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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1646: Who Did What By When?
Episode: 1646 Thinking about who had done what by what age. Today, who did what by when?
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Today, Who Did What by When? The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
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This is the Engines of Our Ingenuity, made possible by the friends of KUHF Houston. Today, Who Did What by When? The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. Here's a neat little book by Andrew Postman. There's always time for greatness. Who did what when from ages 1 to 100?
It marches through the years, giving us exemplars at each age. Brooke Shields was named the Ivory Snow Baby at the age of 1. The present Dalai Lama was chosen when he was 2. Tiger Woods shot 48 on a nine-hole course when he was 3.
The years of childhood and early teens are filled with musical prodigies, country western singer Loretta Lynn married at the age of 13. Serious athletic accomplishment begins in the mid to late teens. At 19, Bill Gates became the co-founder of Microsoft,
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