Britain's Greatest Machines - S02E01: 1910s - Triumph and Tragedy (2.0 Stereo, 360p)
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- Host Chris Barrie kicks off proceedings with the 1910s - the decade that industrialised the First World War. Chris looks at pre-war inventions, from a three-wheeled Morgan runabout to massive moving bridges, before charting the new weapons, trucks, planes and ships of World War I. Find out how technology changed warfare forever, before seeing Chris climb into the cockpit for an exhilarating flight on the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic.
Sorry about the 360p i couldn't find a HD verision of this.
What I like about documentaries by chris barrie, jeremy clarkson, al murray, james may...and a few others is they are truly excited and engaged in their subjects and that really shows through in the programming they produce.
Except Clarkson is a privileged rich prick.
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Yeh,.and all bloody English ! What an arrogant and selfish nation.
And Fred dibnah
Fred was fab !
I'm a technologist your channel is quenching my thirst for knowledge thank you for uploading fantastic videos.
Little Willie couldn’t bridge the gap. Never thought I’d hear those words spoken, again.
18:05 I have the same frame Westinghouse in DC generator form, made in 1904 for Phillip Island Australia, one heavy old SOB.
In July of 1983, I had a Brain Scan at a Hospital in Sacramento. The medical staff were proud too show off their brand new state of the art scanner. Made in England by EMI
Thanks for the quality in the title, and for not mangling the video with weird zooms and inverted display and whatnot 😊
That bridge/ferry thing was the coolest thing I've seen in a long while. It must one of a kind!
there is another in Newport wales, and another in germany at Rendersburg on the Kiel canal
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And another in France
I wish you were doing more of this stuff. Interesting with a funny twist to make everyone smile
Cracking good documentary! I appreciate how British engineering thinks up quirky ideas that are outside the box. Sometimes they don't work, but when they do, they succeed brilliantly.
One thing I noticed was the Vickers Vimy flying in the video wasn't powered by RR Eagles, it was powered by Orenda big block Chevy aero-derivative engines. But I don't fault them one little bit. Who wants to go way up in the sky with 90-year old engines?
The sadness of this series is while it's fun and fascinating to watch, it also shows what Britain was and like its empire, is largely is essentially no longer.
Through losing many men - in the two wars methinks?
@@uploadJ the men were lost in the wars, but the companies were lost after.
We need to recreate our industry. We do not need to buy crap from China. It is possible to mass produce good quality items at reasonable prices. I would happily pay double for an item made here.
@@uploadJlost all the good men, lol the men today aren’t the British from then. Today is a dumbed down melting pot dump.
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This show is so classically British. I love how in the segment on the Titanic they credit the radio as British. Rutheford, who created the theory, was from New Zealand. Marconi, who actually invented the radio, was Italian. And of course Morse, after whom the famous code is named, was American. Very British indeed - cheers boys!
scottn7cy in all fairness, while the inventors were not British, their inventions were discovered/made in Britain. Rutherford was researching at Cambridge University and Marconi's lab was in Essex. More what he meant when he said that it was British was that the set was a British built one.
@@157RANDOM fair enough
scottn7cy Yes a wonderful informative series that is very watchful.
By implying that the radio isn’t a British invention,this doesn’t leave the USA in a very good light.
An awful lot of USA inventions had inventors that had clearly immigrated to the USA, the Atom Bomb was a multi national effort that was developed by the USA. The British Admiralty had been gifted the patent for nuclear fission in 1935 from Leo Szilard and the development team could only be called international.
Take the microwave oven, Wikipedia states an American invention but it was the British cavity magnetron that made it possible. Wikipedia should state that the microwave oven was developed in the USA not invented, the list is endless.
Still a good watchable series🤔
Great program on their history , super narrator to.
He narater think pant are real but he wearing pants and PANTS NO REAL! you tell me!!!
In regards to 20:00 in, the radio set that was aboard the Titanic is a fascinating example of Victorian age radio. Keep in mind that radio set was not only before the transistor; it was before the electron tube. How on earth is that possible? Victorian age radio, while ridiculously hilarious in its simplicity, was ingenious. The Victorian radio transmitter wasn't much to accomplish, consisting of a spinning rotor, electromechanical contacts, and a tuned resonance circuit, but the Victorian age radio receiver was a bit more tricky. I confess I never would have guessed how they did it. They did it with an early form of magnetic recording. A continuous loop of wire, powered by I swear to God a wind up mechanism, would continuously magnetize a wire and then the magnetized wire would pass through a coil of a tuned resonance circuit attached to a very long antenna wire. When the operator aboard the Titanic had his key pressed, he'd be transmitting a sinusoidal electromagnetic signal that would travel at the speed of light to the tuned coil of the land based Victorian age radio receiver in which the alternating current would demagnetize the portion of the wire traveling through the resonating coil. The wire would then pass through another coil attached to earphones and voila monsieur; the Victorian age radio operator would hear clicks that would be recognizable to any telegraph operator. It's sometimes said that the the telegraph was the Victorian internet. One could also say that the Victorian age radio was its Victorian smart phone.
It was Deforest,an American inventor. who invented the autotron vacuum tube in 1908. It is possible that the Titanic's radio had these tubes.
@@rayfridley6649 No, the Titanic used a Marconi 'wireless telegraph machine' which used a massive motor-generator set and the spark discharge principle. It was so large and so noisy that transmitter and receiver were in separate rooms. There were no vacuum tubes involved, although you are correct: it had just been invented by DeForest.
@@rayfridley6649 Audion. It was called "Audion". Cheers
OMG Rimmer !
He's a smmmmmeeeeeee.......
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No he's not. Now I've watched it I take that back. Absolutely brilliant! Chris Barrie is a true star.
Actually the Titanic did not initially send out an SOS through Morse code, it sent out CQD the common distress call of the time. The ‘CQ’ (sécu - French meaning general alert) and D (distress) since SOS had not been formally adopted. As time progressed the wireless operators later began alternating between the two
Curiosities, people, places, things, stories, many absent from school curiculae. Thank you for sharing.
Very good! That bridge ferry is just bizarre, it's got to be one of the weirdest big machines I've ever heard of. Under the circumstances it makes perfect sense, but it's still weird!
It sort of drives like a tram with the deadpan.
Chris Barrie does love his toys! Although unlike many presenters he knows and has practical knowledge of the toys he plays with. Pity a lot of other'Expert ,presenters' are at his level.
No - He doesn't. (Starting at 14:10) The Newport Transporter bridge is 4 years older (1906) and still in service to this ones opening in 1911 (not 1811).
It is the longest though, although the Newport bridge is higher.
Blame the scrip writer then or resaearchers then.
51WCDodge - UK Experts are now. Wally’s with a uni ologie. Our country is stuffed with them. Like Horse muck. They are everywhere. Government, Industry, BBC. Etc.
Amazing thanks for uploading this Brilliant historic documentary
try flying the computer simulated version of the Vimy, it's a fascinating experience. You manipulate the controls, and then absolutely nothing happens far another two or three seconds. Maneuvering the thing took constant, stressful, exhausting planning trying to get it to go where you wanted. I couldn't imagine doing that the entire distance of the Atlantic.
I found the real problem in the computer version the lack of trim control. Since you don't have a co pilot to take over for a bit, and thus cant let go of the controls for a second or you crash. Be hard graft in reality.
Top narrator, he actually has knowledge
Brilliant amazing n i loved every second of it just beautifully engineered machinery that still works after so many years, so its true they don't build them as well as they used to. am really thankful you posted this thank you
Hehehe! The owner of the Runabout looks like a real bundle of joy! :)
.lol
Absolutely frozen in dourness.
So the Middlesborough bridge designed in 1873 was opened in 1811.That's amazing.
Ya, i found that pretty awesome.
you obviously dont know about Dr Who…lol
1811 is a simple mistake. The Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge was opened in 1911. It has an article in Wikipedia titled "Tees Transporter Bridge".
Yeah of course they had time travel how do you think they got all those futuristic steam punk gadgets? 😉
Джейсон Хичкок lol, i never heard him say they invented any of that. Just how they used those things in inovative ways to make great machines.
Talk about butthurt bro. Just enjoy the enginering
The first two firetrucks I drove her exhaust whistle’s. Loud, impressive, and absolutely fun to pull the chain. Actually were better than the siren.
David Fletcher! Awesome i love his show about tanks...
This is an excellent video - both informative and funny. Thanks for posting.
interrobot1 chris barrie has lots of series and programs like this. Pretty much all of them are worth watching
The Vimy replica was built to commemorate the England to Australia flight of Keith and Ross Smith, their original Vimy is at Adelaide airport.
Lol that long bus looking car was awesome
Was it later the OMNIBUS?
Too funny , speaking of the titanic, "till the captain with great british incompetence , drove it into an iceberg" . Just the way he said it was funny lol
It was even funnier when the captain shouted where the fucking hells all this water coming from.
He should have said "with great British *arrogance* " .
Would have been more on the nose.
Interesting that the Vickers Vimy used in the film was piloted by the late great Steve Fossett.
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Fantastic video. Thanks. Especially impressive was that gondola bridge. Amazing.
Thank you for this, most enjoyable..
UK pop science documentaries are generally so good
Cordialement,
Wow,!!! I've never heard of the gondola bridge and I daresay most other people haven't too. Brilliant idea and sill going strong .
In 1910 people worked 80 hours a week but in Melbourne Australia the 8 hour day was created back in the 1880’s (8hrs work,8 hours rest,8 hrs recreation)
29:46. My SteamPunkometer’s needle just snapped off. Mind blown.
We have an original Vimy at Adelaide Airport flown from England to Australia.
The original transatlantic one is in the Science Museum in London.
Interesting about what seems to be a later introduction of the Car and electric lights. Baltimore MD saw the car boom around 1904, of course by the middle class and well to do, but ordinary people were getting them very much by 1910. Electric lights came more popular in the 1890s. Its great to view these grand technologies still in action. So many people today are fully ignorant of the large number of old technologies which they still use and makes their lives possible. Of course our schools decided that the cell phone and PC are the only technologies we need to give our attention to. Ignorance is dangerous.
And they forget the most important WWI invention "Sonar" being able to detect German Subs and locate. big surprise for the submariners and there loses was high.
Active sound detection systems research began in the latter part of WWI, but it was 1923 before a working ASDIC set was sent to sea.
A very fine production English Sir. I shall look forward to enjoying many more.
That Morgan cycle-car is cute, but in American in 1913 for just 10 pounds more, you could buy a Ford Model T that had 4 wheels, a four cylinder engine, could carry 5 adults, go 50mph, and came with a folding rubberized cloth top so you could drive it in the rain without getting drenched. By 1925 the price for a new Ford Model T Turing Car had dropped to $260, or 58 pounds. In 1913 Britain, the upper classes had it made, but everyone else was getting screwed.
So what's changed, other than the upper class Brits are Arabs, Russians & Chinese
@@jeremyfine1464 : You are confusing class with wealth. Very different.
But I take your point:
The British "ordinary" people are still being screwed.
It's now just so much more multi-cultural.
One feels so enriched even whilst being screwed on all sides.
This guy sure has driven many strange machines!
I kept thinking I had seen the presenters face before...and the voice sounded familiar to me, but I couldnt remember where.....then it just came to me....the hologram dude from the series "Red Dwarf".....Rimmer....hes aged a bit(havent we all) but still looks good....
Yes i love that show
Brittas empire was before that
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Oh, yeah. Thanks.
Hillary in Tomb Raider movies with Angelina Jolie.
Wang Chung xtg
Thank you, Mr Brittas
I`ve worked in the factory where the tank was made. Was Ruston`s when I worked there. Now I work across the river in a steel forge where the Sopwith Camel was made. :)
HOLY HELL it's Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf
I _knew_ I'd seen the poncy git somewhere else!
Cancun771 it's smeg head to you
Chris and Rob are both self confessed petrol heads. I had a feeling that he'd be the presenter when this is what you tube served up to me today. He presents both Britain's Greatest Machines and Massive Engines series
That was my first thought.
He did many of the voices in Spitting Image too. I think he did anyway.
its actually a compression whistle, exhaust whistle was more common on tractors, optional on Case for many years.
The Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge is not the first one to be built. There were others, notably the Vizcaya Bridge in Bilbao Spain that were built before.
And Newport Transporter Bridge 1906
Is it still running
These are great! What better use of the Holly Hop Drive, eh? Don't you agree, Arnold? As a Yank, I've been reading David Fletcher's articles in ARMY MOTORS magazine, the journal of the Military Vehicle Preservation Association - the MVPA and in 2005, I toured the Tank Museum. :)
Love that Morgan, comes complete with Wally Batty as passenger.
That layland coach is gorgious id love to have that
Most people still believe wrongfully that Lindbergh was the first across the Atlantic. They need to be reminded that he was the first to join New York to Paris, but he was certainly not the first to fly non-stop from North America to Europe.
Solo dude - alone.
he was the first "solo" flight
Its all the same, if the US did not do it, it did not happen, unfortunately the Brits did it.
Lindbergh was not the first. He was the first to do it solo.
Glad it was the British instead of the yanks
That little car...or whatever it should be called has a pretty impressive mileage. Almost 18 Km/l is good..
My first time watching this simply put a great show. Consider me subscribed.
Just putting it out there, but i'm pretty sure that Titanic's distress call was CQD not SOS
You are partially correct. She send out the CQD code first and later added the then new SOS distress call as well. Probably the first ship to use both.
Thats right, i completely forgot that last bit
lazaruschained You may be interested in the article "Acquitting the Iceberg" over at Encyclopedia Titanica.
When 360p was king
Can any of the honored audience tell me how the piano piece that accompanies the sequence on Morgan and the "Morgan Three Wheeler" is called?
To find the section in question more quickly, here is the time stamp at which it begins: 7:20
Amazing what a hologram can do. Couldn’t spot the H under the superb tweed cap though…
Rimmer's doing really well for himself.
Our town in the states has its own cycle car in the 1910s as well. There is one still around.
Much respect for Alcock & Brown - despite their electronically-heated suits, flying at 12,000 feet they'd still be freezing !
Would have been nice if we stayed at this level of technology. Seems we grew to fast at our own good.
20:50 Titanic did not broadcast SOS, the distress signal widely used at that time was CQD.
Actually TITANIC used both.
The CQ was code "shorthand" for a call ANY BODY LISTENING. If calling specific station or ship would be followed by call letters, such as MGY for contacting TITANIC.
The DISTRESS call was CQ followed
Around 1212 a new signal SOS was introduced, as easy to recognize even by novice as S was 3 dadhrs and O 3 dots repeated several timrs.. ,After about an hour TITANIC used both..
It has been suggested that the primary cause of the sinking was a fire in one of the forward coal bunkers. This meant that the metal skin of the ship was crystallised and weakened. The iceberg tore through the ship.
They sailed into a bloody iceberg.
All the rest is details.
dont understand why some people refuse to believe an iceberg in order to sink a ship has to have some kind of mysterious "help"
*14:50** He said "in October 1811" instead of 1911...! How didn't the editors spot that one!?*
*What a lousy job...!*
(Maybe someone already pointed it out in the comments, I haven't checked.)
Very good! :)
Leyland may not exist in UK any more, but the company and its marque exists in India.
"Carriage with wooden benches", perfect basis for a German noun.
Holzbankwagen.
@@peterfireflylund - the railway carriages in the 30's for 3rd class and local travel were nicknamed Donnerbuchsen or Thunder boxes
proud of Leyland still in India . BUS AND TRUCKS STILL USE ASHOK LEYLAND ENGINE
To answer his statement about "bomb bays. There where none. All the ordenance was hung on the exterior of the aircraft. (Under the wings).
I really enjoyed this video.
The distress signal sent by Titanic was CQD not SOS
Both CQD and SOS were used.
GDA Sailor La
what's the difference?
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The answer to that is quite complicated, as it's origins predate the radio.
In Britain the French language was used by Telegraph operators as their "official language". Telegraphs in Britain started in the 18th Century with use of masts with flags on them to relay the message to the next station. The letters CQ in French sound like "sécurité" or in English "pay attention!" So CQ came to mean "general message". Thus when radio came in, general communications started by sending out the signal "CQ". By adding D to CQ the message would then be understood to be a distress message. But CQD was never sanctioned as a recognised official distress call.
A few years later, the Germans came up with a radio standard, and SOS became the official call of distress in Germany. It quickly took hold as a standard as one hadn't existed until then.
Dylan Greene thanks for the information!
He Said That Tank Engine Sounded Gorgeous
Oh My Days , What A Plum
Oh my days bludclat
@@jimbodjango8900 Bloodclit
16:06 reverse brake only at steam locomotive , steamroller and steam truck ?
Nobody actually enjoys the modern life, we're just surviving not living..... The older day's were amazing 😢🌎🚶
Works 80 hours a week.....
The older days were amazing, haha
Maybe you just don't know what you're talking about?
no joke any one who knows the diffrence no thats right
@13:08 - kinda spooky.
Chris Barrie, ftw!
The machine gun contributed to the stalemate of the Western Front, but the machine primarily responsible for the stalemate of the geat War was the steam locomotive. If a breach in the enemy line occurred, craters and barbed wire limited the vanguard of an advancing army to walking speed; meanwhile the enemy's steam locomotives could rush train-loads of ammo and reinforcements to the front at railway speed. This disparity of logistics prevailed even when the tank entered the battlefield. Tanks broke through and advanced swiftly into enemy territory, but the army behind them couldn't move fast enough to take advantage of the situation.
It's a fun show, but the role of the tank in winning WW-1 is overstated.
The effectiveness of Morse is still undisputed. One can lay in wait asleep; roused to a specific code received with lightning speed. Be it Jingle Bells, or Sant's coming home with torn up coat and dirty feet.
THANK YOU!!!!!!
The front wheels are very distorted and has camber/toe in issues.
Amazing
The Marconi radio used to send the SOS was actually Nicola Tesla invention which he utilized to remote control a toy boat he kept the pattern for years but Marconi saw another use for it ,when the pattern lapsed Marconi seized on the opportunity and used the idea for a radio.
Sorry, you're wrong. In 1890 Prof Threlfall in Sydney, Australia predicted Herztian Waves would be used for long distance signals. 1894 Marconi started work. 1896 Marconi went to England after failing to interest the Italian Navy in wireless telegraphy. (They changed their minds later.)
Tesla's boat 1898, four years or so AFTER Marconi and others like Popov, Righi, Captain Jackson (Royal Navy) and others had stated work on the problem and 8 years after Prof Edouard Branly had made a receiver in Paris and a year after the first radio experiments in Australia.
Marconi's main contribution up to about 1896 was to improve the coherer detector used by Branly.
There is no Tesla patent in the USA for anything like wireless telegraphy until 1898.
+Codenwarra Cove also wireless transmissions were made all over the world in those years. India Spain and everywhere
Vi Bn Of course you are right. I wonder where these Tesla fanboys get their historical drivel from, they all seem to believe the same false information. People like Jagadish Chandra Bose are too frequently overlooked, and Rutherford, later a pioneering nuclear physicist experimented with radio before he left New Zealand.
But - Tesla was awarded damaged for Marconi's use of his technique.
Alcock and his wife Jeanine Halfcock Alcock are British Heros...
Ps: Legend has it that the "Anti Boche Device" was coined a tank by the French and British only; after the Boche had proven den Panzer worthy to be deemed a tank.
The T Gewehr anti tank rifle was literally a T for "Tank" rifle.
Dave fletcher what a legend 😎😎
" The hardest of times but perhaps the greatest of days "
The recoil from firing blank cartridges in a SMLE was brutal?
No, I own two and the recoil is quite acceptable. Holding it properly helps.
German Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI biplane was wider by around 68 feet.
American muscle cars have nothing on a Leyland coach.
♥️🇬🇧😀 my family's idea of fun when I was young was to tell me it was Allcock and Balls . 😅
When he starts the tank, do you notice the shit on his shoe? Nasty!
Zac vaper. Trust someone like you to lower the tone, it's actually mud, you dimmie!
A Yamaha cornet, really? Should be a Besson!
very good doco
I love this
Never heard of these guys crossing the Atlantic.. Why was Charles Lindberg's flight so much more famous when it wasn't even the first (although till now I thought it was).
Public relations. The Wright brothers were also good at that. Their box kite, launched into a 20knot wind by catapult, had been preceded by 9 months by Richard Pearse's monoplane with tricycle undercarriage and ailerons. Pearse was an NZ farmer in the back country near Timaru (South Island, NZ) who built an aircraft himself using a home-made radial engine and got it off the ground for about 3/4 of a mile before crashing into a hedge. The flight was witnessed by 3 schoolgirls and no newspapermen. Pearse apparently had patented the aileron and tricyce undercarriage but let his patents lapse in 1910. Pearse didn't regard his flight as a raging success and thought the Wright brothers had done better. All the same, Pearse's monoplane had got off the ground under its own volition and was advanced for its day.
Lindbergh did the first solo crossing.
@@simonh6371 Big deal.
Ah...Rolls-Royce, The Rolls-Royce of automobiles
Britains the greatest the all time
I’m 10 minutes into this video and so far I’ll I have seen is what British people modified that Americans invented. Not that impressive on your behalf. Next time pay attention
James Jay That is why it is Great Britain, not Average Britain.
No, it is called "Great" because it became bigger with the addition of Scotland and Wales, like Greater London or Greater Manchester.
Except for their manufactured products.
Very good Winston Churchill mimicry
14.50 In October 1811 it was opened.