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Engines of Our Ingenuity

by Dr. John Lienhard

 



Tracks

1060: Gasoline
1062: Who Was Charles Lindbergh
1063: Ice Cream
1064: Words
1065: Alphabet
1066 A Tale of Three Bridges
1067: Science, Religion, and John Tyndall
1068: Imitating Nature
1069: A Spider’s Web
1070: Wrong-Way Corrigan
1071: A Gift of Turtle Eggs
1072: Probability
1074: Imhotep
1075: Tobacco
1077: Coffin Wharf
1078: Declaration of Independence
1079: Thinking in Pictures
1080: Food in Early texas
1081: Paradox
1082: Cuneiform and Turbines
1083: Lallement’s Bicycle
1084: The First Steamboat
1085: The First American Steam Engine
1086: An Obsession with Obsidian
1087: Aluminum
1088: Housework
1089: At the Art Museum
1090: Poe’s Conchology
1091: Balloon Bombs
1092: Rocket Belt
1093: Under Pressure
1094: Mesa Verde
1095: The Lesion Within
1096: Inventing the Organ
1097: Acceptable Risk
1098: Who Invented the Telephone?
1101: Paconius’s Folly
1103: How We Die
1104: Von Suttner and Nobel
1105: Mary Roberts
1107: Engineering Education
1108: 100 Million Land Mines
1110: Origami
1111: The Numbers 1 Thru 10
1112: On Being Human
1113: How Can I Tell You About Math?
1114: Gore’s Metaphor
1115: Books of the Century
1116: An Attack on Superhighways
1117: History of the Wound
1118: Nuclear Power
1119: An Old Book of Recipes
1120: Cayley’s Flying Machine
1121: Neolithic Farming in Europe
1122: Offshore Rig Disposal
1123: Whiplash
1124: The New Religion
1125: The Visible Man
1126: An Academic Hoax
1127: Germany and the Atom Bomb
1128: Of Whales and Elephants
1129: Alphonse Penaud
1131: John Hunter
1132: The Siege of Paris
1133: Lucille Treganowan
1134: Linear B
1135: Ol’ Man River
1137: America at the First Modern Olympics
1138: The Texas City Disaster
1139: The Wounded Story-Teller
1140: Twentieth-Century Tents
1142: Legend and Flight
1143: Shakespeare and Medicine
1144: Fokker D-VII
1145: Jacquard and Babbage
1146: Creating a New Country
1147: Points Off
1148: 1846
1149: Heat Transfer
1150: Arguing Racism
1152: Macbeth
1153: Grosseteste and Bacon
1154: Adam’s Belly Button
1156: The Machine as Mirror
1157: Marketing Model A
1158: The Crystal Palace
1161: Roman Water Wheel
1162: Systems
1163: A Better Mousetrap
1164: Things Bite Back
1165: Count Rumford
1166: Josquin Des Prez
1167: Machiavelli
1168: Voltaire and Science
1169: Two Kinds of Structural Design
1170: The Iatros
1171: The Ignobel Prizes
1173: A Sinking Automobile
1174: An Intellectual Legacy
1175: The Elizabethans
1176: Ilizarov Surgery
1177: Thomas Watson
1178: Aeronautics 1897-1910
1179: How Aspirin Finds the Headache
1180: Lardner and Energy
1181: Edith Humphrey
1183: Leonardo and Leda
1184: Mirror
1185: Adam Smith
1186: Bach and Handel
1187: Good/Bad : People/Machines
1188: William Billings
1189: Theodore Pachelbel
1190: Mustard Gas
1192: Black Sea
1193: West with the Night
1194: Self-Deception
1195: Dhouda
1196: Batting 400
1198: The Gates of Hell
1199: Gallup Poll
1200: London’s Secret Museums
1204: Baron von Humboldt
1205: Henry Chapman Mercer
1206: Harriet Beecher Stowe
1207: Balustrades
1208: The Panama Railroad
1209: Writing About Flight
1210: Pasteur’s Biomilitarism
1211: Medora
1215: The Tyranny of Large Numbers
1216: Wings
1217: Giant Earth-Movers
1218: In Galveston’s Alley
1219: Ploesti
1220: Hill’s Color Photography
1221: Acoustics
1223: Ghosts From the Sky
1224: Time and Efficiency
1621: Motherland
1622: Fingerprints
2193: Dover Beach
2322: The Steam Navy
2324: Fences
2326: More on Steam Warships
2328: An Unbuilt Bridge
2329: Thurston and Fulton
2330: Iceboats on the Hudson
2332: The Automobile in 1915
2335: Life in a Seaport
2337: Frank Hornby
2339: Distaffs and Home Economics
2342: Maya Blue
2344: Transco/Williams Tower
2346: Prehistoric Food
2385: Cotton
2388: Inventing the Hyperlink
2391: The WW-I Sopwiths
2392: A Weather Report
2395: The World’s Worst Weapons
2396: The Indus Valley
2398: The Petersburg Crater
2400: Early American Football
2402: Bertha Benz’s Ride
2404: Napoleon’s Aerial Crown
2405: The Great Ballroom Disaster
2407: Peaks Island
2409: Remembering What We Know
2410: The Vintage of Cave Art
2413: Airplanes Without Tails
2415: Camels in Canada
2416: The PaleoClock
2417: Kill-Devil Hills
2420: Rheticus and Copernicus
2421: William Ferrel
2425: Sketches
2428: Electric Hope in 1889
2430: Equipping Your Clinic
2436: John Jacob Niles
2438: Phoebe Omlie and Her Monocoupe
2440: Sulzer and Taste
2650: RRS Discovery
2775: Wingtips
2964: Lettice Curtis
2965: Forgetting Names
2967: In Praise of Confusion
2974: Hilda Hewlett Revisited
2993: Enclaves & Exclaves
2996: Tensile Strength & Limpet Teeth
2999: Hannibal’s Grand Strategy
3000: 3000
3036: The Ghost of St Louis
3068: Birch Trees
3284: Spiders and STEM
3292: An Old Ruler
3293: Research and Water
3294: Coastlines
3300: Invention-Innovation
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1225: The First Daredevil
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1226: Ricci’s Memory Place
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1227: Paper From Mummy Wrappings
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1228: In Which Europe Quantifies
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1229: Double-Entry Bookkeeping
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1230: Mathematics After 2000
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1231: Automobile Advertising
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1232: Very Early Music
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1233: Baden Baden-Powell
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1234: West Baden Springs Hotel and Spa
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1236: Flying Fortress
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1237: Hindenburg in Flames
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1238: Exhibition
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1239: Canonical Ensemble
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1241: Looking for Franklin
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1242: Kasparov and Deep Blue
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1243: Five-Fold Symmetry
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1244: Making Science Fun
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1245: Sarah Bagley
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1246: Momentum
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1247: Three Women Architects
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1671: Other Selves-Other Christmases
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1760: The Christmas Lectures
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2039: Quiet on the Western Front
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2445: What Made Robert Norton Go?
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2446: Limits of Logic