Thank you for digitizing these old celluloid gems. I thoroughly enjoy watching them. They could do so much back then. And pretty much all without computers.
My pleasure! They did apply some of the earliest digital computers to reactor design. The Atomic Energy Commission had a big one in the office in the mid-1950s. They were just huge mainframes.
@@whatisnuclear Wow, I had no idea! Thanks for imparting that knowledge on me. But of course still very limited compared to what we have today^^ And my favourite video of the lot is the "New Power - The story of the NRTS"
Loved the life preserver at 16:55 (quite a reasonable precaution, but still funny), wonder if there was a big NO SWIMMING sign in beautiful hand-painted fifties cursive.
Is it fair conclusion that bowties, ties, cigarets are required to get things done? Somehow building things fast was possible back then (and safe and smart enough). Why have we lost this skill?
@@whatisnuclear- The whole team needs to wear them. Also, you have to smoke a pipe while sitting in the bath reading a newspaper. That’s like the old version of Jira.
um radiation conpletely messes up the dna and brain during development... so does teflon, emf and hormones... plus schools didnt care to actually teach us anything over the last 100 years or so. much less critical thinking, science, chemistry or coding... most of the population doesnt even know nuclear exists or what it is... or how safe its not at the current time. workers are constantly exposed to 200-300cpm or more. and highly indoctrinated.
There are a few museums around where you can play with them, picking up marbles and stuff. If you're ever in the Snake River valley during summer, check out the EBR-I museum!
Thank you for digitizing these old celluloid gems. I thoroughly enjoy watching them. They could do so much back then. And pretty much all without computers.
My pleasure! They did apply some of the earliest digital computers to reactor design. The Atomic Energy Commission had a big one in the office in the mid-1950s. They were just huge mainframes.
@@whatisnuclear
Wow, I had no idea! Thanks for imparting that knowledge on me. But of course still very limited compared to what we have today^^ And my favourite video of the lot is the "New Power - The story of the NRTS"
let me just eyeball this neutron beam onto my sample 12:23
so useful for my classes of reactor physics
Bowties and slide rules, wild.
Loved the life preserver at 16:55 (quite a reasonable precaution, but still funny), wonder if there was a big NO SWIMMING sign in beautiful hand-painted fifties cursive.
great bit of history, cheers man :)
Is it fair conclusion that bowties, ties, cigarets are required to get things done? Somehow building things fast was possible back then (and safe and smart enough). Why have we lost this skill?
Good point. I may start wearing a bowtie to see if progress speeds up!
@@whatisnuclear- The whole team needs to wear them. Also, you have to smoke a pipe while sitting in the bath reading a newspaper. That’s like the old version of Jira.
um radiation conpletely messes up the dna and brain during development... so does teflon, emf and hormones...
plus schools didnt care to actually teach us anything over the last 100 years or so. much less critical thinking, science, chemistry or coding...
most of the population doesnt even know nuclear exists or what it is... or how safe its not at the current time.
workers are constantly exposed to 200-300cpm or more. and highly indoctrinated.
Respiratory disease and cancers ended this engineering trend
"They would have had to have actually believed that the tsars would allow peace...!"
I would love to get to use those robot arms.
There are a few museums around where you can play with them, picking up marbles and stuff. If you're ever in the Snake River valley during summer, check out the EBR-I museum!
I think Asimov's had some involvement with these things, called them " Waldo's".