The Secret Life of Machines - Vacuum Cleaners 1/2

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends the series as an entertaining way to learn how everyday machines work, enough to start debugging them.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Buddy Runyan

Topic

household appliances

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2020

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• There is a great TV series called "The Secret Life of Machines" that covered some inventions that changed the world: [VIDEO] There is an episode on central heating: [LINK]

• Thanks to both of you for the praise. You might also be interested in "The Secret Life of Machines". [LINK] and [VIDEO] . Philip Morrison (from Ring of Truth) is perhaps best known for his powers-of-10 movie. [LINK] . He was also a columnist for …

• These overviews give you just enough knowledge to start debugging a broken household machine. I love it. If anyone's looking for more videos from this series here's a playlist of the complete series: [VIDEO]