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Date: November 3, 2025
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Dayum, that stuff takes me back to the '50s and 60's school labs where we learned down-to-earth physics with shiny brass and polished hardwood equipment. Robust stuff, taught science to generations, and that's how we got to understand science with interest and excitement (and pass the college entrance exams)!
We bought two huge crates of old science class stuff from a local high school when our kids were little. They spent years building things out of it. Took out the power for our whole block once, hahahahaaaa.
The devices that run off AC in our homes are being displaced by solid state devices that generally operate using low voltage DC. That would have been incomprehensible concept during the mid 20th century.
I took a hands-on summer science course. It was like going to camp, but for kids with Aspergers. It was awesome and was taught by Mr. Youngslager. That group of odd large washers looked a lot like the demonstration of how magnetism/electrical fields can move things that aren't iron. As I recall, the main chunk of equipment had a vertical cylinder, more than a foot tall. It sat on top of something that my memory claims looked like a Variac. None of us were particularly surprised when the steel washer did a decent approximation of an elevator. But then he switched to the copper one, and that was CLEARLY black magic in a box.
Love it, I study in hardware and trying my hand in software, cause most the time I'm soft. But not often 😂😂
I'm not late for work. I'm just G54.
Hey Chris, I've been following your brilliant and incisive videos for a while now.
Decades ago, a friend gifted to me his father's collection of "Audell's New Electric Library" books, which were published in the '30s and reprinted in 1946. I have 7 of the original 12 books and you are welcome to have them if you like. Quite a blast from the past. Let me know and I can ship them to you.
I'm getting old, and there is 10X the money fixing old equipment than designing new.
You do know that the IC was developed in Texas don't you?
"Two buddies and a toolkit." I'd prefer a pair of twins and a few bottles of wine.