THE VIDEO SHELF · radio technology history
The Secret Life of the Radio - Remastered
Remastered episode of Tim Hunkin's The Secret Life of Machines about the radio, covering its development including Hertz and Marconi experiments and Armstrong's FM radio in animated form.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends the series as awesome and notes it is now legally on YouTube; commenters cite it for radio history.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- tim hunkin
- Topic
- radio technology history
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2024
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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Absolutely, if you turn on and off a light switch while listening an AM radio (even static) you would hear it through your speaker, as in this demonstration [1] (it worth watching the whole video if you are interested). [1] [VIDEO]
y04nn on Hacker News · 2021-12
In I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [video]This is the "Take Five" variant by Val Bennett, "The Russians Are Coming", used in the show Secret Life of Machines (awesome series, now freely/legally posted on YT): * [VIDEO] * [LINK] * [LINK]
throw0101b on Hacker News · 2023-03
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