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The Engines of Our Ingenuity radio program
Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science

Chapter 1

Pg. 1 -- NASA History Office Home Page
Pg. 2 -- Montgolfier Lighter-Than-Air Balloon
Pg. 3 -- Santos-Dumont's dirigible flying by the Eiffel Tower
Pg. 4 -- On-line Ballooning
Pg. 4 -- National Air and Space Musuem Collections
Pg. 4 -- NASA Historical Archives for Manned Missions
Pg. 5 -- Women in Aviation and Space History
Pg. 8 -- The Boeing Clipper
Pg. 10 -- MiG 15 Fighter of the Soviet Air Force
Pg. 10 -- The Concorde Supersonic Airliner
Pg. 10 -- The Boeing 747-100
Pg. 10 -- The Airbus A320
Pg. 12 -- NASA Image Exchange
Pg. 12 -- NASA Langley Research Center - Multimedia Repository
Pg. 13 -- Sputnik
Pg. 13 -- The New York Times on AOL: Sputnik

Chapter 2

Pg. 23 -- Neolithic Technology
Pg. 24 -- The First Suez Canal
Pg. 24 -- An Egyptian Model Airplane
Pg. 25 -- A Dark Age
Pg. 25 -- Committee for Research and Exploration @ nationalgeographic.com
Pg. 29 -- Draper Laboratory
Pg. 32 -- Boeing 777
Pg. 32 -- Taurus Star-forming Cloud

Chapter 3

Pg. 37 -- Baden Baden-Powell
Pg. 40 -- FoilSim
Pg. 50 -- Aerodynamic Forces
Pg. 55 -- Advanced Fluid Flow
Pg. 58 -- FoilSim

Chapter 6

Pg. 123 -- Beginner's Guide to Propulsion

Chapter 8

Pg. 179 -- Magnetic Features on the Sun Movie
Pg. 186 -- ALH84001 Main Sample Page
Pg. 190 -- Mars Pathfinder Home

Chapter 10

Pg. 218 -- Boeing Satellite System, Inc.

Chapter 11

Pg. 252 -- International Space Station
Pg. 257 -- Timeline of Planetary Exploration Missions
Pg. 257 -- History of Space Suits

Chapter 12

Pg. 296 -- A New Architectural Eye