Engines of Our Ingenuity

Episode: 3353 An example showing how music, like other technologies, evolves. Today, a lesson from an old song.

Episode: 1530 Medieval masons and the mischief of success. Today, we meet a medieval mason.

Episode: 1529 Osborne Reynolds: of sand Reynolds Numbers. Today, a great Victorian engineer.

Episode: 1527 How Clean Water triggered the Great Polio Epidemics. Today, we wonder where polio came from.

Episode: 2559 Going, Going, Gone! A look at auctions. Today, going, going, gone!

Episode: 2035 The Gunpowder Plot: Terrorism little-changed in four hundred years. Today, historian Cathy Patterson asks us to "Remember, remember, the fifth of November.

Episode: 2739 Evolution of the Hall from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. Today, a room without a view.

Episode: 1526 Learning speech: the Paleolithic technological explosion. Today, we learn to talk.

Episode: 1525 Liberty ships: an amateur takes over the trade. Today, an amateur builds ships.

Episode: 1524 The other great fire of 1871: Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Today, the other great fire.

Episode: 1523 On saying goodbye to lighthouses and cabooses. Today, we say goodbye to lighthouses and cabooses.

Episode: 2556 Euclid's Elements, David Hilbert, and modern notions of mathematical abstraction. Today, making a point.

Episode: 3352 A Taste of Orange. Today we are "Tasting Orange".

Episode: 3350 Today honoring a special group of women scientists. Pickering’s Harem.

Episode: 3351 The curious struggle of the Crossbow. History is full of instances where armies cling to outmoded weapons.

Episode: 1522 A 1950 prediction of technology in the year 2000. Today, we go fifty years into the future.

Episode: 1521 John P. Parker, slave, freedom-fighter, inventor, and businessman. Today, we follow a slave out of slavery.

Episode: 1520 In which automobile makers gradually learn aerodynamics. Today, aerodynamics and automobiles.

Episode: 2555 The brave new world of digitizing books for the Web. Today, this old book.

Episode: 2862 Randomness out of Nothingness. Today, let's talk about how to pick random numbers out of thin air.

Episode: 3349 The Inhuman Distances of the Speed of Light. Today, inhuman distances.

Episode: 1519 Learning to acquire knowledge and create it at the same time. Today, we wonder where knowledge comes from.

Episode: 1518 A concern about computers and the redefinition of reality. Today, we try to tell fact from fiction.

Episode: 1517 The very odd bridge that Roebling almost built. Today, a strange bridge.

Episode: 1516 In which we must save the lore as well as the plants. Today, we have to save more than the endangered plants.

Episode: 2554 The Creativity of Slogans and Jingles. Today, "think different."

Episode: 3090 Friedrich Richard Petri. Today, drawing the frontier.

Episode: 2881 Racial Mythologies: Hans Günther vs. Julian Huxley on the Concept of Race. Today, poison in the library.

Episode: 1515 The would-be discovery of oxygen and scientific revolution. Today, let's try to find out who discovered oxygen.

Episode: 1514 The resistance movement: a look at ongoing evolution. Today, we watch creatures evolving around us.

Episode: 1513 The Accidental Creationist: In which science changes with the telling of it. Today, the problem of telling about science.

Episode: 1512 The corner store: a retail outlet that is lost but not forgotten. Today, let's buy candy at the corner store.

Episode: 2552 Frederick the Great, Patron of the Arts. Today, what made Frederick great?

Episode: 2836 Bumping into Signs: Emergent Semiotic Spaces. Today, signs of the times.

Episode: 2243 Organizing for disaster: One place where New Orleans did it right. Today, our guest, UH journalist Michael Berryhill, prepares for a rainy day.

Episode: 1511 In which the lotus blossom gives a lesson in engineering design. Today, lotus petals and high-tech.

Episode: 1510 Thomas Sopwith's hundredth birthday. Today, we meet the oldest airplane designer.

Episode: 1509 Late 18th century competition among roads, canals and railways. Today, we look at roads, canals, and railways.

Episode: 1508 The alchemists and chemistry before the middle 19th century. Today, we remember alchemy.

Episode: 2550 Could Napoleon have proved Napoleon's Theorem? Today, did he, or didn't he?

Episode: 3244 Bias and Diversity in Photography and Face Recognition Software. Today, bodies, in beautiful black and white.

Episode: 1856 Form and feeling, a necessary partnership. Today, our guest. Seattle actor Megan Cole, considers a necessary partnership.

Episode: 1507 Rediscovering lighter-than-air flight. Today, do you suppose you'll ever get to ride in a dirigible?

Episode: 1506 The invisible invention of the clock. Today, we look for the first mechanical clock.

Episode: 1503 The second generation of women fliers comes to maturity. Today, a new generation of women fliers.

Episode: 1502 In which the temptress Moon leads calendar-makers astray. Today, the moon deceives us.

Episode: 2038 Putting a leap second in an elastic year. Today, we add a second to our lives.

Episode: 2566 Taking Champagne to the Masses. Today, we pop the cork.

Episode: 2364 46 BC: In which Julius Caesar creates the longest year. Today, UH scholar Richard Armstrong tells us about the longest year in history.

Episode: 1501 The orientation of continents determines their development. Today, the advantage of being horizontal.