Cool video Matt! I would never have dreamed that the bit storage was around in the 1850s. I'm one of the two ladies you talked to in the museum on Friday! Thanks for talking with us - we really enjoyed the museum and we told all our friends we came across all about the museum. I even told somebody on one my quilting groups about it as she was headed to Hamilton Missouri. lol
Hi Nicki! Thank you again for coming to the museum - I'm glad you guys enjoyed your time here. And thank you for spreading the word! Tell the folks in Hamilton they're only an hour away! :)
Love it! As a living historian, this is just another "tool in my belt" (pun intended) to bring history closer to thebmodern public's understanding. Now to recreate it!!
If you’re a Civil War LH I imagine some folks would look at it and say “that’s not period” and you could be like “Oh ya? Check this video out!” Haha. Yes, recreating it would be a very cool thing.
I was recently at the Arabia and saw another ancient version of something we can get at Home Depot or a hardware store. The Engineers tape. I think you have 4 of them in the collection the guests can see. The modern Engineers tap itself is made up of fiberglass while the old version is made up of, I am guessing, cloth. The outside is still round with a hand crank to pull the tape in. I still have my grandfathers toolbox in the basement. I wonder if it has a tape in there. Thank you
Amazing! You ought to do a partnership with the guy from Hand Tool Rescue to reproduce this. It might be a big seller in the museum store ;) I'd love to have one.
You have to remember some things. First, w/o the tech and mass industry we have today, people had more incentive to get clever! Second, people were making very intricate clocks in the 19th century! They _knew_ how to make things! They had the tech to make the Whitworth Rifle, and if you dont know what that was, you really should look it up! Muzzle-loaded long rifle with a hexagonal bullet, so it had to be manufactured to precise specs! The question here is one of expense, and fragility. It certainly takes more time and skill to make something like that. Is it worth the extra cost to, say, a farmsteader? And is that hollow handle more likely to break? On a wagon train, you do NOT want your tools breaking! But if you're a carpenter on the frontier who gets hired to walk 5 miles to Mr Smith's house to work on something, you might not want to carry too much. Or a long hunter may want something like that.
Never underestimate Yankee ingenuity. The roll up tape measure was another item I found interesting-exactly like modern roll up measures. I remember one of my history teachers from high school emphasizing to us that "Necessity is the mother of all invention." We like to categorize the people of this era as simpletons-but they had knowledge passed down that we take for granted today like how to hand dig a well for example. My grandparents were proficient at gardening, butchering, smoking meat, making hams, canning and preserving-and each generation lost parts of that knowledge with advances in technology. Are we really any smarter than them when we consider what fills our minds today? I'd wager on 1850's people to survive much more readily simply because their knowledge was practical and useful. Sorry...philosophical rant over with and I'll step down from my soap box.
Cool video Matt! I would never have dreamed that the bit storage was around in the 1850s. I'm one of the two ladies you talked to in the museum on Friday! Thanks for talking with us - we really enjoyed the museum and we told all our friends we came across all about the museum. I even told somebody on one my quilting groups about it as she was headed to Hamilton Missouri. lol
Hi Nicki! Thank you again for coming to the museum - I'm glad you guys enjoyed your time here. And thank you for spreading the word! Tell the folks in Hamilton they're only an hour away! :)
That’s so cool😮
Thank you! Glad you liked it.
Love it! As a living historian, this is just another "tool in my belt" (pun intended) to bring history closer to thebmodern public's understanding. Now to recreate it!!
If you’re a Civil War LH I imagine some folks would look at it and say “that’s not period” and you could be like “Oh ya? Check this video out!” Haha. Yes, recreating it would be a very cool thing.
@@ArabiaSteamboatMuseum exactly!!
I was recently at the Arabia and saw another ancient version of something we can get at Home Depot or a hardware store. The Engineers tape. I think you have 4 of them in the collection the guests can see. The modern Engineers tap itself is made up of fiberglass while the old version is made up of, I am guessing, cloth. The outside is still round with a hand crank to pull the tape in. I still have my grandfathers toolbox in the basement. I wonder if it has a tape in there. Thank you
Yeah ... who would've thought having a tape measurer in the 1850s was a thing?!? We've got a few of em though so clearly it was a thing.
Amazing! You ought to do a partnership with the guy from Hand Tool Rescue to reproduce this. It might be a big seller in the museum store ;)
I'd love to have one.
Now that’s an interesting idea! I’m gonna look into that! Thanks for the tip.
You have to remember some things. First, w/o the tech and mass industry we have today, people had more incentive to get clever! Second, people were making very intricate clocks in the 19th century! They _knew_ how to make things! They had the tech to make the Whitworth Rifle, and if you dont know what that was, you really should look it up! Muzzle-loaded long rifle with a hexagonal bullet, so it had to be manufactured to precise specs!
The question here is one of expense, and fragility. It certainly takes more time and skill to make something like that. Is it worth the extra cost to, say, a farmsteader? And is that hollow handle more likely to break? On a wagon train, you do NOT want your tools breaking! But if you're a carpenter on the frontier who gets hired to walk 5 miles to Mr Smith's house to work on something, you might not want to carry too much. Or a long hunter may want something like that.
So interesting. The video was excellent -- showed the artifact in a way that made it easy to see all the aspects of a fascinating object.
I want to see more!
Well I want to show you more! So I guess this works out well for both of us. :)
Square head was probably a simpler version of a hex head wrench.
WOA this is cool!
Very cool. Maybe a tool of the month series...?
Never underestimate Yankee ingenuity. The roll up tape measure was another item I found interesting-exactly like modern roll up measures. I remember one of my history teachers from high school emphasizing to us that "Necessity is the mother of all invention." We like to categorize the people of this era as simpletons-but they had knowledge passed down that we take for granted today like how to hand dig a well for example. My grandparents were proficient at gardening, butchering, smoking meat, making hams, canning and preserving-and each generation lost parts of that knowledge with advances in technology. Are we really any smarter than them when we consider what fills our minds today? I'd wager on 1850's people to survive much more readily simply because their knowledge was practical and useful. Sorry...philosophical rant over with and I'll step down from my soap box.
But they didn't have horse wagon seat heating subscription like BMW 😏
I have a 3D printer from 1872
Wow … I hope whoever bought it got the extended warranty. :) Thanks for watching!