The amazing Do Nothing Machine at the Museum of Craftsmanship

[@petergambier]

Regardless of the non working bits, it's still a wonderful bit of nothing in particular which is what makes it great, it's a visual treat and is bound to inspire others, especially any young engineers.

[@sagarlakade3084]

the value of this machine by seeing it operating every type of gear connected in it is very unusual and great work understood by those peoples who work in mechanisms and research... great work

[@TheeAthis]

He built a working model of our government. Genius.

[@pr0ger]

+Leo Iezzi BWAHAHAHAHaahaha !! exactly, including non-moving parts as the sleeping ones !! +1000 xD

[@joops110]

+Leo Iezzi Except this one doesn't produce lies.

[@roguepackets2198]

+Leo Iezzi Definitely of Scalia.

[@258thHiGuy]

The guy in the video made basically that exact same joke

[@flaflu82]

Keynes would be proud of this

[@rogerdodger8415]

It's a time machine! It wastes time.

[@casimirobuenabista]

😆 😆 😆

[@whatisdis]

@Bradley Frank A Time-Burner

[@josediazasmr6014]

Lmao 😂 lol KZbin can teach you anything even how to waste time

[@jesusdimabuyu4995]

Hahaha :D

[@samuraimiskin]

Badum tss

[@The_Ballo]

This is just going to mess with future archeologists

[@Spookspek]

+Brian Hoffman No, the dolphins.

[@teddykgb3865]

Lol. Maybe, but it's really gonna fuck with the philosophers trying to figure out why someone would purposely create a machine that does nothing.

[@ZipperOfficial]

ya need to chill up a bit baw0909. You'll live longer. He's joking around incase you haven't noticed

[@The_Ballo]

If postmodernist wet blankets want to become one with nature, nothing is stopping them from turning themselves into worm food. Other benefits include improving the mood of those he leaves behind.

[@BDNeon]

Can you imagine if it turned out the Antikythera mechanism was basically this?

[@nileshgupta2302]

As a laymen when i looked at it..it gave me so many ideas of how levers could work..its like opening up possibilities to ideas..

[@Barnacules]

"It does a lot of stuff with no result, you should have called it Congress" #lolz

[@semkoot8315]

Lol what are u doing here? ☺ i subed a long time ago and i found u here.

[@TomsBackyardWorkshop]

Barnacules Nerdgasm It is Congress everything is going around in circles and it doesn't work quite right. It probably even goes on a month long vacation every couple of weeks.

[@zeppelin67637]

Barnacules Nerdgasm Nice, very nice

[@dougankrum3328]

+Barnacules Nerdgasm ..The original Rube Goldberg cartoons were a satire of how politics works...

[@naybobdenod]

+Barnacules Nerdgasm You just stole my thunder :)

[@danielwilson6401]

I recall seeing this machine at a hobby show at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in the early fifties. Pleased to see it is still doing nothing! Dan

[@MasseeMedia]

Daniel, cool story, thanks!

[@albertbrooks8652]

This video and what it is of is Totally incredible, I also don't understand why anyone would hit the dislike button.. if anything this video should have at least 2 million thumbs up clicks... it is mind blowing the amount of thought skill and of course time that was put into the construction of this contraption. even though it does absolutely nothing, there is so much going on while it's working... thanks for sharing this with us.... You Sir are a Genius

[@ichabodon]

Incredible! A brilliant idea, a machine that does nothing. Got to go to a mechanical engineering museum for all to see

[@ianedmonds9191]

I love looking at old stationary engines. They have such application in the not too distant past. They revolutionized farming and made such banale things such as recreational skiing possible. Totally amazing bits of kit. Always one of my favorite parts in any steam fair with my son. He gets it too. Those first one cylinder petrol engines were the way of the future. Luv and Peace.

[@tvoommen4688]

I will happily spend hours and hours just staring at this thing. Seeing a square-shaped gear for the first time !

[@leungvanson6151]

I am a Do-nothing machine. Working for nearly 30 years now. I sleep, eat, recycle.

[@georgeavedikian622]

lol..me too

[@MrSamdabeast]

When you say recycle does that mean eat the food that you shit out?

[@abderrazzakelomari2057]

That's means you're a recycling machine

[@saki7804]

He meant repeat.

[@nomanahmed9797]

@@MrSamdabeast what you do while eat, use for agriculture in way 😭😭😭😘

[@keppscrossing]

This was made by my great-uncle Lawrence Wahlstrom. I remember very well him proudly showing it to us on several visits out in his garage workshop when I was a kid in the 1970s.

[@carmelpule6954]

People who occupy their mind doing all this are very happy and contented persons.Brilliant in every way , Congratulations.

[@dufus2273]

now in mental institutions

[@DiodeGoneWild]

It does something. It makes money to its creator. This is what we have to invent when all useful things have been already invented.

[@makera5333]

Maybe it cost more than it make .

[@musinguzigeoffreyaeron153]

Hhhhhh

[@Altraiid]

who is its creator?

[@johnsmith1882-x2i]

It must take a lot of maintenance to keep this machine doing nothing.

[@merlinious01]

Hose it with thin oil every once in a while

[@marinerecon9]

Just throw more money at it

[@wholeNwon]

Ergo "congress".

[@SurenAghabekyan]

I bet no one searched for this video ...

[@mdnaziruddin8558]

Hey I watch your videos ....... Never . Just joking

[@joetrocken5957]

I did actually

[@ronch550]

That meme is getting old.

[@torbjorngraf2434]

if you need to remove your gearebox it's an really good walkthrough, and I searched for this video.

[@13_tiku]

I searched mecahnics of machine and KZbin show this.

[@tomtonka1915]

I have seen this machine before and I can categorically say that it definitely does both serve a purpose AND it works well. It is a lion and tiger repellant.

[@g.k.6451]

Whoever has created it, should be awarded noble prize.

[@keppscrossing]

This was made by my great-uncle Lawrence Wahlstrom. I remember very well him proudly showing it to us when I was a kid in the 1970s.

[@G3rRy100]

I would love to inspect this machine, and it would keep me entertained for hours. Thats more, than what my TV can do.

[@sammyspaniel6054]

This is what our tax code would look like if it was a machine.

[@246spyder]

@SBK Stóre Er, blod, sweat, and tears is more like it.

[@jakenova4590]

2:17 guy with the cowboy hat did not get the joke

[@MrMagnusFogg]

He will, eventually //-))

[@hank1556]

he looks like hes lost in thought

[@ero0k752]

he is just a kid. it was not a joke for kids tho , so simple lol

[@boxingproff7627]

He was not impressed.

[@MistaMariguana]

Plot twist - The boy is a member of Congress and didn't laugh because he was deeply offended.

[@Speedwolf4170]

I’m very jealous of the free time the builder obviously has.

[@robertmayfield8746]

True :-)

[@NathanChisholm041]

in a thousand years it will be discovered and there will be all sorts off wacky idears about what it did

[@cramos7287]

Antikythera mechanism of 21th Century...

[@joltedjon]

Even tho it was made in the 20th

[@GeneralChangFromDanang]

"It was most likely given to the human race by ancient aliens." - Kyle Broflovski of DeVry Institute.

[@krayzeejojo]

Slap a Jesus sticker on it to save 950 years worth of research.

[@chadkeech5030]

Some Aussie Guy, Yeah and our future will say how advanced we were in developing something so complexed, then compare us to Egyptians and the Mayans.

[@NinjaSmote]

this isn't craftsmanship this is a work of art

[@riccomuerte7227]

This machine definitely does something. It makes us to love or hate its complication and sophisticated technology. Very surreal and well...the most of the machines we own do nothing too...we just bought them for the pleasure of posession. All that useless technological toys we play everyday...we do not use even one percent of their real possibilities.

[@exproducermichael]

Go to bed u need some sleep

[@muh1h1]

well, while i disagree with this beeing the idea behind this machine, i have to admit your point that we buy alot of useless stuff just because we can is actually valid. Think of smartphones or tablets. Sure they have some productive elements and features. but why do we need a fingerprint sensor? why do we need face recognition? A hardbeat sensor? just stuff to show off. that is also the reason, why we buy new smartphones every two years, because people around us are no longer impressed with the current technology, so we want to be the first ones, to impress them with something new we own. We don't need siri or google now, infact 90% of their uses are probably like "tell me a joke" or "how tall is barack obama", information we don't need.

[@exproducermichael]

If people didn't show off the new features and play with them then the phone makers wouldn't make any money. That is really the point of all of the little knick knacks. Also it is pretty amazing to see how far they can push the technology into such a small size. Just because some of it isn't useful right away doesn't mean it wont be in the future. GPS mapping for instance. I sure would be lost alot if I didn't have Google Maps.

[@muh1h1]

Ecchi_Shiyouze Absolutely true, GPS is one of the Productive elements of a smartphone. Don't get me wrong, i have owned some smartphones and i carry a nexus 5 wirh me all the time. I also like to show google now to other people, and i also know it is incredibly stupid, still i do it.

[@KimStennabbCaesar]

muh1h1 A lot of the things you mentioned where invented for reasons other than to be included in consumer electronic products (smartphones and tablets, etc). Also, a lot of the tech development that goes into phones can be really useful in other areas too, like better touch screens, better and smaller batteries, better GUIs for other devices and machines. I totally agree with that new gadgets are mainly status symbols for regular people, but the technologies themselves are far from useless.

[@upsonianmechanian4195]

it has all the mechanisms of mechanical engineering in one machine.. such a marvel of mechanical engineering !!

[@allysloper1882]

Terminator 15, the decline of the machines.

[@flaplaya]

Ally Sloper I don't lol often but when I do..

[@hermanngoring397]

+Ally Sloper Im dying

[@The_Butler_Did_It]

Spot on

[@srinivasrao4079]

Well said bro

[@mcdouche2]

What do you mean a do nothing machine....it stole my heart.

[@WATCHINGTHEWATCHERS]

I have a fruit fly problem and your fly on your avitar looks the same on my screan as them little basterds😠

[@MountainProspector]

How does a video like this get as many dislikes as it has? Are people so serious to really care about whether this thing does something or not? Anyway, I think it's a great piece of work and I enjoyed seeing it operate.

[@MasseeMedia]

+MountainProspector It's youtube...you get used to it. :) The world at your door, unfiltered and unrestrained. :D

[@naturalphilosopher4853]

+MountainProspector A lot of people still think that clicking dislike will stop KZbin from constantly suggesting similar stuff you already hate. Sadly this isn't Pandora, and even accidentally viewing a video for 3 seconds will make YT spam you with related garbage.

[@MountainProspector]

+Natural Philosopher Yes good point. Although its' a shame, I can see why that might be the case.

[@MountainProspector]

***** Did you dislike it?

[@Aaptronym]

+MountainProspector Probably because this machine has so many malfunctions yet while it's on display at the museum of craftsmanship.

[@Gunzee]

1:10 that gear suspended in the chains is really amazing, it's just behind the solenoid looking thing. Now that's balanced perfectly.

[@kalpeshwani8520]

Donated by Circus..

[@only1adnan]

I will call as "Do Everything" to this machine. Masterpiece

[@jorgeabbiate8701]

Excellent video. In Argenzuela (ex Argentina) there was a cartoonist whose nickname was Osky. He had a habit of drawing very strange machines in his comics quite similar to the one we see in the video.

[@johncheves4740]

The kid in the hat just stood there the whole time with a blank look on his face. No curiosity. No look of boredom. No reaction at all. Was wondering what was going through his mind. Likely nothing.

[@clark57225]

I think you got it wrong. The kid was internalizing everything he saw. There wasn't time to waste on superficial emotions. This moment will inspire him to become a machinist, inventor, scientist or engineer.

[@stevehondros9270]

He kept moving so that he could get a better view. Watch again. Maybe you were bored with this machine.

[@Конструирование-ц2я]

This thing is going to capture this planet someday!

[@SuperWigMaker]

You need to make one of these secretly, bury it in the ground along with some artifacts and let the future people who find it mangle on what it was made for and what did it do!!! sign a weird name under it so you stay in history!

[@andrewkwasek1214]

like so many other things that historians dont understand, they will able it a "ceremonial object"

[@SuperWigMaker]

Andrew Kwasek or an alien thing or someone who could predict the future (hears and stuff just predict future :D)

[@jordans1917]

+Super Wig Maker mgk profile pic +1

[@SuperWigMaker]

Jordan Semmel What does mgk mean?

[@welshpete12]

They would probably think its an early sort of computer , were they don't have the who machine !

[@Gunbudder]

my gramps saw this decades ago and it inspired him to try and make his own. he never got around to it and inherited a big box of brass gears and an AC motor with a gearbox lol. i will try to make a small version of this thing

[@siopowar]

Things that spin have been entertaining people forever.

[@caddyjoint96]

That is the most apt, concise and conclusive comment I've heard about this machine. One person remarked that [paraphrasing] "...people from the distant future will come upon this thing and wonder what its purpose was." This would also be true for a lot of other things like a "merry-go-round" or Ferris Wheel ride. One might ask, "What is the purpose of a machine that spins you in circles?" The purpose is for something called "entertainment." Art is also a form of entertainment and the "Do Nothing Machine" is another work of art. When we look back to pre-historic man we find the remnants of pig bladders that they inflated with their breath until the balls were tight and round and then sealed the ends with knots. Was there any so-called "utilitarian" purpose for making the balls? No. Early Man made balls filled with air just for throwing and catching or kicking around -- for fun and entertainment -- which evolved into all the 'ball' sports activities we have today. Please see my "The Headache Machine" animation on my channel.

[@georgieippolito9924]

there can be a 2 hour video of this oscillator and people will still be satisfied and watch the whole thing

[@markcarey8426]

You can see those women thinking "So _this_ is why Bert wants a shed?"

[@damagedone56]

People from the future will think this machine is a God send

[@silversurfer100]

Reminds me of my mother in law. A complex association of parts that merge to do absolutely nothing.

[@jagadishcj3216]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@246spyder]

That's more like what they think of their daughter's husband.

[@subratbiswas9400]

😂😂🤣🤣

[@rococoblue]

👍 the perfect machine of all time.

[@matty9460]

"we have a malfunction on it here, it isn't doing nothing the way it's supposed to"

[@ManojpanchalMrKumar]

[phone] [phone] +0091977215453443210+@+

[@declantiberiuskelly1263]

Besides my son this is the most amazing do nothing machine I've ever seen.

[@finlaysandham6935]

lmao I was expecting it to start lagging when he switched it on

[@catfacepoetry3211]

How and where on the internet can I buy parts that make all of those wonderful machines on display?

[@electron2601]

You can get parts like this from old broken down machines that people throw out.

[@imranlatif4009]

@@electron2601 are you intersted in world first electric meter.?

[@imranlatif4009]

any body interested in wall clock only 4 peices made by an American which have date arm.with.leap year . calculation

[@8x56]

A look at the internal workings of a federally funded government program. It is very complicated, takes a lot of work to keep it running and when it doesn't run right it takes a massive amount of effort to correct the problem.

[@nowheretosit]

"..and accomplishes nothing"

[@rtenharmsen8424]

Moving works of art are sometimes more beautiful than a painting or sculpture.

[@crawford323]

I wonder how many times sound recordings of these machines were used in audio tracks of films and even music?

[@dufus2273]

it needs a beer opener on it.

[@Kj16V]

How my brain works (it also does nothing)

[@wuznab5109]

This is pure art.

[@cafeta]

it print out "Hello World"

[@JoeZip25]

That's funny.

[@utfigyii5987]

cafeta yeah, after 5 years

[@hannesaltenfelder4302]

only programmers get it lol

[@electron2601]

That's hilarious.

[@kryptocat4240]

After watching thise video proud to be an MECHANICAL ENGINEER.

[@poppypuppy5372]

Glorious! A tribute to eccentricity :)

[@nguyenxuan9531]

Why are there many people clicking dislike this such a machine.

[@jcramond73]

"The Do Nothing Machine" wow, a mechanical version of the Australian Government, I am impressed!

[@AlexeyFilippenkoPlummet]

2:20 the teen in a hat is like "no result , congress, was that a joke? I don't get it"

[@user-yx7dp2pl8t]

“Gives me job security”

[@gee-wizz.5050]

What a crazy, beautiful machine!

[@MartynDerg]

2:17 my favourite part

[@7Earthsky]

Do nothing machine has a beauty to it.

[@antoniooliveira7281]

Incrível máquina 👏👏👏👏

[@vijaykumarvishwakarma6999]

Brilliant , excellent work

[@mahmoudessam1162]

wow it is agreat machine ... Where is this museum ???

[@MasseeMedia]

+Mahmoud Essam See the title at the beginning of the video. It is in Carlsbad, California, USA.

[@mahmoudessam1162]

CaptainHarlock999 Thank you

[@romyacoty517]

um this show is um!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@donnahallquist6997]

Mahmoud Essam

[@anthonyarmstrong9508]

most of the machines we saw are the prehistoric machines that we once had and improved till now today, like engines, wind mills, oil pumps, and etc. I believe they weren't build for nothing but to see how far we've reached in technology... ;)

You could only call that machine "congress" if it sucked all the money out of your pockets and grew on it's own to supplant the building containing it.

[@RustyInventions-wz6ir]

Just found your channel and Subscribed. Very nice work. Interesting

[@rustyshackleford8086]

come on now I think your being a little to harsh that machine almost certainly does more than congress

[@beaconrider]

Is there anything that doesn't?

[@kerrysupporter]

Some day it will be a very useful piece of kit

[@SuperKolski]

so what did YOU make after being there for seven years? "i made a machine that does NOTHING!" **sigh**

[@beaconrider]

We don't need another congress.

[@jawaharlal7046]

c keg app

[@AngryHybridApe]

But, it still functions.

[@TootnKumin]

A true Heath Robinson machine, but a real one, not just a cartoon.

[@barriewright2857]

it's a work of art. I hope you guy's look after it.

[@mofasa2]

Gears always mesmerise me... Its beautiful =O

[@LiezerZero]

Congress it is.

[@FanceeName]

Machine looks just like my old boss. Absolutely does nothing but makes noise.

[@aonutube]

I need to have this in my home when I do nothing so we could do nothing together 😏

[@arnabnath6601]

😂😂😂

[@driftliketokyo34ftw35]

I could watch this for a not insignificant amount of time.

[@pompei2]

This is how the modern economy works - so much work, and the result is zero!

[@robertmayfield8746]

Smarter than many non-smart machines.

[@osnumerosnaomentemjamais7392]

but if it is broken for some reason...then it will do something

[@cplanganmusic]

A true piece of art

[@boxingphysique]

Oh yeeah 1:41

[@trump6462]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@nazmulhassan7008]

😂😂

[@mrxpandaplays2185]

@@nazmulhassan7008 i found that too so i saw looking in comments lol

[@NotsoPHYSale]

I don't get it

[@shaun5427]

This is what a computer cannot work out ! Because this thing is REAL

[@wompstopm123]

watching this thing in motion is like porn for engineers

[@rasvial]

Meh- more like porn for steampunks. It doesn't do anything which irritates the engineer in me- so much wasted motion and inefficiency through mechanical loss. But can you still call it inefficiency when it wasn't supposed to do anything in the first place?

[@wompstopm123]

rasvial this is engineer porn for me because it demonstrates many diffirent functioning examples of gear mechanisms at the same time. and all the mechanisms somehow power all the other mechanisms and it just operates smoothly. its like an engineering porn ORGY

[@wetlettuce4768]

This is the kind of things engineers would make if it wasn't for accountants lol

[@dr.ofdubiouswisdom4189]

...a veritable orgy of gears - meshing, rocking in unison...where's the lube? Lol.

[@johnhili8664]

@@wompstopm123 Its a case of simple things please simple minds:-))))))) The chap who built it wasted his time and now he is wasting ours, not me I stopped in the first minute!!!!

[@michaelh.8280]

For all the disinformation that I deploy to keep the algorithms guessing..here I am at a youtube recommended video that has every component that interests me. Thanks for a great video.

[@denizakbaba]

Well technically it is doing something.

[@denizakbaba]

So that's more than we can say about Congress.

[@martindesrocher4528]

finally a machine that can illustrate what the gov. is good at !

[@carlosmejia5728]

That kid was thinking :"...just like me :( ..." ..

[@tamheedalam7432]

I think a Wheel is a great innovation of mankind.

[@electron2601]

When guys think when they hear women talk to each other for hours.

[@falconway2001]

It's apparently do nothing machine, but if we observe in depth, it will give ideas of generating more logical machine origin. GREAT WORK

[@napornik]

It's the philosophy of the F-35 but in material form...

[@1312_PV]

You win the internet today LOL!

[@napornik]

Rubertoe Still more reliable than F-35...

[@Xcm-yg1vv]

Kancho Haha you win again sir😂

[@LOL-gn5oh]

Way more useful than Facebook.

[@andrewchou3277]

It doesn't do nothing. It rotates.

[@odeytayem8902]

well, technically that's not nothing

[@dancrouch2479]

Odey Tayem that to show you wat it does it gives porpoise so it not for nothing.

[@MyPedromendez]

AC 計算機 AC Calculator and goes tap tap

[@herlinahassan5223]

AC 計算機 AC Calculator hjgffjfcgjfckccc

[@robh1908]

The Karate Kid lives again! He's probably thinking, Gear On, Gear Off

[@rudolfnasenbar2499]

This machine is in some kind like my live!😂

[@skeggiskjeldarson9513]

Uselessness is an art form! Explaining is it is a life long job.