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Bell & The Invention of Artificial Sound
13:13
Edison's Impression: Laying Sound into a Groove
17:34
Emile Berliner's Fix: Flatten the Cylinder to a Disc
21:33
The Vacuum Tube and the Invention of Radio
10:57
From Radio Waves to Electric Grooves:  Electrical Sound Recording
11:41
Tape Recording: Taking the Electromagnet to a Whole New Level
17:32
The Wind-Powered Car: Electric Vehicles and Wind Turbines
8:15
What is High Fidelity?  How does Stereo work?
13:27
Exploring a Reel to Reel Tape Recorder: Sony TC-366
12:15
Transistors: Making sound easier, smaller, and more efficient
11:56
Electric Vehicle Charging:  It's easier than you think
11:51
Exploring the good ol' Cassette Tape
16:08
The Dead Man's Switch:  How Anton Yelchin's life could have been saved
8:17
Home Automation: A Beginner's Introduction
11:10
The Impossible Feat inside Your VCR
18:00
What is Dolby Noise Reduction?  Dolby's Humble Beginning
9:20
Furnaces: Why we still burn fuel to heat our homes
10:03
Stupid Design--The Needlessly Useless Webcam Activity Light
4:37
Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--and failed hard (Part 1)
16:29
Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--Part 2
15:56
Comparing Beta & VHS on Quality: Was Beta Really Better?
9:51
Lines of Light: How Analog Television Works
16:47
Mechanical Television: Incredibly simple, yet entirely bonkers
12:01
LED bulbs that flicker, and CFLs that almost never did
15:13
GE's bizarre early attempt at a CFL
5:10
Philo Farnsworth and the Invention of Electronic Television
18:30
Digital ICE:  The High-Tech Dust Removal Found in Film Scanners
12:07
How Analog Color TV Works:  The Beginnings
13:14
The Twinkling Light Set: An increasingly rare but delightful type of decorative lighting
11:51
Compatible Color: The Ultimate Three-For-One Special
13:11
Analog Color TV Wrap-Up--Some extra info
12:11
Trinitron: Sony's Once Unbeatable Product
12:41
Roller Coaster Safety: How to Manage Too Many Trains at Once
12:24
Laserdisc: An Introduction
14:56
Thrift Store Hi-Fi: Some tips and tricks
6:46
Laserdisc's Failure: What Went Wrong
18:06
Laserdisc: Features, Follies, & Evolution
24:14
Chevy Bolt EV: Winter Range and Performance (Chicago winter)
22:21
Faking It: The Obviously Dubbed Telephone Ring
14:56
A Short Project Involving LEDs, a Fish Tank, and some Laziness
6:33
DVD: The Death Knell of Laserdisc
26:13
Sony's Clever but Flawed PlayStation Copy Protection--And How They Might Have Fixed It
14:15
The CD Player with a Robot Inside: Pioneer CLD-M301
13:45
These Are Not Pixels: Revisited
17:04
The Weird Typewriter-Computer Hybrid: Smith Corona PWP-3200
17:06
The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"
18:31
Macrovision:  The Copy Protection in VHS
12:30
MUSE Hi-Vision Laserdisc: The Blu-ray of 1994
12:25
Chevy Bolt EV Summer Range Test
24:37
The High Pressure Sodium Light: Ubiquitous, effective, but good?
13:54
The LED's Challenge to High Pressure Sodium
21:40
The Not-So-Secret Secret Elevators of the Haunted Mansion
13:59
The Most Common EV Charging Misconception
8:21
Betamovie: Sony's Terrible (But Ingenious) Camcorder
22:49
The Senseless Ambiguity of North American Turn Signals
13:43
Sound By Numbers: The Rise of Digital Sound
14:12
Nyquist-Shannon; The Backbone of Digital Sound
17:34
The GFCI/RCD: A Simple but Life-Saving Protector
15:59
The Compact Disc: An Introduction
17:16
Dissecting the CD Player: How to Turn Shiny Plastic into Music
21:22
LED Printers: The Common Printing Tech You Haven't Heard Of
9:36
CDs: More to Talk About (Sony vs. Philips)
21:12
An Oscilloscope Bonus: 20+ Minutes of Poking Around a CD player
20:32
TC Projects: Lead-Acid Battery Backup
17:33
CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, Books of Red, Blue, Purple, Beige, Orange, Scarlet...
17:16
The Ubiquitous Sound That You May Have Never Noticed
8:03
LightScribe: HP's Clever Twist on the CD Burner
21:22
LED Experiments: Making Holiday Lights Less Garish
12:16
Closed Captioning: More Ingenious than You Know
19:48
The Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that's its name
12:31
DVD-RAM: The Disc that Behaved like a Flash Drive
17:52
The Odd History of the SD Logo
10:38
The Time-Lapse VCR
17:38
Space Heater Nonsense
17:43
The Story of Disney's PeopleMover in Texas
20:47
The Electromagnet in Your Toaster
11:18
Exploring the World of E-Ink
17:52
E-Ink on Android, and other new things!
6:40
The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours
18:28
Flexplay: The Disposable DVD that Failed (Thankfully)
19:41
Thermostats: Cooler than you think!
17:03
Automatic Record Changers: We used to like them
18:47
Portable Air Conditioners - Why you shouldn't like them
16:39
The Best Easy Way to Capture Analog Video (it's a little weird)
15:39
TOSLINK: That one consumer fiber optic standard
20:47
Fiber vs. Copper; What do we really need?
23:10
Switches are Clicky; Here's Why
15:26
The Weird World in RGB
22:19
The CED: RCA's Very Late, Very Weird Video Gamble (Pt. 1)
23:33
The CED: No really, it coulda made sense! (Part 2)
24:21
LCCS: The LCD / CRT Hybrid from JVC
12:16
The VFD that isn't
8:06
RCA's CED failed; their history can tell us why (Pt. 3)
26:37
The VHS cassette was more clever than Beta
17:08
LED color experiments 2019; Beyond the Sharpie
13:32
Klaxons; What makes them sound like that?
9:06
One more thing: the VHS notch
8:12
Film: the reason some of the past was in HD
21:39
Holograms, Lasers & Boredom; the CED's march towards eventual invention (CED Part 4)
25:52
Old-fashioned rice cookers are extremely clever
11:11