So the scamble for these vitriol types, going back, was downright je'ne se que
@alish54172 ай бұрын
Indians produce alot of nitrates ,because their number was bigger ,thats why england waged war against them ,in the times of mhatma ghandi
@alish54172 ай бұрын
In the years 1600-1800 ,the world was in a peeing race
@jonathanwells2232 ай бұрын
Rameses: “Mansa Musa eat your heart out.”
@Jo_Axis_noncafe2 ай бұрын
Geotechnical Engineer from Ethiopia and great job from you
@jonathanwells2233 ай бұрын
19:42 thanks, I hate it!
@oldgiapetto3 ай бұрын
I lived in UP for twenty years and knew many copper miners. I knew several who worked underground as "cutters"....that is , they cut up chunks of pure copper which were too large to extract. It was not unusual to locate and chop up lumps the size of automobiles.....so, you might want to lighten up when you infer that the old boys were exaggerating.
@jeffreymcneal15073 ай бұрын
"Funnel of Gold," Peterson, 1976. A brilliant and readable history, reprinting many actual contemporary accounts of the Spanish Gold Trade in the 16th to 18th centuries. It can be found on Amazon, probably, for copper-coated zinc pennies on the inflationary paper dollar. As a page turner, I could not put it down for it makes the Wild West look like a children's petting zoo. Excellent video, enjoyed the wry humor, and a superb summation of three hundred years of history in ten minutes.
@jeffreymcneal15073 ай бұрын
Funnel of Gold, Mendel Peterson, 1975. This historical research book reads easily but makes the Wild West look like Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. It is a real page-turner, citing contemporary accounts from the 16th and 17th centuries. Probably available on Amazon for pennies (made of coated zinc). After I finished reading it, I turned to page one and started all over again. That good.
@PlugChuckers3 ай бұрын
presumed by who? the conquerors? white wash is unnecessary, besides, teh torture devices employed by those presumers(presumpters?) are the some of the most heinous abuses of humanity that has ever been written, even way worse than the made up bible stories, and they claim they were doing it for some made up sky guy god. Stuff like using african slaves because the natives died in a week the donkeys in 2 weeks but african slaves lasted 3 weeks in their mines....so they used african slaves, in the name of god and jesus and all thats unholy and still usurping the planet.
@PlugChuckers3 ай бұрын
but yea, HuMaN SaCriFiCes...say the people who employed breaking peoples bodies(yes all the bones) on a wheel because someone says they're the devil or whatever.
@PlugChuckers3 ай бұрын
or demaded the weight of Native peoples bodies in metals or they'd chop an arm off, because jesus
@Economist963 ай бұрын
Words have meaning: Iron DOES rust. A sword will snap, not shatter.
@terranhealer4 ай бұрын
Mercury is like water from the rock. I’m convinced Mercury poisoning caused people to talk with gods.
@AndrewLock-mh9qi4 ай бұрын
This whole series is sooo amazing. It reminds me of a high quality educational shows on PBS. Thank you for producing! Viewing events in this angle, the materialistic consumption of commodity scale minerals to feed industry, simplifies history and makes it appear to move cyclically. It makes me view recent events differently, like Putin's recent conquest of Eastern Ukrainian electricity production and Crimean oil fields.
@AlexanderSutulovAtelier4 ай бұрын
Sutulov
@eagarde4 ай бұрын
Native Americans did not practice Extractive metallurgy, they found copper in=situ
@micheleploeser77204 ай бұрын
Another great video I wish I was enrolled there
@micheleploeser77204 ай бұрын
Again the best videos I’ve seen on metallurgy and the history of the people involved with all of it excellent video
@micheleploeser77204 ай бұрын
This video is absolutely great discussing the details of the alloying of the metals I’ve never seen that anywhere before just on this video boy I subscribed that’s for sure and saved it
@Allyourbase19905 ай бұрын
Mining for good with our technology is difficult . Imagine ancients mining for the amount of gold they had . They had soooo much gold
@rudyguzman25035 ай бұрын
I wish my partner; Bryan King was still alive to see what the place looks like now. I worked there for the Laborers AGC Education and Training Fund as an Assistant Underground Mining Instructor back in 2000-2005.
@Scolecite5 ай бұрын
Silver was more precious to Egyptians
@tykehotep28655 ай бұрын
Thankyou really enjoyed that. I have to be honest I hadn't heard of Damascus till say a few year ago when purely by chance I came across the blade maker Sharup on you tube (love watching things being crafted but anway) so yeah looked up the cost of one and hmm yeah. Till 3 weeks ago I was in a gun shop and they had a selection of old damascus 3,5" outdoor knives for want of a better word so bought 2 for lets say dirt cheap took em home sharpened cleaned and dressed them And honestly I cannot stop gazing at the pattern once I start Sorry for the bad grammar and waffling On buy a nice Damascus you wont regret it lol
@Harpazoed5 ай бұрын
So many people that live in Michigan have never been in the UP. Some have never seen the bridge. The UP is so beautiful. I don’t know why they don’t go up there.
@jordancadena705 ай бұрын
As a Latino young adult I feel so proud looking at this
@johnfajer76915 ай бұрын
These are absolutely delightful videos, thank you so much!
@kiuk_kiks5 ай бұрын
Iron working was independently invented in subsaharan Africa 4-5 kya around central-west Africa. It didn’t arrive by way of Nubia or Meroe or Carthage which all have much later carbon dating than subsaharan Africa. Blacks discovered iron smelting due to the process of making pottery using iron rich clay deposits that yielded iron as a byproduct. The rest was history. Little known fact. Jamaican ironworking slaves also were pivotal in the production of steel & wrought iron in the Cort process that was an invention on the level of the steam engine by James Watt according to the British government.
@ChrisGlenski5 ай бұрын
How did the feudal Japanese realize the ore was valuable, was there knowledge spread from China or the west?
@Phlegethon6 ай бұрын
This is randomly exactly the question I had in mind thanks
@ericschmuecker3486 ай бұрын
Lilly Tomlin?
@CraigStevenBaker6 ай бұрын
<3
@michaelcharlesthearchangel6 ай бұрын
Interesting to think that Copper was in the pool of amino acid chains from which life first emerged.
@minerals.arizona6 ай бұрын
This was a great effort by Xenia and all the faculty involved. Go Cats!
@65mto7 ай бұрын
We should remember about carbon nanotubes and cementite nanowires in Damascus steel, they are important for it's amazing properties.
@GeologyDude9 ай бұрын
This is an awesome series. Highly recommend!
@CaritorSales9 ай бұрын
The Damascus steel is Orginally Orginated present day TELEGANA, Hyderabad Region south india, India.
@GeologyDude9 ай бұрын
Great series. FYI, Austria was the worldwide supplier of magnesium before the war, and then stopped shipments of this material to the USA and Allies when the war began. The USA had 55% of the world’s known iron ore, but initially could not increase iron production until alternative magnesium deposits were found. Magnesium block is used as smelter brick. Initially some deposits were found in Northern California, but later the largest deposits in the world were found north of Spokane in Washington State. Soon a large magnesium smelter was built there to allow construction of more iron smelters in the USA. Before WWI, the USA thought it had all the critical minerals it needed. After WWI, the USA realized it needed to create a catalog of what minerals it had, and its Allies, and its enemies. The iron deposits were like money in the bank that could be used in war. But USA didn’t realize that magnesium was so important. W/o magnesium, the iron could not be withdrawn for making iron at a faster rate.
@GeologyDude9 ай бұрын
Very interesting!
@GeologyDude9 ай бұрын
Great series! Awesome!
@GeologyDude9 ай бұрын
Awesome story and presentation!
@brianmarchant427610 ай бұрын
How many years for a degree? What's the cost ... total?
@FireRevontulet10 ай бұрын
my god,, this video is full of misinformation and badly researched history. And by the way, what they are passing as damascus steel images here are actually pattern welded steel examples
@DustKingArchives10 ай бұрын
The narrator skipped a kneeling. Annealing did take place in some cases they would like fires beneath areas that are dug out in the minds, and then they would start hammering away. The heat would allow the metal to come off more easily. There is proof of this because they find the burn marks the charcoal another things they find the fire pit. But annealing to take place because some of the blades work too well done to of been just hammered into shape.
@GagandeepSingh-me4qt10 ай бұрын
Thank you for covering this topic
@americanwoman624610 ай бұрын
I love your channel! These videos are so informative!! Thank you.
@riverraisin110 ай бұрын
Ontonagon Ahn-Tuh-Nah-Gun. Not Ahn-Tuh-NAY-Gun
@Craigdna11 ай бұрын
Excellent presentation, amn increibly important or people to unerstand.
@matthewkyle20511 ай бұрын
now explain how the settlers in now usa had their own gun powder .... how the british ran out of gun powder, then who was mixing gun powder in early America ?
@KingAlanI11 ай бұрын
Metal supply not matching the overall size of the economy is a big problem with precious metal standards I had heard of running out of slaves as a reason for Rome's collapse, running out of gold may be related given such brutal and toxic mining methods