The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1559: The Oldest Technology
Apr 19, 202600
Episode: 1559 Music-making: the first technology. Today, we look for the oldest technology.
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Episode: 1559 Music-making: the first technology. Today, we look for the oldest technology.
Episode: 1558 Mastered by nature, we o’ercome by art – then as now. Today, an old debate in a new arena.
Episode: 1556 In which we run out of manual arts teachers for our schools. Today, let’s work with our hands.
Episode: 1554 In which new science yields new instruments: 1500 to 1950. Today, a new class of machines and new viewpoint.
Episode: 1553 Galileo, Torricelli, von Guericke, and the idea of a vacuum. Today, we invent vacuum.
Episode: 1552 The ocean – the wild card in global warming. Today, we wonder how things are really heating up.
Episode: 1551 In which Gary Larson tells us the piano was invented earlier than we thought. oday, a lesson in invention from the Far Side.
Episode: 1550 Making a book of The Engines of Our Ingenuity. Today, we wonder how to make a book.
Episode: 1549 Compte Rendus, 1836: a snapshot of science at high tide. Today, we read modern science when it was first being made.
Episode: 1547 Mystery at the threshhold of the Twentieth Century. Today, let’s reclaim mystery.
Episode: 1546 Max Jakob: a breath of fresh air in a new land. Today, a great engineer escapes the Holocaust.
Episode: 3367 In which Scientific American Magazine gets wrong, the airflow during singing. Today, Scientific American gets it wrong.
Episode: 3366 The throw-away bottle cap: More than it seems to be. Today, we invent the bottle cap.
Episode: 1545 The English and 18th century ballooning. Today, we ride the first hot-air balloons in England.
Episode: 1544 An operetta about electric lights, written before Edison’s light bulb. Today, an electric-light opera.
Episode: 1543 Archimedes’ pump, rediscovered by Ceredi, heralds the new science. Today, meet the person who reinvented Archimedes’ pump.
Episode: 3365 A 1906 set of Shop Notes offers a lesson in technological change. Today, a manual tells us more than it means to.
Episode: 3364 In which my understanding of invention turns upon a simple hinge. Today, we begin with a simple door hinge.
Episode: 1542 In which Francis Bacon pushes a strict Aristotelian Agenda. Today, science tries to find its way.
Episode: 1541 Do ‘Horseshoe Nails’ really alter human history? Today, we ask if horseshoe nails are real.
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