We are de- evolving

1:50 Hand charging an open steel furnace, not a glove or face shield to be seen. We were a different breed then.

This was back in the day when western countries were the manufacturing kings!

I suppose most of those Naval guns ended up on the ocean floor

Unglaublich was damals geleistet wurde. Im Verhältnis dazu, sind wir heute absolute Nichtskönner.👆👆👆😍😍😍😍😀😀😀 Viele Grüsse aus Germany

For someone to think to give us all for posterity a look into the past on how these were made I am so grateful. Now I have so many more questions for these men, of course that's impossible. I hope that I can find some more of these videos with perhaps more details.

It's incredible to see how much work and labour went into making a large caliber naval gun. I doubt that there are many foundries, if any at all, that can do this in the mordern world. Thanks for a very interesting video!

At the time “Industrial secrets” were not guarded as tightly as was the case later. Besides, it probably is not wrong to say the British were trying to convey the message that Germans wouldn’t be successful in a naval arms race. 12” /50cal were also produced for foreign customers, although no German speakers among those it seems.

I worked in those same shops in the early 70s the tall building with the oil pit was still there even still filled with oil

The size of affairs requiring slow-motion activity by workers w/ hands accustomed 2 Heat, & all the wasted motion, such as tidying up spilled material, gives N alien & nearly sensual effect 2 the process; these people had no questions regarding masculinity

that guy on the ladder, if he pulled down his pants, would reveal balls as big as church bells.

Proof Firing of the Large Calibre Naval Guns 18 inch / 450mm is at Main Battery MOD Eskmeals, Millom Cumbria UK, the powder house was bldg 168, the Buildings at the rear are Bldgs 157 and 158, these were still standing as of 2015

The real "tech" in this video are all the HUGE Machine Tools. Real Progress is machines making machines......just wait for AI to mature

The foremen wearing the bowler hats….. don’t know if it’s true of not but I was told that they were steel lined, stopped them from getting the odd nut getting dropped on their heads, that was in a Dundee shipyard so I could believe it or if they just wanted to frighten him, get a piece of 20mm plate, write their name on it then drop it from height so it landed in front of them!

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It's a pity that colour film wasn't available in this era to show the glowing heat of the metal and the foundry. I cannot believe how those men are working in those conditions without even gloves, let alone face shields or protective clothing. I'll wager the burns were plentiful. And at the end of the day, all that work was simply aimed to kill as many other men as possible, and cause massive destruction. Such waste - of lives and materials. But mankind has learned nothing and still develops plans daily to kill people more effectively on a larger scale.

Now make another 100 😂

Hunting . All the wile watching this in my own imagination I had the original soundtrack to ' There Will Be Blood ' playing in my mind ! Another thing , it's kind of sad to think that the methodology and Technologies of this bygone time Are now effectively lost ! They don't make guns like this anymore let alone armor for ship like this , it will be have to be knowledge that will have to be rediscovered!

Makes you wonder how they made the tools that make the gun

Armstrongs was selling guns to both sides in the American Civil War, he was the worlds leading gun manufacturer, but whisper it because the Geordies are not supposed to be leaders in anything. He built an entire Navy for the Japanese that destroyed the Russian Navy in 1904. So concerned were the British Government at Armstrongs dealings with foreign nations that he was forced to sell his patents to the Government in exchange for a knighthood, this is the way Tyneside has always been treated by central goverment, they took everything away from us and and after the ww2 we became an industrial desert.The big gun making went to Woolich Asenal in London.

Good to see the factory workers wearing their safety flat caps.

Imagine the youth of today working in that factory...

Quite impressive for steam age savages

The height of technical innovation in manufacturing for the era on display here. These days we chase faster processing speeds. Early 20th century the health of a countrys manufacturing sector was in the precise machining of metal. Before & between the big wars battle rifles were finely crafted works of near-art.

Look up Astute class submarine on youtube.

Fascinating, my Grand Father was a blacksmith at Vickers in Newcastle during the First War. The conditions they worked in 😱😱

I didn’t see any auto fret age being carried out during the manufacturing process?

That is a beautiful thing. Now mount it on the Dover cliffs, that should deter those ruddy dinghy's lads!

british superiority in armaments manufacturing and engineering can be explained by two rarely mentioned criteria... one, the total unashamed use of so many spectacular mustaches and two,the men never being able to work less than an 18 hour day even had they fir some insane reason wanted to.

Love how "hit it with a hammer" is always in there somewhere

Did anyone ever film a similar documentary of building any of the various 14" or 16" guns at the Washington Navy Yard's gun factory?

Their only safety equipment is a mustache

While this is fascinating, some narration, or text on screen would be very useful in understanding what's happening.

When my mum lived on the coast in Deal, we could often see the orange glow of a (Belgium, I think) steelworks across the Channel.

One has to admit and respect the sheer level of skills, knowledge and experience applied here.

Amazing. Very similar to how rifle barrels are made but much much bigger. It was with this technology that Britain conquered, I feel nothing but pride.

All these people would be called Destroyers of the Planet now!!

Watching this kind of amazing engineering and scale of production video from a century ago, I realise I KNOW NOTHING.

Gareth Just in passing: Around this time Britain built a battle cruiser armed with two Eighteen inch guns!! It never saw service in that form due two two basic reasons. When the guns were fired the recoil caused many rivets in the ship's hull to fracture. Also, it finally dawned on the Admiralty that a ship armed with a two-gun broadside was not going to hit many target ships. I believe the hull was converted into one of the first aircraft carriers. Regarding the "wire wrapping." This was high-tensile steel wire and it helped to contain the internal pressure in the barrel when the charge was fired. The stress generated acted along the longitudinal axis of the wire , its strongest orientation. I would have liked to know how long the manufacturing process took--start-to-finish and, as a {retired} metallurgist, the composition of the steel that was cast. Great video--many thanks.

All these machines are still running in pakistani nuclear rocket industries.

If you watch some of the current YT films that come from Pakistan about engineering, you'll see that they are pretty much at this point in terms of heavy engineering. Not a criticism at all. They use a lot of reclaimed steel from ship salvage to manufacture everything from Civil Engineering equipment to washing machines. Its worth a look.

This has been really helpful for me because I have always wanted to know how they got the hole down the middle. I've never heard of a trepanning drill and have always figured that a 50 foot long twist drill or boring bar was unrealistic and the thought of one breaking in the job would result in heads rolling. Is there any information on whether the manufacture process used cryogenics or something of that sort in addition to heat when fitting the outer layers of the barrel?

Amazing.....Thanks so much...... Shoe🇺🇸

On this week's Forged in Fire....re create a 14" main naval gun using old truck leaf springs. You have 3 hours ....

What an old gem of a film, full of engineering information, most of which we wont see performed anymore.

This when England could make things

Must be the closest to Hell you could experience in a life. Loved the nonchalance of the men working surrounded by the heat and sparks and liquid metal.

I love the Sledge-O-Matic at 16:30…..

The total lack of safety gear is astounding! And the age of equality would have been such a joke to them.