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Thank you so much for your support, it truly means a lot to me. It’s incredibly touching when people share such kind words. I wish you all the best. Thanks again!
The lock out tag out clamp is used for multiple locks. Every person working on the equipment will attach a lock. That way it cannot be energized until EVERYONE working on it has removed his lock.
Thank you for this video. I am 60 years and couldn’t believe how many items have fallen into obscurity in such a short time. I was especially amused at how much worry there was over the 1970s oil bubble Knick knack. Also that women who went up to the doorbell could have been a doorbell camera technician also.
My dad had one of those.It's a hand warmer, you'll light the little charcoal stick and put it in there, and it just keeps burning the same ones as ours
51:32 that isn't a mosquito alarm. Thats an industrial alarm. It's used to signal mechanical startup. We had them everywhere in the FedEx warehouse I used to work at. Those things can be LOUD. Like teeth rattling loud. When the warehouse first opened, the residents of the neighborhood across the street complained it was waking them up (we started at 2am). That person's neighbor was absolutely trying to mess with them if it's pointed directly into their yard
@@MI-MysteriousItem im having trouble finding the item on Google. I did find a few pictures inside fedex facilities where they're pictured but too blurry, but I'm telling you I used to hate those things. I know them well.
I was almost a victim of the incident that made the "lockout/tagout" part of industrial safety protocols. Friend behind me did not make it out when a valve was improperly opened during a industrial clean out of tanks.
I like this kind of video but I despise how AI is horribly ripping up the English language. I prefer a real person, one you can see, providing the narration.
@@ImpalaSuperSport It is a Video Farm product and they are diving into AI to save money and time so they can make more videos, pushing smaller producers out of the business.
@@cmmc3400 ahhh gotcha. Yeah I hear some of them that are just terrible with the language. I like the content but I can’t listen to it for the narrator but I actually thought this one was a real person.
AI-bot *un-creative- lazy ‘content’-‘creation, AI-bot endless comment sections, AI-artificial voice narration… … artificial.. fake ..pretend… brainless.. lazy… … - looks- and sounds to me like the demise of human creativity and intelligence is approaching speedily !
My dear sir, you are one of the most important main reasons why I once bought a PC and joined UA-cam: Namely to learn from people like you. For this video I thank you very much, I learned things thanks to you that I never knew, and I love to learn so much.
we would never call a bosuns call a whistle we use it to "pipe the side" or to signify amongst other things "a warning" to stop and stand still until the carry on is piped or a call to attention
0:12 oh dear. That's a hand warmer. The wooly stuff inside is likely asbestos. The charcoal stick contains a little potassium nitrate to keep it burning, and it is lit, placed into the device, closed and put into the hands or a pocket.
Too bad you didn't watch more than 12 seconds before commenting because they explained what it was 2 seconds after you stopped the video. Or maybe you saw that and just didn't feel like editing or deleting your comment.😂
In the 1970's I ran a sailboat rental concession on Miami Beach. One day an elderly gentleman walked up to me with a handful of objects, and asked me what I thought they were. I recognized them immediately, they were Tampon applicators. When I told him, he looked horrified, dropped them, and walked away muttering.
The train hoppers are used for dropping ballast onto the tracks ahead of a Tamper machine. The ballast settles after time with all the traffic using it, and it gets soiled, so is replaced periodically. The Tamper follows the ballast drop, picking up the rail removing old ballast and filling with new ballast, or just topping up and resetting the rail which is out of alignment. Trains run around the country testing the track to see if it has moved from its position and using that information to program the Tampers. To see a tamper pick up a piece of rail that deforms is an astounding sight, given that a rail hardly deforms at all when picked up, this is due to it sitting on the rail when it lifts it. When the Tamper sets the rail, it can exert the equivalent pressure of 500 trains running over the tracks, the method previously employed to do the job of tamping the rails.
26:35 the notch at the bottom of the mugs is also there to allow the water to drain off the top of the mug for dishwasher cleaning. I don't think they are there to keep the mug from sliding on the table because the rough texture at the bottom of the cup usually breaks the water seal on its own thereby leaving the only explanation to be that it is there to run off the water when you wash it in the dishwasher.
@@manta_dive that's literally what the video said it was for. I also said the exact same thing in my comment. Unfortunately that's not the reason why they're there. That may be a nice benefit but the original intention was to allow water to drain off the top when they're in a dishwasher
Yes that black thing you're talking about you're thinking that's a hand warmer, it's a portable fire starter you carry an Amber with you for about 3 days
1:26:10- Why would anyone throw that away? It's very cool looking even if they ha e ni use for it. I got addicted to watching this, time flew by and now I'm late getting to the store.
I lasted nearly an hour, I might have done the two, but the frequency of the adverts got to me eventually, just so many and none of the products interested me. One extra thing on the opera glasses, the plastic glasess shown look like the type that were available at my birth city's main theatre when I was a kid. I'm in my late 60s so quite some time ago, I believe the place has since been demolished. Back then the only time I went to the theatre was when my parents took me and my siblings to the Christmas pantomime. The opera glasses were in fact in a holder on the back of the seats where they join to each other, for use by the people behind that row. What I cannot remember is whether they were free or was there a coin slot that opened a catch, I have a feeling that might be the case. If that city theatre had them I imagine most of the hippodrome size theatres around Britain were still equipped with the glasses right up until the 60s and beyond. That's a lot of glasses so I wonder what became of them. Just before I left school at 16 and just after I left, I did go to that theatre to see two bands, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath!!! 💐🤔😼💗☕🥖🧀🍅🍕🍝🇪🇺🇺🇦🌍💃⚔️👗🦕🩰🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈💐
Most elemenrs are metals, to be divided in ferrous (ironlike) and non-ferrous (e.g., aluminium)/ Ferrous metals react tactile to a magnet; all the others don't
The AURORA TAGS are likely power or control cable numbering tags IF there are pairs of each number. Cables are either numbered in sequential groups indicating their use, or, alternatively, issued randomly so as not to create an ID pattern. All cables need an ID at each end. The tag edge writing can be taken as "Product Advertising".
Great channel! As an avid metal detectorist I often come across strange items that needs a bit of research... Think I guessed over 50% of the items in this video correctly. (But why did you include the avalanche prevention pods twice?)
Japanese jittes are designed to capture the sword blade up close and personal. Worn like a badge so peasants can recognize your authority. Edo oeriod was a transition period for samurai. The nineteen hundreds saw a very different Japan. Swords were mostly for decoration . And firearms replaced edge weapons. Organized crime was more powerful than the government. Example was World War II. Hawaii wasn't the Emperor's idea.
The cannon projectile (probably a training round) has been fired. The potential tracer element burns on firing and moving through the air - according to design intent. The marking function burns from the base of the projectile and can be seen as a ash sort of material in a hollow at the base - flat end - of the projectile. The marks on the sides, looking like long scuff marks indicate firing. Even if activated, an explosion is not indicated. A quick and rather hot - nasty burn - is the worst. (That nasty burn will require treatment.) And should be avoided. It is heavy enough not to drop on one's foot, either.
Almost right about the razor blade sharpener. It is not operated by pulling the cord through it in one direction and then back the other way. Instead, the end with a ring on it is hung on a screw or nail in the wall, and the user holds the other end of the cord with one hand. With the other end, they slide the block up and down the cord, which can be done very quickly, so that the blade can be sharpened in just a few seconds before each shave. My grandfather had one. I first saw it in the 1960s.
Symbols are often falsely misunderstood and there is a slight arogance of those that believe it was designed to represent one thing only. Francis Bellamy, the man who wrote the pledge of allegiance, also had a salute named after him. Originally, the salute was to our flag when reciting the pledge of allegiance until Itialin fascists and German nazis started using it prior to our involvement in WWII. It was actually brought into congressional discussion when it was decided to change our salute to the current hand over heart salute to avoid international conflicts, which obviously happened anyways.
Clarification on the phone dialing tool: these were provided to telephone company operators who would be dialing numbers all day long, for operator-assisted calls like collect and person-to-person calls. I saw a training film that introduced operators to direct-dialing, offering this tool as an alternative to dialing with their fingers.
the 'mosquito' , if located in britain, is a proscribed apparatus. they were deemed illegal some 25 years ago. as a lifelong asthematic, I can hear them and can tell you that the effects are not audible generally, but do cause nausea, headache and 'a discomfitting sensaion'. it is considered 'cruel' and therefore was made illegal
Definitely cruel. When I was a kid in the 70s and 80s, a shoe store my parents liked to shop at had some kind of electric device that emitted a high frequency noise that only kids could hear. I suspect it was accidental, some kind of radio interference or something, because it was a boring store and not the type kids would want to be in anyway. And no other stores on the block, or anywhere else, had that annoying noise. We HATED going there for shoes.
When I was in middle school some kid in my class used a little steam engine just like that one for his science fair project. He had a tank full of chicken feces that would build up methane pressure which he used the to drive the steam engine. It was pretty cleaver invention and if I remember correctly, he won first place. That would have been around 1972 or 73, so all of the gas shortage stuff was just getting started, so he was offering an alternative fuel. This was when Nixon told everyone to set their thermostats to something like 68 degrees. I lived in Maryland at the time, so 68 was freakin cold in the morning during winter. It’s funny how they were hollering energy shortage and crisis even back then and here we are in 2024 and burning more fossil fuels than ever, so you never know whether to believe whatever the government is pushing.
Heh, surprised to see a lock out tag out clamp with Slovene language on it (one of my native languages). The last time I saw one of these was at one of my old jobs.
The object @ 20:39 could also be a mustard spoon, or for salt. Salt and mustard weren't always in bottles or shakers. They were sometimes in little glass bowls on the table. My mother had me make tiny silver spoons for the dark blue 1"X2" rectangle salt... cellars she found at an antique store. The loop at the end to wear it, that might purpose it for disco era advertising of a cocaine user. EDIT: The notch in the bottom of the Ikea coffee mugs might be for the mug to double as a cigarette ash tray.
When my dad, a CWO in the US Army, and family were in Germany in the late 50s and early 60s, he was paid in "script" instead on US currency. This was to prevent the German public from hording the US dollars. This script looked a lot like the money used in the popular MONOPOLY game.
Hello! I mainly find interesting items here: www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing You can create a post there, and plenty of people will try to help figure out what your item is. You can also send me photos and a description at photo.yt.997@gmail.com, and I’ll try to identify it myself. If you post on Reddit, feel free to send me the link to your post as well.
HMS Hermes is the first custom built Aircraft carrier. i have dove on the wreck. Its in 65-70m of Sea Water and we dove it using 17% 02 on the bottom. Its 9km off thr East coast of Sri Lanka.
we still use the red hand warmers in hunting season or plowing snow we have a hole box of them light 4 of them put two in your coat pockets and two in your pants pockets
1:06:19 not just "hit the sack" it's also where the saying "sleep tight" came from because you would have to periodically tighten the straps/ropes once they became slack or saggy
Enjoy the longer format but whatever music you choose to add to the background is nauseating. There is a low beep that makes staying focused and engaged very difficult for me. I understand the purpose but it’s gotta be nuanced and not overly obnoxious. Otherwise very entertaining format.
I have the feeling that water ball in the picture is from Minong Wisconsin. I could be wrong, but that looks exactly like the town park there. during Minong days in the summer the police department versus the fire department that play waterball game.
When I was in 5th or 6th grade, this one kid brought a glass bottle with some kind of liquid in it. He was bragging about it being an acid strong enough that it could chew through glass. All the kids were in awe until one kid said, "So why isnt it chewing through the glass its in?" You gotta admire the one that uses common sense enough to call bullsh*t when needed.
I hope the kid who doubted the contents became a scientist - and if the vial owner immediately said "it's special glass!", I've no doubt he became a salesman! 😆
Well, the joke is on YOU. Hydrofluoric Acid WILL eat through glass and must be stored in at closed container made from either Polyethylene, Fluorocarbon, or Lead. I've only seen it in polyethylene. That kid probably assumed the PLASTIC container was glass. Haven't you ever heard of 'acid etched glass' with monograms or designs on them? I bet that first smart kid is working for NASA now. And the other one is still working on his GED.
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1st time, I have come across your channel. I totally enjoyed it. I have come across many odds and ends. And find myself frustrated when I can't figure out what they are.
Watching this episode was very satisfying. Thank you.
Due to Parkinson's tremors. Normally, I just do the little pictures at the top. And don't write anything, because it's too difficult. But as I am new to your channel, I thought I would explain that. God bless you and yours
Thank you so much for your support, it truly means a lot to me. It’s incredibly touching when people share such kind words. I wish you all the best. Thanks again!
Does any1 know wat dis is........stfu wit tht... just give ur info n stop tryna have a personality ai
What an epic comment I've ever read. But nowadays with the AI thing make me a little sceptical whether it's real or not.
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@@oldmandavoI think one might be rather surprised to learn what-all is AI-generated these days.
The lock out tag out clamp is used for multiple locks. Every person working on the equipment will attach a lock. That way it cannot be energized until EVERYONE working on it has removed his lock.
Thank you for adding this information! It's a great addition to what was covered in the video.
@@ram2791 we always called them "Hasps". I've been an industrial maintenance tech for 25 years and I have several in my tool box.
Thank you for this video. I am 60 years and couldn’t believe how many items have fallen into obscurity in such a short time. I was especially amused at how much worry there was over the 1970s oil bubble Knick knack.
Also that women who went up to the doorbell could have been a doorbell camera technician also.
Thank you for the support!
My dad had one of those.It's a hand warmer, you'll light the little charcoal stick and put it in there, and it just keeps burning the same ones as ours
51:32 that isn't a mosquito alarm. Thats an industrial alarm. It's used to signal mechanical startup. We had them everywhere in the FedEx warehouse I used to work at. Those things can be LOUD. Like teeth rattling loud.
When the warehouse first opened, the residents of the neighborhood across the street complained it was waking them up (we started at 2am). That person's neighbor was absolutely trying to mess with them if it's pointed directly into their yard
Thank you so much for sharing this information! You might be right about that
@@MI-MysteriousItem im having trouble finding the item on Google. I did find a few pictures inside fedex facilities where they're pictured but too blurry, but I'm telling you I used to hate those things. I know them well.
My grandfather had a Razor blade sharpener like the one in this video but I always wondered how it worked, now I know. Thank you!
It's rare someone ever asks me what something is and I don't know. There were quite a few items in this video that had me stumped. Impressive.
I’m glad you found the video interesting to watch!
Red carpet thing is not for carpets it was for upholstery chairs and sofas, the top round piece held the tacks.
You might be right.
That makes more sense.
I was almost a victim of the incident that made the "lockout/tagout" part of industrial safety protocols. Friend behind me did not make it out when a valve was improperly opened during a industrial clean out of tanks.
I watched the whole thing! So interesting. My favorite was the last one...haha, a kettle. My mother used to have a collection of fancy "thunder mugs".
This video is right up my ally. I love random and weird facts. Keep em coming.
Thanks for the support! I’ll do my best to keep the interesting videos coming.
Same here lol
First Item is a hand warmer. I had a few myself. Zippo made an awesome one.
1st item is a pocket hand warmer! You light one end of the stick and place it back in the holder and closed you can keep it safely inside your pocket
I like this kind of video but I despise how AI is horribly ripping up the English language. I prefer a real person, one you can see, providing the narration.
Are you sure this is AI?
@@ImpalaSuperSport It is a Video Farm product and they are diving into AI to save money and time so they can make more videos, pushing smaller producers out of the business.
@@cmmc3400 ahhh gotcha. Yeah I hear some of them that are just terrible with the language. I like the content but I can’t listen to it for the narrator but I actually thought this one was a real person.
Me too
AI-bot *un-creative- lazy ‘content’-‘creation, AI-bot endless comment sections, AI-artificial voice narration… … artificial.. fake ..pretend… brainless.. lazy… … - looks- and sounds to me like the demise of human creativity and intelligence is approaching speedily !
Sounds like grandma found another use for the back o scratcher considering the scratcher was missing. 😅
1:22:25 The antenna on this rifle is not a Yagi, but a log-periodic one. Unlike Yagi, it has wider frequency range.
My dear sir, you are one of the most important main reasons why I once bought a PC and joined UA-cam: Namely to learn from people like you.
For this video I thank you very much, I learned things thanks to you that I never knew, and I love to learn so much.
You did a great job with the research! Great video!😊
Glad you liked it!!
That pigeon capsule had been modified for snuff or other snortables, as the attaching bracket has been fashioned into a spoon if you look carefully
Indeed, thank you for adding new information to my response!
we would never call a bosuns call a whistle we use it to "pipe the side" or to signify amongst other things "a warning" to stop and stand still until the carry on is piped or a call to attention
Thanks for pointing that out👍
0:12 oh dear. That's a hand warmer. The wooly stuff inside is likely asbestos. The charcoal stick contains a little potassium nitrate to keep it burning, and it is lit, placed into the device, closed and put into the hands or a pocket.
You're definitely right about that.
Too bad you didn't watch more than 12 seconds before commenting because they explained what it was 2 seconds after you stopped the video. Or maybe you saw that and just didn't feel like editing or deleting your comment.😂
Handwarmer: I used these as a kid I the '70s skiing.😊
The older gizmos are so cool, like the double razor sharpener. I miss american craftsmanship
In the 1970's I ran a sailboat rental concession on Miami Beach. One day an elderly gentleman walked up to me with a handful of objects, and asked me what I thought they were. I recognized them immediately, they were Tampon applicators. When I told him, he looked horrified, dropped them, and walked away muttering.
This man is doing Gods work
Your "butter pick" is also a marrow pick for eating the stuff outta the middle of bones🤮
The train hoppers are used for dropping ballast onto the tracks ahead of a Tamper machine. The ballast settles after time with all the traffic using it, and it gets soiled, so is replaced periodically. The Tamper follows the ballast drop, picking up the rail removing old ballast and filling with new ballast, or just topping up and resetting the rail which is out of alignment. Trains run around the country testing the track to see if it has moved from its position and using that information to program the Tampers. To see a tamper pick up a piece of rail that deforms is an astounding sight, given that a rail hardly deforms at all when picked up, this is due to it sitting on the rail when it lifts it. When the Tamper sets the rail, it can exert the equivalent pressure of 500 trains running over the tracks, the method previously employed to do the job of tamping the rails.
I think the slit in the bottom of the coffee cup is so water can drain out when it goes through the dishwasher
I was not expecting the medal to be for KGB service. That's pretty neat. Nice video. 47 minutes in and still engaged
Happy to hear you liked it!
Owning that concealed medal could open a whole can of worms!
I used to use the leather punch a lot when I was a kid. It's amazing what people find. Very Cool
I'm thinking this video is a compilation of all the other videos of past time.
I agree.
Duh
I’ve seen some of these on the subreddit ‘whatisthisthing’.
Agreed that it is a compilation of other videos.
I found the answer to your thought in the title of the video. The word is. compilation.
Seriously?! Couldn't identify a "bread knife"?!?!?
26:35 the notch at the bottom of the mugs is also there to allow the water to drain off the top of the mug for dishwasher cleaning. I don't think they are there to keep the mug from sliding on the table because the rough texture at the bottom of the cup usually breaks the water seal on its own thereby leaving the only explanation to be that it is there to run off the water when you wash it in the dishwasher.
That could be true.
It can also be helpful when the mug is placed normally on a flat surface that's wet, to prevent vacuum lock.
@@manta_dive that's literally what the video said it was for. I also said the exact same thing in my comment. Unfortunately that's not the reason why they're there. That may be a nice benefit but the original intention was to allow water to drain off the top when they're in a dishwasher
It's stainless steel (I believe)soap.
It's for getting more stubborn smells like garlic and onion off of your hands.
Yes that black thing you're talking about you're thinking that's a hand warmer, it's a portable fire starter you carry an Amber with you for about 3 days
1:26:10- Why would anyone throw that away? It's very cool looking even if they ha e ni use for it.
I got addicted to watching this, time flew by and now I'm late getting to the store.
27:06 grandma brought you a weed grinder
I lasted nearly an hour, I might have done the two, but the frequency of the adverts got to me eventually, just so many and none of the products interested me.
One extra thing on the opera glasses, the plastic glasess shown look like the type that were available at my birth city's main theatre when I was a kid. I'm in my late 60s so quite some time ago, I believe the place has since been demolished.
Back then the only time I went to the theatre was when my parents took me and my siblings to the Christmas pantomime. The opera glasses were in fact in a holder on the back of the seats where they join to each other, for use by the people behind that row. What I cannot remember is whether they were free or was there a coin slot that opened a catch, I have a feeling that might be the case.
If that city theatre had them I imagine most of the hippodrome size theatres around Britain were still equipped with the glasses right up until the 60s and beyond. That's a lot of glasses so I wonder what became of them.
Just before I left school at 16 and just after I left, I did go to that theatre to see two bands, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath!!!
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It is the asking does anybody know what it is after every item. I just want to know instead if that jarring to my head.
Most elemenrs are metals, to be divided in ferrous (ironlike) and non-ferrous (e.g., aluminium)/ Ferrous metals react tactile to a magnet; all the others don't
I used the hand warmer when I was in scouts. I carried it to school too.
Looks like those hand warmers were pretty popular back in the day.
Geez, this younger generation has a lot to learn about Technology!
34:46: those f in spine-jack things are such a nuisance, littering up the place. we find 'em every day round where i live, eh??
At least I do have a hole punch for leather.
And a WW1 artillery shell fuse.
And a ‘herb grinder’....
The AURORA TAGS are likely power or control cable numbering tags IF there are pairs of each number.
Cables are either numbered in sequential groups indicating their use, or, alternatively,
issued randomly so as not to create an ID pattern. All cables need an ID at each end.
The tag edge writing can be taken as "Product Advertising".
Great channel! As an avid metal detectorist I often come across strange items that needs a bit of research... Think I guessed over 50% of the items in this video correctly. (But why did you include the avalanche prevention pods twice?)
That first item is a pocket hand warmer. I used to have one when I was a teenager to keep my hands warm when fishing.
That's amazing! A few people have mentioned they had one of these hand warmers as kids.
@@MI-MysteriousItem they are brilliant hand warmers. Highly recommend them to anyone. Definitely worth it, especially in freezing conditions.
yes had one of these, charcoal stick inside and asbestos lined.
What a great idea for a channel. I've been intrigued. Lol. Trying to guess what they are before your tell us is a challenge.
Thanks a lot! I'm happy to hear you liked it. I'll keep working on making more interesting videos for you.
Japanese jittes are designed to capture the sword blade up close and personal. Worn like a badge so peasants can recognize your authority. Edo oeriod was a transition period for samurai. The nineteen hundreds saw a very different Japan. Swords were mostly for decoration . And firearms replaced edge weapons. Organized crime was more powerful than the government. Example was World War II. Hawaii wasn't the Emperor's idea.
I had this exact style hand warmer! Worked Great!
We all know what granny was really using that vibrating back scratcher for…😅
Wouldn't be good if you could put one of those nuclear rods in that water boiler to produce power for your house would last for years just add water😂
The cannon projectile (probably a training round) has been fired. The potential tracer element burns on firing and moving through the air - according to design intent. The marking function burns from the base of the projectile and can be seen as a ash sort of material in a hollow at the base - flat end - of the projectile.
The marks on the sides, looking like long scuff marks indicate firing.
Even if activated, an explosion is not indicated. A quick and rather hot - nasty burn - is the worst. (That nasty burn will require treatment.) And should be avoided.
It is heavy enough not to drop on one's foot, either.
Really appreciate you sharing this fascinating information!
Compiling all those fact's together is a hard work! sub's for you!
Hope he didn't drink out of that kettle.
Yeah, that would have been a pretty odd decision:)
Love this channel. Waiting for you to find an orphaned source.
I use 2 antique brake pads as musicial instruments
That sounds interesting!
@MI-MysteriousItem it is. I put them on snare stands. Makes a awesome deep chime/cow bell sound
Almost right about the razor blade sharpener. It is not operated by pulling the cord through it in one direction and then back the other way. Instead, the end with a ring on it is hung on a screw or nail in the wall, and the user holds the other end of the cord with one hand. With the other end, they slide the block up and down the cord, which can be done very quickly, so that the blade can be sharpened in just a few seconds before each shave. My grandfather had one. I first saw it in the 1960s.
Symbols are often falsely misunderstood and there is a slight arogance of those that believe it was designed to represent one thing only. Francis Bellamy, the man who wrote the pledge of allegiance, also had a salute named after him. Originally, the salute was to our flag when reciting the pledge of allegiance until Itialin fascists and German nazis started using it prior to our involvement in WWII. It was actually brought into congressional discussion when it was decided to change our salute to the current hand over heart salute to avoid international conflicts, which obviously happened anyways.
Thank you for sharing such interesting information!
@@MI-MysteriousItem you wouldnt believe me if I told you what drove me to getting that info.
I had a steam engine like the one shown. 0:54 Brings me back 70 yrs Thanks
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the kind comment!
Swastika actually meant peace and long life
Before being violated by a cause of NARRISTIC RACIST GENOCIDAL PERSONS
The buzzer pointed into the neighbor's yard looks like a gasoline station overfill alarm
Clarification on the phone dialing tool: these were provided to telephone company operators who would be dialing numbers all day long, for operator-assisted calls like collect and person-to-person calls. I saw a training film that introduced operators to direct-dialing, offering this tool as an alternative to dialing with their fingers.
the 'mosquito' , if located in britain, is a proscribed apparatus.
they were deemed illegal some 25 years ago.
as a lifelong asthematic, I can hear them and can tell you that the effects are not audible generally, but do cause nausea, headache and 'a discomfitting sensaion'.
it is considered 'cruel' and therefore was made illegal
Thank you for sharing this interesting information
Definitely cruel. When I was a kid in the 70s and 80s, a shoe store my parents liked to shop at had some kind of electric device that emitted a high frequency noise that only kids could hear. I suspect it was accidental, some kind of radio interference or something, because it was a boring store and not the type kids would want to be in anyway. And no other stores on the block, or anywhere else, had that annoying noise. We HATED going there for shoes.
Excellent video. More, more, mucho more please!
Thank you!
Thank you!
When I was in middle school some kid in my class used a little steam engine just like that one for his science fair project. He had a tank full of chicken feces that would build up methane pressure which he used the to drive the steam engine. It was pretty cleaver invention and if I remember correctly, he won first place.
That would have been around 1972 or 73, so all of the gas shortage stuff was just getting started, so he was offering an alternative fuel. This was when Nixon told everyone to set their thermostats to something like 68 degrees. I lived in Maryland at the time, so 68 was freakin cold in the morning during winter. It’s funny how they were hollering energy shortage and crisis even back then and here we are in 2024 and burning more fossil fuels than ever, so you never know whether to believe whatever the government is pushing.
Thank you for sharing such an interesting story
#2 sterling engine
1:42:43 Lucky drum score, it's beautiful!
1:59:53 Omg, has he been using it to boil drinkung water? That's hilarious!
20:19 ITS FOR BLOW 😂😂😂
Gramma used to party with class back in the day, and you feared swearing around her?! 😂😂😂
This video is presented exactly as they should be. There are no pictures of people talking and only pictures of what they are talking about.
Heh, surprised to see a lock out tag out clamp with Slovene language on it (one of my native languages). The last time I saw one of these was at one of my old jobs.
I had a hand warmer like that as a kid.
The object @ 20:39 could also be a mustard spoon, or for salt. Salt and mustard weren't always in bottles or shakers. They were sometimes in little glass bowls on the table. My mother had me make tiny silver spoons for the dark blue 1"X2" rectangle salt... cellars she found at an antique store. The loop at the end to wear it, that might purpose it for disco era advertising of a cocaine user.
EDIT: The notch in the bottom of the Ikea coffee mugs might be for the mug to double as a cigarette ash tray.
The herb grinder got me! Hahaha!
Who knows, maybe it really was used for grinding herbs. :)
1:19 A dibble board. Aaah i see, that's the thing Flint Dibble got his brain oxygenated with🤔
I had one of them hand warmers
Sounds good! Did you ever use it, or do you keep it as a souvenir?
@@MI-MysteriousItem used it for fishing as a child
Had one in the 80s
Used it to keep warm while fishing .
The mug one is also to prevent water filling and staying in the dishwasher.
Buck Rogers was not the first Science Fiction comic. That was the Hugo Gernsback publication Science Fiction Comics in about 1936.
these videos would make a cool drinking game.
This is a brilliant channel for odd objects. 👌👍
Your grandparents must have been the best hoarders ever. 🤣
When my dad, a CWO in the US Army, and family were in Germany in the late 50s and early 60s, he was paid in "script" instead on US currency. This was to prevent the German public from hording the US dollars. This script looked a lot like the money used in the popular MONOPOLY game.
That’s really interesting, thank you for sharing!
How do I submit items for your channel?
Hello! I mainly find interesting items here: www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing You can create a post there, and plenty of people will try to help figure out what your item is. You can also send me photos and a description at photo.yt.997@gmail.com, and I’ll try to identify it myself. If you post on Reddit, feel free to send me the link to your post as well.
Did you get a response? I too have items interesting to post on this sie.
Great Show!!! I knew a couple things…. lol I’m 67 years old… HRUSKA’S Meat Market, Thomson Michigan!!
HMS Hermes is the first custom built Aircraft carrier. i have dove on the wreck. Its in 65-70m of Sea Water and we dove it using 17% 02 on the bottom. Its 9km off thr East coast of Sri Lanka.
First one is a handwarmer..they gave them to welders in the shipyard back in the day to keep in pockets
Love this info !!!
Thank you!
23:00 I find it very unlikely that a Yatzee runaway would carry a such fuse as a souvenir
The reverse swastika was also used in ancient times in northern India. It's considered a good luck symbol.
Very intresting vid .
Thank you!
we still use the red hand warmers in hunting season or plowing snow we have a hole box of them light 4 of them put two in your coat pockets and two in your pants pockets
Shells that are deactivated usually have a half-inch hole to empty explosives
Thanks for providing that extra info!
1:06:19 not just "hit the sack" it's also where the saying "sleep tight" came from because you would have to periodically tighten the straps/ropes once they became slack or saggy
Appreciate the extra info!
@@MI-MysteriousItem you're welcome! I just found your channel and love these videos... Thank you for making them long, too 😁
Enjoy the longer format but whatever music you choose to add to the background is nauseating. There is a low beep that makes staying focused and engaged very difficult for me. I understand the purpose but it’s gotta be nuanced and not overly obnoxious. Otherwise very entertaining format.
Thanks a lot for letting me know! I didn’t notice any noise on my end, but I’ll try to fix it.
Watching this has made me realize how old I really am.
You're right. Time really does fly by.
Yep I could identify quite a few of those items immediately!
Nah, it’s just experience. We’re experienced.
I have the feeling that water ball in the picture is from Minong Wisconsin. I could be wrong, but that looks exactly like the town park there. during Minong days in the summer the police department versus the fire department that play waterball game.
When I was in 5th or 6th grade, this one kid brought a glass bottle with some kind of liquid in it. He was bragging about it being an acid strong enough that it could chew through glass. All the kids were in awe until one kid said, "So why isnt it chewing through the glass its in?"
You gotta admire the one that uses common sense enough to call bullsh*t when needed.
Thank you for the interesting story. You're right.
I hope the kid who doubted the contents became a scientist - and if the vial owner immediately said "it's special glass!", I've no doubt he became a salesman! 😆
@@hectorpascal yeah. He could have said it was chrysta or something. 5th or 6th grade, we were all about as sharp as a marble.
Well, the joke is on YOU.
Hydrofluoric Acid WILL eat through glass and must be stored in at closed container made from either Polyethylene, Fluorocarbon, or Lead.
I've only seen it in polyethylene. That kid probably assumed the PLASTIC container was glass.
Haven't you ever heard of 'acid etched glass' with monograms or designs on them?
I bet that first smart kid is working for NASA now. And the other one is still working on his GED.
@@marciaoh7056 Would YOU give a 10 y/o a tube containing one of the strongest acids avaiable to chemists? I wouldn't!
That was a cool video great job !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for the support! I really appreciate it.
its a hand warmer. light the black bar a once it starts burning smoldering on it's own close the box
28.56 I think is a arrow remover back when they used arrows when u pulled ot out would leave the head behind ..
35:04 🤣🤣 I can't 🙅🏻♂️🤡
Hand warmer, I had one years ago.
That seems like an interesting item:)
That guy who ruined that antique campbels lighter by trying to use a can opener on it lol