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How things work (Short
Videos):
Basic explanations for ages 14 and up.
Semiconductor Laser - by inventor Bob Hall
Explaining Superconductivity
Morse Code by Marconi - How it works using the Coherer (with Pier Abetti)
How a Digital Camera Works - CMOS chip (with Ari Presler)
How a Fuel Cell Works - Hydrogen Model (with C. Guy Suits)
How a Thermionic Converter Works - Model Demonstration (with C. Guy Suits)
How Arc Welding Works
Chemical Engineering:
Lexan space Helmets for Luner Missions
First Synthetic Diamond 1955
Power Generation/Distribution:
Schenectady Gas Turbine by GE
Thin Film Solar vs. Crystalline Solar Panels - home applications
First Solar Powered Radio 1958 (first use of solar panels)
Ronald Reagan and GE - Twin Frontiers 1955
Civilization Without Oil
Automatic Control
Technology:
Automatic Control Systems - Brief History
B-29 Gun Turrets made by GE Schenectady
B-17 Gunner Interview -Walt Bardsley
Apollo Program and Schenectady Engineer Harold Chestnut
Also see Harold Chestnut, Yakov Tsypkin
videos in Engineering Pioneers Section
Lighting Technology:
Schenectady urban lighting 1880s-1910s
Magic Lanterns #2 Carbon Arc Lamp
Radio & Satellite Technology:
Tracking Sputnik from Schenectady - Roy E. Anderson
Surveyor Spacecraft experiments Techsplorer
First U.S. Satellite 1958 - Project Vanguard - PV powered
First Solar Powered Radio 1958
Superconductor Technology:
First GE Superconducting Magnet in the market
Strongest Magnet in the World in 1963
MAGLEV Train NYC-Albany
How does the MRI work?
Magnetocardiography - CMI
Medical Technology:
How does the MRI work?
CT Scanners to MRI
Magnetocardiography - CMI
Powered Propulsion:
Nuclear Sub: the Sea Wolf (1957), General Electric
ALCO Schenectady - Locomotive Film
ALCO Plant Schenectady, Now and Then (still photos)
MAGLEV Train NYC-Albany
Electric Car 1914 Detroit Electric
Electric Cars 1901-2007
Computer Technology:
World's first RAM chip - 1951, Memory Plane
IBM Computers at GE 1950s
Video & Audio
Media Technology:
History of Recording-Wax to LP
Worlds First Modern Speaker 1921 - Rice-Kellogg prototype
Historic Magic Lanterns - early projector technology
Magic Lanterns #2 Carbon Arc Lamp
Engineering Pioneers:
Pioneers of
Electricity, a Tribute
Charles P. Steinmetz Speech
Wizards of Schenectady Series
Rice Legacy - Wizards of Schenectady
Wizards of Schenectady-Carl Rosner
Wizards of Schenectady-C.Guy Suits
Carl Rosner - Open to the Wizards of Schenectady
Elizabeth Rosner Interview (author of novels on Holocaust survival, life of engineers)
Thomas A. Edison Visits Steinmetz 1922 part 1
Edison Visits Steinmetz PART 2
Ronald Reagan Visits Schenectady, Dr. C. Guy Suits Remembers
Wizards of Schenectady-Harold Chestnut (Schenectady Automatic Control Engineer)
Memories of Yakov Tsypkin (Russian Automatic Control Engineer)
Video Roland Fitzroy - Manhattan
Project Engineer and Undercover Agent
Hermes Rocket Project in Malta,
NY - Nancy Fitzroy
Women in Engineering, by Nancy
Fitzroy
Schenectady History:
Schenectady YMCA bit of History
Schenectady civic leader Harry Apkarian
GE Elfuns talk by John Harnden
Other Languages:
Comment fonction IRM? (How does the MRI work, French)
Harold
Chestnut Promo (in Russian)
Cuma functioneaza un MRI? (How does the MRI work, Romanian)
Hogyan mukodik az MRI? (How does the MRI work, Hungarian)
Wie funktioniert Magnetresonanztomograph (MRT) (MRI German)
Wie funktioniert MRI? (How does the MRI work, German)
How the Laser Works (in Russian)