- 990
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- 681
- Transcribed
- 199
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 294K
- YouTube views
About Engines of Our Ingenuity
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.
- Publisher
- Houston Public Media
- Category
- education · science · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 Dec 2023
- Latest episode
- 11 Oct 2026
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1641: Aaron Montgomery Ward
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1640: Learning Electricity
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1639: Flying to the Edge of Air
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1641: Aaron Montgomery Ward
Published 11 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] He was born in New Jersey in 1844 and he moved to Michigan as a boy. He went to school up to the age of 14, then apprenticed to learn barrel stave making. He also worked as a laborer and as a shoemaker. When he finally found work as a store clerk, he became the store's manager only three years later. In 1872, he and a partner began selling merchandise by mail order. The first catalogue of the new Montgomery Ward & Company was a one-page list of 162 items. Three years later the company coined the phrase, Satisfaction or your money back. Eleven years later the catalogue had grown to 240 pages with 10,000 items. […]
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- 4.8 / 5
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- 4.9 / 5
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- 94
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- 86
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