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The Engines of our Ingenuity 1358: William Minor and the OED
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Episode: 1358 William Minor helping us to understand language from an insane asylum. Today, a great dictionary and an asylum for the criminally insane.
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1 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1368: Baron Grimthorpe 3:44
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Episode: 1368 Edmund Beckett, Lord Grimthorpe: of clockwork and convervatism. Today, clocks for the rich and clocks for the poor.
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1 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2458: The Container Port of Houston 3:47
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Episode: 2458 A Visit to the Container Port of Houston. Today, working on the dock of the bay.
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1 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3014: Measuring Almost Nothing 3:49
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Episode: 3014 Measuring Almost Nothing. Today, we measure almost nothing.
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1 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3241: Hooker’s Green 3:46
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Episode: 3241 Green with Immortality. Today, we go green with immortality.
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1 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1367: Struggling With Abstraction 3:43
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Episode: 1367 Struggling with abstraction in schools and in public. Today, we think about thinking abstractly.
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1 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1366: Rain, Steam, and Speed 3:47
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Episode: 1366 Rain, Steam, and Speed : Turner's vision of modern times. Today, a painting tells the coming of rail.
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Episode: 1364 Our radar warning of the Pearl Harbor attack. Today, devastation follows when we don't trust a new technology.
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1 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3312: Physics in 1861 3:44
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Episode: 3312 An 1861 Natural Philosophy test reveals far more than it meant to.Today, a look at physics before our Civil War.
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1 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2454: Wrinkle Free Cotton 3:48
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Episode: 2454 Ruth Benerito and Wrinkle Free Cotton. Today, we wash and wear.
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1 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3040: Leonardo and Borelli 3:51
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Episode: 3040 Leonardo and Borelli. Today, two hemispheres come together.
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1 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2579: Music and Mathematics 3:50
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Episode: 2579 Music and Mathematics. Today, UH Math Professor Krešo Josić talks about music and mathematics.
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1 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1363: Man the Treasure 3:38
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Episode: 1363 Man the measure -- man the meter. Today, let's ask what meters measure.
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1 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1362: Flying Across the Atlantic 3:43
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Episode: 1362 The first twenty years of transatlantic flights. Today, we fly the Atlantic.
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1 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1360: Cleaning Ourselves 3:42
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Episode: 1360 A brief history of bathing ourselves. Today, let's bathe.
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Episode: 1359 The Windmill: A device that has come, gone, and which may come again. Today, let's tilt at windmills.
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