So I had to replace most of the audio in this video due to copyright and replaced with copyright-free music from RUclips, so hopefully it's not too jarring after it gets processed.
😮😮😮 your kidding! No wonder I was driving myself mad trying to find the piece around the 7 minute mark with the 4 octave triplet section. Damn, it was such a good song. Any ideas where you got the music from?!
Brings back memories of my brother and I on a rainy day at my grandparents farmhouse reading grandpa’s old Popular Mechanics magazines to keep us out of trouble. Great times!
Although the vast majority of these were meant to be 10 years later futures. Not like 50-100 years after. It was more showcasing improvement ideas with a slightly altered urban plan.
Subscribed! I wish I knew this channel existed sooner! My paternal grandparents were born in 1919 and 1921. I've always had an interest in their era of when they were growing up. This channel is great. Thank you
Yeas... its the same reason Insulin cost $500 in the US despite the exact same insulin cost €15 in Europe. (yea, a month wort of insulin cost €15 in Europe, and that is before subsides)
@@JaapGinder No you missunderstood it. The insuling being cheaper in Europe have NOTHING to do with healthcare finalizing to do. its more of legal corruption in the US €15 is the total price of a pack of insulin in Europe, not what patient pays
They existed in the 20’s already in different forms so those wouldn’t have been outlandish predictions . Pretty cool when you switch TV control to computer screens. They got a lot of things right!
@@ThatBoiOnLaythe Video records have been around in 1880. The first ones were the Nipkow Disk. The first working model was already out in 1927, Phonovision. This is all within the 1880-1920s time frame.
@@zlonewolf correct. I remember in 1935 they had a color video caller. People are so off on how they perceive the 1920's. Typically as a dirt road with a clunky black model T chugging along.
Awesome, just found your first Future Of video today, and a new one came out literally yesterday. Thanks for the content, this channel is an excellent resource for my research.
I just happened to stumble on the two twenties vids and they’re wonderful. I’m a (learning) 3D computer VFX artist and I’ve received so much inspiration from these two videos. And the links to the source material, too! Truly great stuff. Thanks. Subscribed and thumbs up.
Copyrights expire after 95 years in the US. You should be safe up to, almost, 1928. A secondary copyright wouldn't have any bearing on your use of them.
I wonder what anyone who was living in the 1920's would think about how we live today. Computers that you carry with you, instant access to any information, driverless vehicles, 600 plus passenger jets, fresh fruit & vegetables year round ... etc.
There is also drone wars' happened today in Donbass, unmanned Aerial vehicles, loitering munition, attacking warship with unmanned surface vessels and such. Starlink, social media, proliferation of technology such as 5G giving people their share of information revolution. Kids carrying smartphone in which able not only to giving phone and textung, but also capture high resolution video and picture and share the video to the whole world in literally at the same time the video or picture being taken. Smart vehicles capable to do driveless method utilizing AI software and oh they don't have internal combustion machine inside, only big battery.
I feel like I got addicted to dope..I love this stuff..am old enough (65) to remember my Great Grandparents having magazines from that time... still has a fascinating effect on me... kinda liked their vision better than how it's turned out..
@@edwardspencer3906 That's because it's over your head. All you see are the effects that look a certain way, but if you learn to build the tech, it's a lot deeper.
If I were to assign a name to the 1920s futurism, I'd call it Gothica. It always strikes me as Gotham City but older. Like what Gotham was like before Batman. All that Art Deco and Art Nouveau.
I like that they had the rocket motors powered by radium. Most of all it did in that decade a century ago was make a few dozen unfortunate soul's jaws fall off of course, but it showed that they did have some kind of faint inkling of the then newly discovered latent power inside the nucleus of the atom. That little girl riding the "motor wheel" at 11:50 was a real thing that actually happened... unbelievably and ill-advisedly enough, and you can see video of her riding it through a big pile of horsepoop while her dad runs to keep up just by searching "motor wheel" on here.
"I like that they had the rocket motors powered by radium" Well, in 1910s and 1920s most people thought of every radioactive element as radium. So while the scientist at the day already realized that radium could not be moderated, but uranium could, this would not get into general knowledge until 1945. So everything radioactive in 20s and 30s is often just called radium.
Fucking love it. I used to see these types of drawings all over the place, when I was growing up. Miss all that. The ideas for the future were so positive. Much better than ideas from the 1970's and onward. Thanks for the trip. It was awesome. :)
We have that in Bangkok. The Airport Rail Link. An electric train runs from inside the international airport to connect with the metro underground and sky-train lines in the city centre, with several stations along the way.
This was actually true for most cities in the 50s. What happened was that the Jumbo jet come around, and airtravle increased quite a lot. So new larger airports was build away from the urban center, outside of the range of subway systems. In the closest large city to where i live there are one centrally located small airport and a large one. The centrally located one are planed for closure to 2027, it have a integral connection to the subway system. The one outside of the city got a underground express railway connection in 1999. Because the larger one is so far outside of the city (that is true for most large airports) its just to far to run a subway there. Would take over a hour to go by subway. So they built an express railway. While you can swich over on a few places from the subway system, so its sort of integrated. In Copenhagen they have the airport both integrated tot he subway system, and the commuter network as well as the express regional train network. There subway trains are really fast and they airport is quite close to the city.
They predicted internet and wi-fi calling it "radio". There's one picture that caught my attention, it says something like "radio controlled skates, mail by radio, calls by radio"... if you substitute "radio" with "internet"... there you have it.
They actually figured out a lot of that stuff already back then. They already know how to send TV over radiowaves. And they could also send TV over telephones network. There also was radio telephones already back then. The idea back then was a circuit network. So basically, everything was a telephone number. So the idea was that you could call a telephone number and see a selection of movies, than if you find someone you like, you could call the number to that movie, and watch it on your video phone. One of the images it looks like a dude is watching TV.. he is not. He is videophone shopping, yea, that was also a concept. They had it all thought out, and most of the technology already worked prior to the end of 1920s. Then the 1930s happened... and the 1940s happened. When the 1950s come around, most of the telefon network was rebuilt in a way that videophones no longer worked. So they started working on the digital videophone. First revision was done in 1984, it was horrible. Then they start working on more modern version. That version was done in 1996. It was to work 1 or 2 lines linked together. Later also 4 lines linked. The version become called 96p, 144p and 240p. They was integrated in the 3G UMTS standard in 2002-2003... and well. RUclips run of them right of the code when they first started. And that is the 1920s reason why older youtube videos have specifically that resolution
@@matsv201 Actually low definition analog video over phone lines is still possible - but people are remarkably unimpressed by slow scan video at 50 -100 line resolution. That’s what you can shove through the 6K audio bandwidth.
@@allangibson8494 Well that is a literal slide show. Its worth saying that fax (well early fax) work exactly that way. its just a TV signal scanned over a paper . Then there is radio picture telegraphy, using exactly the same technology. They made a radio and the scan-line technology, then used it for freaking everything for almost 100 years. And everything works exactly the same. I guess it makes components cheaper. Of cause, could argue we still use Radio today. But something like a wifi6 or a 4 or 5G telefon system use software baseband and just mix it up. So i would argue, while its still technically radio, its a totally different way of making radio. This was probobly the last thing to go truly digital. In 3G phones the modulation was still analog.
@@matsv201 Look up how the Apollo 11 lunar video got transmitted - slow scan video that was up converted by simply pointing a broadcast camera at the slow scan video monitor… One of these days someone will do the conversion properly (they found the original downlink tape three years ago (they got sold at a government disposal auction in 1975)).
People of the 1920s and 1930s were actually way ahead of their own time. I always wondered how they actually see what we have today on what they actually dreamed of. Like cellphones, laptop computers, driverless cars, smart watches, hoverboard, etc. In 1937, World of Tomorrow county fair. Nikola Tesla was actually behind the scenes of the World of Tomorrow back then.
There actually was much more tech back than they we might think of today. Yes, TV did exist. Also videophone. Computers, absolutely (but they was mechanical back then, but it took all the way to 1960 until the digital become (universally) better). Electric trains.. yes.. Jet engines.. well. yes (but they was jet to be mounted on planes, the first jet engine to run run in 1928). Electric trains.. yes. They didn´t have nuclear reactors, but they did know how to moderate nuclear reactors. The idea was actually to build the first commercial prototype nuclear reactor in 1932. But the cash vanished. The team keep begging for money from any what source to get a reactor build, and they didn´t get any before the war started, then suddenly US defense department wanted one.
Interesting that the word "Airliner" had already been coined back then. Looking on Wikipedia the world's first airline was started in Germany in 1909, but one wonders if the term "airline" was used to describe it. The ocean-going equivalent to an airline was a "cruise line" (like Cunard), but I suppose "Ocean Liner" would have inspired "Airliner". (KLM was founded in 1919, and is still with us today.)
WONDERFUL! The panned closeups offer greater detail, which is cool. I found myself, however, really longing to see a full display of each graphic AFTER panning ( assuming it wouldn't conflict with any copyright issues ) - that would add a more cohesive overview to experience the artist's vision while really enhancing each overall visual.
So, did you cover Amazing Stories and Wonder Stories magazines, the science fiction magazines of the time and the illustrations of Frank R.Paul, or did you only look at one handyman magazine?
1:31 One thing that people of the 1920s didn't predict: That the 'limited times' secured for copyright holders would be extended to a century or more! (For more on this, see "the Mickey Mouse Protection Act".)
There are videos on here from various World Fairs and what they thought of the future. They are from before 1940 and predicted just a few decades later. They got the interstate highways correct, but that is mostly it.
Yah a main way road was not an impossible concept for the people sketching 25 road long highway concepts with art deco bridges across. What they didn't predict was putting highways out in rural areas because it seemed criminal. Still does seem absolutely criminal especially with gentrification in these areas.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar We went to visit relatives 65 miles away in the early 1950s. It took 6 hours. After the interstates, about an hour and a half at most.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar The state two lane asphalt went through every town. Instead of 50 miles per hour, it was 20 or 25. With multiple stop signs in those towns who didn't want to spend the money on traffic lights.
Interesting to see the use of the word 'Television' so early. When Baird first experimented with his mechanical system in London in the 1920's the word wasn't used, even though the devices did bear a resemblance to the images in the clip. There was some doubt as to what to call the new device. At least thats what the recieved history says. Yet here seems proof the modern word had already been coined.
One thing they didn't predict is that the Disney corporation would bribe politicians to extend copyright to a century so they could keep control of Mickey Mouse (it was originally 7 years)
The patent for synthetic insulin lapped in 1946. But they lobbyed to extend it retroactively. That is why insulin is so expensive in the US, but not in the rest of the world.
I remember my aunt telling me how she was scared to death the first time she took a ride in an airplane. She was a young lady in the 1920’s. She was born in 1899. She was 19 years older than my mom born in 1918.
Gotta remember, as much praise as Tesla gets and as much hate as Edison gets, one came out with insane numbers of inventions that helped us all with our daily lives because he sold them as goods, and the other came out with a few great ideas which ultimately were useless for the people of his time. And honestly, I'd say even today Edison is helping us much more than Tesla. No hate on Tesla. His heart seems to have been in a better place than Edison, but yea. Edison wasn't profitable.
It didn’t work was its problem. The maximum range he managed to transmit enough power to light a light bulb was 700m - and that was while generating enough X-ray radiation to fog film with 2km. We don’t use any of Edison’s inventions any more either…
Have you ever tried to use an AI based upscaling tool with your images? I'm sure you could get a better image quality with some of the fantastic images. Give it a try to reduce the pixeled views. :-) BTW: I really like the images, thanks for sharing.
8:52 - Clover leaf interchange. These were invented by the Germans for the Autobahn some 10-15 years later. 10:34 - DC was talking about extending the Metro out to Dulles Airport some 25 years ago. I don’t know if it ever actually happened.
" These were invented by the Germans for the Autobahn some 10-15 years later." Clover leaf interchange existed prior to the first Autobahn. First section of the autobahn was opened in 1924. Many years prior to the nazis. The nazis got most of the cred for it becasue the accelerated the build process. I have driven on the very first section built. Its frighting. The road is fairly narrow for being a highway, but it dead straight, for 20 then a sudden turn. The of ramp is designed for way to low speed. In europe its fairly standard to have a railconection to the airport. But most is not connected by the subway, but by the computer train services, because it have higher top speed. Also it allows a airport to be connected to several cities.
CTA in Chicago connects at least O'Hare with downtown via the Blue Line. There may also be a line connecting to Midway. Also connects to both ball parks.
I'm curious who the artists were that created these scenes are. I imagine them becoming lost in their work and the love they had while creating these dreamscapes 😍 nice work, I enjoyed the music also
A hundred years went by and the train system in the U.S. got worse instead of better...bet they didn't see that one coming. The rocket to the moon was well called though, as it's very similar to Space X and Blue Horizon, just not to the moon yet. Cool to see radio control stuff, wireless, war machines, congested cities, disk movies (DVD), air freight, mega power plants, and 2-way TV totally on-point.
Bear in mind as you watch this that in one form or another, nearly everything you see depicted here did come true. I get a kick out of how they thought "radium engines" were going to propel rockets, but again, they were already tinkering with the rudiments of understanding how nuclear power would one day be harnessed.
Nuclear rockets engines and jet engines were run in the 1950’s to 1960’s in the U.S. and 1960’s to today in Russia. Wireless power transmission turned out to be a crock.
@@commentfreely5443 Like you? Most of you have never even seen a real discussion on what “communism” is (Or capitalism or feudalism for that matter). As for Islam - the perversion that is practiced in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan is about as “Islamic” as evangelical “Christianity” in the United States is Christian.
The really tight extremely dense city of the cities of future from the 1920 reminds me very much of cities like Bangkok with multi story roads and walkways. While here in Europe we got highway tunnels in steed. And the tunnels are really far better. Its also interesting that in the close by city where i live they build a bit of highway tunnel ever 5 year or so, but when the open the next section you can drive around most part of the city totally under ground at fairly high speed. This have really mostly become a reality the last 25 years.
All these pictures look so optimistic. We have created more technological achievements then they could have imagined but as a society we are more depressed then ever
I like the magazine quote at 5:40, "Civilization must abolish war or war will destroy civilization." Does the magazine you have cite who said it? I would love to use that quote and give a credit to the original author or speaker.
A little narration explaining what each picture is supposed to represent would help. Some were easy but some were, like, "WTH was that supposed to be?"
The moon rockets were not that far off, needed bigger tail fins and no radium engines. But what really surprised me was seeing the word "television" in one of the drawings from the 1920s. I didn't think that word had been created until the late 1940s.
Come again?! Late 40's? You really need to do your research kids. This is why any of the decades in the 1900s need to be talked about during school, not just the tragedies because that is LITERALLY all they show students. You have no idea how modern this time was.
The only thing they didn't think was that chivalry, seriousness, decency when dressing, common sense, rationality, sexual sanity and many other things were going to be lost.
Very cool...I have about 40 victrola disks from the 20's. Since I have the source material, I can make a recording and own the copyright since they are public domain. You can't make a copy someone's copy, but as I said if you own the original... perfectly legal.
The songs are 100 years old and there still copyright claimed. Are there People still alive today who are 120 or more years old walking around or am I missing something here?
There's a book series called the lensmen written in the 1920's by E.E. Doc Smith.that I adore. I always imagine the imagery from that era. Even though the concepts were probably the basis for Star wars.
@@allangibson8494 He's Talking about stuff you see in Metal Slug, Tanks that can jump 20 meters high and launch a volley of missiles at You. Not P1000s or Maus
Back in the 70's Ma Bell came to our jr. high school & I asked about video phones. I was told not possible; sound was sent line of sight & the representative had no sight for vision of the future.
Gee, wouldn't it be nice to know where you got the pictures from, and what they are of? And to know what the technological context was? This the difference between research and just showing funny old illustrations with old music?
You're right about it being different than Steampunk and Dieselpunk, but what to label it? I realize the big power source it electricity but I think I would vote for "Radiopunk."
I like that we're used to be so obsessed to travel to the moon. And we just got it real since the 60s. And now we go satellites at every edge of the world
I had the opportunity to talk to old timers sitting outside our 8flat in chicago during the fifties. As a child I would listen to their 19th century life experiences, being a fossil myself nowadays I am amazed at what reality has brought us and finally know how they must have felt. I must say that you capture the sense of an "imagineer" picturing the might be against the what is and the scary thing is "what will be" for the upcomming generation. You are an imagineer trying to relive a previous generations sensations for the "what if" with a great success!
Love it! Hope someone gets inspired and creates the next "Bioshock" - it's a wonderful time with wonderful ideas... But can you just imagine the amount of labour you'd require to make all this work? Food, drink just magically appearing? Then to the amount of energy to power all of this... And finally - if something goes wrong in these buildings/motorways stacked one on top of the other - fire, collapse, wind erosion, how many people would die as a result? Billions working so tens of thousands can live the life fantastic... It will never work - but it does make awesome computer games!
Scrolling through the comments, I am seeing no mention of zeppelins, so I am going to guess they feature very little in this video, unlike the previous one. Now back to the show.
So I had to replace most of the audio in this video due to copyright and replaced with copyright-free music from RUclips, so hopefully it's not too jarring after it gets processed.
Thanks for the extra details :-)
Damn those 1920's censors
THANK you, and congratulations! The music is fine,
but perhaps you might consider applying AI-sharpeners
to de-blur some of those images?
😮😮😮 your kidding! No wonder I was driving myself mad trying to find the piece around the 7 minute mark with the 4 octave triplet section. Damn, it was such a good song. Any ideas where you got the music from?!
Brings back memories of my brother and I on a rainy day at my grandparents farmhouse reading grandpa’s old Popular Mechanics magazines to keep us out of trouble. Great times!
This is a worthwhile reminder that the US was a very creative country and should use its energies for good.
USA it's y engine which moving world's progress.
with love from Ukraine
that original "future of the 1920s" video is how i found your channel. that video popped up for me a few weeks ago and i ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT.
Although the vast majority of these were meant to be 10 years later futures. Not like 50-100 years after. It was more showcasing improvement ideas with a slightly altered urban plan.
Subscribed! I wish I knew this channel existed sooner! My paternal grandparents were born in 1919 and 1921. I've always had an interest in their era of when they were growing up. This channel is great. Thank you
Nice one. Love it. Metropolis 1927 is good film too
Yes, it shows a lot of downsides of those ideas.
@@hesspet yes many of which has come true
@@lukemitchell1975 😞- yes, nothing to add...
One hundred year old music STILL copyrighted. Why? That is simply insane.
Yeas... its the same reason Insulin cost $500 in the US despite the exact same insulin cost €15 in Europe. (yea, a month wort of insulin cost €15 in Europe, and that is before subsides)
Right!
Copyright generally last a certain number of decades after the creator dies.. It's 70 years, in France where I live
@@matsv201 Indeed, and here in Europe you get it for free, when you have a (basic) health insurance.
@@JaapGinder No you missunderstood it. The insuling being cheaper in Europe have NOTHING to do with healthcare finalizing to do. its more of legal corruption in the US
€15 is the total price of a pack of insulin in Europe, not what patient pays
Love the pictures and music, goes great together with the video ..
I like how they predicted television, drive-ins and video calling. I especially like the images with the TV sets.
They existed in the 20’s already in different forms so those wouldn’t have been outlandish predictions . Pretty cool when you switch TV control to computer screens. They got a lot of things right!
They also kinda predicted DVDs! 13:27
@@ThatBoiOnLaythe Video records have been around in 1880. The first ones were the Nipkow Disk. The first working model was already out in 1927, Phonovision. This is all within the 1880-1920s time frame.
@@zlonewolf sorry i didnt know.
@@zlonewolf correct. I remember in 1935 they had a color video caller. People are so off on how they perceive the 1920's. Typically as a dirt road with a clunky black model T chugging along.
Awesome, just found your first Future Of video today, and a new one came out literally yesterday. Thanks for the content, this channel is an excellent resource for my research.
This decade happened 100 years ago. But I’ve still been waiting for this video for months lmao
I love "the future that never was". Nice choices for the music. Thanks for the video.
I just happened to stumble on the two twenties vids and they’re wonderful. I’m a (learning) 3D computer VFX artist and I’ve received so much inspiration from these two videos. And the links to the source material, too! Truly great stuff. Thanks. Subscribed and thumbs up.
Copyrights expire after 95 years in the US. You should be safe up to, almost, 1928. A secondary copyright wouldn't have any bearing on your use of them.
Love these depictions of vertically integrated cities.
I wonder what anyone who was living in the 1920's would think about how we live today. Computers that you carry with you, instant access to any information, driverless vehicles, 600 plus passenger jets, fresh fruit & vegetables year round ... etc.
Severe depression.
Sounds like fiction to me. I've opened chips to modify them, others press application buttons to play games... that's the difference in understanding.
There is also drone wars' happened today in Donbass, unmanned Aerial vehicles, loitering munition, attacking warship with unmanned surface vessels and such.
Starlink, social media, proliferation of technology such as 5G giving people their share of information revolution. Kids carrying smartphone in which able not only to giving phone and textung, but also capture high resolution video and picture and share the video to the whole world in literally at the same time the video or picture being taken. Smart vehicles capable to do driveless method utilizing AI software and oh they don't have internal combustion machine inside, only big battery.
Men getting pregnant
Women with penises
I think they’d want to stay in the 1920s.
David Graeber summarily answers that in his book a Utopia of rules. It’s free on google.
I feel like I got addicted to dope..I love this stuff..am old enough (65) to remember my Great Grandparents having magazines from that time... still has a fascinating effect on me... kinda liked their vision better than how it's turned out..
That's because it's over your head. All you see are the effects that look a certain way, but if you learn to build the tech, it's a lot deeper.
@@jan_phd say what?
@@edwardspencer3906 That's because it's over your head. All you see are the effects that look a certain way, but if you learn to build the tech, it's a lot deeper.
@@jan_phd WOW 😲 maybe I can get a day pass to Mt. Olympus with you smart folks! Ass Wipe..
@@edwardspencer3906 Nope, you're stuck with the losers. Get used to it.
If I were to assign a name to the 1920s futurism, I'd call it Gothica. It always strikes me as Gotham City but older. Like what Gotham was like before Batman. All that Art Deco and Art Nouveau.
Part 1 was recommended to me and i really like your stuff, cheers
For any reason I love this music and feel attracted to that time, fashion and architecture, must have been a beautiful time
Absolutely ❤️ LOVE your work!!! 🏆!!!!
Part 1 got me hooked on your channel. Keep up the great work!
I like that they had the rocket motors powered by radium. Most of all it did in that decade a century ago was make a few dozen unfortunate soul's jaws fall off of course, but it showed that they did have some kind of faint inkling of the then newly discovered latent power inside the nucleus of the atom.
That little girl riding the "motor wheel" at 11:50 was a real thing that actually happened... unbelievably and ill-advisedly enough, and you can see video of her riding it through a big pile of horsepoop while her dad runs to keep up just by searching "motor wheel" on here.
"I like that they had the rocket motors powered by radium"
Well, in 1910s and 1920s most people thought of every radioactive element as radium. So while the scientist at the day already realized that radium could not be moderated, but uranium could, this would not get into general knowledge until 1945. So everything radioactive in 20s and 30s is often just called radium.
Love your work.
Fucking love it. I used to see these types of drawings all over the place, when I was growing up. Miss all that. The ideas for the future were so positive. Much better than ideas from the 1970's and onward. Thanks for the trip. It was awesome. :)
The airport to city subway transport system was ABSOLUTELY PERFECT it is actually quite genius i would love to see it in modern cities!
We have that in Bangkok. The Airport Rail Link. An electric train runs from inside the international airport to connect with the metro underground and sky-train lines in the city centre, with several stations along the way.
Madrid,Barcelona, valencia,Brussels,Amsterdam......they all do
This was actually true for most cities in the 50s. What happened was that the Jumbo jet come around, and airtravle increased quite a lot. So new larger airports was build away from the urban center, outside of the range of subway systems. In the closest large city to where i live there are one centrally located small airport and a large one.
The centrally located one are planed for closure to 2027, it have a integral connection to the subway system. The one outside of the city got a underground express railway connection in 1999.
Because the larger one is so far outside of the city (that is true for most large airports) its just to far to run a subway there. Would take over a hour to go by subway. So they built an express railway. While you can swich over on a few places from the subway system, so its sort of integrated.
In Copenhagen they have the airport both integrated tot he subway system, and the commuter network as well as the express regional train network. There subway trains are really fast and they airport is quite close to the city.
They were on the right track on a few things. Electric fireplaces, tvs and video calling for one.
1:18 "To the Moon at 7 miles a second. Engineers plan strange new rocket". They got that right! The exact speed of escape velocity that Apollo used.
Also the rocket design basics, uncanny almost half a century ahead.
Video calls, robot (AI) controlled missiles, etc. They got a lot of things right!
6:14....."Wireless antennae strung between periscope columns." Science fiction out-running science fact. A truly great series....many thanks.
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Love how the Sky Rocket has a vase of flowers.......perfect for space travel !!
Like allot of others have commented, i just had you part 1 video show up in my feed the other day.
They predicted internet and wi-fi calling it "radio". There's one picture that caught my attention, it says something like "radio controlled skates, mail by radio, calls by radio"... if you substitute "radio" with "internet"... there you have it.
Or 5G & Wifi - it’s still radio.
They actually figured out a lot of that stuff already back then. They already know how to send TV over radiowaves. And they could also send TV over telephones network. There also was radio telephones already back then.
The idea back then was a circuit network. So basically, everything was a telephone number.
So the idea was that you could call a telephone number and see a selection of movies, than if you find someone you like, you could call the number to that movie, and watch it on your video phone.
One of the images it looks like a dude is watching TV.. he is not. He is videophone shopping, yea, that was also a concept.
They had it all thought out, and most of the technology already worked prior to the end of 1920s. Then the 1930s happened... and the 1940s happened. When the 1950s come around, most of the telefon network was rebuilt in a way that videophones no longer worked. So they started working on the digital videophone. First revision was done in 1984, it was horrible. Then they start working on more modern version. That version was done in 1996. It was to work 1 or 2 lines linked together. Later also 4 lines linked. The version become called 96p, 144p and 240p. They was integrated in the 3G UMTS standard in 2002-2003... and well. RUclips run of them right of the code when they first started. And that is the 1920s reason why older youtube videos have specifically that resolution
@@matsv201 Actually low definition analog video over phone lines is still possible - but people are remarkably unimpressed by slow scan video at 50 -100 line resolution.
That’s what you can shove through the 6K audio bandwidth.
@@allangibson8494 Well that is a literal slide show.
Its worth saying that fax (well early fax) work exactly that way. its just a TV signal scanned over a paper .
Then there is radio picture telegraphy, using exactly the same technology.
They made a radio and the scan-line technology, then used it for freaking everything for almost 100 years. And everything works exactly the same. I guess it makes components cheaper.
Of cause, could argue we still use Radio today. But something like a wifi6 or a 4 or 5G telefon system use software baseband and just mix it up. So i would argue, while its still technically radio, its a totally different way of making radio. This was probobly the last thing to go truly digital. In 3G phones the modulation was still analog.
@@matsv201 Look up how the Apollo 11 lunar video got transmitted - slow scan video that was up converted by simply pointing a broadcast camera at the slow scan video monitor…
One of these days someone will do the conversion properly (they found the original downlink tape three years ago (they got sold at a government disposal auction in 1975)).
Just have to say Dynamite job !!!
Thank you So Very 💗 Much !!!!
Mike from Boston
People of the 1920s and 1930s were actually way ahead of their own time. I always wondered how they actually see what we have today on what they actually dreamed of. Like cellphones, laptop computers, driverless cars, smart watches, hoverboard, etc. In 1937, World of Tomorrow county fair. Nikola Tesla was actually behind the scenes of the World of Tomorrow back then.
There actually was much more tech back than they we might think of today.
Yes, TV did exist. Also videophone. Computers, absolutely (but they was mechanical back then, but it took all the way to 1960 until the digital become (universally) better). Electric trains.. yes.. Jet engines.. well. yes (but they was jet to be mounted on planes, the first jet engine to run run in 1928). Electric trains.. yes.
They didn´t have nuclear reactors, but they did know how to moderate nuclear reactors. The idea was actually to build the first commercial prototype nuclear reactor in 1932. But the cash vanished. The team keep begging for money from any what source to get a reactor build, and they didn´t get any before the war started, then suddenly US defense department wanted one.
Decopunk is a subset of Dieselpunk and covers the 1920s.
Interesting that the word "Airliner" had already been coined back then. Looking on Wikipedia the world's first airline was started in Germany in 1909, but one wonders if the term "airline" was used to describe it. The ocean-going equivalent to an airline was a "cruise line" (like Cunard), but I suppose "Ocean Liner" would have inspired "Airliner". (KLM was founded in 1919, and is still with us today.)
The first airline was the German Zeppelin company.
The oldest continuously operating airline is Qantas (KLM had significant issues in the 1940’s).
The cityscape at 12:55 reminds me of Metropolis,great video btw.
Your content and overall editing skills are awesome. Keep it up !
My Mom and Dad were born in 23-24, so fun to see their world.
6:29 This picture totally reminds me of the app game Fallout Shelter! Also 10:53 this looks like a precursor to the hyperloop! 🤔
This is great. Always enjoy your research.
Fantastic videos I love this sort of stuff. 🥰 But I can't find Metropolis any where 😮
WONDERFUL! The panned closeups offer greater detail, which is cool.
I found myself, however, really longing to see a full display of each graphic AFTER panning ( assuming it wouldn't conflict with any copyright issues ) - that would add a more cohesive overview to experience the artist's vision while really enhancing each overall visual.
God I’ve waited for this video so long
The term you are looking for is "deco-punk", which fits between steam and diesel.
So, did you cover Amazing Stories and Wonder Stories magazines, the science fiction magazines of the time and the illustrations of Frank R.Paul, or did you only look at one handyman magazine?
1:31 One thing that people of the 1920s didn't predict: That the 'limited times' secured for copyright holders would be extended to a century or more! (For more on this, see "the Mickey Mouse Protection Act".)
Actually 99 years in the US at the moment. Mickey Mouse comes out of copyright in 2027 (at the moment).
Copyright just another scam to make the rich man richer. If only the peasants could get paid for their work for a century. It could never happen.
There are videos on here from various World Fairs and what they thought of the future. They are from before 1940 and predicted just a few decades later. They got the interstate highways correct, but that is mostly it.
The Interstate Highway system got underway in the 1920’s and the modern US system is a cut rate version of the 1930’s German autobahn’s.
Yah a main way road was not an impossible concept for the people sketching 25 road long highway concepts with art deco bridges across. What they didn't predict was putting highways out in rural areas because it seemed criminal. Still does seem absolutely criminal especially with gentrification in these areas.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar We went to visit relatives 65 miles away in the early 1950s. It took 6 hours. After the interstates, about an hour and a half at most.
@@rutabagasteu I doubt it took six hours.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar The state two lane asphalt went through every town. Instead of 50 miles per hour, it was 20 or 25. With multiple stop signs in those towns who didn't want to spend the money on traffic lights.
Well information. Good show. Well information.
Interesting to see the use of the word 'Television' so early. When Baird first experimented with his mechanical system in London in the 1920's the word wasn't used, even though the devices did bear a resemblance to the images in the clip. There was some doubt as to what to call the new device. At least thats what the recieved history says. Yet here seems proof the modern word had already been coined.
One thing they didn't predict is that the Disney corporation would bribe politicians to extend copyright to a century so they could keep control of Mickey Mouse (it was originally 7 years)
The patent for synthetic insulin lapped in 1946. But they lobbyed to extend it retroactively. That is why insulin is so expensive in the US, but not in the rest of the world.
13:05: I believe the drawing of that large, round building was from the movie "Metropolis".
I remember my aunt telling me how she was scared to death the first time she took a ride in an airplane. She was a young lady in the 1920’s. She was born in 1899. She was 19 years older than my mom born in 1918.
1:57 Tesla's wireless power was a powerful icon of the future, but almost no one wanted to invest in it.
Gotta remember, as much praise as Tesla gets and as much hate as Edison gets, one came out with insane numbers of inventions that helped us all with our daily lives because he sold them as goods, and the other came out with a few great ideas which ultimately were useless for the people of his time. And honestly, I'd say even today Edison is helping us much more than Tesla.
No hate on Tesla. His heart seems to have been in a better place than Edison, but yea. Edison wasn't profitable.
It didn’t work was its problem.
The maximum range he managed to transmit enough power to light a light bulb was 700m - and that was while generating enough X-ray radiation to fog film with 2km.
We don’t use any of Edison’s inventions any more either…
Waiting for part 3 and make it as series
Nice
Loved the music!
Have you ever tried to use an AI based upscaling tool with your images? I'm sure you could get a better image quality with some of the fantastic images. Give it a try to reduce the pixeled views. :-) BTW: I really like the images, thanks for sharing.
Excellent
Will we ever get to see you ?
It's really annoying how everything is shot close-up I feel like I need to zoom out to look at the whole picture to understand it completely
I would have liked some narration, explaining what you see in the pictures. Otherwise very interesting!
awesome channel🙂
Thanks. I enjoy your channel.
8:52 - Clover leaf interchange. These were invented by the Germans for the Autobahn some 10-15 years later.
10:34 - DC was talking about extending the Metro out to Dulles Airport some 25 years ago. I don’t know if it ever actually happened.
" These were invented by the Germans for the Autobahn some 10-15 years later."
Clover leaf interchange existed prior to the first Autobahn. First section of the autobahn was opened in 1924. Many years prior to the nazis. The nazis got most of the cred for it becasue the accelerated the build process.
I have driven on the very first section built. Its frighting. The road is fairly narrow for being a highway, but it dead straight, for 20 then a sudden turn. The of ramp is designed for way to low speed.
In europe its fairly standard to have a railconection to the airport. But most is not connected by the subway, but by the computer train services, because it have higher top speed. Also it allows a airport to be connected to several cities.
CTA in Chicago connects at least O'Hare with downtown via the Blue Line. There may also be a line connecting to Midway. Also connects to both ball parks.
I'm curious who the artists were that created these scenes are. I imagine them becoming lost in their work and the love they had while creating these dreamscapes 😍 nice work, I enjoyed the music also
I know it's such a shame that so many people making videos don't include their sources and give credit to the artists
Художник должен показать что изобрели, правильно сделать - трудная работа..
@@Jawst He did that.
A hundred years went by and the train system in the U.S. got worse instead of better...bet they didn't see that one coming. The rocket to the moon was well called though, as it's very similar to Space X and Blue Horizon, just not to the moon yet. Cool to see radio control stuff, wireless, war machines, congested cities, disk movies (DVD), air freight, mega power plants, and 2-way TV totally on-point.
Bear in mind as you watch this that in one form or another, nearly everything you see depicted here did come true. I get a kick out of how they thought "radium engines" were going to propel rockets, but again, they were already tinkering with the rudiments of understanding how nuclear power would one day be harnessed.
Nuclear rockets engines and jet engines were run in the 1950’s to 1960’s in the U.S. and 1960’s to today in Russia.
Wireless power transmission turned out to be a crock.
We do have nuclear engines. They're highly efficient
idiots had no idea about islam and communism which will ruin the world within 10 years.
@@commentfreely5443 Like you?
Most of you have never even seen a real discussion on what “communism” is (Or capitalism or feudalism for that matter).
As for Islam - the perversion that is practiced in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan is about as “Islamic” as evangelical “Christianity” in the United States is Christian.
The really tight extremely dense city of the cities of future from the 1920 reminds me very much of cities like Bangkok with multi story roads and walkways. While here in Europe we got highway tunnels in steed. And the tunnels are really far better. Its also interesting that in the close by city where i live they build a bit of highway tunnel ever 5 year or so, but when the open the next section you can drive around most part of the city totally under ground at fairly high speed. This have really mostly become a reality the last 25 years.
All these pictures look so optimistic. We have created more technological achievements then they could have imagined but as a society we are more depressed then ever
Flying cars seemed to be the No. 1 prediction of most past "futurists." We're still not there. On the other hand, none of them predicted the internet.
I like the magazine quote at 5:40, "Civilization must abolish war or war will destroy civilization." Does the magazine you have cite who said it? I would love to use that quote and give a credit to the original author or speaker.
A little narration explaining what each picture is supposed to represent would help. Some were easy but some were, like, "WTH was that supposed to be?"
The moon rockets were not that far off, needed bigger tail fins and no radium engines. But what really surprised me was seeing the word "television" in one of the drawings from the 1920s. I didn't think that word had been created until the late 1940s.
Come again?! Late 40's? You really need to do your research kids. This is why any of the decades in the 1900s need to be talked about during school, not just the tragedies because that is LITERALLY all they show students.
You have no idea how modern this time was.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Tel Lie Vision ! It's used to brainwash us all since back then!
What is your source for all that great 20s Jazz?
The only thing they didn't think was that chivalry, seriousness, decency when dressing, common sense, rationality, sexual sanity and many other things were going to be lost.
Very very Good most interesting thank you
The music enhances the nightmarish feeling.
Very cool...I have about 40 victrola disks from the 20's. Since I have the source material, I can make a recording and own the copyright since they are public domain. You can't make a copy someone's copy, but as I said if you own the original... perfectly legal.
Imagine if marty mcfly haved gone to 1925 and say that 1985 is the futuristic time.
The songs are 100 years old and there still copyright claimed. Are there People still alive today who are 120 or more years old walking around or am I missing something here?
There's a book series called the lensmen written in the 1920's by E.E. Doc Smith.that I adore. I always imagine the imagery from that era. Even though the concepts were probably the basis for Star wars.
Okay why is music from the 1920s still under copyright protection I thought copyright was 76 years the 1920s were 100 years ago
8:09 I’ve been on a spiral escalator. They have one in Las Vegas
It's damn near 2023, and we still don't have any boss battle tanks.
You obviously haven’t hung round an Abrams.
The Germans built some in the 1940’s but couldn’t move them because they were too heavy for bridges.
@@allangibson8494 He's Talking about stuff you see in Metal Slug, Tanks that can jump 20 meters high and launch a volley of missiles at You.
Not P1000s or Maus
10:31 What's it called where they project the constellations on a ceiling in an auditorium?
Also, Laser light show.
Disk movies for the home? Don't we call them DVDs?
Actually video on vinyl or shellac disks is possible. The image band width on early TV’s was that low.
Back in the 70's Ma Bell came to our jr. high school & I asked about video phones. I was told not possible; sound was sent line of sight & the representative had no sight for vision of the future.
Gee, wouldn't it be nice to know where you got the pictures from, and what they are of? And to know what the technological context was? This the difference between research and just showing funny old illustrations with old music?
You're right about it being different than Steampunk and Dieselpunk, but what to label it? I realize the big power source it electricity but I think I would vote for "Radiopunk."
Great. Thank you very much!
Large housing projects did replace individual homes in the inner city, and they became crime-infested dumps. Many were torn down after 20 years.
Only a day to travel to Paris from NYC , wow ! First you need to survive the ride on the NYC subway.
Lord Musk never had a single idea that could not be found in an old issue of Popsci or Popular Mechanics
I like that we're used to be so obsessed to travel to the moon. And we just got it real since the 60s. And now we go satellites at every edge of the world
I had the opportunity to talk to old timers sitting outside our 8flat in chicago during the fifties. As a child I would listen to their 19th century life experiences, being a fossil myself nowadays I am amazed at what reality has brought us and finally know how they must have felt. I must say that you capture the sense of an "imagineer" picturing the might be against the what is and the scary thing is "what will be" for the upcomming generation. You are an imagineer trying to relive a previous generations sensations for the "what if" with a great success!
Love it! Hope someone gets inspired and creates the next "Bioshock" - it's a wonderful time with wonderful ideas... But can you just imagine the amount of labour you'd require to make all this work? Food, drink just magically appearing? Then to the amount of energy to power all of this... And finally - if something goes wrong in these buildings/motorways stacked one on top of the other - fire, collapse, wind erosion, how many people would die as a result? Billions working so tens of thousands can live the life fantastic... It will never work - but it does make awesome computer games!
Scrolling through the comments, I am seeing no mention of zeppelins, so I am going to guess they feature very little in this video, unlike the previous one. Now back to the show.
Gracias por existir
I thought copyright claims went away after a period of time dont they?