I used to live in Houston and enjoyed listening to NPR just as I do here in Austin. The local NPR station in Houston is KUHF, University of Houston. There was one program I really enjoyed The Engine of Our Ingenuity by Professor John H. Lienhard. Being the technology geek that I am I would purposely run late for the office so I could catch the program in the morning.

I found this while looking at the NPR.org main site for available podcast. I listen to other standard NRP programs during the morning and afternoon drive time. But every once in a while I want my technology fix.

The Engine of Our Ingenuity program is sort of like The Rest of the Story program by Paul Harvey. Some history of technology is revealed to the listener. At the end of the 4 minutes your are just wowed.

The very best part is these radio programs are now provided as podcast feed. So now I can save these and listen to the program at work or in the car or both. You can also download the audio files from the author’s site http://www.uh.edu/engines/engines.htm. Also on this site is the full transcript of the programs. These go back for many years. I just need to find a way to convert the audio file to import them to iTunes.