Engines of Our Ingenuity
Houston PR
The story of technological progress is one of drama and intrigue, sudden insight and plain hard work. Let’s explore technology’s spectacular failures and many magnificent success stories.
This content is in service of Houston Public Media’s education mission and is sponsored by the University of Houston. It is not a product of our news team.
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The story of technological progress is one of drama and intrigue, sudden insight and plain hard work. Let’s explore technology’s spectacular failures and many magnificent success stories. This content is in service of Houston Public Media’s education mission and is sponsored by the University of Houston. It is not a product of our news team.
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English
Episodes
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1453: Two Huygens and John Donne
10/5/2025
Episode: 1453 Christiaan and Constantijn Huygens, and John Donne. Today, a tale of two Huygens and John Donne.
Duration:00:03:40
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1451: Inventing the Library
10/4/2025
Episode: 1451 Inventing the free public lending library: socialism in books. Today, we invent the library.
Duration:00:03:41
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3331: What Is a Photo?
10/3/2025
Episode: 3331 Some thoughts about photography and reality. Today, Let’s take pictures.
Duration:00:03:47
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2513: Our Teachers
10/2/2025
Episode: 2513 The Importance of Teachers in Shaping our Lives. Today, remembering our teachers.
Duration:00:03:49
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2905: The Gift of Imagination
10/1/2025
Episode: 2905 Imagination's Contributions to Science and Technology, Developmental Psychology and Imagination. Today, the gift of imagination.
Duration:00:03:50
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3245: Memes
9/30/2025
Episode: 3245 Memes, Internet Challenges, and the Selfish Gene. Today, memes.
Duration:00:03:45
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1450: Searching for Cleopatra
9/29/2025
Episode: 1450 In which we learn too much about Cleopatra and the Pharos Lighthouse. Today, we look for Cleopatra.
Duration:00:03:42
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1449: Image and Reality
9/28/2025
Episode: 1449 Another look at image and reality: Fake Triceratops and manuscript books. Today, more on images and reality.
Duration:00:03:38
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1448: Guillotin/Guillotine
9/27/2025
Episode: 1448 The Guillotine and the democratization of death. Today, heads will roll.
Duration:00:03:39
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1447: Eighteenth-Century Factory Maintenance
9/26/2025
Episode: 1447 18th-C factory maintenance: messier than Diderot showed us. Today, a question of image and reality.
Duration:00:03:36
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2510: Reason in All Things
9/25/2025
Episode: 2510 Reason in all things: Augustine, Galileo, Collins, The Human Genome, and God. Today, Augustine, Galileo, and the human genome.
Duration:00:03:49
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2488: Creator vs. Revisor
9/24/2025
Episode: 2488 Revision: An Essential Component of the Creative Process. Today, creator vs. revisor.
Duration:00:03:48
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2823: Hypnotic Crimes
9/23/2025
Episode: 2823 Gilles de la Tourette and Hypnotic Crimes. Today, hypnotic crimes.
Duration:00:03:51
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1444: ThrustSSC : 763 MPH
9/22/2025
Episode: 1444 In which ThrustSSC passes the sound barrier on land. Today, a very fast car.
Duration:00:03:38
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1443: Praising the Famous
9/21/2025
Episode: 1443 Some thoughts on fame and fortune in technology. Today, thoughts on fame and fortune.
Duration:00:03:34
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1442: Walter Chrysler and the texture of fame
9/20/2025
Episode: 1442 Walter Chrysler and the texture of fame. Today, an odd glimpse of the texture of fame.
Duration:00:03:39
The Engines of our Ingenuity 1441: Secret New York
9/19/2025
Episode: 1441 The secret places that define a city. Today, we look for the secret places that complete a city.
Duration:00:03:42
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2507: The Unsung Engineer
9/18/2025
Episode: 2507 The Unsung Engineer: The Mechanical Arts in Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie. Today, celebrating the mechanical arts.
Duration:00:03:49
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3330: Castle Drogo
9/17/2025
Episode: 3330 Building 20th century Castle Drogo Designed by Edwin Lutyens. Today, building a twentieth-century Castle.
Duration:00:03:49
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2816: Beginning Volcanology
9/16/2025
Episode: 2816 Sir William Hamilton and the Beginnings of Volcanology. Today, the beginnings of volcanology.
Duration:00:03:50