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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Creative. Motivated. Ingenious. There’s only one group of people who have ever figured out how to deliver as much energy as the world wants. This is the show about how they did it. And how they keep doing it.
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James Caan discusses his impressive career and offers his top tips on running a successful business. As one of the UK’s most successful businessmen, his name has become synonymous with entrepreneurship. James also discusses his latest entry into the digital realm with his new app, James Caan Business Secrets. Moderated by editor from The Sunday Times, Paul Croughton, at the Apple Store, Covent Garden, London.
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1332: Moment of Inertia
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3:42Episode: 1332 Moment of inertia, secrecy, and satellite stability. Today, government secrecy sabotages an early satellite.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1331: The Mississippi
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3:46Episode: 1331 The Mississippi and Mark Twain's time warp. Today, a River in 1883.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1330: Electric Lights Before Edison
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3:40Episode: 1330 Electric lights in the 80 years before Edison. Today, we go looking for the first electric lights.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1329: Life in Outer Space — In 1698
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3:43Episode: 1329 16th Century scientist, Christiaan Huygens, looks for alien life. Today, an old inquiry into life on other planets.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2423: What’s New
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3:49Episode: 2423 What's New? A Look at What it Means to be New. Today, what's new?Av Dr. Andy Boyd
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2373: Two German Phrasebooks
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3:50Episode: 2373 The Phrasebook: A Dangerous Invention. Today, UH scholar, Richard Armstrong tells us about German phrasebooks.Av Richard H. Armstrong
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3306: A Tool to Curb Pride
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3:49Episode: 3307 A Tool to Curb Pride: Don’t Believe Your Reviews. Today, A Tool to Curb Pride.Av Megan Cole
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1328: The Medieval West
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3:37Episode: 1328 The medieval character of the wild West. Today, the wild West holds up a mirror to medieval life.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1327: Electricity, Books, and Change
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3:43Episode: 1327 Electricity in Everyday Life in 1904. Today, let's look for parallels.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1326: Lift-Off
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3:45Episode: 1326 Lift-off: Reflections on the launch of NASA Flight STS-91. Today, we all count 3-2-1.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1325: The Day the Dam Broke
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3:43Episode: 1325 The day Mulholland's St. Francis Dam broke. Today, an almost-forgotten catastrophe.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2422: John Muir
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3:50Episode: 2422 John Muir, Naturalist and Engineer. Today, an unlikely engineer.Av Dr. Andy Boyd
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3266: New Year Fireworks
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3:50Episode: 3266 Fireworks, Firecrackers, and Lunar New Year. Today, we ring the new year in with a bang.Av Karen Fang
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2838: The Mysterious Small
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3:50Episode: 2838 The World of Small Dimensions; Nano-Dimensions and Pico-Times. Today, we explore Small.Av Haleh Ardebili
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1324: C Rations
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3:44Episode: 1324 C rations: Armies trying to travel on their stomachs. Today, an army tries to travel on its stomach.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1323: Fleming’s Electric Valve
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3:40Episode: 1323 Fleming, the light bulb, and the vacuum tube. Today, an analogy changes our world.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1322: Beating the System
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3:41Episode: 1322 Five college degrees in six years: What does it mean? Today, some thoughts about beating the system.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1321: Century-Old Solar Collector
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3:44Episode: 1321 A modern solar collector, a century before its time. Today, an idea whose time had not yet come.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2418: Luck and Las Vegas
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3:50Episode: 2418 Quantifying the chance of losing at casino games. Today, luck and Las Vegas.Av Dr. Andy Boyd
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3235: Verna Fields, “Mother Cutter”
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3:51Episode: 3235 Gender, labor history, and the devaluation of film editing. Today, the mother of all film editors.Av Karen Fang
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2822: Herodotus
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3:50Episode: 2822 Herodotus describing historical events of 5th century BC, fantastical and entertaining component of The Histories. Today, we visit Herodotus.Av Haleh Ardebili
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1320: Intellectual Misdirection
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3:46Episode: 1320 Today, we wonder where to look for our new widget. Intellectual misdirection: looking inside and outside our heads for knowledge.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1319: Differential Analyzer
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3:42Episode: 1319 Vannevar Bush and the great Rockefeller Differential Analyzer. Today, a eulogy for a machine.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1318: Three-Field Rotation
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3:37Episode: 1318 Three-field crop rotation and the origins of Western technology. Today, putting horses to work proves harder than we might think.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3305: An Inland Seaport
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3:48Episode: 3305 An inland shipping port expands our vision of seaports. Today, an inland seaport.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2414: Intuition Versus Numbers
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3:54Episode: 2414 Using numbers in baseball and business. Today, intuition, or numbers.Av Dr. Andy Boyd
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2553: Complexity and Emergence
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3:49Episode: 2553 Emergence and complexity in virtual and living systems. Today, let's talks about emergence.Av Dr. Krešimir Josić
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2411: Hudson’s Bay Company
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3:51Episode: 2411 Hudson's Bay Company. Today, fur traders and far-off borders.Av Roger Kaza
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1317: Iron in America
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3:40Episode: 1317 The first iron-smelting in Colonial America: Hammersmith on the Saugus. Today, we smelt the first American iron.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1316: Parachutes
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3:40Episode: 1316 Parachutes: for fun or for survival? Today, let's fall safely out of the sky.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1315: Algae Burgers
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3:41Episode: 1315 Chlorella: the day we decided not to eat algae burgers. Today, we try to create a new food.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1314: Cinqué
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3:41Episode: 1314 Amistad, art and revolution: artists join the fight for freedom. Today, art and slavery.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2412: The Past and the Future
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3:50Episode: 2412 Disney's Spaceship Earth: Past and Future Communication. Today, the future — one step at a time.Av Dr. Andy Boyd
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2770: Building the Mustang
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3:49Episode: 2770 Developing the P-51 Mustang fighter. Today, our guest, NASA engineer Fitz Walker, remembers the P-51 Mustang.Av Fitz Walker
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The Engines of our Ingenuity 2544: Face Recognition
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3:48Episode: 2544 How humans and computers recognize faces. Today, UH math professor Krešo Josić recognizes your face.Av Dr. Krešimir Josić
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1313: Rotation
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3:45Episode: 1313 Rotation: of coins, racquetballs, ballet dancers, and more. Today, let's think about rotation.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1312: McDouall Stuart Expedition
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3:40Episode: 1312 Crossing Australia -- from nine months to six minutes. Today, we cross Australia.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1311: The Cistercians
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3:38Episode: 1311 The Cistercian order, power technology, and innovation. Today, let's talk about monks and waterwheels.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1310: Math and Abstraction
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3:40Episode: 1310 Redeeming math and abstraction in our schools. Today, we ask why American math and science scores are slipping.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2406: The Pigeonhole Principle
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3:50Episode: 2406 The Pigeonhole Principle. Today, pigeons and pigeonholes.Av Dr. Andy Boyd
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2364: The Longest Year in History
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3:50Episode: 2364 46 BC: In which Julius Caesar creates the longest year. Today, UH scholar Richard Armstrong tells us about the longest year in history.Av Richard H. Armstrong
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2566: Champagne
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3:49Episode: 2566 Taking Champagne to the Masses. Today, we pop the cork.Av Dr. Andy Boyd
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2014: Bubbles in Soda
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3:49Episode: 2014 Boiling bubbles and fizzing bubbles: So alike, so different! Today, bubbles in soda and bubbles in teakettles.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1309: The deHavilland DH-4
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3:39Episode: 1309 The DH-4: a forgotten and terribly influential WW-I warplane. Today, America tries to get off the ground in WW-I.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1308: Charles Dellshau
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3:44Episode: 1308 In which Charles Dellschau draws secret airships.Today, a Texas immigrant dreams and draws flight.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1307: The Pendulum Clock
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3:44Episode: 1307 Pendulum clock escapement: science and technology merging. Today, we attend the wedding of science and technology.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2403: Cookbook
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3:50Episode: 2403 Cookbook. Today, tasty treats.Av Dr. Andy Boyd
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Episode: 1563 Looking back at the impact of toys. Sorting through a box the other day, I found old toys -- a lead soldier, a stuffed dog, a set of blocks.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2039: Quiet on the Western Front
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3:53Episode: 2039 In which we experience quiet on the Western Front. Today, it's quiet on the Western Front.Av Dr. John Lienhard
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2669: Christmas Greenery
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3:48Episode: 2669 Plants and greens associated with the Christmas Season. Today, Christmas greenery.Av Roger Kaza
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