Seems like it's never mentioned, but maybe the biggest reason for the charm and success of this series is Tim's creative vision. His naive animations, as well as his inventions and writing all have a purposeful artistic sense that on the face seems unassuming and amateurish, but is intentional and comes from the mind of a quiet visionary. It infuses every moment of the show.
I recently wrote an email to Tim. I love these shows so much that I asked him for more. He graciously wrote back to me in only a few hours. He said that he would love to, however there isn't much that he thought he could point a camera at because nowadays it's all software. He is a genius. They don't make them like him anymore.
A show which described historical machines like Spinning Jennys, printing presses,, telescopes, mechanical calculators, hot air ballons and threshers/tractors would be interesting though.
You can point a camera at the construction and processes of how solid state devices work, as well as some basic programming to interact with them. This is a generational bias. Just because something doesn't have pulleys and valves doesn't mean it's not fascinating. Have a look at the channel "Ben Eater".
Every few years I am drawn to have another look at this series. The practical demonstrations Tim and Rex present are brilliant! The cluttered workshops, Devices made from recycled junk and letting the smoke out of stuff all make for a very interesting and entertaining program. Well done guys and thanks Carl for posting it. I don’t recall this series being shown in Australia - What a shame! The Secret Life Of Machines, not so secret any more to those of us who are curious.
back when the bbc was supposed to make good value for money content that used to mean they put alot of effort into making them informative and good uses of film now they spend insane budgets on theatrics if they needed to do this now theyd probably get richard hammond to blow up a caravan in some stretched metaphor for a lightbulb
I remember this from when I was kid. So good to see it again. Love the total disregard of health and safety with the demos. Wonder where Tim and Rex are now.
I remember getting a job at GE Money a few years back and when they asked what I knew of the history of GE, I mentioned that it came from the Ediswan Company which was formed by Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan. None of the staff knew who Joseph Swan was and what makes it even worse is this branch of GE Money was located in Newcastle upon Tyne just a few miles away from where Joseph Swan lived!
a friend of mine let me borrow a private published in house history of ge and i read it from cover to cover and back. i had to give it back to him though sadly.
This show is not only illuminating but brilliant as well. Thanks to the poster for shining a spotlight on this show I never knew shined bright at a level I appreciate.
I love those rudimentary animations and silly voice overs. Tim always looks like he slept on someone's sofa and is on the verge of cracking up. Must've been up all night coming up with those brilliant demonstrations.
My dad introduced me to these videos in the form of VHS tapes. Tim Hunkin is one of those few people who can make a subject much less boring, know what they are talking about and aren't scared to breath raw solder fumes and short out a welding transformer :P - Some scientific presenters are just too academic.
Beautiful, imaginative, creative, informative, and, most of all, enlightening. I love the animation. Most of all, you stimulate our complacent minds to catch up with and appreciate the fascinating technology around us. Thanks!
Watching this years later, it feels like a RUclips series more so than a traditional TV program, but plunked into the past. Methinks Tim and Rex are time travelers. ;)
Watching these as a kid totally inspired me, The car I drive today rolled off the production line the same year this was made.My hifi system is all late 70's stuff. When they made things to last and easy to repair. I hate modern stuff that breaks down after 4 years. Yet it's called progress for some crazy reason.
nothing about tesla and xneon signs . @14:49 an early semi truck or lorry as some of you call it, i still loved the series and found that tim and rex were a good team and loved the cluttered look of the shop. my bench is that way with unfinished projects too.
Tim reissued the series on his channel and made a sad announcement that Rex had died a few years ago after suffering with early onset dementia. He was clearly very choked up. So sad.
Thank you Carl for uploading all these. Reminds me of good quality time spent with my father. Both our imaginations were peaked with this series and it's very appreciated. Tim with the drone pan out (at the end) back in 1990. Convinced this guy added tens of millions of good connections in my brain on clean science. Connections added today are not so good. Maybe I'm just nostalgic or maybe I'm just correct. The world as of 2016 is filled with crap.
The thing I love about this series is that it was automatically assumed that people wouldn't be stupid enough to need a safety disclaimer. You could never make a show like this today, some idiot would try to replicate something, hurt him/herself and sue you out of existence
coolwhip455 They did show CFLs in the video, they work like the regular fluorescent tubes that were shown but in a compact form (Compact Fluorescent Light)
17:26 - the original 'Jonathan Creek' (still a great series - thank you Verity (RIP) and everyone involved). Great upload - always informative and interesting - full marks.
14:03: The ornamental and decorative early fluorescent lamps they call "Vista tubes" in the subtitles are actually Geissler tubes. There's a Wikipedia article.
"I'm tryng to get some sleep...Put that bloody penguin out!" is a string of words I never knew I needed to hear! 👍😂👍 P.S. "Florescent Milk Bottle" is a good name for a band.
I just love the total disregard for what would be considered "safety standards" in our current world. Bash a lightbulb with a hammer with no gloves or safety glasses? Why the hell not? Thing is, I used to do things like that as a kid so I could see how light bulbs worked. It was very educational. It did me no harm. Of course I'm a bit mad from all the toxic chemicals that I absorbed, but I regret nothing.
"psychologists believe that sleep evolved mainly to protect us from the dark". That didn't age well. Sleep certainly happens at night, but nocturnal animals sleep in the day so that theory doesn't make much sense. Sleep is a necessary component to learning and memory and metabolic rest phases. It isn't merely a protective mechanism, especially since sleeping actually puts you in a more vulnerable state to predators.
Tell me what you do when you want to hide. Do you A go cavorting about in the open blithe to your surroundings or B lie still and silent in a protected place? Which do you think would make you harder to find? How many nocturnal animals do you find in the daytime? I guess them sleeping works too.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 how do you know why we sleep at night? Were you on the design board that made the decision? Fact is if you cannot see what you're doing you could get hurt.
Watching this, I noticed only one very short mention of LED lights, the very poor Red ones, used for effect. Little did they know about the LED revolution, waiting round the corner. Coming right round the circle, back to the humble Cat's Whisker, the beginnings of the Semi-conductor, which is the basis for the modern Light Emitting Diode technology we use today.
Electric lights, electric refrigeration, air conditioning. Three things I would never live without, and can't watch movies set in the Middle Ages without pitying the characters from back then.
Yeah or now the internet, though I think it can be argued that while the internet has improved global business and efficiency of information transfer, it has massive downsides because of the negative effects of social media. It makes everyone miserable and screen addicted.
Thanks a lot for deep dive wide ranging conceptual representation of analytical judgement decoded world changing evolutionary ideas subjective origins, that reflect hidden arts behind secret science landscape in between critical limits and beyond creative liberation, through innovative technology development, by design.
i think its great you were able to get the full show uploaded all in one piece but the audio is so weak, I have every thing fully cranked and can still barely hear anything :-(
I loved these back in the day and am re-loving them again now. Probably wouldn't have been half as good or even allowed in today's health n safety madness. Time for a 2014 version perhaps.
I really wish that here in the US, we would switch over to the Bayonet type base and socket. seems like it would be much easier to change a bulb out. with the screw type base, if the bulb is hot, by the time you get the damn thing out of the socket your fingers are burnt to a crisp.
@@Cutter1018 The simpler solution: use LED bulbs that don't get as hot. Newer ones are much better than CFL and as good or better than incandescent. ;)
@@Cutter1018 And that LED will last 7 times longer and cost 7 times less to operate. It's an investment like rechargeable batteries (once you have the charger and a handful of batteries you're set for life (almost)).
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?
Even as an American, I always considered Swan to be the inventor of the carbon filament incandescent light bulb, Not Edison. Edison DID contribute to its use via installing infrastructure and marketing. Even as kids we learned that Edison did NOT invent it. But then again, I'm from Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Home of George Westinghouse) So Edison was seen as a "lesser wizard" here than he was elsewhere, LOL. Edison DID invent the Phonograph, that was cool. Otherwise, he was a bit of a bell end as the Brits might say.
Another way to light conventional fluorescent lamps (the tube kind) is to hold them like a torch under high-tension power lines. Just don't be the earth connection by touching a terminal.
Touching the bottom half of a flouro tube is perfectly harmless provided you’ve got ample clearance from the lines themselves. This demonstration works best on lines of 161kV and greater, and when humidity is over 40pct.
I think this is the end of the road for lighting as it is used for just about everything that needs light. The only thing left for innovation is find ways to improve it's efficiency and brightness.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 I have one LED bulb. I don't use it much but I have it. From what I hear a lot of those LED bulbs are absolute crap. They're made of cheap materials using abysmal designs. Why it is as if manufacturers are taking advantage of consumer ignorance in the name of higher profits.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 high frequency current and fluorescent lighting. Tesla did not invent electricity but he did invent the practical way we generate electricity. So whenever you use electricity it is hard to avoid his influence. Tesla was even awarded the patents on radio. So when Rex said radio there you go. Marconi did not invent radio. At least not the technology that makes radio work. What Marconi did do was recognize the significance radio could play in communications. Which I don't think Tesla was very interested in.
4:44 No mask or fume hood or anything because that`s for sissies.. 9:26 electrocution 1.01 hehe And what scientist ever said "sleep is to protect you from the dark"? lol.. Must have been some drunkard in the 40`s afraid to fall over or something.. Anyone who didn`t sleep for a few days should know better, even 50 years ago and more.. Goes to show how much more we know now (most of us) compared to only a few decades ago.. "We don`t notice the difference in brightness, just like we don`t notice the difference in colors" And he said he prefers the green-ish gas light to the orange sodium one (which is closer to natural light). Ok so he`s a colorblind alien or something. Who goes from indoor lighting to sunshine and doesn`t notice a difference..?
Except the modern stuff you claim breaks down after 4 years is the stuff you probably buy at a fifth the cost of what you could be spending. Modern things are an improvement, you are just too blind to see it.
Seems like it's never mentioned, but maybe the biggest reason for the charm and success of this series is Tim's creative vision. His naive animations, as well as his inventions and writing all have a purposeful artistic sense that on the face seems unassuming and amateurish, but is intentional and comes from the mind of a quiet visionary. It infuses every moment of the show.
Poetry my friend, poetry. 👏👏
I’m 😅😅😮joh JB
9:21 9:21
10:52
I recently wrote an email to Tim. I love these shows so much that I asked him for more. He graciously wrote back to me in only a few hours. He said that he would love to, however there isn't much that he thought he could point a camera at because nowadays it's all software. He is a genius. They don't make them like him anymore.
Matthew - Yes, they do. Don't be such a grumpy cynical old man. It's a tired cliche'.
A show which described historical machines like Spinning Jennys, printing presses,, telescopes, mechanical calculators, hot air ballons and threshers/tractors would be interesting though.
I wrote to him back in the early 2000s and had a similar pleasant exchange with him. Nice guy.
@@jonhohensee3258 miserable fool.
You can point a camera at the construction and processes of how solid state devices work, as well as some basic programming to interact with them. This is a generational bias. Just because something doesn't have pulleys and valves doesn't mean it's not fascinating. Have a look at the channel "Ben Eater".
"I'm trying to get some sleep, put that penguin out!"
Bloody penguin*
Every few years I am drawn to have another look at this series.
The practical demonstrations Tim and Rex present are brilliant!
The cluttered workshops, Devices made from recycled junk and letting the smoke out of stuff all make for a very interesting and entertaining program.
Well done guys and thanks Carl for posting it.
I don’t recall this series being shown in Australia - What a shame!
The Secret Life Of Machines, not so secret any more to those of us who are curious.
Poorbrokentractors I remember seeing it in the 90s on SBS. My dad recorded some eps on VCR
back when the bbc was supposed to make good value for money content
that used to mean they put alot of effort into making them informative and good uses of film
now they spend insane budgets on theatrics if they needed to do this now theyd probably get richard hammond to blow up a caravan in some stretched metaphor for a lightbulb
@@Sarge92 was made by channel 4 though, beeb had nowt to do with it
Me too! Great show!
RIP Rex Garrod...
I had the pleasure of working with Tim at the Exporatorium in SF. He's a wonderful person all around.
I remember this from when I was kid. So good to see it again. Love the total disregard of health and safety with the demos. Wonder where Tim and Rex are now.
Google searches will help you find them.
@@spacemissing Rex unfortunately has advanced dementia and is housebound. Tim is still to be seen tending his machines on Southwold Pier.
@Darren Tipple Tim mentioned it one one of his latest videos.
RIP Rex Garrod...
@@Fifury161 Thanks, I had missed that. So sad.
Im trying to get some sleep put that bloody penguin out. Hilarious! Love this show
That's the same penguin on top of the telly that will explode at the end of the broadcast day. (a little Monty Python humor)
I remember getting a job at GE Money a few years back and when they asked what I knew of the history of GE, I mentioned that it came from the Ediswan Company which was formed by Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan. None of the staff knew who Joseph Swan was and what makes it even worse is this branch of GE Money was located in Newcastle upon Tyne just a few miles away from where Joseph Swan lived!
Because Edison was a FRAUD and scumbag
a friend of mine let me borrow a private published in house history of ge and i read it from cover to cover and back. i had to give it back to him though sadly.
This show is not only illuminating but brilliant as well.
Thanks to the poster for shining a spotlight on this show I never knew shined bright at a level I appreciate.
I love those rudimentary animations and silly voice overs. Tim always looks like he slept on someone's sofa and is on the verge of cracking up. Must've been up all night coming up with those brilliant demonstrations.
He worked very hard on his hair. Don't be such a meanie.
My dad introduced me to these videos in the form of VHS tapes. Tim Hunkin is one of those few people who can make a subject much less boring, know what they are talking about and aren't scared to breath raw solder fumes and short out a welding transformer :P - Some scientific presenters are just too academic.
Beautiful, imaginative, creative, informative, and, most of all, enlightening. I love the animation. Most of all, you stimulate our complacent minds to catch up with and appreciate the fascinating technology around us. Thanks!
Watching this years later, it feels like a RUclips series more so than a traditional TV program, but plunked into the past. Methinks Tim and Rex are time travelers. ;)
Watching these as a kid totally inspired me, The car I drive today rolled off the production line the same year this was made.My hifi system is all late 70's stuff. When they made things to last and easy to repair. I hate modern stuff that breaks down after 4 years. Yet it's called progress for some crazy reason.
Just love the occasional "woops" as things fall apart.....priceless.
I remember this show as a child. Thank you for posting these videos!
nothing about tesla and xneon signs . @14:49 an early semi truck or lorry as some of you call it, i still loved the series and found that tim and rex were a good team and loved the cluttered look of the shop. my bench is that way with unfinished projects too.
Tim reissued the series on his channel and made a sad announcement that Rex had died a few years ago after suffering with early onset dementia. He was clearly very choked up. So sad.
Thank you Carl for uploading all these. Reminds me of good quality time spent with my father. Both our imaginations were peaked with this series and it's very appreciated.
Tim with the drone pan out (at the end) back in 1990. Convinced this guy added tens of millions of good connections in my brain on clean science. Connections added today are not so good. Maybe I'm just nostalgic or maybe I'm just correct. The world as of 2016 is filled with crap.
With all of the crazy stuff this guy makes his house must be insane
The thing I love about this series is that it was automatically assumed that people wouldn't be stupid enough to need a safety disclaimer. You could never make a show like this today, some idiot would try to replicate something, hurt him/herself and sue you out of existence
Very knowledgeable and clever gentleman
Amazing series watched them all many times
So enjoyable! Brought back so many memories
With the great advances is LEDs, perhaps Tim will update this particular chapter.
I found this episode highly.......illuminating.
I wish there was a 2015 version. Would be kinda neat to see how things like CFL and LED bulbs work.
coolwhip455 They did show CFLs in the video, they work like the regular fluorescent tubes that were shown but in a compact form (Compact Fluorescent Light)
17:26 - the original 'Jonathan Creek' (still a great series - thank you Verity (RIP) and everyone involved). Great upload - always informative and interesting - full marks.
14:03: The ornamental and decorative early fluorescent lamps they call "Vista tubes" in the subtitles are actually Geissler tubes. There's a Wikipedia article.
The sound was very low so needed the volume turned well up. Otherwise was another great show.
Better sue someone quickly, to make yourself feel better! Hurry now!
@@noisytim hilarious 🙄
instead of a vaccuum , most modern incandesant lamps now are evacuated using an inert gas.
17:32 *that is probably one of the most MASSIVE preheat florescent startups I've ever seen*
That was cool.
"I'm tryng to get some sleep...Put that bloody penguin out!" is a string of words I never knew I needed to hear! 👍😂👍 P.S. "Florescent Milk Bottle" is a good name for a band.
I just love the total disregard for what would be considered "safety standards" in our current world. Bash a lightbulb with a hammer with no gloves or safety glasses? Why the hell not? Thing is, I used to do things like that as a kid so I could see how light bulbs worked. It was very educational. It did me no harm. Of course I'm a bit mad from all the toxic chemicals that I absorbed, but I regret nothing.
Amazing the then current things in his series have been superceded: CFLs,, VCRs, Fax machines, TVs (CRTs) ...
"psychologists believe that sleep evolved mainly to protect us from the dark". That didn't age well. Sleep certainly happens at night, but nocturnal animals sleep in the day so that theory doesn't make much sense. Sleep is a necessary component to learning and memory and metabolic rest phases. It isn't merely a protective mechanism, especially since sleeping actually puts you in a more vulnerable state to predators.
Tell me what you do when you want to hide. Do you A go cavorting about in the open blithe to your surroundings or B lie still and silent in a protected place? Which do you think would make you harder to find? How many nocturnal animals do you find in the daytime? I guess them sleeping works too.
@@1pcfred He made it sound like protection was the primary function. It's not. Likewise he said it was a function of night and day. Again, it's not.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 how do you know why we sleep at night? Were you on the design board that made the decision? Fact is if you cannot see what you're doing you could get hurt.
You've got to wonder how many kids tried putting a fluro tube in a microwave oven after seeing this! 😂🤣😆
Perfect British cheek. I love you England. From USA.
Watching this, I noticed only one very short mention of LED lights, the very poor Red ones, used for effect. Little did they know about the LED revolution, waiting round the corner.
Coming right round the circle, back to the humble Cat's Whisker, the beginnings of the Semi-conductor, which is the basis for the modern Light Emitting Diode technology we use today.
He doesn't mention lasers either.
Electric lights, electric refrigeration, air conditioning. Three things I would never live without, and can't watch movies set in the Middle Ages without pitying the characters from back then.
And don't forget watercloset :)
Yeah or now the internet, though I think it can be argued that while the internet has improved global business and efficiency of information transfer, it has massive downsides because of the negative effects of social media. It makes everyone miserable and screen addicted.
Thanks a lot for deep dive wide ranging conceptual representation of analytical judgement decoded world changing evolutionary ideas subjective origins, that reflect hidden arts behind secret science landscape in between critical limits and beyond creative liberation, through innovative technology development, by design.
i think its great you were able to get the full show uploaded all in one piece but the audio is so weak, I have every thing fully cranked and can still barely hear anything :-(
Men in sheds rock!
All that fire, electricity and sparks without any PPE. I miss those days.
I loved these back in the day and am re-loving them again now. Probably wouldn't have been half as good or even allowed in today's health n safety madness. Time for a 2014 version perhaps.
11:54 the first known Fallout cosplay merch
I really wish that here in the US, we would switch over to the Bayonet type base and socket. seems like it would be much easier to change a bulb out.
with the screw type base, if the bulb is hot, by the time you get the damn thing out of the socket your fingers are burnt to a crisp.
@@Cutter1018 The simpler solution: use LED bulbs that don't get as hot. Newer ones are much better than CFL and as good or better than incandescent. ;)
@@PongoXBongo and cost eight to ten times as much
When’s the last time you checked the price of an LED? You can get LED bulbs for not much more than their incandescent counterparts.
@@erikj.2066 Please let me know where you are shopping. A single LED at home depot runs about $7 a bulb. A standard incandescent runs about $1
@@Cutter1018 And that LED will last 7 times longer and cost 7 times less to operate. It's an investment like rechargeable batteries (once you have the charger and a handful of batteries you're set for life (almost)).
LOOKS DANGEROUS
Guys listen to the voice and tell me the man at 9:59 isn't Grandpa Trotter from 'Only Fools and Horses'
Where is the obligatory "Don't try this at home!" disclaimer? :)
This was a great series...
17:14 did Rex invent the compact flourescent? 😂
This programme was brought to you by the decade in which health and safety guidelines consisted of nothing more than common sense.
Interesting this was made in 1993 and CFL's were around then. I dont remember them really coming into use until the mid-late 2000s
I remember them back then but they were expensive and not very popular.
I got my first three CFL's in 1989 and another two in 1992.
And no, they weren't cheap!
Funny, if I saw one of those early "electric" lights I would be like, "...or you could just light a candle?"
Everyone knew candles sucked. That's why gaslight became so popular.
re your notes in the description section. Joseph swan was from Sunderland not Scotland.. but yes i know Most inventors were Scottish.
What is up with that? So many Scottish geniuses.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?
How did they do the closing shot without a drone?
Terrible audio, far too soft. Better to watch the remastered versions on Tim Hunkins channel.
how have I never seen this show before?
Early cinematographic projectors used carbon rods and the mechanism to keep the gap between both equal.
Wait, was Tim pulling our legs about the "petrel lighter"?!
Correct me if I'm wrong but utopia was the show sponsor because I noticed in a couple of shows it pops up.
10:03 THORN EMI also produced the EVIL DEAD movies in the 80's
It's a fictitious company that he uses throughout the series.
Even as an American, I always considered Swan to be the inventor of the carbon filament incandescent light bulb, Not Edison. Edison DID contribute to its use via installing infrastructure and marketing. Even as kids we learned that Edison did NOT invent it. But then again, I'm from Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Home of George Westinghouse) So Edison was seen as a "lesser wizard" here than he was elsewhere, LOL. Edison DID invent the Phonograph, that was cool. Otherwise, he was a bit of a bell end as the Brits might say.
Jolly good!
2:14 maybe in the summer, but I doubt that people in Northern Europe spent like 20 hours in bed in the winter.
Not a signal mention of Tesla or the current wars. Interesting.
Yes very interesting. I believe most were and are jealous of him.
This is the story of electric lights, not electricity.
here is the remastered version, with the original hosts' extra
ruclips.net/video/W79s0PsHhDc/видео.html&ab_channel=timhunkin
What about the lightbulbs depictions in stone from ancient Egypt?
That plot twist at the end....
The audio levels here are VERY low.
Then turn your volume level up.
@17:15 I carry around so much static, I can do this without the wires.
Another way to light conventional fluorescent lamps (the tube kind) is to hold them like a torch under high-tension power lines. Just don't be the earth connection by touching a terminal.
Yeah I'm surprised they didn't do that one. Popular demonstration in physics classes.
Touching the bottom half of a flouro tube is perfectly harmless provided you’ve got ample clearance from the lines themselves. This demonstration works best on lines of 161kV and greater, and when humidity is over 40pct.
4:28 Whoops!
When was this first aired?
late '80s.
25 years later and it's all LEDs...
thirty years
13:11 and you can slay Sith lords with it too!
1:26
more wicks
11:10.
Wait what?
*Color Rendering Index > Light Efficiency*
volume is too low
LEDs won the day. I wonder if they would have predicted this?
Today these guys would behind bullet proof glass and they would be wearing space suits.
I miss the old days.
Th the sound is ohfull
Fluorescent light microwave guy prolly should consider safety glasses.
The LED is our last invention. I wonder what's next for lighting.
I think this is the end of the road for lighting as it is used for just about everything that needs light. The only thing left for innovation is find ways to improve it's efficiency and brightness.
LEDs make all these older lighting technology’s seem so inefficient
I think he just exposed him self to high doses of UV xD
A program so obsolete now as we are almost completely LED lighting.
Lots of people still use incandescent light just because the spectrum is better. I know I do.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 I have one LED bulb. I don't use it much but I have it. From what I hear a lot of those LED bulbs are absolute crap. They're made of cheap materials using abysmal designs. Why it is as if manufacturers are taking advantage of consumer ignorance in the name of higher profits.
@@1pcfred Very true.
PLASMA IN A VACUUM?
The Sun says, "Hello." ;)
No mention of tesla anywhere, for shame.
They weren't focused on the grid as much as the light, so it's understandable.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 they did display a number of technologies Tesla invented.
@@1pcfred Which?
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 high frequency current and fluorescent lighting. Tesla did not invent electricity but he did invent the practical way we generate electricity. So whenever you use electricity it is hard to avoid his influence. Tesla was even awarded the patents on radio. So when Rex said radio there you go. Marconi did not invent radio. At least not the technology that makes radio work. What Marconi did do was recognize the significance radio could play in communications. Which I don't think Tesla was very interested in.
Ah, the good ol' days.... no safety protection at all. who needed two eyes back then anyway.
Brenda would like to say #metoo
and here we are using LED bulbs
Poti kape wow
4:44
No mask or fume hood or anything because that`s for sissies..
9:26 electrocution 1.01 hehe
And what scientist ever said "sleep is to protect you from the dark"?
lol.. Must have been some drunkard in the 40`s afraid to fall over or something..
Anyone who didn`t sleep for a few days should know better, even 50 years ago and more..
Goes to show how much more we know now (most of us) compared to only a few decades ago..
"We don`t notice the difference in brightness, just like we don`t notice the difference in colors"
And he said he prefers the green-ish gas light to the orange sodium one (which is closer to natural light).
Ok so he`s a colorblind alien or something.
Who goes from indoor lighting to sunshine and doesn`t notice a difference..?
Dated by the absence of LED lights.
Well, since the series preceded the commercial availability of LED bulbs by 20 years more or less it's hardly surprising.
Except the modern stuff you claim breaks down after 4 years is the stuff you probably buy at a fifth the cost of what you could be spending. Modern things are an improvement, you are just too blind to see it.