Author: Dr. John Lienhard

Episode: 1375 Leibniz, Newton, and the great calculus dispute.  Today, we throw Leibniz's cat into the super collider.

Episode: 1373 Pittsburgh in 1816.  Today, let's visit embryonic Pittsburgh.

Episode: 1372 Mark Twain and the Paige Compositor.  Today, meet the man who bankrupted Mark Twain.

Episode: 1371 The great evolution war at Oxford in 1860.  Today, we join the first major battle in a long war.

Episode: 1370 Anno Domini 1370: So much going on just below the surface.  Today, the story behind an arbitrary date.

Episode: 1369 Fokker and the machine gun interrupter mechanism.  Today, we meet a nice young man and his killing machines.

Episode: 1368 Edmund Beckett, Lord Grimthorpe: of clockwork and convervatism.  Today, clocks for the rich and clocks for the poor.

Episode: 1367 Struggling with abstraction in schools and in public.  Today, we think about thinking abstractly.

Episode: 1366 Rain, Steam, and Speed: Turner's vision of modern times.  Today, a painting tells the coming of rail.

Episode: 1364 Our radar warning of the Pearl Harbor attack.  Today, devastation follows when we don't trust a new technology.