Fascinating Ada

[@authenticallyaubry545]

My favorite thing about all these videos is that he seems so genuinely fascinated and loves all of his gadgets, when most people wouldn't think twice about it. I feel like I need to appreciate little things more. Love these videos.

[@ghostsoda7710]

Aubry my thoughts exactly!

[@daspedal2730]

you see it that way cause only a few hand of yt´rs are able to be so thankful!

[@BodywiseMustard]

favourite*

[@Mikegeb4545]

Not he seems, he is!!!

[@urco11]

Only Tim could make me watch an almost 10 minute long video about mathematical devices.

[@joeschembrie9450]

I didn't believe you and had to go up and check the length.

[@guys_animations]

yo 1998 furby bro, whats up

[@spoopyscaryskelebones3846]

@@guys_animations what’s up smiling man :)

[@guys_animations]

@@spoopyscaryskelebones3846 whats up sus ?

[@razirozi597]

What a touching way to end the video. Tims lovely

[@SFaPiL2]

How true

[@Slasha00]

+Razi Rozi heh

[@eddiejusteddie]

Tim is like Help me

[@Trielectify]

+Cartridge Head Nice, you fucken got'em.

[@calmdownitsjustme6180]

+Cartridge Head stfu

[@deanokken8960]

Tim has such a soothing voice.. Whenever I'm sleepy I can easily fall asleep to his voice! Good on you Tim!

[@Optimalillusion]

I think Tim should be the official voice of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

[@officalgtthunder8356]

I would have to disagree. I think Stephen Fry would be better.

[@R.P.McMurphy]

He's my favourite unintentional ASMR artist XD

[@darkeyce02]

Same here, I watch these in bed, I've fell asleep several times

[@ExhiledGod2]

Stanley.

[@machpe]

I love that you can hear the "Action" as the video starts.

[@extrascript6622]

Matthew Peterson How did you notice? I only heard it when you told me it was there.

[@alexhodgson4114]

I noticed that too

[@octaviuskane1941]

There's this wonderful man named Tim He gets his joys from toys of all kinds Many of us would like to tell him What a great pleasure he is on our minds We could all benefit in trying to be more like him This wonderful man named Tim Thank you Tim...

[@SqueezeboxOfDelights]

heh

[@spoopyscaryskelebones3846]

What a lovely poem :)

[@anjew6293]

I don't know about you, but I love Tim! His voice and vocabulary is just "very nice". He sort of mumbles and obviously shows a passion for toys and antiques. I love you Tim!

[@tyronegamingshorts]

Contagious Combat he's like a bob Ross for toys.

[@tsassyfryu9289]

And "very fitting"

[@johnberner2012]

Anjew that’s why we are all here. I don’t think any kids watch this channel it’s all adults that like peace and quiet and not someone that’s super charismatic and annoying.

[@tailehuynhphat9570]

No homo

[@GiuseppeGaetanoSabatelli]

The Wrong-ulator is SCARY. I can't even imagine the suffering the problems that could cause...

[@evebroadbent7125]

I love the longer videos

[@EmiliaBackstromKorv]

+Eve Br Yeah, the endings are the best.

[@knol689]

Please, keep doing exactly what you are doing right now, i really enjoy watching every vid of you, and would hate to see anything change, Much love Tim!

[@sludgefactory241]

oh sweet baby Jesus, why did I just now stumble upon his channel now when I need to get off my ass and do something? this is video and audio morphine

[@rayray88161]

haha i feel u. i watch him for a great sleep. and not cause hes boring. its just sooo relaxing. his voice. his character. ok nap.time.

[@theservicesdirectory9436]

.........LOL

[@Lemendeer]

My father sold toys for over 30 years, i love to watch your videos but they also make me sad, they remember me of better times.

[@Magpie1701]

+Lemendeer That is sad but also beautiful.

[@animula6908]

God bless you. I’m thinking of you and your daddy and wishing you all the best.

[@DoppSkates]

I have literally watched, like, 70 episodes of this wonderful man. Everytime I'm watching a KZbin video, I get a reccomendation for this Grand Illusion channel and wind up watching video after video after video! They're so addicting and entertaining and always puts me in a good mood. Even if I was in a good mood already, it puts me in a better and even HAPPIER mood! Subbed! Keep making these videos!!! 😀😄🤗

[@Awlaenxg]

For anyone curious about the blocks, first, second, and last number on each vertical tile adds up to 18. With carry over from previous, you get 20 flat every time, so he can just read the third line across the board, as long as he starts with 2 and remembers to subtract 2 from the last column.

[@sapphirejynx]

I almost wanna cry cause the ending was so sweet. ;-; I'm sure she would've loved this vid!

[@meowmeowmeowmeow-l6k]

This is one of my favourite videos you've made Tim, something about the song at the end just makes it even better.

[@Gizmogirl192]

YoU wOnT AlWaYs HaVe A CaLcUlAToR In YoUr PoCkEt 1:47 Kingston Pocket Calculator- Circa a long time ago

[@sugarpuff2978]

Extraordinary Astonishing Heh.

[@barbugia123]

Sherbet Pip very very clever

[@barryretmanski4763]

Superb!

[@ulischmidt03]

Things you’ll hear in every Grand Illusions video

[@KuragariNoKaze]

The internet could use more videos like these. Interesting bits of humanity presented by a well spoken British chap.

[@nikko5354]

its funny, i watch tim's video whenever i want a nap and eventually sleep😂😂😂😂 what a soothing voice sir.

[@PoseidonXIII]

Ada is an amazing historical figure, so glad to see her highlighted here!

[@bizmarkie9112]

Everything he has is a treasure. It'd be hard to collect all that he has nowadays because they don't make toys that way anymore, you'd spend a whole lot of money on the valuable antiques, and a vast majority of his collection is either one-of-a-kind, hasn't been produced in decades, or only a very few were made. His collection belongs in a museum in Tim's honor after his time here with us is over (I wish Tim was immortal) and he goes to Heaven (if you believe in it) and goes to show God his fabulous collection as an angel. The physical collection left here should be preserved, anything broken restored, and continued to be shown to kids just as Tim did in his lifetime. Does Tim have any plan for his collection? Anything?

[@ZacHawkins42]

BizMarkie91 God willing, there will be a museum based on his collection. Have a nice day.

[@steveb8472]

Ada is famous for creating the first computer program which was published almost three centuries ago.

[@TheAzorg]

i love this intro

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

That's so sweet! Proper respect to Ada and, of course, to Tim.

[@Moraren]

That 3,4,5 ratio is actually really helpful. As a builder we use it alot at work, most recently was today. Easiest way to put big things at right angles.

[@adianto1122]

That ending... That ending is priceless. Thanks Mr. Tim. I wish i could be like you when im old.

[@FJMLAM]

Brilliant message , Feako!- Tim has some fabulous items and explains them so interestingly

[@thetofulord3249]

Tim always makes me feel so relaxed and cosy. I always feel right at home with his videos and it helps me through tough times. Thank you Tim! I love your work!

[@whitelight7733]

Water from the Nile!

[@ricky3styx168]

+Kurt Barlow Nile water.

[@Crispy_Bee]

+Kurt Barlow water from denial.

[@whitelight7733]

Hahahaha....classic!

[@creeperlamoureux]

+Kurt Barlow denial Nile water :D

[@ferricch9777]

Water from that one river from Egypt!

[@CxR2262]

This video is pure gold

[@MurfBomb]

"Action" at the beginning. I don't care I thought I should just point it out. Love you Tim

[@EmiliaBackstromKorv]

+TMurphyTime omg behind the scenes :DDDD PLS TIM CAN YOU MAKE A BEHIND THE SCENES VIDEO!!!!!!

[@foxeh123]

"Wrongulator" I'm pretty sure I had this everytime when I tried to use it.

[@neosfart5674]

Well it just appeared in my recommended in yt and now I can't stop watching lol

[@jessesinclair8224]

if youre interested in multiplying like this, this is called lattice multiplications and its far easier for some people to comprehend than standard multiplication, i multiply like this

[@Trund27]

Ohhhhh my heart - Ada Lovelace mentioned in Tim’s video? SWOOOOOOOOOON!!!

[@daSKAn]

I very much enjoy this longer videos. I would not mind 20-30 min long videos. Even if Tim was reading a book or just describing his trips. :) His talking is just so calming. :)

[@bryanbenoit8876]

Wonderful video as always, Tim.

[@RonWylie-gk5lc]

Another lovely informative little video presented in your old world style Tim, I love them

[@Nipponing]

Never seen any videos from this channel before, very cozy, gotta subscribe.

[@CrispySkinwalker]

hears comments about action goes to beginning to hear it but cant turns up to maximum volume "action" *"THE THIRTEENTH OF OCTOBER"* MY EARS!!!!!

[@Zyymurgy]

1:50 I've never seen anything like that in my whole life; how very fascinating! I love it.

[@MystLgnd]

So fascinating to see how brilliant engineers were to make little machines with such clever mecanisms to make mathematical operations 💜

[@numbtee8478]

The music box is simply lovely....or perhaps I should say for the sake of "today"...awesome!!!...Cheers...

[@Ogaitnas900]

omg yesss I love you for dedicating a video to ada

[@spleens4200]

For the first one, it took me a moment to realize that its one of the things I was obsessed with doing 1st grade up to 5th grade in the back of my workbooks! The reason I love pens over pencils because it never faded from my hand going over it, and I could multiply such large numbers, I'm pretty sure thats how I got the multiples of 7 and 8 down!

[@ToastyBoy17]

Absolutely remarkable calculating devices! And a fitting and quite touching data sheet to end the video.

[@PossumCrafts]

I think Tim is absolutely awesome and I love learning about these neat old things. I can't help but think of Buzz Killington from Family Guy when I watch him though. xP

[@Radocruz]

Holy cow! I was just studying about Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage! I want to become a programmer in the future so I decided to start looking into the history of programming and one spiderweb of information led to another, and I came across a couple fantastic articles about Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage. I had this channels videos on auto play with the window minimized while I was reading about them. I happened to hear his mention of Ada and Charles while I was reading and opened the window there I had the video playing to make a double take to make sure I just heard what I heard. Of the many videos this channel has and out of the multitude of other videos that could auto play, it happened to be this one, right when I was reading about her. I'm going crazy right now at this astronomical coincidence.

[@ZacHawkins42]

Radocruz No such thing as coincidence.

[@wingwong6584]

This video, like all Tim's videos, made me smile.

[@kelseyr7391]

This was such a sweet video! Lovely!

[@sirchillalot6602]

His Way to talk really calms me down. and all this interesting nonsense and sense things. i am in paradise :D

[@KyrstOak]

6:08 Ooooh, I like the look of that! :D

[@Ravaxr]

I remember having one of those slow opening calculators as a kid, and it had a much more complex mechanism that folded out in 3 parts. I remember it having basic programming with a calendar that had an alert of Beethoven's 5th.

[@RoadRunnerLaser]

I really hope that you have a “whizz wheel” in your collection. If you don’t know what one is, go and look in a pilot supplies store for a “computer”. There are various versions but most of them will do all manner of calculations, in much the same way as a slide-rule is used. They are used for calculating drift/crab angles and speeds in relation to flight-path and winds, fuel endurance, crosswind components, etc. etc. It takes some practice to learn how to use one effectively but they are immensely useful and fairly quick.

[@kingkebo3960]

I can’t explain how sweet the end of this video is.

[@Jazzyo111]

Help I've being watching these episodes for 9 days straight

[@soldtobediers]

Calculators brought to mind the gift i'd sent my Dad in Texas, while i was stationed in N.C. back in 1972. He'd only recieved a 6th grade education, but loved with pencil & paper, work out long division problems on the order of up to the millionth's. When i'd called my younger sister a few days later & inquired as to his reaction to it... She said he'd stayed up long after supper checking it against his beloved long division abilities, for accuracy. Then finally around midnite, stopped. She said the next morning at breakfast, he pushed the calculator & 15 or 20 pages of his calculations toward me and declared... That damn thing hasn't made a mistake yet! Blessed Memorial Day to All! ''They Insured, That Our Best Fight Here On American Soil... Was The One That Never Happened!'' - gilpin 52818

[@Jesse__H]

That's lovely. 😊 Made me smile.

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

What a genuinely delightful story! I need to practice my division... it was always my favourite kind of long sum and extremely satisfying, but I've scarce divided anything without a calculator in years.

[@soldtobediers]

@@clockworkkirlia7475 Here's a prophetic four number sequence 2520 that when divided by 1 thru 9 leave no fractions. Whereas all others do.

[@soldtobediers]

@@Jesse__H Dad was what he'd called a river bottom poet... ''Cotton field was so muddy that if a buzzard was to fly over it the shadow would curl up.'' -Dad ''Surest way of getting a smile, is to play tag; you're ^it, by casting you're own smile toward another.'' -me ...tTt... ///^it\\\

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

@@soldtobediers Ah! Fascinating! The fantastic factors of the number twelve at work once more, by my hasty mental maths. You'll have to trust that I only used google's calculator to check my answers. :D Do you watch Numberphile? I feel that you may enjoy it.

[@JasonOlshefsky]

I want the Monkey and the calculator slide rule so badly now ... And I remember that lenticular times table too. So many cool toys here!

[@ReChastGaming]

your videos tingles me ASMR. And they are very interesting too! ;D

[@EddVCR]

My dad the engineer loves watching your videos with me!

[@jimwilliams1536]

Ada Lovelace is one of my heroes.

[@manray9275]

Love these videos

[@SukhBaidwaan]

I am glad that i watched this video 🖖🏼

[@marshallkiel]

1:49 I'm born in the 2000s but I have one of those! My aunt gave it to me years ago and I still treasure it up to this day. It has become a bit loose but still functional. You can also do multiplication and division with it! :D

[@Thepaolo98]

that pocket calculator is badass

[@mikaze30]

that is what mr. Bond would use when he was still in school.

[@steventaylorgroom]

no youtube ads, as much as horror movies, this is tim time

[@julieherman9801]

Oh hey! Something i finally know of on this show. I used to have the exact same monkey times table toy, it helped greatly with my maths

[@Freakybananayo]

I knew Tim was an engineer - he always seems very knowledgeable about laws of physics and maths and stuff

[@BenjaminGoose]

Some really cool devices!

[@ProTecz]

yay back to the slightly longer video's

[@Ehon100]

Ok i think i got the woodden blocks adding trick: basically the sum of every colon is 2X where x is the third element from the top. So if you want to calculate any sum just say it's 2... and then read the third row, making sure of subtracting the last value by 2 (the unit associated one). Am i right Tim? :)

[@charlieherbert7716]

Does anybody know what the calculator that shows the time on is called? I would love to know the mechanism behind the slow sliding movement

[@patrickscholl2484]

Charlie Herbert my presumption is that it's just some sort of damper (journal bearing?) and a spring.

[@andrewsmusicchannel]

If I don't get to watch one of Tim's videos at least once a day I get sad.

[@Arithryka]

that 3/4/5 triangle rope is genius!

[@Mehmetyldrm_]

As always, great!

[@gusdario8781]

Oh my, when I was a child I had this little calculator at 6:02 and I loved playing with it. I used to pretend that it was my cellphone because of its looks.

[@josephzacherlst6051]

I have hasbro ruler that not only give you measurements, but also sharpens your pencil and gives base 2's all the way up to 9's.

[@welshpete12]

What a charming man ! I still use a slide rule today . But the one I use is round . But it does the same thing as the one shown here . I need to do time and distance calculation's and convert from mph to kph . I find that it will give several answers at once. Each side of the number required , which can be very handy . Not like a modern calculator. But as he says , you do have to be careful of the decimal point , specially with large numbers .

[@bryanna9262]

Tim is so precious

[@maxximumb]

Tim, I think you got the answer wrong at 3:57 it should be 28922. It took me a little while to figure out how you did it, especially as the first one was wrong. But it is a clever trick.

[@theserhoratio]

I'm aware I'm five years late but if you're not dead, how is it done?

[@LordVader1094]

This man makes mathematics sound fascinating.

[@otakuribo]

Try watching Numberphile, ViHart, or standupmaths. Those channels made me the math nerd I am today.

[@tobiasbuecheler6673]

I would love to buy the Kingson Pocket Calculator. do you know where I can find it?

[@coltenmeyer2775]

I really like this video you could make math easy tim!

[@98p89lk7tu]

Tim is a great guy we need too get him to 1 million subs

[@commentcopbadge6665]

Just wanted to point out that Mr Tim made a mistake in his first answer of the four wooden blocks with the numbers. 3:51. The answer he was suppose to give was 28922. I love Mr Tim none the less.

[@whylekat]

How does he do the trick tho??

[@geyotepilkington2892]

I love tims calculator, very cool

[@The_Gallowglass]

All children are legitimate. It's the parents you have to watch out for.

[@why-no-investigation-reports]

Very Interesting One

[@BaggyMcPiper]

These mechanical calculators are simply astonishing!

[@RecorriendoHK]

11-5=83 Thanks Tim!

[@TaoSpin]

+Guillermo L. Ortiz Toledano I believe on some early calculators if you pressed the equal sign again it would repeat the last operation. So 8 x 11 -5 = 83. I imagine that pressing it once more it would give 8 x 83 - 5 = 659. It would be cool if Tim could confirm this.

[@meloncheck]

+zoclates Most all calculators do this, you are correct.

[@commentcopbadge6665]

+zoclates No. He said it's a "wrong-ulator". A practical joke device.

[@b.a.mccombs9713]

I wonder if you can play the music box backwards by putting the strip in to the box on the wrong side and spinning the handle backwards just a suggestion

[@elneutrino90]

I loved this video, next monday they celebrate computing day in my school of informatic engineering, they have the consult the monkey device showed in this video in the museum of computing at my school

[@ZzigZaG00NIN]

The monkey calculator looked interesting I wasn’t expecting it to be a calculator like that

[@MickeyD2012]

That's the same birthday as my sister. Neat!

[@ginios3402]

The best intro in whole youtube

[@BluefinFillet]

"The egyptians would've used it." *WATER FROM THE NILE*

[@yashroastingshow9956]

How did you make your different types of intro?????

[@KlaxontheImpailr]

I

[@ZacHawkins42]

Eric Southard In what game?

[@Rufford1]

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