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Videos


The Edison Tech Center is presenting unique, educational, and exciting videos about the men and the technologies that make our modern world possible.


We have gathered video interviews from engineers of all types from California to Moscow to make many of the products. The Edison Tech Center features many upstate New York engineers and inventors in the global perspective.
Explore our different video products below.

 

View our YouTube channel for videos on all subjects from local history to world-changing technologies.
Also see the list below.

Quality biographic documentaries highlighting the amazing life stories of some of the world's leading technology pioneers.

See our catalogue of various interviews with some of the legends of engineering.

 

Our Video Distribution:

Since 2008 our online videos have been grossed more than 160,000 hits on numerous engineering topics. The videos are frequently used by teachers and professors across the world. In addition to online distribution we distribute these full length videos to over 25 public access stations serving 8 million viewers across the U.S.

If you wish to see our programs on your public access channel please contact: Call Glenn Jarrett
Education Materials Distributor, Edison Tech Center Tel: (315)351-0032 email: gggreggg3(at)yahoo.com

Internship Opportunities - Click here to learn more about our video internship program!

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Projects in the Pipeline:
News from the editing desk

 

 

California Footage to be Edited:
We are currently editing footage of interviews shot in California this spring with hybrid car developer Andrew Burke, and GE capacitor engineer Oliver Winn. The interviews will be broken into videos by topic. Below is an example, a section by Oliver Winn explaining how a capacitor works:

 

The Rice Legacy Documentary
We are creating another Wizards of Schenectady episode featuring Edwin W. Rice, Chester W. Rice, and Martin Rice. It is currently being edited. Learn More

More Hands-On Videos
With the construction of new exhibits, the ETC will soon be creating short videos for YouTube with our hands on experiments. These videos will assist teachers and thrill the many tinkerers that frequent YouTube.

History of Power Transmission Series


We are shooting videos and interviews at key sites in the history of today's powergrid. This spring videographer Mike Whelan was sent out to Folsom and Redlands Power Plants from the 1890's. Other sites that will be shot will be Great Barrington, MA, Mechanicville Power Station, Ironville, Brandon, VT and more. Short videos will be released on YouTube, and half hour episodes will be released on public access stations across the country. Visit the web page here.

The Edison Tech Center goes to the Amazon:


Overcoming challenges to video production through innovation: The Edison Tech Center helps develop a system for a video shoot in the Peruvian Amazon using LED's and solar power. Read More

Photo: Steve Normandin works building specialized lighting systems for the project at the Edison Tech Center

   
   

List of Edison Tech Center Online Videos: 

 

 

 

 

 

Online videos organized by subject.

Check our YouTube Video Channel for more new videos that may not be on this list.

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)

 

 

 

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