The Secret Life of Machines - Season 2 Episode 5 The Secret Life of the Radio Set
7.60 30 minutes Any electrical spark creates radio waves and acts as a transmitter. You hear sparks on a radio as interference. That's why lighting makes radios crackle, and even the tiny spark in a switch is enough to make a noise on the radio when turning on a light.
Episode Contents:
Models: Toilet tube crystal set.
Machines: Lovely little (1 metre long) RC car made by Rex for kids show.
Guests: A Hertz induction coil and loop reciever. Early Marconi radios. Antique BBC transmitter (c.1920) and it's modern equivalent. Various antique sets and accessories.
Films: The cartoon life of young Marconi and an old Armstrong. An ad for 1950 plastic RCA portables.
Extro: Motorized novelty radios.
