RCA's CED failed; their history can tell us why (Pt. 3)
912K views · Oct 29, 2019 · Science & Technology
Comments · 1.5K
@TechnologyConnections · 6 years ago · pinned
Hey everyone! I want to give a thanks and shout-out to Nathaniel Cole Alexander for an excellent thumbnail improvement! Hopefully you clicked on this video because of that absolutely groovy masterpiece!
661
@eugenebebs7767 · 6 years ago
Part 1: "So it looks like this is gonna be a two-parter"<br>Part 9: "Finally, we are approaching series finale where..."
1.9K
@crosstheborder731 · 6 years ago
"Here's where the CED comes in"<br>(Roll credits)<br>I lost it here. Haven't laughed like this in a while
1.1K
@opensourceq · 6 years ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpwLDQSadE4&t=207">3:27</a> wait united fruit co. just straight up had a gun on their logo? jesus christ guys you dont have to be PROUD about banana wars
423
@HeffeJeffe78 · 6 years ago
United Fruit: We keep fruit in line by threatening it with firearms. If you want your fruit to acquiesce to your demands, chose United Fruit.
488
@lafcursiax · 4 years ago
As a librarian, it always dismays me when people assume that, if information isn't on the internet, it simply doesn't exist (or is not worth knowing). I do sincerely hope that becomes the case one day, but in the meantime, I heartily approve of your book recommendation!
217
@franrogers5723 · 6 years ago
One interesting sidebar in RCA history, which might make for a good topic in your series on radio, is their attempts to kill off FM radio as a threat to their plans for television—cunning moves like convincing the FCC to move the entire FM band, obsoleting all existing equipment.
520
@renakunisaki · 6 years ago
Imagine being that manager? "Fine, we'll try your silly radio music box idea if it'll get you to oh God what do we do with all this money"
1.2K
@BCassidy2 · 6 years ago
What blows my mind about hearing timelines like RCA's, is that it was only 100 years ago. We went from the infancy of radio to the infancy of quantum computing in only 100 years. It took less than 60 years to go from the the Wright Brother's flight to the first manned space flight. It makes me imagine what will be available to the next generation.
479
@zupperm · 6 years ago
RCA sounds like more like Qualcomm of the 1920's to me.
365
@modulusshift · 5 years ago (edited)
"and weirdly, United Fruit" oh god <br><br>Alright, let's fill this in: United Fruit was basically the privatized government-by-force of several banana republics across the Caribbean. If this strange bit of corporate colonialism is any surprise to you, go look it up elsewhere, it's one hell of a story. Anyhow, having these outposts across many islands of the Caribbean with lots of shipping traffic of bananas meant that communication was absolutely key to the whole enterprise, and since no one's gonna run telegraph wires across the ocean, the only realtime option was radio technology. So United Fruit established the Tropical Radio and Telegraph Company in about 1901, established key radio stations across the Caribbean and a few back on the mainland, and sold excess radio time as telegrams when it wasn't running essential internal communication traffic. Having basically established one of the largest radio networks in the world basically as a side effect of making oodles of money off of bananas, and also being run by Americans, United Fruit ended up holding some key radio patents in the US by the 1920's. GE wanted those patents in order to solidify RCA's market lead in the US, and so when it was wheeling and dealing AT&T and Westinghouse for patents it also included United Fruits in the talks and ended up giving them some shares as well. <br><br>So yes, United Fruits was a technology company at the time. I mean, they're nothing if not innovative...
46
@magreger · 6 years ago
You tease! I can't speak for everyone, but I could have watched 20 more minutes.
885
Up next
Holograms, Lasers & Boredom; the CED's march towards eventual invention (CED Part 4)
Technology Connections · 733K views
Old pinball machines are amazingly complex
Technology Connections · 3.4M views
Race to the finish; RCA's final gamble (CED Part 5)
Technology Connections · 1M views
Trump Falls Asleep on Live TV, Tells the Truth for First Time & Our Favorite Foxtrotter Guillermo!
Jimmy Kimmel Live · 3.5M views
A record player that can play CDs: The Fisher DAC-145
Technology Connections · 1.4M views
Laserdisc's Failure: What Went Wrong
Technology Connections · 2.7M views
Charles Ponzi The Documentary
Patrick Boyle · 2.1M views
The Selection Accumulator; a Jukebox's Brain
Technology Connections · 1.4M views
Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars
Technology Connections · 2.9M views
We Bought MOVIES on VINYL RECORDS and They’re AMAZING - SelectaVision CED VideoDisc
Linus Tech Tips · 2.2M views
Arduino Mechanical TV #27 - Faster Frame Lock #2
Andrew Davie · 65K views
Drip Coffee Makers — super simple, super cheap
Technology Connections · 4.6M views
The US electrical system is not 120V
Technology Connections · 3M views
Engines haven't been fully mechanical in decades - and that's good!
Technology Connections · 1.6M views
DVD: The Death Knell of Laserdisc
Technology Connections · 1.9M views
Evidence The Book of Mormon Is False
Alyssa Grenfell · 867K views
The history of the PC: From 8bit to 64bit and everything in-between.
RetroBytes · 226K views
Worlds Beyond Our Solar System - Facts to Drift Off To
Science Into Sleep and 2 more · 11K views
Ceiling fans: the simple idea we keep screwing up
Technology Connections · 3.4M views
GOP Pushes for DEI in Welfare-to-Work Ad & Trump Launches America.gov AI | The Daily Show
The Daily Show · 2.1M views
Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--and failed hard (Part 1)
Technology Connections · 1.4M views
Movies on Vinyl - VHD The forgotten 1980s Videodisc
Techmoan · 3.1M views
Follow-up video to the 120V HPWH saga
Technology Connextras · 279K views
Retro tech: The RCA CED Videodisc
Techmoan · 1.4M views
Macrovision: The Copy Protection in VHS
Technology Connections · 1.3M views
My Dream Power Hammer Restoration! Part 10
Alec Steele · 662K views