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Back to SearchThe Engines of Our Ingenuity 1448: Guillotin/Guillotine
Episode 1448
Episode: 1448 The Guillotine and the democratization of death. Today, heads will roll.
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1447: Eighteenth-Century Factory Maintenance
Episode 1447
Episode: 1447 18th-C factory maintenance: messier than Diderot showed us. Today, a question of image and reality.
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2510: Reason in All Things
Episode 2510
Episode: 2510 Reason in all things: Augustine, Galileo, Collins, The Human Genome, and God. Today, Augustine, Galileo, and the human genome.
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2488: Creator vs. Revisor
Episode 2488
Episode: 2488 Revision: An Essential Component of the Creative Process. Today, creator vs. revisor.
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2823: Hypnotic Crimes
Episode 2823
Episode: 2823 Gilles de la Tourette and Hypnotic Crimes. Today, hypnotic crimes.
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1444: ThrustSSC : 763 MPH
Episode 1444
Episode: 1444 In which ThrustSSC passes the sound barrier on land. Today, a very fast car.
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1443: Praising the Famous
Episode 1443
Episode: 1443 Some thoughts on fame and fortune in technology. Today, thoughts on fame and fortune.
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1442: Walter Chrysler and the texture of fame
Episode 1442
Episode: 1442 Walter Chrysler and the texture of fame. Today, an odd glimpse of the texture of fame.
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Engines of our Ingenuity 1441: Secret New York
Episode 1441
Episode: 1441 The secret places that define a city. Today, we look for the secret places that complete a city.
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2507: The Unsung Engineer
Episode 2507
Episode: 2507 The Unsung Engineer: The Mechanical Arts in Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie. Today, celebrating the mechanical arts.
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago