John Henry Lienhard V

This time, NASA's Frank Borman read another message of hope as he came out from behind the moon.

And those two broadcasts remind me that our inventions, used well, really do hold means for raising the human lot.

I'm John Lienhardt at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds work.

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It is a sobering fact that they had clear-headed answers to questions that still troubled many, many people 4,000 years later.

I'm John Lienhard at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds work.

It was as late as 2016 when that fact was fully put to use, when women were finally accepted in all occupations of the U.S. Armed Services, ground combat included.

I'm John Lienhard at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds work.

But I recall those old wigwam burning cones today, and I can almost smell their campfire perfume.

It's seductive, even when I know better.

I'm John Lienhardt at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds work.

This programming is sponsored by Downtown Houston.

Look at science in any age, and you will find Galileos and Kirchers, the matched pairs needed to complete any scientific evolution.

I'm John Lienhard at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds work.

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This programming is sponsored by Vestige Law.

But it displays so much technical success.

Now, may we just apply that same care to the other kinds of energy that we so voraciously consume.

I'm John Lienhardt at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds work.

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But for me, so much dramatic change remains encapsulated in two remarkable talks.

I'm John Lienhard at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds work.

It was a cornucopia of dreams reaching into remote corners of a raw land.

Ward picked up where itinerant peddlers had left off, and a primal piece of America ended with those old catalogs.

I'm John Lienhardt at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds work.

It was a world in all respects remarkably like the one that's sweeping you and me along today.

I'm John Lienhard at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds work.

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This programming is sponsored by St. Luke's Health.

As we enter the new millennium, flight is reclaiming some of its old grace and delicacy.

We have again what we lost when we first put engines in wooden and canvas airplanes.

I'm John Lienhardt at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds work.