Inventions In America's Growth (1850-1910) - Phonograph, Telephone, Electric Lamp 24860 HD

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    Photographs, reconstructed models, and the recollections of Jonathan Sharpe, editor of Scientific American, are used to show the impact of inventions on life in America during the age of miracles, 1850-1910. Explains the influence of railroads and farm machinery on the economy of the country and on centers of population. Shows how life in urban areas was revolutionized by the phonograph, telephone, electric lamp, motor car, aeroplane, and radio.
    This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD. For more information visit www.PeriscopeFi...

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  • @paulbourgeois4491
    @paulbourgeois4491 Рік тому +14

    John Moses Browning should be mentioned... The .45 Gov't Colt, the Browning Automatic Rifle, Both .30 and .50 caliber belt fed machine guns... This man was a prolific, iconic American firearms designer, and he deserves to be remembered.

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      @PeriscopeFilm  Рік тому +3

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    • @paulbourgeois4491
      @paulbourgeois4491 Рік тому +2

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  • @jamestiscareno4387
    @jamestiscareno4387 3 роки тому +179

    My great grandmother was born in 1887 - 1977. I remember her telling me about how wonderful it was to see such incredible changes in the world over her lifetime. From horse drawn buggies to Apollo 11 landing on the moon.

    • @dondressel452
      @dondressel452 3 роки тому +14

      I’ll bet she had some great stories

    • @animalntelligence3170
      @animalntelligence3170 2 роки тому +11

      A friend's grandfather was born in 1879 and was still alive in the late 1960s when I met him. We visited the old-age home where he live which for some reason had an encyclopedia from 1905 , browsing through it showed something of what the world was like for him as a young adult -- I believe the encyclopedia had the airplane but of course in 1905, Einstein was unknown (also born in 1879, he was just about to become known, at least among physicists -- it would be a while before Einstein became a household word, maybe 20 or maybe even 40 years.)

    • @casacasa2352
      @casacasa2352 2 роки тому +2

      The earth is flat...

    • @georgemichaelmunoz3264
      @georgemichaelmunoz3264 Рік тому +1

      bot.

    • @alexsalvi1824
      @alexsalvi1824 Рік тому

      i can say u the same thing, but now in like 20 years. LOL EZ

  • @jeffkiper8199
    @jeffkiper8199 3 роки тому +76

    I love these vintage films! It's like looking at a crystal ball into the past.

  • @hebneh
    @hebneh 4 роки тому +138

    Two of my grandparents were alive at the time of the first airplane flight in 1903 as well as the moon landing in 1969 - astonishing that these two events were only 66 years apart.

    • @activatefiasco5843
      @activatefiasco5843 3 роки тому +3

      *I have Often thought that Very Thing, from 1903 to 1969*

    • @crosbonit
      @crosbonit 3 роки тому +1

      Yeah, and people think that "Big Tech", based on 50+ year old computer technology, are really "Big Tech", because they make so much money running data mining and processing websites and are buying up smaller data mining websites and gadget companies. Let's see someone build a functional 'land speeder', then I'll be impressed.

    • @davidcross701
      @davidcross701 3 роки тому +2

      Cuz he heard the landing in the Radio! LOL

    • @woodwaker1
      @woodwaker1 3 роки тому +3

      My grandfather was born in 1886 and lived to 1977. He saw all of this and was a most interesting man. He still used draft horses, but had a tractor. He said each was better at some things. I feel just like him, I;m a computer expert, but see no reason to have a cell phone

    • @daleeasternbrat816
      @daleeasternbrat816 3 роки тому +1

      I was 13 in 1969. I knew a lot of people who remembered both.

  • @rayfridley6649
    @rayfridley6649 5 років тому +76

    No mention of Elisha Otis and his safety elevator, equipped with brakes that locked the lift should the hoisting cable snapped. Otis demonstrated at the World's Fair Crystal Place exhibition in 1853. Made skyscrapers possible.

    • @katherynrowell6937
      @katherynrowell6937 3 роки тому +5

      I had a great uncle that died in an elevator accident at 16.

  • @GSPAEpro
    @GSPAEpro 7 років тому +82

    Man I hate homework but dang. This ain't that bad.

  • @CRASS2047
    @CRASS2047 2 роки тому +29

    And how would we explain to someone in the 30’s or 40’s that we carry a device in our pockets with all these things built in?

  • @wholeNwon
    @wholeNwon 3 роки тому +15

    My living room looks like his: Same settees, Morris chair, lamp, have a cylinder Columbia gramophone, oil lamps (though I don't use them), etc. Don't have "The Pharaoh's Horses", but used to. Don't have a cell phone in the house but there are 2 in the car. Guess I'm old. But I remember a lot of the "good old days" and rural life. Would I want to go back? Sure, there were some things for which I'm nostalgic, but, on the whole, things are MUCH better for more people now. In the old days, people worked themselves into early graves just to have enough food. They may never have left their small areas in their whole lives. Houses were mostly very cold in the winter and horribly hot in the summer. People died of simple infections or other now readily-treatable diseases...especially children.

    • @siriusjean-marie8032
      @siriusjean-marie8032 3 роки тому +1

      Fleming a inventer la pénicilline en 1940 ce n'est pas si vieux mais on ne connaissait pas le SIDA !

  • @pantherplatform
    @pantherplatform 4 роки тому +16

    I can't believe how much has changed in the last 30 years.

    • @bobjacobson858
      @bobjacobson858 3 місяці тому

      Many things have, but many have been improvements on what was already there, as opposed to entirely new ideas. I would say PCs, the internet, and wireless phones are the biggest modern inventions. However, I'm just wondering when the time will come when someone says to another "Do you mean to tell me don't even have a [super-widget of some kind not yet even imagined today] in your house yet??"

  • @jasonrock5220
    @jasonrock5220 2 роки тому +7

    Thanks for the cultural identity that allowed this to happen.❤️ My great grandparents helped make this country what is is today and I am very proud 🥹. A great thanks for the great men who came before me to pave the way.🙏

  • @brento2890
    @brento2890 2 роки тому +3

    Excellent video ! Thank you ! 👏

  • @soumitratewari483
    @soumitratewari483 3 роки тому +58

    The documentary missed one great inventor : Sir Nikola Tesla

    • @raahehaq263
      @raahehaq263 3 роки тому +2

      Nokola tesla was not American

    • @michael_mouse
      @michael_mouse 3 роки тому +14

      @@raahehaq263
      ... Nikola Tesla became a naturalized citizen of the United States on 30 July 1891, aged 35.

    • @leonardodominguez3491
      @leonardodominguez3491 3 роки тому +3

      Alternate current avobe Direct Current. So good it's the one we use today.

    • @janleslie7163
      @janleslie7163 2 роки тому +6

      I'm happy someone brought him up

    • @kilcoykilcoy3410
      @kilcoykilcoy3410 2 роки тому +2

      Not to mention all the other technology that has been suppressed since.

  • @jov6372
    @jov6372 3 роки тому +12

    History repeats over from 1850-1910..just like 1950-2010..never before seen technology transforming society an increase in wealth it's beautiful... imagine in 2050-3010 wow My God..

    • @Mr__Singularity
      @Mr__Singularity 3 роки тому +1

      more wealth, technology, knowledge will be created between 2020-2032 than during all years before 2020

    • @dutchmayer6725
      @dutchmayer6725 3 роки тому +1

      @@Mr__Singularity
      You are naive if you actually think this.

    • @dutchmayer6725
      @dutchmayer6725 3 роки тому

      1850-1910 saw much more development than 1950-2010.

    • @Mr__Singularity
      @Mr__Singularity 3 роки тому

      @@dutchmayer6725 @Dutch Mayer And you obviously do not know much about the subject. Are you aware that half of economic growth(half all of wealth ever created) took place in last 20 years? This process is accelerating a bit each year(do to exponential technological progress, automation, accelerating industrialization processes of developing world, recently AI) so next such jump will take us not 20 years, but 13 or so.

    • @kesmarn
      @kesmarn 3 роки тому +4

      2050 - 2110? Is that what you meant to type if you're thinking in 60 year increments?

  • @darz3829
    @darz3829 3 роки тому +78

    It was common practice in those days to make inventions that lasted and worked well. In the 1970s I collected antique telephones and installed them in my mom's house. Wall phone, candlesticks, and early handsets - they didn't sound bad and NEVER dropped a call in 15 years. Can anyone say that about today's technology?

    • @chumbucketjones9761
      @chumbucketjones9761 3 роки тому +6

      Yes.

    • @siriusjean-marie8032
      @siriusjean-marie8032 3 роки тому

      Tu parles comme un ennemi de la consommation et du capitalisme !

    • @snickle1980
      @snickle1980 3 роки тому +6

      Planned obsolescence was a thing back then as well. lightbulbs for instance. Most of products today are built to fail or require a monthly fee to maintain. "live services" the more things change, the more they stay the same. 😁

    • @TranquilRide
      @TranquilRide 2 роки тому

      Yeah, I work in tech on phone systems and there never has been a time where you virtually interact with other person sitting next to you

    • @astronoman4
      @astronoman4 2 роки тому +2

      Well yep, once had a horse die on me.. my cars doing alright though.

  • @jeffkiper8199
    @jeffkiper8199 3 роки тому +39

    I'm not saying that Edison wasn't a great mind, but he did take other people's ideas and make them his own. His credited inventions were amazing (especially at that time), but he was not solely responsible for them, other inventers played a part in their creation.

    • @harrybriscoe7948
      @harrybriscoe7948 3 роки тому +3

      The UK had electric light houses in the 1850s

    • @kaystevens57
      @kaystevens57 3 роки тому +3

      Actually, Edison took others ideas and PERFECTED them. The light bulb only lasted mere seconds when he started perfecting it. He actually knew 10,000 ways how NOT to make a light bulb because of his experimenting. That was his genius in a nutshell--never give up, never surrender.

    • @jeffkiper8199
      @jeffkiper8199 3 роки тому +7

      @@kaystevens57 my point was that other inventors contributed to inventions that are solely credited to Edison.

    • @kaystevens57
      @kaystevens57 3 роки тому +4

      @@jeffkiper8199 I agree completely. His treatment of Tesla for instance was, to be kind, inappropriate. He was no choir boy, just a genius. Still, I love my Victrola with its Edison 78 rpm records. :)

    • @mjames4709
      @mjames4709 3 роки тому

      Revionists

  • @blueridgeburnouts8265
    @blueridgeburnouts8265 3 роки тому +12

    Progress certainly, but have we lost something more special along the way? Like community, faith, resourcefulness, frugality, morality, independence, work ethic, charity to name a few...at the rate of change we have experienced the past 100 years, it shouldn't surprise us that we lost a part of our humanity. We must relearn the basics and choose better.

  • @neilforbes416
    @neilforbes416 3 роки тому +13

    The phonograph was Edison's *toy* but Emile Berliner went several steps further with his disc-playing *Gramophone.* And the Telephone was a Scottish invention by Alexander Graham Bell.

    • @vitesse_arnhem
      @vitesse_arnhem 2 роки тому +2

      When a Scot does well, he’s British.
      When a Scot does poorly, he’s Scottish.

    • @JugSouthgate
      @JugSouthgate Рік тому +1

      The Edison phonograph was a lot more than a toy.
      But Berliner's Gramophone was far superior, for two reasons:
      1) Discs took up much less storage space per minute of recorded sound.
      2) (The big one) - Discs could be mass-produced at low cost from masters by means of presses. Cylinders had to be made one at a time.

    • @neilforbes416
      @neilforbes416 Рік тому

      @@JugSouthgate You forgot the fact that, though discovered by chance, discs could hold two "tracks", one on each side. *twice the bang for your buck!*

  • @itsfellow17
    @itsfellow17 4 роки тому +24

    Remember the days when you were the only one with a telephone in your home and other people came to you to use it? Or was that just me.

    • @siriusjean-marie8032
      @siriusjean-marie8032 3 роки тому +2

      C'est le voisins qui avaient le telephone !

    • @el.blanco552
      @el.blanco552 3 роки тому +3

      There was time where there was one telephone in town and you had to share.

    • @bhs3871
      @bhs3871 2 роки тому +1

      Up to a decade ago this was still the case in some very small towns of Mexico. I remember as a kid/teen when I would visit my grandparents town abroad (im in my 20s now) I would have to go to a neighbors home to call my parents in NYC. Interesting how I could still relate to that in my lifetime too lol.

  • @meesterkrabs4416
    @meesterkrabs4416 6 років тому +43

    I wish I born into this time. It nastalgic for me, a 13 year old and yes I love this kinda stuff. I love history

    • @ericaleavitt699
      @ericaleavitt699 4 роки тому +2

      Same, but I’m 16

    • @dannyblade6824
      @dannyblade6824 3 роки тому +3

      Now you’re 15. We live in the most interesting times in the history of the world. Take that to the bank...

    • @mr.slippyfist4170
      @mr.slippyfist4170 3 роки тому +1

      Yeah maybe if you were born in that time you would know how to spell

    • @harrybriscoe7948
      @harrybriscoe7948 3 роки тому +4

      Get a camera and take real photos of things that look old to you now. Over the years digital pictures will lost easier

    • @dondressel452
      @dondressel452 3 роки тому

      Become a history professor
      Live your passion
      I love history to
      I was born in 56 and I’ve seen a lot of changes myself

  • @prabhakarv4193
    @prabhakarv4193 2 роки тому +1

    Very nice. Thank you

  • @PhilosophicalZombieHunter
    @PhilosophicalZombieHunter 2 роки тому +3

    Incredible

  • @raylopez99
    @raylopez99 3 роки тому +16

    The Age of Miracles gives way to the Age of Reality TV, and what shamoo tweeted.

    • @snickle1980
      @snickle1980 3 роки тому +2

      Don't be so glum...EVERY generation produces at least one "great person" that ends up shaping society for the better. We've seen amazing inventions over the past 40 years. We have our own version of Edison.
      We've got an amazing lineup of engineers and theoretical physicists going into the year 2022, and beyond. We're in the middle of a second space race, and we're producing technological wonders!
      It's not easy to see it all when you're in the midst of such an era, and far too easy to focus on the negative...Humanity can be disappointing, But take a step back for a moment and look at the Meta. we're an amazing species and this is an age of wonders. 💖

  • @frankcoffey
    @frankcoffey 3 роки тому +9

    Emile Berliner invented the microphone that made long distance telephone possible and invented the Gramophone that created the reproduceable media market. Also invented the acoustic tile and championed pasteurization of milk and the helped start the very first public health campaign after his daughter nearly died from bad milk. One of the few inventors of the day that didn't get his ideas stolen by famous businessmen. Bell telephone only had what could be considered a local area intercom before his microphone made it a real telephone system.

  • @mandymoore5774
    @mandymoore5774 2 роки тому +5

    It’s so crazy to me to imagine ppl in the same place I’m at in my house except it wasn’t my house it was someone else’s. & it wasn’t even the same building.

  • @victorparedes6887
    @victorparedes6887 2 роки тому +4

    I'm glad the Wright brothers succeeded in 19 - 3.

  • @xyzct
    @xyzct 2 роки тому +6

    And now we have the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting L2, cooling close to absolute zero, and poised to observe the earliest galaxies.

  • @uncomfortableviewings9086
    @uncomfortableviewings9086 4 роки тому +13

    Watching this for fun and a random story I’m writing concepts for. Don’t usually do this much research but the main character is a scientist so, need to know all this

  • @bentonrp
    @bentonrp 3 роки тому +15

    1890-1950: Phonograph, radio, electric lamp, telephone, automobile, airplane, roads and highways, skyscrappers, television.
    1950-2010: Satelite, space shuttle, computer, microchip, digital camera, jet airplane, GPS, flat screens, internet, electric car, smart phone.
    2010-3000: Social media ruins everything! 😆

    • @AiMR
      @AiMR 2 роки тому +1

      The electric car was literally in this video. Did you fall asleep?

    • @bentonrp
      @bentonrp 2 роки тому

      @@AiMR So? I was commenting on what people were using, not the moment 'the dude' put 'two and two together.'

    • @AiMR
      @AiMR 2 роки тому

      @@bentonrp But people were using electric cars from the very beginning, so now your comment makes even less sense 🙄

    • @bentonrp
      @bentonrp 2 роки тому +1

      @@AiMR Are you even TRYING to understand, or are you just arguing symantics because you have some sort of personal problem in your life? 🙃
      I'm not looking forward to winning a debate with you, only to then be blamed that I "should have been more specific." 😳
      If you don't get it, it's not because the comment keeps making less and less sense,... it's because you don't want to get it, and have therefore decided to not even try to get it.
      ...If I said water beds were big in the 70's and 80's, I bet you'd argue that people were using rafts since Tribal times...!
      In fact, you're the type of person who'd probably argue with a stop sign! I bet you're REAL popular at parties...!

  • @bdeas
    @bdeas 2 роки тому +3

    We don't develop technologies as fast as we used to because most modern technologies are synthetic technologies, that is they are a synthesis of various different technologies. Your car for example is a synthesis of the technology of the engine, onboard computer, servos that go and your door locks, speedometer, rubber in your tires, and so forth. Those early inventions were low hanging fruit because they were simple in nature and could be done by people in workshops from home.

  • @RobbertBodden-f6v
    @RobbertBodden-f6v Місяць тому

    this helped so much :}

  • @AllenFreemanMediaGuru
    @AllenFreemanMediaGuru 3 роки тому +10

    The phone brought exciting sounds to the home. “Hello, did you know your car warranty is about to expire?”

  • @totalitarianism1989
    @totalitarianism1989 Рік тому

    Nice remembrance of the past

  • @Wosiewose
    @Wosiewose Рік тому +2

    Depending on how old you are, you may yourself remember a time when many things we take for granted today didn't exist. I'm still in my 50s, but when I was a child, things like microwaves, home computers, cell phones, satellite TV, etc. would have seemed as futuristic as Captain Kirk saying "Beam me up, Scotty" on his communicator seemed then.

  • @АлеханОрлов
    @АлеханОрлов 3 роки тому +1

    very nice

  • @scarlettsteele7999
    @scarlettsteele7999 2 роки тому +1

    Love that furniture

  • @vitesse_arnhem
    @vitesse_arnhem 2 роки тому +1

    Electricity: Tesla > Edison
    Radio: Tesla > Marconi
    Powered flight: Whitehead > Wrights
    “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

  • @theultimatehunt
    @theultimatehunt 5 років тому +35

    Now look at us. Cell phones, Computers, Satalites. Videogaming systems. Its crazy what OUR future might hold.

    • @justinratcliffe947
      @justinratcliffe947 3 роки тому +1

      Skynet?

    • @ajjackson1526
      @ajjackson1526 3 роки тому +1

      Fleshlights

    • @tlo65
      @tlo65 3 роки тому +2

      More enslavement towards employers? Btw satellites and cellphones were invented by the communists.

    • @ASLUHLUHC3
      @ASLUHLUHC3 3 роки тому +2

      Brain-computer interfaces will enable 'telepathic' communication between people. And once input/ouput with the brain is good enough, you'd be able to communicate entire sensory experiences. You could even experience artificially-created sensory experiences i.e. completely lifelike gaming, porn.

    • @ASLUHLUHC3
      @ASLUHLUHC3 3 роки тому +1

      @@croatianwarmaster7872 Speak for yourself

  • @oasean
    @oasean 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you.

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  3 роки тому +1

      You're welcome! Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference.

    • @alaskaaksala123
      @alaskaaksala123 3 роки тому

      No he didn’t

  • @-KillaWatt-
    @-KillaWatt- 3 роки тому +3

    When you look at the average annual income of an individual just before the industrial revolution it is estimated that a person lived on $250 per year. The interesting thing is you can keep going back and no matter how far you go it will stay around that $250 mark. So someone in 1799 lived on about the same amount of money as someone born in 3,000bc. If you look at that same graph after the industrial revolution it skyrockets out what appeared to be a straight line. People born during and after the industrial revolution has lived better than every human before them. Kings and Queen's included. Most today make more in a year than eight generations of a family combined would make prior to the industrial revolution. To further expand on this perspective, most people waste more money in three months on things they don't need than entire royal courts spent in a year.

  • @allgood6760
    @allgood6760 2 роки тому +1

    And look how far we have come👍

  • @robweckert5689
    @robweckert5689 6 років тому +33

    No mention of Tesla

    • @wolfendenracing2826
      @wolfendenracing2826 4 роки тому +6

      Rob Weckert some people younger than us may think of electric cars lol

    • @alphonsocarioti512
      @alphonsocarioti512 4 роки тому +3

      Edison had better P.R.

    • @jeffkiper8199
      @jeffkiper8199 3 роки тому +4

      I'm not saying that Edison wasn't a great mind, but he did take other people's ideas and make them his own. His credited inventions were amazing (especially at that time), but he was not solely responsible for them, other inventers played a part in their creation.

    • @moshfists
      @moshfists 3 роки тому

      Elon Musk wasn't even born back then. 😂

  • @laserbeam002
    @laserbeam002 3 роки тому +9

    All of which we take for granted today. We really don't appreciate what these inventions, and their inventors, have given us.

  • @djo9941
    @djo9941 8 місяців тому

    At 7:53 is one of these most important inventions that never gets mentioned. The Wright Balance. This is a device that the Wright Brothers invented and used to determine the lift of different airfoils.

  • @andreiconstantinescu5163
    @andreiconstantinescu5163 2 роки тому +2

    40 years that is a very short time but incredibly prolific

  • @Metacognition88
    @Metacognition88 Рік тому

    Ah the memories. I remember when these came out as a kid.

    • @cliffhammer7953
      @cliffhammer7953 Рік тому

      "He lived to see men walk on the moon and build an orbital scientific research station in the form of the ISS."
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  • @EliteFoxes44
    @EliteFoxes44 2 роки тому

    What year was this film made?

  • @davidcross701
    @davidcross701 3 роки тому +1

    Amazing Era

    • @alaskaaksala123
      @alaskaaksala123 3 роки тому

      I dont think it was about specific inventors…and, it was not an exhaustive list of all inventors..

  • @sam3d
    @sam3d 3 роки тому +6

    Now we know Tesla was the real inventor of AC current.

    • @krashd
      @krashd 2 роки тому +1

      He wasn't, he simply made it practical for commercial use as the one thing DC could do that AC could not was drive a motor. Tesla solved this by inventing the AC motor.

    • @georgeplagianos6487
      @georgeplagianos6487 2 роки тому +1

      But this video makes everything very simple for those people don't want to think. Like all inventors Tesla learned to to understand the limitations of AC power invented by other folks. so improved on it like every other inventor improved on things. So we created work done and succeeded in making alternating current work efficiently in a motor..Edison hired the young Tesla to work with him. Edison must have felt threatened by this abstract thinker this foreigner Tesla. I'm going to use the first guy that invented the wireless. Creating this toy ship that did different maneuvers on water with a simple design of a remote control. It freaked out the folks when they saw this. Then it gave the opportunity to Marconi to do the radio. Strange they don't like to credit Tesla in this video for anything. And this big controversy between AC and DC. He won out over Edison to get this AC contract to use Niagara falls to create electricity more effectively right.? Freaked Edison that he had this anti-Tesla campaign where he electrocuted a elephant to show the dangers of AC power. I guess Edison didn't like foreigners like so many Americans.

    • @georgeplagianos6487
      @georgeplagianos6487 2 роки тому +1

      This video is so simple makes everybody believe that we're using Still using DC to run everything. No mention of Tesla where were you what 90% of electric power coming from AC.

  • @rgn87654
    @rgn87654 5 місяців тому

    It's so amazing if you were alive these 60 years. Imagine having electricity in your home for the first time. The telephone must have been insane. You could call someone from the comfort of your own living room. Hearing music on a record or a speech on a record. Seeing a freaking car for the first time would be mind blowing. Then a decade later, we can fly. What the hell. 1960 to 2020 bought a similar boon in life altering inventions.

  • @mikeburch2998
    @mikeburch2998 3 роки тому +6

    It's been my understanding that Lee DeForest couldn't accurately describe how a vacuum tube worked in court. Hmmm.

    • @choxxxieful
      @choxxxieful 3 роки тому

      The explanation was provided by Edwin Howard Armstrong.

    • @powerdriller4124
      @powerdriller4124 2 роки тому

      That was a vile move to deprive him of the patents. The tycoons hired a young intelligent engineer Edwin Armstrong to show the lackings of Lee De Forest and to impress the judge. But De Forest deserved the patent. Later on the tycoons destroyed Armstrong with the rights to the FM Radio, and did it all over to Lee De Forest with the Talkie Films patents. The same happened to the inventor of Electronic TV, Philo Fernsworth.

  • @ebayerr
    @ebayerr Рік тому +2

    Roman Numeral MCMLVI is equal to 1956.
    So this video is from 1956
    You're welcome

  • @ananthakrishnanks429
    @ananthakrishnanks429 2 роки тому

    Interesting

  • @BADBIKERBENNY
    @BADBIKERBENNY 4 роки тому +4

    I have this 16mm film, only in colour.

  • @harlanmcninchjr1927
    @harlanmcninchjr1927 3 роки тому +8

    Tesla came up with ac current Edison was pushing for DC current

    • @ericknutson8230
      @ericknutson8230 3 роки тому +4

      And there was no mention of that what so ever! Tesla was a brilliant man who didn't get all the credit he deserved .

    • @FayazAhmad-yl6sp
      @FayazAhmad-yl6sp 3 роки тому +4

      Tesla Won the war.

    • @alaskaaksala123
      @alaskaaksala123 3 роки тому

      Uh, like everyone knows that already…

    • @DrunkenDish
      @DrunkenDish 2 роки тому

      Wrong. That was Westinghouse.

    • @krashd
      @krashd 2 роки тому

      @@DrunkenDish Wrong. That was Hippolyte Pixie. Westinghouse just sold AC in the US using Siemens machinery imported from Europe because at the world expo in Paris he saw that the AC system was far superior to the DC system Edison was selling and he saw a business opportunity.

  • @heatherr0420
    @heatherr0420 2 роки тому +1

    If they thought things were changing fast Back then, if they're around now, their minds would be blown

  • @HotDog-kh4oj
    @HotDog-kh4oj 3 роки тому +7

    When America was great.

    • @wholeNwon
      @wholeNwon 3 роки тому +2

      Unless you were a woman or Black.

    • @DarkMatterX1
      @DarkMatterX1 3 роки тому +2

      @@wholeNwon
      Which is why it was great

    • @hamiltonfaction1986
      @hamiltonfaction1986 2 роки тому

      What if I told you that the bigotry of dark matter and the ultra liberalism of wholeinone dividing our population is actually making America less great

  • @gan9e
    @gan9e 3 роки тому +5

    Not forgetting of course the great American inventor Sir Reginald Dong who in 1897 invented the first device for auto-erotic gratification made out of chrome and was for the discrete discerning lady of the age.

    • @krashd
      @krashd 2 роки тому +2

      To alleviate her of her chronic hysteria.

  • @lifequotes33
    @lifequotes33 2 роки тому +3

    My granddad born in 1903 and grandma in 1921 telling tales and history of the peaceful ancient world and the righteous people in those days.

    • @katukatu6617
      @katukatu6617 2 роки тому +1

      many wars occured around the world in those days.

  • @alexsmith-ob3lu
    @alexsmith-ob3lu 3 роки тому +7

    No mention of Nikola Tesla and his future predictions??!

    • @dguy0386
      @dguy0386 3 роки тому +2

      giving Tesla the recognition he deserves is a rather new thing, for most of the 20th century he was all but forgotten

    • @alexsmith-ob3lu
      @alexsmith-ob3lu 3 роки тому +1

      @@dguy0386 "The present belongs to them. But the future, for which I have truly worked for, belongs to me." - Nikola Tesla

  • @AiMR
    @AiMR 2 роки тому +2

    We went from Helen Keller and Marie Curie to Snookie and the Kardashians. Progress?

  • @bryanevans111
    @bryanevans111 3 роки тому +6

    There is more to old technology than what they are telling us. Human technological advancements have been suppressed. Knowledge is power.

    • @wholeNwon
      @wholeNwon 3 роки тому

      Yes, it's a vast, international conspiracy to conceal the truth.

  • @archiebald4717
    @archiebald4717 2 роки тому +6

    The telephone was invented by a Brit, a Scotsman. The lightbulb was invented by Joseph Swan, a Brit.

  • @totalitarianism1989
    @totalitarianism1989 Рік тому

    Those telephone communication receivers can really cause damage across the globe. To extract information on other people's lives.

  • @7arp836
    @7arp836 3 роки тому +1

    凄い

  • @chrisdaniels4674
    @chrisdaniels4674 3 роки тому +3

    Those electric street cars are a huge Mandela effect.

  • @hilariojosealinsorin3602
    @hilariojosealinsorin3602 Рік тому

    the greatest success of humanity is scientific great minds

  • @uslover5643
    @uslover5643 2 роки тому

    Great America

  • @sscc7791
    @sscc7791 2 роки тому +2

    How about the old world tech that was found? Seems everything was invented after finding the cities.

  • @orlandog4053
    @orlandog4053 2 роки тому +2

    Bell didn't invented the phone, he just patented it

  • @hebneh
    @hebneh 4 роки тому +5

    Interesting that a kid in 1956, when this movie was made, would recognize what a cylinder record player was - or so the narrator at the beginning assumed.

  • @bill-2018
    @bill-2018 2 роки тому +3

    Now because of so many cars on the roads travel is probably slower in towns and cities than by horse and cart.
    Mobile phones and computers now. And going back to electric cars. How things change.
    In the 1960's when I was aged 13 I built a radio kit, H.A.C., Hear All Continents, one valve like the early wireless sets and I believe he had been selling these from the 1930's. I had shown a bit of interest in m.w./l.w. radio and a neighbour gave me some radio magazines which had an advert for H.A.C. My neighbour also gave me some uncomfortable 2,000 Ω headphones.
    A wire round the kitchen as an aerial, one on the water pipe as an earth, a few squeals and whistles and then a bird whistling. I thought this is odd. After a couple of minutes it stopped with the announcement, "This is radio South Africa".
    The start of my short wave listening hobby.

  • @jakebradford4272
    @jakebradford4272 3 роки тому +3

    When America was beautiful 🇺🇲✝️

  • @happyraccoon4791
    @happyraccoon4791 3 роки тому +6

    Edison and Marconi mentioned but nothing on Nicholas Tesla.

    • @gregoryclemen1870
      @gregoryclemen1870 3 роки тому +2

      tesla, was the brains behind thomas edison, and george westinghouse, those two men extracted his knowledge, and then destroyed him!!!!

    • @ronaldjohnson1474
      @ronaldjohnson1474 3 роки тому +1

      Edison/Westinghouse = A/C. Tesla = D/C. Automobiles used generators (D/C) for decades until it was found that alternators (A/C) used less energy!

    • @happyraccoon4791
      @happyraccoon4791 3 роки тому +2

      @@ronaldjohnson1474 Edison = DC. Tesla/ Westinghouse= AC.

    • @timvandenbrink4461
      @timvandenbrink4461 3 роки тому +1

      Tesla was a genius but also a scatter brain that couldn’t be bothered to fill out the paper work for obtaining patents.

    • @gregoryclemen1870
      @gregoryclemen1870 3 роки тому

      he probably did not want to fill out the paperwork due to the fact that he would not have owned the patents while working for george westinghouse, or thomas edison!!!!. I worked for proctor/ gamble years ago, and if you came up with something that was patented, your name was on it but you did not own it!!!!!!. my feeling about that was "WHY BOTHER WITH IT"!!!!

  • @montzeandsamuel
    @montzeandsamuel 2 роки тому +2

    God bless🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽

  • @ladedalounge
    @ladedalounge 2 роки тому

    oh yeah 2022 here

  • @stevenbarnett-ui4ql
    @stevenbarnett-ui4ql 7 місяців тому

    BEYOND THERE TIME=AMAZING🙏🙏🙏ESPECIALLY THE YEARS🌹🌹🌹MY GREAT-GRANDPARENTS WERE HERE,EVEN MOST OF MY GRANDPARENTS🌹🙏🌹🙏🌹🙏 AMAZING,INDEED!!!

  • @Istandby666
    @Istandby666 Рік тому +1

    The wright flyer never flew, it was in ground effect.
    No mention of Tesla.
    Thumbs down

  • @Quasihamster
    @Quasihamster 4 роки тому +12

    "The *really* practical cars were gasoline driven?" Dangerous half-truth there. That was only the case after the electric starter had been invented. Before that, nobody really wanted gas cars. They just were a pain in the butt. Or rather in the hand, since that's what tended to get fractured when you cranked it wrong and the engine backfired during startup. Also people were like, where is the fuel going to come from? You suggest erecting a gas station in every other neighborhood or what?

    • @robertterrell3065
      @robertterrell3065 3 роки тому +1

      Well I'm an old fart now but as I recall, maybe Texas where lived was different, there were a lot of gasoline stations.
      Two blocks from my house was a main street. There were gas stations on both sides of the street. Two blocks down that main street were two more!
      It wasn't quite like now in that most of these were full service mechanics, too. As I recall.

    • @Quasihamster
      @Quasihamster 3 роки тому +2

      @@robertterrell3065 I'm talking 1910s, 1920s. Before the T-model.

    • @ruthc8407
      @ruthc8407 3 роки тому

      You are sounding like a sore loser. America LOVES its gasoline cars, and modern cars produce less polution, when you factor in production of the vehicle, than electric cars.

    • @Quasihamster
      @Quasihamster 3 роки тому +1

      @@ruthc8407 So? Historical facts are what they are. Steam was really big too. Ask J Leno

  • @skman1
    @skman1 2 роки тому

    we still live in Age of miracle thaks to our ancestor.
    we conquered corona virus only 2yrs.

  • @nadasou
    @nadasou Рік тому

    Valentine Forgerty invented nail clippers in 1875. King C Gillette invented razors in 1895.
    These are the greatest American inventions, apart from Light bulb, Fat Boy, Apollo 11 and F22... That's one small step for a man, one giant step for mankind! But not mentioned...😥

  • @mega-hb4re
    @mega-hb4re Рік тому +1

    I wish I can travel back with my I phone and a modern sports car to see their faces🤣🤣🤣

  • @montzeandsamuel
    @montzeandsamuel 2 роки тому

    Amen

  • @totalitarianism1989
    @totalitarianism1989 Рік тому

    Til this day you can still pull up their recording information. Lol you get 😂😂😂

  • @jaibheem8647
    @jaibheem8647 2 роки тому

    In India our ancestors suffered a lot from untouchability, illeteracy, bloody Caste system during those days but US, Germany n many other countries invented many things

  • @Nonamearisto
    @Nonamearisto 3 роки тому

    1:51 Billy Mays' ancestor?

  • @paulcheek5711
    @paulcheek5711 4 роки тому +1

    there is nothing else to be invented. Its magic...

  • @michaeldalton8374
    @michaeldalton8374 3 роки тому +6

    Were it not for Nikola Tesla, much of this would not have happened. Still no mention of him here.

  • @meg-oj1lj
    @meg-oj1lj 2 роки тому +1

    8:25 Today, most people say ‘nineteen oh three’ (1903), not ‘nineteen three’.

  • @synergetic4d
    @synergetic4d 3 роки тому +5

    Why do you suppose they ignored Tesla?

    • @timvandenbrink4461
      @timvandenbrink4461 3 роки тому

      At this time they still didn’t have a use for many of his inventions. Just decades before this film was made, investors payed millions to wire the country for communications and electricity. No one even wanted to hear about wireless anything.

  • @neilforbes416
    @neilforbes416 3 роки тому +2

    2:18 And the Railway was a *British* invention.

  • @MrEAW56
    @MrEAW56 2 роки тому +1

    If only those people can see what we have now

  • @kleitonpalmas3742
    @kleitonpalmas3742 2 роки тому

    Radio = Roberto Landell de Moura

  • @robbeun3792
    @robbeun3792 2 роки тому +2

    Without this wonderful technology we wouldn’t be able to listen to rap music, while running a hostile military gauntlet, to fly in a tube filled with masked NPCs staring at glass tubes like zombies, with no visible human expression other than dead eyes and hate for others like him…ahh technology.

  • @jamescanterbury6634
    @jamescanterbury6634 2 роки тому

    We have been trying to reach you about your car warranty

  • @markkrause4407
    @markkrause4407 3 роки тому +1

    Volume is maxed out and we can hardly hear it , what's up ?

    • @moshfists
      @moshfists 3 роки тому +1

      Sounds fine here. ✌️👽

  • @michelamar-khodja8591
    @michelamar-khodja8591 3 роки тому +1

    A world without Nikola Tesla?
    In what temporal dimension?

  • @colinrobert-kv2up
    @colinrobert-kv2up 18 днів тому

    121 yrs maths skills,needed scale maths thin red line. Caliper bracket now digital, now.

  • @garycook5125
    @garycook5125 2 роки тому

    No mention of Nikola Tesla, the world's greatest inventor.

  • @yengsabio5315
    @yengsabio5315 3 роки тому

    Where's George Westinghouse in all of these?

  • @kidkique
    @kidkique Рік тому

    315 represent!