The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1632: The Sunken Monitor
Engines of Our Ingenuity

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1632: The Sunken Monitor

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 20, 20263 min

Episode: 1632 Rediscovering the sunken Union Monitor. Today, we find the first modern warship -- on the ocean floor.

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This programming is sponsored by St. Luke's Health, is becoming Common Spirit. While our name is changing, the care you know isn't. Expanding our collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine, we're bringing innovative expert health care closer to you.

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Learn more at commonspirit.org slash stlukeshealth. This is the Engines of Our Ingenuity, made possible by the friends of KUHF Houston. Today we find the first modern warship on the ocean floor. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run,

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and the people whose ingenuity created them. One of the great adventures of the late 20th century was finding famous sunken ships. We found the 17th century Vassa in Stockholm Harbor and the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior. We found deep wrecks like the Titanic, the Bismarck, and the SS Central America.

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