The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2644: Camping and Creature Comforts
Engines of Our Ingenuity

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2644: Camping and Creature Comforts

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 20263 min

Episode: 2644 Camping and Creature Comforts. Today, taking it with you.

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This is the Engines of Our Ingenuity, made possible by the friends of KUHF Houston. Today, taking it with you. 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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Warm water, a clean bed, heating and air conditioning. Humans have spent the better part of history seeking comforts that nature doesn't provide. Yet we still feel a deep need to experience nature. Sitting on the porch at sunset, taking a walk, or for the more adventurous, camping.

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After camping emerged in the United States in the late 19th century, and as historian Phoebe Cropp points out, a recurring question from the outset was what comforts to take into the woods. For naturalist John Muir, a handful of tea, a loaf of bread, and a copy of Emerson were

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