The 1751 Machine that Made Everything
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If you had to pick one machine that triggered the biggest explosion of wealth in our history, which would you pick?
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Amazing! Stunning! Such a clear and entertaining way of explaining an essential (but potentially boring) project. On my channel, I use the wood lathe a lot, but I'm frustrated with the way people only see it as a way to make decorative items. I use it for some more precise tasks and I'm about to start building my own. This video is a great inspiration. I expect your subscriber count will shoot up very soon. Keep up the good work!
Rex Krueger
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Yes great video. I’m also enjoying ur lathe build as well Rex
Thanks so much!
I don't think that's true. Just having a fuel source doesn't lead to the technology to use it. The Romans were aware of oil, but couldn't figure out what to do with it. You're confusing necessary and sufficient conditions. Fuel is a necessary condition, but not a sufficient one.
I've turned plenty of small steel parts on my small wood lathe. I use the sharpened end of an old file as a cutting tool, files to shape, and a hacksaw as a cut off tool
I guess you could say the invention of the lathe was a real turning point
that's enough of that, young man.
Adam 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ba dum tsh.
Ah snap!
...we should bar anymore lathe puns!
I am a farmer, and I really enjoyed this video while sitting in my tractor as it drives itself planting 18.5 acres an hour.
hehe
Isn't that where Farnsworth thunk up television?
Sounds like we need a new word for ‘farmer’???
@@Zerpersande They do what farmers do, lol, no need.
@@Zerpersande More automation means more time to do other things relevant to the job; farmers are plenty worth the title, though there is plenty of sitting
Our family's claim to fame is that my grandfather, Jacob, a poor Croatian American immigrant learned the trade and machined the carburetor for the Spirit of St. Louis. Machine tool history is important and you capture it well.
That's awesome! I hope he got to meet Charles Lindbergh as well, what a pioneer!
I am sorry you might not understand this but I have to say it
Where hasn't a croat been
Why am I saying it, thank you for asking.
Well you see a lot of croatains left the country in search of greener lawns and well as I see we croats went everywhere and built something also everywhere
I've worked as a machinist more than fifty years, and never ran across this lathe, I had focused on the British taking and expanding exponentially, this is truly the machine that set off the industrial revolution, the lathe earned it's nickname, "mother of all machine tools" because the precision screws are the key to much of the advancement, even to this day. I believe I could work that lathe, it's about fifty years older than my first. Thanks for the very clear, well informed demonstration of this "machine thinking", I'm retired now, but can hardly go a day without turning something, and if I can, it's either Sunday, or a day on the mill. Thanks so much, I've seen lots of old lathes in museums, and working but this is my first look at this, and was what allowed Naismith to do his work, and gave impetus to Joseph Whitworth, who established surface plates, fine measuring, and provided for the "exchangeable parts concept" to become a reality. It is a beauty!!
I don't remember who said it, but its one of my favorite sayings: "the lathe is the only machine that can make itself"
It's the lady of machinery.
Von Neumann? Nah...
Lathe makes round parts. Milling machine is more versatile. Millturn is awesome
Adam Savage in his video talking about his Lathe
3d printer
There's a set of small books by this guy named "Gingery" that show you how to build you own machine shop from the ground up. The first starts of with making a charcoal foundry to melt metal and do sand casting. Next are books about things to make with it, one of which is the lathe.
It's fun reading even if you don't do any of it.
Lindsay Technical Books was a catalog that had those and other books for any type of project imaginable including books on Tesla, chemical compounds, alcohol for people or cars, etc. I miss that catalog. It looks like Your Old Time Bookstore has some of their publications but that catalog was a treasure.
Just in case someone stumbles upon your post and wants to know more about Gingery and these books
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Gingery
Reminds me of the Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments that taughts kids how to make their own little science lab and even included a section on how to make their own glass products.
Sand casting. Where do the techniques originally came from ? Because இரும்பூ -> Iron...
Gingery* not gingerly, I had a hard time finding metalwork instead of redheads 😅
My dad was a machinist model maker and I have his Atlas 8" lathe he used to tinker with at home. I am nothing but a metal butcher but it is fulfilling to make parts when needed. He learned when he was about 14 making parts for WWII effort in a neighborhood shop. Everyone contributed to the war effort at the time.
During my engineering first thing I was taught was that "lathe is mother of all machines "..
Lathes are where the DC concept of mother boxes come from
Lucky you. I had calculus at 8AM, followed by physics and then chemistry.
Now, think about that when he mentioned the small parts made for clocks and watches. When you check the dates in which clockmakers were already designing those miniscule parts with such precision, you have to admire the amazing mechanical engineering skills that people had back then to make such a small and complicated thing as a watch. All those tiny gears, screws, dials, pins, *BY HAND*
When I worked @ Dapa that's Exactly what I did !!!
You'd need $10 million of land to live as a hunter gatherer.
I ran a lathe when I was 18-19 which was built in the 1920s. As a youngster I thought it was fascinating that something had lasted so long, and was still so precise.
Brandon Berry I had to take several semesters of machining for a vocational classes in high school in small town Kansas. There were several machines, some newer, but there were older World War Two machines that the school received as donations after the war ended. They were more accurate and intuitive than the newer ones.
I used to work in a machine shop that was full of WW2 era machines that still had the Lend/Lease tags riveted to them.
i own a german lathe of 20 30's it was the time that lathes where used for engine parts and gun parts.. with that, a high need of high precision was back than already needed.
than again my lathe weights about 800kg+ while same size new lathe would weight only 150-250kg so as long as it does not fall.. (iron is extreme hard but it can crack when falling ) than you have a decent machine.
also keep in mind consumer products can not be compared to industrial stuff. today industrial machines are made so it survive all. bearings are 10 sizes bigger than needed. platework is 5mm instead of 0.5mm shafts are 30mm instead of 8mm. i work in a factory and only the boxes folding machine the bearings for the arm that graps the boxes. max load is 1kg with the arm. shaft of 20mm, mounted on 2 plates of 8mm, 4 bearings both sides of the plates..even after running 100 years that machine still dont need a swap of parts.
and than we look at machines from 50 years and older.. you can add that times 5 of overpowering. casted iron, solid block of 20cm xD that is why my lathe is so heavy xD
i love old machines.. milling machine, lathe, cold saw, all casted iron machines.. you just know even under heavy load the frame would not even bend 1 micron. love it ;)
@@blackdaan
If it ain't broke by now it probably never will.
I feel the same way about old guns.
Just wanting to sharea a story : I remember few years back, just starting undergraduate study in Manufacturing engineering. One of the subject was Machine Handling and it was the first time I laid my eyes on a lathe machine. University was not the best time Ive experience, I had difficulties finding stuff that brings joy to me. Except for that subject as I get to have a go on a Lathe machine and I was very excited to go that class. I always have an interest in crafts and workshop but I did not have the right knowledge and exposure of what it is. I never new this machine existed and I didnt know I can own one privately. During that class, I too watched some other tutorials on how use and maintain a lathe machine. One of my next big project is to have my iwn personal workshop, and a lathe machine is a must have.
I remember when I was just getting into machining about 15 years ago, I needed to turn a part for a single one-off project. I felt guilty about buying a lathe for it. It felt like like an impulse buy. However, I find now that I use it about twice as much as I use my mill. I'd buy it again even if the only thing I ever did with it is trueing up poorly cut ends.
As a machinist toolmaker I can say that the modern lathe is extremely important. Think about this, all modern societies must have a machine shop.
You are absolutely correct. Without a modern lathe we would not have the complexity of parts needed for our equipment we use presently.
What I find interesting about the invention of the first woodworking lathe is that it wasn't thought of until centuries after the pottery wheel. You'd think in all that time someone would have thought about putting a pottery wheel on its side.
The most brilliant inventions are always just under our noses!
If it had been a snake,..... it would have bit you,... kind of thing.
@@Duplicitousthoughtformentity to be fair though, I bet the clay would keep falling off
What else should we be inventing that we haven't seen yet?
How can we accelerate this process ?
But then the clay would fall off.
I have often wondered where the origins of the metal lathe were from. Thank you for doing the work to produce this. I was captivated, as a young kid, by watching my grandfather make an eyeglass screw. He was mad because K-mart wanted a dollar for it! It's turned into a life long hobby. As I write this, I'm in the process of building an electric longline hauler. The one machine I could not be without is an old Lodge and Shipley metal lathe. It was produced to be driven by line shafting. The newest patent on the machine is 1928! After nearly 100 years, it can still produce .001" accuracy! These machines were birthed from this one. Just so amazing! Thanks again for posting. Bravo!!!!!
First tool I bought myself when I first moved into my house on my own was a smaller sized but absolutely priceless Atlas Metal lathe which I still use till this day. Your exactly correct about the one tool that's changed the world and brought about the industrial revolution, I would have to say a Metal Lathe and then invert the Lathe and now you have a drill press and a Milling Machine! Now we can make perfectly round and perfectly flat parts! Cool video Man! I agree with you 100% because up until this point, all they had were iron/steel forges and everything was a one off design and replication or duplication was nearly if not impossible. The only thing that was something they could reproduce via the metal forge needed hand made dies for pressing/hammering molten metal into shapes, things like nails for wood working and horseshoes. I know being a engineer and my hobbies revolve around all sorts of mechanical and electrical things, it's only practical to have the right tools for the job.
A hammer should have been your priority! You can fix ANYTHING with a hammer. And if you can't fix it, you can use the hammer to vent your frustrations on the offending device. Win - Win!
"Making round things square and square things round!"
When you think how UA-cam is so often misused, it is gratifying that there are channels like this one to restore the balance. Thanks. Sincerely.
Indeed!!
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Absotutely! THIS is the type of content that consumes most of my online time sucking... sure beats just another moron takin a hit to the sack or other useless schlock. Thanks, very well done all around 👍👍
There’s a lot of channels like this. But, they are hard to find if your algorithm isn’t leaning towards these channels.
Now after watching youtube shorts.
Watching this from my farm, where I’m shopping around for a new lathe.
I'll take your old one
There are shops on your farm?
@@whitedragon9731 the internet is great you can shop, study, socialize, from virtually anywhere
@@hirumi9 I don't think you understood his question
Wow, the way you explained it is fascinating. I look forward to watching the other videos on your channel. Congratulations on the QUALITY of your work.
I'm pleased you gave due credit to the steam engine, which (in my view) was the great driver of industrial advance. Of course the lathe was a pre-requisite for the manufacture of steam engines. But then the power to drive lathes was generally derived from steam. So I think the two operated in parallel.
Don’t forget the 3-phase (polyphase) AC induction motor, invented by Tesla.
@@glenholmgren1218 Why would that be remotely as significant as the invention of the electric motor itself? Which had a host of developers, probably starting with the Hungarian Anyos Jedlik in 1828, sixty years before Tesla had anything to do with it. The industrial uses of electric motors were fully realised long before AC motors came along.
@@cr10001
Industrial revolution did fine from 1870 to invention of AC induction motor.
Eiffel Tower went up.
The worm hole of youtube subscriptions had led me to this and I love it.
Sometimes, the algorithm gets it right
fuck off nazi
Same. The presentation is so convincing though it can be argued that the machine's success is supported by other successful machines. One can be biased to the lathe if one appreciates its beauty.
Speaking of algorithm, digital technology is the mother of tech or progress of our time.
@@BibleStorm
Lol.... Complaining about "alt-right nazis" then proceeds to condone violence against them........ just like the nazis did to people who they didn't agree with.
Double standards much?
@@mr.techaky7655 When we speak of the allied forces who killed nazis in WWII do we call them nazis?
@rigegs Do you think hitler's propaganda machine was factual?
I always wondered about this. I fantasize that I'm back in time and it's my job to remember how to manufacture essentials like steel, electric motors, lightbulbs, transistors, etc. I imagine the process and I always come back to the problem of precision. Then I realize in order to have what we have today you first need the tools that preceded them. Suddenly the problem becomes one of learning the history of manufacturing.
Funny you imagine being back in time and having the oportunity to bring inventions to an earlier time. I do the same. hahaha (but probably not as thoroughly as you do)
I have always wondered that too! such a simple thing as getting a ruler to be true, is not easy.
You might like the book "The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch" by Lewis Dartnell
We have the benefit of modernization to even romanticize about bygone days. The things we romanticize were mundane at the time they existed in mainstream.
genuinely incredible presentation and overall outlook, your ability to communicate pathos through what can easily be a complicated and boring subject is just spectacular
Your enthusiasm about this is contagious. Thank you for making this video & sharing.
I was taught that the lathe was the first tool that could replicate it self in machine shop class when I was training to be a machinist
@Favel Konefka. Yes??? How does that apply to what they said?
Hammer to make hammer bubba
@@se6586 rock
Hammer is a tool, not a machine
@Favel Konefka. A lathe can make all the screws, gears and shafts for it's self. The rest of the lathe can be made with hand tools and casting.
The lathe is the only machine in a machine shop that can duplicate itself and all the other machines which have to start with the lathe. One of the best videos I've seen to date.
The lathe was used to create the metal planer which in turn created a much precise lathe, INCLUDING THE WAYS. The more precise creates metal creates an even more precise metal planer. Which in turn creates a much more precise metal lathe and so forth and so on. This also includes jigs, fixtures, tools, dies, extenders that handles much larger metal pieces but the size increase is gradual until you ended up larger and more precise machine tools. Between 1800 and 1900 the industrial revolution has achived, in the laboratory, precision measured in several millionths of an inch and a sufficient amount of that accuracy has been transfered from the laboratory to the machine tool industry between 1800 to 1900. In WW II the micro-inch was achived, and now in high-tech machining facilities accuracies of tolerances are now measured in nanometers for the mechanical parts of the "STEPPER" which is the key manufacturing equipment in making the silicon IC chips used in your and my computers. Study industrial history and you will know, but these books are old books and out-of-print books carefully stored and preserved in library archives and were prudently microfilmed many times by a multi-copier microfilm writer. That technology has been in existence in the early 1950s and your library, if it is properly funded and administered and managed, should have several such equipment and a microfilm scanner-reader for you to read direct from microfilm or transferred rapidly to your portable computer or whatever you have.
Yes Scott
It could be used to make the bearings and bore ganged metal rods for the straight-line drawing mechanisms described in A. B. Kempe's historic 1871 book 'How to draw a straight line'. The pdf can be found on Project Gutenberg, and is an amazing insight into how to construct a straight line from first principles. These mechanisms could then be used with a metal cutting toolbit to shape even straighter lathe bed ways.
Perhaps a 3D Printer can print itself.
When my lathe was waiting for a new motor, I used my mill as a lathe. Obviously a bit cumbersome, but it got the job done.
I am stood in front of this wonderful artefact as I type this very comment!
THANK YOU @machinethinking for the introduction: I purchased my first lathe just earlier this year and as I begin my journey into machining have taken a special pilgrimage to La Musee just to see Vaucanson’s piece: it’s incredibly exciting to see in real life!
I absolutely love your channel. Please keep it coming and be bold when telling us how we can support you to keep on producing these great videos or similar content.
Farmer here. Thanks for the adendums! Also, I have a lathe, lol.
Thanks for sticking around ;-)
Thanks for continuing to farm! Machinists like to eat as well.
Thanks for feeding the world
Is this one of those
"Best of Both Worlds"
scenarios?
on the farm, downtime equals lost money. You usually either had the machining tools or you were friends with someone that did. I was blessed to grow up in a farming family that included welders, machinists and blacksmiths.
My favorite thing is you still mark farming as a viable necesity to modern day life. Farming, fortunately, is timeless. We will always have farms and farmers.
We will always have farms, but perhaps not farmers. Overseers of AI that control mass farms, maybe.
Not really, we will eventually do away with farms, as wasteful of resources. Even today, we have begun to produce meat via stem cells, for sale, and we have factories in some American Cities that produce vegetables vertically and hydroponically. We are on the cusp of an agrarian revolution, every bit as big as the early neolithic revolution. Or the effect that the lathe pictured in this video, had on industrialization.
It doesn't stop there though, and plans are afoot for nano scale production of everything we might need or want. Food, clothing, medicines, vehicles, and much more. By the end of the century, at the very latest, we will be living in a world / Solar System / Galaxy, that is beyond anything Star Trek Second Generation dreamed of... but we won't be ordinary humans anymore, and we won't be the Borg. Yet the boundaries between human and machine will be blurred. Our Machine will become more Human and we will become more Machines, whatever that may mean in 82 years. If we were suddenly transported to that time from where we sit now, we would be as bewildered by the changes, as anyone from the 1740's brought into our world.
Cro-magnon Gramps Moving farm production from horizontal in dirt to vertical in buildings will probably have less impact than either the agricultural or green revolutions. It’s a evolution, not a revolution.
We may not always have them but will always need them. Look at South Africa right now. People often times bite the hand that feeds them. Sad really
10000 Subscribers without Videos Challenge there won’t be cows or any other animal farming in a decade or two.
Too bad I can no longer be a 1600 peasant working in the fields :(
This was a great video and thank you for making it. it made my Saturday a little more informative =)
"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions."
-- Oliver Wendell Homes Sr.
Subbed at 0:24.
In that moment, were you euphoric?
Never heard of the Malthusian trap, but it’s what I’ve been thinking my entire life. Not surprised to know I wasn’t the first to think of it, but surprised it was 300+ years ago. Thank your for sharing.
The first subject we were taught in my Machinist Apprenticeship was this lathe.
The precision lead screw was the real key to the improved usage of lathes.
The word "lathe" is from a lath, a strip of wood used as a spring, that pulled the leather strip back as seen in the illustration of a man hollowing a round block of wood into a bowl.
Without a lath, the woodworker had his apprentice pulling the strap back. A lath allowed the boy to do other work.
Al Grayson ~ Wow... I’m alone in my car, just pulled over at a gas station to read some of the comments; when I came across your comment I actually wowed out loud! What a great addition to this honoring of the lathe!!! I’m so grateful for youtube at moments like these!!
I didn't know that. Thanks, Al. There is a vague resonance with the invention of valve gear for steam engines. The steam engine evolved from rudimentary steam-powered pumps used for dewatering mines in (I think) Cornwall, which in turn evolved from manually driven sailing-ship pumps, used to evacuate the holds and bilges of seawater which continually leaked in through the seams between planks.
The Cornish pumps used pistons exposed to the water from below, and to steam above. The steam was cooled to condense it, creating a vacuum and lifting the piston and the water below it. The pump had valves operated by boys. One smart boy got bored, and after improvising a lashup mechanism with string and bits of wood to activate the valve at the correct moment in the cycle, skived off, for which he was duly punished.
(IIRC) Thos Newcomen got wind of this enhancement, and incorporated a self-acting arrangement on his "Atmospheric Engine", which was the precursor to the steam engine. And the rest is history.
@@Gottenhimfella i'm Cornish and haven't heard that one before, sounds probable though. Trevithick was inspired as a boy by the Watt engines used in Cornish mines as well, which led him to build the first high pressure engines.
As "lath" also refers to the small strips of wood you find supporting plaster. Later on came metal lath which served the same purpose.
I made a trip to Paris July 31 2019 just to go see this machine. It was mezmerizing. I stood there after finally finding it after an hour or so trekking through this what turned out to be one the most diverse and fascinating museum ever. I took a 100 pics of it. The interesting thing is the data plate on the case. No mention of being this wonderful invention that it is. The craftsmanship is mind blowing. How did he make the leadscrew so accurate and the cross slide. After 30 min or so the wife's like we have to move on. I said I have 10K wrapped up in this trip I'm getting my money's worth. So 5 sec later we moved on. If you can, definitely go see it. The rest of the museum is awesome. 3 floors of about 2500 yrs or more of machines, tools, everything up to space travel. Well worth the I think it 10 Euros. Keep in mind there was no A/C throughout most of it. So it was really hot on the 3rd and 2nd floor. The "tour" starts on the 3rd. So you have to take the elevator up and start there. There is a really nice cafe on 1 as you exit. We had lunch there and it was good. Sat outside because even at 90+ it was still cooler out there.
Thanks for the info, brother. Wish I could go, but sadly I'll take your word for it. Thanks
I think the original lathe was all made by hand. You can achieve incredible accuracy that way just don't count the hours involved. Using the basic lever principle you can magnify errors. If you have a machine slide driven by a lead screw it usually is able to be moved by a thou at a time on a standard lathe but if you change the dial calibration to a bigger size dial greater accuracy is achieved. Back in 1985 I used a lathe dated 1918 to do some screw cutting 8 tpi thread. I was amazed how well it worked. How many mistakes were made to get to the first lathe is unknown but it would be handy to know. Its called development.
John Smith : "blue~printing" is a term I heard from a machinist.....when tasked with achieving high tolerances of fabricated precision parts
John Smith :". change the dial calibration" ....innovation became very useful to the Router and the Radial-Router tools dialing to 1000ths....imo
Thank you. This channel amazes, entertains and educates me. I wonder how many brilliant people have gone unnoticed by us and have contributed so much to our well being.
That was fantastic. You just got yourself another Sub. I look forward to viewing all your videos. Thanks for posting this!
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
Welcome to the machine takeover.
Where have you been? Its alright. We know you been playing with Vaucansons duck again. Huh?
HOW CAN YOU HAVE ANY PUDDING IF YOU DONT EAT YER MEAT!!!!
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@Susan Farley yes, but still, wrong album.
This museum is a hidden treasure in Paris and really worth a visit. It also has the 'original' Foucault pendulum. I can't recommend it highly enough for a visit.
What’s the name of the museum?
Musée des Arts et Métiers
60 Rue Réaumur, 75003 Paris
This is really interesting material. I appreciate the effort you put into providing it. Many thanks!
I have a truck driver friend who, in a desperate attempt to elevate the respect his chosen profession receives, is always saying, "Without truck drivers, you'd be naked, cold & hungry".
And I always like to point out to him, without a machinist running a lathe, he'd be a stagecoach driver.
He hates it because he knows it's true...
Your concept may have applied during the early days of the industrial revolution but in today's modern era your lathe would become nothing more and nothing less than a heap of rust if trucks didn't deliver your steel 😉
@@domesticatedwolverine4152 obviously everything is interdependent
Just found this excellent bit of history...thank you for solving a (more than) 64 y/o mystery. For the majority of my adult life I've been, at varying times, a Ships Engineer, Industrial Engineer, Machinist or general fabricator. Raised and still living on a farm, still doing my own machine work and still loving both occupations, there was a phrase my father (born and raised in the Appalachian coal fields) used to employ whenever someone had a petty complaint, that never made any sense, whatsoever...until now. (For any history buffs, this will also give you a better idea of how isolated Appalachia was, even up to the mid 20th century) The phrase, if you'll pardon the crudeness, "...You'd complain if somebody shit on your plate..." now has context....along with the expression "...mind blown...'' that my father, of all people, would use such an antiquated and obscure reference...amazing...
I've always known there were some rather antiquated aspects to Appalachian culture, but this brings into focus just HOW antiquated some were. Thanks for the education and illumination!
6/27/2019 USA Grandpa Bill: You, the speaker here, have a remarkable voice. Along with your natural ability of voice, you have perfect enunciation, intonation, pace, and right-now-with-us-sharing that brings to life these collections of photos in a most engaging way. Your writing, or script, is excellent. I'm 71 years old and have listened to thousands of voices. Yours is at the top of the list of those I prefer to hear. Thank you for being here.
Its only 6/25/2019 in Detroit. What the hell time warp place do you live in?
@@wind-solar 71 year old mistake.
@@wind-solar Jesus dude!! You don't know this guy...all he's saying is he likes your voice while watching the vid. Now pull your head out of your ass and your foot out of his and just accept a compliment from an older gentleman who took the goddam time to give you one.
Those crankshafts there were pretty cute. :D The company I work for produces these things for ship engines. They have a length of about 17.5m and weigh close to 50t. It's always amazing to see those things, especially when they're finished. The engines they're built into have a power of about 11878bhp.
Put it in a Miata.
Back when I started in the machine trades, there were old lay-shafts and pullys left above which were driven by steam. The steam plant was still existent though not functioning. Many of the existing machines had been converted to electricity in the teens and early 20's and the original motors still ran (though not efficiently). I remember going from tape driven machines (Bridgeport mills) to the 5 axis CNCs of today. Amazing.
The printing press. Yeah, okay, maybe not right away...or quickly at all. But being able to widely distribute knowledge is incredibly important to all of the people who came later who could easily access books on mathematics, physics, and so on.
Yes but if you can't turn metal that's not going to help.
The point is to mass produce so many industry parts that needed to be precise and round.
The lathe is the big winner
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glad I Found your channel ~first time today. Thanks for the great content
OMG. Thank You!! I've always thought about what created the machines that creates our modern day machines, and this video sums it up perfectly with a cherry on top. Now its time to explore how Lathes are made. From what raw materials. How are the materials mined, processed and shaped to create the parts for lathes. I want to know about every screw and bolt. At that point I will be complete.
for a channel i've never heard of, this is some high quality excellent content. It looks like you're getting recommended so i hope you get a hearty surge of subscribers from this deserved surge
Im glad there is a video about this. I've been a machine designer my entire life. The lathe was the first machine tool certainly helped the industrial revolution. Here is the kicker. In the 1 century A.D. a guy named Hero of Alexandria invented a very simple steam engine. Everyone thought it was a spinning toy. Had someone back then realized you could have slapped Hero's invention on a lathe the industrial revolution would have started 2000 years earlier than it did.
flewggle
All the other economic, technological and social preconditions did not exist. Ancient societies couldn't just reorganize for mass commodity manufacture production.
Many inventions and concepts were conceived much sooner than we were able to actually use them. Transistor being another well recognized example.
I don't think that can be take as a "given", flewggle, and not just for the valid reasons given by others.
Pipe organs were manually pumped for a thousand years or more, being cranked by hand or foot like lathes, and that didn't hold back their development appreciably. Hero's invention was so inefficient and feeble it would not have matched the power output (or modest appetite for fuel) of a young child.
And it's easier (and some would say, more fun) to create small children than steam engines, even feeble ones. ;-)
i always wondered who invented the first presision machines, because how in earth can someone make precision machines when they didn't had precision tools?
I gues that clock makers were the first people who invented precision tools and machines, because designing and making an apparatus
that runs almost perfectly on time must have bin almost a world wonder when the first mechanical clocks were made, and i'm even stunned
by clock makers today when you look at al those fine tiny pieces that go in to it. Those people are the einsteins of mechanics imo.
@@3DPeter
These watch makers and clock makers we're really stealth geniuses. Even Socrates stated he had students "Not of his time".
The Incas had calendars able to read two thousand years in advance. European didn't have a monopoly on genius.
I can imagine back then when religion was the end all and be all of formal teachings certain thoughts and ideas were frowned upon.
"The earth isn't the center of the universe" thinking got a lot of people in the dungeon or killed. Be it proof through mathematics, mechanical or other means.
My point is a LOT of inventions have been destroyed out of fear and ignorance.
Now the only difference is corporations have taken the place of the religious sects of yesterday and are going around stomping out competition through lawsuits or threats.
As the saying goes
Times may change but things always stay the same.
What a fantastic video. I was always upset that Vaucanson never got the same "household name" status for his amazing achievement. Recorded history is certainly a strange, often unfair and fickle thing.
The US public education style of learning needs to end. What the hell is the point of months of "studying" the industrial revolution if I learned more in this video and videos like this in merely minutes.
This is why homeschooling and online schooling is becoming more common nowadays.
EDIT: It's NOT? @First Last, are you high? There's a huge influx of students taking courses online. Pretty sure EDX, Corsera, Lynda, etc didn't exist a few decades ago.
@@UnrealZii It's not. And a good thing too, since many homeschooling curricula have many omissions of correct information while including falsehoods to promote specific ideaologies (i.e young-earth creationism, islamic supremacy, etc.)
Oh, and "public" schools don't omit and promote?
C'mon!
@@felttip4431 The false premise is that the US public education system doesn't have many omissions of correct information while including falsehood to promote specific ideologies.
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Then explain why the desire to instill a religious mindset into home-schooled students is often a fourth stated reason for why people choose homeschooling. Furthermore, the percentage of people who do say this is a first and foremost important reason is only %17. homeschoolbase.com/homeschooling-statistics/ (Uses; U.S. Department of Education).
Now explain why home-schooled individuals typically score 15 to 30 percentile points ABOVE public-schooled students on SAA(Tests). "(The public school average is the 50th percentile; scores range from 1 to 99.) A 2015 study found Black homeschool students to be scoring 23 to 42 percentile points above Black public school students (Ray, 2015)." (NHERI.org). www.nheri.org/research-facts-on-homeschooling/
Finally, now prove your claims. I don't see a single source there boiyo.
This video, (The Machine that Made Everything) and also The Origins of Precision are two of the best works I have ever had their pleasure of viewing on YT. Thank You!
The industrial revolution for USA started here in my home state of Rhode Island . The original mill and machine shop are still here. Slater mill . This is also home to Brown & Sharpe , they made precision measuring instruments. The mills were hard work but, they drew young people to get away from farm life . Which was hard work and not always profitable.
Another factor worth considering for the elbow in that hockey stick graph was the overthrow of guild monopolies over handicrafts by machine production lines. Wealth production via machinery also needed an educated workforce which was a huge impulse towards universal literacy as an objective of the state. The growth of literacy also broke the Church's monopoly on knowledge and the aristocracy's monopoly on wealth production. Unfortunately, the new captains of industry became the neo-aristocracy whose caste system created the labor abuses of the Industrial Revolution which begat Karl Marx & Co..
If a person 5000 years ago -
Put a single penny in the bank -
With 3% compound annual interest -
Now that person would -
Still be dead
The highest the calculator I found goes to is 999 years. 1 penny at 3% compounding interest over 999 years =
$66,740,196,419.12
No one would pay 3% interest on a penny.
and inflation would easily outpace any interest gained XD
I got have a graphing calculator that goes on infinitely. When we input the equation 0.01x1.03^x which represents your hypothetical situation. When x=5000 (5000 years from when the penny was deposited) you would have 1.53 x 10^62 dollars. That number is so large I can guarantee that no human can comprehend it and unless you have seen a googol written down (even though a googol is significantly larger) have never even seen a number so large. It’s incredible and your joke has an incredible number in it.
P.s Why have I spent so much time obsessing over this?
HAAAAA
School: Look at this history!
Me: Nah, I don't wanna
UA-cam: Look at this history!
Me: *I'm interested.*
I felt that.
Its because we aren't pressured to learn this for a grade, rather we learn this because we want to which also makes learning and retaining the info from this easier and more valuable
CA School: "Now, let's take a look at the racist history of the lathe."
This is why public funding of education is obsolete, and truly unconstitutional.
@@solar_sailor9995 I think the reasons go far deeper than that. In publicly-funded educational institutions, one tends to be taught solely via rote memorization. While this works well for early learning where you're just simply trying to learn the alphabet and that 2+2=4 (something that grown adults still seem to have trouble with 🙄) this same approach tends to lead to complete disinterest once you reach the higher grade levels and are now onto more complex topics like "Why was America founded the way that it was?" or "What makes this machine more important than other machines?" etc. etc...
These are more complex subjects where the focus needs to be on learning HOW to think and not so much on WHAT to think. Once you reach this point, simple rote memorization of dates, places and events doesn't even BEGIN to explain what makes all of these concepts important and ultimately leads to a feeling of intense boredom because the very POINT of history and other subjects like it becomes lost. In special regards to history in and of itself, the very point of the subject lies within its name...hiSTORY, in other words, it's literally the STORIES of the past which are meant to inform us, teach us and make us think about what these events have to teach us about our lives today. To use the Gettysburg Address as an example, if all you do is learn when the speech was given and who delivered it...well, all that does is help you pass a test and says nothing about what that speech actually MEANS and the impact it had on the eventually ending of slavery in the U.S. and the eventual end of the Civil War. However...if you can read it, hearing the voice of President Abraham Lincoln in your mind as you do so, whilst looking at a picture that was painted depicting Gettysburg, PA right after the battle...well, then that's something else entirely. By doing so, you're now able to put YOURSELF there on that day and feel as inspired as every American who was present on the day President Lincoln gave that speech. Now, that moment in history takes on a whole new life and one becomes just amazed at how much truly does survive the test of time.
This is the difference between being educated in a typical classroom versus being educated in your spare time on sites like UA-cam. A good educational UA-camr will not just simply give you dates, names and places to memorize...hell, sometimes they don't even give you that information at all, considering those facts superfluous to the real point of what that UA-camr is trying to get across. Instead, one is presented with an engaging story where one is also shown bits and pieces from that story so that the events you are being told about are able to themselves come alive and actually touch you in a way that simple rote facts cannot.
This is REAL education, the way that it should be, where the viewer is not only empowered to think but also EXPECTED and ENCOURAGED to, so that the subject is able to become as exciting as it truly IS.
I was never all that certain back when I was growing up as to what sort of subject would ever excite me, although I will admit that my High School history courses were made much more exciting than any other course of instruction thanks to several out-of-the-box thinking teachers who made it their mission to make their subjects as fun and engaging as possible, even within the strictures of teaching to the test imposed by "No Child Left Behind" which was starting to take shape within my Junior and Senior years. That said...I will say that the documentaries I saw in my young adulthood coupled with the educational content that I've found now on UA-cam has made me a history FAN...
And I personally hope that it does the same for many others. ☺😁👍
I have learned way more from UA-cam than all of my schooling 🤷🏻♂️
The reason that the internal combustion engine became the power plant for cars and aircraft was that it could be made from a lathe. The key invention of the Wright Brothers which made powered flight possible was an aluminum block internal combustion engine. The holes for the combustion chambers were bored out using a lathe. The cylinder heads were cut precisely to fit with a lathe. The invention of aluminum smelting using electricity in the 1880s made aluminum very cheap. These were the key factors that allowed for the building of a light enough engine that could power a heavier than air aircraft. None of these key features were patentable, btw, as all the technology of internal combustion engines had been developed years earlier. The Wright brothers were just the first to use the now cheap and affordable aluminum blocks to build a lightweight aluminum block internal combustion engine that could power an airplane. Their only patenable idea was their use of wing warping as control surfaces for the airplane, which they used to such devastating effect to protect their invention that aircraft development in the U.S. lagged far behind the European countries, thus causing the US to have no effective aircraft for WWI.
Excellent overview of the Industrial Revolution, I live two miles away from where Stephenson's Rocket first ran , about a mile from the oldest rail viaduct still in use the Nine Arches Bridge(built by Stephenson) and amidst the canals built between Manchester, Liverpool and the coal mining towns of the North West of England.
Have walked /cycled many of the canals, Leeds/Liverpool, Manchester Ship, Weaver Navigation, Sankey Canal, Shropshire Union etc
So much history, so little time to explore.
You work with two of my favorite subjects, machinery and history. You have earned my like and subscription in this way. Keep up the good work.
Somebody needs to talk ClickSpring into making a replica 1751 lathe after he finishes his brass solar calendar
'solar calendar'? You're not referring to the Antikythera mechanism I hope. That lathe would be a dawdle in comparison.
I watched this just after the latest clickspring video and was thinking the same thing too. A lathe like that would fit nicely into his shop.
The way he even made his own hand files to make the antikythera, just seems like this lathe would be right up his alley.
The guy over at Primitive Technology will be there in a couple years...
You deserve to win the internet today for that comment tehbonehead.
First time on your channel, subscribed right away. The yt algorithm knew I needed knowledge. ;)
I hope there are some teachers who've found this and shared it with their students.
There's such a paucity of this kind of educational material, or at least this way of looking at things. As you've illustrated, so so much about the culture and history of the last 250 years is wrapped up in machines. Technology to a larger extent, of course. But machines/manufacturing specifically.
Patreon is great, but you ought to be funded by some stuffy foundation or something so you could produce this kind of thing full time, with a staff.
Great video with very interesting history. This is even more relevant to me in that I just acquired my own lathe this past year, long with a few other machines. I chose machines made and used during world war 2 due to their inherent quality, precision, and historical significance. Thank you for this story!
Awesome work dude! Subbed. Can't believe that video passed by in a second. Please make more! (all the teases you made about FUTURE VIDEOS) It's awesome how we think our modern world is amazing but these were people essentially coming out of antiquity into the future like BOOM
Excellent and exciting video. Excelente analysis too.
Thank you also for the very good subtitles in the language of Vaucanson.
J'adore le musé des ars et métiers!
This is so true. It's not until you try to machine something with any precisely that you realise how impossible it is without a lathe. And how many of our machines are essentially impossible without an incredible amount of precision.
What an overlooked champion of engineering.
*If this was 1835, I would have carved you one big thumbs up.* *_But its 2019, so I cast & machined you 12 dozen thumbs up! Enjoy!_*
Or just use a 3d printer and make 12 million thumbs up in the same time as a dozen from your old style machine.
*Additive Manufacturing!* _R i g h t o n O b i W a n ._
@@obi_wan_kenobi561 3d printers are much, much slower than traditional molds and CNC
@@barmiro Slower, less accurate, and weaker...
@@o11o01 Yep, they're more of a curiosity than anything actually useful at the moment.
You remind me of a famous UA-camr named “Mustard” both of you guys have very interesting random topics that people don’t really think about very much. And I thank you for that! Never stop learning and growing your intelligence!
“Invention of farming”
“Income”
*fart noises*
The lathe is one of the few machines that is capable of self replication. In other words you can use a lathe to build a lathe. Takes some attachments for making the gears and stuff but it's pretty amazing what is possible with a lathe and why I currently own 3 although one is going to find a new home soon. I have slowly been putting together a small machine shop. I have the lathes, a milling machine (well two but one is going to find a new home), a bandsaw,, and a surface grinder. Need to get some accessories for these machines and then I''ll have my little prototype shop running. Planning on doing one off projects for people that the bigger machine shops don't want to mess with or charge an exorbitant price for doing. Been planning this for a while since I needed to get an intake hat made for a turbo project I was working on and was turned away but a couple shops and the one that did it I had to fix.
Watching this video in a combine
New Holland?
this is awesome
Just watched this again for the third time (over the last couple years), it's really good. Thank you again!
A great video, a entertaining a clear historical materialist take on this object! would love to see a video directly about historical materialism on a larger scope.
Just about my most cherished possession in my workshop is my ole ,late 1950's Logan Lathe, she is worn from years of use but still very useful, i have made countless parts with it, maybe one day I'll get around to restoring it.
This machine is more beautiful than the Mona Lisa.
So, like most things then.
in my opinion, the lathe is so much more significant and beautiful than the mona due to it's usefulness and significance to the technological development of our own history.
So... like most things then...
@@thestonedraider8684 there's arguably nothing more significant toward our development technologically than the lathe, if the video is anything to go off of. Ultimately while the mona lisa did nothing to produce anything in the material sense, it did introduce a new manner of thinking that was profound and inspiring, due to it's rare and unique 3d perspective that was otherwise completely unthought of in a time period where our culture was limited to 2d paintings and drawings, with little to no perspective.
It's only valued today because there are enough people alive to care about it as a spectacle of achievement within european culture. However if they were to die off, or people stopped giving a damn, it'd eventually become worthless, like many other ancient paintings have, ultimately becoming lost to time, only to either be destroyed, or rediscovered once more later on.
lol you fucking moron I agreed with you.
I like your description of Machine Thinking. I would summarize it as, “The crafter shapes the tool, and then the tool shapes the crafter.” 🤓👍
I think your videos were the beginning of super high quality material in you tube. Hope you can continue doing them at some point in the not too distant future.
What makes a good narrative? That the narrator binds together a plethora of diverse experiences and impressions into one appearantly coherent and at the same time unexpected string of pausibilites. Here is one example! You have demonstrated so much talent and commitment here that I subscribe to the chanel after watching just this video.
This is a really nice and well researched story, i'm looking forward to your new videos!
I cannot thank you enough for this channel and this video. Thanks brother.
I had the same thought a few years ago, when I started school at occ and took a machine tooling class. Specifically, I thought about the screw, and how threads made our machinery so precise. If your thinking of a good video to do, maybe go into the history of the screw as well. It’s kind of interesting and leads right into the videos you have made on the lathes here.
I liked your "personal approach" to the topic: instead of pursuing objectivity, you embraced your passion for your observations. It was a pleasant presentation and now I am a tiny bit more knowledgeable thanks to you.
The same type of industrial revolution is *currently happening with 3D printers.*
There is now a metal bridge that is printed ! That changes everything. A machine that can print a small bridge with one operator is a huge change for the construction of small bridges.
Now we can 3D print parts for aircraft, buildings, rockets, ships and small mechanical machine too. We are at the start of the next phase of how we make complex machines.
Indeed. And we need to figure out what to do in a time when economy finally doesn't need human labour anymore.
@@Eo_Tunun we will still need energy and astronomical quantities of it...we could harness the energy of humans and connect them all the a machine that siphons this energy off their bodies....wait, isn't that what happened in the matrix movies? We will all be connected to the central core and feeding it energy and to keep us alive, we will be "living" in a virtual world.
@@obi_wan_kenobi561 I was being serious. The first wave of automation, that started in the seventies, caused countless jobs to go down the drain and no one ever came up with a decent concept to tackle the issue. The eighties aproach of shifting towards service jobs created mainly low income rubbish jobs that hardly helped anyone, rather forced people to work in three jobs each day. A good portion of the citizens in industrialised countries live with their backs to the wall already and won't be able to take further cuts in income before slipping into actual poverty. Instead of harvesting technolocy's potential to the best of all, its social effect is splitting societeis into obscenely rich and moneyless. A study mentioned a worst case scenario that suggests that by 2035, 45% of all jobs worldwide may become redundant.
We need a plan before this hits.
@@Eo_Tunun Very true. Automation and machines have created huge amounts of wealth but that wealth is only going to the top 0.1% of the population. Most of the people are still no better off than before if you really look at their lives.
@@obi_wan_kenobi561 Machinised production enjoys light taxes nearly everywhere while human work has income tax on it, making it more expensive as well. In the passed few years, technoligical possibillities in automation skyrocketed, even kids build their own robots with dirt cheap Arduino boards now, this option has become cheap as jelly beans. Now a new wave of digital revolution even challenges service jobs. Many texts of the not-so-inspired kind will probably get genereated by softwares in the future.
There is a totally new quality of problem brewing up.
Knew the lathe was an epic bit of kit! Just needed someone to back me up 😂 thanks, great video! 👍👍
I come home from my shift running manual lathes in a repair shop, and see this. I certainly understand how important this is. I've made parts for electric motors, hydraulic excavators, engine flywheels, and now large pumps, and I also volunteer to make parts for steam locomotives.
Great content and presentation. Thank you.
I subscribed.
Henry Maudslay was instrumental in the invention of the first industrial screw-cutting lathe that enabled repeatability.
and he and the rest of the steam-engine pioneers like Watt and others came up with some brilliant mechanisms for problems like e.g. converting rotary motion to an exact straight line, so pistons didn't generate undue friction; The Watts linkage is of course still used on car suspensions today.
I have a lathe and end mill in my home shop. It always amazes me the what I can do with those two machines when I put my mind to it.
...love the adjustable height center. Thank you.🙂
I've been to that museum, and there were many fascinating objects within. I must say that I did not even notice that lathe, it certainly didn't stand out as anything special, but that's due entirely to my modern thinking. Thank you for pointing out just how important such a thing could be, and thank you for your excellent explanation about how that could lead to everything.
It is the lathe that gives us the expression "to turn something into something."
5:19 This is called a force multiplier. And it's exactly 1 of 2 guiding principles on which IT and the silicon revolution operate. The other guiding principle? "When you do things right, no one is sure you've done anything at all"
Awesome video. I have a mini lathe and it’s been great to be able to make any part I may need. Thank you
i heartfully thank you for making this video. long life to you
thanks for the entertaining insite!
when friends ask me what the major phase-changes in technogy were, i usually responded with three;
1) the knot/weaving
2) printing press
3) the selenoid, or electromagnet
you've convinced me to stick the metal lathe in there i guess at 2.5
The horse collar was very important!
@@davidm.4670 if you include medical technologies, anaesthetics and antibiotics would be up there, sanitation tech, too. If you include food tech, i'd want to include grain horticulture, brewing/yeast, plant hybrids. There's a lot (and interesting) finds once you start noticing these turning points.
They often also lead to opening new eras in human economics, much like the internet/smartphones have, that is greater than one would first think. My guess is our upcoming one is going to come from protein folding AI allowing true understanding of our bodies..
Steam engine would like a word.
@@spencervance8484 You mean the traditional starter of the industrial age? Of course!
Im missing on 4. The transistor, the intgrated circuit, microchips, cpus...
Absolutely fascinating. I feel more well rounded for having watched this
I see what you did there
HEY-O!
No pun intended ? Lol
Rise Of Kingdom in nustshell be like
Ba da boom