or a violin?

Episode: 2849 Fern Andra and Lothar von Richthofen: One lived, one died.  Today, Fern and Lothar.

Episode: 2936 George S. Parker and the Parker Brothers.  Today, for the love of games.

Episode: 2539 Define technology? Why, it's as easy as riding a bike!  Today, medical historian Helen Valier offers us a new look at the language of technology.

Episode: 2823 Gilles de la Tourette and Hypnotic Crimes.  Today, hypnotic crimes.

Episode: 2827 Dimensionless groups, helping us to deal with the similarity of often very different situations.  Today, dimensionless groups.

Episode: 2825 In which our lack of fluency with numbers (innumeracy) threatens our national well-being.  Today, innumeracy.

Episode: 2812 poised to begin transatlantic flight in 1938. How it came out in 1945.  Today, we fly the Atlantic.

Episode: 2807 3D printing provides the latest view of the downward diffusion of technology.  Today, technology keeps diffusing downward.

Episode: 2933 Math and The Dreyfus Affair.  Today, courtroom drama.

Episode: 2905 Imagination's Contributions to Science and Technology, Developmental Psychology and Imagination.  Today, the gift of imagination.

Episode: 2820 A Spectacular Series of Spectaculars: Remaking Ben-Hur.  Today, remaking Ben-Hur.

Episode: 2800 Two information revolutions: 2800 years ago, and surrounding the 2800th Episode.  Today, 2800 years ago.

Episode: 2792 Glorious revolutions - which we see only after they've passed.  Today, silent revolutions.

Episode: 2788 Measuring and testing our machines — not yet as electronic as it might seem.  Today, an old book on testing machines harbors a surprise.

Episode: 2787 Doolittle's Tokyo raid: Much more than the mere gesture it seemed to be.  Today, a costly gesture that may've saved America.

Episode: 2931 G. H. Hardy, mentor and apologist.  Today, a friendship and an apology.

Episode: 2018 The Chamberlen family secret: the invention of forceps.  Today, guest historian Cathy Patterson reveals family secrets.

Episode: 2691 What Happens to the Human Body When Exposed to Vacuum?  Today, the body at vacuum.

Episode: 3290 In which Technology and Engineering reveal themselves as Liberal Arts.  Today, technology, engineering, and art.