I saw an old patent once like those glasses and it was for warming cold air before you breathed it. the tubes went inside your clothes to warm the air with body heat.
@eatshitdie1 screennames and/or calling names aside I am genuinely curious why you consider people "dummies" for thinking it is for oxygen delivery for people with COPD since it actually looks like it could work for that. Although I am not convinced by the claimed benefits using this contraption, over just flexible light polymer lines they use nowadays.
@A3Kr0n Thanks for posting patent info. Do you recall why the nose needed to be warmed? Maybe by using it, frostbite or cold-induced asthma were avoided? 🤔
@@jasonharrison25 don't quote the OP out of context. clearly you ignored the first 2 words of his comment , namely _"I thought"_ and completely changed the context of the original comment.... Remember, when you point the finger there are 3 pointing back at you, dingus 🤦♂️ When you accuse others of the very thing which you are guilty of it is called _"projection"_ in psychology
@@Rachel_M_ I think for it to be projection the person must be at some level aware, at least subconsciously, of what they are doing, rather than simply making an ironic mistake.
The spectacles are called "Oxygen therapy glasses" ! they're an alternative to the more common tube setup and they're still around! some of the benefits include: Less visible, less issue with pressure sores in people with COPD, and potentially offering greater range of movement as well as generally being more comfortable.
I can't help but wonder if something like that would be advantageous for someone who required O2, but also wanted to move around a lot, say someone working in their lab or shop, who could plumb a line in, and instead of carrying around a bottle of having a hose you could trip over, you could plug it in at the station you were working at, then just unhook it and move across to your other bench and plug it in there. I'm not suggesting this is what it was for, but it seems like it would be a more comfortable and even safer way to deliver O2 in in certain settings.
He's got an ASMR effect to him as Bob Ross himself! It's a certain effect of calming one down and becoming flooded with sense of well-being hormones. It might have something to do with his granddad's stealthy laughing gas and ether googles?
I quite frequently learn that people like this have similar family and are well connected. What's happening? Have we missed out on tons of scientists etc because they were born to the wrong family? Or is this heavily contributed to genetically? Of course the real answer is almost guaranteed to be both, but how much of each?
I started watching these videos just yesterday, and I started with the videos from 8 years ago. So I decided to watch more recent ones and I am so happy to see the professor still here.
I believe the spectacles are for delivering oxygen. Definitely for those who value a fashionable oxygen tank! Edit: thank you guys for the likes! This really made my week❤️
I was thinking that maybe since he was inventing things back in the "wild west" days of pharmaceuticals that the nose tube glasses were some type of automatic cocaine apparatus for Freud, but then I realized oxygen makes more sense ;)
The plexiglass reminds me of the burnt wood art people make with dc currents. The positive and negative are placed on separate points of the flat wood board, and if the current is strong enough, the current burns the wood along the path of least resistance. It looks very similar to your plexiglass.
I had one of those plastic blocks back in the early 1960’s. I got it from my grandfather, who worked at a local hospital. I haven’t seen it in years... although it just might be somewhere around the house.
The comb is actually brilliant, wish I had one like that for my family and myself! Some times the static is so annoying when combing my daughter's hairs!
I think the nose-spectacles are perhaps to isolate smell. For example if you smelled something concerning or odd. You would put it on and wave the end of the tube around sniffing. this would isolate the smell you receive to a specific place in the air. In a practical environment perhaps if you work at a industrial place with gases with noticeable scents and you needed to track down a particular pipe or gauge that was broken it could help. Just a thought
Spectacles may have been worn to supply oxygen to keep your grandfather constantly alert if or when he was studying and didn’t wish to take a break in the garden to wake himself up, therefore losing study time. What a fantastic knowledge-nugget this UA-cam channel is. Obviously, I have subscribed. I’d be a fool not to. Greetings from Winchester, UK.
I think the spectacles are a handy 2-in1 when you're bedridden and need oxygen to breathe and spectacles to read (you won't be doing a lot else in bed).
I think the nose tube glasses thing is for precision smelling! Like a stethoscope, but for smells! :) Point the end at something that requires a sniff, inhale with the nose, and the scent of the thing travels through the tube and into the nose, without having to get your face right into it. Since it's a small area, the scent of other nearby things wouldn't convolute the scent of the target as badly as if you brought it up to your face. Maybe for medical applications, like smelling wounds or other kinds of diagnoses where the condition produces a scent. Also seems like it would be able to get a smaller dose of chemical inhalation (for safety) compared to the method famous to chemistry students: the "wafting method".
I think it is simply a nasal cannula which, by integration with the spectacles can be used with glasses. It would allow someone to work or perhaps to also keep the cannula in place while exercising.
professor martyns hair is clearly undefrizzable through the release of a static charge,.although it might build enough charge with that comb to help power a small house in a significant manner.
****The Tudor Edwards' Spectacle frame was manufactured in London in the 1930s. It was deemed an inefficient method of oxygen delivery due to the small size of the nasal tubes.****
I think it is a smellometer, as an electronics engineer, I had an instructor that was an old navy electronics guy and part of his troubleshooting method was to "look and smell about the parts." The smellometer was a joke, but smelling for burnt electronics on a board really can narrow down a problem. Jeffrey L Smith
My grandfather made something similar. He had trouble breathing very cold air so he made an apparatus that was like a mask that went over his nose and mouth which had a tube that hung down inside his shirt. This let him breath in air that was already warmed by his body. That way he could be out in his unheated workshop even in winter.
The oxygen tube suggestion by others seems a likely explanation for the glasses, but as a glasses wearer myself, I have found (particularly in recent months for obvious reasons) that when wearing a mask that covers my nose, breathing will fog up my glasses, so a tube like this would be a fantastic solution for that.
The spectacles indicate that it's to examine some item closely. In some occasions, the particular smell of an item, for instance a medical sample, is of value and part of the investigation. With this device you can point at the item and isolate the odour from the environment.
My first thought was that it's a smell-o-scope for smelling small traces of different chemicals or whatever, but the oxygen delivery device most of the other comments are talking about sounds pretty likely also.
Concerning the nose tube spectacles. My best guess would either be for the convenience of being able to stay standing while attempting to smell something or to ease the load on the ears while wearing both glasses and an oxygen tube.
@Periodic Maybe the second invention was for a person who had to use an oxygen tank and back when your grandfather was creating this, they didn’t yet have nasal cannulas or the eye glass/tube combination was specifically for people who needed both. Weird but maybe?
My first thought I had about the glasses was that they were contructed to somehow preventing the glass from steaming up, but as you started talking about the tube, I knew that I was probably wrong.
3 applications for the glasses: -Glasses fog up when you wear a surgical mask. If you breathe out through the pipes around the glass and the temperature of the glass equalizes with your breath they might not fog so much. -Also it can be a breathing apparatus like a gasmask for someone with a beard and/or mustache (since they cant wear normal airtight masks). -Thirdly it can be for oxygensupply to people with damaged lungs. This setup looks easier to maintain and is more robust than current tubes. Especially relevant now that alot of people might need extra oxygen because of damaged lungs.
I got one idea. Doctors who are hard of hearing need a way to listen to patients’ heartbeat with extreme sensitivity. A stethoscope drum at the union bottom end covers the patients chest. The doctor knows the rhythm of the heart when he feels it through sensitive nostril receptors. The rubber tube at the nostril has been adjusted for sensitivity / changed to personally suit that doctor. TLDR - union end goes on a chest, spectacles are for hearing.
During the Black Plague many believed that smelling sweet substances prevented disease caused by miasma, a form of “bad” air given off by decomposing organic matter. This shaped the work of plague doctors, who donned protective masks inspired by the shape of a bird’s beak to accommodate aromatic materials like rose, carnation, mint, spices, and camphor. Perhaps this was another form of one of these aromatic delivery systems.
My best guess for the glasses is that it was intended to redirect his breathing away from what he was working on (direction of the metal tubing leads to his back), maybe with a filter or something with a more pleasant smell
Static charge can be really annoying, I have this protein powder for milkshakes and there's this plastic scoop you're supposed to measure it out with, but the friction from the dry powder falling out of the scoop charges the scoop and makes any powder on its surface get repelled and spray all over the countertop, super annoying and messy,
The spectacles could simply be used for defogging the lenses, or they might be used for smelling things without bending over, to aid the elderly. The oxygen supply explanation seems to be the logical one.
Using a CPAP machine to aid in breathing while I sleep, the second item appears to be some sort of assistive breathing apparatus. Perhaps it was used like today's portable oxygen pumps and was the facial "mask" portion of the device. 🤔
Perhaps the idea was: where the glasses assist faltering vision, the tubing was meant to assist faltering smell? Like a stethoscope for the nose? Interesting idea, but I don't think it would be very marketable. Leaning in and wafting is pretty effective. Not to mention the potential safety hazard of sticking the sampling end over something noxious and channeling it directly into your nostrils.
My first thought with the specs would be either that they are for oxygen or other inhalation. My other thought would be for delicate work trying to divert your exhalation away from what you're working on (to prevent possible fogging up or something).
In our current situation, the use that immediately suggested itself to me for the nose tube spectacles was to redirect the wearer's breath away from the face, thus keeping the spectacles from fogging up in extremely cold conditions ... or when wearing a mask.
I could be wrong but i think the glasses was uesd to redirect his breath away from something for example stopping him contaminating something his working on or accidentally breathing on something and blowing it across the table just a guess
Dr. Poliakov, would you be able to share more of your grandfather's inventions? He sounds like he was an amazing fellow. Also, I hope you are all doing well in sunny old Nottingham. P. S. Check out YInMn Blue, it is a fascinating discovery that happened fairly recently.
I think the glasses are for distance smelling. Doctors used to sniff patients to help with diagnosis, perhaps it was for doctors, kind of like a stethoscope. For example, people with liver problems can often exude bad smells through their skin, people who are dehydrated have an acetone smell on their breath.
Maybe it's for blowing the breath air to the glass to get rid of fog in the winter either by blowing in the union or just normally breathing through nostrils. There maybe holes on where it connects to the frame
I think it's missing 2 seal gasgets for the nose and then bottom part or I should say on the top part when using it there is like a float so you can breathe under water.
The spectacles may have been used to deliver nitrous oxide in dentistry. The frames would keep the tubes well away from the mouth and would allow for breathing the gas mixture. Nitrous was available in dentistry in 1844 and there were a lot of innovations in delivery systems.
The spectacles are an early form of oxygen delivery. I would LOVE to have frozen in time(plastic) energy block. I would find a way to back it or have a small LED light and use it for a mild night light of sorts..one could meditate by looking at it in a dim, quiet room.
I think the idea of the spectacles is to focus smell. Just like the glasses focus light, the tube allows you to focus all the smell of something small to your nostrils.
the spectacles with the tube for some odd reason ive seen them before and the thing thats jumping out at me is that its from WW1 and has something to do with tunneling ive seen them in a WW1 museum before i think it was used to find gas leaks or try and smell out the enemy using particular chemicals or explosions or equipment i think? on the end was a large rubber cone sort of like a stethoscope
I bet it is for oxygen. If you look at Robert d hales at LDS General conference he had a pair of those so that he could give a speech without needing a bulky oxygen tube.
Or rather, without the oxygen tube adding _additional_ bulk, since I imagine having to wear both the glasses and the typical support for the oxygen tube would feel rather bulky behind the ears, and this combines the two into one object.
Is there anywhere (on the web and/or UA-cam) showing a video demo of the plastic "tree" formation (in a plastic block)? Very interesting (to say the least!).
I kept looking for a way to comb my beard without dealing with static electricity, thank you for sharing this Professor. I thing the mysterious “glasses” frame may have been indeed used to sedate, as the Professor knows the 1800’s were a time when gases such as n2o where being explored, and where used in the medical field. In some places n2o is still used by dentists
I saw an old patent once like those glasses and it was for warming cold air before you breathed it. the tubes went inside your clothes to warm the air with body heat.
@eatshitdie1 - What do you mean "dummies"? Oxygen delivery is a logical and intuitive answer.
@eatshitdie1 Kinda hard to take you seriously.
Nice !
Suddenly seems very useful in cold winters to prevent... well, cold
@eatshitdie1 screennames and/or calling names aside I am genuinely curious why you consider people "dummies" for thinking it is for oxygen delivery for people with COPD since it actually looks like it could work for that. Although I am not convinced by the claimed benefits using this contraption, over just flexible light polymer lines they use nowadays.
@A3Kr0n Thanks for posting patent info. Do you recall why the nose needed to be warmed? Maybe by using it, frostbite or cold-induced asthma were avoided? 🤔
Most people: He was born in 1873.
Sir Martyn: He was born four years after Mendeleev proposed the periodic table.
Ah yes: for chemists, year Beryllium Anno Mensam de elementis periodica.
@Matt S Oh, that explains my confusion. I'm more of a physics fan, and they're still arguing when zero was exactly.
BPT : before periodic table
@Matt S "All science is either physics, or stamp collecting." - Sir Ernest Rutherford. Although as a mathematician I'm not going agree with it myself.
AM: Anno Mendeleevi
I thought he was going to say "This is the first time I've combed my hair." I don't think I would have been any more surprised, though :-)
Jason Harrison Please reread the OP.
You're not alone in that.
@@jasonharrison25 don't quote the OP out of context.
clearly you ignored the first 2 words of his comment , namely _"I thought"_ and completely changed the context of the original comment....
Remember, when you point the finger there are 3 pointing back at you, dingus 🤦♂️
When you accuse others of the very thing which you are guilty of it is called _"projection"_ in psychology
@@Rachel_M_ Well stated. You have to appreciate the irony, too.
@@Rachel_M_ I think for it to be projection the person must be at some level aware, at least subconsciously, of what they are doing, rather than simply making an ironic mistake.
The spectacles are called "Oxygen therapy glasses" ! they're an alternative to the more common tube setup and they're still around!
some of the benefits include: Less visible, less issue with pressure sores in people with COPD, and potentially offering greater range of movement as well as generally being more comfortable.
Exactly what I thought of when I saw them. I can't imagine anything else they would be used for. Quite brilliant!
A lot less invasive yes.
I agree, here are a couple of patents (Hingeless oxygen delivery apparatus US20080257343A1)(Respiratory Aid Glasses US5193534A)
I can't help but wonder if something like that would be advantageous for someone who required O2, but also wanted to move around a lot, say someone working in their lab or shop, who could plumb a line in, and instead of carrying around a bottle of having a hose you could trip over, you could plug it in at the station you were working at, then just unhook it and move across to your other bench and plug it in there. I'm not suggesting this is what it was for, but it seems like it would be a more comfortable and even safer way to deliver O2 in in certain settings.
This man is literally the Bob Ross of science
This man is literally the Martyn Poliakoff of earth
He's got an ASMR effect to him as Bob Ross himself! It's a certain effect of calming one down and becoming flooded with sense of well-being hormones. It might have something to do with his granddad's stealthy laughing gas and ether googles?
A man with hair like that owns a piece of frozen lightning and an anti-static comb.
Black Lives Matter.
I'm not sure whether to consider this irony or poetry
@@waltdistel716 or stupidity
Professor Farnsworth's Smell-o-Scope?
🤣
Must be that indeed!
Yes
That’s got my vote!
"As long as you don't make me smell Urectum"
Those lichtenberg figures in the plastic are awesome! Id love one with a stand that has a small LED at the bottom.
I'd love one with a small cyclotron underneath for continuous effect.
What a privilege to be associated with a family of scientists and inventors. Thank you professor for sharing with us your families inventions.
I quite frequently learn that people like this have similar family and are well connected. What's happening? Have we missed out on tons of scientists etc because they were born to the wrong family? Or is this heavily contributed to genetically? Of course the real answer is almost guaranteed to be both, but how much of each?
A conductive back on the comb. That's a relief. I was worried he had incorporated an alpha emitter.
I thought for certain that is what he would say. I was at once both relieved and somehow disappointed.
I started watching these videos just yesterday, and I started with the videos from 8 years ago. So I decided to watch more recent ones and I am so happy to see the professor still here.
The professor combing his grandfather's hair at the end is so chill =u=
Totally ASMR-worthy
I believe the spectacles are for delivering oxygen. Definitely for those who value a fashionable oxygen tank!
Edit: thank you guys for the likes! This really made my week❤️
I thought the same thing!!
I came here to say this as well.
I’m pretty sure it’s for snorting cocaine the classy way
The equivalent of nasal cannulae.
I agree.
Or at least to deliver some type of gas
Anti-frizz comb, aka The Professor's Kryptonite.
I was thinking that maybe since he was inventing things back in the "wild west" days of pharmaceuticals that the nose tube glasses were some type of automatic cocaine apparatus for Freud, but then I realized oxygen makes more sense ;)
Speak for yourself.
I thought that too for a second but thats a long tube for something solid like that, plus it has bends which could make it clog up
Does it tho????
i use them for huffing nitrous continuously
Poppers
Those are known as "Wall Street Lawyer" glasses. They allow the wearer to snort cocaine and read fine print at the same time.
The Professor finally found that key to his office and is now seeing the outdoors for the first time in months XD
The plexiglass reminds me of the burnt wood art people make with dc currents. The positive and negative are placed on separate points of the flat wood board, and if the current is strong enough, the current burns the wood along the path of least resistance. It looks very similar to your plexiglass.
I had one of those plastic blocks back in the early 1960’s. I got it from my grandfather, who worked at a local hospital. I haven’t seen it in years... although it just might be somewhere around the house.
The comb is actually brilliant, wish I had one like that for my family and myself! Some times the static is so annoying when combing my daughter's hairs!
Imagine seeing the professor with straight hair falling down.
For the love of god no
That would be too sexy for the internet.
I'm trying, but no, I can't imagine that...
I mean, he’s gotta wash his hair at some point 🤷🏻♂️
It will rob him of all his powers!!!!
I think the nose-spectacles are perhaps to isolate smell. For example if you smelled something concerning or odd. You would put it on and wave the end of the tube around sniffing. this would isolate the smell you receive to a specific place in the air. In a practical environment perhaps if you work at a industrial place with gases with noticeable scents and you needed to track down a particular pipe or gauge that was broken it could help.
Just a thought
That perspex was beautiful. I've missed watching periodic videos and Martyn.
When the professor wants flat hair he just needs a van der graaf generator running.
Unlike everyone else where hair sticks up, his will fall flat
Spectacles may have been worn to supply oxygen to keep your grandfather constantly alert if or when he was studying and didn’t wish to take a break in the garden to wake himself up, therefore losing study time.
What a fantastic knowledge-nugget this UA-cam channel is. Obviously, I have subscribed. I’d be a fool not to.
Greetings from Winchester, UK.
Professor Poliakoff and Objectivity - a union dear to my heart!
I think the spectacles are a handy 2-in1 when you're bedridden and need oxygen to breathe and spectacles to read (you won't be doing a lot else in bed).
😏😏😏
Might this be for giving oxygen to patients with respiratory issues who also wear glasses?
I think the nose tube glasses thing is for precision smelling! Like a stethoscope, but for smells! :) Point the end at something that requires a sniff, inhale with the nose, and the scent of the thing travels through the tube and into the nose, without having to get your face right into it. Since it's a small area, the scent of other nearby things wouldn't convolute the scent of the target as badly as if you brought it up to your face. Maybe for medical applications, like smelling wounds or other kinds of diagnoses where the condition produces a scent. Also seems like it would be able to get a smaller dose of chemical inhalation (for safety) compared to the method famous to chemistry students: the "wafting method".
I think it is simply a nasal cannula which, by integration with the spectacles can be used with glasses. It would allow someone to work or perhaps to also keep the cannula in place while exercising.
professor martyns hair is clearly undefrizzable through the release of a static charge,.although it might build enough charge with that comb to help power a small house in a significant manner.
That “frozen lightning spark” is really fascinating i never knew something like that could exist
People get struck by lightning and end up with that same pattern on their skin. Great video!
****The Tudor Edwards' Spectacle frame was manufactured in London in the 1930s. It was deemed an inefficient method of oxygen delivery due to the small size of the nasal tubes.****
Really cool! The lightning figure is astounding.
We all wish you good health and all the best, professor!
I think it is a smellometer, as an electronics engineer, I had an instructor that was an old navy electronics guy and part of his troubleshooting method was to "look and smell about the parts." The smellometer was a joke, but smelling for burnt electronics on a board really can narrow down a problem.
Jeffrey L Smith
The professor is such a blessing, lovely man
I have a small lightning tree. I used to repair linacs. When we went through the class on it, the instructor gave us all one.
Those glasses could certainly be repurposed for a pinpointing sniffer apparatus. Sniffing accurately AND precise. 😁
My grandfather made something similar. He had trouble breathing very cold air so he made an apparatus that was like a mask that went over his nose and mouth which had a tube that hung down inside his shirt. This let him breath in air that was already warmed by his body. That way he could be out in his unheated workshop even in winter.
Granddad's stealthy laughing gas, ether and poppers googles are amazing!
The nose tube spectacles are for delivering very specific smells, depending on where you point the junction end. 😊
The oxygen tube suggestion by others seems a likely explanation for the glasses, but as a glasses wearer myself, I have found (particularly in recent months for obvious reasons) that when wearing a mask that covers my nose, breathing will fog up my glasses, so a tube like this would be a fantastic solution for that.
The spectacles indicate that it's to examine some item closely. In some occasions, the particular smell of an item, for instance a medical sample, is of value and part of the investigation. With this device you can point at the item and isolate the odour from the environment.
My first thought was that it's a smell-o-scope for smelling small traces of different chemicals or whatever, but the oxygen delivery device most of the other comments are talking about sounds pretty likely also.
Thank you for sharing.
I love that the bust is so well made the glasses fit
Concerning the nose tube spectacles. My best guess would either be for the convenience of being able to stay standing while attempting to smell something or to ease the load on the ears while wearing both glasses and an oxygen tube.
@Periodic
Maybe the second invention was for a person who had to use an oxygen tank and back when your grandfather was creating this, they didn’t yet have nasal cannulas or the eye glass/tube combination was specifically for people who needed both. Weird but maybe?
My first thought I had about the glasses was that they were contructed to somehow preventing the glass from steaming up, but as you started talking about the tube, I knew that I was probably wrong.
3 applications for the glasses:
-Glasses fog up when you wear a surgical mask. If you breathe out through the pipes around the glass and the temperature of the glass equalizes with your breath they might not fog so much.
-Also it can be a breathing apparatus like a gasmask for someone with a beard and/or mustache (since they cant wear normal airtight masks).
-Thirdly it can be for oxygensupply to people with damaged lungs. This setup looks easier to maintain and is more robust than current tubes. Especially relevant now that alot of people might need extra oxygen because of damaged lungs.
I got one idea. Doctors who are hard of hearing need a way to listen to patients’ heartbeat with extreme sensitivity. A stethoscope drum at the union bottom end covers the patients chest. The doctor knows the rhythm of the heart when he feels it through sensitive nostril receptors. The rubber tube at the nostril has been adjusted for sensitivity / changed to personally suit that doctor. TLDR - union end goes on a chest, spectacles are for hearing.
During the Black Plague many believed that smelling sweet substances prevented disease caused by miasma, a form of “bad” air given off by decomposing organic matter. This shaped the work of plague doctors, who donned protective masks inspired by the shape of a bird’s beak to accommodate aromatic materials like rose, carnation, mint, spices, and camphor. Perhaps this was another form of one of these aromatic delivery systems.
I wish someone would frame the frozen lightning for the professor so it doesn't get damaged
My best guess for the glasses is that it was intended to redirect his breathing away from what he was working on (direction of the metal tubing leads to his back), maybe with a filter or something with a more pleasant smell
I feel like those glasses were for smelling stuff without having to stick your face in it, a useful ability for a chemist.
I'm following so many crazy haired scientists that I didn't realize which one I was watching until I started the video.
Static charge can be really annoying, I have this protein powder for milkshakes and there's this plastic scoop you're supposed to measure it out with, but the friction from the dry powder falling out of the scoop charges the scoop and makes any powder on its surface get repelled and spray all over the countertop, super annoying and messy,
The spectacles could simply be used for defogging the lenses, or they might be used for smelling things without bending over, to aid the elderly. The oxygen supply explanation seems to be the logical one.
I never thought the Professor would do a beauty video but here ya go!
Thank you professor Martyn.
So much respect for the professor
Using a CPAP machine to aid in breathing while I sleep, the second item appears to be some sort of assistive breathing apparatus. Perhaps it was used like today's portable oxygen pumps and was the facial "mask" portion of the device. 🤔
For those needing glasses anyway, perhaps?
@@ragnkja maybe the glasses were just a convenient way to keep the hoses in place while worn. They didn't necessarily need to have lenses.
Eagle8599
The version typically worn by those who don’t need glasses looks similar to this, but without the part above the nose to fit lenses in.
The nose-tubes remind me of Dune's Stillsuits, tubes connected to the nose to capture moisture otherwise lost from respiration
Perhaps the idea was: where the glasses assist faltering vision, the tubing was meant to assist faltering smell? Like a stethoscope for the nose? Interesting idea, but I don't think it would be very marketable. Leaning in and wafting is pretty effective. Not to mention the potential safety hazard of sticking the sampling end over something noxious and channeling it directly into your nostrils.
my grandfather had a comb like that! i have wondered so many times why they arent more common.
Best channel ever!
I wish I can meet you someday sir!!
My best guess on the spectacles with the nose attachment. Maybe it was used for pipetting liquids between different containers
Sir Martyn R.I.P
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My first thought with the specs would be either that they are for oxygen or other inhalation. My other thought would be for delicate work trying to divert your exhalation away from what you're working on (to prevent possible fogging up or something).
I have been progressing through all your videos ..always a wealth of information and a I love your stories ..thank you 😊 💓
In our current situation, the use that immediately suggested itself to me for the nose tube spectacles was to redirect the wearer's breath away from the face, thus keeping the spectacles from fogging up in extremely cold conditions ... or when wearing a mask.
Awesome Electrostatic discharge or hydrstatic controls.
I could be wrong but i think the glasses was uesd to redirect his breath away from something for example stopping him contaminating something his working on or accidentally breathing on something and blowing it across the table just a guess
Dr. Poliakov, would you be able to share more of your grandfather's inventions? He sounds like he was an amazing fellow. Also, I hope you are all doing well in sunny old Nottingham.
P. S. Check out YInMn Blue, it is a fascinating discovery that happened fairly recently.
I think the glasses are for distance smelling. Doctors used to sniff patients to help with diagnosis, perhaps it was for doctors, kind of like a stethoscope. For example, people with liver problems can often exude bad smells through their skin, people who are dehydrated have an acetone smell on their breath.
Always a pleasure!
I came for the comb, for I too am cursed with the frizz, but I stayed for the mystery glasses.
Maybe it's for blowing the breath air to the glass to get rid of fog in the winter either by blowing in the union or just normally breathing through nostrils. There maybe holes on where it connects to the frame
I think it's missing 2 seal gasgets for the nose and then bottom part or I should say on the top part when using it there is like a float so you can breathe under water.
Can Prof. Poliakoff get anymore interesting? Yes! Even his family RULEZ!!!
The spectacles may have been used to deliver nitrous oxide in dentistry. The frames would keep the tubes well away from the mouth and would allow for breathing the gas mixture. Nitrous was available in dentistry in 1844 and there were a lot of innovations in delivery systems.
The spectacles are an early form of oxygen delivery. I would LOVE to have frozen in time(plastic) energy block. I would find a way to back it or have a small LED light and use it for a mild night light of sorts..one could meditate by looking at it in a dim, quiet room.
I think the idea of the spectacles is to focus smell. Just like the glasses focus light, the tube allows you to focus all the smell of something small to your nostrils.
the spectacles with the tube for some odd reason ive seen them before and the thing thats jumping out at me is that its from WW1 and has something to do with tunneling ive seen them in a WW1 museum before i think it was used to find gas leaks or try and smell out the enemy using particular chemicals or explosions or equipment i think? on the end was a large rubber cone sort of like a stethoscope
could you make a video on armstrongs mixture?
Very interesting items. I wonder if the glasses tube was used to inhale menthol or perhaps mild steam fro dry sinuses?
0:45 "you can see, my grandfather had hair"
*proceeds to gesture at bald scalp*
Absolutely adore these videos
The professor is just the coolest
Fun fact, Prof Poliakoff's own comb has a built in Van De Graaff generator.
The nose tube thing is like a periscope for smells so you can avoid going around corners where bad smells might be.
I bet it is for oxygen. If you look at Robert d hales at LDS General conference he had a pair of those so that he could give a speech without needing a bulky oxygen tube.
Or rather, without the oxygen tube adding _additional_ bulk, since I imagine having to wear both the glasses and the typical support for the oxygen tube would feel rather bulky behind the ears, and this combines the two into one object.
WE NEED MORE OF THE PROFESSOR
Is there anywhere (on the web and/or UA-cam) showing a video demo of the plastic "tree" formation (in a plastic block)? Very interesting (to say the least!).
Amazing that perspex piece with that electric discharge.
I kept looking for a way to comb my beard without dealing with static electricity, thank you for sharing this Professor. I thing the mysterious “glasses” frame may have been indeed used to sedate, as the Professor knows the 1800’s were a time when gases such as n2o where being explored, and where used in the medical field. In some places n2o is still used by dentists
The nose tube spectacles are for sniffing around corners.
Like this!