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The Secret Life of the Radio - Remastered
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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.
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HN recommends the series as awesome and notes it is now legally on YouTube; commenters cite it for radio history.
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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] [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗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): * [VIDEO] * [LINK] * [LINK]
Read original comment ↗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": [VIDEO] It's split into two parts, with the second part later in the same video, here: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗also nicely covered in the Secret Life of Radio in context of the development of radio communication. [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗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. [VIDEO]
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