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 Technology Connections (Technology Connections)
OverviewTechnology Connections is a series of YouTube videos that explores numerous aspects of technological history, including how things work, the way things developed, and anything in between. There is no limit to what kinds of tech could be covered — one minute you may be learning about how electron guns draw pictures on an analog television, and the next you might be discovering that your modern toaster is a piece of junk. Watch NowSeasons & Episodes
2015 (4 Episodes) ▼
E1: Bell & The Invention of Artificial Sound▶ PLAY E2: Edison's Impression: Laying Sound into a Groove▶ PLAY E3: Emile Berliner's Fix: Flatten the Cylinder to a Disc▶ PLAY E4: The Vacuum Tube and the Invention of Radio▶ PLAY
2016 (10 Episodes) ▼
E1: From Radio Waves to Electric Grooves: Electrical Sound Recording▶ PLAY E2: Tape Recording: Taking the Electromagnet to a Whole New Level▶ PLAY E3: The Wind-Powered Car: Electric Vehicles and Wind Turbines▶ PLAY E4: What is High Fidelity? How does Stereo work?▶ PLAY E5: Exploring a Reel to Reel Tape Recorder: Sony TC-366▶ PLAY E6: Transistors: Making sound easier, smaller, and more efficient▶ PLAY E7: Electric Vehicle Charging: It's easier than you think▶ PLAY E8: Exploring the good ol' Cassette Tape▶ PLAY E9: The Dead Man's Switch: How Anton Yelchin's life could have been saved▶ PLAY E10: Home Automation: A Beginner's Introduction▶ PLAY
2017 (18 Episodes) ▼
E1: The Impossible Feat inside Your VCR▶ PLAY E2: What is Dolby Noise Reduction? Dolby's Humble Beginning▶ PLAY E3: Furnaces: Why we still burn fuel to heat our homes▶ PLAY E4: Stupid Design--The Needlessly Useless Webcam Activity Light▶ PLAY E5: Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--and failed hard (Part 1)▶ PLAY E6: Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--Part 2▶ PLAY E7: Comparing Beta & VHS on Quality: Was Beta Really Better?▶ PLAY E8: Lines of Light: How Analog Television Works▶ PLAY E9: Mechanical Television: Incredibly simple, yet entirely bonkers▶ PLAY E10: LED bulbs that flicker, and CFLs that almost never did▶ PLAY E11: GE's bizarre early attempt at a CFL▶ PLAY E12: Philo Farnsworth and the Invention of Electronic Television▶ PLAY E13: Digital ICE: The High-Tech Dust Removal Found in Film Scanners▶ PLAY E14: How Analog Color TV Works: The Beginnings▶ PLAY E15: The Twinkling Light Set: An increasingly rare but delightful type of decorative lighting▶ PLAY E16: Compatible Color: The Ultimate Three-For-One Special▶ PLAY E17: Analog Color TV Wrap-Up--Some extra info▶ PLAY E18: Trinitron: Sony's Once Unbeatable Product▶ PLAY
2018 (38 Episodes) ▼
E1: Roller Coaster Safety: How to Manage Too Many Trains at Once▶ PLAY E2: Laserdisc: An Introduction▶ PLAY E3: Thrift Store Hi-Fi: Some tips and tricks▶ PLAY E4: Laserdisc's Failure: What Went Wrong▶ PLAY E5: Chevy Bolt EV: Winter Range and Performance (Chicago winter)▶ PLAY E6: Laserdisc: Features, Follies, & Evolution▶ PLAY E7: Faking It: The Obviously Dubbed Telephone Ring▶ PLAY E8: A Short Project Involving LEDs, a Fish Tank, and some Laziness▶ PLAY E9: DVD: The Death Knell of Laserdisc▶ PLAY E10: Sony's Clever but Flawed PlayStation Copy Protection--And How They Might Have Fixed It▶ PLAY E11: The CD Player with a Robot Inside: Pioneer CLD-M301▶ PLAY E12: These Are Not Pixels: Revisited▶ PLAY E13: The Weird Typewriter-Computer Hybrid: Smith Corona PWP-3200▶ PLAY E14: The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"▶ PLAY E15: Macrovision: The Copy Protection in VHS▶ PLAY E16: MUSE Hi-Vision Laserdisc: The Blu-ray of 1994▶ PLAY E17: Chevy Bolt EV Summer Range Test▶ PLAY E18: The High Pressure Sodium Light: Ubiquitous, effective, but good?▶ PLAY E19: The LED's Challenge to High Pressure Sodium▶ PLAY E20: The Not-So-Secret Secret Elevators of the Haunted Mansion▶ PLAY E21: The Most Common EV Charging Misconception▶ PLAY E22: Betamovie: Sony's Terrible (But Ingenious) Camcorder▶ PLAY E23: The Senseless Ambiguity of North American Turn Signals▶ PLAY E24: Sound By Numbers: The Rise of Digital Sound▶ PLAY E25: Nyquist-Shannon; The Backbone of Digital Sound▶ PLAY E26: The GFCI/RCD: A Simple but Life-Saving Protector▶ PLAY E27: The Compact Disc: An Introduction▶ PLAY E28: Dissecting the CD Player: How to Turn Shiny Plastic into Music▶ PLAY E29: LED Printers: The Common Printing Tech You Haven't Heard Of▶ PLAY E30: An Oscilloscope Bonus: 20+ Minutes of Poking Around a CD player▶ PLAY E31: CDs: More to Talk About (Sony vs. Philips)▶ PLAY E32: TC Projects: Lead-Acid Battery Backup▶ PLAY E33: CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, Books of Red, Blue, Purple, Beige, Orange, Scarlet...▶ PLAY E34: The Ubiquitous Sound That You May Have Never Noticed▶ PLAY E35: LightScribe: HP's Clever Twist on the CD Burner▶ PLAY E36: LED Experiments: Making Holiday Lights Less Garish▶ PLAY E37: Closed Captioning: More Ingenious than You Know▶ PLAY E38: The Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that's its name▶ PLAY
2019 (28 Episodes) ▼
E1: DVD-RAM: The Disc that Behaved like a Flash Drive▶ PLAY E2: The Odd History of the SD Logo▶ PLAY E3: The Time-Lapse VCR▶ PLAY E4: Space Heater Nonsense▶ PLAY E5: The Story of Disney's PeopleMover in Texas▶ PLAY E6: The Electromagnet in Your Toaster▶ PLAY E7: Exploring the World of E-Ink▶ PLAY E8: E-Ink on Android, and other new things!▶ PLAY E9: The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours▶ PLAY E10: Flexplay: The Disposable DVD that Failed (Thankfully)▶ PLAY E11: Thermostats: Cooler than you think!▶ PLAY E12: Automatic Record Changers: We used to like them▶ PLAY E13: Portable Air Conditioners - Why you shouldn't like them▶ PLAY E14: The Best Easy Way to Capture Analog Video (it's a little weird)▶ PLAY E15: TOSLINK: That one consumer fiber optic standard▶ PLAY E16: Fiber vs. Copper; What do we really need?▶ PLAY E17: Switches are Clicky; Here's Why▶ PLAY E18: The Weird World in RGB▶ PLAY E19: The CED: RCA's Very Late, Very Weird Video Gamble (Pt. 1)▶ PLAY E20: The CED: No really, it coulda made sense! (Part 2)▶ PLAY E21: LCCS: The LCD / CRT Hybrid from JVC▶ PLAY E22: The VFD that isn't▶ PLAY E23: RCA's CED failed; their history can tell us why (Pt. 3)▶ PLAY E24: The VHS cassette was more clever than Beta▶ PLAY E25: LED color experiments 2019; Beyond the Sharpie▶ PLAY E26: Klaxons; What makes them sound like that?▶ PLAY E27: One more thing: the VHS notch▶ PLAY E28: Film: the reason some of the past was in HD▶ PLAY
2020 (28 Episodes) ▼
E1: Holograms, Lasers & Boredom; the CED's march towards eventual invention (CED Part 4)▶ PLAY E2: Old-fashioned rice cookers are extremely clever▶ PLAY E3: Race to the finish; RCA's final gamble (CED Part 5)▶ PLAY E4: Brown; color is weird▶ PLAY E5: Teleprompters are clever, simple, and also pretty neat▶ PLAY E6: The Computer-free Automation of a Jukebox (Electromechanics)▶ PLAY E7: The Selection Accumulator; a Jukebox's Brain▶ PLAY E8: Chest Freezers; What they tell us about designing for X▶ PLAY E9: Coffee Percolators: An Explanation and Roast▶ PLAY E10: DVD+R and DVD-R; What was that about?▶ PLAY E11: Fans; High is next to Off on purpose▶ PLAY E12: Pulse Oximeters; An Amazing Use of Light▶ PLAY E13: How to design an actually good toaster with lessons from the 1940's▶ PLAY E14: The US electrical system is not 120V▶ PLAY E15: Laptop Docks! They're pretty neat!▶ PLAY E16: Cassette adapters are remarkably simple▶ PLAY E17: Personal "air conditioners" aren't what they seem▶ PLAY E18: The Impact Sprinkler - more clever than it seems!▶ PLAY E19: A record player that can play CDs: The Fisher DAC-145▶ PLAY E20: Retroreflectors; they're everywhere, and they cheat physics (sort of)▶ PLAY E21: The touch lamp; a neat idea, and older than you'd think!▶ PLAY E22: Electric car chargers aren't chargers at all – EVSE Explained▶ PLAY E23: Forced-air Furnaces: The What, Why, and How▶ PLAY E24: Camera Tech from 1971: Match-needle exposure meter▶ PLAY E25: The Antique Microwave Oven that's Better than Yours▶ PLAY E26: What exactly is the goop inside a lava lamp?▶ PLAY E27: Bubble Lights: The Weirdest Christmas Light?▶ PLAY E28: Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained)▶ PLAY
2021 (0 Episodes) ▼
2022 (0 Episodes) ▼
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