My favorite thing about Simon can be summed up something I've often heard him say, "maybe I'm wrong about that,". To me there is something about the idea of being able to admit you might be wrong that shows someone truly values and understands what science and learning are.
I generally assume that I'm wrong about something I don't know about. It's a good way to live. 1) You learn lots of shit. 2) People like you more because you don't come across as a turd.
The lightbulb going off doesn't represent Edison and his invention to me. I agree that it symbolizes the switch being turned on and an idea popping into mind. Also business blaze has quickly became my favorite channel on UA-cam.
@@AmateurContendr I've never thought of it being symbolic of Edison, but I have heard other people say that before, especially of my mother's generation, so perhaps the concept is changing over time.
I think the story of the light bulb deserves it's own video (on one of Simon's other channels) but even though the general meaning and concept have carried over and are relevant to modern minds as having a bright idea, Edison was everywhere around the time this trope(?) first started appearing. I mean Edison was everything from home entertainment to electricity to light bulbs. Deserved or not Edison was a rockstar of his day so having a 'bright idea' could have been considered having an 'Edison moment' illustrated with a light bulb. Just a theory... But I agree that today Edison is not what's intended
Yes, Edison was one of the best in his time of stealing other people's ideas and marketing them very well as his own from Tesla to Alessandro Volta etc...
Hey probably stupid what's Whistler? I am the typical american who says I don't get it! But I don't care and am still asking! can you help me out? Love the channel just trying to be a little less clueless.
Before the "light bulb" was invented, artists used a candle flame, floating oil lamp or some similar image (generally termed a "photus") to represent the same idea of genius or mental illumination.
This is kind of a trend with common knowledge, and not just for invention. Schools teach simplified versions of the facts which get distorted over the years until sudenly something that is not correct is almost universally accepted as a fact.
1.) My coworkers & I still carry IPods/mp3 players b/c we work in a business where using our $800 phones as music players could get them crushed, wet, dusty, or ruined by accident. Though I use my phone at home, it’s safer to use the alternative on the job. Just thought I’d throw that out there that a market for them, despite being much smaller, still exists. So much so, that I was able to sell one of mine in a local online market within 2 weeks for $80. 2.) As a construction worker, I am more bothered by this than I should be, but can you please take a level to the 3 picture frames you have in the background? I think at least one is crooked(bottom one?) & it’s terribly bothersome to me.... my career has ruined me for noticing stupid little things like that lol
The ancient Egyptians would also use penicillin in a kind of way. If they had a sore or a wound that was infected they would take a piece of moldy bread, place it over the wound, then using a piece of cloth cover the whole thing and tie it off so the mold was in contact with the affected area because they found that the mold on the bread would kill the infection off.
Always look forward to videos on this channel. Maybe do a video on the oldest businesses? Oldest car company, oldest restaurant, oldest bookstore, etc.
I still have an iPod classic and 2 back ups for when that breaks. it's nice to be able to listen to music without adverts, or being tracked like a tagged animal.
Same here. I have an old iPod that I used for commuting. I don't like using up my phone battery for music - especially if I have to hang around waiting for a bus.
The original I-pod really was a great invention, sadly destroyed by the success of the I phone and the ruination of the I tunes store. So easy and simple to use. Far better than what came before. Mixtape anyone?
I agree with Simon. The light bulb just symbolizes inspiration (i.e., illumination), not an invention specifically, so not connected to Edison. You might portray any "bright idea" with the light bulb image.
If you wanted to get me thinking about edison and so on electrocution works better. The AC/DC war. Also not from the US here so Edison isn’t really thought of much.
The lightbulb is actually there if you have a bright idea. I've seen it! You gotta be careful though, if you're in a doorway or something, it might shatter on the doorframe as soon as it appears...
in one of ur videos u were wondering how to say Atari 2600 (its Atari twenty-six-Hundred) I think Business Blaze/TIFO should do a story/video in Atari (the gaming company) and how it became a '80's' icon and why and how it failed.
HEY! I have an iPod! Those things are actually useful and hardly. Especially when you work in factory and want to listen something without fear of breaking the damn thing or running low on battery. My phone didin't work in the factory anyway because signal problems. Also.. It was way more dangerous people having phones with them while working than just iPod.
The channel ROCKS!! Simon acting up, flubbing words,....cussing....tucking just the front tails of his shirt in.....contradicting Danny's hard work, just saying. Loving all of it!
I'm binging on Simon's empire of channel's it's been a little bit since I blazed, coming here after Geo/Biographics is like watching Simon on speed lmao
Dude, I had a Creative Zen! It was always fun when everyone was bragging about their adorable little 2gb iPods to be like "yeah that's cool. I've got my whole library with me" lmao
There was. One for each channel. Every time Daven takes over to host a video, it's because the Simons were doing battle off-camera. There can be only one.
Lewis Howard Latimer invented the carbon filament for the light bulb, he was later employed by Edison. He also helped Alexander Graham Bell create drafts for the telephone.
Edison had a research lab with many scientists/inventors working in it, but since he paid them a regular wage, Edison felt justified in patenting all the inventions coming out of his lab in his name.
The first commercially available mp3 player was the MPMan, iPod was years later. But as always Apple took an existing product, slapped an Apple logo on it and called it innovation.
“…three and a half minutes was always going to make the shuffle mode a bit predictable…” Holy hell! This is the song that just played! Twenty times! How novel! What the hell! 21 times! What a surprise! “Yeah, but it did play more than three and a half minutes of music, didn’t it Kramer?” After a mere thirty years, that _is_ quite the feat. From eating raw woolly mammoth meat to space travel in the blink of an eye, effectively.
Simon, I really enjoy all of your channels and content but I have to Say you look the most relaxed and seem do you have hit the sweet spot on this channel as far as hosting goes. Thanks for all the great content you bring us through all the channels, keep all the great work, and take care. Always looking forward to seeing what’s next.
Glad you like it :). It was a bit of a risk because its so different to my other stuff, and I really didn't know if people would like it. But it tested well... and so far things seem super positive. I really thought I'd have a lot more of "JUST READ THE FACTS, FACT BOY" but that's a really small minority and that's what my other channels are for :)
If you notice, each of Simon's channels has a different style of clothing, and different personality. On VisualPolitiks he wears loud shirts and is a little more relaxed like this channel. Biographics is his most "proper" channel. Classy clothes, few jokes or asides. ... Maybe I watch too much Simon...
While Danny makes sense with his idea lightbulb thing, I’ll have to agree with Simon because that’s what I’ve always thought of when I picture a lightbulb above someone’s head
I absolutely love this new channel and how funny simon actually comes across,. I remember briefly his video on, today i found out, about the us army soldiers that where subjected to a high altitude nuclear blast, and how the line "and they inserted them self's into..." And simon began cracking up. 😂😆😂😆😂 Honestly you have to look it up or if simon sees this he should reply with a link,
Agree that lightbulb moment is the idea being illuminated for you. On a side note, Edison, prior to the lightbulb, was a famous 'patent breaker', who would take inventions, and improve them in a critical way, allowing his employers to issue a new patent to supersede the original design. He actually invented a better microphone which improved on Bell's original telephone design, but Bell won the following courtcase, allowing him to keep control of the telephone patent. Edison, after he did the same improvement for the lightbulb though, ran with the idea and created the screw fitting to seat the lightbulbs, switchboards and meters for billing the power and basically invented the proto electric grid as we know it.
Apple never claimed to invent the MP3 player. I remember watching the unveiling of the ipod back in the day. Steve jobs literally showed a bunch of mp3 players on the market at the time and talked about how the ipod would store more music, and be thinner than existing mp3 players.
I like this because a business Channel could be a little more serious but instead it's like he's been drinking. Plus just one more persons take on how a business was founded or operated is always appreciated.
Interesting format. Overtly reading from a script and almost dialoguing with it while reading gave a very candid, casual feel. Very fun. Sometimes when I'm researching a pet topic of interest and find some particularly compelling information I find myself dialoguing with the texts, authors, and characters in a similar way. I'll happily stick around to see where this channel goes. P.S. You're TOTALLY right about the whole "light bulb turning on/idea" thing. We needn't think of Edison when we caricature bright ideas.
There’s supposed to be a light bulb at Edison’s Museum that still works. Turns out that those filaments can be made to last nearly forever, but then you wouldn’t need to buy new bulbs, so they are engineered to fail after so many hours of use. Forget lightbulbs. What Edison invented was a new way to make money.
I might be wrong, but the ones that have been running the longest are generally ones that have never been turned off (or turned off very little). Incandesant bulbs are usually damaged from the heating and cooling cycles causing metal fatigue. So all incandesant bulbs could probibly last forever... as long as you don't mind paying for the elctricity to keep them on 24/7 (probibly cheaper just to replace the bulb every so often).
I think the light bulb you're thinking of is the centennial bulb, located at a California fire department, running nonstop for the last 100+ years... this bulb was made using a carbon filament, instead of the thin tungsten filaments used in modern incandescent bulbs en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light?wprov=sfla1
Actually, since the lightbulbs that were "invented" before The Edison Company's breakthrough only lasted seconds at a time, his company saved us thousands of dollars. How annoying would it be to have to change the lightbulb every few seconds?
Hey man! I do electrical engineering and I can say without a doubt I use trigonometry, algebra, pythagorean theorem and differential/integral calculus and physics on a daily basis. In fact, learning these things in the context of electrical engineering has made them way easier to learn than they ever were in school becacuse you have a real life practical application for them that's acutally useful and it helps to cement the concepts in memory and build meaningful connections between them in ordrer to remember them easier. he way school teach it juust makes it all seem arbitrary and useless. Which was how I felt until I took up electrical engineering.
I grew up in the same village Flemming was from. There's a bust of him that looks nothing like his other portraits. Looks more like Gandalf with a smattering of Buckfast bottles laying around.
For a part 2 to this you could do vice-grip pliers, I was told the original inventor went in to see the board they told him his idea was no good and then a few months later started producing his invention.
On the Edison one should of brought up the guy( can’t remember name) who patented same filament as Edison. But did it first. So Edison hired him, then bought him out.
On the note of "who has an iPod anymore?": I have very recently begun to consider the possibility of getting a new Digital Music Player (what they're called now that they play more than MP3's). Mainly because I have a limited amount of space on my phone, and a few of the games and apps I have installed are over 500 MBs each. Combine that with the ridiculous amount of music I have (Like the entire studio discography of Pink Floyd), and it seems like a wise idea to keep my music on a separate device. I don't get how memory cards in a given price range are basically doubling in size per year but computers, tablets, and smartphones are all stuck with the same RAM and HDD/SSD sizes they had a decade ago. But it wouldn't be an iPod.
Yeah, I've been on this planet a few years now, and can safely say 'the light bulb moment' simply relates to having an idea or solution come to mind - seeing 'the light', if you will. Having an 'Edison moment', conversely, seems to be a relatively new saying, relating to this experience. Great channel. Keep up the good work, Simon!
Damn. Now I'm reminiscing about my first media player. It was the RCA Lyra A/V Jukebox RD2780. Used that thing to rip every episode of Initial D that Adult Swim aired. Sadly I lost it to a fire while the Freightliner was in a little shop in Chicago.
Hey Simon. I know this is a little late to comment, but I agree with you about the lightbulb being turned on to represent an idea. I have been known to use the phrase, “Did you see the lightbulb switch on?” when I/whomever figures out what is going on as well. Like, you are talking to your significant other and they say something a little vague. You pause for a second, and then go, “Oh! That’s why everyone was laughing!” Ding!! Lightbulb is on! 💡
I have and use a 7th gen iPod classic. I use it nearly daily because I find my phone to be a distraction at work, and I love listening to audiobooks and podcasts at work.
I think Simons going a great job jugging all this channels I've just recently come across these videos. I have maybe a suggestion for a view. Scam businesses seems scams are 1 in s million but how do you tell if these business are real or fake. Keep up the great work
Interestingly Bell and Edison had patented key improvements to each other's inventions. Bell made major improvements to the phonograph while Edison improved the signal pick-up of the telephone. Edison is interesting because his company was set up not just to "invent" but to develop to a market-ready state. This is probably why his filament is the one remembered. Thissometimes led invention down blind alleys for a while (the AC/DC war with Westinghouse). Conversely, Flemming's case shows the difference between discovery of property and development of process (getting Penicillin made on a scale to be standard issue in World War II). This isn't a rare event (British "Inventor", but development and profit abroad), Corelli Barnett et al have documented dozens of cases like that. The British computer industry didn't fail "becasue they couldn't make them leak oil", but because home demand was quite weak (Business Britain was just getting it's head around adding machines and other things IBM had been selling for decades). One reason that posterity generally gives the Wright Bothers credit for first airplane (which was disputed much more during their lifetimes) is that hindsight showed that, even if someone HAD flown before (just with less proof), the brothers HAD definitely cracked the important problem, control in flight (dashing the hopes of many, including Bell, who were trying to develop self-leveling aircraft). From this view the key date isn't 1903 but 1908, when Orville flew for the Army and Wilbur flew at LeMans (and elicited from one of his rival aeronaughts "We don't even exist!") Once everyone copied wingwarping (or went with ailerons), they brothers faded out (especially after Wilbur died, he was considered the brains of the pair). Deciding who hopped first was a mess, but the Wrights "hop" had a clear through-line to a practical demonstration.(two actually).
I always thought the light bulb metaphor was the "eureka!" moment of Edison "inventing the light bulb". As Danny wrote, we often think of inventions as if they never existed in any form until suddenly they came about in a single moment.
12:00 I agree with Simon it's about the idea coming into the head and the light coming on to symbolize the idea or the switching on of your thought process
I think the problem is because everyone Associated Thomas Edison with the light bulb just like any time that I see a kite and a key I think of Benjamin Franklin
I can remember apples iPod, and iTunes foray into music sales. I didn’t buy any Apple stock, then like $29/share because industry pundits were all saying it’s marketed to kids, it’s going to cause Apple to go bankrupt. LOL! Yes, I’m an idiot.
My favorite thing about Simon can be summed up something I've often heard him say, "maybe I'm wrong about that,". To me there is something about the idea of being able to admit you might be wrong that shows someone truly values and understands what science and learning are.
I generally assume that I'm wrong about something I don't know about. It's a good way to live. 1) You learn lots of shit. 2) People like you more because you don't come across as a turd.
@@brainblaze6526 botham
The lightbulb going off doesn't represent Edison and his invention to me. I agree that it symbolizes the switch being turned on and an idea popping into mind.
Also business blaze has quickly became my favorite channel on UA-cam.
I totally agree with this. I never once thought of it being symbolic of Edison.
@@AmateurContendr I've never thought of it being symbolic of Edison, but I have heard other people say that before, especially of my mother's generation, so perhaps the concept is changing over time.
I agree. And I hope I never have an Edison moment. I'd rather have morals.
I think the story of the light bulb deserves it's own video (on one of Simon's other channels) but even though the general meaning and concept have carried over and are relevant to modern minds as having a bright idea, Edison was everywhere around the time this trope(?) first started appearing. I mean Edison was everything from home entertainment to electricity to light bulbs. Deserved or not Edison was a rockstar of his day so having a 'bright idea' could have been considered having an 'Edison moment' illustrated with a light bulb. Just a theory... But I agree that today Edison is not what's intended
Yes, Edison was one of the best in his time of stealing other people's ideas and marketing them very well as his own from Tesla to Alessandro Volta etc...
An "Edison moment"? Is that when someone discovers that their Tesla was stolen? 😁
If a Tesla is stolen, does it become an Edison?
Totally.
I was wondering why he never mentioned all the inventions that were stolen from N. Tesla!
Most of which were stolen by Edison !
@@devonlockwood1477 because that's an entirely different series of videos that Simon would have to do
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@@aceundead4750 That would be an entire channel...!
It's like watching Whistler (The Director's cut). I like this. In fact, I love it 👍🏻
Hey probably stupid what's Whistler? I am the typical american who says I don't get it! But I don't care and am still asking! can you help me out? Love the channel just trying to be a little less clueless.
@@JTient the host. His name is simon whistler. You must be new to his channels
Before the "light bulb" was invented, artists used a candle flame, floating oil lamp or some similar image (generally termed a "photus") to represent the same idea of genius or mental illumination.
I always assumed it was the light turning on like an idea popping up never made me think specifically of edison
Business Blaze: Simon makes himself laugh for 15 minutes.
hahha, sounds about right. I should use that for the channel tag line ;).
@@brainblaze6526 you definitely should. Thanks for the laugh, mate.
It's called exhaustion.
Yes....Edison WAS a narcissistic asshole.
@@brainblaze6526 Hell yes
"Thomas Crapper invented the floating ballcock" is my new favorite sentence.
Simon I love how much more relaxed you are with this channel, it is glorious!
And hilarious 😂😂
Ya me too it's fucking great, so awesome. Glorious
Thanks :)
I do too. I love this Simon!
This is kind of a trend with common knowledge, and not just for invention. Schools teach simplified versions of the facts which get distorted over the years until sudenly something that is not correct is almost universally accepted as a fact.
Suddenly there’s this dude that walked on water and fed the masses with a single fish.
@@diamondsmasher ...And for some reason, that guys supposed words still affect me, usually negatively, about 2000 years later. Neat.
"Inventions don't happen in a vacuum" said about a light bulb being invented. A vacuum tube device. Ironic?
BA DA BUM BUM TSHSHHSHSHSHSHSHS
Dont forget vacuums themselves
1.) My coworkers & I still carry IPods/mp3 players b/c we work in a business where using our $800 phones as music players could get them crushed, wet, dusty, or ruined by accident. Though I use my phone at home, it’s safer to use the alternative on the job. Just thought I’d throw that out there that a market for them, despite being much smaller, still exists. So much so, that I was able to sell one of mine in a local online market within 2 weeks for $80.
2.) As a construction worker, I am more bothered by this than I should be, but can you please take a level to the 3 picture frames you have in the background? I think at least one is crooked(bottom one?) & it’s terribly bothersome to me.... my career has ruined me for noticing stupid little things like that lol
Been bugging me too.
@sjwilson438 It's been fixed now at least. :-)
I never noticed, but am only no going back through BBs older videos.
Lol. I never watch the videos and just listen. Your #2 cracked me up.
From now on when I stub my toe I'm gonna say "bloody Scottish"
This is the appropriate response to stubbing a toe. Glad we agree
The ancient Egyptians would also use penicillin in a kind of way. If they had a sore or a wound that was infected they would take a piece of moldy bread, place it over the wound, then using a piece of cloth cover the whole thing and tie it off so the mold was in contact with the affected area because they found that the mold on the bread would kill the infection off.
Woah. Humans try all sorts of weird shit.
"Hey Tutankhamun, rub this nasty bread on your wounds"
*sips mould juice*
Always look forward to videos on this channel. Maybe do a video on the oldest businesses? Oldest car company, oldest restaurant, oldest bookstore, etc.
I still have an iPod classic and 2 back ups for when that breaks. it's nice to be able to listen to music without adverts, or being tracked like a tagged animal.
Same here. I have an old iPod that I used for commuting. I don't like using up my phone battery for music - especially if I have to hang around waiting for a bus.
The original I-pod really was a great invention, sadly destroyed by the success of the I phone and the ruination of the I tunes store. So easy and simple to use. Far better than what came before. Mixtape anyone?
Absolutely.
I agree with Simon. The light bulb just symbolizes inspiration (i.e., illumination), not an invention specifically, so not connected to Edison. You might portray any "bright idea" with the light bulb image.
Okay, cool. That did get me thinking.
If you wanted to get me thinking about edison and so on electrocution works better.
The AC/DC war.
Also not from the US here so Edison isn’t really thought of much.
The lightbulb is actually there if you have a bright idea. I've seen it! You gotta be careful though, if you're in a doorway or something, it might shatter on the doorframe as soon as it appears...
@@brainblaze6526 So you had a light bulb moment about a light bulb moment?
in one of ur videos u were wondering how to say Atari 2600 (its Atari twenty-six-Hundred)
I think Business Blaze/TIFO should do a story/video in Atari (the gaming company) and how it became a '80's' icon and why and how it failed.
How about a video about ATLANTROPA - The idea to block of the mediterranean sea?
Woah, that's crazy. Will look into it. Thanks for the idea.
HEY! I have an iPod! Those things are actually useful and hardly. Especially when you work in factory and want to listen something without fear of breaking the damn thing or running low on battery. My phone didin't work in the factory anyway because signal problems.
Also.. It was way more dangerous people having phones with them while working than just iPod.
I've had a 3rd Gen iPod nano since release and still use it in my car every day because of the impeccable Apple/Scion stereo integration.
The channel ROCKS!! Simon acting up, flubbing words,....cussing....tucking just the front tails of his shirt in.....contradicting Danny's hard work, just saying. Loving all of it!
I'm binging on Simon's empire of channel's it's been a little bit since I blazed, coming here after Geo/Biographics is like watching Simon on speed lmao
OMG... i love your sense of humor ...enjoy watching your diff content/channels.
Dude, I had a Creative Zen!
It was always fun when everyone was bragging about their adorable little 2gb iPods to be like "yeah that's cool. I've got my whole library with me" lmao
Simon, I honestly don't understand how can you keep up all of this :( Another channel? Are you ok?
It's what keeps him alive - he runs on like-and-subscribe-powered batteries. He's only growing stronger.
I think there is a store room somewhere full of Simon Whistler Clones 😭
Simon wears a cape.
Did you see that coffee cup? I have the feeling that that wasn't his first cup. 😂
There was. One for each channel. Every time Daven takes over to host a video, it's because the Simons were doing battle off-camera. There can be only one.
If the light bulb were being unscrewed and taken, perhaps I would have thought of Edison.
Lewis Howard Latimer invented the carbon filament for the light bulb, he was later employed by Edison. He also helped Alexander Graham Bell create drafts for the telephone.
Was anyone else worried Simon was going to spill his coffee? 😳. Love the channel, Simon!!!
It wouldn't be the first time. I get over excited sometimes.
It wasn’t until you got to the iPod I had the revelation that the Bell/Fleming stories weren’t just another of Danny’s rambling introductions.
edison invented getting away with stealing peoples ideas
No he stole that idea from someone else.
Edison was so bold at stealing others ideas, I am surprised he didn't try to patent idea theft.
Edison had a research lab with many scientists/inventors working in it, but since he paid them a regular wage, Edison felt justified in patenting all the inventions coming out of his lab in his name.
Love it. I learned something new today. Simon you are the man
The first commercially available mp3 player was the MPMan, iPod was years later. But as always Apple took an existing product, slapped an Apple logo on it and called it innovation.
Sam, you did an amazing job editing this one! The timing for the images, the audio editing! Trying to clean up spoken audio is a nightmare sometimes!
Insert weird al "everything you know is wrong"
Ok, *Honest-to-God! I NEARLY PISSED MYSELF LAUGHING when you said:
*"MOLD-JUICE"* -Mmmmm!- 😋
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I am with you Simon, I always took the light bulb as 'seeing something in a new light' but ultimately we have to ask Otto Messmer and Pat Sullivan.
“…three and a half minutes was always going to make the shuffle mode a bit predictable…”
Holy hell! This is the song that just played! Twenty times! How novel! What the hell! 21 times! What a surprise!
“Yeah, but it did play more than three and a half minutes of music, didn’t it Kramer?” After a mere thirty years, that _is_ quite the feat. From eating raw woolly mammoth meat to space travel in the blink of an eye, effectively.
First video I’ve watched on this one of your channels. Loved it. The format is reminiscent of Fact Fiend.
Thanks :)
Nice to see Simon being himself and not worrying about... much of anything really ;)
Simon, I really enjoy all of your channels and content but I have to Say you look the most relaxed and seem do you have hit the sweet spot on this channel as far as hosting goes. Thanks for all the great content you bring us through all the channels, keep all the great work, and take care.
Always looking forward to seeing what’s next.
Glad you like it :). It was a bit of a risk because its so different to my other stuff, and I really didn't know if people would like it. But it tested well... and so far things seem super positive. I really thought I'd have a lot more of "JUST READ THE FACTS, FACT BOY" but that's a really small minority and that's what my other channels are for :)
If you notice, each of Simon's channels has a different style of clothing, and different personality. On VisualPolitiks he wears loud shirts and is a little more relaxed like this channel. Biographics is his most "proper" channel. Classy clothes, few jokes or asides.
... Maybe I watch too much Simon...
@@BaldingClamydia HERESY!!!
While Danny makes sense with his idea lightbulb thing, I’ll have to agree with Simon because that’s what I’ve always thought of when I picture a lightbulb above someone’s head
1:50 - Chapter 1 - Telephone
4:50 - Chapter 2 - Penicilin
8:05 - Chapter 3 - Ipod
12:10 - Chapter 4 - Lightbulb
Awesome presentation!
It’s like you ran out of shots to give away yesterday and just went full steam ahead!
Loved it.
I absolutely love this new channel and how funny simon actually comes across,. I remember briefly his video on, today i found out, about the us army soldiers that where subjected to a high altitude nuclear blast, and how the line "and they inserted them self's into..." And simon began cracking up. 😂😆😂😆😂 Honestly you have to look it up or if simon sees this he should reply with a link,
You've shown glimpses of your personality and humor prior to this but MAN... this video DEFINITELY ROCKS Simon! Keep giving us pieces of Simon!
Love your work guys
I believe the phrase is “a eureka moment”.
You are so much more laid back on this channel. Yet, I walk away with some sick new knowledge. Cheers!
:)
This format is so much better than your others, I''d love to see TopTens in that style
DUDE, as a Scot you are killing me... Jk, loved the video. Could you do one on some stuff that the Scottish *did* actually invent?
Hahaha :D :D
Tartan paint
They invented modern golf. Even if it's a stupid game and waste of time.
@@Jerseyboy777 And land....bah!
Agree that lightbulb moment is the idea being illuminated for you.
On a side note, Edison, prior to the lightbulb, was a famous 'patent breaker', who would take inventions, and improve them in a critical way, allowing his employers to issue a new patent to supersede the original design. He actually invented a better microphone which improved on Bell's original telephone design, but Bell won the following courtcase, allowing him to keep control of the telephone patent. Edison, after he did the same improvement for the lightbulb though, ran with the idea and created the screw fitting to seat the lightbulbs, switchboards and meters for billing the power and basically invented the proto electric grid as we know it.
Apple never claimed to invent the MP3 player. I remember watching the unveiling of the ipod back in the day. Steve jobs literally showed a bunch of mp3 players on the market at the time and talked about how the ipod would store more music, and be thinner than existing mp3 players.
Okay, I love this relaxed and more "fun" you! Also, how many hours do you work each day???!
Edison was a business man not an inventor, and a super shady one at that. He's basically the PT Barnum of inventors.
"Antonio Meucci.....Meutcy...meuchi?... who cares?" 🤣. Behold Simon's field of fucks and see that it is barren.
:D barren like the desert dude
I agree with you Simon. I always thought the lightbulb going on above someone's head to indicate an idea being turned on, aka inspiration.
I swear Simon gets high before filming these, the name of the channel is Blaze after all. Simon being silly and relaxed is just the best🤭
I like this because a business Channel could be a little more serious but instead it's like he's been drinking. Plus just one more persons take on how a business was founded or operated is always appreciated.
Love the new channel, also Simon I agree with u about the "Edison moment" thing.... and yes I still use an ipod lol
Yeah I'm with Simon. The lightbulb moment is about ideas or the brain switching on. I've never associated it with Edison.
These videos are amazing, my favourite of your channels ( and I watch all of them i think)
was he a phone-y? LOL. . . Simon, we all KNEW you were going to do that joke, heck you practically telegraphed it.
I saw it as a "light bulb moment"
@@BatCaveOz nice!
Edison was the Elon musk of his day. Bought or acquired most of the things people associate with them
Interesting format. Overtly reading from a script and almost dialoguing with it while reading gave a very candid, casual feel. Very fun. Sometimes when I'm researching a pet topic of interest and find some particularly compelling information I find myself dialoguing with the texts, authors, and characters in a similar way. I'll happily stick around to see where this channel goes.
P.S. You're TOTALLY right about the whole "light bulb turning on/idea" thing. We needn't think of Edison when we caricature bright ideas.
Glad you like it. What you describe is exactly what we’re going for! I’m pleased it comes across :)
I'm with Simon on the lightbulb analogy that's how I always thought of it
It is great to see Simon enjoy himself in these videos 👍😊
IIRC, the iPod UI (control wheel etc.) was the big differentiator against other mp3 players.
Yeah, the infiniti wheel thing was great.
There’s supposed to be a light bulb at Edison’s Museum that still works. Turns out that those filaments can be made to last nearly forever, but then you wouldn’t need to buy new bulbs, so they are engineered to fail after so many hours of use. Forget lightbulbs. What Edison invented was a new way to make money.
I might be wrong, but the ones that have been running the longest are generally ones that have never been turned off (or turned off very little). Incandesant bulbs are usually damaged from the heating and cooling cycles causing metal fatigue. So all incandesant bulbs could probibly last forever... as long as you don't mind paying for the elctricity to keep them on 24/7 (probibly cheaper just to replace the bulb every so often).
I think the light bulb you're thinking of is the centennial bulb, located at a California fire department, running nonstop for the last 100+ years... this bulb was made using a carbon filament, instead of the thin tungsten filaments used in modern incandescent bulbs
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light?wprov=sfla1
Actually, since the lightbulbs that were "invented" before The Edison Company's breakthrough only lasted seconds at a time, his company saved us thousands of dollars. How annoying would it be to have to change the lightbulb every few seconds?
Yes, there are a few in his Florida home. I've seen them with my own eyes. I'm not sure if they them off at night or not.
Loving the feel of the new channel!
I like these videos before i even begin watching them. Never have they disappointed me.
Legend
Great channel - Simon - my favorite of all your work - very funny!
I love this caffeinated Simon and his FIDO attitude. Brilliant.
3:05 "I think I've heard of this story."
Me: *looks sideways at Alexander Graham Bell Biographics episode* "I wonder why."
I just love this channel!! It's a video full of Simon cracking up :D
Hey man! I do electrical engineering and I can say without a doubt I use trigonometry, algebra, pythagorean theorem and differential/integral calculus and physics on a daily basis. In fact, learning these things in the context of electrical engineering has made them way easier to learn than they ever were in school becacuse you have a real life practical application for them that's acutally useful and it helps to cement the concepts in memory and build meaningful connections between them in ordrer to remember them easier. he way school teach it juust makes it all seem arbitrary and useless. Which was how I felt until I took up electrical engineering.
This channel is my favorite distraction from my coursework.
I agree with you Simon, the light bulb idea to me is, you had an idea as in the idea lighting up the light bulb, maybe it is combination of both.
I grew up in the same village Flemming was from. There's a bust of him that looks nothing like his other portraits. Looks more like Gandalf with a smattering of Buckfast bottles laying around.
For a part 2 to this you could do vice-grip pliers, I was told the original inventor went in to see the board they told him his idea was no good and then a few months later started producing his invention.
I got a good 30 second laugh from that sloth meme. Good one. I’m still chuckling.
On the Edison one should of brought up the guy( can’t remember name) who patented same filament as Edison. But did it first. So Edison hired him, then bought him out.
I see. It's the rich corporate CEO that distributes a product to the masses that is named inventor.
On the note of "who has an iPod anymore?":
I have very recently begun to consider the possibility of getting a new Digital Music Player (what they're called now that they play more than MP3's). Mainly because I have a limited amount of space on my phone, and a few of the games and apps I have installed are over 500 MBs each. Combine that with the ridiculous amount of music I have (Like the entire studio discography of Pink Floyd), and it seems like a wise idea to keep my music on a separate device. I don't get how memory cards in a given price range are basically doubling in size per year but computers, tablets, and smartphones are all stuck with the same RAM and HDD/SSD sizes they had a decade ago.
But it wouldn't be an iPod.
Yeah, I've been on this planet a few years now, and can safely say 'the light bulb moment' simply relates to having an idea or solution come to mind - seeing 'the light', if you will. Having an 'Edison moment', conversely, seems to be a relatively new saying, relating to this experience.
Great channel. Keep up the good work, Simon!
Yeah. Having an Edison Moment would seem to be putting your name on the patent of someone else's invention. Allegedly.
Damn. Now I'm reminiscing about my first media player. It was the RCA Lyra A/V Jukebox RD2780. Used that thing to rip every episode of Initial D that Adult Swim aired. Sadly I lost it to a fire while the Freightliner was in a little shop in Chicago.
Hey Simon. I know this is a little late to comment, but I agree with you about the lightbulb being turned on to represent an idea. I have been known to use the phrase, “Did you see the lightbulb switch on?” when I/whomever figures out what is going on as well. Like, you are talking to your significant other and they say something a little vague. You pause for a second, and then go, “Oh! That’s why everyone was laughing!” Ding!! Lightbulb is on! 💡
I love these! You are delightful to watch sir! Thank you 🤓
I have and use a 7th gen iPod classic. I use it nearly daily because I find my phone to be a distraction at work, and I love listening to audiobooks and podcasts at work.
I think Simons going a great job jugging all this channels I've just recently come across these videos. I have maybe a suggestion for a view. Scam businesses seems scams are 1 in s million but how do you tell if these business are real or fake. Keep up the great work
Interestingly Bell and Edison had patented key improvements to each other's inventions. Bell made major improvements to the phonograph while Edison improved the signal pick-up of the telephone.
Edison is interesting because his company was set up not just to "invent" but to develop to a market-ready state. This is probably why his filament is the one remembered. Thissometimes led invention down blind alleys for a while (the AC/DC war with Westinghouse). Conversely, Flemming's case shows the difference between discovery of property and development of process (getting Penicillin made on a scale to be standard issue in World War II). This isn't a rare event (British "Inventor", but development and profit abroad), Corelli Barnett et al have documented dozens of cases like that. The British computer industry didn't fail "becasue they couldn't make them leak oil", but because home demand was quite weak (Business Britain was just getting it's head around adding machines and other things IBM had been selling for decades).
One reason that posterity generally gives the Wright Bothers credit for first airplane (which was disputed much more during their lifetimes) is that hindsight showed that, even if someone HAD flown before (just with less proof), the brothers HAD definitely cracked the important problem, control in flight (dashing the hopes of many, including Bell, who were trying to develop self-leveling aircraft). From this view the key date isn't 1903 but 1908, when Orville flew for the Army and Wilbur flew at LeMans (and elicited from one of his rival aeronaughts "We don't even exist!") Once everyone copied wingwarping (or went with ailerons), they brothers faded out (especially after Wilbur died, he was considered the brains of the pair). Deciding who hopped first was a mess, but the Wrights "hop" had a clear through-line to a practical demonstration.(two actually).
Woah! Simon be rockin' the style comedic! Really enjoyable.
Glad you enjoy it :)
I think you’re having. Way to much fun with. This channel
Edison didn't even come up with the longer lasting filament. He had teams of people working on it. As usual, the boss gets the credit for the workers
I always thought the light bulb metaphor was the "eureka!" moment of Edison "inventing the light bulb". As Danny wrote, we often think of inventions as if they never existed in any form until suddenly they came about in a single moment.
12:00 I agree with Simon it's about the idea coming into the head and the light coming on to symbolize the idea or the switching on of your thought process
I think the problem is because everyone Associated Thomas Edison with the light bulb just like any time that I see a kite and a key I think of Benjamin Franklin
Simon, your reading skill is awesome.
Wait... Simon has ANOTHER Channel??? ... "Cancel ALL of my appointments!!!" ... Btw, yes, I still use an iPod lol
I can remember apples iPod, and iTunes foray into music sales. I didn’t buy any Apple stock, then like $29/share because industry pundits were all saying it’s marketed to kids, it’s going to cause Apple to go bankrupt. LOL! Yes, I’m an idiot.
I envy all Simon's friends. I want such a guy to hang out with from time to time :)
(Also, I'm a huge fan of Simon's voice)
Do you think he even has time for friends, constantly creating all these videos for all these channels? :O
Awesome! I had a creative Zen! Used it for 8 years. It was amazing!