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The Secret Life of the Radio - Remastered

The Secret Life of the Radio - Remastered

tim hunkin
2 HN recommenders · discussed 2021–2024
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About this video

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.

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HN recommends the series as awesome and notes it is now legally on YouTube; commenters cite it for radio history.

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From the Hacker News discussion

y04nn · 2021-12 · rec

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]

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throw0101b · 2023-03 · rec

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]

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LeoPanthera · 2022-11 · reference

A slightly comical animated look at Edwin Armstrong's invention of FM radio can be seen as part of Tim Hunkin's "The Secret Life of the Radio": [VIDEO] It's split into two parts, with the second part later in the same video, here: [VIDEO]

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djmips · 2023-09 · reference

also nicely covered in the Secret Life of Radio in context of the development of radio communication. [VIDEO]

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helsinkiandrew · 2024-03 · reference

Tim Hunkin has posted a remastered version of his "The Secret Life of the Radio" TV program (from 1987) which recreates some of Hertz and Marconi's experiments with spark gaps and coherers. [VIDEO]

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