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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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Episode: 1468 The evolution of the bicycle. Today, let's talk about bicycles and freedom.
Episode: 2529 Comparing Fingerprints: What's Involved and What can go Wrong. Today, who dunnit?
Episode: 3337 Claude Bernard’s important medical science, horrifically achieved. Today, let’s meet a problematic scientist.
Episode: 2018 The Chamberlen family secret: the invention of forceps. Today, guest historian Cathy Patterson reveals family secrets.
Episode: 3007 Samuel Gragg's Unusual Chair. Today we look at an elastic Chair.
Episode: 3336 The evolution and potential demise of the lowly Nickel. Today, let us spend the lowly nickel.
Episode: 1467 Napoleon Bonaparte and Iron in France. Today, Napoleon builds iron monuments.
Episode: 1466 An old botany book for young girls changes scientific thinking. Today, a young student forms a scientific theory.
Episode #3335 Learning to fly non-stop from coast to coast in America. Today, we fly across America.
Episode: 2527 Alphonse Bertillon: Measuring the Man. Today, the measure of a man.
Episode: 3244 Bias and Diversity in Photography and Face Recognition Software. Today, bodies, in beautiful black and white.
Episode: 2909 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Providing Renewable Energy, A Comparison of Hydrogen Fuel Cell and Lithium Ion Battery. Today, a neat way to get energy.
Episode: 1465 In which random statistical clusters look significant. Today, we flip six heads in a row.
Episode: 1464 Trying to teach technologies that were novel for us, but not our students. Today, a thought about technological change and learning.
Episode: 1463 An old pig iron smelter in the New Hampshire underbrush. Today, an old iron works hidden in the tall grass.
Episode: 1462 Jedidiah Morse, geographer and Samuel F. B. Morse's father. Today, Jedidiah Morse's geography.
Episode: 2523 Georges-Eugene Haussmann Reshapes Paris. Today, a city redone.
Episode: 3334 In Praise of Humble Lint. Today highlighting a former fabric byproduct.
Episode: 2818 The Pompeian Paradox and Fiorelli's Body Casts. Today, the Pompeian paradox.
Episode: 1461 George Everett Hale and BIG telescopes. Today, we look through some really big telescopes.
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traction motors on today's locomotives are essentially "hub motors" powered by 5000 hp diesel engines that generate the electricity needed to turn steel wheels.