The Reason NYC Became America's Biggest City

[@Google]

Definitely will be searching more on this later

[@bruhbutwhytho]

No wayy

[@SmilingRover-hq7tv]

Will you be searching it on your own browser?

[@heliohelicoptahh371]

Ohh Google. Mf tell me you ain't selling my private info!

[@abasthebestop7041]

😂

[@zagonyt3100]

5 likes in 3 minutes, fell off

[@DrummerJacob]

This video is a gateway drug to me watching a full length documentary on the Erie canal. Well done

[@Erin-000]

😂 same!

[@FutureDreamZz]

@@Erin-000omg me too!

The Erie Canal connected the Great Lakes and Midwest to to the Atlantic Ocean via NYC and turned small towns in Western NY into the first boomtowns.

[@anthon33]

Get a boat a sail the canal !! 🤠

[@se7enei8htnin97]

I swear this channel is the only one that can make me excited about Canal building😂

[@sample.sanctuary]

That engineer is called Canvass White, he discovered natural cement in 1818 near Fayetteville (New York) and would patent the Rosendale Cement (or White's Patent Hydraulick Cement), whilst Ben Wright oversaw the construction of the canal using White's recipe. Sadly though, most people, including Ben Wright, were violating his patent, and he never made any real money during the canal's constructions and was never properly credited for making the waterproof cement, only earning a small mention in a local tabloid.

[@dcl32]

Absolutely insane. Thank you for sharing

[@frefels2628]

@diezeljames7910 holy fuck i don't care

[@junkeyz]

​@diezeljames7910aw sweet schizobabble

[@leandrocastello309]

​@diezeljames7910 quit trolling

[@modelgio360]

​@diezeljames7910Cool, but god is not real

[@josephdawson8073]

I always knew the Erie Canal was impressive for its time but I didn’t realize what an incredible feat of engineering it was

[@johnnylollard7892]

Waterproof concrete. That explains how the city retains its piss smell so efficiently.

[@sukhpreetsn4945]

It just smells like weed bro, your tourist comments makes me believe you’re from middle of nowhere Idaho and you’re getting fucked by a rat because he ate two sacks of corn. How are you gonna make rent now?

[@ThisIsYou36]

😂

[@zibbitybibbitybop]

That's backwards, at least this way the piss runs off somewhere. Just imagine if the concrete absorbed the piss instead.

[@daltongalloway]

That doesn’t make a lick of sense boy🤣

[@yakhalheart]

It's comforting to me.

[@franzfanz]

What's crazy is that the Erie Canal was only really economically viable for a couple of decades or so. However, that was enough to ensure that the Port of New York was the largest on the East Coast, and when the railroad came, the port and city only grew from there.

[@sisyphusslayspuss]

How tf did they do it in such a short time. This would be impossible nowadays. Remember they didn't have huge machinery

[@brookelord3448]

Viable for whom? It was used from 1810 through 1994 for cargo transport. That's 18 decades.

[@CR7GOATofFootball]

​@@brookelord3448 Canals were the main form of transportation until the railroads.

[@CR7GOATofFootball]

​@@brookelord3448 (for cargo)

[@ElisabethKisselstein]

I live near the modern NYS Canal, which joined with the Barge Canal system. That did away with some of the original locks for the Erie. While it’s not about shipping goods much anymore (there still is some commercial traffic), tourism and recreation still let the modern canal system be a viable part of our communities. We’re still here :-)

[@harpxwx]

i rode on the erie canal in 6th grade. going up each levee was crazy. all that construction 200 years ago still holding up today. its amazing.

[@brassman7599]

I've been on the Canal as well, I lived near it for many years. None of the original locks built in the 1800's are still in operation, those that remain are historic sites. The locks in use now were built in the early 1900's. 100 years old is still impressive though.

[@Lysandra-8]

Just go to europe and see what the romans built more than 2000 years ago (still exist and some of them even in use) with opus caementicium. "New" inventions are mostly not that new. And yes, it's also waterproof, they built bridges

[@JetRavenBlack]

I miss the village the city and property owner couldn't figure their shit out and we lost a huge part of our history 😢 I wish our city would restore it back to its glory history is so important!

[@AbbeyOnAtkins]

I did a bike tour on the Erie Canal from Buffalo to Albany

[@MyCatsR2Crazy]

In my city they made it into a road they filled it in

[@alainremi267]

Thanks!!! I bought 2 sailboats on lake Michigan & I motored/sailed them to the West Indies, motoring through the Erie Canal. One in 1980 & one in 2014. I really enjoyed both times. The lock people are super helpful 😁😁😁

[@Micloren]

Sounds like a solid adventure. I met a fellow hiker on the Appalachian Trail that had plans to sail around the world after. Intrigued me enough that I looked a bit at various captain-crew matching sites.

[@WIImotionmasher]

why is that engineer's name not some huge part of history

[@MrKhiWilliams]

Because he’s an Engineer

[@hectorpaez2378]

The engineer's name is Canvass White, and he wasn't the lead engineer on the Canal project, Benjamin Wright was (who is considered the father of American civil engineering) White's concrete was only in use until 1900, and was a bit of a pain to produce. Maybe that's why the name has faded into relative obscurity

[@maleineperle1770]

Because most history classes focus on political history

[@Doodle1266]

Sadly Engineers don't always get rock star accolades. Von Braun Apollo rocket program for example. The guy who invented the waterwheel. I think he was Iraqi or Iran.

[@darkdragon7210]

@@hectorpaez2378 Its sad he Invented something Cool & no one Cared enough.

[@fmita_]

“We can’t build public transport in America, it just wouldn’t work” *some New Yorkers building a 400 mile river with new technology in the early 1800s*

[@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447]

who has ever said that? who in the 7 hells are you quoting?

[@alahiri2002]

@@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 Tons and tons of Americans from places that aren’t New York. Ever been to Houston?

[@Mr_Fish10]

​@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 A lot of people. Not even just online, it's been used in debates against me multiple times in person.

[@alexanderguerrero347]

Cars make public transport obsolete

[@TheLostProbe]

​@@alexanderguerrero347 cars cannot sustain the needs of a growing population

[@jayp8546]

The volcanic ash concrete he spoke about is Roman concrete. It’s why people say we “lost” the recipe for medieval concrete. They just realized this recently

[@Ankit-nr1zb]

Damn fr

[@mikes2622]

I was about to comment on how I'm pretty sure I saw a vid on Greeks or Romans having concrete that was either poured or set or cured under water

[@winittiwary7893]

The crazy part is that they had a receipe, that it is even hardend in sea water (e.g. what they used for the lighthouse in Alexandria), something we are still not able to replicate a simliar cement as far as I know.

[@KuroDHero]

They did use volcanic ashes but the real secret was using quicklime instead of slaked lime as it generates high heat while mixing which allows for little calcium rich chunks to form If those come into contact with water they form a sludge wich crystalizes into calcium-carbonate essentially glueing the concrete back together

[@dcgo44r]

The Simpsons did it first.. I mean the Romans.. 😂

[@wakingthewitch457]

Proud New Yorker here. So cool to learn this!

[@UntilYouCollapse]

Couple of other reasons, New York has a natural deep water harbor. Boston is on the ocean but consistently needs the Charles River dredged and Philly had to rely on Delaware for its port. Reason 2 (crazy reason!)- prior to 20th century pollution New York had one of the most thriving natural oyster and mussel growing waters in the whole country. The reason this helped New York is new immigrants that didn't have a dime to their name could go down to the waters and live another day on the plentiful seafood. Sounds crazy but true!

[@Glaze_119]

and now the waters are so nasty they can't sustain life like it used to right?

[@markrogers1786]

@@Glaze_119today there are millions of oysters and mussels in the New York harbor. Maybe 100 years ago when there was actual manufacturing in nyc and the water was bad. The whole city doesn’t produce anything anymore. Most jobs are banking, finance, or service related now in that city you can’t find a textile or mill if you tried.

[@spongebobsucks12]

Tbf PA basically all but owned Delaware until the 1850s, they even had the same Governors as PA. And PA referred to Delaware as "The Lower Counties".

[@dennisenright9347]

​@markrogers1786 If I recall correctly the largest factory in the city makes pianos

[@Steve.._.]

​@@Glaze_119lmao kid you couldn't have been more wrong 😂

[@krash66]

Fun Fact: Up until the 1950s, New York State's largest export was cement and stone products (to make concrete), until it was surpassed by book publishing, and other things. NYS is still a major producer of cement and concrete products. There is even a town on the Hudson River in NY named Cementon. To this day concrete is fairly inexpensive in NYS compared to other places in the US.

[@voltsp288]

Interesting

[@abacab87]

No one wants to transport it elsewhere because it's so heavy.

[@cwest394]

Fun fact. Rome had concrete 2000 years earlier.

[@MyCatsR2Crazy]

Erie Canal went right through my city It's now a Boulevard the Erie Boulevard. And my father worked at the cement plant his whole life moving up the ladder along the way. He ended up with massive cancer because it's mesothelioma because it had asbestos in it at the time, but he survived it and it went into total remission who knows how

[@DiggyPT]

Sementon🤤

[@thinkfact]

New York actually did something similar with rail lines. Louisiana probably would be the house of the biggest city in America due to the Mississippi river. New York was able to use rail lines to essentially bypass the Mississippi River bringing more resources to it which also significantly fed into its success.

[@leobender2910]

All the industrial and financial magnates of the North wouldn't let all the nation's wealth to concentrate in the South, and they didn't. They successfully utilized new technology to prevent that and it only cemented America's destiny of becoming the most advanced country on the globe. The reactionary and backwards South would've delayed political and technological progress by another 100 years

[@Qwerty0791]

The only southern port that has ever has an impact on the civil war was New Orleans. Florida is just a hellhole to navigate.

[@thatdude1528]

The Louisiana fact is just completely untrue but the rest is nice 👍🏼

[@thinkfact]

@@thatdude1528 literally learned all about it in a US geography course.

[@NAzTRAdamUS]

Absolute gem of a channel

[@martijnkeisers5900]

Greetings to New Amsterdam from old Amsterdam!

[@sfnzmi]

Greetings to old Amsterdam from New Amsterdam :)

[@chrissearle6176]

Haha, greetings to New York from old York 😄

[@mrcead]

New Amsterdam sadly has the bureaucracy of old Amsterdam but without the updated Old Amsterdam efficiency to get through it 😢

[@andrew8501]

Take us back please. I just want to ride my bike places, comfortably.

[@RS-zp1we]

​@andrew8501 In new york, cyclists get killed by cars. In amsterdam, pedestrians get killed by cyclists

[@lukehamilton5142]

This! This is the kinda content I wanna bump!

[@thetruthexperiment]

Waterproof concrete isn’t a thing. Maybe he means freshwater proof but even the Romans had buildings made from concrete and they got rained on and have been rained on for 1000 years. Brick and mortar is waterproof. Someone tell me what he’s talking about.

[@BootafulBoots]

I actually live along the Erie Canal. I ride my bike on it’s path almost every day

[@Heather-fx7sr]

Dang that’s crazy you should be in this video

[@generic___Name]

I know who you are

[@BootafulBoots]

@@generic___Name I know where you live, josh

[@generic___Name]

Ok Charlie

[@2ndMostEndangeredGender]

I was lowered, not raised sadly, in Lockport. ...you?

[@EverEclipse]

now THIS is the kind if history lesson I would pay attention to 🗣🔥

[@soulie2001]

10 percent to 60 percent is absolutely bananas

[@emad3241]

tf you mean one engineer? Give us the name, this dude created new york

[@c-fink]

I would argue the mayor did more since he had the idea to dig the canal

[@zoidbergthebabyjesus1606]

It was either Ben Wright or Canvass White, depending on who you ask

[@derekschmidt5705]

The city mayor would have vanishingly little to do with it. It would be the legislature and governor of the state.

[@Чарло]

​@derekschmidt5705 It appears the same mayor, soon after, became governor.

[@YourWifesBoyfriend]

If he created New York, he deserves to be forgotten forever. What a mistake

[@AnimilesYT]

This is really in spirit of the Dutch legacy

[@RedWordsFirst]

Great call. Lol I didn’t even think like that, but you’re right.

[@grishawinner6727]

In the context of international history, America is actually still a very new country, it’s sad that our people are very divided nowadays. There’s so much more we can do together United.

[@danielszekeres8003]

We must fight far right propaganda that constantly lies to their audience to divide & conquer

[@seijifurukawa265]

I love your content! It's always bite-size learning of cool facts! This one reminds me of why Seattle is the business mecha in Washington State, rather than Tacoma (which is somewhat related to big cities burning down in the 1800-early 1900s being tied to economic growth, but for many different reasons)

[@archieenry1601]

Interesting that the mayor gets mentioned but not the actual engineer that made the invention

[@hulkhatepunybanner]

*Everything you do under your boss is credited to your boss.*

[@drScorp1on]

Sadly it's still the same today. Like when doctors brag about their high tech equipment as if they made it.

[@loubertus]

What are you talking about? They are both mentioned. If you mean by name... you are also wrong, as none was mentioned by name.

[@HyenaEmpyema]

History videos get super boring with random name dropping. Just like science videos with math equations. Ain't nobody gonna use either so best omit them. Sorry if that triggers you again, snowflake.

[@CuriousEarthMan]

The engineer did not invent it. He went to Europe for a year and studied. He learned it in Europe and brought the pre-existing technology back to ny, THEN they found suitable limestone and used the already old technology

[@AllecJoshuaIbay]

I like how your background shows the original World Trade Center

[@ChristopherPortorreal-ol2mj]

But jokes about it isnt funny

[@destruxandexploze2552]

@@ChristopherPortorreal-ol2mjYep, most jokes about it just crash and burn.

[@IronSharpensIronOfficial]

@@ChristopherPortorreal-ol2mjThe jokes always hits hard. 🥁

[@ChristopherPortorreal-ol2mj]

@@IronSharpensIronOfficial they hit hard on you. Keep mocking the survivors dude

[@krispykrackers8826]

​@@destruxandexploze2552overused ngl

[@BGTuyau]

Excellent point. Succinctly put. Nice work. Now, let's hear more about that development.

[@TrainsFerriesFeet]

While the Erie Canal certainly boosted NYC's growth, it was already the biggest city in the country as of the first census in 1790 - 33,131 vs 28,522 in Philly. Philly was still the largest urban area, but NYC flipped that by the early 1800s, prior to the Erie Canal.

[@chuch541]

Yeah the founding fathers talked about NYC as the economic heart of the perceived nation. Real history continues to miss influencers. It’s so easy to miss understand. Also, the adams family is pretty much who drove the independence streak, and had the brains and mouth to make it happen. Ben and Tj helped. But it was mostly John and Sam who did the legwork. John^ was insufferable on his best day. Little did history know; a man just like him was required.

[@AnimeSlaps]

Damn that's a major jump. Must have been a wild time to be a shop owner and see your profits skyrocket like that. Imagine the people who bought land for pennies before that. Crazy.

[@727Phoenix]

I recently read up on the Erie Canal, "The Nation's First Superhighway." That it was the reason NCY became the largest in the country because of that didn't occur to me. And I didn't know that the creation of waterproof concrete was for this very project. Thank you!

[@object-official]

I love New City York

[@BuriBuri-hy1il]

❤❤❤ I LOVE NEW YORK😊😊😊🦅

[@آریامنتظمی]

Please don't stop content creating,you are so addictive and your presentation style is precisely attractive,not to mention the facts you tell, i can watch you all day

[@jk3mom]

Kind of disappointed you didn't name the engineer who figured it out.

[@asityplays8964]

Fr

[@zoidbergthebabyjesus1606]

It was either Ben Wright or Canvass White

[@maxmustermann9587]

He also didn't mention that the _"small batch"_ of waterproof concrete, he is talking about, is called _Opus Caementicium_ and was invented by the ancient Romans.

[@kedanClipse]

@@maxmustermann9587that wasn’t the focus of the video nor was it the concrete type even used

[@jk3mom]

@maxmustermann9587 thank you. Noticed that after you said it.

[@triloization]

Fun fact:opus caementicium, a concrete was invented more than 2000 ago by the Roman's and was waterproof, was used for big buildings and structures like aqueducts. We just forgot how to make it. So it had to be re-invented.

[@MHR-1993]

We forgot too many things

[@Alinor24]

They recently figured it out. It also heals itself. But it can't be used with steel, therefore it won't replace reinforced concrete.

[@TheHoveHeretic]

Self repairing concrete was a Roman achievement too ... and another thing we've only recently come to understand. Pretty much the opposite of the stuff we watch crumbling to dust after a few decades.

[@BigBirdy100]

I was looking for someone to say this.

[@pointofinterest9084]

it is actually badly grinded, so solidification of old roman concrete takes time and it is actually setting better in water than on the open air. nobody forgot it, problem was a byproduct of actual tech improvement - new cement was grinded so well, that reaction took much less time and was more or less unified. it was much better, cause new concrete is actually more sturdy and can support bigger loads. so there was need for a new tech, not reverse-engeneering old one.

[@scottmoseley5122]

Thank you. I never heard that story. AWESOME

[@cn9800]

Love your content. Thanks.

[@mkhanman12345]

Public content.

[@KyrillosGirgis-g7m]

FACT CHECK: The Erie Canal was completed in 1825, though it did contribute to NYC population growth at the time, NYC was already the biggest city in the country since 1790 according to the US Census.

[@DeterminismisFreedom]

🤙 Derminism is Freedom 🤙

[@JokersAce0]

Yes the video is incorrect. The New York harbor alone was enough.

[@MDuarte-vp7bm]

​@@DeterminismisFreedomdeterminism?

[@DeterminismisFreedom]

@@MDuarte-vp7bm yes 😊

[@cusefan5510]

While this video is incorrect and NYC was already the biggest city. The growth the Erie Canal spread all across the state of New York is why New York as a state is what it is. Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo. All boomed because of the ease of shipping goods down to a massive hub like NYC.

[@IndustrialParrot2816]

Philadelphia actually was the Headquarters of the most Important Railroad in the World the Pennsylvania Railroad, and still the City has the Best Commuter Rail system in the country because of it

[@ESCOTELLEM]

yea until you see fiends everywhere from 69th to frankfurt in every station 😅

[@LegendaryCollektor]

Philly also has less gun violence than nyc or chicago Weird...because their gun laws are the same as rural PA; very loose and easy to get a conceal carry pwrmit

[@TiredoftheBs-t7v]

@@LegendaryCollektor idk that doesn’t seem too weird. Would-be criminals get scared their victim might be carrying a gun so they think twice.

[@sheevpalps3846]

I don’t think Philadelphia has less gun violence than NYC

[@raven4442]

"Most important railroad in the world" except no one outside of the U.S. has ever heard of it and I can think of about 100 different railroads that are far more important.

[@jenniferramos7024]

Thanks for posting a background pre 9/11 ❤❤

[@mikeyhasfuntoo9164]

Image living in New York in 1810, you live pretty quite life, then 10 years later you didn’t move but your in the biggest city in the country

[@bozomori2287]

Boom town

[@FrankSinatrq]

This is a channel that actually gives us on shorts real information. Unlike that “geography” guy.

[@spino-ace]

Which geography guy?

[@Morgan-yj9tf]

Yeah which one

[@FrankSinatrq]

@@spino-ace “Reality explained” (name of channel) if I’m correct.

[@fakedeath13]

He's literally wrong guys, New York became the largest city in the US in 1790 and it literally has nothing to do with the topic of this short...

[@gordon1545]

@@fakedeath13 Yup. There were canals before there was waterproof concrete. There are 6,000 year old canals and the Romans built plenty. There are full-size functioning canals in the UK that are over 250 years old.

[@georgevarughese4886]

Thanks so much for your videos 📹 😊

[@jdsguam]

This was seriously educational. Thank you.

[@johnwright9372]

The Romans invented waterproof concrete.

[@nickdaves3467]

Underrated comment

[@thekaze70]

Romans made it from volcanic ash which he said was a scarce resource

[@lqr824]

@@thekaze70 It's not that scarce. Hawaii is 100% volcanic ash, for instance.

[@gavinotheshitpostartist5586]

​@@lqr824 Hawaii isnt even part of the US back then

[@lqr824]

@@gavinotheshitpostartist5586 My point is that there's practically limitless amounts of the stuff. Who cares whether it was part of the US or not? Much of the lighting in the US was whale oil and want to know something else that wasn't part of the US back then? Whales.

[@benkellman4577]

Having lived in Philly, it’s interesting to think about what the geography of the city would be if it had five times as many people

[@DA-yy8rs]

It would be insane

[@hop208]

All the collar counties would have most likely been annexed by the city at least in-part, and I guess Camden would have been our Jersey City.

[@kimeiga]

I would love to see a long form video about this

[@kimeiga]

OK there are quite a few out there if you search for the Erie Canal history

[@patrickeggs4447]

Great Content. Thanx from Germany

[@ReapTheWhirlwind]

My grandpa fished in the Erie Canal as a boy. ❤ The family is from Florida and with 13 kids his parents had to get creative to feed everyone. The Erie Canal is cool to see and there are boat rides that show you how the locks work.

[@theoriginalmonstermaker]

13 kids is the most obnoxious thing I've ever heard. How self- absorbed... though I guess everyone was more ignorant in the "old days".

[@3.k]

@@theoriginalmonstermaker Talk of self-absorbed and obnoxious... you shouldn't.

[@expiredwarhead993]

@@theoriginalmonstermaker crazy hating😂

[@thestratman7903]

Back before all the 3rd worlders were stabbing people everyday, and the fentanyl zombies were shi**ing on the sidewalks....Must have been nice..I heard stories from my grandpa about San Francisco....Makes me sad.

[@aethere4l]

@@theoriginalmonstermaker Just a generation or so prior to his grandfathers infant mortality was ~200+ per 1,000 live births. Not long before that it was 400 per 1,000. That speaks nothing of the even smaller number that survive until adulthood. It was not uncommon for families to be much larger even only 100 years ago because of how unlikely children would survive to adulthood compared to today. Walk through any old graveyard, especially the small family plots. You will see many headstones that read something like 1895 - 1897. Thanks to vaccines and modern medicine that same infant mortality rate is now only 7 per 1,000.

[@LaughingSeraphim]

History of that canal is interesting in and of itself.

[@jkarnold100]

90s pictures of New York are kinda chilling

[@bluegryp]

Came here to say the same.

[@JoshuaKimbrough]

I miss it so much and wanna go back

[@jkarnold100]

@@JoshuaKimbrough I was only 3 years old (my birth is the 8th so I had JUST turned 3) so I don’t have any solid memories of that time

[@JoshuaKimbrough]

@@jkarnold100 I am turned 10 on the 7th

[@jkarnold100]

@@JoshuaKimbrough my sister is about your age, she’s talked about being in 2nd or 3rd grade watching the news

[@yvonnes7412]

Interesting! And in Western NY the Erie Canal has lots of walking/biking paths, restaurants and towns along. Interesting to think this one invention changed so many lives and changed history!

[@Clock_Man_2763]

New Yorkers when Old Yorkers walk in: 🔥

[@Im_Tessa]

so an american meeting a brit? york is a real place you know

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

York is a very old city. There's one street with many surviving very old buildings which was the inspiration for Diagon Ally in Harry Potter.

[@Mana-hd5qt]

@@Im_Tessayall got ZERO sense of humor 😭

[@packles81]

@@Mana-hd5qtno the joke was just really bad

[@OscarUnrated]

um actually 👆

[@keerongill7310]

Can you talk about chicago lifting the entire city up on screws and rrversing the flow of our river

[@urulito]

Tf

[@smittywerbenjagermanjensen320]

Why have I never heard of this???

[@bozomori2287]

Yes it happened

[@2Badnoob]

Thanks for this. Many people fail to realize the ambitions of some dictate the lives of many.

[@EasyCoastL]

Watching this video while my friend drives on a road that is in the old canal path is interesting timing.

[@TitronzXD]

Love how the World Trade Center is in the first pic

[@waspanimations7037]

Why

[@ConnorEduard]

Yeah and?

[@georgepig7362]

Nobody seems to understand always pointing out the twin towers 😂

[@MoresuperlaoEric]

Is beautiful to see

[@RedWordsFirst]

I love learning things like this where one man’s project and short term goal of creating the perfect mix of waterproof concrete actually changed the world. Lol

[@GamerLord64]

Sounds like something the Netherlands would do they probably learned that when they were called New Amsterdam

[@VerdeLane]

Unbelievable you listened to video and came to this ahistorical conclusion.

[@VerdeLane]

Comprehension and common sense aren't your string points.

[@BruceKilb]

It was called Nieuw Amsterdam, not New Amsterdam.

[@danielkyletamondong713]

​@@BruceKilbtranslation exist

[@diegoflores9237]

Nope. That was centuries after the Dutch arrived

[@Moldova-Ball]

As a Buffalonian, we welcome this on our end. New York team work makes this guys dream work

[@Terrorstar-gbp]

One man can change the world

[@phillipsmith2374]

Why is new york so big? The same reason as many of the greatest towns and cities throughout history. Finding out how to trade goods and get that 💰 as fast as humanly possible.

[@freemason4979]

And the only reason why it isnt even bigger and more prosperous is it's freedom hating, big govt. loving politics

[@mdeborah827]

Yes including trading humans as New York, not only had its own Slave Ships but is named after the Duke of York, most successful slave master. It was Neuw Amsterdam and that too was Slave Built. Folk tried to argue with me over this and went to the Dutch to dispute it and now the most intriguing historical aspect of this city is the hidden slave history during and after because so many attacked Black succeess of the descendants. You must learn the true story of your nation because your nation's enemy does. The banks and insurance companies that thrive today got their start on loans and bonds and insurance policies. That is the origins of slave built Wallenstrasse, not some high brow pursuit of religious freedom.

[@rafaelramos1486]

True

[@HyperInsomniac]

I'm kinda glad. "Hey there Delilah, what's it like in Philadelphia?" Doesn't quite hit the same

[@nickelblock784]

you're right, it's better lol

[@sachemofboston3649]

What’s it like in Philly would rhyme though

[@chill_onpark9492]

@@sachemofboston3649I was just bout to say that lmaoo

[@Bearme73]

Philadelphia could have been both the nation's capital and largest city at the same time.

[@Goonwithatireiron823]

“Hey there Dellilah what’s it like out there in Philly”

[@ynotchristian1366]

Thanks! ❤❤❤❤

[@aidankotsch1568]

Thomas S Allen wrote a phenomenal song called “Low Bridge Everybody Down” which is about traveling the Erie Canal in 1905. It is undeniably one of the most important pieces of infrastructure in US history (perhaps only surpassed by the transcontinental railroad) as it opened Ohio River Valley to the economic prosperity of trade on the Atlantic Coast for a fraction of the cost that travel on the PA Turnpike and other early highways tried to offer.

[@dopedagoth1789]

Didnt the romans have waterproof concrete?

[@Maksa-cb4os]

Yes but the knowledge was lost to time and rediscovered in NY

[@marcelomenendez3476]

Yea that’s exactly how the Roman’s did it. New York pretty much did what they did but on a bigger scale

[@alfredandersson875]

The romans had very durable concrete, but not fit for todays extensive needs

[@EddieBurke]

@@marcelomenendez3476the Roman’s were mixed less evenly which funnily enough makes it last longer.

[@remoliberati1076]

@@marcelomenendez3476absolutely not on a bigger scale you dunce the Romans did it all over Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East like what do you mean 😂😂

[@amberv9424]

I live in fairport new York, and the Erie canal runs right through the village! I knew exactly which canal you were talking about immediately

[@FutureDreamZz]

Omg that’s so cool! I’d love to see it one day! I’m from Connecticut you’ll have to take me

[@amberv9424]

@@FutureDreamZz there's a lot of stuff to do along the canal here. The whole village is based around it. Shops, places to eat, events. They have canal days every year the first week of June. It's like an arts and crafts festival. People setup tents and sell their homemade craft products. Some businesses come to advertise but it's mostly craft sellers. Music, alcohol, fireworks the first night. Canal days and canal nights. Day time is the crafts and night time is the live bands. It's so much fun! That's definitely the time to come! First weekend in June every year. There's also a bike path that runs alongside the canal so you can bike through multiple towns and each one has villages along the canal.

[@LizCoombs]

I learned something new. What a way to go.

[@Parabellum.silvano]

The Romans had waterproof concrete two thousand years ago

[@oribargil3958]

We still dont know exactly how they did it though lol

[@rightleft7306]

And it was great for standing buildings, we've only recently found out how to make it (probably without the actual recipe it's more an educated guess that looks like it), and probably isn't the best for supporting such a canal

[@shibo1221]

That was made with volcanic ash as mentioned in the video. Also as you can tell or maybe I'm wrong. Due to New York lacking volcano or lacking a large supply or volcanic ash, the Roman method would not have worked here.

[@chrisl1873]

That's very nice dear. Does New York have vast amounts of easy and cheap access to volcanic ash?

[@Bards.98]

@@oribargil3958 i am pretty sure in 2022 they completely understood it, better confirm it tho

[@BR-it2qe]

Interestingly, the upper midwest was largely settled by up state new yorkers. We have several New York place names here in Chicago. Its also where we get our accent, buffalo sounds just like us.

[@sebaschan-uwu]

What do you mean "in chicago"?

[@BR-it2qe]

@sebaschan-uwu harlem, boradway and hyde park are all named after New York. The Halsted brothers were frim NYC. Ogden, the first Mayor is from NY state. Many builders of the I&M canal where New Yorkers. Theres Manhattan in the subrubs. Think about it like this. There were no Americans here before chicago, they all came from the developed areas of the US, the cloest of which was New England, the hudson canal connecting the Great Lakes to NYC had a lot to do with it.

[@charlienyc1]

​​@@BR-it2qeAs an upstate-NYer living in Chicago, this is great info. And yes, those accents are super similar! Thanks.

[@dogemaster202]

The nyc backroud he put on had the wtc in them such beauty they are

[@Benjamincr7isthegoat1985]

Atleast they WERE.

[@billbooks2891]

Love the picture ❤

[@teamceline9712]

Huh. And here I thought it was our Dutch "business first" mindset, lol

[@wesleyvanderlee9027]

To be fair, you built a waterworks to enable trade. Your Dutch ancestors would be proud.

[@Sultanofthesun]

I would have thought it would be easier to transport goods from the Midwest through road or rail. Interesting how they solved the problem.

[@_magnify]

Rail came about 40 years after the Erie Canal. But prior to that it was cheaper for a farmer in Ohio to send their goods thousands of miles by the Mississippi River and around Florida to Philadelphia than trying to pull it a couple hundred miles by land to Pennsylvania.

[@Sultanofthesun]

@@_magnify Oh! I didn't know that 😬 thanks for the education! 😄🧡

[@IndustrialParrot2816]

They switched to Rail about 20 years after the Erie Canal was built, it Got Replaced by the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad which was the fierce rival of the Pennsylvania Railroad

[@IndustrialParrot2816]

​@@_magnifyno rail showed up about 20 years After when the New York Central Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad were built

[@hanneswiggenhorn2023]

You use rail to transport people, but water ways to transport goods. I really recommend looking into horse drawn boats! A horse towing a boat can tow 50 times as much as a horse could regularly, so they could relatively easily outperform trains in terms of material transportation and were used way into the mid 20th century when other methods like trucks replaced them

[@Duke_Scanlan]

I love your videos. You have such a variety of information and they pack a punch of information in one minute.

[@bobojones5203]

That church in the middle would be so cool if it was still there😭😭

[@jupiter0103]

"It's only possible by volcanic ash, which can only be made as small batch." The Romans: *Laughs in Slavery*

[@Tokyo_Drift-k3u]

Thank you New York . From Philadelphia ❤

[@revphil9878]

Another candidate for the biggest city would have been New Orleans.

[@Nightcrawler81]

And Chicago.

[@ChronicBongitis420]

​@@Nightcrawler81no

[@jamesdutchman8862]

Now, THAT was an interesting video.

[@theitalianguy6542]

He almost made Roman concrete

[@tristanmitchell1242]

It still baffles me that the secret to Roman Concrete was literally just to use seawater. Romans did not purify water unless they needed to, anything that didn't explicitly need purification (baths, drinking, washing, making wine, etc) was just "whatever water is near at hand", which in Rome was seawater.

[@christinalee2072]

I did not know NY was still the biggest city in the US.

[@tylernaturalist6437]

By far 😂, even if you separated Brooklyn from the rest of the city, it would still be the largest and Brooklyn would be the 4th/5th largest in the country.

[@yodin3712]

empire state baby

[@Nazuiko]

Why would it not be its home to like 3-4% of the entire country by itself. one city, in one out of 50 states, having a significant % of the ENTIRE COUNTRYs population is wild. NYC has more people living in it by itself than all but the 12 most populous states

[@robertmoore6149]

NYC is bigger than Los Angeles, Chicago, and half a Houston (#4) combined

[@wizenedoak5046]

Apparently according to google by square miles NYC is 28th but 1st in population

[@Melonill]

love those towers in the background, hopefully nothing happens to them 🥰

[@eggshell_rec3]

Nah

[@georgepig7362]

Nothing bad ever happens to the kennedys

[@Dragonofallgames]

I remember learning about this in school, lived in a small town near Albany NY, so of course they taught it, heck, there was even a little song about it.

[@jochem420]

they wanted to dig a canal across the state? should've just asked the dutch! we've been doing that for centuries. 🇳🇱🇳🇱🧀🧀🧀

[@ryujibackyeah4189]

Funny how New York Used to be a Dutch colony

[@markdoldon8852]

Not through mountains, which requires locks, most economically made from concrete.

[@czarlguitarl]

we need your help in the Louisiana area, they could take some lessons from the Dutch for sure.

[@petevenuti7355]

I think they were living in saugerties making a living as Sawyer's at the time...

[@gordon1545]

@@markdoldon8852 There were locks long before there was waterproof concrete. There are locks in the UK still in use that are older than the USA.

[@deutschermichel5807]

Gutes Tägchen

[@_ThePokerFace_]

Thank you

[@srb4722]

Ditto

[@Robotraff1ghter]

Sorry, I don’t speak German

[@kentrosaurusboi3909]

It really isn't that hard to understand man

[@bozomori2287]

شكرا

[@DonTruman]

I worked in western NY for a year and did some exploration of the Erie Canal while there. It was an incredible feat of construction. There was no "engineering" at that time so it was all seat--of-the-pants design. There was no heavy equipment, and yet they invented locks to raise and lower boats over hills and mountains, and dug a 400 mile channel in a very short period, all privately funded, and it was a huge financial success. Transformed not just NYC but also the Buffalo area and everything between. The best of American ingenuity, capitalism, ambition, entrepreneurial risk-taking, etc.

[@jimdep6542]

Exactly........well said !

[@bigastrofan1966]

But it never went to NYC, or Buffalo. The east end stopped in Albany, and the west end stopped in the Tonawandas.

[@DonTruman]

@@bigastrofan1966 it connected to the Hudson river in the east, which goes to NYC, and then to the Atlantic Ocean. So, it brought goods in and out from the rest of the world, to western NY. And Tonawanda is right next to Buffalo. Buffalo is a large and mostly flat terrain, i.e. better for building a city. And Buffalo connects to Lake Erie, where more commerce traveled even further west by boat.

[@bigastrofan1966]

@@DonTruman It still doesn't go to Buffalo or NYC. There are rivers between those cities, and the canal.

[@AxePlays-hc5dj]

@@bigastrofan1966 New York City was at the mouth/start of the main river that led ships to the canal. Might as well say the Hudson River was part of the canal.

[@sumitzanje9660]

Great job, engineering team!

[@cz_Fenix]

As a Pennsylvanian, I still find Philadelphia having important ports despite being landlocked. Gotta love the Delaware River! Edit: I don't actually live in Philly, about an hour out.

[@mbberry135]

Actual reason NYC us the biggest City: It is the merger of a few large Cities (Brooklynfor instance) (yes the 5 Burroughs) . Philadelphia was a merger a few towns and 1 other city (Germantown). Sincerely Mike B. B. From Philly, P.A. U.S.A.

[@senireye.5597]

Did you nit listen to the video, new york was smaller beforehand

[@sebaschan-uwu]

​@senireye.5597 new york city used to just be manhattan. Then over time the other boroughs got incorporated into it for fun I guess. So yes, it was a "small city", the only reason it's the largest city is because it's basically 5 cities. Thats also the main reason why it has such a high population, but the other reason is because of the commerce and economy.

[@irTaeke]

I think when they explained the concept of 'growth' in primary school, you happened to have a day off

[@jaredf6205]

Pennsylvania was so close to being the most populous state and then New York took off.

[@beeeee0515]

Erie canal is easily the most overlooked American civil engineering projects. History like that makes me proud to be an American who has a can-do attitude no matter the size of the feat. We can still see that attitude today in our culture whenever the opportunity rises.

[@olayusuf1503]

Damn..the twin towers look outstanding behind him

[@w花b]

Right?

[@dixon_buttz757]

Never forget 🇺🇸

[@RevertFlip]

@@dixon_buttz757never forget what

[@enchantedhamburger8934]

​bro already forgot @@RevertFlip

[@zakugour2677]

I'm curious, what's the engineer's name? 🤔

[@5koe]

His name was Canvass White. He was only 27 at the time and travelled to Britain to learn about their canal system and brought the information back with him!

[@420sakura1]

So he stole it? ​@@5koe

[@zakugour2677]

@@5koe Thanks king! 👑

[@Schizniit]

I remember having to do a whole report on the Erie Canal in like 5th grade or something

[@blinkybli8326]

Fascinating, truly.

[@crowbaril903]

I wish they would make a movie about the making of the canal. many slaves were used and lost during construction

[@throwaway2129]

So what

[@bengibson8907]

​@@throwaway2129 Cringe

[@binaryvoid0101]

@@throwaway2129You mad at history? 💀

[@throwaway2129]

@binaryvoid0101 Saying "so what" makes you think people are mad? You're soft, baby.

[@gothamwarrior]

@@throwaway2129Dude you’re so cool and edgy. I hope that one day I can be as much of an Ohio Sigma as you.

[@Wanderer4Hire]

Wait a damn minute, this seems awfully similar to how the romans made their famous concrete. Lime in the concrete allows for the continuation of the concretes structures due to crystals forming from water.

[@WildBikerBill]

The Romans mixed in volcanic ash from their area, the unique chemistry of it making their concrete waterproof. The crushed limestone they added to it gave it self-healing properties in the event of cracking. The baths used it, the aqueducts used it, their ports used it. The Israeli port of Caesarea Maritima used it, so it was shipped far and wide.

[@CuriousEarthMan]

the engineer went to Europe and studied for a year, learning how they did it. THEN, once back in NY state, they located suitable limestone and duplicated the results in. NY did not invent it. They imported and adapted the technology. There's a KZbin video that explains it all. About 20-30 mins long.

[@kinglizard3406]

@@WildBikerBill After the Roman Empire, the use of burned lime and pozzolana was greatly reduced. Low kiln temperatures in the burning of lime, lack of pozzolana, and poor mixing all contributed to a decline in the quality of concrete and mortar. From the 11th century, the increased use of stone in church and castle construction led to an increased demand for mortar. Quality began to improve in the 12th century through better grinding and sieving. Medieval lime mortars and concretes were non-hydraulic and were used for binding masonry, "hearting" (binding rubble masonry cores) and foundations. Bartholomaeus Anglicus in his De proprietatibus rerum (1240) describes the making of mortar. In an English translation from 1397, it reads "lyme ... is a stone brent; by medlynge thereof with sonde and water sement is made". From the 14th century, the quality of mortar was again excellent, but only from the 17th century was pozzolana commonly added.[29] The Canal du Midi was built using concrete in 1670.[30] Industrial era Smeaton's Tower in Devon, England Perhaps the greatest step forward in the modern use of concrete was Smeaton's Tower, built by British engineer John Smeaton in Devon, England, between 1756 and 1759. This third Eddystone Lighthouse pioneered the use of hydraulic lime in concrete, using pebbles and powdered brick as aggregate.[31] A method for producing Portland cement was developed in England and patented by Joseph Aspdin in 1824.[32] Aspdin chose the name for its similarity to Portland stone, which was quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England. His son William continued developments into the 1840s, earning him recognition for the development of "modern" Portland cement.[33] Reinforced concrete was invented in 1849 by Joseph Monier.[34] and the first reinforced concrete house was built by François Coignet[35] in 1853. The first concrete reinforced bridge was designed and built by Joseph Monier in 1875.[36] Prestressed concrete and post-tensioned concrete were pioneered by Eugène Freyssinet, a French structural and civil engineer. Concrete components or structures are compressed by tendon cables during, or after, their fabrication in order to strengthen them against tensile forces developing when put in service. Freyssinet patented the technique on 2 October 1928.[

[@zacharyfindlay-maddox171]

@@CuriousEarthMan Thank you!

[@CuriousEarthMan]

@@zacharyfindlay-maddox171 my pleasure!

[@Caseoh_MODDER]

IF THERE'S NEW YORK,DO THEY HAVE OLD YORK🤨

[@UATHD]

It's in York

[@RRC5074]

Probably migrants from York, England established 'New' York. Just like 'New' Hampshire, 'New' London...etc

[@geoky2]

Old york is in britain and is called York (it is the capital of Yorkshire)

[@Ja-Block]

“Old” York is in the UK

[@donaldthomas3173]

Yes it's called yorkshire. It's in England.

[@asamarisimeon2418]

We don't give up 🗽💪🏾