360K views · Jun 3, 2021 · 31:39 · 2 HN recommenders · 5 mentions · discussed 2021–2024
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 Hacker News points people here: HN recommends the series as awesome and notes it is now legally on YouTube; commenters cite it for radio history.
“awesome series, now freely/legally posted on YT”HN comment, 2023
“it worth watching the whole video if you are interested”
Demonstrates AM radio picking up a switch's interference
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] this video
“awesome series, now freely/legally posted on YT”
Series now legally posted on YouTube
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): * this video * link * link
“A slightly comical animated look at Edwin Armstrong”
Animated look at Armstrong's invention of FM radio
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": this video It's split into two parts, with the second part later in the same video, here: this video
“also nicely covered in the Secret Life of Radio in context of the development of radio communication.”
Covers the coherer in context of radio development
also nicely covered in the Secret Life of Radio in context of the development of radio communication. this video
“which recreates some of Hertz and Marconi”
Remastered program recreating Hertz and Marconi experiments
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. this video
