The Creepy Clockwork Robots Of The 17th Century | Mechanical Marvels | Real History

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  • Опубликовано: 30 апр 2024
  • Since the invention of clocks in the Renaissance period, the intricate maze of cogs and gears that make up their inner workings have been used for all kinds of things. One of these is the lost art of making automatons, lifelike creations such as dolls or animals. These incredible machines were ahead of their time and have entertained people for centuries.
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Комментарии • 116

  • @erinmalone2669
    @erinmalone2669 22 дня назад +13

    This is a wonderful example of how something that was a piece of art and engineering ended up being a mechanical marvel and driving the industrial revolution. We need artists and creative people to spur on ingenuity.

  • @steveco1800
    @steveco1800 Месяц назад +25

    Fascinating to think how revolutionary clockwork was. The idea of a robot taking over your work must have been around much longer than we might think.

  • @KristineMaitland
    @KristineMaitland 27 дней назад +14

    Pre Covid I met an automaton (karakuri) maker from Japan in Toronto at The Japan Foundation. The man was a master of his craft and a brilliant entertainer despite the language barrier.

  • @patrickbush9526
    @patrickbush9526 13 дней назад +6

    Masterpiece of engineering is an understatement

  • @finch45lear
    @finch45lear Месяц назад +6

    Outstanding presentation. Thank you so much.

  • @MrBrownnn696
    @MrBrownnn696 26 дней назад +4

    This was very interesting I’m glad I watched it.

  • @pheart2381
    @pheart2381 27 дней назад +3

    Creepy. Will probably have nightmares tonight,but the mechanical works inside are mindblowing!

  • @Sweetjudiblueyes
    @Sweetjudiblueyes Месяц назад +4

    This is an awesome show.
    I am truly amazed. The clock in Munchën freaked me out.

  • @jonathanlandau-litewski7405
    @jonathanlandau-litewski7405 3 дня назад

    That swan is stunning.

  • @hydrotilling7043
    @hydrotilling7043 8 дней назад +1

    It’s like watching your great ancestors evolve, AI😊

  • @John.Flower.Productions
    @John.Flower.Productions Месяц назад +7

    Simon Schaffer is the inspiration for Austin Powers.

    • @benjaminrapp7418
      @benjaminrapp7418 19 дней назад +1

      If Stephen Hawking had Parkinsons instead of ALS

  • @oldschool8432
    @oldschool8432 Месяц назад +2

    Thank you Real History I found this really interesting

  • @LaurieValdez-zk3dy
    @LaurieValdez-zk3dy 13 дней назад +1

    Thank you very much. God bless Everyone
    Philadelphia USA 🇺🇸 Nostrovia ❤❤❤

    • @LaurieValdez-zk3dy
      @LaurieValdez-zk3dy 13 дней назад +1

      Kinetic and potential energy🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @Eshkanama
    @Eshkanama Месяц назад +3

    That good ole uncanny valley coming into play real hard with this one.

  • @jamestregler1584
    @jamestregler1584 9 дней назад

    Superb tour down History's mechanical visita ; thanks from old New Orleans 😎

  • @annamossity8879
    @annamossity8879 День назад

    Absolutely fascinating!!

  • @denisestinnett4414
    @denisestinnett4414 5 дней назад

    Automatons in some form were used in ancient temples to dispense water or other things, collect a fee while giving a little show or something I believe.

  • @alexsmith9617
    @alexsmith9617 10 дней назад

    Cool 😎. Nicely presented 👍🏼

  • @crystalmiller4577
    @crystalmiller4577 20 часов назад

    Fantastic!

  • @TheCaptainSlappy
    @TheCaptainSlappy 7 дней назад

    Outstanding.

  • @hhunstad2011
    @hhunstad2011 20 дней назад

    Good stuff!

  • @pamelafolger8449
    @pamelafolger8449 24 дня назад

    These Are So Cool!!💓💓💓💓

  • @terryhagan7694
    @terryhagan7694 17 дней назад

    brilliant

  • @user-qr8ys1km7r
    @user-qr8ys1km7r Месяц назад +3

    Shouldn’t the title be “18th Century” not 17th…

  • @savannahshepherd2283
    @savannahshepherd2283 19 дней назад

    What a beautiful journey 😊

  • @LU1VJK
    @LU1VJK 21 день назад

    Magnífico!

  • @davidsghost4993
    @davidsghost4993 18 дней назад

    Very good!

  • @michelefritchie6198
    @michelefritchie6198 23 дня назад

    I remember seeing an article on this back in the 60s, in the old Science Digest magazine. There was also one of a woman who played a piano.

  • @gregmiller9710
    @gregmiller9710 Месяц назад +2

    ..i like Professor Simon! :)

  • @garyfrancis6193
    @garyfrancis6193 2 дня назад

    This was TV 500 years ago.

  • @user-cx6wo8rr2i
    @user-cx6wo8rr2i Месяц назад +1

    How easy we overlook that we are standing on the shoulders of giants. This videos remind us to have some perspective on things.
    Can't imagine what the engineering nightmares to design and build all the elements to be contained in a mechanism of automatons translated to today's devices that operate on morses law that uses the word nano, quantum and uv to design something that society either gets entertained by or finds has some usefulness long enough before its pushed into oblivion.

  • @user-ll4tw9xp7h
    @user-ll4tw9xp7h 20 дней назад

    Wild that these don’t/didn’t use electricity. I sort of get how they worked, but not to the extent of knowing how they could do such precise actions

  • @lucky1u
    @lucky1u 2 дня назад

    All the animals in this are tortured, I shut it off. Couldn't see how cruel they were treated

  • @heyyyitsjosh
    @heyyyitsjosh 8 дней назад

    Wow

  • @jamietorremans3005
    @jamietorremans3005 20 дней назад

    They didnt know atoms back then

  • @rickwilliams967
    @rickwilliams967 18 дней назад

    The chess dude is just a mechanical puppet.

  • @GBEZ
    @GBEZ Месяц назад +1

    Did anyone else nearly not survive the CHIMES?!? Those were the most horrifying sounds.

  • @brycedyck8450
    @brycedyck8450 25 дней назад +5

    The 1700s were not the 17th century. Just sayin'.....

    • @gdcitizen2
      @gdcitizen2 17 дней назад

      That's correct 👌

  • @Romulus70
    @Romulus70 День назад

    De ce nu subtitrati și în limba Română sau in toate dialectele ?! E păcat ,aveți postări interesante și v-ar putea aduce mai multi abonați și vizitatori !

  • @MrBrownnn696
    @MrBrownnn696 25 дней назад

    Music boxes???? Lmfao

  • @roylcraft
    @roylcraft Месяц назад +3

    What is old is new again! AI robots are here now, how long will we be?

  • @breakeverychain7
    @breakeverychain7 28 дней назад

    Why is my dog having nightmares?

  • @frozty189
    @frozty189 8 дней назад

    Cut out the creepy guy at the beginning

  • @garyfrancis6193
    @garyfrancis6193 2 дня назад

    Play at 1.5x speed.

  • @dennistoadvine9672
    @dennistoadvine9672 Месяц назад +3

    This channel has took real shots from a different documentary. And overlaid other stuff.

  • @henrikrolfsen584
    @henrikrolfsen584 22 дня назад +3

    As a person of European heritage, I find your description of these marvelous machines as "creepy" as quite insulting. But, I am quite used to this attitude. And the way Anglo-Americans love to spew hatred toward all things German! The Germans of the Black-Forrest region of the German Rump-State. The Germans of Austria. The Germans of Switzerland, who built many of these beautiful machines. This is a technology that gave hope and inspiration to millions across Europe. They are not "creepy", they are dazzlingly beautiful, testament to a culture, and tribute to the hard mental, and physical work that went into their creation, thank you.

    • @webstercat
      @webstercat 14 дней назад +3

      A tad sensitive

    • @lyndawilliams4570
      @lyndawilliams4570 12 дней назад

      @@webstercatthey were the cause of 2 world wars so yes…..they are inclined to overreact

  • @onefeather2
    @onefeather2 13 дней назад

    Absolutely love these machines and art, sure do not have anything like it today, today is cheap tacky awful crap from China.

  • @94f1senna
    @94f1senna 9 дней назад

    IT'S OFTEN SAID
    THAT IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO BUILD IT,
    I TRIED BUT IT WAS MESSY 😅
    HERE'S MY STORY
    I WENT TO THE LOO AND HAD A 💩 POO
    THEN.TO UNDERSTAND IT
    I TRIED TO BUILD IT ,
    TROUBLE IS IT WAS DIFFICULT AND DIFFERENT EVERYTIME
    I SADLY I NEVER GOT TO UNDERSTAND IT 😪

  • @spab0252
    @spab0252 Месяц назад

    18th century.

  • @BlumchenausMunchen
    @BlumchenausMunchen 23 дня назад

    Who is narrating this?

  • @JunoDiovonaDemihof
    @JunoDiovonaDemihof 5 дней назад

    It is amazing to me every time I hear it… How many lives God has ruined😢😢 poor Christians ... 😅

  • @h.huffen-puff4105
    @h.huffen-puff4105 16 дней назад

    The original Turk was lost in a fire.

  • @Seasidecc95437
    @Seasidecc95437 27 дней назад

    Who in the world was hiding in the Turks chess cabinet? Who ever it was beat the lot of Europes chess masters.,, how could they be unknown?

  • @IndigoMason1l1l
    @IndigoMason1l1l 14 дней назад

    Zzzzzzzz.....

  • @igorschmidlapp6987
    @igorschmidlapp6987 25 дней назад

    You need to do a new segment, "The Future of Automatons", and show GOP/MAGA politicians... ;-P

  • @885Blackjack
    @885Blackjack Месяц назад +28

    If you didn't fast forward or fall asleep in this video, I'm calling BS

    • @jeffnichols7834
      @jeffnichols7834 Месяц назад +4

      I'm still listening while working...so I didn't forward or fall asleep lol.😂

    • @javiercito97
      @javiercito97 Месяц назад

      #Incult

    • @danalynbegin6991
      @danalynbegin6991 Месяц назад +8

      I’m actually quite facinated although I wonder what kind of creepy grandma’s attic he was filming out of originally

    • @885Blackjack
      @885Blackjack Месяц назад +2

      @@danalynbegin6991 I was too but I found the video really difficult to watch. It was much too slow for me

    • @teresac1239
      @teresac1239 Месяц назад +1

      I had to re-watch it in the day to make it thru...lol

  • @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602
    @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602 Месяц назад +2

    Around the same time that automatons began to be built to dazzle European aristocrats and princes, ordinary people were recruited and sometimes kidnapped to receive military training. In case of war, soldiers advanced in columns, shooting and receiving shots and then killing and being killed with bayonet blows. The battles between these soldiers, reduced to the condition of automatons by conditioning and fear (they were killed in case of desertion or refusal to fight) caused tens and even hundreds of thousands of deaths, injuries and mutilations. And just as they lost interest in their old and eventually broken automatons, European aristocrats and princes were not very interested in the fate of broken soldiers after wars. They had an inexhaustible supply of poor servants who could quickly be transformed into flesh-and-blood automatons to fight new battles. Automata have no life. Soldiers have to be systematically dehumanized. The military ideal has always been influenced by rationality that at some point allowed the construction of mechanical marvels resembling human beings in a world in which not all human beings could really imagine that they were human. And now the human soldiers and killing automatons will all be controlled by artificial intelligence, virtual robots in charge of maximizing the destruction of enemy cities while children and women are murdered with great mechanical efficiency and precision, as is the case in Gaza. Is the god of the Israelis an automaton of perversity? Is he only happy when Jews mechanize and automate the killing of innocents?

    • @mvc9178
      @mvc9178 Месяц назад +5

      TLDR
      Was it Trump’s fault?

    • @TheListOf
      @TheListOf Месяц назад +2

      Omg.....😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @annawhiteley3128
      @annawhiteley3128 Месяц назад +3

      Way to legitimize antisemitism there🎉😂

    • @TheListOf
      @TheListOf Месяц назад +3

      @@annawhiteley3128 I know, right? What a wing nut. 😆 🤣 😂

    • @user-rg3kf1ti4m
      @user-rg3kf1ti4m Месяц назад

      Since you insist on inserting your propaganda into a video that has nothing to do with your twisted views, do you mean innocents like Hamas gang-raping women, roasting babies alive in ovens, pouring petrol over parents and burning them alive in front of their children, torturing animals, hiding behind human shields, stealing humanitarian aid from the "innocents" who cheered when elderly hostages and children were paraded through their streets etc, etc? I think the tinpot god you have a problem with is the one the Gazans worship.

  • @harrykuheim6107
    @harrykuheim6107 9 дней назад

    The first home entertainment center...Rich Guys had live Music in their homes at this time too