Aluminium - The Material That Changed The World

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  • Опубликовано: 23 авг 2016
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Комментарии • 992

  • @macomputersuck
    @macomputersuck 7 лет назад +1121

    5:46 "I don't believe in getting something for nothing"
    Because that would violate the laws of thermodynamics and conservation of mass.

    • @Flygandemuffins
      @Flygandemuffins 7 лет назад +22

      And what does that have to do with his comment?

    • @kirkjunker
      @kirkjunker 7 лет назад +9

      Sure did :)

    • @HollywoodF1
      @HollywoodF1 7 лет назад +2

      You're the one who didn't get the joke.

    • @HollywoodF1
      @HollywoodF1 7 лет назад +13

      BestServedCold was making a joke about the line at 5:46 where the host is talking about giving credit for content to other providers. But in science circles, various laws of conservation are based on the premise that you don't get something for nothing. And as with most joke explanations, none of this is funny anymore.

    • @pudgeboyardee32
      @pudgeboyardee32 7 лет назад +7

      BestServedCold it makes me think of the robot from interstellar. "how are we going to escape this black hole?" "the same way humans have always traveled: by leaving something behind."

  • @MultiRecordMusicInc
    @MultiRecordMusicInc 7 лет назад +175

    Could you please do more materials science / metallurgy videos like this? This video was done extremely well!

    • @RealEngineering
      @RealEngineering  7 лет назад +48

      Yeap have a lot planned. Steel is one. Nitinol is the one I am most excited for!

  • @TheJaredtheJaredlong
    @TheJaredtheJaredlong 7 лет назад +226

    Fun Fact: the top of the Washington Monument is capped with aluminum because it was so valuable at the time.

    • @archbishoparcos
      @archbishoparcos 6 лет назад +5

      TheJaredtheJaredlong I thought it was copper tip

    • @Anthony-op5ju
      @Anthony-op5ju 3 года назад +9

      Aluminium*

    • @mopskrops6531
      @mopskrops6531 3 года назад +7

      Aluminium ;)

    • @Tuning3434
      @Tuning3434 3 года назад

      @@mopskrops6531 Aluminium: cause the dr. said so: ruclips.net/video/4AhZ8503WPs/видео.html

    • @VunderGuy
      @VunderGuy 2 года назад +1

      @@Tuning3434
      Aluminum because limeys with weird accents haven't dictated my variant of English since 1776. And while we're at it, it's defense not defence, cookies not biscuits, cilantro not coriander, eggplants not aubergines, parking lots not carparks, and able seaman is not and never had been a rank in the American navy and sounds really dirty.

  • @ZekeValentin
    @ZekeValentin 7 лет назад +50

    As a student in material engineering, I'm glad to finally see some nice content about this field popping up on youtube ;)

    • @ing.joelmanzino6439
      @ing.joelmanzino6439 2 года назад

      Im graduated 3y ago, how it is going?

    • @RyhnoMight
      @RyhnoMight Месяц назад

      @@ing.joelmanzino6439 the calculus is and phys is the biggest struggle for me. but its going...

  • @ShobhitVashistha
    @ShobhitVashistha 7 лет назад +408

    I have a bachelors and a masters degree in civil engineering and I never knew this stuff. Awesome stuff, glad I subscribed :)

    • @RealEngineering
      @RealEngineering  7 лет назад +130

      Yeah I was speaking to my civil engineering friends a few days ago and they said the same thing. Yer all about that steel and concrete.

    • @DazeNrue
      @DazeNrue 7 лет назад +5

      you never knew*

    • @ShobhitVashistha
      @ShobhitVashistha 7 лет назад +23

      thanks DazeNure, corrected it, was a little drunk when I posted the comment :P

    • @GeekyStuffVerified
      @GeekyStuffVerified 7 лет назад +10

      let's be real education sucks on this planet!

    • @pedzsan
      @pedzsan 7 лет назад +37

      I think you misunderstand the purpose of higher education. It teaches us how to learn, how to evaluate, ask questions, experiment. What topic stays static? Very few. So you can't learn what you need for a lifetime within a small length of time. Only how to learn.

  • @tyler3201
    @tyler3201 4 года назад +271

    Just imagine being that guy that had all his money in aluminum and be alive that day the price dropped. lol

    • @arnoldlee4625
      @arnoldlee4625 3 года назад +8

      Thats what i was thinking lol, poor investment XD

    • @francisco9999
      @francisco9999 3 года назад +15

      Like the ones that today invest in bitcoins and similar stuff

    • @MrLeCapitan
      @MrLeCapitan 3 года назад +18

      The price drop happened VERY slowly over 50 years.

    • @tyler3201
      @tyler3201 3 года назад +5

      @@MrLeCapitan way to ruin the joke.

    • @Johannes00
      @Johannes00 3 года назад +2

      Fun fact, last year aluminium was sold for $1500~ per ton, lowest point in over 3 years.
      Today, it's sold for $2488~ and still increasing.
      HUUUGE profits.

  • @jameswyatt1304
    @jameswyatt1304 5 лет назад +9

    One of the most approachable, rapid descriptions of how copper alloying of aluminum works and what it allows. Y'all have a great series of videos, so I'm crawling them as I get some time. The dozen or two I've seen so far are well edited, quick-paced, clear, and use a balanced mixture of graphs, pictures, and such to convey things clearly.

  • @bankpain
    @bankpain 7 лет назад +9

    watching this as an aerospace engineering student was super satisfying; glad to know there's more people out there interested in our craft :)

  • @MatHelm
    @MatHelm 4 года назад +61

    You left out the 5 lb cap on the Washington monument being aluminum, because at the time it was more precious than gold.

  • @gruffyddgozali
    @gruffyddgozali 7 лет назад +434

    This guys voice is so nice to listen to

    • @Falcrist
      @Falcrist 7 лет назад +33

      Agreed. It's nice to hear a fairly strong Irish accent that's actually easy for non-irish to understand.

    • @adamkilam
      @adamkilam 7 лет назад +1

      +Falcrist irish? i thought it was german

    • @Falcrist
      @Falcrist 7 лет назад +15

      Adam Malik DEFINITELY Irish. There's no mistaking that lilt.

    • @adamkilam
      @adamkilam 7 лет назад +2

      +Falcrist is it? usually irish is inaudible to me

    • @Falcrist
      @Falcrist 7 лет назад +5

      Adam Malik Please refer to my first comment! :D

  • @christopherbrooke2142
    @christopherbrooke2142 7 лет назад +236

    BTW, Junkers is pronounced yoon-kers

    • @RonDicken1971
      @RonDicken1971 7 лет назад +61

      Ja! Das ist because es ist German!

    • @SouthQuab
      @SouthQuab 7 лет назад +9

      Ja! Ach Ja!

    • @theashennamedjerry3203
      @theashennamedjerry3203 6 лет назад +7

      Es ist Deutch

    • @scarybird977
      @scarybird977 6 лет назад +6

      Also, it’s pronounced “a-LOO-min-um”

    • @kevinvanderpoole293
      @kevinvanderpoole293 6 лет назад +1

      lol... ya... same as that idiot that think he's god's gift to the EU... well... actually the EU guy is related to the airplane guy.

  • @Ezis9
    @Ezis9 7 лет назад +48

    Very nice video! I just spent the last year in engineering college learning much of this and you simplified and summarized it beautifully. I think it even helped strengthen my understanding. Thanks a tonne!

    • @RealEngineering
      @RealEngineering  7 лет назад +20

      Yeah I always found metallurgy a bit over complicated in college, we don't need to think in 3D or understand the physics to the atomic scale. Just knowing the basic mechanism and understanding the phase diagrams is the most important part.

    • @Peglay
      @Peglay 7 лет назад +3

      I agree, even though i find metallurgy fascinating i hated studying it, mostly because our professor expected us to memorize everything including the graphs.
      I can still draw the Fe3C diagram just from memory.

  • @TheMasonX23
    @TheMasonX23 7 лет назад +7

    Another amazing video! I'll definitely be supporting you on Patreon from now on. And I was already a huge fan of the vlogbrothers and all the awesomeness Hank and John inspire/support, but to find out that they're sponsoring a small, yet very informative channel like yours is just one more reason to love them.

  • @infamousjovian
    @infamousjovian 7 лет назад +4

    Aside from the excellent content in your videos, you have a very impressive and humble style of presentation. Like you, I've been following many RUclipsrs for years. There's a lot of great content out there, but for science-oriented channels like this, I really appreciate the simplistic approach you take to presenting such sophisticated content. Nothing flashy, nothing over-the-top. You have a way of making the content speak for itself. Glad to see your channel is still growing and I wish you continued success.

  • @antonkarlsson5572
    @antonkarlsson5572 7 лет назад +2

    A small note at ~3:35, I'm pretty sure that the entire plane will not move at the same time like you show. Breaking all those bonds would require a lot of energy. The copper in duraluminium is more used as a barrier for the progression of dislocations which are always present in material and are the source of plastic deformation.

  • @monkeseeaction21987
    @monkeseeaction21987 4 года назад +69

    Titanium and carbon fiber composites: allow us to introduce ourselves.

    • @jkerman5113
      @jkerman5113 4 года назад +11

      Blackbird has entered the chat

    • @Skip.8221
      @Skip.8221 4 года назад +2

      @@jkerman5113 Tom?

    • @mi4johns
      @mi4johns 4 года назад +14

      *see's price tag of titanium & carbon fiber*
      Aluminum it is..

    • @sebastiandomingos335
      @sebastiandomingos335 4 года назад +2

      @@Skip.8221 no he is talking about the SR-71 Blackbird the fastest plane in the world it needs Titanium because of the high heat created at high speeds and Titanium can resist high tem the best at the time it was designed.

    • @gripen6512
      @gripen6512 3 года назад +1

      @@mi4johns loll😂

  • @RealEngineering
    @RealEngineering  7 лет назад +229

    Hey everyone, hoped you like the video. If you want to ask me anything or just say hi, hit me up on twitter. I will be a lot more responsive there. My username is Fiosracht (which is the Irish word for curiousity)

    • @foersterjunior
      @foersterjunior 7 лет назад +2

      So here's a funfact:
      the first engine propelled flight was actually by a German engineer called Gustav Weißkopf. That just got confirmed a few years ago, as historians found the documentation of a witness, with wich they could confirm the date, which was only days before the Wright Brothers.

    • @crosstimbers2
      @crosstimbers2 7 лет назад +1

      NOT true - You cannot provide one bit of evidence.
      When you have the evidence come back but we will not hold our breath.
      Seond your claim does not indicate that it was a manned flight.
      The Wright Brother's flight was manned and it was photographed.
      from German Wiki
      In the ten years after this alleged flights over two or over seven miles
      there is Gustav Weisskopf never again managed to reproduce these alleged
      performance, although he has built numerous aircraft and even made
      numerous unsuccessful attempts to start.
      jajajajajajajajaja you are a fool

    • @foersterjunior
      @foersterjunior 7 лет назад +1

      +crosstimbers2
      Historian John Brown researched the history around the Wright Brothers and Weißkopf for a long time.
      In the Townlibrary of Pitsburgh he found Newspaperarticles from 1901, which describe detailed Weißkopfs first succesfull flight on board of his Plane 'Nr. 21' in Connecticut onAugust 14th 1901. There are articles by 'Bridgeport Sunday Herald' and several other Newspapers (274 Newspaperarticles in total), which are enough proove to state his manned flight as a fact.
      I would strongly recomend the book 'Gustav Weißkopf und die Brüder Wright: Wer flog zuerst?' (ISBN: 1533605688) if you speek German good enough.
      Sources:
      www.airliners.de/nach-archivfunden-kaum-zweifel-flugpionier-weisskopf/34350
      m.welt.de/geschichte/article135019802/Einem-Deutschen-gelang-doch-der-erste-Motorflug.html
      www.foxnews.com/science/2013/03/13/first-in-flight-wright-brothers-flew-2-years-after-gustav-whitehead.html
      PS: he was an American citican at that point, he had imigrated to the US, so you can calm your patriotism, America still was first, dont worry. There is no reason to call me 'a fool' or rage about this topic, we are all smart adults (I hope).

    • @MrJeanlks
      @MrJeanlks 7 лет назад +2

      +crosstimbers2 the first flight manned confirmed and proved was by Santos Dumont, Wright Brothers did use a launching rail, and Dumont won the Aero Club competition in France 1906. You can invent anything first than anybody but if you don't come to prove your achievements you are a fool.

    • @dyingearth
      @dyingearth 7 лет назад +2

      Junker is pronounced like Yunker rather than how you pronounced it.

  • @Kmsfnd
    @Kmsfnd 7 лет назад +15

    love the blue print background

  • @gabrielmonteiro4372
    @gabrielmonteiro4372 7 лет назад +2

    I started high school this year already thinking about engineering as my future job, and your videos just confirms how beautiful this subject is. Continue with this great job, I simply adore it.

  • @jralvarezphd4898
    @jralvarezphd4898 7 лет назад +2

    Boy! You guys make complicated stuff clear! Even for me! I love the pace and graphics of your videos! Thank you!

  • @stale7724
    @stale7724 7 лет назад +26

    This is just an awesome channel. Keep up the good work.

  • @RyanKung
    @RyanKung 7 лет назад +30

    These videos are so good!! Amazing job!

    • @RealEngineering
      @RealEngineering  7 лет назад +10

      Thanks! Do you have any more videos in the works? I really enjoyed your Nerf gun one

    • @RyanKung
      @RyanKung 7 лет назад +3

      Thanks! Yup! We've been a super busy with our day jobs but we'll have something out within the next week :)

  • @Lovablejames
    @Lovablejames 5 лет назад +1

    Charles Edward Taylor was an American inventor, mechanic and machinist. He built the first aircraft engine used by the Wright brothers in the Wright Flyer. As an aviation maintenance student i feel compelled to give credit to Charles for actually making the engine and not the wright brothers

  • @itzille
    @itzille 6 лет назад +1

    I just discovered your channel. I am currently studying civil engineering and find your videos really interesting. I have watched a lot of them in the last few days. All the animations are very well made. The way you explain things in makes it very easy to understand, even some of the more complex topics.
    This has definitely become one of my favorite channels. Great job! :)

  • @macomputersuck
    @macomputersuck 7 лет назад +143

    3:19 Companion Cube?

    • @GTLugo
      @GTLugo 7 лет назад

      Same thing I was thinking.

    • @GTLugo
      @GTLugo 7 лет назад +1

      Look it up. It's from the game "Portal"

    • @msittig
      @msittig 7 лет назад +2

      lmgtfy.com/?q=companion+cube

    • @TGVassvik
      @TGVassvik 7 лет назад

      An object in Portal I believe

    • @reinux
      @reinux 7 лет назад +11

      Not an object. A dear friend.

  • @hellorobots
    @hellorobots 7 лет назад +207

    Just contributed subtitles for Russian, hoping to see them live any time soon... Cheers!

    • @RealEngineering
      @RealEngineering  7 лет назад +39

      hellorobots thank you! I'll have a look, haven't got a notification for it yet for some reason

    • @hellorobots
      @hellorobots 7 лет назад +4

      OK, thanks a lot!

    • @legendofthefall7082
      @legendofthefall7082 7 лет назад +47

      hellorobots I don't even speak Russian but thank you for doing that.

    • @hellorobots
      @hellorobots 7 лет назад +24

      TheCompulsiveWinner thank you for saying this

    • @sharank
      @sharank 6 лет назад +8

      Same here. Thanks for contributing. We need more people like you!

  • @woomba7
    @woomba7 7 лет назад +2

    as a fan of the vlogbrothers and their numerous channels, im both happy, and not surprised to see that they sponsored your content. Keep up the fantastic work and I'll continue to watch and support everything you create

  • @96oscarC
    @96oscarC 7 лет назад

    I've say 20 subscriptions, but nobody seems to get the admiration by their subscribers as much as you do, keep it going your videos are so interesting! :)

  • @tryingnottobe2259
    @tryingnottobe2259 7 лет назад +5

    You meant to say cannot be "overstated". If it "cannot be understated" it would mean it was insignificant.
    Very good video. Keep up the good work, friend.

  • @Fwacer
    @Fwacer 6 лет назад +4

    This is cool! I've been learning about stress-strain of materials, age hardening, and atomic structures. More interesting than the textbook for sure!

  • @brycelowe6658
    @brycelowe6658 6 лет назад +1

    These are very informative and helpful. Thanks for putting in the time to make quality videos. A lot of people don't understand the effort it takes to make good videos like you do.

  • @Khomann
    @Khomann 7 лет назад +2

    Your videos are fun to watch, and easy to learn from. Never thought I'd say that about an engineering video, but you proved me wrong. Keep up the excellent work!

  • @abbas9257
    @abbas9257 7 лет назад +4

    For a material scientist student like me, this review was absolutly amazing.

  • @drthmik
    @drthmik 7 лет назад +3

    the tip of the Washington Monument in Washington DC is a pyramid of Aluminum, which at the time was worth more than gold

  • @callumhodge3122
    @callumhodge3122 7 лет назад +2

    Thanks so much for the video Brian, I'm studying the very same principles you mentioned at the moment and it's very inspiring to see how such principles can change the world! Thanks so much keep it up!

  • @zakov3689
    @zakov3689 7 лет назад +2

    I love your channel and I really like your personality. I am learning so many different things and the visualizations are incredible! Go on with your wonderful job!!

  • @CaptainMcAwesomepan
    @CaptainMcAwesomepan 7 лет назад +30

    I'm glad that Hank and co are behind you, he's good people.

    • @gephc4
      @gephc4 7 лет назад +11

      Who the eff is Hank?

    • @ericahoang9030
      @ericahoang9030 7 лет назад +6

      +Geph C Hank Green, from the vlogbrothers/scishow/crash course

    • @CaptainMcAwesomepan
      @CaptainMcAwesomepan 7 лет назад +1

      Geph C As Erica said Hank and his brother John are Vlogbrothers (who apparently sponsored this video), though I know him better from Scishow. If you get a kick out of Real Engineering, there's a fair chance you'll also like a lot of the stuff Scishow does.

    • @samuelfeder9764
      @samuelfeder9764 7 лет назад +16

      "Who the eff is Hank" is an inside joke from the community arround the vlogbrothers xD
      And given that +Geph C's Profile pic is a "Hanklerfish" I'm certain that he/she just wanted reference that joke ^^

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja 7 лет назад +10

      Hank is a species of deciduous tree, native and abundant throughout northern Europe and northern Asia, growing farther north than any other broadleaf tree. Young Hank trees have smooth, coppery brown bark, while older trees have white, papery bark, of which the outer layers can be stripped off without killing it.

  • @MaartenvanRossemLezingen
    @MaartenvanRossemLezingen 7 лет назад +94

    I wish my physics class focused more on technology instead of endless calculations about abstract concepts. I'm so glad I graduated from high school.

    • @samhbmx2012
      @samhbmx2012 7 лет назад +11

      I don't know about you, but I learnt about materials in chemistry.
      We did polymers (High density, low density, thermosetting and thermosoftening)
      Nano particles and properties of metals.

    • @preettygoood7774
      @preettygoood7774 6 лет назад +19

      What you're looking for is engineering, which is based in physics.

    • @brentmel
      @brentmel 6 лет назад +7

      Carlos Saraiva - Wrong. Technology can exist without a theory explaining it. If it works, it works. No theory necessary. Often...the physical explaination follows the technology. There are endless examples, but I'm sure you can think of several off the top of your head. There is one in this video.

    • @cokeforever
      @cokeforever 6 лет назад +4

      brentmel any and all sciences work in the same frame: Theory -> Practice -> Theory. We first make a new assumption based on knowledge available, then test this new idea in so called 'physical world' and then refine our theory...

    • @brentmel
      @brentmel 6 лет назад +2

      S C - I think you are confusing technology with science

  • @N4ppul4
    @N4ppul4 6 лет назад +1

    This video was so much more interesting than what I expected that it would be. Amazing work!

  • @dhairyashilgavali8298
    @dhairyashilgavali8298 5 лет назад +1

    Great video.
    I am an Automobile Engineering graduate myself. But many of concepts I didn't understand properly enough back then, were made easier to digest due to some of your videos. For example. Most of planes and aerodynamics videos. That's very great effort from your side. Keep up the good work.👌😇👍👍

  • @ericgustafssontapper3138
    @ericgustafssontapper3138 7 лет назад +3

    I really like these videos!

  • @judgingmorty7371
    @judgingmorty7371 4 года назад +16

    Real Engineering: Great content and Real knowledge.
    Comment Section: I love the bLuE BaCkGrOuNd.

  • @inhisdefense
    @inhisdefense 7 лет назад +1

    You've got a winning formula here. I could watch your channel all day. Very well put together. You deserve 10 times the subscribers!

  • @MATTHEW65661
    @MATTHEW65661 7 лет назад +2

    This was an amazing video to watch as I just started Metallurgy this semester at MST. Keep up the good content.

  • @SirWrender
    @SirWrender 7 лет назад +144

    Duralumin!! Has anyone here read Mistborn?

    • @Dartmorin
      @Dartmorin 7 лет назад +11

      yes, i was completly surprised as well.

    • @BonDieu617
      @BonDieu617 7 лет назад +8

      As a non-native speaker I didn't recognise it, but it's great to see fellow Sanderson fans here

    • @liuhongkun0
      @liuhongkun0 7 лет назад +6

      It's my favourite book series so far. Sanderson is a master at writing.

    • @ethanschaefer8327
      @ethanschaefer8327 6 лет назад +3

      yes literally loved those books so fuckin much

    • @ethanschaefer8327
      @ethanschaefer8327 6 лет назад +7

      you should read the way of kings its also a really good book

  • @derekdjay
    @derekdjay 7 лет назад +5

    If you call gold a precious metal, imagine a world where iron never existed

    • @junoguten
      @junoguten 7 лет назад +5

      We'd probably never even discover electricity and be able to use it to refine our aluminium.

    • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
      @lawrencedoliveiro9104 4 года назад +2

      It was called the “Bronze Age”.

    • @SomeRandomPiggo
      @SomeRandomPiggo Год назад

      @@lawrencedoliveiro9104 XDDD

  • @MuditGupta89
    @MuditGupta89 7 лет назад +1

    one of my new favorite channels

  • @TroyEagan
    @TroyEagan 7 лет назад +1

    I love your channel. It makes me really happy to know John and Hank believe in it too.

  • @shadeburst
    @shadeburst 7 лет назад +13

    Just one small problem, the material that changed the world is... plastic.

    • @skepticmoderate5790
      @skepticmoderate5790 6 лет назад +6

      They are both incredibly important, but aluminum is used for bigger things, like buildings, and aircraft, while plastic is more used for things that need to be light but not strong, such as small household items, or children's toys.

    • @luddity
      @luddity 6 лет назад

      Plastic is also used to make many boats and some houses and roadways.

    • @skepticmoderate5790
      @skepticmoderate5790 6 лет назад +1

      Julia Plastic has definitely made it's contribution, but there is no doubt that Aluminum has made a far greater impact on the world of larger goods than plastic.

    • @william_minecraft9916
      @william_minecraft9916 5 лет назад

      i know

    • @ryanbroguy
      @ryanbroguy 2 года назад

      @@skepticmoderate5790 Not entirely true.
      Plastic is often used in aircraft construction, especially on modern skin sheets. When someone says anything about carbon fiber or kevlar or composite on an aircraft, they usually mean a honeycomb structure with six sheets of fabric held together and protected by thick coatings of epoxy resin.

  • @StephenRayner
    @StephenRayner 7 лет назад +6

    more on materials please?

  • @Kman31ca
    @Kman31ca 6 лет назад +1

    Just found your channel and absolutely love it! Great stuff, keep up the good work.

  • @alansabu95
    @alansabu95 7 лет назад

    This was such an epic video. Just put the first year Materials in Mech Eng into context. So cool! Thanks so much!!

  • @saelbennoa6226
    @saelbennoa6226 7 лет назад +6

    Oh, vlogbrothers are supporting this? Cool :)

  • @MatthijsvanDuin
    @MatthijsvanDuin 6 лет назад +5

    0:50 You mean Napoleon III, which is not "the" Napoleon.

  • @safaesafae6041
    @safaesafae6041 6 лет назад

    Thank you so much for all of these amazing videos

  • @SECONDQUEST
    @SECONDQUEST 7 лет назад +1

    Good for you man. I enjoy seeing growth in sponsorships.

  • @chengwong3307
    @chengwong3307 7 лет назад +27

    Not "junkers". It's pronounced "yunkers". It's German.

    • @esreverniytilaer3510
      @esreverniytilaer3510 7 лет назад +7

      +Andy Wilderness Wouldn't it make sense to be pedantic given the nature of engineering? Therefore one should be precise in their pronunciation.

    • @james-ch
      @james-ch 6 лет назад +3

      Andy Wilderness no it's not, you don't need to be a rocket scientist to know how to pronounce juncker

    • @maxsolo2652
      @maxsolo2652 4 года назад

      So why don’t you write the name of the country correctly as “Deutschland”?
      And it’s “you’n’kers”.

    • @thecrazyeagle9674
      @thecrazyeagle9674 3 года назад

      @@james-ch I mean if you don't know where the name came from it's difficult to know how to pronounce it.

  • @epiendless1128
    @epiendless1128 6 лет назад +4

    Ironically, the British scientist (Humphry Davy) who named the stuff called it 'Aluminum'. Then _another_ British scientist (Thomas Young) took the liberty of renaming it 'Aluminium'.
    That caught on, and even more ironically, the _Americans_ called it 'Aluminium' while the British occasionally insisted on calling it 'Aluminum'.
    In 1828 American lexicographer Noah Webster reverted to 'Aluminum' in his dictionary, which caught on in the non-scientific portion of America, while scientists worldwide continue to use 'Aluminium'.

    • @richardmills5340
      @richardmills5340 4 года назад

      I learned this yesterday from Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything.
      Apparently the British establishment didn't like the fact that the name deviated from the popular 'ium' naming convention of the time (sodium, potassium, cadmium etc).
      So while British people like to claim Americans simplified the word (I'm British btw), I now know that it is us who are not using the correct original name!

  • @frangelicovasquez-solis737
    @frangelicovasquez-solis737 7 лет назад

    This is exactly what I was looking for; RUclips videos like this one that combine my engineering education with fun and simple real life examples. This is going to motivate me 👌🏼

  • @shintsu01
    @shintsu01 7 лет назад +1

    some great educational videos you are making there! not only intresting history but also nice technoligy details i have not known before! please keep it up :)

  • @ApprenticeDoge
    @ApprenticeDoge 7 лет назад +6

    YES, YOU SPELT ALUMINIUM CORRECT

  • @stevencanfield5525
    @stevencanfield5525 7 лет назад +5

    great video but i think junkers is pronounced yunkers

  • @ilovecodemonkeys
    @ilovecodemonkeys 7 лет назад +1

    Awesome video. This makes engineering and physics much less scary

  • @davidcrunkmd
    @davidcrunkmd 7 лет назад +1

    love your videos, very nicely put together, entertaining and highly entertaning. keep up the good work!

  • @danopo
    @danopo 5 лет назад +3

    Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Sodium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Potassium, Calcium, Scandium, Titanium, Vanadium, Chromium, Gallium, Germanium, Selenium, etc.
    For some reason the Americans adopted the spelling and pronunciation "Aluminum".

  • @spacepheonix
    @spacepheonix 7 лет назад +16

    Hey +Real Engineering What are your thoughts on Elon Musk and his vision to shape the future in a better way? Also, what is your name if I may ask?

    • @RealEngineering
      @RealEngineering  7 лет назад +27

      Elon is a huge inspiration to me. He is going to be remembered for a very long time. My name is Brian :)

    • @spacepheonix
      @spacepheonix 7 лет назад +3

      Real Engineering Nice to meet you Brian! I completely agree, what he does is unprecedented and will be remembered as the man who started a new era! So to speak...

    • @jericho8198
      @jericho8198 7 лет назад +2

      +Real Engineering I do love space X and there rockets but how they plan on what those people

    • @jericho8198
      @jericho8198 7 лет назад

      Are going to live in I don't like the best way to make there home is to use rovers to make the place and landing platform by sending material and using what mars has!

  • @cryangallegos
    @cryangallegos 4 года назад +1

    I'm a metal fabricator and I was explaining the basic differences between steel and aluminum hardening techniques just today to a sheet metal worker friend as we discussed a new heat treating oven that just arrived 🙃

  • @djdood
    @djdood 7 лет назад +1

    Best description of age-hardening I have ever seen. Great video!

  • @irun_mon
    @irun_mon 7 лет назад +24

    when carbon nano tube will replace most of metal?

    • @ModernGameArmy
      @ModernGameArmy 7 лет назад +1

      The main problem is that it is hard to mass produce it

    • @Poctyk
      @Poctyk 7 лет назад +36

      When plate from carbon nanotube won't be more expensive than gold

    • @jesusramirezromo2037
      @jesusramirezromo2037 7 лет назад +2

      When its actually viable....

    • @RealFoxie
      @RealFoxie 7 лет назад +5

      One small carbon nano tube is strong, but the problem lies in using it in a macroscopic scale. You can find interesting articles about carbon nano tubes not being the future material as they used to think :)
      Still a really interesting invention to use together with other materials though, but not in itself.

    • @irun_mon
      @irun_mon 7 лет назад +2

      In conclusion, not in the near feature :(

  • @EverythingThereIs
    @EverythingThereIs 7 лет назад +110

    Wow! I've heard of aluminum, but this "aluminium" sounds amazing!

    • @elvistejeda8661
      @elvistejeda8661 7 лет назад +27

      Both words are right.

    • @velbythorngage
      @velbythorngage 7 лет назад +82

      only americans pronounce it "aluminum", the rest of the world says "aluminium" and the narrator is Irish

    • @EverythingThereIs
      @EverythingThereIs 7 лет назад +19

      Nicolas Dolgin Wow, thanks! If you don't mind, and have a few free moments...I mean, if it isn't too much trouble, could you answer a question for me?
      How do Irish people pronounce "irony"?

    • @johnpetruna8888
      @johnpetruna8888 7 лет назад +6

      'only americans pronounce it "aluminum", the rest of the world says "aluminium"'
      That should be easy to prove.

    • @johnpetruna8888
      @johnpetruna8888 7 лет назад +4

      Did the narrator really pronounce "Junkers" as 'junkers' ???
      Seriously?

  • @OldFliersGroup
    @OldFliersGroup 7 лет назад +1

    Well researched and produced video. Enjoyed it and learnt something at the same time!

  • @kodiak4594
    @kodiak4594 7 лет назад +2

    This info wasn't even found in my university Material Science class. Thank you for sharing with us common folk!

  • @louth2882
    @louth2882 7 лет назад +114

    Thank you for pronouncing aluminium correctly as some say aluminum

    • @elryanoo
      @elryanoo 7 лет назад +56

      Both terms are correct.

    • @aloysiusdevadanderabercrombie8
      @aloysiusdevadanderabercrombie8 7 лет назад +17

      Technically, they're both correct.

    • @hamburg4690
      @hamburg4690 7 лет назад +17

      +Stu Beet lol u got triggered really easily

    • @crosstimbers2
      @crosstimbers2 7 лет назад +18

      Aluminum is the correct accepted pronunciation in the US. Please refer to the Aluminum Standards Handbook if you cannot bring yourself to accept that as fact. There are 320 million Americans that pronounce aluminum that way.
      You can check out the Aluminum Association here.
      www.aluminum.org/about-association

    • @RosdiKasim
      @RosdiKasim 7 лет назад +10

      Nah... the correct way is allah-mi-ni-um...

  • @zhack3d
    @zhack3d 5 лет назад +5

    I have my material and hardware Exam this week!
    I think I should have uninstalled PUBG atleast 2 months before!
    I dont want want to repeat nor I want bad grades😢 but its too late!

  • @panstonoga4186
    @panstonoga4186 7 лет назад +1

    Great work! Your videos are awesome :) I watched all of them. Keep making them please

  • @verdatum
    @verdatum 7 лет назад +2

    You got sponsored by Hank and John?!?!? Congratulations man!! You are on your WAY.
    Great vid. And I'd love something similar on composites. They are one of my very favorite topics. I've been working with them for about 10 years now, and I'm always looking for new projects that warrant them.

  • @aaronslater470
    @aaronslater470 6 лет назад +3

    Aluminium might miss it's moment. Right now Aluminium is getting cheap enough to replace steel. However, with 3D printer Meta-Materials being able to create designer atomic structures we might not even use metal anymore, but synthetic carbon based materials such as nano tubes and improved forms of graphene.

    • @skepticmoderate5790
      @skepticmoderate5790 6 лет назад

      What? Meta-materials are just used to selectively block certain portions of the electromagnetic spectrum or sound waves. And they are not actually a new material. They are just nano-scale structures built out of other materials. They could easily be made of aluminum itself. They also offer no improvement in strength-to-weight ratio. Why would they replace aluminum?

  • @TheDeLeG3nD
    @TheDeLeG3nD 6 лет назад +5

    Thanks for calling it Aluminium and not Aluminum

  • @DRailer12
    @DRailer12 7 лет назад +1

    really enjoyed this, reminded me of some of my favorite university classes

  • @lachlantelfer
    @lachlantelfer 7 лет назад

    another great video, keep them coming. Great old stock footage.
    always get excited when i see the now iconic blueprint and white text on my homepage.

  • @borgholable
    @borgholable 7 лет назад +12

    finally , someone that says aluminium right :')

    • @xavierstanton8146
      @xavierstanton8146 6 лет назад

      Lol,I'm American,and I say aluminium.

    • @Convergant
      @Convergant 6 лет назад +2

      w wyborn i wonder if Americans use uranium of uranum for their power plants... hmmm

    • @Convergant
      @Convergant 6 лет назад

      Seán O'Nilbud ? You do realise that's a joke...?

    • @jeffreyslater6556
      @jeffreyslater6556 6 лет назад

      Convergant do you cal if goldium? Hydrogenium? Carbonium? Argonium? Oxygenium? Why haven’t these the now accepted ways of saying them?

    • @danopo
      @danopo 5 лет назад

      @@jeffreyslater6556: Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Sodium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Potassium, Calcium, Scandium, Titanium, Vanadium, Chromium, Gallium, Germanium, Selenium, etc.
      For some reason the Americans adopted the spelling and pronunciation "Aluminum".

  • @mglenadel
    @mglenadel 7 лет назад +4

    Mithril.

  • @NemesisHDgaming
    @NemesisHDgaming 7 лет назад +1

    Wow your videos are so interesting!!
    please keep on pushing this high quality content out! i love it!
    btw your voice is very nice and its easy to understand you even for ones who dont speak english as their main language like me!

  • @biskutnation
    @biskutnation 7 лет назад +1

    This is a good case of serendipity

  • @rubennouta2406
    @rubennouta2406 7 лет назад +5

    Aluminum

    • @danopo
      @danopo 5 лет назад +2

      Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Sodium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Potassium, Calcium, Scandium, Titanium, Vanadium, Chromium, Gallium, Germanium, Selenium, etc.
      For some reason the Americans adopted the spelling and pronunciation "Aluminum".

    • @ashergs1237
      @ashergs1237 2 месяца назад

      @@danopoaluminum was the original word for it. Making it sound like everything else is why other people changed it to aluminium.

  • @victorbian3594
    @victorbian3594 7 лет назад +13

    *Aluminum
    FREEDOM
    BEITCH

    • @PorWik
      @PorWik 6 лет назад

      Victor Bian i see lots of freedom being distributed in texas lately

    • @HeritageRailUK
      @HeritageRailUK 6 лет назад +5

      Victor Bian **Aluminium

    • @stevencompton1486
      @stevencompton1486 6 лет назад +1

      I'm glad I'm not the only one bothered by this.

    • @skepticmoderate5790
      @skepticmoderate5790 6 лет назад

      Foetus Deletus What are you referring to? Open carry?

    • @douglassfunnie9959
      @douglassfunnie9959 5 лет назад

      I think what he's trying to say is: Americans have more guns and it is generally a good idea to listen to someone who has a gun.

  • @SharpnessSword
    @SharpnessSword 7 лет назад

    dude i love all your videos, i learn so much, you are a very good host

  • @robertgift
    @robertgift 7 лет назад

    Very interesting and informative! Thank you, RE.

  • @JM-us3fr
    @JM-us3fr 7 лет назад +1

    Awesome work man. Keep up the good work!

  • @cmiller1515
    @cmiller1515 7 лет назад

    This video was really detailed and simple. Great video!

  • @connorlimburg4188
    @connorlimburg4188 7 лет назад

    As a materials engineer it is nice to refer people to some of your videos so they understand what I do/learned lol

  • @BlaiseMibeck
    @BlaiseMibeck 7 лет назад +1

    Excellent work! Your videos are great!

  • @robert4art2
    @robert4art2 Год назад

    Brilliantly concise history of aluminum. My dear departed mentor teacher invested in aluminum. She was such an amazing person who was so smart. After listening to and learning from your video, I'm smiling and thinking "of course she invested in aluminum". Also, I love the narrator's voice. Peace

  • @Thefloppy94
    @Thefloppy94 7 лет назад +1

    Love your videos bro, so well explained, and I'm currently studying engineering.

  • @Al_Ares
    @Al_Ares 2 года назад +1

    Ahh yes. My Lord has made a video of my favorite metal. Thanks mate!

  • @TheGuyMan5021
    @TheGuyMan5021 7 лет назад +2

    Great channel man, love watching your content.

  • @path-etic
    @path-etic 7 лет назад +1

    imma show my future kids videos like these so they grow up to become wizards.

  • @arforafro5523
    @arforafro5523 7 лет назад +1

    That first image of the copper and aluminum atom network was trippy, swear it was moving like one of those optical illusions

  • @edcofu
    @edcofu 7 лет назад

    Would be really nice to watch a video about polymers in this format, i love it!

  • @harivigneshm9794
    @harivigneshm9794 5 лет назад +1

    This channel is so underrated