Engineering helped make this video possible. This week we’ll look at how it’s possible for you to watch this video with the fundamentals of signal processing. We’ll explore things from Morse Code, to problems like bandwidth capacity and noise, to how we arrived at the digital age.
Crash Course Engineering is produced in association with PBS Digital Studios: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1mtdjDVOoOqJzeaJAV15Tq0tZ1vKj7ZV
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RESOURCES:
Sources:
http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~giri/pdfs/EE4140/textbook.pdf
http://edison.rutgers.edu/transmit.htm
https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph
https://www.gaussianwaves.com/2008/04/channel-capacity/
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~barry/mydocs/CS3282/Notes/DC06_7.pdf
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-5/Telephone.html
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