Pre Covid I met an automaton (karakuri) maker from Japan in Toronto at The Japan Foundation. The man was a master of his craft and a brilliant entertainer despite the language barrier.
This is a wonderful example of how something that was a piece of art and engineering ended up being a mechanical marvel and driving the industrial revolution. We need artists and creative people to spur on ingenuity.
We still use clock work. Virtually everything mechanical uses it, just different mechanics, but nonetheless, still timed. That being said, to a man who has worked on machinery his whole life, these are truly wondrously made works of art.
Automatons in some form were used in ancient temples to dispense water or other things, collect a fee while giving a little show or something I believe.
Iam totally fascinated by anything mechanical I always have been. As a kid I use to take things apart to see how they worked them try and figure out ways to make it better, reassemble. A lot of trial and error I found myself being disciplined by my dad if I couldn’t get it back together and in working order, that discipline only encouraged me to try harder. Anyway I love automatons I would love to be able to collect these pieces of art but they are way way out of my financial means
How easy we overlook that we are standing on the shoulders of giants. This videos remind us to have some perspective on things. Can't imagine what the engineering nightmares to design and build all the elements to be contained in a mechanism of automatons translated to today's devices that operate on morses law that uses the word nano, quantum and uv to design something that society either gets entertained by or finds has some usefulness long enough before its pushed into oblivion.
I'm 64, when I was very little my father would take me with him to visit one of his friends, to keep me quiet and busy the friend would give me a box filled with broken pocket watches, I was fascinated.
What fascinates me is the Ancient Greeks who invented machines and statues that moved, bled, floated that were placed in pagon temples to scare worshippers. This was well before watchwork, usually relied on fire, sand and pneumatics.
25:54 How could a thing like that just disappear? In all likelihood, it's up in the attic of some old mansion. Or maybe it's in pieces in some landfill. That would be a shame.
Обожаю 🥰 всякие интересные механизмы : часы всевозможные, музыкальные шкатулки, механические человечки, которые что-то пишут на бумаге или рисуют, играют на музыкальных инструментах, в шахматы ♟или танцуют. Всё, что вы показали в видео, всё это очень здорово 🤟 и очень интересно. Спасибо 🙏 вам наиогромнейшее, за такие интересные видео. 🥰👍❤️
As a person of European heritage, I find your description of these marvelous machines as "creepy" as quite insulting. But, I am quite used to this attitude. And the way Anglo-Americans love to spew hatred toward all things German! The Germans of the Black-Forrest region of the German Rump-State. The Germans of Austria. The Germans of Switzerland, who built many of these beautiful machines. This is a technology that gave hope and inspiration to millions across Europe. They are not "creepy", they are dazzlingly beautiful, testament to a culture, and tribute to the hard mental, and physical work that went into their creation, thank you.
Horror ! Almost the same argument w/" Artificial Intelligence." Silicon or metal how can any sane people even imagine that mechanical repetition or cybernetic software is sentient and self-aware ? Excellent video. Thak you.
Yet Again, its a Great Shame that, such an interesting, fascinating programe is marred by The Completely Unnecessary, Additional Inappropriate 'Musical?' Noise Throughout...Why? The narration & sounds from the automaton, clocks & watches would have sufficed!
I'd have to see proof that Bern Switzerland was a hotbed of rebellion. It seems to me if Bern wasn't a hotbed, then there was another reason for the development of these automatons.
The ancient Greek invented clockworks (see Antikythera mechanism) and kinds of automata already 2000 years before this! Nobody knows how many technologically advanced civilizations lived before us on Earth and disappeared into nothing. Revisiting Greek Automata: Clockwork Robots from the Ancient World ua-cam.com/video/TmtUQ4q6pes/v-deo.html
I was skeptical about the mechanical chess player and when they failed to explain how it supposedly worked I searched for it and it turns out it was an elaborate hoax- operated by expert chess players from within the box (it should have been a red flag as soon as he said he closed the doors after showing inside the cabinet lol) and the one shown in this video was a replica as the original was destroyed in a fire in 1854. I don't understand why the documentary straight out lies about this being some Victorian era artificial intelligence,
I read in a book, that it was the author Edgar Alan Poe who debunked this machine. He rolled a lit cigar unter the machine and screamed "fire!". Suddenly a door opened and a coughing midget fled out of the cabinet. The apparatus had some clever stage magic tricks like a slideable clockwork that could be shifted to each door (those on stage were only opened one at a time) to pretend a larger mechanism, and a mechanical voice saying "echet!" (check!) to announce that game situation.
De ce nu subtitrati și în limba Română sau in toate dialectele ?! E păcat ,aveți postări interesante și v-ar putea aduce mai multi abonați și vizitatori !
IT'S OFTEN SAID THAT IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO BUILD IT, I TRIED BUT IT WAS MESSY 😅 HERE'S MY STORY I WENT TO THE LOO AND HAD A 💩 POO THEN.TO UNDERSTAND IT I TRIED TO BUILD IT , TROUBLE IS IT WAS DIFFICULT AND DIFFERENT EVERYTIME I SADLY I NEVER GOT TO UNDERSTAND IT 😪
Fascinating to think how revolutionary clockwork was. The idea of a robot taking over your work must have been around much longer than we might think.
Pre Covid I met an automaton (karakuri) maker from Japan in Toronto at The Japan Foundation. The man was a master of his craft and a brilliant entertainer despite the language barrier.
This is a wonderful example of how something that was a piece of art and engineering ended up being a mechanical marvel and driving the industrial revolution. We need artists and creative people to spur on ingenuity.
That swan is stunning.
I found this documentary about these master craftsmen and their creations fantastic. Thank you.
Masterpiece of engineering is an understatement
We still use clock work.
Virtually everything mechanical uses it, just different mechanics, but nonetheless, still timed.
That being said, to a man who has worked on machinery his whole life, these are truly wondrously made works of art.
This was very interesting I’m glad I watched it.
This is an awesome show.
I am truly amazed. The clock in Munchën freaked me out.
Outstanding presentation. Thank you so much.
Creepy. Will probably have nightmares tonight,but the mechanical works inside are mindblowing!
😂😘
Those cans remind me of the curves of a vinyl record....information on a groove....fascinating!
Of all the automatons, the one i would like to see up close and personal or perhaps own is the little boy at his writing desk.❤
Automatons in some form were used in ancient temples to dispense water or other things, collect a fee while giving a little show or something I believe.
I remember seeing an article on this back in the 60s, in the old Science Digest magazine. There was also one of a woman who played a piano.
It’s like watching your great ancestors evolve, AI😊
Iam totally fascinated by anything mechanical I always have been. As a kid I use to take things apart to see how they worked them try and figure out ways to make it better, reassemble. A lot of trial and error I found myself being disciplined by my dad if I couldn’t get it back together and in working order, that discipline only encouraged me to try harder. Anyway I love automatons I would love to be able to collect these pieces of art but they are way way out of my financial means
How easy we overlook that we are standing on the shoulders of giants. This videos remind us to have some perspective on things.
Can't imagine what the engineering nightmares to design and build all the elements to be contained in a mechanism of automatons translated to today's devices that operate on morses law that uses the word nano, quantum and uv to design something that society either gets entertained by or finds has some usefulness long enough before its pushed into oblivion.
Thank you Real History I found this really interesting
That good ole uncanny valley coming into play real hard with this one.
Yeah, 4 me 2
I'm 64, when I was very little my father would take me with him to visit one of his friends, to keep me quiet and busy the friend would give me a box filled with broken pocket watches, I was fascinated.
The 1700s were not the 17th century. Just sayin'.....
That's correct 👌
Yes it t'was the eighteenth century as a historician he should know that!!
If you speed this up to 1.5 it is very watchable!
@bertspeggly4428 bawhahaha, he is kinda boring
Superb tour down History's mechanical visita ; thanks from old New Orleans 😎
Wow, this is an amazing documentary!
..i like Professor Simon! :)
What fascinates me is the Ancient Greeks who invented machines and statues that moved, bled, floated that were placed in pagon temples to scare worshippers. This was well before watchwork, usually relied on fire, sand and pneumatics.
Thank you very much. God bless Everyone
Philadelphia USA 🇺🇸 Nostrovia ❤❤❤
Kinetic and potential energy🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Incredible intelligence and craftsmanship in the days when we needed entertainment, and there was no TV.
Great documentary!
This is incredible
Wild that these don’t/didn’t use electricity. I sort of get how they worked, but not to the extent of knowing how they could do such precise actions
Absolutely fascinating!!
25:54 How could a thing like that just disappear? In all likelihood, it's up in the attic of some old mansion. Or maybe it's in pieces in some landfill. That would be a shame.
@14:37 is there anywhere I can get the full track? Name?
A very good documentary!
11:25 The woman in the background, to the right, looks like she's lost in her own little world. No pun intended lol 😆
It's a wonderful video
Cool 😎. Nicely presented 👍🏼
Обожаю 🥰 всякие интересные механизмы : часы всевозможные, музыкальные шкатулки, механические человечки, которые что-то пишут на бумаге или рисуют, играют на музыкальных инструментах, в шахматы ♟или танцуют. Всё, что вы показали в видео, всё это очень здорово 🤟 и очень интересно. Спасибо 🙏 вам наиогромнейшее, за такие интересные видео. 🥰👍❤️
Shouldn’t the title be “18th Century” not 17th…
Agreed😂
Loved this
Does anyone know what the french publication he talks about opposing the aristocracy is named?
What a beautiful journey 😊
These Are So Cool!!💓💓💓💓
Outstanding.
Fantastic!
All the animals in this are tortured, I shut it off. Couldn't see how cruel they were treated
Good stuff!
An automaton of Ned Ludd carrying a sixteen pound sledge hammer has allegedly escaped from Novelty Automation in London. Warning: DO NOT WIND HIM UP!
Very good!
As a person of European heritage, I find your description of these marvelous machines as "creepy" as quite insulting. But, I am quite used to this attitude. And the way Anglo-Americans love to spew hatred toward all things German! The Germans of the Black-Forrest region of the German Rump-State. The Germans of Austria. The Germans of Switzerland, who built many of these beautiful machines. This is a technology that gave hope and inspiration to millions across Europe. They are not "creepy", they are dazzlingly beautiful, testament to a culture, and tribute to the hard mental, and physical work that went into their creation, thank you.
A tad sensitive
@@webstercatthey were the cause of 2 world wars so yes…..they are inclined to overreact
Sir, this is not an American documentary. These are your neighbors, the British. But like father, like son I guess…
Modern robots can be as creepy too. Read about uncanny valley.
brilliant
I love this one, it's my second time around. It's even better that Austin Power's is the host.
riveting!
Magnífico!
thanks
Horror ! Almost the same argument w/"
Artificial Intelligence." Silicon or metal how can any sane people even imagine that mechanical repetition or cybernetic software is sentient and self-aware ? Excellent video. Thak you.
That got very gory 😳😳😳😳
Absolutely love these machines and art, sure do not have anything like it today, today is cheap tacky awful crap from China.
Joseph Merlín the worlds first performing Drag Queen!
This was TV 500 years ago.
Simon Schaffer is the inspiration for Austin Powers.
If Stephen Hawking had Parkinsons instead of ALS
Wait … I thought this was only a nightmarish Doctor Who episode
Did anyone else nearly not survive the CHIMES?!? Those were the most horrifying sounds.
The bells ! The bells ! 🤣
The first home entertainment center...Rich Guys had live Music in their homes at this time too
Yet Again, its a Great Shame that, such an interesting, fascinating programe is marred by The Completely Unnecessary, Additional Inappropriate 'Musical?' Noise Throughout...Why? The narration & sounds from the automaton, clocks & watches would have sufficed!
Play at 1.5x speed.
Genius
And we are allegedly evolving?!
We can't make anything that lasts 5 years let alone 500!
I'd have to see proof that Bern Switzerland was a hotbed of rebellion. It seems to me if Bern wasn't a hotbed, then there was another reason for the development of these automatons.
People find this boring but is where robotics come from
Why is my dog having nightmares?
What is old is new again! AI robots are here now, how long will we be?
The original Turk was lost in a fire.
Watch almost all these programs religiousls from PBS from 1978 to 2008 , then HD TV and cable ruined it. Now they are all up loads done in 2013.
Music boxes???? Lmfao
The mad English dude is the creepy bit.
Indeed. Luddites, right?
This channel has took real shots from a different documentary. And overlaid other stuff.
They didnt know atoms back then
The ancient Greek invented clockworks (see Antikythera mechanism) and kinds of automata already 2000 years before this! Nobody knows how many technologically advanced civilizations lived before us on Earth and disappeared into nothing.
Revisiting Greek Automata: Clockwork Robots from the Ancient World
ua-cam.com/video/TmtUQ4q6pes/v-deo.html
The chess dude is just a mechanical puppet.
There was a bit more mechanism inside of it (including a mechanical voice saying "check!), but its AI was a fake.
18th century.
Wow
I was skeptical about the mechanical chess player and when they failed to explain how it supposedly worked I searched for it and it turns out it was an elaborate hoax- operated by expert chess players from within the box (it should have been a red flag as soon as he said he closed the doors after showing inside the cabinet lol) and the one shown in this video was a replica as the original was destroyed in a fire in 1854.
I don't understand why the documentary straight out lies about this being some Victorian era artificial intelligence,
I read in a book, that it was the author Edgar Alan Poe who debunked this machine. He rolled a lit cigar unter the machine and screamed "fire!". Suddenly a door opened and a coughing midget fled out of the cabinet. The apparatus had some clever stage magic tricks like a slideable clockwork that could be shifted to each door (those on stage were only opened one at a time) to pretend a larger mechanism, and a mechanical voice saying "echet!" (check!) to announce that game situation.
De ce nu subtitrati și în limba Română sau in toate dialectele ?! E păcat ,aveți postări interesante și v-ar putea aduce mai multi abonați și vizitatori !
Cut out the creepy guy at the beginning
Charmant petit city work automatic
*18th Century.
Who is narrating this?
I sure hope they retire those two machines in the White House soon.
Having a baby works too. Or does it?
A great documentary from the BBC before it turned WOKE.
Well put!
Who in the world was hiding in the Turks chess cabinet? Who ever it was beat the lot of Europes chess masters.,, how could they be unknown?
NOT AS CREEPY as the presenter guy🙄
If you didn't fast forward or fall asleep in this video, I'm calling BS
I'm still listening while working...so I didn't forward or fall asleep lol.😂
#Incult
I’m actually quite facinated although I wonder what kind of creepy grandma’s attic he was filming out of originally
@@danalynbegin6991 I was too but I found the video really difficult to watch. It was much too slow for me
I had to re-watch it in the day to make it thru...lol
Come to Brazil to treat your teeth. In here you can afford.
IT'S OFTEN SAID
THAT IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO BUILD IT,
I TRIED BUT IT WAS MESSY 😅
HERE'S MY STORY
I WENT TO THE LOO AND HAD A 💩 POO
THEN.TO UNDERSTAND IT
I TRIED TO BUILD IT ,
TROUBLE IS IT WAS DIFFICULT AND DIFFERENT EVERYTIME
I SADLY I NEVER GOT TO UNDERSTAND IT 😪