The Secret Life of Machines - Vacuum Cleaners 1/2
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends the series as an entertaining way to learn how everyday machines work, enough to start debugging them.
What it is
Part 1 of an episode of the British educational TV series The Secret Life of Machines, about how vacuum cleaners work and their history. It mixes humor with explanation of household technology.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2017 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Recommends euoia · 2017-06 · on “The far-reaching effects of air conditioning”
There is a great TV series called "The Secret Life of Machines" that covered some inventions that changed the world: [this video] There is an episode on central heating: [LINK]
Recommends eesmith · 2017-11 · on “America’s flat-Earth movement appears to be growing – Daily chart”
Thanks to both of you for the praise. You might also be interested in "The Secret Life of Machines". [LINK] and [this video] . Philip Morrison (from Ring of Truth) is perhaps best known for his powers-of-10 movie. [LINK] . He was also a columnist for Scientific American. The only column I remember is when he decided to make bread from scratch. Really from scratch. They grew wheat in a small plot of land near his home in Cambridge, Mass. He's part of the generation that developed the first atomic bomb. He carried the first core to the Trinity test site in the back seat of his car, and helped load the weapons on the planes that went to Japan.
Recommends throwaway829 · 2020-04 · on “Connections Episode 1: The Trigger Effect (1978) [video]”
These overviews give you just enough knowledge to start debugging a broken household machine. I love it. If anyone's looking for more videos from this series here's a playlist of the complete series: [this video]