Engines of Our Ingenuity

By Houston Public Media

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.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity episodes:

February 23, 2026 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3353: Sandrin
Episode: 3353 An example showing how music, like other technologies, evolves. Today, a lesson from an old song.
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5min
February 22, 2026 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1530: The Medieval Mason
Episode: 1530 Medieval masons and the mischief of success. Today, we meet a medieval mason.
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4min
February 21, 2026 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1529: Osborne Reynolds
Episode: 1529 Osborne Reynolds: of sand Reynolds Numbers. Today, a great Victorian engineer.
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4min
February 20, 2026 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1527: Polio and Clean Water
Episode: 1527 How Clean Water triggered the Great Polio Epidemics. Today, we wonder where polio came from.
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4min
February 19, 2026 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2559: Going, Going, Gone!
Episode: 2559 Going, Going, Gone! A look at auctions. Today, going, going, gone!
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4min
February 18, 2026 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2035: The Gunpowder Plot
Episode: 2035 The Gunpowder Plot: Terrorism little-changed in four hundred years. Today, historian Cathy Patterson asks us to "Remember, remember, the fifth of November.
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4min
February 17, 2026 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2739: Hall
Episode: 2739 Evolution of the Hall from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. Today, a room without a view.
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4min
February 16, 2026 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1526: Learning to Talk
Episode: 1526 Learning speech: the Paleolithic technological explosion. Today, we learn to talk.
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4min
February 15, 2026 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1525: Liberty Ships
Episode: 1525 Liberty ships: an amateur takes over the trade. Today, an amateur builds ships.
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4min
February 14, 2026 The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1524: The Great Peshtigo Fire
Episode: 1524 The other great fire of 1871: Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Today, the other great fire.
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4min

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The podcast currently has 2,007 episodes available.