"Uno, Due, Tre... Uno, Due, Tre... Uno, Due, Tre..." My fascination with how things work and engineering on the whole can be traced to watching this show in my infancy. The theme tune, the intense detail on the evolution of technology, and even your delightful animations (especially in this episode really speaking to my Italian heritage) brought memories of loving this episode in particular back to me. I begged my parents to VHS record the whole run, but regularly wanted to rewatch THIS one the most. No surprise I grew into a musically-inclined electrical engineer, I suppose. What an absolutely delightful trip down memory lane. Thankyou so much for helping preserve what I still consider a pivotal cog in my fascination with technology. ❤

I just love how at 6:25 the test song they use is "The Russians Are Coming", the Take 5 reggae instrumental used as the title theme. This entire show sits the back of my brain as a time capsule to some of my earliest memories being fascinated how things work, and the delightful ways in which inventions involved over the years... and subtly my love of ska, jazz and reggae too.

I can watch this again and again.

As a 20 years old boy I would like to thank you Mr tim for your amazing content and videos. And please don't stop😢

I also don't like the wide screens either. My computer monitor is a square shaped one.

@23.28 is Entertainment! great story thanks

That pocket watch chain is amazing

was n this on channel 4 years ago

Okay -- very good. EXCEPT to cover the one bit that nobody explains. Look at the video at 8:08. It shows the top thread being wrapped around the bobbin. But for this to happen, the bobbin would have to be floating in mid-air. Wrapping it around the front of the bobbin is obvious but there has to be a spindle or shaft holding the bobbin in place at its back and, if the thread were to wrap around both the front and the back as illustrated, it would get caught on that shaft. The thread can't possibly wrap around the bobbin in the manner you show. Even in the human machine, the bobbin man has to pass the bobbin from one hand to the other to form the crossover with the top thread. ¶ I'm slowly starting to figure it out myself. The bobbin mechanism in my machine doesn't revolve around the bobbin; it rotates part way and - once the front of the top thread gets at least half-way around - then rotates BACK to release the thread loop behind the bobbin on the same side of the shaft where it originally caught it. Tricky but doable. Now: how it can do that performing hundreds of stitches per minute is a real mechanical marvel!

Aint no way he’s still alive!!! I used to watch him from recordings that my uncle made!!! Omg love you!!!

😂❤!! Brilliant!

"I wondered if it would be possible to include an anal probe in my machine"

7:10 video killed the radio star

I hope the exhibits end up in your hands again and I'm sure you will do something just as great with it.

Very cool build!

I live in the USA and was able to visit the London arcade last month. I LOVED this machine. It was so clever, well designed, challenging, and FUN! Great machine!

Mythbusters of the 90s 😔

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DOES someone KNOW WHO sings from 7:00 to 8:00 ? It's touching. And that fine ending with the vibraphone/ xylophone... Who is she which is known to everyone in ~1938 ? How times flyes. Love how Tim draw Mr. Baird! 4:20 ! Diamants and socks and Jam lost to bees...

Thank you Tim! well presented, you picked up a sub!

A true artist. 💚

❤❤I Love these programs I could watch them over and over....❤❤❤❤😂

To much about Marconi and nothing about true inventor Fessenden...

Hi Tim, thanks for shining a light on a fascinating topic. Why are you not ‘Sir’ Tim, for services to education? Love your work. Gregg, Australia

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Fascinating video. Exactly the information I was looking for. Thanks.

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I used to watch The Secret Life series years ago. Fascinating and full of information.

I love your videos, but I'm gonna have to skip this one. The topic is boring.

We'll never have TV like this again.

Why yo didn't make episode about secret life of a computer?!!

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I wish the probe had such force at the end that a waiver would need to be signed before playing the game lol

Pretty sure Rex has turned over more autos since. Love ya Rex!!!🎉🎉🎉

あいうえおかきくけこさしすせそたちつてとなにぬねのはひふへほまみむめもやゆよらりるれろわをん

He should teach apprenticeship in university or college. He is working knowledge, hands-on and full of experience

Awesome!

So strange...too funny!

Rex's account of the clock always makes me cringe... very hard to make something idiot proof.... in that case a 10p diode could have done that....RIP Rex!

Mr tim I have a question that only you can awnser . In the episode on the secret life of radio how did you manage to shake the colherer in the spark gap teceiver because im trying to shakeine automatically but I struggle

It's really too bad. I hope that the items from the exhibit live on somewhere else. There must be another museum that will take it over, and it would give you a chance to refresh things!

I really think you are bloody genius Sir! I really enjoy your video. It's bloody inspiring! Love and respect from the Netherlands!

These were remarkable shows, we need these at this time, I feel alot of the younger generation has evolved into self emotional narcissists and have no curiosity aside from some conjured inward attention to self. The lathe was great! sync over the phone verbally and its still readable :)

This was a fantastic exhibit and will be sorely missed. Thank you!

Hey Tim, Huge fan of yours over here in Tallahassee Florida. I thought of you when I watched this "Far Side" animation bit, where a cow plays a cow-themed video game. Wouldn't it be fun to make a game that simulates a cow playing his game? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fK-Jf66Zl92wlJ8.htmlsi=XsvmbBF2xFwMLy15

I wanted to pop in and say I love your videos and have learned a LOT from them, Thank you for uploading them here for us to enjoy! Love from Canada <3

Why? It's one of the most fascinating parts of the museum. I first went to the Science Museum when I was four and the whole place was brilliant, but when I went sixty years later it had gone downhill big time, although the Secret Life of the Home gallery was one of its highlights. What are they going to replace the gallery with? The Secret Science of Wokeism perhaps?

I had one for christmas back in the early 70s and absolutely loved it! You could even get a little drive shaft with four pulleys on to drive little tools like grinders and polishers and stuff! I still have it but its in need of restoration.

Sic transit gloria mundi :(