Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1333: Energy is Pure Delight
Episode: 1333 Energy is pure delight, the conservation of energy. Today, we chase a will-o-the-wisp.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2424: The National Institute of Standards and Technology
Episode: 2424 The National Institute of Standards and Technology. Today, we measure things.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2882: Eliezer Ben Yehuda
Episode: 2882 Eliezer Ben Yehuda and the Revival of Hebrew. Today, the revival of an ancient language.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3307: Filmstrips
Episode: 1332 Filmstrips, as used in schools from the 1920s through the 1980s. Today, filmstrips.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1332: Moment of Inertia
Episode: 1332 Moment of inertia, secrecy, and satellite stability. Today, government secrecy sabotages an early satellite.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1331: The Mississippi
Episode: 1331 The Mississippi and Mark Twain's time warp. Today, a River in 1883.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1330: Electric Lights Before Edison
Episode: 1330 Electric lights in the 80 years before Edison. Today, we go looking for the first electric lights.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1329: Life in Outer Space — In 1698
Episode: 1329 16th Century scientist, Christiaan Huygens, looks for alien life. Today, an old inquiry into life on other planets.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2423: What’s New
Episode: 2423 What's New? A Look at What it Means to be New. Today, what's new?
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2373: Two German Phrasebooks
Episode: 2373 The Phrasebook: A Dangerous Invention. Today, UH scholar, Richard Armstrong tells us about German phrasebooks.