Around The Corner - How Differential Steering Works (1937)

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  • @srthebox4946
    @srthebox4946 3 года назад +10457

    These old explanation videos are so much more educational and easier to understand, I’ve learned how transmissions work, how differentials work and how to be a ww2 bomber gunner

    • @oyitsaustin3120
      @oyitsaustin3120 3 года назад +713

      Ah yes, only the essentials

    • @Bacopa68
      @Bacopa68 3 года назад +234

      WWII waist gunner video is awesome. You need to trail the target one to three sight grids depending on the angle of the incoming plane.

    • @shawnr771
      @shawnr771 3 года назад +88

      Hopefully the last skill is no longer needed.

    • @aboriani
      @aboriani 3 года назад +42

      This comment is GREATLY underrated

    • @Alystas
      @Alystas 2 года назад +4

      And if you want to learn how to capture japanese POW the Marines corp has just what you need here X)
      ruclips.net/video/_NHpSaa-UmE/видео.html

  • @salsamancer
    @salsamancer 4 года назад +28522

    Let's take a moment to appreciate the machinist who built like 10 progressively complicated miniature differentials for this film.

    • @Milesco
      @Milesco 4 года назад +1063

      Indeed! I like the way this was presented, gradually expanding on the concept in an easy-to-follow progression.

    • @VestigialHead
      @VestigialHead 4 года назад +531

      It made a momentous diff to my understanding of the concept

    • @Cross8ow
      @Cross8ow 4 года назад +580

      @@Milesco yeah why dont they teach kids in school like this? slowly adding more information over simple concept. I would love physics.

    • @ben1627
      @ben1627 4 года назад +75

      @@VestigialHead pun intended?

    • @VestigialHead
      @VestigialHead 4 года назад +258

      @@ben1627 Happy to torque more about puns if I am allowed to put a certain spin on it.

  • @WMarcilVA
    @WMarcilVA 4 года назад +4336

    I think the reason this explanation is so good is that it approaches the differential not only from a “ here is mechanically how it works” but a “ here’s the problem that each piece solves” as well.

    • @Sawta
      @Sawta 4 года назад +70

      @Revelation 13:4 6:04 - 6:36 "..in order to reduce the jerky action caused by wide spaces between the spokes we will have to add more spokes. Further filling in the spaces between the spokes gives steadier, continuous action, and changing the shape gives firm, continuous contact. Now we can make the gears thicker and stronger."
      It is correct however that they do not appear to address the "increased durability" statement. My _guess_ would be that a reduction to impact and increased contact between parts would mean that they would last longer (a lighter tap vs heavy thud) but I don't know enough about the mechanics of it to say for sure.
      Revelation 1:4

    • @biomerl
      @biomerl 3 года назад +92

      These are the people who actually lived in the era that these problems were solved, like the computer engineers of today, their minds lived and breathed these gears and stage a foundation for the modern world where we take them for granted. They were good people and it's a shame they are no longer here today to see the fruits of their efforts in all the cars we still drive.

    • @Aranda-frtn
      @Aranda-frtn 3 года назад +9

      absolutely, we understand the differential because we understand what it is used for.

    • @KoFicku
      @KoFicku 3 года назад +20

      i think the biggest part is the continuity of problem solving by engineers... when you see the problem and then solution, the problem is not that big afterwards

    • @markbrakebill5684
      @markbrakebill5684 3 года назад +13

      The space programs of the 50s-70s was mostly calculated by sliderules, those boys, and some women too were sharp. They were engineering students of life,physics, mechanical, chemical, metallurgical. No computers folks, in their minds,grappling with some heavy unknowns and they pulled it off. was a pleasure to be exposed to the last of them coming out of h.s.entering the workforce. Problem solving at an artform, the best education I could have gotten. Not so many specialists, some of them were amazingly versatile and wouldn't be stumped, not for long anyway. There stuff worked. I feel like a slouch now

  • @seleckt6600
    @seleckt6600 Год назад +727

    This video from nearly 90 years ago puts every school lesson I've ever had to shame.

    • @alexandazola374
      @alexandazola374 9 месяцев назад +6

      shows more about you than it does about school

    • @arsh_07
      @arsh_07 9 месяцев назад

      Nit really. School is boring. RUclips is not.​@@alexandazola374

    • @FirestormX9
      @FirestormX9 9 месяцев назад +37

      ​@@alexandazola374 not really at all, it shows exactly what the commenter is showing. You on the other hand....

    • @treztrez8660
      @treztrez8660 8 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@alexandazola374 that is disrespectful lol

    • @mcblazor2192
      @mcblazor2192 7 месяцев назад +7

      @@alexandazola374 No it doesn't. But this comment says more about you then them.

  • @impactodelsurenterprise2440
    @impactodelsurenterprise2440 4 года назад +9692

    83 years later, still no animation can beat this.

    • @rambo-cambo3581
      @rambo-cambo3581 3 года назад +241

      You could easily animate the entire thing but I get your point

    • @just_dan7779
      @just_dan7779 3 года назад +35

      Not an animation!

    • @shinratenten5686
      @shinratenten5686 3 года назад +51

      Not even "Learn Engineering"

    • @mhplayer
      @mhplayer 3 года назад +214

      @@rambo-cambo3581 he was surely talking about the way it is shown: going from the simplest and slowly adding solutions to problems instead of looking at the thing in its full complexity. You could even do that without illustration if you explane it clearely

    • @rambo-cambo3581
      @rambo-cambo3581 3 года назад +27

      @@mhplayer i said I got his point

  • @AAvfx
    @AAvfx 3 года назад +7363

    *"...But once we understand its' principal, it's amazingly simple!"* And this video explains it amazingly and simple! Great job, 1937! 🤯

    • @jeremysolomon2686
      @jeremysolomon2686 3 года назад +14

      true

    • @itsame7385
      @itsame7385 3 года назад +12

      @@__skillz the original vid is from 1937

    • @nathanaelbernis6327
      @nathanaelbernis6327 3 года назад +21

      It is so satisfying and well executed , im glad to not be pass next this gold from a golden past. Wow this production was amazing, awesome

    • @proper_t
      @proper_t 3 года назад +12

      I understand now only.always old is gold.

    • @allhighonly7533
      @allhighonly7533 3 года назад +12

      Exactly, this is even better then videos from these days

  • @BeastlyMussel61
    @BeastlyMussel61 4 года назад +3821

    When he added the extra spokes for the first time I felt as if I had just achieved enlightenment.

    • @seshtilirest4748
      @seshtilirest4748 4 года назад +5

      Tom Catson why

    • @tomcatson
      @tomcatson 4 года назад +12

      @@seshtilirest4748 I liked the cat

    • @haamishmcgarry
      @haamishmcgarry 4 года назад +46

      The 4th dimension

    • @tomcatson
      @tomcatson 4 года назад +2

      @@haamishmcgarry Right

    • @srpdesigns
      @srpdesigns 4 года назад +61

      They used these shop vids into the 80s and I remember every one of them..But I think everyone remembers the extra gears in the differential the same way you just described it... It's an absolute shame that theyve gotten rid of shop classes in school

  • @SockSavant
    @SockSavant Год назад +325

    this video is almost a hundred years old and its still better than most educational videos today

    • @mbaasmbaas6254
      @mbaasmbaas6254 7 месяцев назад +2

      It teached me better then anything else

    • @ChicCanyon
      @ChicCanyon 4 месяца назад +2

      ​@@mbaasmbaas6254 it dunn teached ya reel good

    • @mbaasmbaas6254
      @mbaasmbaas6254 4 месяца назад +1

      @@ChicCanyon better then anything else

  • @alessiobenvenuto5159
    @alessiobenvenuto5159 3 года назад +4299

    If ads were like this, i wouldn't skip them.

    • @elijahdefore
      @elijahdefore 3 года назад +90

      I'd watch all ten minutes

    • @viejaspeliculasfilipinas3621
      @viejaspeliculasfilipinas3621 3 года назад +79

      Possible, we need old vintage education ads back

    • @matthiasrabanoson24
      @matthiasrabanoson24 3 года назад +12

      yeah, lov'em

    • @yannatoko9898
      @yannatoko9898 3 года назад +15

      Why would an advert try to educate you on how a steering mechanism works?

    • @alessiobenvenuto5159
      @alessiobenvenuto5159 3 года назад +76

      @@yannatoko9898 to convince you that they make the best steering mechanism on the market. To actually give me a reson to buy their product, and not just put a happy family, pop music and an oversimplified logo.

  • @FeeleGood
    @FeeleGood 3 года назад +3686

    Complicated is nothing when you have a good teacher.

    • @FeeleGood
      @FeeleGood 3 года назад +7

      @@Nomore686 me too)

    • @Aelfraed26
      @Aelfraed26 3 года назад +16

      So you're saying that the person that taught you grammar wasn't a good teacher?

    • @FeeleGood
      @FeeleGood 3 года назад +16

      @@Aelfraed26 I don't have a teacher, I am my own teacher. If you are native speaker english language, tell me please where I have did a mistake.

    • @Aelfraed26
      @Aelfraed26 3 года назад +6

      @@FeeleGood Oh... I see. I apologize.
      Proper grammar would be "Nothing is complicated when you have a good teacher"

    • @FeeleGood
      @FeeleGood 3 года назад +9

      @@Aelfraed26 Thanks 🇺🇦👍.

  • @samv3485
    @samv3485 4 года назад +4095

    I am an engineering major in my third year. Never have I ever had such a thorough explanation of a concept.
    Screw modern education

    • @janimelender2674
      @janimelender2674 4 года назад +322

      The amount of time to build all those intermediate designs, just to show them for a second or two, is just pure quality.

    • @nicolasaguilar5940
      @nicolasaguilar5940 4 года назад +52

      I totally agree

    • @GasGrassOrAssetto
      @GasGrassOrAssetto 4 года назад +36

      That's what really impressed me about this video, the small details were impressive

    • @retrobullet588
      @retrobullet588 4 года назад +42

      modern education teach you how to learn stuff .. but does not how to think of your own

    • @abdullahbinmamun3803
      @abdullahbinmamun3803 4 года назад +3

      Honestly, you've learned more easily and better. Don't you?

  • @olegoleg258
    @olegoleg258 Год назад +532

    not only did he explain the basic physical principles, he even explained how the change went from singular bars towards the cogs, this was a great video!

    • @sqlexp
      @sqlexp 6 месяцев назад

      But what happens when one wheel is lifted off the ground? It will spin freely while the other wheel on the ground gets very little torque. This surely gets people stuck in snowy situations.

    • @XenoghostTV
      @XenoghostTV 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@sqlexpThis is why limited-slip differentials exist. The one in the video is a simple open differential, or 100% differential, since it allows each wheel to spin independently at any speed.

  • @fakhrizzaarrifi9375
    @fakhrizzaarrifi9375 9 лет назад +20540

    i always wonder why the explanation of these old videos is better than the new one...

    • @scottdorgan2291
      @scottdorgan2291 9 лет назад +1034

      +fakhrizza arrifi Its the cool props they have to demonstrate. Now a days we just make shit in cad and are out of touch with the physical worlds

    • @rivengle
      @rivengle 9 лет назад +1166

      +fakhrizza arrifi It's because they explain it with as little jargon as possible. Speaking simply is the best way to communicate.

    • @HrHaakon
      @HrHaakon 8 лет назад +519

      +Tele Blues Man
      Nah, plenty of people still know how to keep it simple.
      I won't get many upvotes for saying it, but take a look at the Republican primaries in the US.
      Notice how Donald Trump keeps speaking simply and plainly so everyone understands him. That is one of the reasons why he is so popular.

    • @stephentroyer3831
      @stephentroyer3831 8 лет назад +239

      +fakhrizza arrifi
      They did not assume that their audience was used to complicated things.

    • @Mittau
      @Mittau 8 лет назад +740

      +fakhrizza arrifi Because actual engineers were involved in production instead of career video makers that looked up the topic on wikipedia.

  • @MPresheva
    @MPresheva 4 года назад +3055

    Perfect education. Real knowledge is ability to explain complicated things in a simple way. People that made this film possible deserve the applause.

    • @sniperely7915
      @sniperely7915 4 года назад +64

      Pretty much... funny that schools will cut points from your grade if you explain a historical event or physical phenomena in your words so to say , wanting the perfect definition and stuff...
      I love the video... simple.. commonfolk explanation... exactly what we need...

    • @nirv
      @nirv 4 года назад +27

      And look, he didn't ask for donations and to subscribe. I keep telling dumb youtubers to stop doing this and get to the point.

    • @atit4096
      @atit4096 4 года назад +34

      In less than 10 minutes I've learned how a dif works and could probably build one

    • @Ces1um
      @Ces1um 4 года назад +14

      I love it when people understand a topic so well that they can explain it with such clarity

    • @IamApTaL
      @IamApTaL 4 года назад

      Kralım! Gerçekten de siz misiniz?

  • @pjabrony8280
    @pjabrony8280 4 года назад +3128

    "Are you the narrator of this video?"
    "No, I'm the spokesman."

  • @micky100
    @micky100 7 месяцев назад +38

    This kind of videos should be preserved as a heritage of humanity.

  • @LandonJines
    @LandonJines 4 года назад +1211

    My Auto Tech teacher showed our class this and he said this was the easiest explanation ever about how a differential works. Man was he right.

    • @blueskies133
      @blueskies133 4 года назад +40

      I did undergrad and grad engineering and I can tell you this is the best video I've seen on this topic.

    • @bradarmstrong917
      @bradarmstrong917 4 года назад +1

      If your teacher was tiberio...

    • @Weimar76
      @Weimar76 4 года назад +1

      @@blueskies133 Perhaps is the best video any has seen...

    • @olliefoxx7165
      @olliefoxx7165 4 года назад +2

      Very cool teacher. Bet you learned alot

    • @dunderzack
      @dunderzack 4 года назад +1

      i wish my teacher would have done the same, altough some people in my class don't understand english.

  • @3DPDK
    @3DPDK 6 лет назад +662

    Well I'll be damned ... I've always known the function of the differential, but it took a General Motors 16 mm film clip from the 1930's to explain simply and clearly how the dang thing works. Keep in mind, folks, these film "shorts" were viewed in movie theaters before the main movie - there was no T.V. in the 30's.The reason for the motorcycle stunt team at the beginning was to add an element of entertainment to the film.

    • @garrisonaw
      @garrisonaw 5 лет назад +36

      Not merely to add entertainment, but to grab everyone's attention so they'd watch the rest of the film strip.

    • @kylesexton3033
      @kylesexton3033 5 лет назад +16

      I don't see that on Americas Got Talent, amazing how bold men were back in the day. My testosterone rose 10 points just watching that.

    • @parallax6548
      @parallax6548 5 лет назад +5

      this video itself was entertainment!

    • @magnusgranskau7487
      @magnusgranskau7487 5 лет назад +1

      I let's not forget to support artist and such now a days everyone just want to use as little money as possible. now most art people have at home is copied in the thousands and bought at Walmart, instead of supporting a local artists.

    • @cicadakidd
      @cicadakidd 5 лет назад +3

      It’s the 30’s, why wouldn’t there be an absurd stunt bit?

  • @jonlas967
    @jonlas967 3 года назад +2114

    Almost a 100 years later, this explanation is still phenomenal. These engineers/scientist were way ahead of their times.

    • @tyronejohnsaquian9279
      @tyronejohnsaquian9279 2 года назад +37

      Yeah like 40 years after the Wright Brothers took flight we already made an atom bomb

    • @countbleck35
      @countbleck35 2 года назад

      @@tyronejohnsaquian9279 now scientists can't define what a woman is while pretending to be made up genders.

    • @darkshadowsx5949
      @darkshadowsx5949 2 года назад +72

      no the engineers weren't ahead of their time. its everyone else that's behind.
      its really not hard to pick up a book and learn something or to experiment on your own. most people are just lazy and want to enjoy others hard work.

    • @keeganmessineo5537
      @keeganmessineo5537 2 года назад +31

      We just don't teach like this in class or college anymore. Only way you'll get such a full explanation and reasoning on something like this is to personally know someone who actually understands it and wants to help you or finding a good RUclips video.

    • @coffe7190
      @coffe7190 2 года назад +7

      @@tyronejohnsaquian9279 wright brothers? i think you mean Santos Dumont

  • @LR-ee2uu
    @LR-ee2uu Год назад +134

    No CGI, no special effects, no BS.
    We should salute our early engineers and designers and those who followed them.
    Wherever they may be... thank you is not enough. 🖖❤

    • @czerwonyniebieski
      @czerwonyniebieski 10 месяцев назад +10

      there is a lot of special effects in this video...

    • @bfpierce
      @bfpierce 7 месяцев назад

      And no auto tune. You forgot to add “no auto-tune”.

  • @frepi
    @frepi 5 лет назад +2071

    I've studied mechanical engineering and was never shown as clear a video on differentials principles as this one

    • @jacobwright4653
      @jacobwright4653 5 лет назад +30

      frepi I’ve studied it too! Fortunately for me, this video was the only curriculum.

    • @AksenowtCc
      @AksenowtCc 5 лет назад +16

      They showed me this video in the first year of mech eng ahah

    • @kyojin_9526
      @kyojin_9526 5 лет назад +1

      frepi omg same

    • @ewmegoolies
      @ewmegoolies 5 лет назад

      Joe Dirt needed to watch this

    • @sanholo4619
      @sanholo4619 5 лет назад +3

      Because .. there are always things you don't know

  • @michaelbarry755
    @michaelbarry755 2 года назад +1910

    Forget about the differential, this is a masterpiece of education. Such an elegant and simple way of explaining this so that literally anyone on the planet could understand it. If schools were as good at teaching as this video is, the world would be full of geniuses

    • @CrayCow
      @CrayCow Год назад +81

      Nowadays tertiary education is just some researcher forced to teach lessons. So they stand up and read some slides, the students go on and teach themselves. Educational material that are clear and concise like this are seen as spoon feeding.

    • @jayakrishnanr4877
      @jayakrishnanr4877 Год назад +8

      That's why it is called as school

    • @jessebeegee
      @jessebeegee Год назад +9

      that’s what happens when education and cinema/arts get public funding. give people money, it’s really that easy!!

    • @SerialSnowmanKiller
      @SerialSnowmanKiller Год назад +12

      @@jessebeegee If it were that simple, we wouldn't be having dozens of the best-funded public schools in the country failing to produce a single student who can pass their math exams. Public funding might be PART of the answer, but it is not the WHOLE of the answer. If it was, the U.S. public education system would not be such an abysmal failure that we'd actually be doing the kids a favor by shutting it down.

    • @МаксимДружинин-м9ч
      @МаксимДружинин-м9ч Год назад +6

      Before, even encyclopedias was more comprehensive. I read three editions of Big Soviet Еncyclopedia, and in the edition of 1937, one could read how to make explosives, powder and guns.

  • @shinjiprofile
    @shinjiprofile 5 лет назад +16974

    Somebody save this video in case we need to rebuild humanity.

    • @mustangsupersnake7848
      @mustangsupersnake7848 5 лет назад +264

      LOL.... so true!!!

    • @massiveplayzde
      @massiveplayzde 5 лет назад +217

      LOL omg asking the real questions! Never thought about saving it, and with politics nowdays its possible we need to carry these usefull informations to next humanity

    • @ganeshwaichal1
      @ganeshwaichal1 5 лет назад +27

      Right

    • @TH3-ON3
      @TH3-ON3 5 лет назад +63

      humanity has more faults than you can imagine, fix one ten other will surface.

    • @denil9598
      @denil9598 5 лет назад +41

      Just saved it to Camera roll

  • @AimingWanderously
    @AimingWanderously Год назад +86

    The showing of progressively more & more spokes, morphing into sprockets, then gears, really hit the principle on the head of what's happening. This is an excellent verbal and visual explanation.

  • @shanilkalohitha7303
    @shanilkalohitha7303 5 лет назад +3057

    Damn 30s teachers are straight and simple , no wonder why they produced intelligent engineers

    • @erlycuyler
      @erlycuyler 5 лет назад +259

      Didn't waste time on P C. Didn't have safe spaces. Didn't have 72 genders. Didn't waste time on snowflakes feewings. Didn't have to make sure they were inclusive.

    • @moocat1060
      @moocat1060 5 лет назад +66

      @@teamtoken Do you know what alt right even means?

    • @nunziomeatballs
      @nunziomeatballs 5 лет назад +46

      Renaissance Man they’re not even alt right, the far left uses terms like “safe spaces” and “inclusivity”

    • @2JZLS
      @2JZLS 5 лет назад +2

      Nowadays vids are like “ur a baby breh lick and sub or bad”

    • @zambuzan
      @zambuzan 5 лет назад +16

      Renaissance Man trigger’d!

  • @joeyuzwa891
    @joeyuzwa891 4 года назад +853

    whoever invented differentials was a genius. so simple

    • @foxymetroid
      @foxymetroid 4 года назад +131

      It was probably a series of simple steps when they understood the problem they had, the solution they needed, and what they had to work with.
      Think of this riddle: "Question: How do you eat an elephant?
      Solution: One bite at a time".
      Many seemingly impossibly complicated problems can be solved when you break them down to a series of small, simple problems.

    • @random-b-i2480
      @random-b-i2480 3 года назад +46

      No one actually invented it instantly, it's just a process of developing

    • @doggydeeds
      @doggydeeds 3 года назад +32

      The conventional automobile differential was invented in 1827 by a Frenchman, Onésiphore Pecqueur. It was used first on steam-driven vehicles and was a well-known device when internal-combustion engines appeared at the end of the 19th century

    • @BisexualPlagueDoctor
      @BisexualPlagueDoctor 3 года назад +3

      @@foxymetroid one bite at a time and with a family or having it airtight and frozen when you get full

    • @romuloambay9624
      @romuloambay9624 3 года назад

      @@random-b-i2480 it's an invention called utility model type- anything built differently from the original idea. .if a table was modified from 4 legs into 3 and still function as a table that is utility model type. .and patentable

  • @bananian
    @bananian 7 лет назад +393

    this is how you do a proper tutorial video. No loud music, no jump cuts, no flashy distracting animation.

    • @gblargg
      @gblargg 6 лет назад +30

      And motorcycles. Lots of motorcycles.

    • @finnishmotorfreak7665
      @finnishmotorfreak7665 6 лет назад +13

      The music is kind of loud in the start of the video but that doesnt matter because it aint some fucking free DIY video music that rapes you ears

    • @GoEvenHarder
      @GoEvenHarder 6 лет назад +4

      Just S P O K E S

    • @zakutheferret8182
      @zakutheferret8182 6 лет назад +3

      Really long intro though

    • @flinch622
      @flinch622 5 лет назад +6

      And most of all... it doesn't insult our intelligence by demanding 'click to subscribe' before we've seen if the content is worth beans. I've arrived at the point where if that's how a video opens, I will definitely not subscribe even if I like the presentation.

  • @MattCantSpeakIt
    @MattCantSpeakIt Год назад +25

    85 years later, this is STILL the BEST explanation of differentials!

  • @seb1148
    @seb1148 4 года назад +2346

    12 year old me watching this for the first time: "YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
    20 year old me watching this for the fifth time this day: "YOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

    • @mehmedcanozkan3268
      @mehmedcanozkan3268 4 года назад +24

      Omg I was again recommended the same thing wayyy back

    • @Weimar76
      @Weimar76 4 года назад +32

      44 year old me watching this for the nth time: "YOOOOOOOOOOOO"

    • @seb1148
      @seb1148 4 года назад +25

      @El Desó i've matured, i can control myself a little bit better

    • @ggtg9670
      @ggtg9670 4 года назад

      J'

    • @Maxokkdkd
      @Maxokkdkd 4 года назад

      Tu eres tags hahaha sjhwhw auhwhwhvs kdkdkdk

  • @nos1000100
    @nos1000100 5 лет назад +491

    Its amazing how these people back in the day where able to make high quality videos like these with animations, transitions, and overlays with little to no computer power. Its also pretty interesting how a video from the late 30's is still relevant today

    • @aluisious
      @aluisious 5 лет назад +8

      Just good editing back in the days when you had a reel of film, a razor, and tape.

    • @obfuscated3090
      @obfuscated3090 5 лет назад +7

      That is a FILM, not a video, and film is much more difficult to work with.

  • @katharsis3283
    @katharsis3283 2 года назад +1623

    I really appreciate that they started explaining it by introducing a really basic version of the differential. Having the absolute simplest concept of things as a ground to stand on for our comprehension really makes everything easier to understand by people of all levels of intellect. I thoroughly enjoyed this.

    • @dancoulson6579
      @dancoulson6579 2 года назад +29

      Yeah I agree.
      Seeing something in its full and finished version often overwhelms the mind. But if you see it step by step in a basic way, you can then move on from there with relative ease.
      This is by far the best video on how a differential works.

    • @obama7792
      @obama7792 2 года назад +3

      yeah, i feel like that's the most effective way to teach/explain something

    • @CleverGirlAAH
      @CleverGirlAAH 2 года назад +12

      And they show iteration by iteration how it evolves to close those gaps to the more "complex" system.

    • @Twztedmatt
      @Twztedmatt Год назад +12

      Thats what happens when someone who truly understands how something works and is able to not only build it themselves but explain it to others.

    • @AndecIunson
      @AndecIunson Год назад +1

      I really wish this could applied in general teaching.. i wonder how the programming analogue for this would be. hello world?

  • @dikdikmarzipan2819
    @dikdikmarzipan2819 Год назад +57

    No wonder so many people liked tinkering with cars back then, these films really simplify the principles while also explaining its mechanics and composition profoundly well.

    • @millanferende6723
      @millanferende6723 5 месяцев назад +1

      Also remember, that it was all so new and exciting then. So many new mechanical principles. Nowadays it's often about how many microchips and micro-transactions you can stick inside a product. xD
      Man I do miss the "robustness" of those good old days. I do surely hope that we will somehow reach a society again where such principles are viable again.

  • @Andy-Christian
    @Andy-Christian 6 лет назад +6030

    it is disturbing how informative and easy to understand that was, relative to more modern edu-tainment crap we have now.....

    • @fringestream990
      @fringestream990 5 лет назад +393

      Andrew Ekleberry it’s disturbing how people just dismiss anything old as outdated and non-useful.

    • @happylittlemonk
      @happylittlemonk 5 лет назад +48

      I was amazed how clear and informative this video was to explain plain of reference (there are few videos to watch)
      ruclips.net/video/bJMYoj4hHqU/видео.html

    • @happylittlemonk
      @happylittlemonk 5 лет назад +40

      The old Mercs were so simple, you could run it on cooking oil. Everything is supper complicated these days.

    • @aktan4ik
      @aktan4ik 5 лет назад +99

      Its simple really. General public was not as technologically educated as we are today. Now these lazy bastards that educate just assume everyone knows everything, and would rather tell to look it up online than do the teaching themselves.

    • @StephanGiunta
      @StephanGiunta 5 лет назад +4

      Because nowadays, it’s about the shock factor.

  • @devin190
    @devin190 3 года назад +3829

    When you realize even a very old black and white video has better quality than a security camera

    • @tommygarson8592
      @tommygarson8592 3 года назад +261

      back then high quality was easy because instead of pixels the light was caught by a chemical film, so each "pixel" was only molecules thick

    • @abdisaniini
      @abdisaniini 3 года назад +199

      @@tommygarson8592 Also companies have to save years worth of security footage, if they stored that in 4k it would take up way too much space to be viable

    • @deusexmachina5769
      @deusexmachina5769 3 года назад +73

      @@abdisaniini I looked it up, if they would store the fotage in 4k for 6 months (wich is the requirement), then they would need 1,373 Petabytes and that at least 2 times to make sure that they would have a Backup if a hard drive corrupts. You can find 5 tb hard drives for about 100€, you would need 550 of them wich would come to a total of 55,000€ (66,520$) wich wouldn't be much for a bank.

    • @abdisaniini
      @abdisaniini 3 года назад +32

      @@deusexmachina5769 Well I guess it's probably something to do with their infrastructure then, because that does seem affordable for a bank.
      P.S. when you wrote a period instead of a comma I got confused, and thought it was only $66 lol

    • @deusexmachina5769
      @deusexmachina5769 3 года назад +13

      @@abdisaniini I am from germany, our use of periods in numbers is the opposite how it's used in most countries, but I fixed it for other people.

  • @crisprtalk6963
    @crisprtalk6963 4 года назад +535

    "It is called.. the differential"
    Said with authority!!

  • @Aspeer1971
    @Aspeer1971 Год назад +15

    Best differential explanation I’ve ever seen…far better than many modern computer animations that attempt to explain a conceptually difficult, but in practice fairly simple idea.

  • @baronvoncombi3701
    @baronvoncombi3701 4 года назад +1641

    wow i watched this as kinda a joke because it was in my recommended but now i know how a differential works.

    • @AnoMaxo
      @AnoMaxo 4 года назад +33

      Me too... guess im gonna become an engineer now.

    • @lastmanstanding2622
      @lastmanstanding2622 4 года назад +14

      Careful, education can be a dangerous thing.

    • @forestdenizen6497
      @forestdenizen6497 4 года назад +12

      @@lastmanstanding2622 this video isn't education. It is learning.
      The op _learned_ how a differential works, he wasn't _educated._
      Education is political.
      Learning only cares about reality.
      Avoid education.
      Pursue learning.

    • @xx_gam3ing_xx
      @xx_gam3ing_xx 4 года назад +1

      Me too haha

    • @lastmanstanding2622
      @lastmanstanding2622 4 года назад +13

      @@forestdenizen6497 According to the American Heritage Dictionary, their definition of "Education" is as follows; "2. The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process".
      I understand the point you are trying to make here, however, you are splitting a very fine hair my friend. Learning and Education are related. For example, can you be considered educated if you haven't learned anything?

  • @valderhide1674
    @valderhide1674 6 лет назад +543

    I'm a mechanically minded person and couldn't figure out how they did this. This one 80 year old video did better than any searching/Thinking that I did myself

    • @Tomas-ml9nv
      @Tomas-ml9nv 5 лет назад +6

      Clearly not ,basic knowledge of gears is all you need

    • @andries4561
      @andries4561 5 лет назад +13

      @@Tomas-ml9nv I have gear knowledge but for understanding this something just has to snap

    • @knockhello2604
      @knockhello2604 5 лет назад +2

      @@andries4561 ikr

  • @970357ers
    @970357ers 8 лет назад +367

    Possibly the most informative car video on RUclips.

  • @Boykot1
    @Boykot1 8 месяцев назад +5

    Showed this to the teacher and class back in 2013, we watched it, everybody was pleased af.
    No text, picture or explanation came close.

    • @sambarker7930
      @sambarker7930 2 месяца назад +1

      My tutor showed it to my class in college when we were learning about differentials. When he was learning his tutor showed it to his class (I suspect that past tutor also learned about differentials from this video)

  • @StephenButlerOne
    @StephenButlerOne 9 лет назад +1660

    That is the best explanation video of a basic dif I've ever seen.

    • @taotoo2
      @taotoo2 8 лет назад +55

      It's the ONLY one I've seen. But I shan't be needing another.

    • @mlg_420quickscope
      @mlg_420quickscope 8 лет назад +8

      Stephen Butler Me too. Holy fucking shit, actually.

    • @StephenButlerOne
      @StephenButlerOne 8 лет назад +25

      MLG_420 QUICKSCOPE​ I just watched it again, after all this time, just for the fun if it.
      People like this guy are truly rare. People that can pass on their knowlage with ease. I had one or to professors like this guy (not in engineering but economics), they could make it so simple and engaging, then there was the 'other' type of professor (the like that never left an education Centre), who was no doubt extremely cleaver, but had zero personal skills, just expected everyone to understand what he was talking about from day one. That guy spent the whole lecture with his back to you writing numbers on a board, losing 9/10s of the class.
      I think it was Einstein that said somthing similar to "if you can't explain somthing simply, you are yet you master the subject"
      This guy has it nailed down (or did).

    • @rich1051414
      @rich1051414 7 лет назад +13

      I just want this guy to tell me how limited slip works now to complete my understanding.

    • @amilcarmagnus2755
      @amilcarmagnus2755 7 лет назад +3

      Stephen Butler Im your 666 like

  • @LunatiqHigh
    @LunatiqHigh 2 года назад +2422

    For a video nearly 100 years old. It's really well made. Informative and interesting. I hope there are more videos from this same guy / series.

    • @gigabit7079
      @gigabit7079 Год назад +147

      We tend to believe man was less creative in the past.
      But the way of thinking of a man from the pyramid building time and a man nowadays, is exactly the same.
      Same creativity, same inteligence.
      The only thing that improved was the previous knowledge.
      The problem when teaching things, is jumping basic concepts.
      The more the teacher jumps, the more difficult to truly understand, no matter if it happened 4.000 years ago or nowadays. That is why we always had and will have good, and not good teachers.
      The guys that wanted to teach how a transmission and a differential work in this video was a good teacher, with excellent didactic.

    • @zman90
      @zman90 Год назад +85

      Crazy to think the 1930s are almost 100 years old

    • @GhullieUser
      @GhullieUser Год назад

      Subscribe to his youtube channel and hell make more

    • @andreyakimov6911
      @andreyakimov6911 Год назад +18

      this is that we have lost, unfortunately

    • @TheBelrick
      @TheBelrick Год назад

      white people are awesome. Especially before being poisoned.

  • @Colonel_dinggus
    @Colonel_dinggus 7 лет назад +173

    I learned more in this 9 minutes than I've learned all week in half of my classes

  • @STSGuitar16
    @STSGuitar16 Год назад +6

    This video absolutely blows every other video explaining differential steering totally out of the water in terms of explaining it. Even the most current 3D modeling programs that you see used by modern creators trying to explain this concept don't come anywhere close to being as affective as this simple demonstration. I mean, I watched like three other videos on how differentials work, and they were all beautifully modeled in a computer program and looked great, but none of them really made it click with me like this video did. The beauty is in the simplicity, I guess. Either way, this video was able to really let me wrap my mind around how this all works, and it's pretty awesome that it was made so long ago.

  • @branot89
    @branot89 9 лет назад +3832

    A video from 1937 explains diffenerniat so much better than modern 3d animations

    • @riddleziddle6038
      @riddleziddle6038 9 лет назад +109

      I agree, animation cant beat reality explanation. Thus, they used better words.

    • @adrianak.91
      @adrianak.91 9 лет назад +42

      branot89 wikipedia is the suck at explaining...anything.....if you want to know how something works, grab an old encyclopedia or watch old videos
      Wikipedia "A differential is a particular type of simple
      planetary gear train that has the property that the angular velocity of
      its carrier is the average of the angular velocities of its sun and
      annular gears."---¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬:> that's really helpful....NOT..it's not even correct English

    • @metralla
      @metralla 9 лет назад +3

      Adriana K. sounds german

    • @joeracer302
      @joeracer302 9 лет назад +8

      Adriana K. You can always try the Simple English version of Wikipedia, sometimes that makes some articles easier to understand if you aren't an expert in the field's esoteric language.

    • @2edgy4you
      @2edgy4you 9 лет назад +27

      +Adriana K. wikipedia uses the most technically correct language, which is not necessarily the most easily understandable for the layman.

  • @abeggarsbazzokasoldier9138
    @abeggarsbazzokasoldier9138 3 года назад +984

    This video taught me basic physics and semi-complicated engineering better than my class can

    • @Adrian-qr6gk
      @Adrian-qr6gk 3 года назад +45

      it's the style of learning and what people thought mattered back then and today. In my engineering courses the focus is always on the derivations of things, the grand concepts, but rarely are we simply taught how something works in practice. Worse we get basic info, variables, eqs and have to teach ourselves the complicated stuff. I wish we taught things more simply, less theoretical and more practical since that's what's needed today, there are phds and other people who can work on improving concepts and theories, but we need a hands on workforce who can the job, then we can focus on the inner details. teach the simple stuff first basically, not last.

    • @fryfry377
      @fryfry377 3 года назад +10

      I know right, 4 years of music school and they couldn't teach it to me this simple

    • @Bacopa68
      @Bacopa68 3 года назад +6

      You were in physics class when the auto shop kids were working jobs taking these things apart.

    • @biggusdickus1689
      @biggusdickus1689 3 года назад +2

      @@Bacopa68 And you were in the youtube comments 🙄

    • @dani.zambomagno
      @dani.zambomagno 3 года назад +4

      People don't get more intelligent, we just get to know more things that we use for discovering new ones because intelligent people from the past had make out them.

  • @DemonetisedZone
    @DemonetisedZone 3 года назад +1537

    This is great
    It doesn't just explain how it works, it also explains why a differential was necessary in the first place and does it with simplicity 👍😉

    • @nickh5081
      @nickh5081 2 года назад +36

      Except for one thing - a regular differential still only give you a one wheel drive car when it matters as the power will always go to the wheel with the least resistance. Now we need a video on the limited slip differential!

    • @stellviahohenheim
      @stellviahohenheim 2 года назад +4

      @@nickh5081 shut up, no we don't

    • @xtlm
      @xtlm 2 года назад +24

      All in UNDER 10 minutes.
      Try to find any youtuber explain anything in under 10 minutes lol

    • @Bacopa68
      @Bacopa68 2 года назад +3

      @@xtlm YT was better when everything had to be under ten minutes.

    • @callmefox630
      @callmefox630 2 года назад +2

      @@nickh5081 I believe open-type differential were either the only type, or the most common differential at the time this video was made.
      As you said, open-type differentials are fine for spinning on roads, but still a issue when driving on bumpy roads or off-road.

  • @James-ej7wz
    @James-ej7wz Год назад +3

    if school taught like this, the world would be 100 years ahead of its time, we really need to bring back the simple beauty of visual learning in this way. and we should also bring back this gentleman's calming easy to understand voice, i have learned more in 30 minutes of videos like these than i have in 10 years of school. it is truly saddening to see that the best form of education was lost around 70 years ago.

  • @piccoloatburgerking
    @piccoloatburgerking 5 лет назад +514

    This is some good shit. No extra talk, no stalling, no bullshit. Just straight to the point, brief and thorough. Pretty good.

    • @hamburgerdan101
      @hamburgerdan101 5 лет назад +36

      You must’ve skipped the first 30 seconds

    • @MsPokemonsoulsilver
      @MsPokemonsoulsilver 5 лет назад +22

      brief? dude there's like 3 minutes of dudes riding motorcycles in circles at the beginning, are you smoking crack? actually i realized that was a dumb question can i have some of your crack? because your definitely smoking a lot of that good good fucking shit

    • @TheLuismaBeaTle
      @TheLuismaBeaTle 5 лет назад +3

      Rotisserie Chiggen yea, but once you get to the explanation it is as thorough as it should be and it keeps it brief

    • @SliceySlicer
      @SliceySlicer 5 лет назад +2

      And now you’ve ruined it by swearing. You’re an American aren’t you?

    • @reclhoss
      @reclhoss 5 лет назад

      Those were not cheap models either.

  • @arsalan17121
    @arsalan17121 6 лет назад +470

    Thousand times better than today's explainations

    • @ouo9454
      @ouo9454 6 лет назад +1

      That's the truth!

    • @Spartucus101
      @Spartucus101 5 лет назад +13

      Kind of sad, but it was purposely done. By both the government and the auto industry during the 1960's. (and not really for any super conspiracy, shadow government weirdo, NWO shit either.) The industry nearly collapsed due to several factors at that time. Some of the biggest being, the predicted purchase turn around of consumers, and the open sourced 3rd party auto parts, tools and their availability. It was assumed in early forecasts in the auto industry that the average customer would replace their vehicles every 3-5 years. Thus the industry build itself around that model. However, because of growing public knowledge on repairs, Maintenance and availability of parts and tools. The 3 year prediction was off, waaaay off, and the average consumer owned their vehicle for 10+ years. Which led to MILLIONS & Millions of factory automobiles just sitting there, rotting, and often being scrapped (an interesting side effect being, some of the fist reclamation and recycling facilities began as a result of this) About half of the auto producers went under, others forced to consolidate. In response, the auto industry stopped this kind of stuff. Then made many materials, parts and advancements proprietary and trademarked, informed engineers to deliberately build designs that where complex and difficult to repair without formal training or special tools, and lobbied the government to mandate repairmen and auto shops to hold certifications and "mechanic" to be added as a degree program to trade schools and universities. Which they did, nearly collapsing that industry over night as a result, lol. History is so fucking cool. That's a lot of shit, to explain why a video from the 60 years ago is so informative...by comparison to today.

    • @pwnmeisterage
      @pwnmeisterage 5 лет назад +3

      I think because it took time and effort to design and build the physical models (and it probably involved an actual engineer, mechanic, or expert) they also put some time and effort into thinking about how to best use the models for an effective demonstration (with useful simplified explanations).
      But these days it takes little time and no effort for somebody (utterly clueless about mechanics) to google up some 3D modelling stuff and get the software to put together a really slick-looking yet needlessly overcomplicated (confusing and distracting) photorealistic computer animation.

    • @Leonardo-G
      @Leonardo-G 4 года назад

      @@Spartucus101 There's also the fact that cars today are more fragile to better preserve the living, breathing passengers.

  • @jprochaproch
    @jprochaproch 7 лет назад +221

    I study mechanical engineering for 3 years and haven't seen better video.

    • @michaelbienicewicz2993
      @michaelbienicewicz2993 5 лет назад +1

      Time to change schools dude!!!!

    • @Leonardo-G
      @Leonardo-G 4 года назад +1

      @@michaelbienicewicz2993 To be fair this is just one of the highest quality videos in general. It even beats out a lot of the stuff from Vsauce, Kurzgesagt, Veratasium, and 3Blue1Brown.

    • @flek4103
      @flek4103 2 года назад

      2023

  • @rhythmLive
    @rhythmLive Год назад +3

    I've never seen a video explain a concept that I didn't understand better than this one and it was made 85 years ago. Well done.

  • @SS-bc4ww
    @SS-bc4ww 5 лет назад +2290

    moral : nothing is difficult if explained in a simple way.

    • @exoticcar5482
      @exoticcar5482 5 лет назад +71

      The education system knows this yet doesn't care because they want to encourage competition that's so needless

    • @vladimirgury2115
      @vladimirgury2115 4 года назад +6

      SS step by step))

    • @yaboi-km2qn
      @yaboi-km2qn 4 года назад +1

      I wouldn’t say nothing.

    • @onbored9627
      @onbored9627 4 года назад +16

      Except for quantum mechanics, but we don't like to talk about that.

    • @ghx711
      @ghx711 4 года назад

      @@exoticcar5482 couldn't have said it better

  • @martinpenwald94
    @martinpenwald94 4 года назад +248

    The differential is a piece of engineering that looks so damn complicated but the principles behind it are astonishingly simple. The person who thought about it for the first time must have been a freaking genius.
    Btw this 70 yo video is the only one I've ever found that explains it in its pure simplicity and genius.

    • @simplesimon8255
      @simplesimon8255 3 года назад

      Well, remember that technology was also simpler back then

    • @martinkurdi436
      @martinkurdi436 2 года назад +1

      @@simplesimon8255 Some 90's cars have literally the same differential

    • @michaelcorbidge7914
      @michaelcorbidge7914 2 года назад

      It was invented by the Chinese for ceremonial reasons or to instill awe in the simple subjects . On a cart a statue would always point in same direction when the cart turned a corner .

    • @Gryphus-R
      @Gryphus-R 2 года назад +3

      His name was Onésiphore Pecqueur, he was french, and he invented it before cars existed (He died 30 years before the first car ever was built). It was originally used on mechanical watches to allow two gears on the same axis to rotate at different speeds.
      The creativity of old watchmakers is always mindblowing

  • @jackmullan505
    @jackmullan505 4 года назад +1098

    lesson learned,
    Got a problem?
    Solution: MORE SPOKES

    • @quabiloyoink
      @quabiloyoink 4 года назад +2

      @Ben Fletcher yes it will work only of u do it right tho.

    • @XDTuber
      @XDTuber 4 года назад +1

      smooth action means more spokes

    • @mr.mischiefiknowyourpasswo8224
      @mr.mischiefiknowyourpasswo8224 3 года назад

      Well *SPOKE* N.

    • @SkyHighMelody
      @SkyHighMelody 6 месяцев назад

      Just like kerbal space program. Got a problem? MORE STRUTS!

  • @fulfillmenttheory
    @fulfillmenttheory Год назад +23

    Wow. They did an excellent job breaking this down and teaching how it works. Such a smooth, visual & vocal explanation.

  • @sapphireex5525
    @sapphireex5525 8 лет назад +409

    That is bloody impressive. Something that hasn't really changed much in decades is extremely simple

    • @Hosey1984
      @Hosey1984 8 лет назад +28

      No need to reinvent the wheel.

    • @beating2
      @beating2 8 лет назад +3

      It has changed alot on the cars that can send torque differently to each wheel. Look up torque vectoring differential or watch?v=rQowh2Kr38s.

    • @sapphireex5525
      @sapphireex5525 8 лет назад +11

      That still isn't a complete rework of the differential. It's just an upgraded version.

    • @Atlessa
      @Atlessa 7 лет назад

      My Master (as in, the guy who trained me in my field. Not sure if that term is actually used in english?) used to say: Good, reliable technology is always simple. The more moving or electric parts (including sensors and all that) the more likely that something is gonna screw up.
      For a bit of context (and a little anecdote to prove him right): Our company was responsible for the street lights in my town, and we were in the process of excanging good old Vapor lamps with some more newfangled high-tech lamps (some streets even got LEDs).
      The Vapor lamps had a coil that acted as a limiter (similar to a resistor), and that's it.
      The newer lamps had some complicated electronics, including a ~30€ circuit board. (The Coil for those vapor lamps would cost 4€ I was told...)
      In the year that I did that particular job, I had to exchange countless amounts of those circuit boards. They broke left right and center, and you could always SMELL it as soon as you opened the case they were kept in... (I hate that smell.) Also keep in mind the company had just begun installing these maybe half a year before I joined them.
      The Vapor lamps? Maybe five coils the entire year. And we had 10 times more of them than the new ones at that point.

    • @zorrosigiloso5280
      @zorrosigiloso5280 7 лет назад

      Sapphire EX LED lamps are pretty simple too. The problem: companies that produce them are programming them to stop working at certain time. In fact led lamps, on good quality can last more than 20 years.

  • @johnsmithfakename8422
    @johnsmithfakename8422 5 лет назад +412

    I am impressed that they spent so much time making the numerous visual models.

    • @slowpoke96Z28
      @slowpoke96Z28 5 лет назад +12

      This is back when mechanics really rebuilt things, not just replace whole assemblies

    • @zitt4147
      @zitt4147 5 лет назад +8

      @@slowpoke96Z28 *this is back when people knew how they make up a car

    • @slowpoke96Z28
      @slowpoke96Z28 5 лет назад +3

      ZiTT cars are still made that way.

    • @onbored9627
      @onbored9627 4 года назад +2

      @@zitt4147 this is back when you could go into the woods with a Swiss army knife and build a car out of wood and dirt. the good ol' days.

    • @onbored9627
      @onbored9627 4 года назад +2

      @@zitt4147 Ah, I see english is not your native language. Jokes don't always translate well. My bad.

  • @DwayneLindsey92
    @DwayneLindsey92 7 лет назад +315

    Wow that 9 minutes flew by

    • @Jetrichshorts
      @Jetrichshorts 6 лет назад +6

      I realised it now that the video is 9 minute long😂. It was hypnotic

    • @MicroWaveLasagna
      @MicroWaveLasagna 6 лет назад +2

      Easy...more spokes

  • @hemanthnandesh9879
    @hemanthnandesh9879 8 месяцев назад +3

    By far the best video on differential

  • @Ba11leFieldAce
    @Ba11leFieldAce 3 года назад +840

    Practical, applied engineering at its finest. I'd watch an entire catalog of these videos if they where available.

    • @adityashastri5872
      @adityashastri5872 2 года назад +34

      check the channel that uploaded it lol

    • @jadengillies4462
      @jadengillies4462 2 года назад +1

      ruclips.net/p/PLI7lqC4ZBnIlL4-jIq9wesjXv0J5FJKgY

    • @ILHillbilly67
      @ILHillbilly67 2 года назад +2

      I think these were used as fillers in between movies at he local cinemas???

    • @skablazer7078
      @skablazer7078 2 года назад +1

      @@ILHillbilly67 or auto shop... something you would have to attend a technical school for now

  • @ameyagundale
    @ameyagundale 7 лет назад +513

    i am able to understand without any science background.. amazing tutorial.. God bless the old times

    • @Ajay-nj4vx
      @Ajay-nj4vx 6 лет назад +2

      They had blessings for sure...

    • @theepattikolli
      @theepattikolli 5 лет назад +1

      simple and Easy ,even for indians and africans .....😁

    • @christianponicki9581
      @christianponicki9581 5 лет назад

      @@theepattikolli there it is, the inevitable comment on race. fuck off, thanks

  • @LichaelMewis
    @LichaelMewis 4 года назад +362

    Love these old documentaries, very relaxing calm clear spoken English, easy to understand.

    • @randomuser5443
      @randomuser5443 4 года назад +8

      Way better than the accented chick who makes me want to throw my computer out a window after spending 30 minutes on half of this topic

    • @LichaelMewis
      @LichaelMewis 4 года назад +4

      @ARJUN BROOKLYN this was no insult to immigrants. It is meant to compare how narration has devolved even with NATIVE English speakers.

    • @internetwizard404
      @internetwizard404 4 года назад +3

      You'll be surprised to hear why they sound similar. They're all imitating the "Transatlantic Accent". It was used as sort of a standard in the industry to maximise the efficiency and clarity of speech.

    • @LichaelMewis
      @LichaelMewis 4 года назад +1

      @@internetwizard404 I wish they'd still do that. But now they have to speak fast with ridiculous music playing in the background...

    • @admiralbeez8143
      @admiralbeez8143 4 года назад

      @@internetwizard404 Was that the same as Agent Smith from the Matrix?

  • @madwad
    @madwad Год назад +80

    Кто ясно мыслит, тот ясно выражается! Никогда не знал как, это работает, за пять минут стало ясно с первого раза.

    • @ДмитрийБедорсян-т8з
      @ДмитрийБедорсян-т8з Год назад +7

      Не смотря на не слишком высокий уровень английского у меня, все абсолютно понятно, мне кажется даже без слов было бы понятно

  • @SIHdW3W
    @SIHdW3W 8 лет назад +1042

    so this is one of those times where you actually find a proper video to watch

  • @icyburger
    @icyburger 7 лет назад +598

    Now every time I see a complex calculus question that needs solving
    I just add more spokes

  • @timothykihara1119
    @timothykihara1119 Год назад +533

    It's so beautiful how they explained this,it's so clear and easier to visualize and understand.They don't make more like these nowadays

    • @user4667fh
      @user4667fh Год назад +13

      because there not giving away important information for free its the sad reality.

    • @littleantukins4415
      @littleantukins4415 Год назад +2

      ​@@user4667fh tf can you expect humans will always be greedy

    • @mattmatt3291
      @mattmatt3291 Год назад +1

      That really true 👌🧐 very well and easy to understand , teachers in mechanical school can't explain 😂 that in 4 years of learn , the 100 years of story of ( spindle ) lol 😂

    • @1gnore_me.
      @1gnore_me. Год назад +2

      @@user4667fh at the time this was released, really only the rich or wealthy could have seen it because televisions were extremely expensive.

    • @rsz90182
      @rsz90182 Год назад

      @@user4667fh * they're

  • @lookman7047
    @lookman7047 Год назад +3

    Educational videos like this are timeless! You can show a person who ask how a differential gear works in another 100years and it'll still be just as entertaining and educational.

  • @NorthernChev
    @NorthernChev 7 лет назад +127

    Single best description of differential ever. If it was this simple to explain all along, how did the ability to say it so simply through the years get lost? Silly.

    • @MrMagaofficial
      @MrMagaofficial 7 лет назад

      #mrnovruz

    • @FawfulDied
      @FawfulDied 7 лет назад +1

      "The Way Things Work" was a pretty good description of many mechanisms, at least for me. Most local libraries have it.

    • @harveyweinstein7709
      @harveyweinstein7709 6 лет назад +3

      Cars aren't this simple to explain anymore.

    • @projectilequestion
      @projectilequestion 6 лет назад +3

      Yeah, a lot of things were better back then. Nowadays you just have arrogant presenters that explain things that are just wrong.

  • @d_prac
    @d_prac 6 лет назад +876

    I wonder what they'd have thought if they were told 6.3 million people from around the world would watch it one day.

    • @Maxumized
      @Maxumized 6 лет назад +62

      d_prac they would have thought you were from mars and shoot you

    • @randomdude189
      @randomdude189 6 лет назад +7

      d_prac they would prolly trip out lol especially if you mentioned it would be most likely after their deaths

    • @DustinMarkwald
      @DustinMarkwald 6 лет назад +36

      Or that people would be putting over a thousand horse power threw a differential.

    • @Orthopedux
      @Orthopedux 6 лет назад +39

      No, because they thought we would already be on Mars nowadays and travel there easily.
      In a Chevrolet.

    • @error404m
      @error404m 6 лет назад +42

      They would have said "Then we shall need more spokes"

  • @MonkeNeuronActivated
    @MonkeNeuronActivated 2 года назад +470

    Absolutely love how their only two reasons they give as to why having a fast spinning driveshaft running through the cabin completely exposed is 'because it would be inconvenient for passengers' and 'would be awkward for carrying luggage'.

    • @mexicancanteen9596
      @mexicancanteen9596 2 года назад +28

      What more reason do you need?

    • @theairaccumulator7144
      @theairaccumulator7144 2 года назад +121

      @@mexicancanteen9596 no idea, like catching your clothes or jewelry on it and getting a body part ripped to bits???

    • @steeveblack3493
      @steeveblack3493 2 года назад +1

      Safety wasnt that big of an issue then. We are all pussies now compared to our grandparents.

    • @AstrosElectronicsLab
      @AstrosElectronicsLab 2 года назад +57

      Is nobody going to comment that the centre hump that runs through a car now a days is a thing? Originally in the 50's to now was to accommodate the drive shaft of a rear wheel drive. Even front wheel drive cars still have that hump, for like, no reason.

    • @georgehill3087
      @georgehill3087 2 года назад +48

      Because driveshaft will be inside a hollow tube or be covered with something when it's inside the cabin. Engineers wouldn't let that huge of a safety hazard be exposed.

  • @ГАМБА-к8х
    @ГАМБА-к8х Год назад +3

    Өте керемет ағылшынша білмесемде бәрін толығымен түсіндім. Үлкен рахмет сіздерге.

  • @jeremyellis1262
    @jeremyellis1262 4 года назад +225

    Back in high school during my senior year graduation practice, some of my friends were on the schools AV club and were coordinating the projector presentation. During the practice we were getting a bit rowdy due to end of year jitters and my friends on the AV club threw this video up on the projector, and I tell you every single senior’s attention was locked on this video, and a the roar of small talk faded as each person was captivated by the function of a differential.

    • @zachnerdydude6605
      @zachnerdydude6605 4 года назад +7

      It just be like that sometimes

    • @firebolt100
      @firebolt100 4 года назад +5

      That’s awesome (and funny!)
      Thanks for sharing!

    • @estellaruiz3125
      @estellaruiz3125 4 года назад

      Everyone gangsta till the teacher put on how cars work.

  • @MultiPerplexedDude
    @MultiPerplexedDude 5 лет назад +595

    What i learned from this:
    If something is bothering you, add more spokes!

    • @kevinlandrini6799
      @kevinlandrini6799 5 лет назад +1

      more is always better

    • @CB-xr1eg
      @CB-xr1eg 5 лет назад +3

      If you keep adding spokes does it then become a " bespoke " wheel?

    • @Danny-Germany
      @Danny-Germany 5 лет назад +2

      More spokes we need more and more spokes 🤣😁👍

    • @setesh1294
      @setesh1294 5 лет назад +3

      It's the Kerbal way. There's never enough struts and boosters.

    • @andersnelson6464
      @andersnelson6464 5 лет назад

      my wife

  • @0YouCanCallMeAl0
    @0YouCanCallMeAl0 9 лет назад +456

    Who would've thought that this will be useful (and exceptional) after so many years. Good job to the team that made this, it's simply faultless.

    • @equim7363
      @equim7363 7 лет назад +78

      yes, the authors are apparently dead, but their work lives.

    • @itisjambo
      @itisjambo 7 лет назад +2

      Equim i would like your comment but it's currently at 69
      edit (2 seconds later) well it just hit 70
      so nvm

  • @enkididit8669
    @enkididit8669 Год назад +17

    I did a restoration on my bosses ‘65 tbird convertible. All mechanical, the concert those mechanisms perform every time you raise and lower the top is truly a thing of utter beauty.

  • @TobRacer
    @TobRacer 7 лет назад +228

    Why in class they keep showing unclear 3D animations ? This 1937 video is brillant !

    • @coolpawan1
      @coolpawan1 6 лет назад +6

      The teachers point of view is that untill it is not complicated enough, it's not worth teaching :P

    • @akj7
      @akj7 6 лет назад +5

      Unclear 3d animation = less time need to be spent 3d modelling + less time needs to be spend at all + less cost.

    • @Bartonovich52
      @Bartonovich52 6 лет назад +3

      Yeah... from one of the largest corporations in America who had an entire art and media division with hundreds of workers.

  • @veganmikedizzle4303
    @veganmikedizzle4303 7 лет назад +2070

    When life gets hard...... add more spokes.

  • @ParkerEdwardsParties
    @ParkerEdwardsParties 8 лет назад +140

    This is like... really well explained.

  • @tntarts6476
    @tntarts6476 4 месяца назад +2

    Why is it that all of these old videos and documentaries are so informative and without any fluff. I've recently been watching a lot of old black and white documentaries about machines. They are so informative and to-the-point without any fluff(excessive build-up of information).
    Most of the videos I sees nowadays have more to do with the person showing there face and talking loudly for half the video and then maybe they'll give some decent info, if not follow it up with "click the link to checkout my course". It's like they just want publicity and not to put forward the solution for problems.

  • @OidhcheMhath
    @OidhcheMhath 6 лет назад +90

    Wow! This is the best explanation of HOW a differential actually works I've ever seen! Every other only really explains WHAT it does, not HOW.

  • @symphoricquoz3763
    @symphoricquoz3763 5 лет назад +1034

    "The wheels aren't turning right... Hmm...
    Ah! I know!
    M O R E S P O K E S"

    • @chicken_stewer5432
      @chicken_stewer5432 5 лет назад +3

      Lmao I wondered what you were talking about until I got to that point in the video

    • @ashdeepkashyap8717
      @ashdeepkashyap8717 5 лет назад

      oke.io/XlYPc7l
      RRB JE CBT 2 BOOK

    • @RobotsEverywhereVideos
      @RobotsEverywhereVideos 5 лет назад +3

      ARE YOU SPOKING YET

    • @generalkayoss7347
      @generalkayoss7347 5 лет назад +5

      @FederalPhoenix Yet the homicide rate has dropped for like the 25th year in a row. You've literally got better odds at being struck by lightening in the US than being a victim of a mass shooting.
      #Rekt

    • @aliazzouzi8493
      @aliazzouzi8493 5 лет назад

      General Kayoss , why you lying on yourself man ? He said schooool shooting not mass shooting , check stats about that and even about mass shootings you are wrong ! Check stats man

  • @ravenval5046
    @ravenval5046 2 года назад +184

    I really like how this is explained, it feels so much easier to understand than any modern lecture, text, or lesson.

  • @bowl1820
    @bowl1820 9 месяцев назад +2

    Well back again, This video never gets old. This is how education should be again. After this the Spinning Levers video.

  • @Gh0sTPro
    @Gh0sTPro 6 лет назад +1078

    That was one long ad. And I'm not even mad!

    • @jacketnipple
      @jacketnipple 6 лет назад +9

      Gh0sT It was a lesson xD

    • @abdallaismail2191
      @abdallaismail2191 6 лет назад +6

      I like your poetry

    • @rawtrout007
      @rawtrout007 6 лет назад +1

      how is it an ad? i dont think it said to buy anythen

    • @101Volts
      @101Volts 5 лет назад +3

      @@rawtrout007 Not all ads "advertise" in the old methods in this day and age, sometimes they only want you to _think_ about the product the company sells; that's the case of their "free" games!

    • @---bs8dp
      @---bs8dp 5 лет назад

      I need a low center drive now

  • @sudeepjainsudeep
    @sudeepjainsudeep 7 лет назад +84

    Simply amazing. They showed what can be achieved superbly with limited resources in terms of graphic and multimedia. First they explained the problem with motorbike riders and in the end they explained the results with juggling artists.

  • @Tencryn
    @Tencryn 2 года назад +264

    I am blown away with how simple and effective this video is, I didn't even know the rear wheels even moved at different speeds!

    • @KHAinnovations
      @KHAinnovations Год назад +6

      Yo tampoco

    • @andreasa.2226
      @andreasa.2226 Год назад +10

      The front ones as well of course

    • @Tencryn
      @Tencryn Год назад +4

      @@andreasa.2226 I knew the front did, didn't know how though!

    • @Clickbait86
      @Clickbait86 Год назад +1

      @@KHAinnovations menos yo

    • @bassianpuneet4523
      @bassianpuneet4523 Год назад +2

      ​@@Tencryn the same procedure for the front tyres too but if the vehicle is 2 wheel drive the wheels will be attached separately

  • @ericaasen4512
    @ericaasen4512 Год назад +4

    Ive seen this video a dozen times and can watch it dozens more. As a mechanically inclined person who does commercial electrical i can really appreciate videos like this. And for thise that dont know electricians, especially us commercial guys, are considered electrical mechanics because we have to build, fabricate, and install mechanical equipment, sometimes complex equipment

  • @RandomUser_online
    @RandomUser_online 5 лет назад +137

    When you demonstrate it like this it aint boring its *ENTERTAINING*

    • @ezzyth8824
      @ezzyth8824 4 года назад +2

      Yeah if teachers would explain things like this I would love school

  • @greyfenryr971
    @greyfenryr971 2 года назад +547

    я в шоке. сто лет назад сделали такое полноценное видео объясняющее ход мысли инженеров. браво

    • @ilya0073
      @ilya0073 2 года назад +24

      На ютубе много видео было разработок немецких инженеров тех же годов - но по понятным причинам это всё было удалено. Хотя с точки зрения инженерии очень крутые разработки - эх жаль, если бы не политическая подоплёка можно было бы пересмотреть.

    • @mrmoldy1321
      @mrmoldy1321 2 года назад +7

      You should check out professor Julius Sumner Miller.... He has a certain way of explaining...

    • @romankoregin991
      @romankoregin991 2 года назад +16

      мнe eщё совeтскиe учeбныe фильмы в подобной стилистикe нравится смотрeть

    • @ТрианонС
      @ТрианонС 2 года назад +1

      Круто!!!

    • @veter_ok
      @veter_ok 2 года назад +15

      я только сейчас понял, как работает дифференциал. не то чтобы я тупой, просто раньше не задумывался об этом)))

  • @airplane-man0659
    @airplane-man0659 7 лет назад +111

    this taught me right away unlike those 3D animation videos today

  • @elusiveDEVIANT
    @elusiveDEVIANT Год назад +3

    There's something about these old breakdown educational videos that mesmerizes you.

  • @Douglas_Hamilton
    @Douglas_Hamilton 5 лет назад +61

    Finally I learned how differential steering works. Thank you 1937!

  • @L0615T1C
    @L0615T1C 4 года назад +541

    if only the modern School system was this easy and useful.

    • @user-gh5jc9tx5r
      @user-gh5jc9tx5r 4 года назад +15

      All it is now is copy this and that into your notebook and take this quiz

    • @sierraapples8099
      @sierraapples8099 4 года назад +5

      Yeah can we just restart back humanity

    • @lesterhartness4077
      @lesterhartness4077 4 года назад +5

      Not a hint of socialist theory in this video. Therefore, it's immensely better than today's schools.

    • @Leonardo-G
      @Leonardo-G 4 года назад +12

      @@lesterhartness4077 where in school do they teach you “socialist theory?”

    • @lesterhartness4077
      @lesterhartness4077 4 года назад +2

      @@Leonardo-G For those of us paying attention, it's slipped in there throughout the time a public school student is in school. Only a leftist would deny that the school system has been taken over by leftists, from kindergarten to graduate school. Question,...why don't leftists admit that they're leftists?

  • @lQuadXl
    @lQuadXl 6 лет назад +1268

    *My dog keeps losing control running on wet grass, will add more spokes*

    • @nicklaus___1501
      @nicklaus___1501 6 лет назад +2

      Lol

    • @Sumanitu
      @Sumanitu 5 лет назад +4

      Not more spokes! Get him studded paws

    • @rogerwhite9484
      @rogerwhite9484 5 лет назад +18

      upgrade your dog to beveled gears & an electronic ignition . VVhile you're @ it maybe put a turbo into him

    • @jakegargiulo5101
      @jakegargiulo5101 5 лет назад +1

      Quad X HAHAHA

    • @druidofthefang
      @druidofthefang 5 лет назад

      you can't use this on dogs

  • @Warpedsmac
    @Warpedsmac Год назад +4

    It's a difficult explanation to give someone without a mechanical clue... this great film solves the problem. I love "More Spokes"!

  • @tylhunt
    @tylhunt 11 лет назад +58

    This is the best description of how a differential works I've ever seen.

  • @SirGoP
    @SirGoP Год назад +55

    For some reason, these old videos are often the absolute best at explaining these concepts. It's the same with science. If I need to fill in some hole in my understanding of high school physics, there's usually one of these old videos explaining the concept much better than anyone else. Like, what happened to education between then and now?!

    • @GaijinDT
      @GaijinDT Год назад +12

      Now educational videos try to look entertaining and engaging rather than getting straight to the point

    • @joshuareeves6437
      @joshuareeves6437 7 месяцев назад

      Now, they actually don't want you getting smart. A dumb society is much easier to manipulate. Especially now we have smartphones.

  • @TheGreatSovietUnion2
    @TheGreatSovietUnion2 9 лет назад +1672

    Holy crap! This is quality educational content! I learned more here in 9 mins the in 1 semester of shop class! :P

    • @joeracer302
      @joeracer302 9 лет назад +36

      Rejean Rivard That's because conditionally most brains function better when absorbing material in 10-20 min sessions than 60-90 min class periods. After the first 20-30min its normal for a brain to lose focus, so typically if you have a 60-90 min class period the brain absorbs information most efficiently at the beginning and end of class. The stuff in the middle kind of just gets forgotten, so it's not bad to study for 20-30min, take a 10 min break, and then start studying again.

    • @TheGreatSovietUnion2
      @TheGreatSovietUnion2 9 лет назад +3

      Ive heard 45 from a 40's PSA.....but kids these days....20 sounds like me hahaha thanks for the info

    • @TheGreatSovietUnion2
      @TheGreatSovietUnion2 9 лет назад +1

      YES! Yes! I wish they went back to the content they had when I was a kid, not some of the crap they have now. I want Frontiers of Construction and the like, AND THIS!

    • @joeracer302
      @joeracer302 9 лет назад +11

      Discovery is too busy making reality TV to make educational material that takes time, effort, and resources.
      Easier to follow some talking head around and film nonsense, then hire a bunch of interns to blotch it all together, dub over some shitty b-grade dramatic music with shit sound effects, and then profit.

    • @MAmari-np9yn
      @MAmari-np9yn 8 лет назад

      +Rejean Rivard lol me too

  • @motorhomeman1949
    @motorhomeman1949 Год назад +3

    Wow, a video from 1937 was better at explaining this than literally anything else I've seen! Simply fantastic!