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Watching: Technology Connections
10.0•2015-09-23•12 Seasons
Season 6
Episode 1
Seasons
Episodes
EP 1
Holograms, Lasers & Boredom; the CED's march towards eventual invention (CED Part 4)
EP 2
Old-fashioned rice cookers are extremely clever
EP 3
Race to the finish; RCA's final gamble (CED Part 5)
EP 4
Brown; color is weird
EP 5
Teleprompters are clever, simple, and also pretty neat
EP 6
The Computer-free Automation of a Jukebox (Electromechanics)
EP 7
The Selection Accumulator; a Jukebox's Brain
EP 8
Chest Freezers; What they tell us about designing for X
EP 9
Coffee Percolators: An Explanation and Roast
EP 10
DVD+R and DVD-R; What was that about?
EP 11
Fans; High is next to Off on purpose
EP 12
Pulse Oximeters; An Amazing Use of Light
EP 13
How to design an actually good toaster with lessons from the 1940's
EP 14
The US electrical system is not 120V
EP 15
Laptop Docks! They're pretty neat!
EP 16
Cassette adapters are remarkably simple
EP 17
Personal "air conditioners" aren't what they seem
EP 18
The Impact Sprinkler - more clever than it seems!
EP 19
A record player that can play CDs: The Fisher DAC-145
EP 20
Retroreflectors; they're everywhere, and they cheat physics (sort of)
EP 21
The touch lamp; a neat idea, and older than you'd think!
EP 22
Electric car chargers aren't chargers at all – EVSE Explained
EP 23
Forced-air Furnaces: The What, Why, and How
EP 24
Camera Tech from 1971: Match-needle exposure meter
EP 25
The Antique Microwave Oven that's Better than Yours
EP 26
What exactly is the goop inside a lava lamp?
EP 27
Bubble Lights: The Weirdest Christmas Light?
EP 28
Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained)
Overview
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.