The Secret Life of the Vacuum Cleaner - Remastered
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- Remastered and upscaled by Norman Margolus from a 1987 PAL tape made directly from the 16mm print, using machine learning software from Topaz labs. Commentary added in Feb 2021. I apologize for the intrusive adverts on the new versions. I am unable to remove them and don't receive any of the income. TH-cam automatically detects the copyrighted theme music and posts the adverts to pay the copyright holder, in this case the multinational company, The Universal music Group.
View all 6 episodes of the series and read about their background on my website:
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The videos are also here @ / timhunkin1
The true engineering marvel here is the arrangement of a jazz classic in 5/4 into a reggae tune in 4/4.
Val Bennett spoiled us in 68 with one of the most fantastic adaptations of Take 5, bar none. Absolutely delightful earworm of a tune for an engineering program.
Here come the Russians!
@@Saxdude26there’s also a version done on traditional Japanese instruments that is absolutely amazing.
Just imagine, the vacume brakes down, you call for a repair person, theres a knock at the door, and there stands Rex Garrod. I would lose my mind !!!!!! he really was a king among men. A friend of mine met Rex once whilst filming Robot Wars, he told me that Rex recorded his own voice onto some selotape that he had covered in rust particles and although not the best recording his voice was disipherable, he also got a lift in Rexes car and said he had never been in a car driven so fast, he said he just held on while they sped along all the time Rex telling amazing stories about things he had made. I have said this in other comments but I really am enjoying this channel, both re visiting the secret life series and all the new content. Thank you Tim.
Wow when you put it like that with sellotape and rust particles recording voice, that is real wizardry. These engineers they are truly something else 😁
Hi yes, the "sticky tape and rust" scene is shown the Video Recorder episode. I was truly astounded when I first watched it!
Repairman
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“Breaks down”?
Tim, you may not read this, but here goes. Watching your programs back in the day inspired me to become a scientist and I went on to develop heat treatment and other chemical inactivation processes for blood products to ensure their safety for haemophilia patients. The processes we developed killed the HIV and Hepatitis B virus, and we even developed a 15 nanometre filter to screen the viruses out. I know this isn’t engineering but at least I felt that I saved a few thousand lives. I’m proud of my achievements and have a few scientific papers on the subject. I’m a virologist but without your inspiration I would never have done what I did. My father rejected me as an idiot for not following football as a career but I persevered and studied microbiology and never looked back. My wife even developed Factor X to treat a rare form of haemophilia for which I’m proud to have been involved with. She died last year. Thanks Tim. You were an inspiration to me.
Ps. I would love to meet you in person. Ps. It’s called Coagadex.
It's great to see this iconic series remastered.
@Camdyn Skylar no one cares about your scam
these are for the world bank of knowledge
I remember watching these shows as a little kid with dad. I think they played a large part in directing me to technical jobs
When i was a child , used to tear apart many devices, such tv receivers , radios, cassette recorders, toys, and everything that used electricity, just to see whats inside and how it works.
Now I am an electronics engineer, and I've designed many devices, such as crane remote controllers/receivers, magnetic levitation train working model, working park rides models, jukeboxes, welding machines, arcade machines, acrylic benders, and others.
have you disassembled anything radioactive?
The FLYING VACUUM CLEANERS at the end looked like the ROCKET SHIPS FROM FLASH GORDON! 😂😂😂 "Vacuu-Ming The Merciless!"
We all know what Flesh Gordon would have used a vacuum cleaner for...
@@yakacm To remind him of Prince Precious?
The smug git look on Rex's face over the tin can motor is priceless and totally justified !!!..... God bless him and you Tim for such a fantastic series that inspired me no end !!!
LOL I saw that too!!
The comments at the end are a great add on to this.
Mmm
Back when a person could actually learn something on The Learning Channel.
And it was presented in a way that appealed to children and encouraged learning in preparation for their futures.
Exactly…. I’m loving Tim’s work…. Fantastically fascinating!!!!!
Absolutely loved this show as a kid. Probably helped start my interest in engineering.
💚🌴☀️
Wait, this was TLC? It wasn’t always hoarders, zits, and people trying to lose over a 1/2 ton of weight?😂
Tim Hunkin, your are our Hero...best wishes from the USA...cheers, Paul
Tim and Rex are unsung heroes of educational entertainment TV.
It's testament to these shows that decades later I can still clearly remember certain scenes and mock ups they made.
Watching is my lunchtime treat, putting on a show with items I grew up with that were becoming outdated and seeing them brings back just memories.
I recall sending off for the factsheet, still have it somewhere, filled with Tim's drawings.
Thank you Tim and thank you Rex for the memories and education.
Yeah, the demo of helical scan in the VCR one replacing the heads with pens and running paper tape through it was incredibly memorable stuff.
Couldn't agree more. These two were who I idolized as child while the rest of my cohort followed sports, cartoons, and movie stars. Sad this type of programming was very quickly replaced by Ice-road drama reality and Honey BooBoo. Just a shameful demise of educational TV.
RIP Rex. Lot going on in my life right now, but I'm trying to do as you taught us.
I get knocked down, but I get up again. SRIMECH King.
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@@LionsPhil 🔴 Human Rights and Justice in Islam
🔵 Islam provides many human rights for the individual. The following are some of these human rights that Islam protects.
🔴 The life and property of all citizens in an Islamic state are considered sacred, whether a person is Muslim or not. Islam also protects honor. So, in Islam, insulting others or making fun of them is not allowed.
🔵 The Prophet Muhammad said: {Truly your blood, your property, and your honor are inviolable.}
🔴 Racism is not allowed in Islam, for the Quran speaks of human equality in the following terms:
{ O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female and have made you into nations and tribes for you to know one another. Truly, the noblest of you with God is the most pious.2 Truly, God is All-Knowing, All-Aware.} (Quran, 49:13)
🔵 Islam rejects certain individuals or nations being favored because of their wealth, power, or race. God created human beings as equals who are to be distinguished from each other only on the basis of their faith and piety.
🔴 The Prophet Muhammad said: {O people! Your God is one and your forefather (Adam) is one. An Arab is not better than a non-Arab and a non-Arab is not better than an Arab, and a red (i.e. white tinged with red) person is not better than a black person and a black person is not better than a red person, except in piety.}
🔵 One of the major problems facing mankind today is racism. The developed world can send a man to the moon but cannot stop man from hating and fighting his fellow man. Ever since the days of the Prophet Muhammad , Islam has provided a vivid example of how racism can be ended. The annual pilgrimage (Hajj) to Makkah shows the real Islamic brotherhood of all races and nations, when about two million Muslims from all over the world come to Makkah to perform the pilgrimage.
🔴 Islam is a religion of justice. God has said:
{ Truly God commands you to give back trusts to those to whom they are due, and when you judge between people, to judge with justice....} (Quran, 4:58)
🔵 And He has said:
{ ...And act justly. Truly, God loves those who are just.} (Quran, 49:9)
🔴 We should even be just with those who we hate, as God has said:
{ ...And let not the hatred of others make you avoid justice. Be just: that is nearer to piety....} (Quran, 5:8)
🔵 The Prophet Muhammad said: {People, beware of injustice, for injustice shall be darkness on the Day of Judgment.}
🔴 And those who have not gotten their rights (i.e. what they have a just claim to) in this life will receive them on the Day of Judgment, as the Prophet said: {On the Day of Judgment, rights will be given to those to whom they are due (and wrongs will be redressed)...}
I loved this when it was first shown on Channel 4 and naturally recorded it on VHS and later transferred it to DVD, but this is certainly the best quality recording there is. Tim’s chat at the end is an added bonus.
If your copy of "The Car" is good, please upload it somewhere. It will be the only copy without the color sync and field order errors that would be available to the public. When the PAL and NTSC DVD sets were done, whomever did it wasn't checking to ensure all the digitizations from the broadcast tapes were good. Thus for all the online copies made from those DVDs, that episode becomes pretty much unwatchable partway through.
Ibaisaic I love your videos I was wondering if you had seen this! Thank you for all you do for the community!
I don't know how many times I have watched this entire series, but I saw it as a kid *born 79, have all the mpeg episodes downloaded on a worn out cd, and here I am watching it again in glorious HHHHHHHHHHHDDDDDDDDD (echo) somehow never gets old
Same only born in '86.. And have those downloaded episodes now on my NAS, having kept them via (usually) backing things up, ignoring the 560GB+ of music i lost! I think you must mean DVD and not CD though mate as the total size is 3.63GB, unless you heavily compressed them? :P I'd re-torrent it but i don't want to upset Tim!
Same here, I have Tim's original uploads on SD card and backup on DVD+R.
I was 10 when this series aired in the US.
81 here 😉
This fills me with such joy. I am genuinely thrilled to be able to rewatch these episodes and just as thrilled to have Mr. Hunkin remaster and comment on them. This has made my weekend, HUGE thanks.
Me too, made my Easter Weekend. Maybe there is a reason for TH-cam :-)
Surprising, I've had the torrent of all episodes on my HDD/NAS for quite some time now, i still have some on VHS somewhere, sadly taped via a domestic machine (thanks to my grandmother and her wonderful "VideoPlus" remote control to help set the timer!) before Video+ was actually built in... :o I believe i got the torrent link from his actual website - or he at least said to search for it. Something else i admired about Tim! I have tried 're-mastering' what i have but the source quality is lower than DVD. I could however play them perfectly on my very early 'smartphone' with slide out keyboard and a PSP thanks to this! I've had some success with NVENC and GPU acceleration though..upscale on playback works quite well (using VLC!)
Edit: the torrent i have comes with a website clearly designed by Tim listing them all.. Maybe i remembered correctly or he at least approved someone uploading them!
@@ChaosHusky Any way to obtain this torrent, please?
I'm just meeting him today, and he is a hoot!!
I watched as many of these as I could when I was a kid. These shows were a formative experience for me. Thank you Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod for make these great shows.
Tim! What a delight to see this remastered. I watched these when I was a boy, born in 1986. I'm almost certain this series propelled me into a life of taking things apart, an obsession with vacuum cleaners, and an eventual career as a sound engineer touring the world.. I owe you an awful lot inspiring me at such a young age. It makes me so happy to see you're still doing what you love. I learned an awful lot about chains earlier today.. Don't ever stop! Greetings from Scotland!
Totally agree with you there on Dyson. And everytime I go to empty ours the wind blows all the dust down the side of the house and I'm there thinking; wouldn't it be nice if all this dust were in a nice paper bag or summat.
I like not buying bags - I also like the modular design and the ease of maintenance and repair. I've got a Dyson DC07 that's heading towards 20 years old now and is still going strong
Agreed. We had a knock-off style bagless cleaner based on the cyclone principle and emptying it into the bin on a breezy day just spread dust and dirt everywhere. It made me realise how convenient the disposable paper bag is. Perhaps the Dyson thing is a bit more energy efficient (discuss) but it's certainly not more convenient. I was chuffed to hear that the vacuum cleaner repair chap is making a living out of them though!
@@Tsnafu But our Numatic Henry is well over that age and has never needed dismantling or repairing.
Donald Sayers Agree completely- Henry is a fantastic machine- incredibly simple, robust, reliable and yet cheap. Best of all the bags are enormous, last for months at a time cleaning an average house and cost less than £1 each. Why anyone would want to spend four or five times the cost of a Henry on a dyson that will last less than a quarter of the time a Henry will is beyond me!
@@Tsnafu When your Dyson breaks, either fix it or buy a lightly used one because a new one won't last anywhere near that long.
This show was a huge part of my childhood. I had some VHS tapes I think my father recorded from a marathon of them on TV. I watched them obsessively. When these videos appeared in my YT recommendations, I showed my wife this episode, and after a few minutes she remarked "Oh, this is all starting to make so much sense.", referencing my mysterious (to her) apparently innate understanding of appliances and machinery. I was pleased to discover that Tim is still active and that there are public installations of his work. The next time I am in London I will make sure to visit Novelty Automation.
Wow...I first watched TSLOM in my junior year of college in 1987. I recorded all of them on VHS and subsequently wore them all out. I was delighted whenever I could catch one on cable and very happy when I could find them online. Over the years, I would often point my technicians and customers to the videos so they could understand how things work. These are still great programs and they have stood the test of time.
This is the one that got me hooked on this series when it was airing on Public Television in the US. Still love these.
I, born in 1981 enjoyed every second of this in 2021. I hope commercials brought enough, because there was one every three minutes. It was worth it.
Seriously the best that television has ever had to offer. Thank you Tim for the series and for bringing it back with your commentary. I learned from a comment below that Rex Garrod had passed and was sorry to learn of that. This is the first one I’ve watched in the remastered versions but I will certainly watch them all!
Sweet!
Tim Hunkin is a true hero; who else would ever upload their entire TV series for FREE!
Tim you gave us all insight to all those machines!
This is one of the earliest Science programs I ever watched in the states on PBS out of Pittsburgh. Ignited my desire to find out how things work. Still love it today. Thank you for these uploads.
I have always thought that vacuum cleaners were a post war invention, never could have imagined it being manually pumped like in this video. Thank you so much for sharing this content for future generations to come.
I love this show, if everything was explained this way a lot more people would get into engineering and such.
Tim, as a non-British person I was totally unaware of your series and all your doing up until now. I am glad I came across your work and I am really keen on ending the current situation to be able to travel and see your arcades. Your contraptions look so funny, clever designed, artful and very political. Thanks a lot and all the best.
This is where I am at as well
Tim... I've got to tell you that I learned more about how things worked and grasped the concepts of them from watching your show as a child. You were an inspiration to so many people and I would love to see this series brought back. Thank you for helping me see the world in a new way and understand just how simple things really are when you strip away all the frivolity of them. Thank you so much for all you've done! This is exactly the way people should be taught in school these days!
Brilliant series, thank you so much for bringing it back to life. This series and "Connections" were my all time favorites. Bagless vacuums now make me "The Vacuum Cleaner", in fact I use an old bagged hoover to clean my bagless cleaners. Thank You 🙏🙏🙏🙆🙆🙆
When I was younger I enjoyed watching this show for me in the northern US I could not remember the name of this show or the channel it was on but it came on usually around 11 pm this was my favorite thing to watch the telephone episode was what made me look for this and I'm glad I found it thank you this show is awesome informative and entertaining 😎 👍🏽
I have TWO of those little air pumps at the end. I use them on some 1960s era aquariums. Works great!
😁 - much more quieter than those modern ac electromagnetic bellows things - a loud buzzing hum next to your fish tank 😠 (the only noise being the air bubbles in the tank itself)
Wait, these were practical, mass produced devices? Made to be silent for aquarium bubblers?
I had one many years ago. They need to be oiled frequently.
I always enjoyed this series. The subtle humor is the best part. Thank you for the upload!
I just saw this on a short and now I'm invested on watching the whole vid
My dad used to do Tim's wire coil, nail and battery magnetism experiment with me when I was young after we watched this episode. Watching this again brings back fond memories.
You are a legend sir. This show had a great influence on my career choices. Wonderful to see you reflect on these episodes so many years later.
Thank you Messers Hunkin and Garrod. I first saw this series on TV here in Australia when I was about 7 or 8 and immediately started taking things apart to see how they worked. Now I repair appliances and computers for a living. :)
This episode has been such an inspiration to my life! Thanks for the updated commentary!
The goat of modern marvels. Love this thank you
For 30 YEARS I've been looking for this series. I had almost given up 😭. I remembered bit's of the intro. But I thought it was lost to forgotten media. Thank you!
I treasure my ancient electrolux twice as useful with an incredibly practical "blow" end as well as the suck end!! All modern vacuums just suck nowadays 🤔 Thank you Tim, you have entertained and inspired thousands of my physics students in the 40 years 👍
Tim i remember you and Rex from my teenage years, I've spent my life never calling a repair guy, especially since the advent of the Internet and all the how-to guides now available. I've rebuilt a 50's valve radio, built a valve bass amp from an old school record player (the had powerful amps to fill school halls!), repaired multiple vacuum cleaners, washing machines, cookers, bicycles, even cleaned out the dust and dead spiders from mum and dad's gas water heater by taking apart the bits you are allowed to without being corgi registered, hairdryers, sheds, laptops, cb radios, electric guitars...... thank you for showing my generation what was possible, and god help the next, helpless reliant generation who don't even know what a screwdriver is. I have 3 teenagers who can't even drive a nail to put felt on a shed roof........
Watched this show as a kid. It’s a vlog that was ahead of its time. Good explanations, personal experiences, animations,
I loved watching this series on TV in Canada. I forget which channel, maybe TLC, used to air it in the 90s. Thank you Tim for posting it here with extra commentary.
Takes me back to the days of Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, and those wonderful clocks. Great to see this again, Tim.
Another great remaster, and it really is great to hear your memories about when you and Rex originally filmed the episode. Thanks Tim!
Thank you for this high quality remastered version and I particularly appreciated the comments at the end. I remember watching this very episode on TV when I was a kid, many years ago... and I have the same pleasure today watching it again.
I loved this show… It opened by playing Take Five by David Brubeck I believe. I can’t remember the name of this great inventive/documentarion program.
I had forgotten about this series and the presenter, brings back fond memories when many programmes were presented by such good caring people.
Good to see these again, particularly in such good quality!
The comments at the end are very enjoyable & add greatly to the enjoyment.
many thanks for going to the effort to get these remastered, in particular to Norman Margolus for doing this !!
Hi Tim, love your work. As an Electrical Engineer myself I find you explanations and demonstrations really informative and instructive. I remember watching your videos back in the day when I was at university and found them extremely helpful. Live the cartoons and the music too. More power to you. Take care. Gregg, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia.
amazing that tim got to interview Bill Sutton, not so much technical, but the bridging of generations, is amazing
I thank you so much Tim for teaching me the secretes of machines. It is a program once seen could never be forgotten. I have watched them several times. It is a classic.
Always loved this series and especially this episode. I remember watching it when it first aired. I love that it's been remastered and Tim's add on at the end.
How time flies! Fond memories. 😊
I used to own a Reeves. The handle was missing, my grandpa made a new one on his lathe.
The Reeves barely worked, because of its very flimsy sheet metal construction. A small dent in the metal 'cylinder', already meant that it doesn't create any semblance of a vacuum anymore, and the valves preventing air from exiting the way it went in, did not work very well. But it was a nice piece of history.
As for lithium battery powered vacuums - these things really start to become useful. By now, it's normal to have a 150w motor in them, which is equal to the ones in early Siemens 'Protos' vacuums from the 1920s and 1930s. So definitely not suitable for thorough whole house cleaning, but fine for small jobs here and there.
One good thing the EU brought us (well, not the UK anymore) is the limitation of vacuum cleaner power consumption at 1000w. Manufacturers kept putting in motors that consumed more and more power, eventually ending up at 2000w. Consumers kept buying the big watt numbers with the idea they would be getting more and more powerful vacuums.
However, the *suction power* barely rose anymore after the 1000w milestone was reached. The efficiency of the motors just went down. Apparently, some vacuums of that era even had aluminium (cheap!) windings instead of copper.
With the new set of regulations, vacuum cleaners can still be as powerful as they always were, but with motors that are simply more efficient.
I love my 2000w Miele though. It's way more powerful than any of these new EU regulated ones
@@PaulHojda I love my li-ion powered Electrolux. No more backache and it easily vacuums even thick carpets full of dog hair i will never go back to an old fashioned one..
I have and 800 watt electrolux contour that has more airflow and suction than the 2000 watt miele cylinders
I saw the manual vaccuums clip and thought it was a parody. Wasn't expecting this to be as interesting as it is
I started re-watching Secret Life of Machines and I am enjoying them almost as much now as I did when I was a kid (born in 1969). I have since become a successful engineer having influenced the design of cars, submarines, trains, climbing gear, and rockets, among other things. Your shows certainly played a small role in making that happen.
I was particularly struck (both then and now), when you said that Budd was one of your heroes. Engineers and scientists are all too often the butt of jokes instead receiving the admiration they deserve and I thank you for that the most.
When I was around 10 years old, I would so much look forward to watching your shows here in Canada. Here I am at 42 years old, and still taken with the show.
My favorite show when I discovered it .Thank You so much for making a show that a tinkerer and future Technician could enjoy.
Really wonderful to see this creative and instructive series again in such high quality. RIP Rex Garrod.
My Nan had The Goblin Challenge at 9:42. My Grandad was a Goblin salesman for a while. She used it up into the late 70's! It lived in a beautiful wooden coffin covered in black leather.i loved it's Art Deco Flash Gordon styling & those chrome skids were as good as that Hoover hover hoover you showed. I have no idea why skis didn't catch on for cylinder hoover's.
It was very, very quiet! It hummed metallically rather than roared like today's machines.
Now, I find hoovers put out with the wheelie bins. If there's no actual damage to them I can't resist asking if I can take them.
I've not found one yet that simple maintenance gets them going again. A filter, a belt or a simple blockage is usually what makes people throw out their old hoovers & buy the latest plastic creation.
I had to stop my habit of resurrecting hoovers. Once all my friends & relations were fully hoovered up I suddenly had three in my tiny flat!
My current hoover, a Dyson Animal Upright goes for £180 second hand on Amazon. I got mine for free. It was outside someone's front door by the bins. All the tools were next to it in the box of their new hoover. I knocked and they seemed pleased I was taking it. Saved them a trip to the council tip.
When I got it home it was blocked by a piece of a jigsaw puzzle. Took me 5 minutes to clear it out. It's lasted me for 6 years so far!
I still find it hard to leave hoovers behind though!
Nice one! Which Dyson model is it?
@@parwaz7861 It says DC14 animal on it.
@@Aengus42 oh cool, that's their best old school model I think!
@@parwaz7861 It works a treat! I replaced the flex (it had been chopped off), unblocked & cleaned it inside & out. And once it was completely dry I put new filters in it.
Works like new! 😃
@@Aengus42 Fabulous find!
We had an old tube vac growing up. They work very well, but when the bag gets punctured, it just starts spraying dust everywhere just as well. Since they are paper, this happens more than youd think.
Thank you once again Tim for rebirthing this delightful series and providing the contemporary reflection. I just wanted to comment on Dyson. My perception is that like all domestic machinery vacuum cleaners were getting cheaper and more affordable for ‘ordinary working folks’ and then Dyson came along and what he really achieved was to shift the price point for vacuum cleaners upwards by an order of magnitude. You cannot knock his achievement in terms of running a successful business, being a great marketeer, but from an engineering perspective I found his vacuum cleaner DC01 to be pretty shabby all round. My missus pressured me into buying it (victim of persuasive marketing) and I spent an inordinate of time fixing it and must have spent the purchase price in spare parts keeping it running - OK I exaggerate a tad. 😀👍
There are battery powered chainsaws and, according to tree surgeon friend of mine, they are great - so easy to start when you are up a tree. Who would have thought it...
Loved watching these on PBS here in the US and it wonderful to see them again!
Among the video I was wondering about how Dyson tech works then.
It's great how mr Hunkin keeps informed and gives us new info about it.
Such a great series. I watched this episode as an eight year old and was instantly hooked.
I have repaired many pieces of equipment and it all started with Mr Hunkin's excellent series! Thanks for these excellent programmes!
Wood floors : 😎
Also what an incredible piece of media! This must be preserved!
3:10 golf ball thru a garden hose!
The editing of this is just so modern feeling, especially the choice to keep the bit where the vacuum cleaner for the red smoke test needed to be turned on. TH-camrs today don't have this quality of editing, and I just find this so entertaining. So glad I stumbled across this channel.
Bonus Footage! WHAT!!!!???
I use compressed air to blow air from nooks and crannies into the open for vacuuming.
Superb - Im enjoying these remastered delights and the extra comments from Tim.
I remember enjoying them the first time around. Stuff like this is missing from mainstream TV these days ( and Tomorrows World, bring back that).
I used to love watching these each week!
This show inspired my love of old tech and scrapping it to make new old tech. 🙏 Blessings on you and Rex
Loving the remaster and the extra bits at the end. Also I'm really liking the new series about components
We sure are Massimo, fab series in its day and now 👍👍
What a brilliant presenter! So glad to have found these series - and just as I thought I'm spent too much time on TH-cam, darn it...
Seriously looking forward to watching these, I loved the series so much back in the day. Thank you for making them available!
That's amazing that it lifted the van, and that Pink Floyd pig was fantastic.
In that prints in the ground machine, the timer was also out of a washing machine. How I know is that I learnt it from the washing machine episode. 🙂
I am so happy to have found this. I was a huge fan of the series when it was new and have been hoping to see it again, it is one of my all time favorite series. Thank you so much for bringing this absolute classic to TH-cam. And thanks even more for the new content,
WTTW 11 Chicago public television in the 1980's omg thanks for the childhood memories!!
I can remember when i was 5 years old watching your films makes me happy
I spent a few years in England in the late 1980s and remember this episode. I really enjoyed watching it again, I'm tempted to binge-watch all the others but I think I'll ration myself so as to make the enjoyment last longer.
Vacuum cleaners certainly have become a lot more hyped - witness the Dyson phenomena.
But ... digital motor!
Thank you for putting these up! I can attest that it was watching these as a kid that firmly got me to decide on becoming an engineer.
11/2024.....You probably won't read this. But here goes. I'm 70 presently, and I'm in the USA, but when I was a lad in the 1950s, maybe 1958, when I was 5, I was terrified of our home's GE electric vacuum cleaner. It growled like a monster and when my mom drove (pushed) it around I would jump up, on my bed to escape it. Over the years I grew to like it, as it resembled a cool 1940s, car. It had a single headlamp, that in my mind resembled a cyclops Eye. It was shaped like a 1940s men's fedora. Two toned, the top was a light brown color and the bottom a dark brown. I later learned the body of it was aluminum, even though it seemed to weigh a ton. Mom and myself, we struggled to lift it up a flight of stairs. The vacuum bag, was made of an attractive fabric, with an appealing pattern. It was so sturdy,...and one could smash it into furniture legs, and baseboards, and be unaffected. It was manufactured in 1946, and was so durable that I took it to college, in 1970, to vacuum my first dormitory room. Around 1972, I began collecting old, electric vacuums. I'm not sure why, because from that point on, I pretty much abandoned doing much in the way of housekeeping. To counter a house covered in dust,....I resorted to keeping the lights low, so one couldn't see the dust. Little by little I accumulated 40 different brands, and styles of electric vacuums. I found them to be attractive, and stylish. Never hidden away in a closet, I proudly had them on display, in my house. I would become weak in the knees if I saw 6 or so of them in a fancy hotel. In my 30s, to test my passion for vacuum cleaners, I applied to become a vacuum cleaner salesman. I attended a week long seminar, and learned about every aspect of selling the brand called: Electro-Hygiene . A brand described as "The Cadillac" of vacuums. A vacuum so sturdy and reliable, that people put them into their Wills, to be passed on to their kin. They weren't sold in stores,.....they could only be purchased, from salesmen. At the time,....it was 1981,....they sold for more than $500.00. Which was unheard of at the time, because common Hoover brand models were only $150.00, in retail stores.
8:50 that "flatend cylinder type" vaccum cleaner on back is polish Zelmer type 96. Many of them was exported to UK in 70s and 80s under couple trade marks ;) They often have plastic parts in dark gray or brown, oposite to cleaners sold in Poland, which have white/light gray plastic parts.
Thank you! I always wanted to see the whole series but could never catch it on TV.
I remember seeing the vacuum at 5:00 in the Edinburgh museum of childhood. The pneumatic broom looks like a giant solder sucker.
A fabulous resource for understanding our world in the 21st Century! Bravo Tim Hunkin!
It's a beautifully compact package. Definitely worth wheeling to places people can encounter it!
Like most this series holds a special place in my childhood memories, it's great to see episodes remastered. Thank you to all that made this possible.
Well now I feel old, I remember watching these as a teenager and being fascinated by how stuff worked, couldn’t agree more re Dyson had a few at the wife’s demand, they always have broken and are a pain to fix with overpriced spare parts. Great to see he looks and sounds the same 30+ years on.
What a pleasure to see Tim in 2021!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dyson's original machines were very expensive and unreliable - but the MANY knock-offs of them are really very good. Not having a bag to empty is such an enormous "win" that I'll forgive almost any other issues they might have. But without the bag, there is really no limit on how small the particles it can collect - which is a huge benefit too. These days, robot vacuum cleaners are the growing thing - and I have one that wakes up around noon each day and vacuums the house. It's too small to do a GREAT job - but because it runs every day, it greatly reduces the frequency with which I have to vacuum the house manually. The very fanciest ones can even empty their own dirt collection chambers into a much larger container. So I think we ARE making progress with these machines. I recently bought a robot floor mop for the tiled areas of the house - and that's another fascinating machine that squirts out a spray of water, then zips back and forth wiping it up again.
Thanks,enjoyed the story and humor, Watched these back in the early 90s ,Here in the Colonies. lol.
P.S. appreciate the commentary after the credits. Fantastic additions
Paul Desmond would never imagine he'd be represented by 14 "music rights societies" one day XD
I'm pretty convinced that not even a third of those companies own actual rights on any musical piece whatsoever.
I wouldn't be surprised. It's disappointingly easy for anyone to copyright claim a video, and there are no repercussions for doing so without a real reason. That is, unless the video uploader is willing and able to take the troll to court.
@@MolecularMachine IIRC, false claims are treated as fraud and would be punished accordingly; unfortunately, contacting youtube about this stuff is such a frustrating experience that most people would rather lose a few dollars in ad revenue than striking back. And if you strike back and the "fake owner" refuses to let go, you risk a strike on your channel: three of those and the channel is gone.
"LatinAutorPerf" and "UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA" have "ID claimed" almost ALL of my channel (covers/parodies) and, you guessed it, there are no Brazilian songs in there :D
11:01 crazy to see a Honda with a turbo in those years already
Im just about to binge watch all of these & i'm already sad that soon, I will have seen them all. It's really nice to see a budget given to creative people. I feel like British TV networks back then were a little more generous and tasteful with their educational TV budgeting. Forgive me if i'm making too many assumptions. The 'frightened rabbit' hosting makes it even better! These aged like the finest wine.
I miss the days when you couldn't see every single pore on someone's face lol. I was born in 92 but this kindof stuff still gives me an extremely nostalgic feeling. I much enjoy watching this 😊 lol.