Dr. John Lienhard – Page 2

Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1526: Learning to Talk

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: 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: 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.