Industrial Revolutionary | The Life & Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Why did Isambard Brunel name his ship after Great Britain? Because Kingdom was his middle name! I forgot to work that one into the script but couldn't let it go to waste. Beyond having a mouthful of a name, Isambard just seems to enhance everything his touches, somehow this guy never seemed to work on "just a bridge" or "just a ship", no, it has to be revolutionary. Betcha there are a lot of fresh engineering graduates wishing they could get hired for the X-est Y's in the world. Oh, and I got my own mic but recorded this before I got a pop filter, so pardon the plethora of problematic plosives, please.
Footnotes:
0:50 I could've sworn I read something about a bridge in China breaking the record first, but couldn't seem to find it. Luckily Switzerland definitely broke the record and there are photos of it.
3:39 You could also turn Brunel's life into a drinking game, but I wouldn't recommend it.
4:25 This also terminated the SS Great Western's service with the company, and she was dismantled in 1856.
4:30 But after rotting in the Falklands for a century, the SS Great Britain returned home to Bristol where she'd been built in order to become a museum, making her the only of Brunel's ships still around today.
4:57 + 5:05 Yeah, look at all those topical references that I totally had planned!
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If Burnel lived for just a little longer there would probably be a union jack on the moon.
the first spacecraft IN THE WORLD!!!
@Sizano Green The *biggest* spacecraft in the world!
The first human outside of Earth in the SOLAR SYSTEM.
And Jules Verne would have helped him😂😂😂😂
The Great Eastern's main claim to fame was actually being used to lay the first transatlantic cable, thus allowing for reliable intercontinental communication between the Old and New Worlds. It was also a very unlucky ship that was always getting into various mishaps (said to be caused by a curse cast by the vengeful ghost of one of the workers who'd accidentally been welded between the layers of its hull during construction), but pretty much was able to walk off any major injury it suffered.
Considering how good Brunel's stuff tended to be when he didn't really know what he was doing, when he did know what he was doing, it was practically indestructible.
Don't you mean. The first transatlantic cable IN THE WORLD!
During the initial phase of the Peninsula War the British had to retreat and their boots fell apart. Brunel's father who knew nothing about shoemaking redesigned the boot to be made out of pieces sewn together vastly increasing both the speed and number of boots that could be made from a given amount of material.
I guess it just runs in the family!
Coming from a family heavily populated with engineers, they have more intelligence than wisdom sometimes.
It sounds like what my dad said about his new engineer hires. They could build me a bridge but they probably trip every other step they took on it
Hence why they're 2 different stats.
My grandfather built a steam engine in his basement because he was annoyed by his electric bill.
@@dashiellgillingham4579hat is so cool. Sounds like an interesting guy.
Man back in the days when you can take on big projects whilst not having any experience, now people wants employees with unreasonable amount of experience of a young applicant just to do a clerk job.
exactly
Yet you need a job to gain experience???
@@homoculus you need atleast 10 years of experience but they dont want anybody above the age of 25
Get into politics then you don't need experience just connections
Yes, but back then you don't really have quality assurance or workplace safety. Victorian England is a dystopia of its own
How to Isambard:
Problem?
Make THE BIGGEST __________ IN THE WORLD.
GadgetMcfly cock
microchip, GL selling tha biggest microchip in the world xD
@@oliveralvarez439 Too late. I've already broken that record.
Musk is just isambard on round 2
dude's middle name was kingdom, why we ignoring this?
just some guy there’s worse. Like that guy with a sentence as a middle name. If jesus has not died then thou have been damned, i think that was a pretty odd one.
@@michelsand5399 Oh, you mean Praise-God Barebone? Full name, Praise-God Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone?
Or perhaps you mean his sons, If-Jesus-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned Barebone and Jesus-Christ-came-into-the-world- to-save Barebone?
@@rationalroundhead6739 Aye, that one. The english have some absolutely idiotic naming conventions and Protestantism just brought out the worst of it.
@@michelsand5399 pretty sure that wasn't convention
Methinks those odd English names originated with the Puritans.
The name 'Kingdom' was probably part of a sentence like: 'Defender of the Kingdom of Heaven'
Other real Puritan names: 'Fight the good fight of faith.'
I saw it on "Horrible Histories."
*Horrible Histories: Slimy Stuarts: Historical Wife Swap: Roundheads and Cavaliers*
It's like if the Wright Brothers invented the first actually working glider, and then on the same day they said, "Screw it, put an engine on that." And the same day they figured out how gliding works built the first actual airplane.
I have no experience being the most liked comment on a video but that won't stop me
And Joseph Krakowski wrote THE GREATEST COMMENT IN THE WOOOOOORLD!
You look like Ned Kelly
Joseph Krakowski hey joseph i always wondered, who’s the bearded gentleman in your profile pic?
Sandman
N e d K e l l y
Follow your dreams :)
This guy literally had plot armor
You forgot to mention the "Royal Albert bridge" across the Tamar. I have seen it in the flesh and it looks like it was built yesterday with computer aided design.....Awesome structure......
This is like the OG "hold my beer"
British beer? 🤢 No thanks. 😏
"Hold my ale"
Now i have no experience commenting on Jack Rackham videos, but that won't stop me.
Well I have
1:48 Best voice acting EVER!!
Nobody:
Isambard:
*TrUst mE I'm aN EnGiNeEr*
He accomplished more with his failures than most of us will ever accomplish in success.
I found your channel when I was searching for documentaries about Carolus Rex. I am so happy you are still active, I love your editing. Thanks for your videos!
I believe Isambard Brunel was an important figure in a book called Springheel Jack about a Steam-and-biopunk world with a mysteriously appearing mystery ghost. It's actually quite a cool alt-history story. Definitely very fictionalized.
You should do a video on Baron von Ungern Sternberg, also known as the last reincarnation of Genghis Khan
Yeah, that would make a hilarious video. The man was mad as a hatter. :D
Latest, not last. c:
A Jack Rackham video on the insane, ultra-violent White Russian German-Baltic shamanist, buddhist, pan-Asiatist, Mongolophile and antisemitic general who terrorized the Russian Far East and Mongolia during the Russian Civil War? Sign me up.
Is this just the Elon Musk of the nineteenth century?
Yes.
I’m watching this on the Fourth of July and I’m presented with this simple question. How the fuck is this guy NOT an American!
Jar no
@@thelinedrive Because he was British!
@@thelinedrive hes a boer that's basically just africa's equivalent to an american
Best part is when the ships both catch fire. Always cracks me up.
Jack! Jack! Jack! Your videos are ffffuuuuuu... funny to the bone and it makes learning or refreshing history FUN. Please do one on Henry VIII and his eagerness to leave a boy as an heir, yet, still left an religiously unsettled kingdom.
+Jerry S. Boston Thanks so much! You know, I feel like Henry VIII's been talked about to death, but if I can think of my own spin on him, he'd be a fantastic subject. Between his infamous marriages, making his own religion because of a fight with the Pope, his international relations, and succession struggles, the opportunities are endless!
The greatest RUclips channel in the woooooooooorld.
That man was just FLEXING the hardest he could
Never heard about any of this, thanks so much for posting about it!
He is me in academics. No experience or whatsoever but I will make sure to pass, and some how got into Dean's list
used to cros that bridge every day to get to school. also your british accent is surprisingly accurate
You'll get your millions of views eventually. Keep up the good work. ❤
❤
Dude you're blowing up! You deserve it! I love the style
One thing about Anglo-Saxons I find it interesting is that behind their moral pursuit and sense of duty, there is a deep cunning and practicality - “networking,” so to speak. We are under the impression that Chinese have been much more corrupted and relied on private connections to get around competition. But actually, in terms of integrity, many Chinese took that integrity to the extreme - There is a traditional saying in Chinese “退无私交”, which means no more personal interaction beyond official affairs. It came from a famously incorruptible Chinese official Liu Ba in a royal court. He did a great job at work, but he would deliberately distance himself from his colleagues and clients after work and after retirement, in order to not be corrupted. So in order to be incorruptible, you can’t befriend your colleagues or clients, according to Chinese royal bureaucratic integrity. Now that would sound a little nuts and inhumane to an Anglo-Saxon’s ear. After all, Anglo-Saxons worship bravery, duty and honor, but are also are very comfort-seeking and pragmatic on the ways to achieve those noble goals. Chinese, on the other hand, have gone a little bit nuts on both ends of the moral spectrum. I was in Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2015. I wanted to buy a bottle of drink from a vending machine. I had bigger paper bills but no coins. But the machine only took coins and smaller paper bills. So I asked a Hong Kong student for a change. He could not give me enough smaller bills and coins to exchange my big bill. So I said, give me what you have and keep the rest. And he replied with certain astonishment, “No, that would be corruption!”
I forgot how I got the drink in the end. But that is nuts.
Just say English instead of Anglo saxon
Why not norman? Or Jute? Shit we're going back that far hello fellow Roman citizen
Never been more proud to go to the university named for the modern day Leonardo da Vinci
Sorry I'm late to the party, but, the reason behind the bridge with the longest brick arches wasn't to keep the line flat, it was largely because Brunel was told he couldn't clog up the navigation channels at that part of the River Thames with arches.
I just found this channel. And my life wont be never the same. NEVER
"Isambard Kingdom Brunel
He sure could enginneer well..."
I love these videos, what a absolute gem. You should have 1000x more views per video
He's like a competent Jeremy Clarkson.
A more Interesting James May
...and much wiser than Jacob Rees-Mogg and Dominic Rabb *ALTOGETHER*
"Ambitious."
"But?"
"Well, ambitious."
Fitting, as Jeremy Clarkson actually made an hour long documentary on Brunel.
Glad you worked in the choking on a coin bit at the end there.
We watched this in school
Very happy
I’m way late but Clifton isn’t exactly a town, it’s a part of the city of Bristol!
He must have been Cool, as my 2nd Great Grand Uncle, Captain Clooney was employed on the SS Great Eastern as a young man. He later had his own (Successful Ship building Company) in which he built Ships to serve the Gulf & Atlantic Ocean and was highly praised for his workmanship. Many years later he was presented with a piece of the Cable as a Souvenir which he Cherished the rest of his Life. He has an Island & a Street named in his Honor in Cajun Country. I talked to a relative that inherited it and he said he might donate it to the museum in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
2:10 Hey! That photo's from my hometown! That train still runs, too.
Your description of the "perfect railway" is just my understanding of high speed rail lines. I guess if he had 300 km/hr trains going across that viaduct he would've been just fine. Funny, how technology solve some engineering problems with other engineering innovations
I learned about Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the first time in an IELTS practice test reading portion.
I can't be the only person who thinks he looks just like Alec Baldwin?
Jennifer Decker no your not the only ine
4:15 Jack, first you shot Machiavelli, then you dart a Wright brother! You've got a kill streak going here! XD
I instantly subscribed when he said "and a bag of crisps" 🤣🇬🇧💂🍟
Anytime I now describe or mention "the longest/largest/widest [ ] in the world," I wave my hand outward and emphasize WOOORLD!
Heheheh, excellent!
He didn't have to flex this hard
Had he been born in the 30s he'd have founded NASA.
When I first saw the video's title I legit thought the guy was so rich he made his own country
I love these videos
I'm from Bristol so it's really cool to see my city in a RUclips video
Finally real live Cave Johnson
Easily one of the greatest Britons of all time
I've smoked so many spliffs under his "widest arch bridge in the world"
3:50 Twas a wonderful craft!
She was rigged for and aft!
And oh how the wild winds drove her!
She stood several blasts!
She had twenty seven masts!
And they called her the Irish Rover! :P
Alright I can tell he's
1. Is dangerous to work with
2. Everything have to be prestigious and perfect (i.e longest and largest)
3. Wasteful and costly
4. Have no experience whatsoever yet he succeed somewhat this represent him as a fool an arcana fool
When you put it that way it's a miracle people kept throwing money at him for as long as they did. Guy's a walking health and safety hazard
This guy had a really fun n interesting career. And the host of this video made it sound funny. I love it. Funny video.
I'd see him as a complete asshole for how many of his workers died. But then again, he almost died on multiple occasions. So he's better than most bosses, at least.
(He also died before that bridge was finished, but alas)
Had no idea you enshrined this man with a video.
suppose you could say.... it was a stroke of genius
when you just finished a big city in city skyline and decide to start a new one
I miss when you just pick a job and you get the experience working it... everything nowadays is degrees, licenses, etc...
Try assembling a furniture without reading the manual, without losing your temper..........you will find yourself in a situation , which is normal in an engineer's daily life! They face a lot of problems at site and need to figure out a solution , which for most cases isn't available in the book. The only solution is thinking out of the box. Since a number of lives are to depend on it, the engineer also needs to keep in mind the safety factors while designing it. The only tools available are mathematics and physics.
Before making fun of an Engineer or their failure, try thinking wether you are capable of doing something that they did...
Brunel was HOF BA!!!! Few in the states know of him, but i do.
DA VINCI: I am a great artist, as well as an inventor, creating hundreds of designs...
ISAMBARD: PFFFFFT... peasant.
BUT HE DID BUILD ANOTHER BIG BRIDGE
oi!
you forgot to mention he basically made the method to lay off sea platforms?
IN THE WORLD!
What the video doesn’t highlight is no one else giving any of his ideas ago or offering any alternatives with any success. Those people no one will remember.
what I find funny is that a whole part of my hometown has a museum to do with Isambard and his work on the GWR let's just say the only reason for the towns population size is imported workers from across the country
1:47 was god-send. It was kek.
Just to clarify, the Sirius had to burn 4 barrels of resin, but arrived with 15 tons of coal left, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Sirius_(1837), and the great eastern was overtaken by British queen in 1839, also, #GREATEASTERN, note, not real.
It flooded once...
Went out with a stroke of bad luck
great video p.s. Ibn Battuta
Hahaha, I actually though his name was Islambard Kingdom of Brunei.
Good one, , but I think you mean ISLAMABAD, not Islamabard.
No, I mean I saw there was a "bard" in his name. I just though that in front of the "bard" is Islam. Like the "Bard of Islam" or whatnot.
I'm english and you have a better accent than me. Props to your dialect coach.
I'd like to thank years of British Internet
I can literally hear Simon Whistler simping on this dude.
I’m sensing a theme here...
people joke about elon musk, but cleary "the madman!" existed in every time period.
i mean, the greek had alexander "let's chase the sunrise until we find the border of the world"
the romans had Nero "what do you mean you can't put a palace onto a boat?"
the medieval had Longshanks "it's the biggest trebuchet ever built, i am not accepting your surrender until i used it."
during the colonial age there was george washington "yes the british are the biggest power in the western world, but that doesn't mean we can't beat them"
industrial revolution had mr brunel as seen above.
WW1 had lancelot de mole "we use an upside down conveyor belt for strong traction, we could mount a whole bloody cannon emplacement on it."
WW2 probably had oodles too but with the madness going all around it's hard to pin down the maddest.
then in the cold war there was kennedy "they beat us to space, alright fine, but we're gonna be on the moon first."
followed thereafter by Tim Berner Lee "what if i write up the protocol for more accessible internet and give it to the whole world for free?"(yes, this guy gave us html and thereby the world wide web as we know it and he did not get rich off it... though it was a damn good point on the CV.)
What? No transatlantic cable?
what the fuck! outstanding!!!
Between rivets slept two bodies awaiting the final passengers of Great Eastern!
Pause the video at 2:08-2:09 & AND REMEMBER!
0:13 subtitles it’s spelled apprenticeship, not a prentice ship.
The 19th century Howard Hughes
soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
there is no stopping him?
A stroke did, apparently...
nice
they actually burned four barrels of resin from the cargo hold to make it to New York
So what was he compensating for by making a lot of long things
So wait he is the man behind the Clifton Suspension Bridge?
Sure is!
So it Was Brunel's boat in JoJo Part 1.
Bag of crisps lol its a bag of chips as in fries but thick bag of chips from the chippy
Thomas Cochrane invented the tunneling shield and gave the patient to his friends Isambard Brunel and his father.
Pretty sure that last ship he built was considered cursed
There are two ways of doing things.
Nice SV golden wonder crisps
Quite a name!