That first episode was the height of idiocy given that we have power stations that work by exactly that principle: a bunch of mirrors reflecting sunshine to heat an area up hot enough to melt salt. Thousands of soldiers holding mirrors reflecting sunshine on a single source could easily light a sail on fire
@@sequoiahughes8536 Takes a lot of coordination, and making really polished mirrors was harder back then. Then try doing it with thousands of disciplined Romans shooting at you, and possibly landing off to your side and about to assault you.
@@sequoiahughes8536 .. there are a few differences , modern mirrors , the power station isn't moving ( you know like a ship on water ) are 2 i can think of immediately
the Archimedes screw even became an invaluable device in american steam railroad, as many steam locomotives got bigger so did the labor require to fire them, the big boy locomotive that you covered on mega projects was one such locomotive, as well as it's sister locomotives the challngers and FEF's, but alot of railroad during the steam era employed the Archimedes screw as a way of transferring coal from the tender and into the firebox, which enabled these beasts of steam and steel to successfully operate without requiring multiple firemen all working in unison to shovel coal by hand.
im 53 now but in 1977 in class the teacher asked all us 7 yr olds, how to get water up the hill , baring in mind i was a slow learner/ remedial (i used to stare off into space alot but i was only 7) i drew side profile a metal screw encased in wooden planks , and i remember she asked me shaking her head "but how do you get the water out ?" i said "you turn the handle miss" then she said "but how do you hold it ?" i said "its on two legs " as i had drawn. she was having none of it , and kept saying "no , no " (me) "but miss you just.... "no ,(sigh) jason ... and she walked off to the next kid.. i was gutted. true story , blows my mind, i essentially invented archimedes screw unbeknown to me at the time.
Fun fact: The archimedes screw was invented independently well before Archimedes's time. The Assyrian king Sennacherib used them to irrigate the grand gardens of his palace in the 7th century B.C.E. (There is a compelling argument these were actually the historical hanging gardens of Babylon).
Damn. I've been trying to push my local mega/sideproject (raising the height of a bridge by 60 feet while still keeping the bridge in use, thereby allowing NYC's biggest port to remain open for New Panamax ships), but holy crap I want to hear about this one even more after looking into it. That is simply incredible.
Neither Archimedes or his contemporaries claimed he invented the Archimedes Screw, and historians generally agree that he didn't. He observed use of the mechanism in egypt, where it had been used for a long time, described it, and brought it to the rest of the greek world!
The displacement of the water doesn't depend on the weight of the crown but on it's volume, Simon. It's the amount of counterweight that gives away the deception.
"A few channels?" Biographics, Geographics, Top Tenz, Today I Found Out, Business Blaze, Megaprojects, Side Projects, Brainfood, Highlight History. Pretty sure I missed a few. This should be called SimonTube, although that has too many, um, connotations.
Simon do a video on the Hanford Nuclear Project! There are tons of interesting facts. It is one of the US’ nuclear development sites used during the manhattan project that still runs today
Adam Hart Davis' version of Archimedes' solar death ray worked, as seen in episode 8 of What The Ancients Did For Us - The Greeks. I can't access the video due, due to BBC copyright in the UK, but it's there for anyone without geographical limitations to see. I remember watching Mythbusters and being unimpressed after Adam Hart Davis had managed it.
You are like a factory with these channels man I remember when biographies had launched a few days before now, Side Projects, Biographics, Geographics, Megaprojects, Sideprojects, Today I found out. Bloody hell man keep up the work you have so many channels and all are pretty successful and well the amount of time and effort you put in. The researching the recording the editing the final touches the subtitles the credits and each channel usually gets a video a day and there’s a fair few keep it up. All my respect ;v)
10:03 One of those diagrams clearly showed something more like a lens assembly/giant magnifying glass rather than mirrors, although it could be a magnifying device that employed mirrors rather than just straight bouncing sunlight off a mirror. No one that's tested the 'death ray' theory that I have seen has tried this approach which would, if it were done even decently well, certainly be able to burn wood and sail at set distances. Mirrors that bounced sunlight through a magnifying device to allow it to be more easily pointed at various ships would be fairly effective as long as the ships weren't already too close. Even an array of mirrors that focussed sunlight onto another mirror which sent it off to wherever, perhaps. There have been reports from the ancient world across the globe of the use of what could reasonably be such devices to ignite timber and even cauterize wounds, whether these be tales from the imagination of real world events, the similarity to a magnifying glass which wasn't officially invented until much later is intriguing. Given that there are tales of such things being used on a small scale to set things on fire, it's also possible that someone used that principle to write a cool story about how he sent ships to their fiery doom by a death ray of sunlight and pain in valiant defence of the island.
Thank you. I enjoyed listening to your video about Archimedes. I remember this from my high school physics and still remember it. I always wanted to google about Archimedes and the EUREKA MOMENT. I grew up in Africa and I had amazing physics and chemistry teachers.👏👏👏Please, do let us know more about the ROYAL CROWN story.
Despite the Mythbusters trying the Archimedes mirror idea of setting a warship afire twice with no success I think they (deliberately) left out what made the Greeks similar experiment succeed. Those warships had pitch (pine tar, perhaps) for caulking, yes, but also in a heated pot on board to dip their arrows in for setting fire to opposing ships with the flaming arrows. This may, or may not have worked to ignite the ships but psychologically scaring the sailors with the prospect of their ship afire would have an affect. I know as once a U.S.Navy sailor myself, that fire aboard is a very great fear for which we trained regularly to be able to extinguish. Pitch already heated in a caldron would be like napalm about to go off. Instead of trying to set a wet hull ablaze, even where there was pitch oozing out of the seams, the more flammable sails, and pitch covered rigging of those ships would be the target. I think Mythbusters took the notion of sinking the ship, as legend has it, far to seriously.
Dear Simon and Team: was not Archimedes'screw; its earlier design, located/discovered at Nebakanesor's Hanging Gardens for His Wife? As depictions of psalm fronds (having been trimmed thus knowledge of a spiraling upward suggustion) able to supply such fine H20 to heights. Dr. Stephanie told of this, about her research a few decades ago.....would enjoying understanding/learning more about "Hero" spelling unsure.....you know, that old Greek master who created most incredible inventions with STEAM and PRESSURE and pazaz and thrill? Snowing much here now. End of line and THANK YOU ALL.
Poor Archimedes might've been on the verge of another breakthrough till he got struck by a sword ... Imagine the world today if he successfully pulled it off (if the soldier let him do his job...)
And in Halifax (UK for those suddenly confused canucks) there's a kids' science museum named Eureka! and depicted a clear bathtub of Archimedes being lowered in, displacing water and shooting out with the museum sign lighting up above him, and the displaced water was pumped back into the bath using an Archimedes screw system, was fun to watch as a kid... :D
Archimedes' screw actually existed for centuries before Archimedes. It is claimed to have been invented by Assyrian King Sennacherib in the 7th century BC (although its unlikely he personally invented it). He used it to create hanging gardens which were the inspiration for the later hanging gardens of Babylon, where archimedes' screws were used to bring water to each step of the stepped pyramid.
5:53 I think the part about the density of the crown is a little wrong. Density wont affect the amount of water displaced. He couldn't calculate the volume before he found the water method. Knowing the volume and the weight gave him the density he was looking for. But as long as the density is more than water, the displacement of water is dependent on volume. Really enjoying this channel though!
No. Density is the relationship between the weight of an object and the weight of the water it displaces. He's 100% right on it and it is a method that is still used buy laboratories and high school students to this day.
I remember learning about the density of that crown from a weird co-lab lesson from my history and science teacher in early comprehensive school. I always thought of his mirrors as a concept piece rather than an actual invention, like much of Da Vincie's work. Is it true that some of Da Vincie's work was destroyed by the Vatican? I remember reading that he stated blood leaves or enters (possibly both?) the heart valves in a vortex, a theory not proven until sometime in the 1980's. So much lost and destroyed work in history, if I had the resources I'd do some sort of internet video about this topic.
Watched this in hopes of hearing you reference archimedes creation of the Syracusia! Id say its much more important and mysterious than the claw or mirrors because we know it did indeed exist
Also Writings of the time also mention Archimedes made a machine that does exactly what the antikythera mechanism does and that General Marcellus took 2 of the machines from Archimedes shop.
Archimedes screw is in far more use than you might think. The ubiquitous "grain auger" found on farms and grain elevators today are nothing more than Archimedes screw used for grain instead of water.
Simon, in your description of the bathtub legend you said "he could easily ascertain the volume" but that's not only absolutely not true, it's literally what archimedes figured out. Density is mass/volume and there was no accurate way of determining the volume of an irregular shape until archimedes realized the volume of water that exited the filled bath when he sat in it was exactly the same volume as his body. He thence took the mass of the crown, divided it by the calculated volume and compared it to the density of gold (19.3 g/cc). And the way I heard it, the goldsmith was executed for attempting to pull a fast one on the king.
I suggest that a bit of marine archeology (ok maybe a bit more than a bit) could lay the mirror thing to rest. If a lot of boats when down from burning it's likely that a lot of that is still on the seafloor.
you seem to miss-understand gold or silver doesn't displace more water (5:50), this was how he worked out the volume. By working out the volume he can then correlate that to the expected weight in gold
No. He measured the density. The relationship between the volume of an object and it's weight. That is how we measure density today. Weight per volume.
Mr. Whistler: Archimedes' is one of my favs, even if I have to look up the spelling all the time. I was wondering if you have done a show on sieges and their effects on the populations, throwing of heads, feces, and rotten body parts, etc? I know I can be really morbid, but then, what is life really about? Warmly, Yada, Yada, Yada
I, myself do not believe the mirrors were sufficiently well made to focus on the ships.. But,, the ships were not just wood. The two common items with much lower ignition points were sails, a tars that were used to seal everything. As to how difficult today? There are two building I can think of that fry automobiles just as a child might fry an ant. A licensed architect decided it was a good idea to face a building sized concentrating mirror south onto a London street. Yeah,, he could have fried a tar, sails, wooden vessel.
That goldsmith making the crown needed a good lawyer. The crown could still be pure gold but the volume/weight/density calculation could easily have been distorted if the final crown contained trapped air bubbles. Short of melting it down again to ensure no trapped air or other substances there's no real way to determine purity.
Mythbusters did a whole show on the burning mirrors legend. Even using many, computer-aimed modern mirrors, they were unable to do any damage to a ship - busted!
Concentrated sun light is rather amazing. Many years ago a friend of mine acquired a large fennel lens of approximately 48" x 36" (1.2 m x 0.9 m ) with a focal length of about 48" Using this we sliced through steel soup cans with ease reducing a can to shards in a with in a minute.
archimedes' screw is the basis for the absence of oil pumps in cars: oil impeller is the name given to it - much steadier flow of oil, fewer moving parts. Effing genius and so simple.
Video suggestion: I don’t know what you could find on this, but the Xiangyun International Project spans across 1,800 acres but was left abandoned in 2014. There been a few urban explorers on RUclips (like the proper people), who have explored it. It’s an interesting building.
The sewage treatment plant where I live use a huge double screw setup still today. It has an open top, so it is visible from the main road into town......visitors revel in the beauty of our giant "Poo Screw". Not really..
I keep discovering more and more of Simon Whistler's channels. There are so any, I refuse to believe he does it all by himself. He must be several skinsuit-wearing lizards from Alpha Centauri taking turns playing "Simon Whistler"
I did a small biography on Archimedes for a school project many years ago. The bathtub story also included that he was the first streaker in history. I love youf video's across all your channels. It makes me wish I was a kid now, or that I had RUclips, or indeed the internet, when I was younger for school projects. Have you done a video on the invention of the internet yet?
The screw would be great for preventing disease. They did have remarkable insight into health at the time. Granted it was more a case of we see this happen, we don’t know exactly why or what is causing it, but if we change stuff and do this instead it appears to work. I think ancient health knowledge gets unduly discarded as it’s assumed it was as in the dark ages. Where in reality a lot of the knowledge was sadly lost at a time where it could have made a massive difference
Do one on Heron (Hero) if you haven't already!!! Imagine if the Libraries of Alexandria had never burned down as they did! I've heard that they burned down several times... We'd be in Star Trek world by now!
Simon want suggestions for more to do? Cripes amighty, what's it take? I couldn't keep up if I had 25 hours in my day. I say with gratitude "Huzzah!" Pip, pip. And here's hoping you're raking it in with both hands.
The artisan accused of substituting silver for gold needed a better lawyer. No mention is made of the possibility that the gold used in the crown could have had trapped impurities such as air which would make the volume bigger but kept the same mass therefore decreasing the density. Get a block of gold bash an indentation in it and then crease over and blend the gold back in to an apparently solid block, trapping the air The same amount of gold would be used but the measured density would be less. Suspect Archimedes groked that later - but probably too late. Maybe the centurion who dispatched Archimedes in the end was related to the crown maker and was extracting revenge.
"Archimedes: More than Just a Screw" That's what SHE said! Have you heard about his 'Labor Saving Screw"? It's when he falls asleep and and she has to finish the drilling by herself! Thank you! I'll be here at the Forum all week. Don't forget to tip your slave girl.
Wasn't there a story in the news sometime ago that a building with weird curved glass was melting cars in the streets below it by focusing sunlight down with just enough intensity?
Interesting video as almost always, Simon . Your script and production quality are almost always spot-on. So, if I may say, the lighting in this one was a bit harsh. It looks like you lost a fill light on your left.
@@terryarmbruster7986 Archimedes wrote the first mathematical physics paper using axiomatic method, the same way scientific papers are still written especially in mathematics. Euclid invented the Q.E.D. part and the rigorous process to arrive to it. That's why Newton's main work is called Principia Mathematica from Principles of Geometry
@@asicdathens week you corrected yourself,not I. Of course I knew that but you didn't know about Egyptian geometrist. Of course there's many orhers. Yes the first AXIOMATIC paper but far from the first paper with step by step procedures. Lol guy I have three degrees in mathematics statistics and interdisciplinary studies. Euclid's axioms aren't even a complete system and essentially are mostly abandoned at university level. I did Hilbert and non conformal mapping geometry among many others lmao. 😂 hagd
@@asicdathens lol you're Greek and you don't know what geometry meant then? It meant measuring the earth. Furthermore again neither Euclid's or Archimedes axioms are complete. Please when you inform someone make sure that person DOESN'T know the subject. Lol and I also am just two classes shy of a theoretical physics degree. You do know Newtonian mechanics is basically good for engineering and low Level physics but not much else anymore. You seem to be a patriotic enthusiastic Greek high school math teacher. Well let me roll my five -hedron dice...you know it's Greek math the five perfect volume shapes of earth wind fire water and spirit lol.
The act of weighing with the same mas at each end of the scales has the Beam level. Lower the mas and beam in water and the less dense will tend to float. Off with his head.!
Here's an idea, it might be better for mega projects, but you can do a video on DNA seaquencing and the project to map the human genome. Also you can talk about how the tech was used to make sone of the covid vaccines.
Simon - don't sell the Walter's Art Museum short! They have an amazing collection, including, among other things, 2 of the 69 known Faberge eggs (including the one with the big gold castle inside), thousands of rare books, ancient Greek pottery, Egyptian statues,, medieval European, stained glass... everything from armor (both samurai and western european) to ancient gold artifacts and stone fertility statues from precolumbian Panama. You can go to any great museum anywhere and you may well see something with a small card next to it that says it's on loan from the Walters Art Museum.
Idk if it’s a mega project, so maybe a side project, but the Big Creek Hydroelectric Project could be a good one. It’s an early 1900’s project to bring electricity to California’s big cities via several dams and hydroelectric power plants. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Creek_Hydroelectric_Project
What if the Archimedes screw was placed horizontally in a tank water, the screw enclosed and compressed air added at the bottom. Would the rising air spin the screw. With the screw having baffles every so often of course for the air to rise against and generate force.
2:35 - Chapter 1 - Archimedes's screw
4:35 - Chapter 2 - The king's crown
6:30 - Chapter 3 - Burning mirrors
10:20 - Chapter 4 - Other works
11:30 - Chapter 5 - Death
I guess you could say this Archimedes fellow had alot of.... Side projects..
BA DUM BA TSS!!
but he was a bit of a screwup
Allegedly.
This comment gave me a sense of displacement.
CSI Miami intro music plays
But did Archimedes have several YT channels? Checkmate
Archimedes didn't have Danny or a cool script slap.
The checkmate reminded me of Davie504 for some reason
@@andyv16012 or cocaine.
@@happymeal5182 he might have had that. There's a PBS secrets of the Dead special on cocaine mummies from Egypt.
@@hidesbehindpseudonym1920 can you link that, i would love to watch that.
Simon in back alley: "Hey kid, you like entertainment." (Opens jacket full of his youtube channels)
Very witty must say defo worth a giggle bravo
*edutainment
After failing the first time, Mythbusters revisited the mirror myth. The boat caught fire the second time, validating the myth as fact.
er... Plausible...
Not confirmed, just plausible, and barely so. Doing that mirror trick on an actual warship in combat would be a lot more difficult.
That first episode was the height of idiocy given that we have power stations that work by exactly that principle: a bunch of mirrors reflecting sunshine to heat an area up hot enough to melt salt. Thousands of soldiers holding mirrors reflecting sunshine on a single source could easily light a sail on fire
@@sequoiahughes8536 Takes a lot of coordination, and making really polished mirrors was harder back then. Then try doing it with thousands of disciplined Romans shooting at you, and possibly landing off to your side and about to assault you.
@@sequoiahughes8536 .. there are a few differences , modern mirrors , the power station isn't moving ( you know like a ship on water ) are 2 i can think of immediately
You should do a biography of John Moses Browning. The guy was a genius
He can't - they'd shoot him ;-P
I pooped my pants..
James Puckle
maybe eugene stoner as well?
heck, throw in gaston glock.... but that one maybe for the Blaze?
I'm glad you re posted this I was kinda sad when I went to watch it earlier and it said it was removed. Keep up the hard work Simon and Co.🍻
Biggest understatement of the year- "As you may know, I have a few channels." 🤣
You don't say !!!
the Archimedes screw even became an invaluable device in american steam railroad, as many steam locomotives got bigger so did the labor require to fire them, the big boy locomotive that you covered on mega projects was one such locomotive, as well as it's sister locomotives the challngers and FEF's, but alot of railroad during the steam era employed the Archimedes screw as a way of transferring coal from the tender and into the firebox, which enabled these beasts of steam and steel to successfully operate without requiring multiple firemen all working in unison to shovel coal by hand.
Thank you for the re-post. Love your videos... channels... just keep being awesome, and stay safe.
im 53 now but in 1977 in class the teacher asked all us 7 yr olds, how to get water up the hill , baring in mind i was a slow learner/ remedial (i used to stare off into space alot but i was only 7) i drew side profile a metal screw encased in wooden planks , and i remember she asked me shaking her head
"but how do you get the water out ?" i said "you turn the handle miss" then she said "but how do you hold it ?" i said "its on two legs " as i had drawn.
she was having none of it , and kept saying "no , no " (me) "but miss you just.... "no ,(sigh) jason ... and she walked off to the next kid.. i was gutted.
true story , blows my mind, i essentially invented archimedes screw unbeknown to me at the time.
Fun fact: The archimedes screw was invented independently well before Archimedes's time. The Assyrian king Sennacherib used them to irrigate the grand gardens of his palace in the 7th century B.C.E. (There is a compelling argument these were actually the historical hanging gardens of Babylon).
A suggestion for a video. Not sure where it would fit but look at the traffic tunnels in the Faroe Islands. One even has a roundabout.
Damn. I've been trying to push my local mega/sideproject (raising the height of a bridge by 60 feet while still keeping the bridge in use, thereby allowing NYC's biggest port to remain open for New Panamax ships), but holy crap I want to hear about this one even more after looking into it. That is simply incredible.
Neither Archimedes or his contemporaries claimed he invented the Archimedes Screw, and historians generally agree that he didn't. He observed use of the mechanism in egypt, where it had been used for a long time, described it, and brought it to the rest of the greek world!
The Archimedes Pampliset needs an episode all to itself. I mean, FFS, they put it in the beam of a particle accelerator in order to read it.
Wow, I had no idea his notebook was in a museum so close to me! I'll definitely have to check that out. Thanks, Simon!
Me too!
They've got hundreds (maybe thousands) of old rare books. I spent every Saturday there that I could manage when I was a kid. Amazing place!
The displacement of the water doesn't depend on the weight of the crown but on it's volume, Simon. It's the amount of counterweight that gives away the deception.
Thank you! I kept reading wondering when that was going to come up. It's surface area or 'volume' that determines displacement in a fluid.
I've subscribed to a couple of your channels and I enjoy everything I watch. Love learning new things.
You forgot the best part : recent research has shown that he actually invented calculus (integration especially)
"A few channels?" Biographics, Geographics, Top Tenz, Today I Found Out, Business Blaze, Megaprojects, Side Projects, Brainfood, Highlight History. Pretty sure I missed a few. This should be called SimonTube, although that has too many, um, connotations.
'More than just a screw' - hey, my wedding vows!
Simon and his mistranslations... "Eureka" means "Hand me a towel."
Rip Sir Terry
Still alive
Eureka is actually what you say when you want someone else to take a bath.
Simon do a video on the Hanford Nuclear Project! There are tons of interesting facts. It is one of the US’ nuclear development sites used during the manhattan project that still runs today
Thank you, I finally have a title for my memoirs.
I always envision Ian Anderson at the mention of Archimedes, dancing to aqualung. Now that's fuckin' genius.
Adam Hart Davis' version of Archimedes' solar death ray worked, as seen in episode 8 of What The Ancients Did For Us - The Greeks.
I can't access the video due, due to BBC copyright in the UK, but it's there for anyone without geographical limitations to see.
I remember watching Mythbusters and being unimpressed after Adam Hart Davis had managed it.
You are like a factory with these channels man I remember when biographies had launched a few days before now, Side Projects, Biographics, Geographics, Megaprojects, Sideprojects, Today I found out. Bloody hell man keep up the work you have so many channels and all are pretty successful and well the amount of time and effort you put in. The researching the recording the editing the final touches the subtitles the credits and each channel usually gets a video a day and there’s a fair few keep it up. All my respect ;v)
10:03 One of those diagrams clearly showed something more like a lens assembly/giant magnifying glass rather than mirrors, although it could be a magnifying device that employed mirrors rather than just straight bouncing sunlight off a mirror. No one that's tested the 'death ray' theory that I have seen has tried this approach which would, if it were done even decently well, certainly be able to burn wood and sail at set distances. Mirrors that bounced sunlight through a magnifying device to allow it to be more easily pointed at various ships would be fairly effective as long as the ships weren't already too close. Even an array of mirrors that focussed sunlight onto another mirror which sent it off to wherever, perhaps.
There have been reports from the ancient world across the globe of the use of what could reasonably be such devices to ignite timber and even cauterize wounds, whether these be tales from the imagination of real world events, the similarity to a magnifying glass which wasn't officially invented until much later is intriguing.
Given that there are tales of such things being used on a small scale to set things on fire, it's also possible that someone used that principle to write a cool story about how he sent ships to their fiery doom by a death ray of sunlight and pain in valiant defence of the island.
Simon, I follow most of your channels, I'm am just stunned by the amount of knowledge you put into great videos.
Keep it up ma, we love it.
Hey thank the writers too!! He might come up with most of the ideas but all of his channels have writers as far as I know
Maybe give up one channel's time for fact checking and deeper, less superficial research.
Thank you. I enjoyed listening to your video about Archimedes. I remember this from my high school physics and still remember it. I always wanted to google about Archimedes and the EUREKA MOMENT. I grew up in Africa and I had amazing physics and chemistry teachers.👏👏👏Please, do let us know more about the ROYAL CROWN story.
The "rude" remark to the soldier was alegendly "Do not disturb my circles".
10:43
I thought the quote was; give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and i shall move the world.
Close enough!
Despite the Mythbusters trying the Archimedes mirror idea of setting a warship afire twice with no success I think they (deliberately) left out what made the Greeks similar experiment succeed. Those warships had pitch (pine tar, perhaps) for caulking, yes, but also in a heated pot on board to dip their arrows in for setting fire to opposing ships with the flaming arrows.
This may, or may not have worked to ignite the ships but psychologically scaring the sailors with the prospect of their ship afire would have an affect. I know as once a U.S.Navy sailor myself, that fire aboard is a very great fear for which we trained regularly to be able to extinguish.
Pitch already heated in a caldron would be like napalm about to go off. Instead of trying to set a wet hull ablaze, even where there was pitch oozing out of the seams, the more flammable sails, and pitch covered rigging of those ships would be the target. I think Mythbusters took the notion of sinking the ship, as legend has it, far to seriously.
Dear Simon and Team: was not Archimedes'screw; its earlier design, located/discovered at Nebakanesor's Hanging Gardens for His Wife? As depictions of psalm fronds (having been trimmed thus knowledge of a spiraling upward suggustion) able to supply such fine H20 to heights. Dr. Stephanie told of this, about her research a few decades ago.....would enjoying understanding/learning more about "Hero" spelling unsure.....you know, that old Greek master who created most incredible inventions with STEAM and PRESSURE and pazaz and thrill? Snowing much here now. End of line and THANK YOU ALL.
Poor Archimedes might've been on the verge of another breakthrough till he got struck by a sword ...
Imagine the world today if he successfully pulled it off (if the soldier let him do his job...)
"There's a giant Archimedes screw over there."
"Huh, lucky Archimedes."
I always thought Archimedes most famous quote (and solution to most problems) was "screw this!"
I accidentally subscribed while trying to scroll. I'll take it as a sign from the higher ups and leave it.
I forgot I had, but was happily reminded with this in my feed
one does not simply unsubsribe simons channels
@@mho... For all the faults of the Internet, channels like this show people have a curiosity for knowledge. I like that.
And in Halifax (UK for those suddenly confused canucks) there's a kids' science museum named Eureka! and depicted a clear bathtub of Archimedes being lowered in, displacing water and shooting out with the museum sign lighting up above him, and the displaced water was pumped back into the bath using an Archimedes screw system, was fun to watch as a kid... :D
Archimedes' screw actually existed for centuries before Archimedes. It is claimed to have been invented by Assyrian King Sennacherib in the 7th century BC (although its unlikely he personally invented it). He used it to create hanging gardens which were the inspiration for the later hanging gardens of Babylon, where archimedes' screws were used to bring water to each step of the stepped pyramid.
5:53 I think the part about the density of the crown is a little wrong. Density wont affect the amount of water displaced. He couldn't calculate the volume before he found the water method. Knowing the volume and the weight gave him the density he was looking for. But as long as the density is more than water, the displacement of water is dependent on volume. Really enjoying this channel though!
No. Density is the relationship between the weight of an object and the weight of the water it displaces. He's 100% right on it and it is a method that is still used buy laboratories and high school students to this day.
I remember learning about the density of that crown from a weird co-lab lesson from my history and science teacher in early comprehensive school.
I always thought of his mirrors as a concept piece rather than an actual invention, like much of Da Vincie's work. Is it true that some of Da Vincie's work was destroyed by the Vatican? I remember reading that he stated blood leaves or enters (possibly both?) the heart valves in a vortex, a theory not proven until sometime in the 1980's. So much lost and destroyed work in history, if I had the resources I'd do some sort of internet video about this topic.
Watched this in hopes of hearing you reference archimedes creation of the Syracusia! Id say its much more important and mysterious than the claw or mirrors because we know it did indeed exist
Also Writings of the time also mention Archimedes made a machine that does exactly what the antikythera mechanism does and that General Marcellus took 2 of the machines from Archimedes shop.
Archimedes screw is in far more use than you might think. The ubiquitous "grain auger" found on farms and grain elevators today are nothing more than Archimedes screw used for grain instead of water.
I thought Archimedes Principle was Mr. Smith? "Hey get your hands off me, I can walk, stop it..ahhhh".
Simon, in your description of the bathtub legend you said "he could easily ascertain the volume" but that's not only absolutely not true, it's literally what archimedes figured out. Density is mass/volume and there was no accurate way of determining the volume of an irregular shape until archimedes realized the volume of water that exited the filled bath when he sat in it was exactly the same volume as his body. He thence took the mass of the crown, divided it by the calculated volume and compared it to the density of gold (19.3 g/cc).
And the way I heard it, the goldsmith was executed for attempting to pull a fast one on the king.
Fun fact: Simon is the reincarnation of Archimedes
Let's hope he never solves a difficult problem while taking a bath.
@@coweatsman correct. No-one wants to see a naked Simon running out into the street saying I did it.
Hi Simon.
Do a video on measuring the earth by the French Revolution (Delambre and Méchain). Which would be the basis of the metric system.
I suggest that a bit of marine archeology (ok maybe a bit more than a bit) could lay the mirror thing to rest. If a lot of boats when down from burning it's likely that a lot of that is still on the seafloor.
Is this the title of a blog post made after Archimedes had a one night stand and got ghosted?
Times like this when you really appreciate being Sicilian
My maiden name was Palma, so I, too, appreciate being from Sicily.
Mafia confirmed
you seem to miss-understand
gold or silver doesn't displace more water (5:50), this was how he worked out the volume. By working out the volume he can then correlate that to the expected weight in gold
No. He measured the density. The relationship between the volume of an object and it's weight. That is how we measure density today. Weight per volume.
We have 4 of these screws in my city near a dam and channel lock. Pretty great to see them work every once and a while after a big rain.
Mr. Whistler: Archimedes' is one of my favs, even if I have to look up the spelling all the time. I was wondering if you have done a show on sieges and their effects on the populations, throwing of heads, feces, and rotten body parts, etc? I know I can be really morbid, but then, what is life really about?
Warmly, Yada, Yada, Yada
I, myself do not believe the mirrors were sufficiently well made to focus on the ships.. But,, the ships were not just wood. The two common items with much lower ignition points were sails, a tars that were used to seal everything. As to how difficult today? There are two building I can think of that fry automobiles just as a child might fry an ant. A licensed architect decided it was a good idea to face a building sized concentrating mirror south onto a London street. Yeah,, he could have fried a tar, sails, wooden vessel.
That goldsmith making the crown needed a good lawyer. The crown could still be pure gold but the volume/weight/density calculation could easily have been distorted if the final crown contained trapped air bubbles. Short of melting it down again to ensure no trapped air or other substances there's no real way to determine purity.
I am still jealous of the beard, well done Simon !
Mythbusters did a whole show on the burning mirrors legend. Even using many, computer-aimed modern mirrors, they were unable to do any damage to a ship - busted!
I think they ended up doing 2 episodes, didn't they?
Hey no mention of your best channel?!? Blaze Simon is always best Simon.
I heard him slip out a bit with that bald joke.
Why u yellow skin
CocaineSimon?
Definitely up there with Tesla, Da Vinci and Heron. He's also, IMO one of the top four mathematicians of all time but that's another story.
Concentrated sun light is rather amazing. Many years ago a friend of mine
acquired a large fennel lens of approximately 48" x 36" (1.2 m x 0.9 m ) with
a focal length of about 48" Using this we sliced through steel soup cans
with ease reducing a can to shards in a with in a minute.
Oh man, that sounds cool
This is a GOOD video, brother!
archimedes' screw is the basis for the absence of oil pumps in cars: oil impeller is the name given to it - much steadier flow of oil, fewer moving parts.
Effing genius and so simple.
different type of pump entirely. oil pump is positive displacement pump.
@@stephencaparelli7733 😢
Video suggestion: I don’t know what you could find on this, but the Xiangyun International Project spans across 1,800 acres but was left abandoned in 2014. There been a few urban explorers on RUclips (like the proper people), who have explored it. It’s an interesting building.
The sewage treatment plant where I live use a huge double screw setup still today. It has an open top, so it is visible from the main road into town......visitors revel in the beauty of our giant "Poo Screw". Not really..
MORE! Need more about this dude!
Very interesting. Thank you
Please don't be mad that side projects is my favourite of all your channels
Absolutely the best RUclipsr.
I keep discovering more and more of Simon Whistler's channels. There are so any, I refuse to believe he does it all by himself. He must be several skinsuit-wearing lizards from Alpha Centauri taking turns playing "Simon Whistler"
I did a small biography on Archimedes for a school project many years ago. The bathtub story also included that he was the first streaker in history. I love youf video's across all your channels. It makes me wish I was a kid now, or that I had RUclips, or indeed the internet, when I was younger for school projects. Have you done a video on the invention of the internet yet?
you should do a video about the set for WaterWorld
The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is one of the hidden gems of the United States.
"I've got a few channels"
Fails to mention Business Blaze.
Who is a Legend if not Archimedes Simon!? Who?!
The screw would be great for preventing disease. They did have remarkable insight into health at the time. Granted it was more a case of we see this happen, we don’t know exactly why or what is causing it, but if we change stuff and do this instead it appears to work. I think ancient health knowledge gets unduly discarded as it’s assumed it was as in the dark ages. Where in reality a lot of the knowledge was sadly lost at a time where it could have made a massive difference
Simon: mentions Alexandria
Me: thinks about the library of Alexandria and the fire and then wants to fight someone
Do one on Heron (Hero) if you haven't already!!!
Imagine if the Libraries of Alexandria had never burned down as they did!
I've heard that they burned down several times...
We'd be in Star Trek world by now!
Simon want suggestions for more to do? Cripes amighty, what's it take? I couldn't keep up if I had 25 hours in my day.
I say with gratitude "Huzzah!" Pip, pip.
And here's hoping you're raking it in with both hands.
The artisan accused of substituting silver for gold needed a better lawyer. No mention is made of the possibility that the gold used in the crown could have had trapped impurities such as air which would make the volume bigger but kept the same mass therefore decreasing the density. Get a block of gold bash an indentation in it and then crease over and blend the gold back in to an apparently solid block, trapping the air The same amount of gold would be used but the measured density would be less.
Suspect Archimedes groked that later - but probably too late. Maybe the centurion who dispatched Archimedes in the end was related to the crown maker and was extracting revenge.
"Archimedes: More than Just a Screw"
That's what SHE said! Have you heard about his 'Labor Saving Screw"? It's when he falls asleep and and she has to finish the drilling by herself!
Thank you! I'll be here at the Forum all week. Don't forget to tip your slave girl.
Wasn't there a story in the news sometime ago that a building with weird curved glass was melting cars in the streets below it by focusing sunlight down with just enough intensity?
Interesting video as almost always, Simon .
Your script and production quality are almost always spot-on. So, if I may say, the lighting in this one was a bit harsh. It looks like you lost a fill light on your left.
Consider doing a segment on Alexandra David-Néel
Back in those times the screw was such an ingenius and smart idea, that the way of saying “Screw you” was actually a compliment....
You covered the raising of Chicago. The Chicago deep tunnel project may be worth covering as well.
Yay! A complete video!
Euclid is credited for the first paper in mathematics, Archimedes is credited for the first real paper in Physics.
Actually oldest known math paper along with engineering is Egyptian. Contains a good approximation of area of a given circle and other problems.
@@terryarmbruster7986 Archimedes wrote the first mathematical physics paper using axiomatic method, the same way scientific papers are still written especially in mathematics. Euclid invented the Q.E.D. part and the rigorous process to arrive to it. That's why Newton's main work is called Principia Mathematica from Principles of Geometry
@@asicdathens week you corrected yourself,not I. Of course I knew that but you didn't know about Egyptian geometrist. Of course there's many orhers. Yes the first AXIOMATIC paper but far from the first paper with step by step procedures. Lol guy I have three degrees in mathematics statistics and interdisciplinary studies. Euclid's axioms aren't even a complete system and essentially are mostly abandoned at university level. I did Hilbert and non conformal mapping geometry among many others lmao. 😂 hagd
@@asicdathens lol you're Greek and you don't know what geometry meant then? It meant measuring the earth. Furthermore again neither Euclid's or Archimedes axioms are complete. Please when you inform someone make sure that person DOESN'T know the subject. Lol and I also am just two classes shy of a theoretical physics degree. You do know Newtonian mechanics is basically good for engineering and low Level physics but not much else anymore. You seem to be a patriotic enthusiastic Greek high school math teacher. Well let me roll my five -hedron dice...you know it's Greek math the five perfect volume shapes of earth wind fire water and spirit lol.
@@terryarmbruster7986 5th postulate is valid for 99.999 of activities requiring geometry like construction or engineering in general
The act of weighing with the same mas at each end of the scales has the Beam level. Lower the mas and beam in water and the less dense will tend to float. Off with his head.!
I think the replica of the Parthenon in Tennessee would make a good Sideprojects video.
Here's an idea, it might be better for mega projects, but you can do a video on DNA seaquencing and the project to map the human genome. Also you can talk about how the tech was used to make sone of the covid vaccines.
00:50 There are 2 choices:
Either 'you can't grow grass on a busy street'
or
'Grass doesn't grow on barren ground'.
Simon - don't sell the Walter's Art Museum short! They have an amazing collection, including, among other things, 2 of the 69 known Faberge eggs (including the one with the big gold castle inside), thousands of rare books, ancient Greek pottery, Egyptian statues,, medieval European, stained glass... everything from armor (both samurai and western european) to ancient gold artifacts and stone fertility statues from precolumbian Panama. You can go to any great museum anywhere and you may well see something with a small card next to it that says it's on loan from the Walters Art Museum.
Simon, do a video on the Antarctic snow cruiser
Since April thank you. Do a Dreyfus Affair video please. If possible?
Excellent pronunciation of Archimedes and Euclid. We do notice when you nail the pronunciation 😉
Idk if it’s a mega project, so maybe a side project, but the Big Creek Hydroelectric Project could be a good one. It’s an early 1900’s project to bring electricity to California’s big cities via several dams and hydroelectric power plants.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Creek_Hydroelectric_Project
What if the Archimedes screw was placed horizontally in a tank water, the screw enclosed and compressed air added at the bottom. Would the rising air spin the screw. With the screw having baffles every so often of course for the air to rise against and generate force.
You should have mentioned his steam powered cannon. It actually works! 😎
Suggestion, the St Lawerence Sea Way, Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean.
Yes as someone who has a cottage close to the Trent waterway, would love to know this, have always been interested in small canals of the great lakes.