Episode: 1529 Osborne Reynolds: of sand Reynolds Numbers. Today, a great Victorian engineer.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1527: Polio and Clean Water
Episode: 1527 How Clean Water triggered the Great Polio Epidemics. Today, we wonder where polio came from.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2559: Going, Going, Gone!
Episode: 2559 Going, Going, Gone! A look at auctions. Today, going, going, gone!
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2035: The Gunpowder Plot
Episode: 2035 The Gunpowder Plot: Terrorism little-changed in four hundred years. Today, historian Cathy Patterson asks us to "Remember, remember, the fifth of November.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2739: Hall
Episode: 2739 Evolution of the Hall from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. Today, a room without a view.
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.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1525: Liberty Ships
Episode: 1525 Liberty ships: an amateur takes over the trade. Today, an amateur builds ships.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1524: The Great Peshtigo Fire
Episode: 1524 The other great fire of 1871: Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Today, the other great fire.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1523: Lighthouses and Cabooses
Episode: 1523 On saying goodbye to lighthouses and cabooses. Today, we say goodbye to lighthouses and cabooses.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2556: Hilbert and Euclid’s Elements
Episode: 2556 Euclid's Elements, David Hilbert, and modern notions of mathematical abstraction. Today, making a point.