The Secret Life of the Radio - Remastered
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends the series as awesome and notes it is now legally on YouTube; commenters cite it for radio history.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2021 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends y04nn · 2021-12 · on “I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [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]
Recommends throw0101b · 2023-03 · on “Apple Music Classical”
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]
Cites LeoPanthera · 2022-11 · on “The tragic birth of FM radio (2006)”
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]
Cites djmips · 2023-09 · on “Coherer Effect [video]”
also nicely covered in the Secret Life of Radio in context of the development of radio communication. [this video]
Cites helsinkiandrew · 2024-03 · on “Radios, how do they work?”
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]