Really enjoyed every minute of that podcast, the great eastern is a ship very close to my heart being broken up right outside my house on new ferry road nr birkenhead , a small piece of the ship still exists in the mud that can be seen at low tide, I have some rivets retrieved and a small plank of wood that came from the bar of the pub the great eastern built on the same road used some of the wood reclaimed from the ship. Sadly and illegally the pub was demolished just ten years ago to make room for a handful of crack dens for polish and Turkish immigrants. Also the shop LEWIS'S that advertised on the side closed its doors for the last time because of the Rona.
What an amazing thing! Every aspect of this story! When I hear about things like this makes me feel kinda like I was born in the wrong time. To see this in that day had to be mind blowing!
This is really good. Thank you. A stupid flat earth mud flood channel brought me here. Because I stumbled upon the flat earth, mud flood channel by accident. They were talking about this very ship and saying how it was proof that the ancient Tarterians built it first and we just found it. What a bunch of crap. Glad I found this. Excellent work.
yeah, those guys are equal parts hilarious and depressing. but hey, if you ever need to be reminded that they are a small minority of mostly "millennials and supporters of former president trump" (from the POLES 202 study of anti science beliefs in america), there's a subreddit called r/flatearth that does nothing but humorous debunks of their nonsense and memes about them. it's kinda like a brain enema lol
Hi thank you so much for this. This is about the great eastern but there are so many stories rapt up in this- the earliest telecom and globalization, pitfalls of investing, engineering etc. don’t lose heart about the small number of views!!!
Love the podcast. I understand RUclips might not be the best platform to listen to it on, but it is my preferred. I do have a pausing problem listening to them. It happens only on your content. About every other sentence, a two second pause. I wonder if you can decrease your audio quality or something.
I find it disappointing that this video begins by describing Great Eastern in a rather negative light. Great Eastern was, without question, one of the greatest ships ever built, DECADES ahead of her time, an engineering marvel relative to the technology of her time and a PIONEER through and through. Conceptually, she is worthy of praise and admiration ONLY, nothing less. Great Eastern, from the perspective of design, quite literally paved the road for ALL the big ships which wouid follow her. Without Great Eastern there wouid have been NO Lusitania, NO Titanic and NO Queen Mary. Consider: what do Great Eastern, Concorde and Honda V65 Sabre all have in common? Answer: machines which pushed the technological envelope and created a new standard which others would have to follow. Great Eastern proved that extremely large passenger ships were not only possible, but that they were safer and more efficient than their smaller predecessors. Concorde proved that supersonic passenger travel was not only possible but contemporary. (make no mistake, supersonic passenger travel is NOT going away). 1984 Honda V65 Sabre, with it's top speed of 184 MPH slapped Kawasaki in the face saying: "You guys think you're slick with your 150 mph superbike? Beat THAT!!" (Interestingly, Suzuki eventually DID.) Long live the pioneers.
Came for the cars.. great channel. I had a book on Brunel and the transatlantic cable when I was a kid so my interest was piqued when seeing the thumbnail.. you tell a good story.
Bro. You gotta switch the pics up. 1 pic for the entire vid is tiring. I make it 10 mins and I've had enough. USE MORE PICS. QUIT TAKING THE LAZY, WAY, OUT.
A cursory glance at the photos should tell people this ship was found as is and they were trying to figure out stuff like releasing the chain brake without a fulcrum. Bad idea guys!!!! I mean, are you ship builders or looters??? Latter appears to be most evident from photographs.
I went off this within the first two minutes, England, England England, it was not England, the steam engine that became the Industrial revolution happened on Glasgow green in Scotland. Many aspects were invented in Scotland, please get facts right.
not much a fan of this video of yours. informative, for sure but, already knew most of this. This video really lack and, well, video! more pics, drawings, etc would have made it nice. I know other pics/drawings are out there as I have seen them
First few mins reference is made to industtial revolution in England. Did you mean to say Great Britain? England did not operate as a single national entity within the empire in the 19th C it was a part of a national entity of Great Britain consisting of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. All four constituant parts of Great Britain have distinct and seperate histories but for industrial revolution and empire considerations they operated as one with a single government in London, so to refer to England alone is incorrext you should refer to Great Britain. It's a little like referring to the US as New York and foregetting all the other states.!!
Really enjoyed every minute of that podcast, the great eastern is a ship very close to my heart being broken up right outside my house on new ferry road nr birkenhead , a small piece of the ship still exists in the mud that can be seen at low tide, I have some rivets retrieved and a small plank of wood that came from the bar of the pub the great eastern built on the same road used some of the wood reclaimed from the ship. Sadly and illegally the pub was demolished just ten years ago to make room for a handful of crack dens for polish and Turkish immigrants. Also the shop LEWIS'S that advertised on the side closed its doors for the last time because of the Rona.
My ancestor saw this ship as a child and wrote about it 70 years later in his autobiography. Now I see why he remembered it so long!
Thanks for the history lesson on this ship. My ancestor Josiah A. Caws was the very first pilot to take her on her maiden voyage to America :)
Great story. My great grandfather recalled seeing the Great Eastern in the Thames in the mid 1860s, after your relative took it across the Atlantic.
My great grand parent were on that maiden voyage!
What an amazing thing! Every aspect of this story!
When I hear about things like this makes me feel kinda like I was born in the wrong time. To see this in that day had to be mind blowing!
Yo, this guys deserves a shoutout!
Great in depth look at the Great Eastern. I really like your characterisation of the Great Eastern as "steampunk meats real life". LOL
sounds delicious
This is really good. Thank you. A stupid flat earth mud flood channel brought me here. Because I stumbled upon the flat earth, mud flood channel by accident. They were talking about this very ship and saying how it was proof that the ancient Tarterians built it first and we just found it. What a bunch of crap. Glad I found this. Excellent work.
yeah, those guys are equal parts hilarious and depressing.
but hey, if you ever need to be reminded that they are a small minority of mostly "millennials and supporters of former president trump" (from the POLES 202 study of anti science beliefs in america), there's a subreddit called r/flatearth that does nothing but humorous debunks of their nonsense and memes about them. it's kinda like a brain enema lol
Great story, Well told. 10/10
Hi thank you so much for this. This is about the great eastern but there are so many stories rapt up in this- the earliest telecom and globalization, pitfalls of investing, engineering etc. don’t lose heart about the small number of views!!!
It's a shame that there aren't many interior photos of the Great Eastern ...I would love to see them...
Thanks for this fine documentary. The GE always fascinated me.
What an amazing boat. Lord gooch said it best at the end “she deserved better.”
Laying the transcontinental cables alone made it one of the most importrant ships in history.
man had they built it as a early bulk freighter maybe it would have had more success?
Visited Brunels ss great Britain last year in UK. Restored and in a dry dock museum. Really interesting place. Very informative.
Love the podcast. I understand RUclips might not be the best platform to listen to it on, but it is my preferred.
I do have a pausing problem listening to them. It happens only on your content. About every other sentence, a two second pause.
I wonder if you can decrease your audio quality or something.
Hello. Wrought iron not cast iron . When you get such an massive mistake it makes you think the rest may be wrong. Regards Mark
Don't be a dick!
All this made without a computer
I find it disappointing that this video begins by describing Great Eastern in a rather negative light. Great Eastern was, without question, one of the greatest ships ever built, DECADES ahead of her time, an engineering marvel relative to the technology of her time and a PIONEER through and through. Conceptually, she is worthy of praise and admiration ONLY, nothing less. Great Eastern, from the perspective of design, quite literally paved the road for ALL the big ships which wouid follow her. Without Great Eastern there wouid have been NO Lusitania, NO Titanic and NO Queen Mary.
Consider: what do Great Eastern, Concorde and Honda V65 Sabre all have in common? Answer: machines which pushed the technological envelope and created a new standard which others would have to follow. Great Eastern proved that extremely large passenger ships were not only possible, but that they were safer and more efficient than their smaller predecessors. Concorde proved that supersonic passenger travel was not only possible but contemporary. (make no mistake, supersonic passenger travel is NOT going away). 1984 Honda V65 Sabre, with it's top speed of 184 MPH slapped Kawasaki in the face saying: "You guys think you're slick with your 150 mph superbike? Beat THAT!!"
(Interestingly, Suzuki eventually DID.)
Long live the pioneers.
It's funny how no one says this: SS Great Eastern sustained the same damage as RMS Titanic and didn't sink. Just Sayin.
This is amazing!!
Came for the cars.. great channel. I had a book on Brunel and the transatlantic cable when I was a kid so my interest was piqued when seeing the thumbnail.. you tell a good story.
By great grandparents came to America on its maiden voyage.
Hey, Brian
what are you doing talking about the ss great eastern? When you do NHRA STUFF?
Im thinking a 600' ship in the 1850s would be the equivalent of a 2500' today.
Not too many pictures of the interior of this ship
There definitely was 6 storey building's back then in Europe
Bro. You gotta switch the pics up. 1 pic for the entire vid is tiring. I make it 10 mins and I've had enough.
USE MORE PICS. QUIT TAKING THE LAZY, WAY, OUT.
Ah, the Ark. The bible's own impossible death trap.
That was when going to Harvard meant something.
1:25:16 yeah wel maybe you should have built it with a double hul ...:P
What?
A cursory glance at the photos should tell people this ship was found as is and they were trying to figure out stuff like releasing the chain brake without a fulcrum. Bad idea guys!!!! I mean, are you ship builders or looters??? Latter appears to be most evident from photographs.
I went off this within the first two minutes, England, England England, it was not England, the steam engine that became the Industrial revolution happened on Glasgow green in Scotland. Many aspects were invented in Scotland, please get facts right.
100% correct
The yanks don’t know the difference between Britain and England
I had to turn this off
James watt will be spinning in his grave !!
...not only the yanks get this wrong but the krauts too...
not much a fan of this video of yours. informative, for sure but, already knew most of this. This video really lack and, well, video! more pics, drawings, etc would have made it nice. I know other pics/drawings are out there as I have seen them
First few mins reference is made to industtial revolution in England.
Did you mean to say Great Britain?
England did not operate as a single national entity within the empire in the 19th C it was a part of a national entity of Great Britain consisting of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
All four constituant parts of Great Britain have distinct and seperate histories but for industrial revolution and empire considerations they operated as one with a single government in London, so to refer to England alone is incorrext you should refer to Great Britain.
It's a little like referring to the US as New York and foregetting all the other states.!!
He meant England.
That's not a video, that's a picture (with some Bozo talking in the background).
She was so wildly ahead of her time, no one knew what to do with her.
One photo is NOT a show !!!
🤣🥊🚢
The whole vid is pic.
I'm out
Isambard Brunel was the Elon Musk of his day.
I am not aware that Brunel would be fraud or nazi like Musk is. Also Musk aint no engineer or inventor.