Birth of The Transistor: A video history of Japan's electronic industry. (Part 1)

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended in documentary and semiconductor-history threads as a detailed look at Japan's chip industry.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

RC286

Topic

history of japanese electronics

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2022

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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• I wouldn't call it the best documentary, but I think people here will like it, it's a 4 part documentary: "A Video History of Japan's Electronic Industry" I. Birth of the transformer: [VIDEO] II. Circuits in stone: [LINK] III. Calculator wars: [LINK] IV. Tech Giant: …

• This is bad read on the history of innovation. I offer two counter-examples, though there are many more: (1) Japanese semiconductor industry, for which there is an excellent NHK documentary [1]. (2) After WW2, the British invited Soviet engineers to tour jet engine factories as …

• There is a four-part documentary I saw on YouTube that went into much more (fascinating) detail. Part 1: [VIDEO] Part 2: [LINK] Part 3: [LINK] Part 4: [LINK]