@@FistandFootMartialArts I got mine on eBay for $45, and there were lots available. After this video blew up, all the ones on there sold, some for over $100. Hopefully they’ll be cheap and available again soon.
I've seen these on tv antique programmes before and wanted one. As someone who has been accused of being behind the times I would love to pull one out when asked the time 😄
@@michaelcaffery5038 the person asking you the time would not love waiting for you to figure it out only to give them an answer that's a few minutes inaccurate
Ohhhhh .... The time to wait for me to do the calculations? If so then that's the funniest thing I've ever read and you sir have officially won the Internet. Your check is in the mail.
a 2 minute deviation on a 100 year old tool when the position of magnetic north has moved pretty significantly in just the last few decades is actually really really impressive
also probably their best reading. Even within 15 minutes would have been good enough to meet someone and not have to wait for long. The time was probably then used to find your "exact" location on a map if you were a boy scout using this, which I read they did, according to a random collector online in a quick search.
Everything before 1920 was probably the opposite of what they taught us. There's not enough 20's era old folks around anymore to teach anyone different. I bet it was incredible back before they started public school like it's a 12 year full time job. Before that u only had school once a week on Sunday, at a local church. Before public schools, and before 33 specifically.
@@cooldaddyfunk No, that's just wishful thinking on your part. Historical records are wide and deep all over the world, you just need to go looking for them, and they pretty well agree with the mainstream understanding of world history.
@@guzepp6585weren’t crts basically ionizing gas to make the picture? I know they were flipping ridiculous compared to led and led in its own right I’d ridiculous right?
Makes me think about that saying that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Microchips and processors and stuff are super impressive, but I have zero idea how they work so my brain doesn't really recognise the effort that went into it. They're just magic. But I know how gears and springs and levers work, so I can recognise how much genius is required to arrange those simple parts into such a complex machine. I know I could never do it, but I'd at least know where to start. That's what impresses me. With modern technology I would have no idea where to start. You have to already know so much about electrons and physics to even begin. Analog machines operate within the limits of our understanding because they use things we can easily see and feel. Just my two cents anyway.
@vector_vector__ What they're trying to say is a century ago, it would be 100% accurate, and what I'm implying is that time travel were a thing you have to be very early taking the deviations into account like a weather forecast.
@@dekeking9416 what's deviation tho 🤔 [ yes I'm not English ] . I'm guessing the usual hand watches or any kind if it weren't a thing when this tool was invented is it .
@@babybluehashyoSun dials are based upon the Sun traversing around the Earth. The Earth doesn’t rotate. The Shadow on the sun dial was caused by the Sun moving, not the Earth rotating
@@Logikalx01 Earth doesn’t move. It is a fixed stationary plane. The reason why you believe the Earth spins is because you have been programmed and brainwashed since day one of your remembrance, we all have, with cartoons, globe models, CGI, and school. It takes alot to undo the brainwashing. You have to start somewhere
a lot of these little pocket mechanical devices were so ingenious. microchips are great and we take them for granted these days but you just can't beat the craftsmanship and intricate gearwork on a handheld adding machine
@@Moosesupe update what exactly? A compass will always be able to find true north because it's, and get this, magnetic. The dial uses the sun you know what hasn't changed distance because we'd all be dead if it had? The sun. What do you think needs to be updated? Have I missed something. I'm geniunly trying to understand your point. Beyond that if there is updating to be done why would we care when we figured out better ways to keep time on a personal level and make it cost effective for the masses. Am I missing something?
This is one of the coolest most ingenious pre-electronic device that i've ever seen without question. Even moreso being pocket-sized! Thank you for showing this.
Okay that’s actually rather impressive especially considering the time period. The amount of work and effort that went into developing this product is incredible.
Liquid fueled rockets, vehicles, tanks, all being mass produced at this time. The TV, radio, blenders, electrical appliances, Andromeda galaxy confirmed that our Milky Way, Edwin Hubble published his observations on galactic red shift, establishing the concept of an expanding universe, now known as Hubble's Law!!! discovery of Vitamins C and E, penicillin - the first of the modern antibiotics, innovations in immunization, and the discovery of insulin which made the treatment of diabetes possible! They even had a shit ton of different types of clocks, like we do now, and this thing was one of them. This sundial, wasn’t that impressive back in the 1920s when it was made.
How cool is that! I feel like the inventions from the 1800s are some of the coolest ever made. Nothing was plastic either, everything made with quality metal or wood materials
It's because they had to rely on physics. We still do, of course, but we've outsourced a lot of tasks to AI and other phenomena that the average person can't take apart and understand. You can take even an analog watch apart and figure out how it leverages physics to work. Not as easy to do with many things today. When you can get your hands on the mechanics and inner workings of a machine, it's so much more meaningful and satisfying.
@@tinycoinfromholland1391 You can’t appreciate that? To make an accurate means of determining the time without any moving parts? Do you have any idea how many years of human history are wrapped up in that little device? I feel bad for you if you cannot appreciate those things. I hope someday you will understand.
In 1927, it was still a bit of a luxury to own a reliable watch. Middle class could afford it, but it was a hard choice if you were lower class. Also, something like this was likely aimed at kids and campers/outdoorsmen. Something mass produced for cheap that anyone could use and wouldn't have to worry about damaging.
@@invertexyz this According to a mention on collectorsweekly, it was used by boy scouts and cost about a dollar, which would have been 2-4 hours of pay for a cheap factory worker. A watch might have cost $15 and up, which would have been more like 30-60 hours of work at 25-50 cents an hour.
@@invertexyzThey did have a category of timepiece back then called "dollar watches". As the name implied, they cost about a dollar. They weren't terribly accurate, but they put a watch in the hands (pocket, really), of pretty much anyone who wanted one.
@@jasonhansen8996 i agree. Even in the past so called uneducated people had ways of surviving and understanding the world that we modern people have long lost. We wanted easier lives but that meant we didnt have to think as much. Now with the advent of casual ai use we are in even greater danger of becoming mindless in a very real sense.
People worked for everything back the day. It even took some figuring out to tell the time! I mean they obviously had watches then but that’s pretty cool
That's so freaking cool. Old tech like steam engines and stuff like this make you really appreciate how hard people worked for us to have the cushy lives we do now. At one time this would've been the height of pocket-portable technology and novelty. Look what we have now!
Wristwatches were fairly common when this sundial was made and pocket watches were very common. Maybe this sundial was for novelty use even back then, or for those who could not really afford a watch.
Heeeeeyyyyy did you ever hear about smog? Rising sea levels? Melting sea ice? Greenland not being so chill these days? Polar bears having to get new jobs as Cartesian bears? The steam age absolutely did pump poison into the atmosphere and we're living with the long term effects of it now. Also nuclear power plants are orders of magnitude safer.
If you are using a magnetic deviation factor listed on a chart printed in the 1920s it may have changed in the 100 years since. You might want to update that correction factor. Otherwise a great video.
Just sade most people would not have a clue these days on how to use it. In this day and age Kids don't even know how to use a simple comps .they would be lost with out GPS . 😅
As smart if not smarter than today. This works because people were educated enough to know how to use it properly. Wonder how a flerfer would explain it.
My grandmother was watching this and said "I had one when i was young, but it was only useful because we knew were we were at any given time, but if you are in the middle of nowehere then it won't work and if you are at sea then it works even less" My grandfather could tell the time just by looking at the sun and the shadows of the trees and by listening to nature and he was never wrong. I mean he didn't know exactly at the minute but he could tell you at 30 minutes variable what time it was. He knew exactly at what time the crows started flying back, and when the ducks started flying away, when the crickets started being heard, he knew by the sound of each bird in the morning what time it was because they all started at a different time. That was amazing. He never used a clock and was never late.
@@RockDaSandmanunfortunately the magnetic deviation from true north shifts over time, so the numbers would need to be adjusted eventually (though the change is slow so maybe once a decade)
What do you mean still? The sun gets bigger but in no noticeable way in 100 years. Also it was so accurate for the location he is in. That can change depending on where you are.
You'll be late because you took a lot more time to figure out what time it is 😅 Just set alarms and timers in your phone. A wall calandar will probably help you, or a date organizer/appointment calandar/daily planner. Those are 3 names for the same thing so you can search all 3 names online and find more options 😊
That's amazing. I bet if you corrected the angle of declination to current maps it would be even more accurate. How about "isogonic lines"? If that doesn't give you the fizz I can't help you. NOAA has an interactive map from NCEI where you can see how they have shifted over time clear back to 1590! I hope you didn't already have plans for the long weekend. Thanks for the great videos.
@deang5622 I'm not following... the reason I suggested he adjust them is precisely because they have changed so much since the 1920's when the card he was reading off was written. If he used the current values (instead of -10° W), he would be pointing closer to true North, which could get the missing 2 minutes. Either way, still impressive how accurate it is.
@@deang5622right, the 10° W correction I mentioned is in the VAR column, and is for declination: the deviation from true North based on your geographical location (which changes very slowly over time). He posted the link to the full-length video a few days ago and covers it there, and others have linked to the same NOAA site I found. We're all talking about the same thing. Cheers!
ONLY because you have a watch in the system too, you know each day what time it is you leave the house, but you only know that because of a watch or clock. When you leave the house at dawn and if you didn't look at a watch for a week, you would very soon lose track of the actual time. If you worked on a farm, like I did for a decade, and had milking to get done on time for the truck every morning and afternoon, you couldn't get by with "It is three hours after dawn I think". Because the day gets longer and shorter during the year.
@@uncletiggermclaren7592 yes you can check it with a watch. Thats how you know how far off you are. Being outside as you are familiar with. You know you adjust to the days getting longer and shorter. Its gradual but noticeable. You should never be more then 30 mins off when your outside everyday all day. Would I use it for official business and timelines no. But you can tell when lunch is supposed to be or when quitting time is approaching. Or how many hours are left until the day ends. Or how many hours of light you have left until dark. Which varies by 3 hours here in the south by time of year and day light savings in the winter its dark by 530 in the summer its 8 to 830. Just by the sun placement. I paid attention over the year how long it took the sun to get above the treeline. In my area you can see the sun not rising as high between late fall and early spring. Compared to directly overhead in summer. Just like here in the very deep south you can feel its going to rain before the rain clouds even show up or form. You get intune with nature if you pay attention.
@@uncletiggermclaren7592Point taken but the original poster wasn’t addressing seasonal shifts. I agree with the original point; anyone who is routinely outside knows what time it is - and not necessarily “time” in a pocket watch sense. “Dawn” is a natural “time” whereas 6 AM is an idea, an abstract idea. People who are constantly outside are fundamentally more aware of the circumstances than anyone looking at a wristwatch. “What time is it?” is an imaginary reference. The hours and minutes we have assigned to parallel the movement of celestial objects is a total contrivance. Animals, birds, fish and reptiles know “what time it is” naturally. Migration doesn’t rely on an agreed-upon calendar and the cycles of life blossom without the need for some artificial construction to measure the obvious. Ask a chipmunk what time it is, what day of the week we’re living through and what month, what year, what century is occurring now? Human hubris is gaggingly apparent indeed as regards the capacity to measure “time.” Everyone knows the time is “now”, and all the calculations beyond that are an artificial contrivance.
@@mryellow6918 Night is a different challenge. In daytime, clouds render a sundial useless. But clouds don’t render a human’s senses useless. Reckoning time of day under cloud cover is likewise intuitive, not rocket science. Critters get hungry at mealtime, rain or shine. Their inner clocks are right on time. The need to reach impeccable agreement on what tenth of which second is measured is ultimately driven by commerce, largely. Showing up for work as scheduled is the cause for modern timekeeping. Farmers worked all day long, sunup to sundown. “Time” is an abstract measure in ultimate terms. Farmers get crops in with or without a time clock.
I don't use the word 'amazing' often. This little thing is amazing. Never even thought about the problems that would have to be accommodated to produce something like this.
Stupid no. Stupid to actually use it in today's time and not as a gimig, when more accurate things exist. Yes. Great love of technology of the 16th century
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Does anyone still make these? And if not, where can I get one of these antiques? And are they reasonably priced? Or really pricey?
@@FistandFootMartialArts I got mine on eBay for $45, and there were lots available. After this video blew up, all the ones on there sold, some for over $100. Hopefully they’ll be cheap and available again soon.
I think checking your pocket sundial in public is the real flex
I've seen these on tv antique programmes before and wanted one. As someone who has been accused of being behind the times I would love to pull one out when asked the time 😄
For an Amish.
Yes
@@michaelcaffery5038 the person asking you the time would not love waiting for you to figure it out only to give them an answer that's a few minutes inaccurate
Oh I'm sure it was!
"Yo, got the time?"
"Depends, do you?"
😂
🤭
Great comment sir
*Starts the slow clap*
Ohhhhh ....
The time to wait for me to do the calculations?
If so then that's the funniest thing I've ever read and you sir have officially won the Internet.
Your check is in the mail.
1927: "Here's a sundial. A blast from the past world"
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“On the clunk!!” had me wheezing
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a 2 minute deviation on a 100 year old tool when the position of magnetic north has moved pretty significantly in just the last few decades is actually really really impressive
also probably their best reading. Even within 15 minutes would have been good enough to meet someone and not have to wait for long. The time was probably then used to find your "exact" location on a map if you were a boy scout using this, which I read they did, according to a random collector online in a quick search.
It kept time to within ~0.00000003903% over nearly 100 years XD
Everything before 1920 was probably the opposite of what they taught us. There's not enough 20's era old folks around anymore to teach anyone different. I bet it was incredible back before they started public school like it's a 12 year full time job. Before that u only had school once a week on Sunday, at a local church. Before public schools, and before 33 specifically.
People like you are the reasons why we desperately need to make schools better
@@cooldaddyfunk No, that's just wishful thinking on your part. Historical records are wide and deep all over the world, you just need to go looking for them, and they pretty well agree with the mainstream understanding of world history.
Analog ingenuity is always impressive
And it never goes down...
I’m still blown away every time I see a CRT monitor, and I’ve sold thousands of them
@@guzepp6585weren’t crts basically ionizing gas to make the picture? I know they were flipping ridiculous compared to led and led in its own right I’d ridiculous right?
Clickity clackity clickers instead of boopy beepy beep on de compooter
Makes me think about that saying that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Microchips and processors and stuff are super impressive, but I have zero idea how they work so my brain doesn't really recognise the effort that went into it. They're just magic. But I know how gears and springs and levers work, so I can recognise how much genius is required to arrange those simple parts into such a complex machine. I know I could never do it, but I'd at least know where to start. That's what impresses me. With modern technology I would have no idea where to start. You have to already know so much about electrons and physics to even begin. Analog machines operate within the limits of our understanding because they use things we can easily see and feel. Just my two cents anyway.
I mean 2 minutes out of speck after 100 years is pretty fucking solid
I think those slight deviations are what cause butterfly effects in time travel movies even when they don't mess with the canon
I swear to God 😂
Can u guys plz explain what is going on and is this tool accurate 100% , it seems like something only the typical mathematician guy understands 😑
@vector_vector__ What they're trying to say is a century ago, it would be 100% accurate, and what I'm implying is that time travel were a thing you have to be very early taking the deviations into account like a weather forecast.
@@dekeking9416 what's deviation tho 🤔 [ yes I'm not English ] . I'm guessing the usual hand watches or any kind if it weren't a thing when this tool was invented is it .
The 2min deviation comes from the fact that he’s not exactly in New York City, he said that’s the nearest city to him. Scary how accurate this is!
how is it scary? we literally came up with the concept of time based on the earth's rotation around the sun
@@babybluehashyoSun dials are based upon the Sun traversing around the Earth. The Earth doesn’t rotate. The Shadow on the sun dial was caused by the Sun moving, not the Earth rotating
It would be scary if it wasn't.
@@timadams3703 The Sun "moves" in our view because the earth is moving, next you'll tell me the world is flat or something lol
@@Logikalx01 Earth doesn’t move. It is a fixed stationary plane. The reason why you believe the Earth spins is because you have been programmed and brainwashed since day one of your remembrance, we all have, with cartoons, globe models, CGI, and school. It takes alot to undo the brainwashing. You have to start somewhere
"On the Clonk" lol
Exactly what I came to the comments for
I was looking for that comment
@@ThatBoySaucyIt's comforting to know others have the same childish humor you do
Yo what kind of accent is that?!?
@@Raymal100 I’m glad you find comfort in that my dude.
This is actually really really cool.
Yes❤❤❤
Boss: "You are 2 minutes late" 😂😂😂
The ingenuity behind that little gadget. Just marvelous.
@@nkadimashiane I always forget to carry the damn two!
Until you realize what shadow, is cast, at noon.
No matter how far technology has taken us, I don't care...I want one of these!!!😀
I have one! Found it years ago at the brimfield flea market in Massachusetts
@@JK-yy5gm That's a great place, my daughter set up there this year..
One emp/solar flare and all that technology goes out the window so people should really appreciate things like this.
@@bostevens8516
Carrington Event 1859 😮
Same, can't wait for someone to ask me the time and expect I'm gonna pull out my phone 😊
I do want one!!!!! 😍 I'm 61yrs. old...I LOVE old stuff. ☺️
Blessings and good health friend 😀
I guess you love yourself!
Uh... oh, too soon?
A very impressive and extremely convoluted pocket watch you got there sir
Better than the alternative.
What's that?
Looking at the sun and guessing.
I once got within 10 minutes!
After the apocalypse whole be laughing then?
@@Starrynights1924 the people with solar panels 😂
Yeah, it's super cool, and U know it. lol
Peace😀
Not more complicated than learning to drive a stick-shift car.
That's dope! After having to use it a few times I'd get used to calculating and it would be no big deal after a few days. It's a beautiful timepiece.
It would be really cool, but if you have an electronic clock that works, then using this is only good because it's fun
Like the angle to pull it up probably won’t change much and less you travel looooong distances and then it’s just getting the compass lined up
Back when you actually used your brain for things
I would never ever be able to be able to use this. Still mess up an analog clock, but add math? Yeah no.
What do you do at night to get the time
a lot of these little pocket mechanical devices were so ingenious. microchips are great and we take them for granted these days but you just can't beat the craftsmanship and intricate gearwork on a handheld adding machine
Too bad they haven't been updated in a hundred years because the north pole has moved hundreds of miles even in the last ten years.
Antikythera Mechanism's Lost Cousin 😮
And you wonder why the engineers that use to use slide rules were better than the engineers of today.
Still only a 2 min deviation, pretty impressive. @@Moosesupe
@@Moosesupe update what exactly? A compass will always be able to find true north because it's, and get this, magnetic. The dial uses the sun you know what hasn't changed distance because we'd all be dead if it had? The sun. What do you think needs to be updated? Have I missed something. I'm geniunly trying to understand your point. Beyond that if there is updating to be done why would we care when we figured out better ways to keep time on a personal level and make it cost effective for the masses. Am I missing something?
Look at how beautiful the craftsmanship is on that
This is one of the coolest most ingenious pre-electronic device that i've ever seen without question. Even moreso being pocket-sized! Thank you for showing this.
Yup great love of technology that was first made in the 16th
Think about Anthykitera device, 2000 years older...
If only there were a way simpler faster way to read the time in a much smaller package that can be strapped to your wrist…
pocket watches were invented in the 1500s...
@@AydenDonley thats sounds crazy ur stupid and belong in a asylum
Okay that’s actually rather impressive especially considering the time period. The amount of work and effort that went into developing this product is incredible.
They had sundials already so not to hard to make it portable.
Liquid fueled rockets, vehicles, tanks, all being mass produced at this time. The TV, radio, blenders, electrical appliances, Andromeda galaxy confirmed that our Milky Way, Edwin Hubble published his observations on galactic red shift, establishing the concept of an expanding universe, now known as Hubble's Law!!!
discovery of Vitamins C and E, penicillin - the first of the modern antibiotics, innovations in immunization, and the discovery of insulin which made the treatment of diabetes possible! They even had a shit ton of different types of clocks, like we do now, and this thing was one of them.
This sundial, wasn’t that impressive back in the 1920s when it was made.
@@davidwilliams1086 yes but with all the math involved and the fact they had to make it work for many different places is crazy for the time
@@Weirdoh8erit's from the 1900s not the stone age...
@@SpecialEllioThis was exactly my response. Dude thinks humanity started with the internet.
How cool is that! I feel like the inventions from the 1800s are some of the coolest ever made. Nothing was plastic either, everything made with quality metal or wood materials
It's because they didn't have plastics back then 😮
They didnt have plastic back then u tard
121 dumbasses liked this, we are cooked
And leather
Didn’t a lot of that “quality” metal have lead in it…
It's because they had to rely on physics. We still do, of course, but we've outsourced a lot of tasks to AI and other phenomena that the average person can't take apart and understand. You can take even an analog watch apart and figure out how it leverages physics to work.
Not as easy to do with many things today. When you can get your hands on the mechanics and inner workings of a machine, it's so much more meaningful and satisfying.
DUDE! YOU FIND THE COOLEST STUFF!!!
Dude that's actually freaking COOL!!!
I love old trinkets and tools
My grandfather had one of these when I was a child. He showed me how to use it.
I really appreciate the work that went into making both that device and the formula used to read it.
Those are soooooo cool! Been looking for one forever!!!
It may not have the intricate mechanical internals of a watch but this is still something to appreciate.
Yeah, it just uses the whole solar system to operate
Nah mate, this is not something to appreciate. 😂
@@tinycoinfromholland1391it didn't need any batteries. Gotta give em a little credit.
@@tinycoinfromholland1391 You can’t appreciate that? To make an accurate means of determining the time without any moving parts? Do you have any idea how many years of human history are wrapped up in that little device? I feel bad for you if you cannot appreciate those things. I hope someday you will understand.
@@Iightbeing That device is by no means accurate.
That is really cool. If nothing else, it’s one hell of a conversation piece.
Put a watch band on it a rock it every day.
Imagine just walking one day and someone asks you for the time, and you whipp this bad boy out like bam! 😂
“You got the time??”
“Yeah man! You got a few minutes?!”
😂😂
@@Reiter2323🤣🤣🤣 "what time is it?"
"idk I'm tryna figure it out still"
Great accessory for a Fred Flintstone costume 👍
You got the time?
Yes bro what’s your latitude?
Extremely accurate. That's cool!
That's fantastic! Not only the knowledge but the craftsmanship too.😊
Wrist watches were sophisticated and in widespread use when this was manufactured. It was an interesting curiosity back then, just as it is now.
This! Historical curiosities are really cool, but I feel like some presenters give the impression that these were practical items or widespread.
In 1927, it was still a bit of a luxury to own a reliable watch. Middle class could afford it, but it was a hard choice if you were lower class.
Also, something like this was likely aimed at kids and campers/outdoorsmen. Something mass produced for cheap that anyone could use and wouldn't have to worry about damaging.
You would have to wind a watch, out in the bush this was the back up
@@invertexyz this
According to a mention on collectorsweekly, it was used by boy scouts and cost about a dollar, which would have been 2-4 hours of pay for a cheap factory worker. A watch might have cost $15 and up, which would have been more like 30-60 hours of work at 25-50 cents an hour.
@@invertexyzThey did have a category of timepiece back then called "dollar watches". As the name implied, they cost about a dollar. They weren't terribly accurate, but they put a watch in the hands (pocket, really), of pretty much anyone who wanted one.
They had stuff figured out back then. They used what they had and made the best of it.
Thanks for the video!
In a way I think we've made it worse.
@@jasonhansen8996False.
@@jasonhansen8996 i agree. Even in the past so called uneducated people had ways of surviving and understanding the world that we modern people have long lost. We wanted easier lives but that meant we didnt have to think as much. Now with the advent of casual ai use we are in even greater danger of becoming mindless in a very real sense.
@@HadrianGuardiola you said exactly what I've been scared of
And it works without batteries, without winding, without electricity. 😂😂👍
I think in all the years of youtube I've watched, this is the most neat video
I want one. When I was younger I was intrigued by the sun dials.
me, too. It was a genius idea, and they look cool, too.
Saw a few on ebay.
Buyer beware. They don't work much of the time. It's not like you can check the time on your sundial, by candlelight, in the evening.
@@FakeMoonRocks you have to hold it upside down over the light
I want one but I live in the uk
Great job explaining and demonstrating the sun dial! Awesome video
Imagine asking for the time and waiting half an hour while someone fumbles around with one of those
😂
You would know where you are so just getting that out and a bit of head math and you got that
shouldn't take you more than 10 seconds
Well, get your own portable sun dial then and dont ask others what's the time
If you used it regularly and knew and were around the same city for a while you’d be a little more proficient.
People worked for everything back the day. It even took some figuring out to tell the time! I mean they obviously had watches then but that’s pretty cool
Perfect, a superior alternative to looking at the sun to figure out position and time accordingly when out and about.
pocket watches existed in 1927... they weren't cavemen.
That's so freaking cool. Old tech like steam engines and stuff like this make you really appreciate how hard people worked for us to have the cushy lives we do now. At one time this would've been the height of pocket-portable technology and novelty. Look what we have now!
Wristwatches were fairly common when this sundial was made and pocket watches were very common. Maybe this sundial was for novelty use even back then, or for those who could not really afford a watch.
Do you have any idea how many "steam engines" are used everyday?? Nuclear power plants are literally steam engines!!
@@jacobviator3118. Except steam engines didn't/don't poison the earth one poison rod after another day in and day out for 500,000 years.
I always appreciate the rich capitalist technology.
Heeeeeyyyyy did you ever hear about smog? Rising sea levels? Melting sea ice? Greenland not being so chill these days? Polar bears having to get new jobs as Cartesian bears?
The steam age absolutely did pump poison into the atmosphere and we're living with the long term effects of it now.
Also nuclear power plants are orders of magnitude safer.
That's unbelievably cool man thank you for sharing
Gorgeous bit of kit.
It never runs outta batteries, and you never have to wind up.
You just need a degree from MIT.
It runs out of battery ever night
@@ducksonarock .. right 😖.
Lol 😂@@ducksonarock
@@ducksonarockb b but old good and new bad
The crazy thing is that they had pocket watches far before 1927
Pretty useful in a time where outside of cities there wasnt really too much opportunity to set your (pocket)watch by synced clocks.
This is so coool!
The wrist version of this is just as spectacular
That's actually really impressive
If you are using a magnetic deviation factor listed on a chart printed in the 1920s it may have changed in the 100 years since. You might want to update that correction factor. Otherwise a great video.
Yes I discussed this in the longer version
The fact it got him within 2 mins shows that it probably hasn't changed enough to really matter though
2 min accuracy is not typical for this thing- I got lucky this one time. Usually it’s within around 10 mins
@ChrisStaecker 10 minutes is still great when you take everything into consideration.
😂 shut up
That's FASCINATING.
what a nifty solar powered clock so cool 😎 🌞
It’s not solar powered it’s a sundial
@@thekalekale
It uses the sun, right? No electricity?
Close enough!
I mean TECHNICALLY it’s solar powered. No sun, no work.
@@thekalekaleyea, that joke went over your head 😂😂😂
If it wasn't for the sun this watch would not work, hence it is sun powered, cock turd
Love how smart some people were back in the day.
Yeah they used stuff that was 16th century in 1927
Just sade most people would not have a clue these days on how to use it. In this day and age Kids don't even know how to use a simple comps .they would be lost with out GPS . 😅
As smart if not smarter than today.
This works because people were educated enough to know how to use it properly.
Wonder how a flerfer would explain it.
Average intelligence was higher than today.
@@ArizonaDevil-ep9ux Sad that people wouldn't know how to use obsolete technology?
Love this. I love antiques. I am an antique now. 69. Never thought I would live this long. I grew up in the 70’s. A great time.
The 70's sucked ass
My grandmother was watching this and said "I had one when i was young, but it was only useful because we knew were we were at any given time, but if you are in the middle of nowehere then it won't work and if you are at sea then it works even less"
My grandfather could tell the time just by looking at the sun and the shadows of the trees and by listening to nature and he was never wrong. I mean he didn't know exactly at the minute but he could tell you at 30 minutes variable what time it was. He knew exactly at what time the crows started flying back, and when the ducks started flying away, when the crickets started being heard, he knew by the sound of each bird in the morning what time it was because they all started at a different time. That was amazing. He never used a clock and was never late.
"...on the clunk" is great 😂
Sundial's pretty cool too
It STILL being THAT accurate, is impressive 😊
You think it’ll drift ?
It’s accuracy is determined by math and geographical location, so technically it’ll never be wrong lol
@@RockDaSandmanunfortunately the magnetic deviation from true north shifts over time, so the numbers would need to be adjusted eventually (though the change is slow so maybe once a decade)
@@grandiopyeah quarter century s
What do you mean still? The sun gets bigger but in no noticeable way in 100 years.
Also it was so accurate for the location he is in. That can change depending on where you are.
This looks like the coolest thing ever. I need one
There’s plenty on eBay- get em before this video skyrockets the price
@@ChrisStaecker I think I will
So beautiful.
Awesome piece of history that still works today
Crazy how the sun keeps working after all this time....
The magnetic field is a bit less reliable
It's nuts how things with non-moving parts (for the most part) tend to never stop not moving, right?
@@ChrisStaecker. "reliable" or "in same location"?
Magnetic north has moved a bit from the 20s
This is actually pretty awesome
This is amazing. 49 years I’ve never heard of these. Pretty crazy
Love this
They really stepped it up a notch when they made these digital
I need that in my life, i keep missing appointments, i like the concept of these sun dials and i think it will help me alot.
You'll be late because you took a lot more time to figure out what time it is 😅
Just set alarms and timers in your phone. A wall calandar will probably help you, or a date organizer/appointment calandar/daily planner. Those are 3 names for the same thing so you can search all 3 names online and find more options 😊
@brookelord3448 sir/madam I don't know what a "phone" is, is that a sun dial?
You know most smartphones have a planner in them now right? You can even set up reminders for when you need to leave.
@@brycealthoff8092 sir, what is a smartphone?
@brycealthoff8092 sir what is a smartphone?
Wow, this just fried my brain a crispy golden brown
"why are you late?"
"I was checking the time"
There's a difference of several minutes between the time you take the clock out of your pocket and the time you actually read it
That's amazing. I bet if you corrected the angle of declination to current maps it would be even more accurate. How about "isogonic lines"? If that doesn't give you the fizz I can't help you. NOAA has an interactive map from NCEI where you can see how they have shifted over time clear back to 1590! I hope you didn't already have plans for the long weekend. Thanks for the great videos.
Actually it wouldn't, because the magnetic deviation today is quite different to that back in 1920.
@deang5622 I'm not following... the reason I suggested he adjust them is precisely because they have changed so much since the 1920's when the card he was reading off was written. If he used the current values (instead of -10° W), he would be pointing closer to true North, which could get the missing 2 minutes. Either way, still impressive how accurate it is.
@@aimlessweasel It is the VAR column of figures on the sundial that is inaccurate today. That's magnetic deviation, not declination.
@@deang5622right, the 10° W correction I mentioned is in the VAR column, and is for declination: the deviation from true North based on your geographical location (which changes very slowly over time). He posted the link to the full-length video a few days ago and covers it there, and others have linked to the same NOAA site I found. We're all talking about the same thing. Cheers!
If you work outside year round. You can usually tell what time it is within 15 or 20 mins accuracy. No more then 30. By where the sun is in the sky.
ONLY because you have a watch in the system too, you know each day what time it is you leave the house, but you only know that because of a watch or clock. When you leave the house at dawn and if you didn't look at a watch for a week, you would very soon lose track of the actual time.
If you worked on a farm, like I did for a decade, and had milking to get done on time for the truck every morning and afternoon, you couldn't get by with "It is three hours after dawn I think".
Because the day gets longer and shorter during the year.
@@uncletiggermclaren7592 yes you can check it with a watch. Thats how you know how far off you are. Being outside as you are familiar with. You know you adjust to the days getting longer and shorter. Its gradual but noticeable. You should never be more then 30 mins off when your outside everyday all day.
Would I use it for official business and timelines no. But you can tell when lunch is supposed to be or when quitting time is approaching. Or how many hours are left until the day ends. Or how many hours of light you have left until dark. Which varies by 3 hours here in the south by time of year and day light savings in the winter its dark by 530 in the summer its 8 to 830. Just by the sun placement. I paid attention over the year how long it took the sun to get above the treeline. In my area you can see the sun not rising as high between late fall and early spring. Compared to directly overhead in summer. Just like here in the very deep south you can feel its going to rain before the rain clouds even show up or form. You get intune with nature if you pay attention.
@@uncletiggermclaren7592Point taken but the original poster wasn’t addressing seasonal shifts. I agree with the original point; anyone who is routinely outside knows what time it is - and not necessarily “time” in a pocket watch sense. “Dawn” is a natural “time” whereas 6 AM is an idea, an abstract idea.
People who are constantly outside are fundamentally more aware of the circumstances than anyone looking at a wristwatch. “What time is it?” is an imaginary reference. The hours and minutes we have assigned to parallel the movement of celestial objects is a total contrivance.
Animals, birds, fish and reptiles know “what time it is” naturally. Migration doesn’t rely on an agreed-upon calendar and the cycles of life blossom without the need for some artificial construction to measure the obvious.
Ask a chipmunk what time it is, what day of the week we’re living through and what month, what year, what century is occurring now?
Human hubris is gaggingly apparent indeed as regards the capacity to measure “time.” Everyone knows the time is “now”, and all the calculations beyond that are an artificial contrivance.
Except when there's no sun
@@mryellow6918 Night is a different challenge. In daytime, clouds render a sundial useless. But clouds don’t render a human’s senses useless. Reckoning time of day under cloud cover is likewise intuitive, not rocket science. Critters get hungry at mealtime, rain or shine. Their inner clocks are right on time.
The need to reach impeccable agreement on what tenth of which second is measured is ultimately driven by commerce, largely. Showing up for work as scheduled is the cause for modern timekeeping.
Farmers worked all day long, sunup to sundown. “Time” is an abstract measure in ultimate terms. Farmers get crops in with or without a time clock.
I really want one of these. If someone started making some of these again I’d certainly buy one.
How people figured that out back then it's amazing
wrap your head around the fact that a Greek mathematician figured out the circumference of the Earth with sticks and shadows
@@clinicallyarsonistic nah that's nothin, I figured out how to tie my shoes at 17 😎
Whoever came up with this is pretty smart.
Those instructions are still less confusing than an IKEA assembly guide
This is what Doc Brown invented to get Marty back to 1985 from the 1800’s.
😂🎉
Awesome. I want a wristband for that!
I don't use the word 'amazing' often.
This little thing is amazing.
Never even thought about the problems that would have to be accommodated to produce something like this.
Only 2 minutes off AND it's 100 years old?? Damn where tf do I get my hands on one of those
The 2 minutes off is because he's not actually in NYC, it's just the closest option to him. This thing is ridiculously accurate
That is actually super cool 😎
If it works it isn’t stupid.
But if you're stupid it doesn't work.
Stupid no. Stupid to actually use it in today's time and not as a gimig, when more accurate things exist. Yes.
Great love of technology of the 16th century
Excellent video!!!
A sundial is always more accurate than an actual clock btw
Wow, I want one! We need to make these again with updated information and materials. Heck less than two minutes off using the sun is very accurate.
Holy cow, I want one. What a brilliant piece of prepper kit that would be.
That is quite fascinating!
I'm shocked by how cool this is and by how much I want one 😆
LMAO cracking up at the highjackers line
this is plain awesome
Never heard of these, complex and fantastic 👍
lol this made me laugh out loud for real Ty for posting this.
You explained that really well in just a short
Interesting bit of serendipity. I watched this short at 1:58 am est.
THAT IS AWESOME! I want one!
Love sundials so cool
wow that's awesome. combination of reading a compass including magnetic declination from true north plus a slide rule
That's the most interesting thing I've seen all week.
Beautiful
That's some Big Boss stuff right there🧐
Wow, sundials really make me appreciate digital and analog clocks.
Freaking awesome!
So cool I would totally purchase one
bro imagine doing this mental gymnastics before watching the time everyday 😮
Adding the 2 minutes it took you to calculate, you're spot on😁