---
title: "Explaining technology well is hard"
url: "https://www.pardel.dev/2016/02/13/explaining-technology"
date: 2016-02-13
author: "Paul Ardeleanu"
tags: ["Teaching"]
description: "A great example of a relatively complicated concept explained so anybody could understand it - Telephone Electronics: 'Simplex and Phantom Circuits'"
---

# Explaining technology well is hard

<p>Here is a great example of a relatively complicated concept explained so any soldier could understand it. Goes to show that is the author breaks down the topic into easy chucks and introduces them in the logical order, then no topic is too hard to comprehend.</p>

<h2>Telephone Electronics: “Theory of Simplex and Phantom Circuits: Balanced Conditions” 1944 US Army</h2>

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