The Secret Life of the Radio - Remastered
tim hunkin2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2021-2024
359K views · 5 years ago · documentary · evergreen
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.
HN recommends the series as awesome and notes it is now legally on YouTube; commenters cite it for radio history.
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5 comments from Hacker News
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
also nicely covered in the Secret Life of Radio in context of the development of radio communication. ▶ this 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): * ▶ this video * link * link
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
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