Posted on June 10, 2006  Comments (0)

Engines Of Our Ingenuity hosted by John Lienhard, University of Houston’s College of Engineering, (podcasts via NPR).

A complete history, with transcripts and audio of the over 2,000 episodes, is online – episodes include:

• Constantine the African bringing Arab medicine to Europe
• China: A case history in the survival/nonsurvival of invention
• Global climate change, a problem for the educated
• The Waning of American Science and Engineering Education

(from 1990)

• Thomas Jefferson, the generous Colonial American engineer

This is a great resource. “The Engines of Our Ingenuity tells the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. he program uses the record of history to reveal the way art, technology, and ideas have shaped us.”

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