Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1369: Fokker’s Interrupter Mechanism
Episode: 1369 Fokker and the machine gun interrupter mechanism. Today, we meet a nice young man and his killing machines.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1368: Baron Grimthorpe
Episode: 1368 Edmund Beckett, Lord Grimthorpe: of clockwork and convervatism. Today, clocks for the rich and clocks for the poor.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2458: The Container Port of Houston
Episode: 2458 A Visit to the Container Port of Houston. Today, working on the dock of the bay.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3014: Measuring Almost Nothing
Episode: 3014 Measuring Almost Nothing. Today, we measure almost nothing.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3241: Hooker’s Green
Episode: 3241 Green with Immortality. Today, we go green with immortality.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1367: Struggling With Abstraction
Episode: 1367 Struggling with abstraction in schools and in public. Today, we think about thinking abstractly.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1366: Rain, Steam, and Speed
Episode: 1366 Rain, Steam, and Speed: Turner's vision of modern times. Today, a painting tells the coming of rail.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1364: Radar
Episode: 1364 Our radar warning of the Pearl Harbor attack. Today, devastation follows when we don't trust a new technology.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3312: Physics in 1861
Episode: 3312 An 1861 Natural Philosophy test reveals far more than it meant to.Today, a look at physics before our Civil War.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2454: Wrinkle Free Cotton
Episode: 2454 Ruth Benerito and Wrinkle Free Cotton. Today, we wash and wear.