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Incidentally the reason for the one-legged stool wasn't because the nitroglycerine was a danger but rather because the chemicals they were working with could make people lightheaded and thus pass out and hit their heads. Requiring the worker to actively support themselves meant that when they started to feel woozy they would catch themselves and presumably take a break and get some fresh air but really it was just a way to keep employees working. Gotta love a world before OSHA/Health & Safety
I mean it's totally legitimate and I like his off script self He's funny but then the on script when we're seriously learning real ass historical stuff. I mean brainblaze is just good times funny stories
6:03, probably not president Andrew Jackson, who had been out of office for over thirty years and dead for over 20. You meant Andrew Johnson; which is an understandable verbal flub very embarrassing that your editing guy got a *picture* of Andrew Jackson
Early smokeless propellants were notorius for being unstable when stored under non-ideal conditions. Especialy high temperatures. Teh french navy for example had sufferd the loss of several ships due to this issue in the time period. So, an accidental detonation of her ammunition stores is indeed the most likely culprit.
Having fired a black powder revolver I can attest to the thick white smoke being no joke. After the first shot it was thick, by the third I couldn't see the target.
The main reason armies of the time wore bright colors like British red or French blue. Entire units of troops could be obscured by the smoke, making it hard for leaders to know where their troops were.
I can imagine the nightmare being in that City and all of a sudden within 16 minutes 40 high explosive rounds rain from the sky silently and then all is quiet except for the screams in the terror
lol only about 800 years from gunpowder to nitroglycerin ... ridiculous statemen really as actually that's nearly a millennium.... maybe you meant dynamite to TNT as it didn't last long using dynamite for warfare
Fun fact: in Jules Verne's 1865 novel, "From the Earth to the Moon", the projectile is fired from an immense gun using 400K pounds/180K kgs of gun cotton.
One of my grandfathers was a long haul driver and use to haul loads of nitro cross country. He, when he could, would illegally haul double trailers of the stuff for extra cash under the table. this was back in the late 50s to 60s time frame
Honestly the Dudley Simms gun is such an interesting, obvious solution to needing a huge air compressor. I'd believe dynamite guns would have been a lot more popular if that had occurred to someone sooner.
At 6:01... I think you mean President Andrew Johnson, not Andrew Jackson. Jackson passed in 1845, well before Zalinski emigrated with his family to the US.
I'm waiting for the day that every new person/invention/anything else that they mention is followed by "If you want to find out more here's the video we made already!!!" Getting closer and closer
Some history: The US had the Howell torpedo, made from 1870 until just about 1890. We found one with the help of a dolphin that was trained by the US Navy.
The Vesuvius and her armament actually were a dead end in naval and armament design. Studies have shown that the air pressure could not be adequately controlled to provide good aiming of the guns. The guns' projectiles did not have to be designed to handle the impulse forces of gunpowder charge and were therefore were also structurally too light and not capable of penetrating anything. Her torpedoes only exploded on the surface of whatever they hit (so they could not be used against a fortification, and and only had minor impact on even trenched fortifications). As mentioned, the guns could not be aimed except by aiming the ship directly forward...placing the ship in danger when under attack (the secondary battery consisted only of 3 pounders and 1 pounders). To fight she had to advance. The ship's design was a failure in other ways also since it was designed only as a gun platform. The ship's metacentric height was too high and the ship rolled quite excessively (as much as 40 degrees). At higher speeds, the steering gear, shoe-horned into the hull, was found be inadequate to turn the vessel properly and her two props were too close together to useful in turning the vessel also. The ship's presence and the loudness of her torpedoes' explosions gave her a psychological impact, but she was otherwise generally useless.
Given that the effective range of naval guns at the time was considerably shorter than their balistic range due to limitations in fire controll, I wonder how much of a difference the shorter maximum range of the pneumatic guns made in practical use.
There were enough other limitations of pneumatic guns that to be honest it would have made little difference. There is, after all, a reason no one ever put them on ships that were anything but experimental platforms. They simply had too many failings to make them a viable weapon at the time.
@raeraebadfingers Attitude? LOL!!!! If I gave you attitude you'd know it. LOL!!!! I could've called you a nob or something more creative, but instead I just informed you that Simon's a co-owner of the channel. If you think that's 'tude, hooo boy, life is gonna be difficult. Cheers
Oooooooh. I thought you meant it LAUNCHED Nitroglycerin at targets, and that the Vesuvius was the first to use High Explosive Ordnance Edit: oh, maybe you did. Maybe i should just watch the video before commenting
How could President Andrew Jackson whose term was 1829 to 1837, pardoned someone for their involvement in the Lincoln assassination that happened in 1865? I reran the vid a few times and I can't see any explanation besides just being flat wrong. Please correct me!
OMG, I should have figured this out myself but it didn't click until @joelellis7035 mentioned that the vid meant Andrew Johnson, which makes me feel stupid for not realizing it immediately:-)
Im going admit i was ignorant to the facts. I always thought Nobel just relieved all the admiration for creating dynamite...now that I know he tamed such a dangerous thing like nitro so we could use it to push forward in expanding humanity...well played sir. Yes dynamite can be used to kill but imagine the world without it.
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The Dudly Sims gun sounds like a gun NASA uses to accelerate small projectiles to simulate micrometeorites. You should look that up.
Fact checking and editing would help your gravitas and veritas. You can afford them.
Incidentally the reason for the one-legged stool wasn't because the nitroglycerine was a danger but rather because the chemicals they were working with could make people lightheaded and thus pass out and hit their heads. Requiring the worker to actively support themselves meant that when they started to feel woozy they would catch themselves and presumably take a break and get some fresh air but really it was just a way to keep employees working. Gotta love a world before OSHA/Health & Safety
TIFO = Simon on his best behaviour : Brain Blaze = Simon off script.
I mean it's totally legitimate and I like his off script self He's funny but then the on script when we're seriously learning real ass historical stuff. I mean brainblaze is just good times funny stories
Casual crimanalist = Simon realising humanity isn’t on its best behaviour
yea, bb was the vent channel. I miss the script slapping stand up venting vibe it had.
@@bmxerkrantznobody is stopping you from trying to do it yourself.
BB: What script? 😂
Andrew JOHNSON was the US president after Lincoln, not Andrew Jackson.
Surprised - they usually catch these in edit
may god forbid this severe miscarriage of justice!!!
They both sucked to be fair. Jackson with the trail of tears, and Johnson with reconstruction, so screw it.
@motorsr20 it's about historical accuracy. TIFO is saying for a fact that a US president pardoned someone after he was out of office and already dead.
Thank God you pointed that out,I thought I was going senile!
President Andrew Johnson, not Andrew Jackson
Erm,....Andrew Johnson, NOT Andrew Jackson.
6:03, probably not president Andrew Jackson, who had been out of office for over thirty years and dead for over 20.
You meant Andrew Johnson; which is an understandable verbal flub very embarrassing that your editing guy got a *picture* of Andrew Jackson
Hilarious.
probly ai doing it
Remember the Maine (was probably destroyed by an accidental ignition of its stores)!
Yep. It was proven that coal dust caused the explosion, but Hearst egged on the US government so he could cover a war.
Early smokeless propellants were notorius for being unstable when stored under non-ideal conditions. Especialy high temperatures.
Teh french navy for example had sufferd the loss of several ships due to this issue in the time period.
So, an accidental detonation of her ammunition stores is indeed the most likely culprit.
That might have been a coal dust explosion.
As a San Franciscan I have to giggle at Simon’s pronunciation of Presidio.
Those Britts just can't get English right.
Mobile and Albany as well.
And El Cid...... And just about any Spanish names....
Having fired a black powder revolver I can attest to the thick white smoke being no joke. After the first shot it was thick, by the third I couldn't see the target.
The main reason armies of the time wore bright colors like British red or French blue. Entire units of troops could be obscured by the smoke, making it hard for leaders to know where their troops were.
I can imagine the nightmare being in that City and all of a sudden within 16 minutes 40 high explosive rounds rain from the sky silently and then all is quiet except for the screams in the terror
Phlegmatized is a cool word
It’s wild how quickly technology advanced from black powder to nitroglycerin and dynamite
lol only about 800 years from gunpowder to nitroglycerin ... ridiculous statemen really as actually that's nearly a millennium.... maybe you meant dynamite to TNT as it didn't last long using dynamite for warfare
@@DarkShroom That and the development of smokeless powders.
There is a reason that period is sometimes called the Second Industrial Revolution....
Fun fact: in Jules Verne's 1865 novel, "From the Earth to the Moon", the projectile is fired from an immense gun using 400K pounds/180K kgs of gun cotton.
One of my grandfathers was a long haul driver and use to haul loads of nitro cross country. He, when he could, would illegally haul double trailers of the stuff for extra cash under the table. this was back in the late 50s to 60s time frame
This reminds me of 'Duck, You Suckers' and that foreigner in the SW US, who walked around with little phials of high explosives.
7:20 to finally get to the point of the video.
The sequence was Blackpowder ->GunCOTTON->Nitroglycerine, I think
Honestly the Dudley Simms gun is such an interesting, obvious solution to needing a huge air compressor. I'd believe dynamite guns would have been a lot more popular if that had occurred to someone sooner.
I'm thinking that the pneumatic gun presaged the launch mechanism for modern motor torpedoes.
President in 1868 was Andrew Johnson, not Jackson as pictured. Jackson was Prez back in 1820s, I think.
At 6:01... I think you mean President Andrew Johnson, not Andrew Jackson.
Jackson passed in 1845, well before Zalinski emigrated with his family to the US.
Napoleon dynamite!
Mobile Bay, Simon, mo-BEEL. mo-BEEL.
Love the format of this quick information through out ❤
I'm waiting for the day that every new person/invention/anything else that they mention is followed by "If you want to find out more here's the video we made already!!!" Getting closer and closer
China claims they invented everything even when they clearly didn't.
Some history: The US had the Howell torpedo, made from 1870 until just about 1890. We found one with the help of a dolphin that was trained by the US Navy.
Brilliant as usual chap....ta!✌️
Andrew Johnson... Jackson was dead before Zelenski was even born
You say that Andrew Jackson was president in 1867 at 6:03 in the video, while showing his picture. Are you sure about that?
Not only a Rhode Island shoutout. But Prudence island and Narragansett!! ❤
one thing about dynamite is also that handling it will cause it to be absorbed through the skin and giving you are bad headache.
Andrew Johnson, not Andrew Jackson
Little dickery not old Hickory?
Don't you mean Andrew Johnson not Andrew Jackson ?!
I believe that would have been President Andrew Johnson NOT Andrew Jackson. Jackson was long gone by 1869.
How many channels do you have
Simon, you confused Andrew Jackson with Andrew Johnson. The President after Lincoln was Johnson.
The Vesuvius and her armament actually were a dead end in naval and armament design. Studies have shown that the air pressure could not be adequately controlled to provide good aiming of the guns. The guns' projectiles did not have to be designed to handle the impulse forces of gunpowder charge and were therefore were also structurally too light and not capable of penetrating anything. Her torpedoes only exploded on the surface of whatever they hit (so they could not be used against a fortification, and and only had minor impact on even trenched fortifications). As mentioned, the guns could not be aimed except by aiming the ship directly forward...placing the ship in danger when under attack (the secondary battery consisted only of 3 pounders and 1 pounders). To fight she had to advance. The ship's design was a failure in other ways also since it was designed only as a gun platform. The ship's metacentric height was too high and the ship rolled quite excessively (as much as 40 degrees). At higher speeds, the steering gear, shoe-horned into the hull, was found be inadequate to turn the vessel properly and her two props were too close together to useful in turning the vessel also. The ship's presence and the loudness of her torpedoes' explosions gave her a psychological impact, but she was otherwise generally useless.
Given that the effective range of naval guns at the time was considerably shorter than their balistic range due to limitations in fire controll, I wonder how much of a difference the shorter maximum range of the pneumatic guns made in practical use.
There were enough other limitations of pneumatic guns that to be honest it would have made little difference. There is, after all, a reason no one ever put them on ships that were anything but experimental platforms. They simply had too many failings to make them a viable weapon at the time.
At about 6:00, you mistake Andrew Jackson for Andrew Johnson. That's a difference of 10 presidents.
In the immortal words of Jimmy Walker, let me say “DY-NO-MITE!” 😁
So Vesuvius was first to fire a Smooth Bore Dart as a projectile kind of like a Bradley or Abrams tank they have Smooth Bore
The first hand guns literally used a strengthened crossbow bolt... So sorry, no....
Andrew Johnson not Andrew Jackson (although both were from Tennessee)
Yeah, i bet those one legged stools caused as many accidents as they prevented??😲😲😂😂
Just his many unpublished videos of Simon are there on this channel left?!
You do realize that Simon's a co-owner of the channel right?
@Hillbilly001 I thought he quit? No need for the attitude. Obviously I didn't know based on my comment.
@raeraebadfingers Attitude? LOL!!!! If I gave you attitude you'd know it. LOL!!!! I could've called you a nob or something more creative, but instead I just informed you that Simon's a co-owner of the channel. If you think that's 'tude, hooo boy, life is gonna be difficult. Cheers
@@raeraebadfingersyou have boomeritis
Your probably thinking of Biographics and/or TopTenz that Simon no longer hosts new content for.
Cool video, the Austrian air rifle was far superior to its counter parts in the late 1700s
U.S. Navy: "Who wants to volunteer for the 'Dynamite Cruiser""
U.S. Sailors: "🦗..."
DYNO-MITE! 💥
I’m thinking like a big “THOOOP”.
Love how he runs all his words together and also talks through his nose. Like a giant run-on paragraph. Just thinks he is so cute. Not
Alfred Nobel purchase the Bofor armament company in 1894, to ensure he had a customer for his explosives.
Yo estoy cagando mientras veo El video. Gracias,Simon.
Y mi MIERDA es considerada TNT as well.😅
You aren't a true fan of Simon until you shit your pants while watching.
@chadimirputin2282 That's unfortunately true... Been there 2012. Never forget Never Clean 🫧
@@chadimirputin2282I practically shit myself when I see Simon still has videos here
What a dynamite episode.
GET IT
As someone who's from toledo ohio, besides Katie Holmes this is the only time we've been spoken of positively lol
244.8 psi
Oooooooh. I thought you meant it LAUNCHED Nitroglycerin at targets, and that the Vesuvius was the first to use High Explosive Ordnance
Edit: oh, maybe you did. Maybe i should just watch the video before commenting
Presidio is pronounced prah-sid-e-o.
E I E I O
So these are Big potato guns firing Dynamite shells cool
It is pronounced MoBeel not mobil
How could President Andrew Jackson whose term was 1829 to 1837, pardoned someone for their involvement in the Lincoln assassination that happened in 1865? I reran the vid a few times and I can't see any explanation besides just being flat wrong. Please correct me!
OMG, I should have figured this out myself but it didn't click until @joelellis7035 mentioned that the vid meant Andrew Johnson, which makes me feel stupid for not realizing it immediately:-)
No correction needed on your part.
22 minutes of the kitchen sink. There was a point to this video. Probably around minute 21…..
Just jack up the name Presidio
Little tip. Turn the speed on the videos down to 0.75 and Simon is just about bearable.
and only your stupid wooden ships with cannons were scientifically practical?
As somebody who has designed and built black powder cannon, these are an inelegant solution, to a problem that no one could define.
💩💩💩
Firing signature. There, i defined the problem for you.
5:09 sounds like Zelensky
🇺🇸👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Q
This guy babbles way too much to listen to
Are we still saying ships have gender.
Yes
@PrimeRooster Daft
Im going admit i was ignorant to the facts. I always thought Nobel just relieved all the admiration for creating dynamite...now that I know he tamed such a dangerous thing like nitro so we could use it to push forward in expanding humanity...well played sir. Yes dynamite can be used to kill but imagine the world without it.