Season 8 episodes2022-01-14

2022

Technology Connections is an educational YouTube channel created by Alec Watson. It explores the history, engineering, and inner workings of everyday technology, including consumer electronics, household appliances, transportation, lighting, and audio and video equipment.

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Episodes

Season 8

Episode 1

Lessons from a Can Opener

22m

Episode 2

A troubling trend in lighting?

30m

Episode 3

Why Heat Pumps are Immensely Important Right Now

21m

Episode 4

Heat Pumps are Not Hard: Here's what it will take to start pumping

47m

Episode 5

The Autochrome; Color photos? Just add potatoes.

27m

2022

Season 8

Lessons from a Can Opener

A troubling trend in lighting?

Why Heat Pumps are Immensely Important Right Now

Heat Pumps are Not Hard: Here's what it will take to start pumping

The Autochrome; Color photos? Just add potatoes.

The tech which can charge an electric car in 10 minutes

Why don't Americans use electric kettles?

Is Philips discontinuing their coolest warmest product?

There are two types of smoke alarm. One of 'em ain't so good.

The correcting feature of typewriters is not what I thought

Drip Coffee Makers — super simple, super cheap

A Complete Beginner's Guide to Electric Vehicles

This 1960's camera is powered by light and completely automatic

Old car headlights were all the same — which was a fairly bright idea

This TV gadget censors bad words with 1980's tech

The clever camera code on rolls of film

In Defense of the Switched Outlet

The decorative lamp that's built wrong on purpose

Movies made sound with a light bulb: Sound-on-film