Life Changing Inventions That Were Ridiculed at First

[@padawanmage71]

I love how when computer graphics were first used in the movie ‘Tron’ the Oscars denied them a being nominated for Best Special Effects, because, in their words, ‘They cheated.’

[@pamelamays4186]

Simon sneaking in a little Blazing again! Kudos to the writer for so many puns.

[@jordan4777]

It’s defiantly become a bit more fun to watch Simon after he started slipping in a little blaze fun!

[@meowmeowoverlord9504]

We see you Simon 👀

[@AlphaGeekgirl]

@@jordan4777 definitely not defiant

[@franklinkz2451]

Buisne…uh blah Brain Blaze is his best channel

[@zachalpin9429]

@@franklinkz2451 *Blain Braze

[@seafodder6129]

@1045 The light bulb was invented in 1979?.. Oh yeah, I remember doing my high school homework by candlelight. We were pretty happy in 1979 when we got to switch from lanterns to electric lights on ships in the Navy. I think Simon got a little carried away by his lantern pun... :)

[@develdomex]

Hahah caught that

[@Otokichi786]

Simon Whistler's "dark skies" moment.;)

[@miasumbodie6788]

Whew! I DID hear that right!

[@michaelwhittaker4246]

Also other people were already working on electric lightbulbs before 1879 e.g. Joseph Swan.

[@jamiehouk8824]

Wondered how many people caught that error.

[@spddiesel]

How do you improve on a sandwich? Add bacon. Already has bacon? Add more.

[@Big_Tex]

Bacon makes everything else better. But it’s impossible for anything else to make bacon better.

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Beer as an accompaniment is the best improvement to food.

[@christinebenson518]

Also fry it in butter.

[@firstmkb]

@@christinebenson518 I was going to say that! Butter makes almost anything better, except maybe jello.

[@Reach41]

Who else watches so many of his videos that we’d easily alert to Simon’s voice at a party of 1000 people?

[@Unknowngfyjoh]

I literally had a dream the other night where he did a Biographics on Charles V.

[@ferociousgumby]

There are 1000 Simons. That explains all the channels.

[@kunalphadte2674]

AM I RIGHT PETER??!!

[@BobbleWorld]

I literally just spend nights watching these things. from all 1000 channels.

[@kingjames4886]

ya, I've been watching his videos for like a decade now... even when he tries to make a channel with only his voice I'm like "hey, isn't that simon whistler? I wonder what product he's endorsing today..."

[@zachbowden1993]

my life has literally been taken over by Simon and his dulcet tones at this point

[@its_a_trap2101]

And the world weeped, for all they heard was the never ending dulcet tones of the one they called, fact boy.

[@jordan4777]

AM I RIGHT PETER?!?!?

[@davidhiatt1486]

Welcome to the club!

[@Big_Tex]

Y’know, everyone talks about simps crushing on girls on the Internet. But the simpiest simps I ever see are always bros simping on Internet bros.

[@duncanbrock7303]

Right? First thing I do when I wake up let's see what Simon's posted.

[@duncanbrock7303]

I still want Simon to learn how to do his own rimshot. It would be hilarious to see him run to the drums every time and do it.

[@KoalaEater]

Rimjob more like

[@johnpanekminervagonzalez8971]

10:48 1979, what a great year, it's amazing 2 world wars were fought without light bulbs

[@TJDious]

I was wondering if I heard that wrong...

[@Stealthsuit25]

That night raid on portsmouth just got 100 times more intense

[@johnpanekminervagonzalez8971]

@@Stealthsuit25 so many candles and lanterns

[@bracko2k]

Had to listen to it 3 or 4 times. #failsimon 😀😀😀

[@SmoothBlue34]

Give the man a break people make errors

[@WTH1812]

The movie "Singing In The Rain" gives an excellent explanation of the problems adding talking to movies. And while they have caught on there are an incredible number of audio engineers in movies, television, and video who still believe the spoken word in their productions is of little concerned to the audience as actors continue to mumble key lines. This is nowhere more notable than in the movie "The Natural" where the entire backstory related by Glenn Close is mumbled so quietly that it took me several viewings and finally turning on close captioning to find out she was actually saying something.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:35 - Chapter 1 - Umbrellas 4:50 - Chapter 2 - Airplanes 7:10 - Chapter 3 - Coffee 10:10 - Chapter 4 - Lightbulbs 12:15 - Chapter 5 - Bicycles 15:50 - Chapter 6 - Talking movies 17:20 - Chapter 7 - Cheeseburgers

[@MEStrahm]

In the last 8 months or so I have gone back and watched every video on Casual Criminalist and Brain Blaze, now I am watching all Side Projects and Mega Projects.. now I realize I have seen a lot of your side project videos before and it took me till now to realize this lol

[@fredrickbeondo8695]

7:04 - Blaze Boi cameo LOL Danny awakes from his 25th 40-second 'nap' of the day so far, hearing the bahdahbumbumtisch and consults the chart as per what script he is supposed to be writing, and realizes Simon did that just to fuck with him, his only consolation being the furnace for the dungeon has finally been turned on, so there is some warmth and dry space to 'enjoy'

[@ewoodley82]

Blaze Boi has slowly been creeping into the rest of Simon's channels.

[@annegoodreau4925]

My favorite has always been Ken Olsen's quote that there was no need for a person to have a computer in his home. Olsen ran Digital Equipment Corporation, which no one's heard of since - when? "There is No Reason for Any Individual To Have a Computer in Their Home" - Quote Investigator

[@firstmkb]

The advantage of the Penny-Farthing not mentioned is they can go faster than a similar design with small wheels. One rotation of the pedals drove it several times further than with a small wheel. Once chain drive with different sprocket drive was developed, the large wheel wasn’t needed.

[@Beryllahawk]

I giggled throughout this one, Simon and team had a VERY GOOD TIME here and so did the rest of us hahaha

[@Bacopa68]

Bonus Fact: The Wright Brothers studied wind maps of the US and considered doing their flight tests in Corpus Christi, TX because it had the most predictable winds. They settled on Kitty Hawk, NC because it was a day's train ride from the New York based newspapers.

[@jbrisby]

Whistler: "The sandwich is already the perfect food." KFC: "What if we put the chicken on the outside?"

[@christinebenson518]

Poor Danny, Sam and Callum can't have KFC. They have to settle for gas station tuna sandwiches.

[@badluck5647]

@@christinebenson518 Not true. Simon does let them pick at the bones when he is done with his bucket.

[@thebagelsproductions]

They can have lukewarm sushi he bought at a carnival 😂

[@kcollier2192]

Our family was the first in our neighborhood to have push button phones when everyone else still had rotary ones. The speed of scientific change is both frightening and fantastic.

[@Saucyakld]

We were the first family to have a push button phone that hung on the wall replacing the ugly black one we inherited when we bought the house. I remember it was paprika coloured and I was so proud of it hahaha!

[@Hellheart]

I was lucky enough to know one of my great-grandmothers (my mom's mom's mom). She died when I was like 14. But, my point is, she had one of those old black gigantic rotary phones until she passed. She, also, had one of those cartoon looking alarm clocks. With the two bells that a small hammer quickly went back and forth hitting, to produce the most startling and infuriating sound ever. 😂

[@pop5678eye]

Important lesson about inventions: most of them were not eureka moments but the result of decades or even centuries of continuous development by many people. The 'inventor' credited with them is more often just the first one to make them practical/commercially viable.

[@MrDDiRusso]

If the opposite of PRO is CON, then the opposite of PROGRESS is CONGRESS.

[@davidsantor1760]

😂😂😂😂

[@IrishMike22]

Any more jokes stolen directly from your dad's secret stash? 😉

[@petenielsen6683]

That joke has penicillin on it.

[@isaaclux2128]

"How can you improve on a sandwich, it is the perfect food already." AMEN SIMON, AMEN!

[@letitiajeavons6333]

Paninis or hoagies? (Asked the Philadelphian).

[@isaaclux2128]

They are all sandwiches. Hot or cold, long or square, deep down they are still a sandwich.

[@ddpeak1]

@@isaaclux2128 toasties… oh they are a sandwich.

[@russellcash3885]

It's a little early in the morning to be blazing so hard.

[@TimAnder11]

An interesting show might be about Martin Luther's publishing empire. He was a good friend of Johannes Gutenberg. During his lifetime he was responsible for somewhere in the high 90% of all books published. He invented the font and the idea of using different fonts on different parts of documents. He invented Garamond, Calibri and I believe Times New Roman. He came up with the idea of using serif and non-serif fonts together in one document. He invented numbered chapters, page numbering and headers and footers. He was the first one to publish subscriber-supported newsletters. He set up franchised printers where he supplied everything from printing presses and fonts to paper, accounting methods and distribution techniques to his franchisees. Some historians claim he was the first one to distribute mass pornography.

[@tgmccoy1556]

Alcock and Browm: unsung heroes of aviation. They were first across the Atlantic. Their story is amazing. Also, not long after the effort of flying around the world by the US Army in the Douglas world cruisers... In aircraft not that much better than WW1 technology.

[@tedjones3955]

Simon, I've been enjoying your channels for years now and you never disappoint. Thank you for the effort you put into each and every video.

[@JJadx]

challenge accepted Simon. sandwich improvement ideas. proper artificial meat. low energy ovens, artificial cheese, proper sugar alternatives, complete machine production, artificial spices.

[@Koyotito20]

Simon the only man capable of felling a man with puns and dad jokes from 5000 miles away hahahaha

[@ingridfong-daley5899]

When we lived in China from 2012-2016, the majority of umbrellas I saw in use for for the sun rather than the rain. I don't think I'd seen them used in real life for anything but rain until that point, but after a few years, I sometimes used it more like a 'parasol' too when I was out and about in Shanghai. When in China, i guess. :)

[@brucehewson5773]

any where in Asia

[@MrT------5743]

Been seeing more umbrella's for the sun at places like soccer games when it is really hot and sunny outside.

[@ingridfong-daley5899]

@@MrT------5743 It's probably not a bad idea, i just like having my hands free so i started wearing hats all the time. Rain or sun, my vision and hands are free. Tho i guess i don't look so 'fancy' without a parasol :)

[@null090909]

Just because you can unearth one quote from one general doesn't mean the whole military was blind to the strategic value of an air force. In fact the military financed most of the early efforts. They had a large stake in early helicopter development.

[@stewietsheking]

You need a full Nikola Tesla documentary. I listen to your channel while I'm at work and I could do with more scientist documentaries by you.

[@danielriley7380]

I’m pretty sure he’s done that multiple times between his universe of channels.

[@oliverdbhowells]

This channel is slowly beginning to become what Business Blaze started out as Who else is OGBB??

[@WKRP187]

You down with OGBB?? Ya you know me

[@ddpeak1]

Getting very American too.. what’s a cell phone?

[@parasinthephilippines]

Wow! Edison invented the light in 1979. I am truly enlightened.

[@robertmarett6305]

@10:47 ... 1979... I'm completely flabbergasted. I had no idea I was watching television and doing grade school homework by candlelight, and had completely forgotten that my father had to pull over to light the headlamps on his car when dusk fell... 😆 silly me!

[@Big_Tex]

He obviously misspoke. It was 1997.

[@parasinthephilippines]

@@Big_Tex Of course. Look at my comment. Boom Boom 💥

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Edison claimed it, he definitely didn't invent it.

[@currykingwurst6393]

To be fair, The Jazz Singer (1927) was still mostly a silent film.

[@rodh2168]

Re #7: In 1965 I was newly arrived in Australia from Canada and while at Cottesloe Beach in Perth, I asked a food cart guy for a cheeseburger. His burgers were a meat patty between toast with fried onions and relish. Instead of adding cheese he substituted cheese. So I got melted cheese between two pieces of toast...better known as a grilled cheese sandwich. Good laughs all around.

[@davidpotash7256]

@Thank god for this documentary making machine of a man. These have helped me through some tough times. Thank you Simon 👍

[@NathanCassidy721]

7:05 I literally LOLed as I watched this while drinking my morning coffee.

[@JohnMann858]

The real question is that actually coffee has drinking or tea?

[@NathanCassidy721]

@@JohnMann858 You might want to work on your grammar a bit towards the end.

[@SeptemberMeadows]

We in the Pacific Northwest, USA know about the umbrella, it's that thing you'll see a tourist using 🤣

[@AvB.83]

I'm still baffled about how biking ever took off. I love it, great for all kind of trips (granted the weather is good, otherwise it's not much fun), but the roads back then were catastrophic by modern standards. Getting on a penny-farthing looks tricky at the best of times, but to do that on dirt & cobbled roads... thanks, I'd rather walk :D (that said, the first cars also weren't exactly practical by modern standards)

[@sketchesofpayne]

The past was so boring that riding a rickety bike down a dirt road seemed like fun.

[@andrewbrandon19]

I had forgotten about the screaming goats till now. Thank you lol

[@ottopartz1]

If you do a part 2, you should include the microwave oven. People were freaking out about them when the first institutional and home units were being sold. Leaking "radiation", eating "radiated" food, gene mutations and all sorts of stuff was going around about them at the time. Now they are standard equipment in every kitchen and break room on the planet.

[@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462]

People do still say those things but.

[@KingOath]

Yeah, “radiation” is automatically assumed to mean something that will give you cancer or murder you. Just like “chemicals” are always toxic poisons. Doesn’t matter that simply being alive on earth means you are inhaling chemicals while being bombarded with radiation. Yet we still manage to survive….

[@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis]

@@KingOathyes. Exhibit A: Dihydrogen Monoxide.

[@TimeSurfer206]

On Bikes: It isn't just the technology of bikes. It's also the dramatic increase in available surfaces.

[@liberalrationalist8905]

In 1971, my university computer science department thought only science had any use for computers

[@mystikmind2005]

"Airplanes have no military value" That is absolutely correct, because the inventions that changed its military value were improvements to the internal combustion engine, and subsequently the jet engine, without these inventions the airplane would have remained to this day an invention of little to no military value.

[@trj1442]

Another excellent episode. Thanks SP team.

[@pop5678eye]

16:26 2021: People watch movies for loud and flashy special effects and CGI generated action by characters, and people won't even talk on the phone but rather just text (with very bad grammar) and send emojis.

[@warrenhorsley9710]

Simon has just been proven to have the biggest of big brains. Sandwiches are indeed a perfect food.

[@Urgleflogue]

I don't drink coffee. I have good wine. I'm expecting you, Simon.

[@dudepool7530]

"How can you improve upon the sandwich?" Simple, combine it with a pizza. I give you: the calzone.

[@Big_Tex]

Something I learned years ago. People in the actual lighting industry call light bulbs “lamps”. And those things that normies call “lamps” are called “luminaires”.

[@IrishMike22]

Dafuq is the "actual lighting industry"? 🤣

[@Big_Tex]

@@IrishMike22 it’s something that makes low-IQ people ask stupid questions.

[@delseywitt398]

I love that Brain Blaze behavior is showcased in our Boi's other channels now.

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

Simon only missed the date of Edison's light bulb invention by a century ("In 1979..." @ 10:48). No retakes or corrective titles?

[@ButWhyWasTaken]

Factboi does not care. Allegedly.

[@mickf9258]

It was subtle mistake but I just caught it myself lol

[@kokomo9764]

Yeah, caught that but wasn't going to say anything.

[@TheMHB199]

Also Edison didn't actually invent it. Like most of his 'inventions' it was robbed from other smarter and more ethically and morally correct people. Edison is one of the largest and most disgusting thieves ever known. Sure specifically in the case of lightbulbs what he came up with was better than previous models but far from the first. Add in he recruited people to work for him and actually do the inventing that he would then put his name and rights to...

[@gravesclayton3604]

@@TheMHB199 Not only that, Edison loathed Tesla's promotion of Alternating Current, trying to prove it was "too dangerous" to ever be used for anything more that executions of large animals. Edison's attempt to transmit DC over more than a few miles was a dismal failure, whereas AC could be transmitted safely and efficiently, to boot. What's more, AC could be more easily rectified to DC for operating DC motors and other DC apparatus, could be more efficiently produced by smaller generators, and could be used to run brushless motors. Edison is one of those "heroes" that got a lot more credit than he deserves, while Tesla died in relative obscurity. Tesla made mass illumination and use of electricity possible.

[@Bronco46tube]

Another thoroughly enjoyable presentation! Thanks Simon!

[@Craftlngo]

I'm missing two entries in your list. The Invention of the Transistor and the Invention of the LASER

[@chriscripplercruz1833]

Simon your puns were really on point in this video lol

[@samielkhayri9272]

Entertaining and informative as usual. 😊

[@vikingspud]

Simon on a roll with the jokes! I think this is the most I've seen in one episode.

[@noahwail2444]

The Maginot Line was made in the ´20ies and `30ies, not in ww1.

[@owenshebbeare2999]

He didn't get it wrong, listen again, there was no claim that the Maginot Line was in Foch's time (1911 or so), just that he would have been the sort of bloke who would have said it would jave worked.

[@sylviahoffman9440]

How much coffee did you drink before you did this video, Simon? You sure do have a LOT of energy for such a puny vid. 🤣😂🤣

[@michaelhughes9553]

42 seconds in, I look for who wrote this script. Then I see the line about record pun script. Well played Whistler, well played

[@evalevy2909]

Charlie Chaplin felt that adding talking to film was like adding dialog to ballet

[@Dad......]

As a bachelor who often games too late to bother cooking, I agree. Sandwiches are perfection.

[@Direkin]

"The sandwhich is the perfect food already". Surely you mean Magic Spoon is the perfect food? :P

[@duckydarrick7460]

Can you do one on the "City of New Orleans" train, or even the line it services?

[@eurodoc6343]

Soggy or not, powdered wigs were never a good look.

[@MF_UNDERTOW]

SIMON, you should do a video about how wigs were worn because of syphilis and then became a trend. It’s where the term “big wig” came from because the bigger the better.

[@lizdierdorf]

with so many puns, it felt like a Brain Blaze script from Danny

[@StefanMedici]

A bit of Samuel L at the end. Pure class. Loved it

[@helloMerrMerr]

Edison only got the patent for the lightbulb because it was cheaper to make. Tesla’s lightbulb was way more powerful, but too expensive to make at the time.

[@davidhollowood6580]

That’s not how patents work.

[@helloMerrMerr]

@@davidhollowood6580 …… and?

[@tomdefig6514]

If someone from back then would explain how ignoring the air aspect would be like ignoring the naval aspect or ignoring the land aspect.

[@ggstartup]

+ Simon’s 500 KZbin channels. They may laugh at the quantity, but then they start watching. And then they can’t stop watching.

[@tmurrin1979]

Great video! The level of puns is simply fantastic 😂

[@levi12howell]

I hope in 10 years Simon makes a video telling us about a mind blowing innovation in sandwiches

[@lorensims4846]

The large wheel of the "penny farthing" Ordinary was not only to smooth the ride but it increase the speed. A single turn of the pedals would take you much farther than on a bike with a smaller drive wheel.

[@Wombat1916]

Hence gears and "clangers".

[@Swe-Griffin]

Brain Blaze... is that you?

[@danielmarcus420]

Sandwiches are the perfect food delivery system.

[@C0LDHeartedPerson]

Fun thing about the umbrelas is that it will never be recycled. Simply, no one wnats to recycle it cause there is almost no returns on the investment. So trashed umbrelas will just acumulate.

[@ronbutler3431]

"...I do not think the flying machine will ever be used for ordinary traffic and for what may be called 'popular' purposes. People who write about the conditions under which the business and pleasure of the world will be carried on in another hundred years generally make flying machines take the place of railways and steamers, but that such will ever be the case I very much doubt." -- Sir Hiram Maxim (1906)

[@SlidellRobotics]

How do you improve on a sandwich? First, define sandwich. Then, define improve in the context of a sandwich. I can't count the number of controversies! Along the same lines, IMO, sandwiches may be an exception to Antoine de Saint-Exupery's maxim: "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Most of my favorite sandwiches* have at least six ingredients (including the bread and key condiments as well as the meat, cheese, and/or vegetables). And usually when I get an exceptionally good one of those, it's because someone has added mushrooms or some seasoning or jalapeños or something else unexpected. Actually, most food is an exception for me. But real marinara sauce (oil, tomatoes, basil, salt) does follow Exuery's maxim. * Reuben, Philly (and variants), Muffelatta (a New Orleans pre-Godfather Movie Godfather sandwich), Dagwoods (especially with Italian or other salad dressing), for starters. Heck, I usually top my hamburgers with mustard, lettuce, tomato, onion, and pickle and/or jalapeño, again topping six.

[@TheBlank49]

I see that Simon's Blaze is spreading.

[@BobbleWorld]

I shut off the video at the lightbulb pun... who am I kidding I just audibly groaned.

[@JohnSuave]

"and got to praying.. REALLY HARD." 😂😂😂😂

[@macher001]

Love the endless puns in this one! :D

[@texasranger24]

The Hamburger originated from the city of Hamburg, Germany. Crazy, i know. In Germany "Brötchen" are very common, basically buns or breadlings. Bagels without holes. Many fishermen sold fish on a bun for ages. And workers also had meat filled buns. Even including raw minced meat, which is perfectly safe to eat with high food standards. Likewise, they added cooked minced meat in a handy bun shape. That's why many people claiming to invent the Hamburger or Cheeseburger in the US referenced those early inspirations.

[@stumblingmumbler]

That screaming goat was perfect

[@Bearthedancingman]

When you get into obscure history, finding information is still difficult in some cases. Im sure you guys have extensive experience with tracking down obscure information.

[@rayceeya8659]

I was in my 20s at the height of the Critical Mass movement. It makes exceedingly happy to hear that there will soon be another 3 billion bikers in the world.

[@unixtreme]

I keep seeing his face in different channels and I'm baffled by it, how many youtube channels does this man run!

[@rodneyowen1850]

Cheeseburgers are OK, but what about the greatest food of all time, BACON?!

[@toddzircher6168]

LOL, love that coffee bit. And, I totally agree. :-)

[@Dan4CW]

I read somewhere that JP Morgan once said “Nothing ever will replace the horse and the buggy”

[@duudsuufd]

Cars do not produce fertilizers at work, and you can't feed them with something just growing outside. So he was not wrong.

[@lauraheyman2011]

Can you do a Biographics on Joseph Swan and/or the General Electric Company?

[@beachboy0505]

Brilliant video 📹, Loved it.

[@kennethcrenshaw317]

The punssss ahhh the puns. Like since he had a child, he thought he has to make "dad jokes".

[@jdwilson9978]

I totally agree!!! the sandwich is the perfect food!! Taco= sandwich; Pizza=open face sandwich... I could go on and on.. hahaha

[@andrewgillis3073]

One of the reasons the Edison light bulb was not an instant success was that gas lighting, with fabric mantles, was already in use. For those without plumbing for gas lines, lanterns using mantles were available and much brighter. The primary advantage of electric lighting was it was easier to instal than gas lighting, and didn’t involve flammable gas. Also, DC current couldn’t be carried over long distance. With the invention of AC, electric light became more practical.

[@glennt69lol]

Simon has found a way to beat the KZbin algorithm 😂

[@onebigchaz]

Ferdinand Foch: "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." France: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_aircraft_carrier_Foch

[@EAWanderer]

Oooh I love this list! Planes and coffee, especially 😍, I myself drink on average 2 a day! It is also staggering how aeroplanes evolved in only 1 century! Lol, and brollies! Interesting story haha

[@jordanclark4635]

I too drink two planes a day

[@tomdolan9761]

Remarkable that we went from the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1903 to Neil Armstrong walking on the moon in 1969.

[@EAWanderer]

@@tomdolan9761 And then high vision, infrared radar and stealth fighters that are virtually invisible.

[@ronsimpsonll9739]

Wow! I never knew that shit about umbrellas. Thanks dude. Never pass up an opportunity to learn.

[@annconover1277]

Can you do an episode on the Smithsonian here or on Megaprojects?