Inventions In America's Growth (1850-1910) - Phonograph, Telephone, Electric Lamp 24860 HD

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Photographs, reconstructed models, and the recollections of Jonathan Sharpe, editor of Scientific American, are used to show the impact of inventions on life in America during the age of miracles, 1850-1910. Explains the influence of railroads and farm machinery on the economy of the country and on centers of population. Shows how life in urban areas was revolutionized by the phonograph, telephone, electric lamp, motor car, aeroplane, and radio.
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[@paulbourgeois4491]

John Moses Browning should be mentioned... The .45 Gov't Colt, the Browning Automatic Rifle, Both .30 and .50 caliber belt fed machine guns... This man was a prolific, iconic American firearms designer, and he deserves to be remembered.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

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[@paulbourgeois4491]

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[@jamestiscareno4387]

My great grandmother was born in 1887 - 1977. I remember her telling me about how wonderful it was to see such incredible changes in the world over her lifetime. From horse drawn buggies to Apollo 11 landing on the moon.

[@dondressel452]

I’ll bet she had some great stories

[@animalntelligence3170]

A friend's grandfather was born in 1879 and was still alive in the late 1960s when I met him. We visited the old-age home where he live which for some reason had an encyclopedia from 1905 , browsing through it showed something of what the world was like for him as a young adult -- I believe the encyclopedia had the airplane but of course in 1905, Einstein was unknown (also born in 1879, he was just about to become known, at least among physicists -- it would be a while before Einstein became a household word, maybe 20 or maybe even 40 years.)

[@casacasa2352]

The earth is flat...

[@georgemichaelmunoz3264]

bot.

[@alexsalvi1824]

i can say u the same thing, but now in like 20 years. LOL EZ

[@jeffkiper8199]

I love these vintage films! It's like looking at a crystal ball into the past.

[@siriusjean-marie8032]

Code Quantum !

[@hebneh]

Two of my grandparents were alive at the time of the first airplane flight in 1903 as well as the moon landing in 1969 - astonishing that these two events were only 66 years apart.

[@activatefiasco5843]

*I have Often thought that Very Thing, from 1903 to 1969*

[@crosbonit]

Yeah, and people think that "Big Tech", based on 50+ year old computer technology, are really "Big Tech", because they make so much money running data mining and processing websites and are buying up smaller data mining websites and gadget companies. Let's see someone build a functional 'land speeder', then I'll be impressed.

[@davidcross701]

Cuz he heard the landing in the Radio! LOL

[@woodwaker1]

My grandfather was born in 1886 and lived to 1977. He saw all of this and was a most interesting man. He still used draft horses, but had a tractor. He said each was better at some things. I feel just like him, I;m a computer expert, but see no reason to have a cell phone

[@daleeasternbrat816]

I was 13 in 1969. I knew a lot of people who remembered both.

[@soumitratewari483]

The documentary missed one great inventor : Sir Nikola Tesla

[@raahehaq263]

Nokola tesla was not American

[@michael_mouse]

@@raahehaq263 ... Nikola Tesla became a naturalized citizen of the United States on 30 July 1891, aged 35.

[@leonardodominguez3491]

Alternate current avobe Direct Current. So good it's the one we use today.

[@janleslie7163]

I'm happy someone brought him up

[@kilcoykilcoy3410]

Not to mention all the other technology that has been suppressed since.

[@GSPAEpro]

Man I hate homework but dang. This ain't that bad.

[@rayfridley6649]

No mention of Elisha Otis and his safety elevator, equipped with brakes that locked the lift should the hoisting cable snapped. Otis demonstrated at the World's Fair Crystal Place exhibition in 1853. Made skyscrapers possible.

[@katherynrowell6937]

I had a great uncle that died in an elevator accident at 16.

[@pantherplatform]

I can't believe how much has changed in the last 30 years.

[@wholeNwon]

My living room looks like his: Same settees, Morris chair, lamp, have a cylinder Columbia gramophone, oil lamps (though I don't use them), etc. Don't have "The Pharaoh's Horses", but used to. Don't have a cell phone in the house but there are 2 in the car. Guess I'm old. But I remember a lot of the "good old days" and rural life. Would I want to go back? Sure, there were some things for which I'm nostalgic, but, on the whole, things are MUCH better for more people now. In the old days, people worked themselves into early graves just to have enough food. They may never have left their small areas in their whole lives. Houses were mostly very cold in the winter and horribly hot in the summer. People died of simple infections or other now readily-treatable diseases...especially children.

[@siriusjean-marie8032]

Fleming a inventer la pénicilline en 1940 ce n'est pas si vieux mais on ne connaissait pas le SIDA !

[@CRASS2047]

And how would we explain to someone in the 30’s or 40’s that we carry a device in our pockets with all these things built in?

[@jov6372]

History repeats over from 1850-1910..just like 1950-2010..never before seen technology transforming society an increase in wealth it's beautiful... imagine in 2050-3010 wow My God..

[@Mr__Singularity]

more wealth, technology, knowledge will be created between 2020-2032 than during all years before 2020

[@dutchmayer6725]

@@Mr__Singularity You are naive if you actually think this.

[@dutchmayer6725]

1850-1910 saw much more development than 1950-2010.

[@Mr__Singularity]

@@dutchmayer6725 @Dutch Mayer And you obviously do not know much about the subject. Are you aware that half of economic growth(half all of wealth ever created) took place in last 20 years? This process is accelerating a bit each year(do to exponential technological progress, automation, accelerating industrialization processes of developing world, recently AI) so next such jump will take us not 20 years, but 13 or so.

[@kesmarn]

2050 - 2110? Is that what you meant to type if you're thinking in 60 year increments?

[@jasonrock5220]

Thanks for the cultural identity that allowed this to happen.❤️ My great grandparents helped make this country what is is today and I am very proud 🥹. A great thanks for the great men who came before me to pave the way.🙏

[@mandymoore5774]

It’s so crazy to me to imagine ppl in the same place I’m at in my house except it wasn’t my house it was someone else’s. & it wasn’t even the same building.

[@victorparedes6887]

I'm glad the Wright brothers succeeded in 19 - 3.

[@neilforbes416]

The phonograph was Edison's *toy* but Emile Berliner went several steps further with his disc-playing *Gramophone.* And the Telephone was a Scottish invention by Alexander Graham Bell.

[@vitesse_arnhem]

When a Scot does well, he’s British. When a Scot does poorly, he’s Scottish.

[@JugSouthgate]

The Edison phonograph was a lot more than a toy. But Berliner's Gramophone was far superior, for two reasons: 1) Discs took up much less storage space per minute of recorded sound. 2) (The big one) - Discs could be mass-produced at low cost from masters by means of presses. Cylinders had to be made one at a time.

[@neilforbes416]

@@JugSouthgate You forgot the fact that, though discovered by chance, discs could hold two "tracks", one on each side. *twice the bang for your buck!*

[@itsfellow17]

Remember the days when you were the only one with a telephone in your home and other people came to you to use it? Or was that just me.

[@siriusjean-marie8032]

C'est le voisins qui avaient le telephone !

[@el.blanco8961]

There was time where there was one telephone in town and you had to share.

[@bhs3871]

Up to a decade ago this was still the case in some very small towns of Mexico. I remember as a kid/teen when I would visit my grandparents town abroad (im in my 20s now) I would have to go to a neighbors home to call my parents in NYC. Interesting how I could still relate to that in my lifetime too lol.

[@PhilosophicalZombieHunter]

Incredible

[@brento2890]

Excellent video ! Thank you ! 👏

[@darz3829]

It was common practice in those days to make inventions that lasted and worked well. In the 1970s I collected antique telephones and installed them in my mom's house. Wall phone, candlesticks, and early handsets - they didn't sound bad and NEVER dropped a call in 15 years. Can anyone say that about today's technology?

[@chumbucketjones9761]

Yes.

[@siriusjean-marie8032]

Tu parles comme un ennemi de la consommation et du capitalisme !

[@snickle1980]

Planned obsolescence was a thing back then as well. lightbulbs for instance. Most of products today are built to fail or require a monthly fee to maintain. "live services" the more things change, the more they stay the same. 😁

[@TranquilRide]

Yeah, I work in tech on phone systems and there never has been a time where you virtually interact with other person sitting next to you

[@astronoman4]

Well yep, once had a horse die on me.. my cars doing alright though.

[@raylopez99]

The Age of Miracles gives way to the Age of Reality TV, and what shamoo tweeted.

[@snickle1980]

Don't be so glum...EVERY generation produces at least one "great person" that ends up shaping society for the better. We've seen amazing inventions over the past 40 years. We have our own version of Edison. We've got an amazing lineup of engineers and theoretical physicists going into the year 2022, and beyond. We're in the middle of a second space race, and we're producing technological wonders! It's not easy to see it all when you're in the midst of such an era, and far too easy to focus on the negative...Humanity can be disappointing, But take a step back for a moment and look at the Meta. we're an amazing species and this is an age of wonders. 💖

[@xyzct]

And now we have the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting L2, cooling close to absolute zero, and poised to observe the earliest galaxies.

[@Wosiewose]

Depending on how old you are, you may yourself remember a time when many things we take for granted today didn't exist. I'm still in my 50s, but when I was a child, things like microwaves, home computers, cell phones, satellite TV, etc. would have seemed as futuristic as Captain Kirk saying "Beam me up, Scotty" on his communicator seemed then.

[@sam3d]

Now we know Tesla was the real inventor of AC current.

[@krashd]

He wasn't, he simply made it practical for commercial use as the one thing DC could do that AC could not was drive a motor. Tesla solved this by inventing the AC motor.

[@georgeplagianos6487]

But this video makes everything very simple for those people don't want to think. Like all inventors Tesla learned to to understand the limitations of AC power invented by other folks. so improved on it like every other inventor improved on things. So we created work done and succeeded in making alternating current work efficiently in a motor..Edison hired the young Tesla to work with him. Edison must have felt threatened by this abstract thinker this foreigner Tesla. I'm going to use the first guy that invented the wireless. Creating this toy ship that did different maneuvers on water with a simple design of a remote control. It freaked out the folks when they saw this. Then it gave the opportunity to Marconi to do the radio. Strange they don't like to credit Tesla in this video for anything. And this big controversy between AC and DC. He won out over Edison to get this AC contract to use Niagara falls to create electricity more effectively right.? Freaked Edison that he had this anti-Tesla campaign where he electrocuted a elephant to show the dangers of AC power. I guess Edison didn't like foreigners like so many Americans.

[@georgeplagianos6487]

This video is so simple makes everybody believe that we're using Still using DC to run everything. No mention of Tesla where were you what 90% of electric power coming from AC.

[@totalitarianism1989]

Nice remembrance of the past

[@frankcoffey]

Emile Berliner invented the microphone that made long distance telephone possible and invented the Gramophone that created the reproduceable media market. Also invented the acoustic tile and championed pasteurization of milk and the helped start the very first public health campaign after his daughter nearly died from bad milk. One of the few inventors of the day that didn't get his ideas stolen by famous businessmen. Bell telephone only had what could be considered a local area intercom before his microphone made it a real telephone system.

[@meesterkrabs4416]

I wish I born into this time. It nastalgic for me, a 13 year old and yes I love this kinda stuff. I love history

[@ericaleavitt699]

Same, but I’m 16

[@dannyblade6824]

Now you’re 15. We live in the most interesting times in the history of the world. Take that to the bank...

[@mr.slippyfist4170]

Yeah maybe if you were born in that time you would know how to spell

[@harrybriscoe7948]

Get a camera and take real photos of things that look old to you now. Over the years digital pictures will lost easier

[@dondressel452]

Become a history professor Live your passion I love history to I was born in 56 and I’ve seen a lot of changes myself

[@bentonrp]

1890-1950: Phonograph, radio, electric lamp, telephone, automobile, airplane, roads and highways, skyscrappers, television. 1950-2010: Satelite, space shuttle, computer, microchip, digital camera, jet airplane, GPS, flat screens, internet, electric car, smart phone. [phone]: Social media ruins everything! 😆

[@AiMR]

The electric car was literally in this video. Did you fall asleep?

[@bentonrp]

@@AiMR So? I was commenting on what people were using, not the moment 'the dude' put 'two and two together.'

[@AiMR]

@@bentonrp But people were using electric cars from the very beginning, so now your comment makes even less sense 🙄

[@bentonrp]

@@AiMR Are you even TRYING to understand, or are you just arguing symantics because you have some sort of personal problem in your life? 🙃 I'm not looking forward to winning a debate with you, only to then be blamed that I "should have been more specific." 😳 If you don't get it, it's not because the comment keeps making less and less sense,... it's because you don't want to get it, and have therefore decided to not even try to get it. ...If I said water beds were big in the 70's and 80's, I bet you'd argue that people were using rafts since Tribal times...! In fact, you're the type of person who'd probably argue with a stop sign! I bet you're REAL popular at parties...!

[@blueridgeburnouts8265]

Progress certainly, but have we lost something more special along the way? Like community, faith, resourcefulness, frugality, morality, independence, work ethic, charity to name a few...at the rate of change we have experienced the past 100 years, it shouldn't surprise us that we lost a part of our humanity. We must relearn the basics and choose better.

[@AllenFreemanMediaGuru]

The phone brought exciting sounds to the home. “Hello, did you know your car warranty is about to expire?”

[@prabhakarv4193]

Very nice. Thank you

[@jeffkiper8199]

I'm not saying that Edison wasn't a great mind, but he did take other people's ideas and make them his own. His credited inventions were amazing (especially at that time), but he was not solely responsible for them, other inventers played a part in their creation.

[@harrybriscoe7948]

The UK had electric light houses in the 1850s

[@kaystevens57]

Actually, Edison took others ideas and PERFECTED them. The light bulb only lasted mere seconds when he started perfecting it. He actually knew 10,000 ways how NOT to make a light bulb because of his experimenting. That was his genius in a nutshell--never give up, never surrender.

[@jeffkiper8199]

@@kaystevens57 my point was that other inventors contributed to inventions that are solely credited to Edison.

[@kaystevens57]

@@jeffkiper8199 I agree completely. His treatment of Tesla for instance was, to be kind, inappropriate. He was no choir boy, just a genius. Still, I love my Victrola with its Edison 78 rpm records. :)

[@mjames4709]

Revionists

[@andreiconstantinescu5163]

40 years that is a very short time but incredibly prolific

[@bdeas]

We don't develop technologies as fast as we used to because most modern technologies are synthetic technologies, that is they are a synthesis of various different technologies. Your car for example is a synthesis of the technology of the engine, onboard computer, servos that go and your door locks, speedometer, rubber in your tires, and so forth. Those early inventions were low hanging fruit because they were simple in nature and could be done by people in workshops from home.

[@user-tj3jy4vk5l]

very nice

[@djo9941]

At 7:53 is one of these most important inventions that never gets mentioned. The Wright Balance. This is a device that the Wright Brothers invented and used to determine the lift of different airfoils.

[@rgn87654]

It's so amazing if you were alive these 60 years. Imagine having electricity in your home for the first time. The telephone must have been insane. You could call someone from the comfort of your own living room. Hearing music on a record or a speech on a record. Seeing a freaking car for the first time would be mind blowing. Then a decade later, we can fly. What the hell. 1960 to 2020 bought a similar boon in life altering inventions.

[@uncomfortableviewings9086]

Watching this for fun and a random story I’m writing concepts for. Don’t usually do this much research but the main character is a scientist so, need to know all this

[@scarlettsteele7999]

Love that furniture

[@vitesse_arnhem]

Electricity: Tesla > Edison Radio: Tesla > Marconi Powered flight: Whitehead > Wrights “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

[@oasean]

Thank you.

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[@alaskaaksala123]

No he didn’t

[@harlanmcninchjr1927]

Tesla came up with ac current Edison was pushing for DC current

[@ericknutson8230]

And there was no mention of that what so ever! Tesla was a brilliant man who didn't get all the credit he deserved .

[@FayazAhmad-yl6sp]

Tesla Won the war.

[@alaskaaksala123]

Uh, like everyone knows that already…

[@DrunkenDish]

Wrong. That was Westinghouse.

[@krashd]

@@DrunkenDish Wrong. That was Hippolyte Pixie. Westinghouse just sold AC in the US using Siemens machinery imported from Europe because at the world expo in Paris he saw that the AC system was far superior to the DC system Edison was selling and he saw a business opportunity.

[@-KillaWatt-]

When you look at the average annual income of an individual just before the industrial revolution it is estimated that a person lived on $250 per year. The interesting thing is you can keep going back and no matter how far you go it will stay around that $250 mark. So someone in 1799 lived on about the same amount of money as someone born in 3,000bc. If you look at that same graph after the industrial revolution it skyrockets out what appeared to be a straight line. People born during and after the industrial revolution has lived better than every human before them. Kings and Queen's included. Most today make more in a year than eight generations of a family combined would make prior to the industrial revolution. To further expand on this perspective, most people waste more money in three months on things they don't need than entire royal courts spent in a year.

[@allgood6760]

And look how far we have come👍

[@theultimatehunt]

Now look at us. Cell phones, Computers, Satalites. Videogaming systems. Its crazy what OUR future might hold.

[@justinratcliffe947]

Skynet?

[@ajjackson1526]

Fleshlights

[@tlo65]

More enslavement towards employers? Btw satellites and cellphones were invented by the communists.

[@ASLUHLUHCE]

Brain-computer interfaces will enable 'telepathic' communication between people. And once input/ouput with the brain is good enough, you'd be able to communicate entire sensory experiences. You could even experience artificially-created sensory experiences i.e. completely lifelike gaming, porn.

[@ASLUHLUHCE]

@@croatianwarmaster7872 Speak for yourself

[@Metacognition88]

Ah the memories. I remember when these came out as a kid.

[@cliffhammer7953]

"He lived to see men walk on the moon and build an orbital scientific research station in the form of the ISS." kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5rce3tuoNyrY7c kzbin.info/www/bejne/nneafH-siN2Sn7s

[@davidcross701]

Amazing Era

[@alaskaaksala123]

I dont think it was about specific inventors…and, it was not an exhaustive list of all inventors..

[@gormenfreeman499]

It wouldn’t surprise me if the rich and aristocracies back in Europe wanted the inventions for just themselves. But inventors see big money to get it mass produced and delivered to the common people.

[@mikeburch2998]

It's been my understanding that Lee DeForest couldn't accurately describe how a vacuum tube worked in court. Hmmm.

[@choxxxieful]

The explanation was provided by Edwin Howard Armstrong.

[@powerdriller4124]

That was a vile move to deprive him of the patents. The tycoons hired a young intelligent engineer Edwin Armstrong to show the lackings of Lee De Forest and to impress the judge. But De Forest deserved the patent. Later on the tycoons destroyed Armstrong with the rights to the FM Radio, and did it all over to Lee De Forest with the Talkie Films patents. The same happened to the inventor of Electronic TV, Philo Fernsworth.

[@ananthakrishnanks429]

Interesting

[@robweckert5689]

No mention of Tesla

[@wolfendenracing2826]

Rob Weckert some people younger than us may think of electric cars lol

[@alphonsocarioti512]

Edison had better P.R.

[@jeffkiper8199]

I'm not saying that Edison wasn't a great mind, but he did take other people's ideas and make them his own. His credited inventions were amazing (especially at that time), but he was not solely responsible for them, other inventers played a part in their creation.

[@moshfists]

Elon Musk wasn't even born back then. 😂

[@BADBIKERBENNY]

I have this 16mm film, only in colour.

[@laserbeam002]

All of which we take for granted today. We really don't appreciate what these inventions, and their inventors, have given us.

[@heatherr0420]

If they thought things were changing fast Back then, if they're around now, their minds would be blown

[@HotDog-kh4oj]

When America was great.

[@wholeNwon]

Unless you were a woman or Black.

[@DarkMatterX1]

@@wholeNwon Which is why it was great

[@hamiltonfaction1986]

What if I told you that the bigotry of dark matter and the ultra liberalism of wholeinone dividing our population is actually making America less great

[@7arp836]

凄い

[@lifequotes33]

My granddad born in 1903 and grandma in 1921 telling tales and history of the peaceful ancient world and the righteous people in those days.

[@katukatu6617]

many wars occured around the world in those days.

[@totalitarianism1989]

Those telephone communication receivers can really cause damage across the globe. To extract information on other people's lives.

[@AiMR]

We went from Helen Keller and Marie Curie to Snookie and the Kardashians. Progress?

[@chrisdaniels4674]

Those electric street cars are a huge Mandela effect.

[@hilariojosealinsorin3602]

the greatest success of humanity is scientific great minds

[@ladedalounge]

oh yeah 2022 here

[@happyraccoon4791]

Edison and Marconi mentioned but nothing on Nicholas Tesla.

[@gregoryclemen1870]

tesla, was the brains behind thomas edison, and george westinghouse, those two men extracted his knowledge, and then destroyed him!!!!

[@ronaldjohnson1474]

Edison/Westinghouse = A/C. Tesla = D/C. Automobiles used generators (D/C) for decades until it was found that alternators (A/C) used less energy!

[@happyraccoon4791]

@@ronaldjohnson1474 Edison = DC. Tesla/ Westinghouse= AC.

[@timvandenbrink4461]

Tesla was a genius but also a scatter brain that couldn’t be bothered to fill out the paper work for obtaining patents.

[@gregoryclemen1870]

he probably did not want to fill out the paperwork due to the fact that he would not have owned the patents while working for george westinghouse, or thomas edison!!!!. I worked for proctor/ gamble years ago, and if you came up with something that was patented, your name was on it but you did not own it!!!!!!. my feeling about that was "WHY BOTHER WITH IT"!!!!

[@orlandog4053]

Bell didn't invented the phone, he just patented it

[@alexsmith-ob3lu]

No mention of Nikola Tesla and his future predictions??!

[@dguy0386]

giving Tesla the recognition he deserves is a rather new thing, for most of the 20th century he was all but forgotten

[@alexsmith-ob3lu]

@@dguy0386 "The present belongs to them. But the future, for which I have truly worked for, belongs to me." - Nikola Tesla

[@uslover5643]

Great America

[@hebneh]

Interesting that a kid in 1956, when this movie was made, would recognize what a cylinder record player was - or so the narrator at the beginning assumed.

[@skman1]

we still live in Age of miracle thaks to our ancestor. we conquered corona virus only 2yrs.

[@mega-hb4re]

I wish I can travel back with my I phone and a modern sports car to see their faces🤣🤣🤣

[@EliteFoxes44]

What year was this film made?

[@stevenbarnett-ui4ql]

BEYOND THERE TIME=AMAZING🙏🙏🙏ESPECIALLY THE YEARS🌹🌹🌹MY GREAT-GRANDPARENTS WERE HERE,EVEN MOST OF MY GRANDPARENTS🌹🙏🌹🙏🌹🙏 AMAZING,INDEED!!!

[@nadasou]

Valentine Forgerty invented nail clippers in 1875. King C Gillette invented razors in 1895. These are the greatest American inventions, apart from Light bulb, Fat Boy, Apollo 11 and F22... That's one small step for a man, one giant step for mankind! But not mentioned...😥

[@jaibheem8647]

In India our ancestors suffered a lot from untouchability, illeteracy, bloody Caste system during those days but US, Germany n many other countries invented many things

[@bill-2018]

Now because of so many cars on the roads travel is probably slower in towns and cities than by horse and cart. Mobile phones and computers now. And going back to electric cars. How things change. In the 1960's when I was aged 13 I built a radio kit, H.A.C., Hear All Continents, one valve like the early wireless sets and I believe he had been selling these from the 1930's. I had shown a bit of interest in m.w./l.w. radio and a neighbour gave me some radio magazines which had an advert for H.A.C. My neighbour also gave me some uncomfortable 2,000 Ω headphones. A wire round the kitchen as an aerial, one on the water pipe as an earth, a few squeals and whistles and then a bird whistling. I thought this is odd. After a couple of minutes it stopped with the announcement, "This is radio South Africa". The start of my short wave listening hobby.

[@montzeandsamuel]

Amen

[@ebayerr]

Roman Numeral MCMLVI is equal to 1956. So this video is from 1956 You're welcome

[@archiebald4717]

The telephone was invented by a Brit, a Scotsman. The lightbulb was invented by Joseph Swan, a Brit.

[@gan9e]

Not forgetting of course the great American inventor Sir Reginald Dong who in 1897 invented the first device for auto-erotic gratification made out of chrome and was for the discrete discerning lady of the age.

[@krashd]

To alleviate her of her chronic hysteria.

[@Nonamearisto]

1:51 Billy Mays' ancestor?

[@totalitarianism1989]

Til this day you can still pull up their recording information. Lol you get 😂😂😂

[@paulcheek5711]

there is nothing else to be invented. Its magic...

[@MrEAW56]

If only those people can see what we have now

[@sscc7791]

How about the old world tech that was found? Seems everything was invented after finding the cities.

[@kleitonpalmas3742]

Radio = Roberto Landell de Moura

[@mrgeno4682]

Granny used to tell me to fetch some water. Now my grands waste it.

[@bryanevans111]

There is more to old technology than what they are telling us. Human technological advancements have been suppressed. Knowledge is power.

[@wholeNwon]

Yes, it's a vast, international conspiracy to conceal the truth.

[@robbeun3792]

Without this wonderful technology we wouldn’t be able to listen to rap music, while running a hostile military gauntlet, to fly in a tube filled with masked NPCs staring at glass tubes like zombies, with no visible human expression other than dead eyes and hate for others like him…ahh technology.

[@garycook5125]

No mention of Nikola Tesla, the world's greatest inventor.

[@michelamar-khodja8591]

A world without Nikola Tesla? In what temporal dimension?

[@kidkique]

315 represent!

[@totalitarianism1989]

There's a saying if you pick up a telephone phonecall you might be signing your death warrant.

[@jackhackett80]

We are living in a time where the work of our fathers and grandfathers is slowly being reduced.

[@dutchmayer6725]

Not really slowly at all. Rapidly.

[@DarkMatterX1]

You mean erased.

[@timvandenbrink4461]

How so?

[@meg-oj1lj]

8:25 Today, most people say ‘nineteen oh three’ (1903), not ‘nineteen three’.

[@TriPham-xd9wk]

This is the period where foundation lay down good and bad because it was peace ful and after 50 years of peace America became world leaders in all things

[@lorisperfetto6021]

Not really all things...China is already leader in many ways

[@krashd]

The US only leads the world in two things - the world's largest economy and the world's largest military. They are overshadowed by western European nations and Korea and Japan in most other things.

[@shantisadan8888]

Not Marconi but,j.c bose

[@jakebradford4272]

When America was beautiful 🇺🇲✝️

[@jcc2c22]

Just think what they could have done with more diversity. Color TV by 1930. Personal computers by 1940. Cell phones by 1950. Rap by 1960.

[@tjlovesrachel]

Hahahaha

[@MThomas92]

my great great grand father maybe

[@jamescanterbury6634]

We have been trying to reach you about your car warranty

[@Quasihamster]

"The *really* practical cars were gasoline driven?" Dangerous half-truth there. That was only the case after the electric starter had been invented. Before that, nobody really wanted gas cars. They just were a pain in the butt. Or rather in the hand, since that's what tended to get fractured when you cranked it wrong and the engine backfired during startup. Also people were like, where is the fuel going to come from? You suggest erecting a gas station in every other neighborhood or what?

[@robertterrell3065]

Well I'm an old fart now but as I recall, maybe Texas where lived was different, there were a lot of gasoline stations. Two blocks from my house was a main street. There were gas stations on both sides of the street. Two blocks down that main street were two more! It wasn't quite like now in that most of these were full service mechanics, too. As I recall.

[@Quasihamster]

@@robertterrell3065 I'm talking 1910s, 1920s. Before the T-model.

[@ruthc8407]

You are sounding like a sore loser. America LOVES its gasoline cars, and modern cars produce less polution, when you factor in production of the vehicle, than electric cars.

[@Quasihamster]

@@ruthc8407 So? Historical facts are what they are. Steam was really big too. Ask J Leno

[@calvindavis007]

Must of been before the transistor.

[@tjlovesrachel]

Lmaoooo