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Back to SearchThe Engines of Our Ingenuity 1612: Enemy at the Gates
Episode 1612
Episode: 1612 Trying to tell the story of the worst battle. Today, we wonder how to tell of history.
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2627: The Bohr-Einstein Debates
Episode 2627
Episode: 2627 Clash of the Titans: The Bohr-Einstein Debates. Today, a clash of titans.
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3396: Treacherous Words
Episode 3396
Episode: 3396 How we live with two competing vocabularies – technical and commonplace. Today, treacherous words.
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3395: X-Ray’s First Year
Episode 3395
Episode: 3395 Century Magazine reveals how scientists were viewing the new X-Rays in the year after their discovery. Today, X-Rays one year old.
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3394: An Old Book of Aeroplanes
Episode 3394
Episode: 3394 An old book of WW-I aeroplanes reveals something about technological change in wartime. Today, an old book with an unintended message.
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1611: Benjamin Franklin and Cotton Mather
Episode 1611
Episode: 1611 Benjamin Franklin and Cotton Mather: ideologies diverge and converge. Today, Benjamin Franklin and Cotton Mather.
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1610: Experimental Proof
Episode 1610
Episode: 1610 Thoughts on the nature and purpose of experiments. Today, we wonder why people do experiments.
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1609: Franklin’s Heat Experiment
Episode 1609
Episode: 1609 Benjamin Franklin's experiments in thermal radiation. Today, Benjamin Franklin thinks about theoretical and applied science.
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2623: Thomas Carlyle’s Past and Present
Episode 2623
Episode: 2623 Thomas Carlyle and the Working of Free Markets. Today, economic salvation.
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3393: Curtiss Robin
Episode 3393
Episode: 3393 In which the 1928 Curtiss Robin airplane was far more than it seemed to be. Today, a ride in a bland airplane.
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