Engines of Our Ingenuity
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Aug 2, 2018
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The story of technological progress is one of drama and intrigue, sudden insight and plain hard work. Let’s explore technology’s spectacular failures and many magnificent success stories.
This content is in service of Houston Public Media’s education mission and is sponsored by the University of Houston. It is not a product of our news team.
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2810: The Concrete Revolution
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1414: Advertisements in 1869
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1413: Poets and the Industrial Revolution
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1412: NonExercise Activity Thermogenesis
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1411: John Dalton’s Notation
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2493: Child’s Play
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2801: The MTT
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3321: Scott Joplin and Ragtime
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1410: Homo Technologicus
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1409: The Redoubtable DC-3
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1408: The Tortoise and the Hare
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1407: A Matter of Size
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2491: Mitch Miller and the Gang
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2809: A Goblin Book
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2613: Can We Hear Shapes?
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3320: Brown
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1406: Medieval Age of Reason
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1405: Brunel – Father and Son
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1404: Prerequisites
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2485: Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2725: The Atocha Bombing Memorial
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3319: When WWII Began
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3318: Vera C. Rubin
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1402: Franklin and De Chaumont
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1401: Roosevelt, Remington, and the West
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1400: Inured to Change
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2483: Metro
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3235: Verna Fields, “Mother Cutter”
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3317: Railcars
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3316: Research
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1399: The Circus
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1398: Back to the Beginning
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1397: John Fitch
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2480: Stephanie Kwolek and Kevlar
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3065: Victor and Eva Saxl
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2448: Rachmaninoff Unblocked
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3315: History Deep-Sixed
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1396: An Engineer Named Calder
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1395: Worst Airplanes
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1393: Inventing the Telegraph
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2478: Metal Wood
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2798: Behold the Mighty Transistor
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2597: History and Math
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1392: Fog in the Woods
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1391: The Johnstown Flood
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3133: The Liar That Helped Win D-Day
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2475: Friedrich Fröbel and Kindergarten
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2934: Molecules of Life
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2499: Texas Germans
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1389: Regrowing Our Forests
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1388: A Short Discourse of Tunneling
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1387: The Wooden Ships of Mallows Bay
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1386: Franklin’s Glass Armonica
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2467: Graph Theory
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3245: Memes
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2946: Man or Monster?
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1385: Bushnell’s Submarine
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1384: The Samurai Sword
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1383: Owning Time
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May 31, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1381: Names of Machines
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May 30, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2464: Engineering Diapers
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May 29, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1766: Doctors and Detectives
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May 28, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2577: The Frankfurter Küche
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May 27, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1380: Indian Telegraph
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May 26, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1379: Frank and Peter Griffin
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May 25, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1378: S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald
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May 24, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1377: Ben Franklin and Music
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May 23, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2463: Serendipity
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May 22, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3314: The Navier Stokes Equations
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May 21, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3313: Shimmering Iridescence
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May 20, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1376: Frére Jacques
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May 19, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1375: Newton vs Leibniz
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May 18, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1373: Pittsburgh in 1816
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May 17, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1372: The Paige Compositor
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May 16, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2461: Nanotechnology
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May 15, 2025 |
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The Engines of Out Ingenuity 2426: Charles Dow
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May 14, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2619: Space Medicine
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May 13, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1371: Soapy Sam and Huxley
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May 12, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1370: Anno Domini 1370
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May 11, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1369: Fokker’s Interrupter Mechanism
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May 10, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1368: Baron Grimthorpe
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May 09, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2458: The Container Port of Houston
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May 08, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3014: Measuring Almost Nothing
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May 07, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3241: Hooker’s Green
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May 06, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1367: Struggling With Abstraction
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May 05, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1366: Rain, Steam, and Speed
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May 04, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1364: Radar
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May 03, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3312: Physics in 1861
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May 02, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2454: Wrinkle Free Cotton
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May 01, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3040: Leonardo and Borelli
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2579: Music and Mathematics
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1363: Man the Treasure
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1362: Flying Across the Atlantic
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1360: Cleaning Ourselves
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1359: Windmills
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2452: Kitchen Gadgetry
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2268: The Lucifer Effect
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2557: The Google Ranking System
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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The Engines of our Ingenuity 1358: William Minor and the OED
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1357: Testing Airplane Propellers
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Apr 20, 2025 |