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Technology Connections
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Technology 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.
Seasons & Episodes
E1
Bell & The Invention of Artificial Sound
2015-09-23
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E2
Edison's Impression: Laying Sound into a Groove
2015-09-30
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E3
Emile Berliner's Fix: Flatten the Cylinder to a Disc
2015-10-09
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E4
The Vacuum Tube and the Invention of Radio
2015-10-16
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E1
From Radio Waves to Electric Grooves: Electrical Sound Recording
2016-02-01
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E2
Tape Recording: Taking the Electromagnet to a Whole New Level
2016-02-13
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E3
The Wind-Powered Car: Electric Vehicles and Wind Turbines
2016-03-03
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E4
What is High Fidelity? How does Stereo work?
2016-03-19
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E5
Exploring a Reel to Reel Tape Recorder: Sony TC-366
2016-04-08
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E6
Transistors: Making sound easier, smaller, and more efficient
2016-04-15
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E7
Electric Vehicle Charging: It's easier than you think
2016-04-20
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E8
Exploring the good ol' Cassette Tape
2016-06-23
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E9
The Dead Man's Switch: How Anton Yelchin's life could have been saved
2016-12-02
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E10
Home Automation: A Beginner's Introduction
2016-12-17
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E1
The Impossible Feat inside Your VCR
2017-01-25
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E2
What is Dolby Noise Reduction? Dolby's Humble Beginning
2017-02-07
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E3
Furnaces: Why we still burn fuel to heat our homes
2017-03-01
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E4
Stupid Design--The Needlessly Useless Webcam Activity Light
2017-03-23
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E5
Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--and failed hard (Part 1)
2017-06-11
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E6
Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--Part 2
2017-06-16
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E7
Comparing Beta & VHS on Quality: Was Beta Really Better?
2017-06-21
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E8
Lines of Light: How Analog Television Works
2017-07-01
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E9
Mechanical Television: Incredibly simple, yet entirely bonkers
2017-08-07
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E10
LED bulbs that flicker, and CFLs that almost never did
2017-09-13
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E11
GE's bizarre early attempt at a CFL
2017-09-25
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E12
Philo Farnsworth and the Invention of Electronic Television
2017-10-28
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E13
Digital ICE: The High-Tech Dust Removal Found in Film Scanners
2017-11-09
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E14
How Analog Color TV Works: The Beginnings
2017-11-18
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E15
The Twinkling Light Set: An increasingly rare but delightful type of decorative lighting
2017-12-03
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E16
Compatible Color: The Ultimate Three-For-One Special
2017-12-15
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E17
Analog Color TV Wrap-Up--Some extra info
2017-12-22
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E18
Trinitron: Sony's Once Unbeatable Product
2017-12-30
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E1
Roller Coaster Safety: How to Manage Too Many Trains at Once
2018-01-08
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E2
Laserdisc: An Introduction
2018-01-23
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E3
Thrift Store Hi-Fi: Some tips and tricks
2018-01-30
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E4
Laserdisc's Failure: What Went Wrong
2018-02-06
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E5
Chevy Bolt EV: Winter Range and Performance (Chicago winter)
2018-02-26
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E6
Laserdisc: Features, Follies, & Evolution
2018-02-17
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E7
Faking It: The Obviously Dubbed Telephone Ring
2018-02-26
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E8
A Short Project Involving LEDs, a Fish Tank, and some Laziness
2018-03-05
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E9
DVD: The Death Knell of Laserdisc
2018-03-18
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E10
Sony's Clever but Flawed PlayStation Copy Protection--And How They Might Have Fixed It
2018-03-25
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E11
The CD Player with a Robot Inside: Pioneer CLD-M301
2018-04-03
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E12
These Are Not Pixels: Revisited
2018-04-22
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E13
The Weird Typewriter-Computer Hybrid: Smith Corona PWP-3200
2018-05-06
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E14
The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"
2018-05-14
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E15
Macrovision: The Copy Protection in VHS
2018-05-22
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E16
MUSE Hi-Vision Laserdisc: The Blu-ray of 1994
2018-05-29
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E17
Chevy Bolt EV Summer Range Test
2018-05-31
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E18
The High Pressure Sodium Light: Ubiquitous, effective, but good?
2018-06-04
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E19
The LED's Challenge to High Pressure Sodium
2018-06-19
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E20
The Not-So-Secret Secret Elevators of the Haunted Mansion
2018-06-25
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E21
The Most Common EV Charging Misconception
2018-06-27
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E22
Betamovie: Sony's Terrible (But Ingenious) Camcorder
2018-07-03
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E23
The Senseless Ambiguity of North American Turn Signals
2018-07-14
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E24
Sound By Numbers: The Rise of Digital Sound
2018-07-25
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E25
Nyquist-Shannon; The Backbone of Digital Sound
2018-08-10
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E26
The GFCI/RCD: A Simple but Life-Saving Protector
2018-08-17
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E27
The Compact Disc: An Introduction
2018-08-26
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E28
Dissecting the CD Player: How to Turn Shiny Plastic into Music
2018-09-06
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E29
LED Printers: The Common Printing Tech You Haven't Heard Of
2018-09-19
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E30
An Oscilloscope Bonus: 20+ Minutes of Poking Around a CD player
2018-09-28
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E31
CDs: More to Talk About (Sony vs. Philips)
2018-09-28
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E32
TC Projects: Lead-Acid Battery Backup
2018-10-09
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E33
CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, Books of Red, Blue, Purple, Beige, Orange, Scarlet...
2018-10-19
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E34
The Ubiquitous Sound That You May Have Never Noticed
2018-10-26
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E35
LightScribe: HP's Clever Twist on the CD Burner
2018-11-10
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E36
LED Experiments: Making Holiday Lights Less Garish
2018-11-26
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E37
Closed Captioning: More Ingenious than You Know
2018-12-12
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E38
The Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that's its name
2018-12-25
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E1
DVD-RAM: The Disc that Behaved like a Flash Drive
2019-01-11
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E2
The Odd History of the SD Logo
2019-01-21
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E3
The Time-Lapse VCR
2019-02-04
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E4
Space Heater Nonsense
2019-02-13
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E5
The Story of Disney's PeopleMover in Texas
2019-02-26
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E6
The Electromagnet in Your Toaster
2019-03-15
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E7
Exploring the World of E-Ink
2019-03-30
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E8
E-Ink on Android, and other new things!
2019-04-09
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E9
The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours
2019-04-19
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E10
Flexplay: The Disposable DVD that Failed (Thankfully)
2019-04-28
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E11
Thermostats: Cooler than you think!
2019-05-10
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E12
Automatic Record Changers: We used to like them
2019-06-02
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E13
Portable Air Conditioners - Why you shouldn't like them
2019-06-15
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E14
The Best Easy Way to Capture Analog Video (it's a little weird)
2019-07-06
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E15
TOSLINK: That one consumer fiber optic standard
2019-07-19
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E16
Fiber vs. Copper; What do we really need?
2019-07-29
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E17
Switches are Clicky; Here's Why
2019-08-11
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E18
The Weird World in RGB
2019-08-28
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E19
The CED: RCA's Very Late, Very Weird Video Gamble (Pt. 1)
2019-09-10
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E20
The CED: No really, it coulda made sense! (Part 2)
2019-09-21
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E21
LCCS: The LCD / CRT Hybrid from JVC
2019-09-30
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E22
The VFD that isn't
2019-10-18
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E23
RCA's CED failed; their history can tell us why (Pt. 3)
2019-10-29
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E24
The VHS cassette was more clever than Beta
2019-11-08
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E25
LED color experiments 2019; Beyond the Sharpie
2019-11-17
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E26
Klaxons; What makes them sound like that?
2019-11-27
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E27
One more thing: the VHS notch
2019-11-18
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E28
Film: the reason some of the past was in HD
2019-12-22
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E1
Holograms, Lasers & Boredom; the CED's march towards eventual invention (CED Part 4)
2020-01-03
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E2
Old-fashioned rice cookers are extremely clever
2020-01-15
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E3
Race to the finish; RCA's final gamble (CED Part 5)
2020-01-26
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E4
Brown; color is weird
2020-02-13
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E5
Teleprompters are clever, simple, and also pretty neat
2020-02-22
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E6
The Computer-free Automation of a Jukebox (Electromechanics)
2020-03-08
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E7
The Selection Accumulator; a Jukebox's Brain
2020-03-22
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E8
Chest Freezers; What they tell us about designing for X
2020-04-07
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E9
Coffee Percolators: An Explanation and Roast
2020-04-17
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E10
DVD+R and DVD-R; What was that about?
2020-04-29
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E11
Fans; High is next to Off on purpose
2020-05-12
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E12
Pulse Oximeters; An Amazing Use of Light
2020-05-22
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E13
How to design an actually good toaster with lessons from the 1940's
2020-05-30
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E14
The US electrical system is not 120V
2020-06-22
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E15
Laptop Docks! They're pretty neat!
2020-06-29
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E16
Cassette adapters are remarkably simple
2020-07-13
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E17
Personal "air conditioners" aren't what they seem
2020-07-22
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E18
The Impact Sprinkler - more clever than it seems!
2020-07-30
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E19
A record player that can play CDs: The Fisher DAC-145
2020-08-19
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E20
Retroreflectors; they're everywhere, and they cheat physics (sort of)
2020-08-31
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E21
The touch lamp; a neat idea, and older than you'd think!
2020-09-12
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E22
Electric car chargers aren't chargers at all – EVSE Explained
2020-09-23
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E23
Forced-air Furnaces: The What, Why, and How
2020-10-10
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E24
Camera Tech from 1971: Match-needle exposure meter
2020-10-30
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E25
The Antique Microwave Oven that's Better than Yours
2020-11-12
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E26
What exactly is the goop inside a lava lamp?
2020-11-21
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E27
Bubble Lights: The Weirdest Christmas Light?
2020-11-29
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E28
Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained)
2020-12-20
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