Season
Season 8 Episode
- Season 4 Roller Coaster Safety: How to Manage Too Many Trains at Once
- Season 4 Laserdisc: An Introduction
- Season 4 Thrift Store Hi-Fi: Some tips and tricks
- Season 4 Laserdisc's Failure: What Went Wrong
- Season 4 Chevy Bolt EV: Winter Range and Performance (Chicago winter)
- Season 4 Laserdisc: Features, Follies, & Evolution
- Season 4 Faking It: The Obviously Dubbed Telephone Ring
- Season 4 A Short Project Involving LEDs, a Fish Tank, and some Laziness
- Season 4 DVD: The Death Knell of Laserdisc
- Season 4 Sony's Clever but Flawed PlayStation Copy Protection--And How They Might Have Fixed It
- Season 4 The CD Player with a Robot Inside: Pioneer CLD-M301
- Season 4 These Are Not Pixels: Revisited
- Season 4 The Weird Typewriter-Computer Hybrid: Smith Corona PWP-3200
- Season 4 The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"
- Season 4 Macrovision: The Copy Protection in VHS
- Season 4 MUSE Hi-Vision Laserdisc: The Blu-ray of 1994
- Season 4 Chevy Bolt EV Summer Range Test
- Season 4 The High Pressure Sodium Light: Ubiquitous, effective, but good?
- Season 4 The LED's Challenge to High Pressure Sodium
- Season 4 The Not-So-Secret Secret Elevators of the Haunted Mansion
- Season 4 The Most Common EV Charging Misconception
- Season 4 Betamovie: Sony's Terrible (But Ingenious) Camcorder
- Season 4 The Senseless Ambiguity of North American Turn Signals
- Season 4 Sound By Numbers: The Rise of Digital Sound
- Season 4 Nyquist-Shannon; The Backbone of Digital Sound
- Season 4 The GFCI/RCD: A Simple but Life-Saving Protector
- Season 4 The Compact Disc: An Introduction
- Season 4 Dissecting the CD Player: How to Turn Shiny Plastic into Music
- Season 4 LED Printers: The Common Printing Tech You Haven't Heard Of
- Season 4 An Oscilloscope Bonus: 20+ Minutes of Poking Around a CD player
- Season 4 CDs: More to Talk About (Sony vs. Philips)
- Season 4 TC Projects: Lead-Acid Battery Backup
- Season 4 CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, Books of Red, Blue, Purple, Beige, Orange, Scarlet...
- Season 4 The Ubiquitous Sound That You May Have Never Noticed
- Season 4 LightScribe: HP's Clever Twist on the CD Burner
- Season 4 LED Experiments: Making Holiday Lights Less Garish
- Season 4 Closed Captioning: More Ingenious than You Know
- Season 4 The Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that's its name
Technology Connections - Season 4 Episode 38 The Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that's its name
0.00 48 minutes The superheterodyne receiver may seem like a radio with a silly name, but in fact it’s a completely logical name that describes the key action these radios take to become excellent radios. The superhet solved a tricky problem in a clever way, and using our friend Algebra (as well as wave phenomena) proved to be the most effective way of tuning in a radio signal.
