LOOKING INSIDE A 150 YEAR-OLD ATLAS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ธ.ค. 2017
- Looking inside an American school textbook atlas from 1868, just almost 150 years ago. Expect hand-drawn maps, sometimes sloppy maps, funny spellings, and weird textbook questions, all for 75 cents in 1868 money.
Imagine trying to teach a class using that map of Central Europe four years later.
We had Atlases from 1989 in school. (in 2004!) Trying to learn the states and capitals of Europe.
hall9OOO I have a ~1956 map on my wall. Weirdly it displays Korea and Germany as united, yet still displays the borders between North and South and East and West.
hall9OOO States in Europe? You okay there?
qubeman "States" can also refer to nations, with a longer form being "sovereign states."
DylanDude Yes, but I think he was referring to the other kind States when he said it.
This video is absolute clickbait, as that atlas is just 149 years old.
@@nickdummythicc3361 You reply to a one year old comment just to have the joke fly over your head?
Uni a straight up murder 😂
R/woooosh
Uni Oh sorry, what was the joke? I’m not being sarcastic.
150 years now
I love how old cartographers added random mountains and stuff, just like a kids coloring book or something)) And also I wonder how geography nerds felt back then looking on a map and seeing all the unexplored areas. We don't have that kind of romance now.
Andriy Vasylenko there's s tribe of people who's entire world is a small island in the Indian ocean and they have no knowledge of the world outside. they were only found in the 80s so there are still things to find. not to mention that we have no idea what the ocean floor looks like.
Wyatt Farmer North Sentinel island.
Wyatt Farmer they also don't know how to make their own fire
Vikrant Panday Yes, they have to wait for storm.
go to space plox
75 cents back then, it would be worth $12.46 today.
How were Atlases copied back then :O. Imagine drawing a whole book and making only 13 bucks...
Blackwindzero Printing had already been a thing in the western world for 400 years by that time. No one was crazy enough to make a book by hand except if its for specialist uses or is just a very expensive artisan good
Thanks!
I wasn't sure if the maps were drawn or printed. Hopefully ill come across the method in more detail.
Wish my textbooks were that cheap
That still sounds very cheap for color printing, which must have been very expensive then.
If anyone is curious, $0.75 in 1868 is about $13.00 in today's money.
Dimitrios Potsos pretty chepa for a textbook
If that's a 150 year old atlas, I would be more careful turning the pages...
Umega Darkstar agreed. hes like a kid.
Probably because he is.
@@AleksLehti Yes, and this is my child, I can beat him as much as I want.
This is an old thing. If you are too ignorant and rude to own it, sell it to someone who can act accordingly.
@@DreamWalkerVl Except the book doesn't have feelings...
Dmitry Volkov well, you can beat him until you get arrested for child abuse.
Yeah, the meaning of 'Ethiopia' has varied widely over the centuries. It's interesting how they're still using it to describe sub-Saharan Africa this late, though.
Omniatlas needs to add late 19th century maps of Sub-Saharan Africa sometime in early 2018
Ollie Bye woah, great to see you here, love ur videos
I always wondered how people actually managed to map whole continents so accurately back then. The world just seems so big, I feel like it would of taken years just to map Europe I can’t even imagine what it would of taken to map Africa or the Americas.
Miguel Oros it may sound weird but It really took thousands of years to map Europe and about 300 years to completely map out Americas and Asia.
We just look at 1860 and say “wow that was way back them how they map that??” But really people were going from Portugal to under Africa to China since 1300s and the Silk Road gave good number on the size of Asia.
They had from 1400s to 1800 to completely map out the new world which to me sounds much more realistic. So it’s just our minds not being able to comprehend time that makes us think like this.
I mean can you believe a baby born 2000 went from a world of flip phones to screen touch to everyday computers to AI to spaceX to Robots to YOuTube to Bitcoin to.... and it’s only been 17 years!
Miguel Oros A thousand explorers with a thousand sextants and other tools to lay down their position. Even a military ship like in the Napoleonic Era was expected to keep and update maps, then return with their changes.
Nizte Nitze I am born in 2000 it's true what you said
I was born in 1988. Went from external drive like the floppy disks of 1.44mb with a read speed of 0.1 MB/s to a 2TB external SSD with a read speed of 540MB/s both taking up similar dimensions although the external SSD is much thicker.
I remember when a 1GB hard drive was considered huge. Now the average computer has over a thousand times that capacity.
I remember when the internet was basically brand new. Most people didn't have an internet connection. I remember when we first got dialup and how awesome that was. I remember the internet being very basic compared to today's. There was no Google. You had to use several different search engines like yahoo and Ask Jeeves. Netscape navigator was the browser I remember using. There was no TH-cam and most video was limited.
I remember the best video sites before TH-cam were ebaumsworld.com and stupidvideos.com
Console game cartridges were the size of my adult outstretched hand and now are the size of my finger nail (micro SD card).
TVs were as thick as a fridge and now they are almost as thin as a penny.
My first computer I built had a pentium 4 3.2Ghz with I think 1 or 2 GB of RAM. The video card was a 7600 GTS. My new computer is many thousands of times faster.
I remember when computers had turbo buttons and they were all beige coloured.
Almost no one had a portable phone. I remember the first iPhone coming out. You will be surprised how thick it is. My first phone was the iPhone 3g I bought myself that at age 18 or 19.
I remember when TV had maybe a couple dozen channels and now we have hundreds. I remember the old old tv we had to change the channel there was no remote and you had to change a dial on the tv. That had way fewer channels.
There are many more things I could write but off to work I go.
The speed at which technology has evolved in the past few decades is astonishing. Sometimes I look at people born at the beginning of the 20th century and imagine that it might be even a bit frightening for them, since the world has changed so much in their lifetime up to this point.
I have a communist atlas of the world from the 50s. It's quite interesting. The maps are kinda low quality, but there is a portion where they talk about every country and how the class warfare is going on there. And in the section of the capitalist countries it's always how absolutely terrible it is to live there and how everyone is getting exploited and that soon socialism will get even there. Even a frikkin atlas of the world is pure propaganda.
Wow, who knew paying cartographers and artist the same salary as a janitor would lower their work quality?
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I have map from USSR times somewhere in my room
Are there any preserved atlases from the fascist nations?
Reptile imagine thinking any world map isn’t propaganda in some form lmao
Kinda rough on a 150 year old atlas weren't you?
totaly agree it hearted me the way he turned the pages around.
I kept expecting a page to rip out of the binding.
What an ass really, showing something rare, and being so rough with it, annoyed the hell out of me, someone ought to take that old tome away from his caveman hands
150 years is not that old.
Apriza Yutama What. The. Fuck.
At one point could you please take high quality scans of each of the pages and put them on the internet somewhere? -From someone who is very interested
Good luck trying to find a 150 year-old "mapping video in real life."
Zoisite Mapping American civil war?
10/10 would read
Actually I would gladly read it.
At last, an Atlas. Alas, I stepped in glass.
Preußischer Soldat Best, comment.
Preußischer Soldat this shall never be toppled.
Amazing
Amazing to think that this book was made before even germany was united!
Magenta Virus Ikr how much the world has changed in just 5 generations. Could anyone in 1868 imagine the world now. Just shows how useless it is to try to predict the futute.
Italy, too. The Papal States are still shown on the map.
Great Wolf I find it more fascinating just how universal knowledge was even back in the 1860s. People still knew much about the world around them, just the maps were a lot shittier because they're drawn by hand and there's a big hole of mystery in Southern Africa
True, DylanDude. The papal states outlasted the italian unification by a few years.
Great Wolf forget that. try explaining the world now to someone in the 20s. it can't be done.
I swear you can make an entertaining video about an outdated peice of paper that most people would see as the pinacle of boredom. Idk you can take that as a compliment.
Shitpost Inc Your comment was fine until you begged for likes.
Piet Andersen I was trying to keep it at 69 likes, not beg for likes
oh lol
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Bet they were annoyed when Germany unified 4 years later
Andrew Jackson Mapmaking is annoying at times. The early 90s is a good example of this.
They partied now that border gore was gone.
Siddhant Sharma I was thinking the same thing, it's a goddamn relief that mess is gone lmao
Edit: You're actually not supposed to wear gloves when handling books so you don't tear pages.
With finals, the holidays, and having to move to a new house, I didn't have time to make a normal video. I PROMISE WW2 WILL BE HERE NEXT WEEK. So here's a video showing the inside of my 150 year-old atlas!
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EmperorTigerstar good, we need WW2
Awesome book. When I was about 13yo a friend of the family gave me an 1892 World Atlas. That fed my interest in old maps that's still going strong today 25 years later. Now I'm into old aeronautical charts pre ww2 for most part. The day is fast approaching when nobody will print them. Same as reading a PDF isn't as satisfying, neither are electronic charts.
EmperorTigerstar why are you called emperor Tigerstar? Is it a reference to warriors:cats? Need to know, please
EmperorTigerstar I have a bed-sized map at my house from 1857. Most of the map is of the US but there is a small insert of a world map. It includes the listing of a country called "Mosquito" on the East coast of Nicaragua and shows most of central as an "independent tartary" and lists much of the US as unorganized territory.
I imagine the questions and "facts" during the Africa section ought to be fun and totally not inaccurate in the slightest.
marvelfannumber1 Absolutely, and all the sections will have details about indigenous cultures.
Alek Mitev
He’s talking about how the white people who wrote the Atlas are racist against african peoples and would talk about their «inferior skull shapes»
We call India Hindustan in my language. This the case for dozens of other languages too.
yo yo what language
Isn't the term Hindustan generally Islamic?
fiski Baluchi. The people in central asia, the Iranian plateau and Anatolia call it Hindustan or a similar variation. And maybe some others call it the same.
Let_It_Shrivel_Up_And_Grow hindu is the persian word for india which itself comes from the sanskrit word for the indus river. So it’s actually indian in origin.
yo yo From Turkey and its called Hindistan
>No latex gloves
As a Archival Science student you have no idea the ammount of stress you are causing me by touching that book with your bare hands.
can you explain carefully why
HelderToons oils on the skin damage the paper over time. Its standars procedure with old documents to wear gloves as to not get more oil on them. It also helps you put less pressure on the paper.
Actually in the British Royal Society they use the practice of *not* using gloves specifically for old books and papers. Plus don't worry my hands were clean.
EmperorTigerstar I tend to deal with archives most of the time. Stuff like ledgers, accounting and such that has been stored for a while. It has just been drlled into me to the point of OCD by now.
I understand, I used to work in meat. So I had to use gloves a l l the time.
Man.... such a interesting piece... but watching you turning the pages in that "unpolite" way has been a huge pain! Poor old book, it's a delicate old gentleman!
TheRantolo5 actually the pages are thicker than it may appear in the video. You kind of have to turn it like that lol.
TheRantolo5 Yes it was pain to watch, like no respect for the pages, just turning them over like that...
if you like the pages so much why dont you marry them?
I always feel so dumb when he says that a country borders aren't right
Yeah Ethiopia should be labeled Italy! Right Duche Mussolini?
Preach my children preach
@@unkn0wnace it was named Ethiopia by the Italians you dummy
Even back before any Europeans had gone below Mediterranean Africa, Africans were known as Ethiops, so I guess that's why Africa on the map is called Ethiopia
"Are there any countries located in this part of Africa?"
"I'm not sure"
"Eh fuck it say it's all Ethiopia no one will notice"
Quite interesting to see first hand what understanding of the world the makers of this atlas had, especially Asia. Good luck with your new home!
Imagine having to remake an atlas every time a war or treaty concluded, 1840-1870 must’ve been an absolute mess.
et 37 I think they would just remake the map, open the book and change the page instead of redrawing entire talas.
Where did you get this and how much was this? This is a really cool Atlas.
I have an atlas from 1968, 100 years later. Crazy how much changed in that time.
Also, how much did this cost?
CaptainCrape I had one from 1979.
I would assume a price exceeding $10.
My family has one from 1934. It's pre-WWII but post-WWI so it's like looking at the beginning of a Hoi4 game.
Most of my Atlases are from the 90s and a goble from the 80s. I think a 2nd uncle of mines has a atlas from the 50s with a lot of good statistics.
I have Polish atlas from 70s
I have an Atlas from 1903, and it's very interesting to see how Europe looked prior to the Balkan wars, let alone the First World War. It must have been my great grandmother's, who taught school around that time (she was born in 1880).
I love old maps to bits, would you consider at some point scanning it so others could look at it in more detail? I would really love to pour over the finer details personally.
At home i have a 50 year old atlas. Everything here Soviet Union, the Germanys, China etc...
East German Mapper Please show!!
Woah, I wanna get one of these
At 3:18 Bolivia has a coastline.
rtmumley57 And now they want it back
Bolivia had a lot of land in the past, untill they lost most of their land to every neighbour country.
The true borders.
@@dingo1547 no lol
This is before the War of the Pacific, between Bolivia - Peru vs Chile, from 1879 to 1883. In that war Bolivia lost all the coast to the Pacific, and Peru lost everything from Arica to the south. Also after that war there was signed a treaty between Chile and Argentina for a dispute of the Patagonia territory.
Wonder when and why the spelling changed from "oo" to "u". Also Muslims were usually called "Mohammedan" or "Moslem". Wonder when the switch happened for that too.
Moslem is the persian and muslim the arabian version.
Change in Romanization. The u sound in Hindustan was written o because the short u sound in Hindi is oo. The long u sound is... ooooo (lol) so to not mix it up with the English "uh" sound i guess they spelt it like the phoneticization. Compare "Poonjab" to Punjab today (phonetically spelt Pendjab in French).
This happened with sati (
A history-focused TH-cam channel with several well-made videos, named after a character from the books I was obsessed with as a kid.
Finding this channel almost feels like a belated Christmas gift from the universe.
You pointing out your own mistakes actually adds some comedy. 😂
3:05 oh look, bolivia has a coast, how nice of Chile to give it back 😊
I have a 80 year old atlas
4:39 Huh, the papal states were still around, this atlas must've been made in the middle of italian unification
The papal state was conquered in 1870, two years later!
I want to have a atlas from 18 January 1871 and September 11 1683
FZ Channel DIE WACHT AM RHEIN!
Because that was the year Germany unified, I assume.
FZ Channel For germany i partially agree.
Sulthon Al aufa same here
FZ Channel Yes, Yes we should, that is my only one wish in life
This is a amazing book. Love it. Thank you so much
How can nationial geographic make that map in 1868 when the company was founded in 1887!
It must have been a time before National Geographic had gotten big enough to officially be recognized.
Didn't he say it was Rand McNally?
It was actually founded in 1856
Where did you get this, and about how much was it? There's a large antique mall in my area with local antique maps (unfortunately currently out of my price range, last I checked), but I haven't found anything as interesting as an atlas!
Why are those page flips so satisfying
I've got a "pocket" atlas from 1923. As if you'd ever need an atlas that fits in your pocket, but it's really neat. It's in color and with wax paper that doesn't spoil as fast as regular paper so the pages are still pretty white.
I also have an IKEA poster of a map from 16-something. California is an island, mostly unexplored Africa is filled with names of places for some reason. There's a bunch of Islands in the Atlantic Ocean that don't even exist. I think even Atlantis is on there, China and Japan are the same size. It's pretty hilarious, only problem is the poster was meant more as a decorative piece than as an original copy so the colours are desaturated as fuck and they only use yellow and blue while the original is extremely colorful, and the resolution is too low for you to be able to read the smaller place names.
Hi, I love your channel. Keep up the good work.
This is awesome! I love old maps and atlases.
Love this video extremely well made!
Love old maps Atlas and maps like this. Wish i could find some.
Oh Tigerstar, the gloves as another person mentioned, and the way you're snapping those pages when you turn them...that book is going to disintegrate on you. Or, to quote Indiana Jones, it belongs in a museum!
I would love to have a book like this. In many ways the names and mapping of places gives an idea of the knowledge of the world as well as how it was seen back in the 1860s.
I have a bunch of old encyclopedias from around 1900-1910 and they call Germany Prussia. Both of them are used, I think the zoom in has Prussia in parenthesis or something like that.
i love old atlases. they look so pretty
I'm so jealous of you
I come from Thailand (Siam Kingdom).
I am interesting about "Farther India" name (present Southeast Asian).
Could you please record or show this page more deeply.
Moreover, Is this atlas show the Indonesia or Japan area ?
Thank you
ball passavon Most of Indonesia was still unexplored back then
how indonesia was unexplored? it was a dutch territory for decades
Dude they even mistook America for "India". Every place they didn't know about was "India" to them. 😂
Very coo! And in such good condition!
Whoa my dad has an atlas very similar to this one, except I think it was from the 1870s. It was cool to see the same European countries that I associate with WW1 drawn as though they're alive and well.
There was also one page that compared the world's races...
Having extreme anxiety from you turning the pages upsidedown
These seem really cool. It would be cool if we could get to see some more of the questions. It would make you see their mindset and how they perceived where the world was going more. Like "What could be the consequences of a Unified Germany and a war between France and Prussia?" Or something like that. Because they wouldn't know what would happen in the future.
Woah getting your hands on a 149 year old atlas, that's pretty crazy!!!! Nice one Mr. EmperorTigerStar!!!! :D
Very nice. I have history and geography books from my great-grandfather and grandfather from 1900 to 1940. Very interesting to see how we thought of other peoples and where borders were and country names.
I gotta get a copy this is amazing stuff
That moment when you realize 75 cents is really $12 Dollars.
This is actually very interesting and I wouldn't mind a more in depth look into it.
I *just* realised this video was uploaded a year ago. And here I thought it was a new one...Man, time flies by.
Hey Tigersta, I have these questions about this atlas
Istanbul is still named Constantinople on this atlas?
The Mexican city of Leon is vissible here?
It always has been and always will be Constantinople.
You got it.
Damn the map in back have a lots of city sited, shocking
It's so weird to see Utah without its indent.
I love old maps. Also old coins
It’s interesting that Colorado was defined as a state when it wouldn’t be legally considered a state until 1876.
Never seen a better love story than Tigerstar and his very old book.
Hey at some point can you do an English Civil War: Every day/week/month? You did one with the American civil war, I’d love to see one about our English civil war.
Was that a separate Ireland? Odd.
man i love maps.
I'm from hungary and my family holds an old atlas atlas too. It is from 1906. It is not in pristine condition, but it is still totally readable
4:14 looking at that pissed me off. I must unite those peoples under one flag!
Wasn't Norway still part of Sweden in 1868?
Alex Marissens yep
This is from one year after Québec, Ontario, New-Brunswick and Nova-Scotia formed into the Dominion of Canada. We were just four provinces at the time... Oh my! How the times have changed!
3:10 when Brazil is still an Empire and Bolivia has access to the sea.
That’s awesome!
Thats actually really cool
Emperor trigstar how did you get this book
Amazing
I remember I was in high school in 2012. We used these maps protected by plastic coverings that were dated. I don't know how old they were but I knew they were inaccurate. The Democratic Republic of the Congo was still called Zaire even though they changed the name in 1997 and Serbia and Montenegro were united on that map even though they split up in 2006, the final remnant of Yugoslavia, so that map was probably from 1996 or earlier. On the reverse side was an accurate map of the U.S., so not totally old.
I still have the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Zaire, a united Sudan and Czechoslovakia on my globe. As well as an East-West Germany.
This was just as good
It’s amazing to think they made maps this accurate without the use of satellites
love it
How come maps were so accurate back then? They didn't have satellites...
Mal Cors magic
Reptilians!!!
Mal Cors the maps aren't that accurate, but people could do it if they got high up enough, and you needed to be good at math. The same way humans used to be computers, until actual computers were made. Watch the movie hidden figures. Lol technology hinders us in some ways because we rely on it to do everything. Even if it is more accurate.
Must have been mathematicians with some eye for detail!
I am just curious, how do those mappers gather the data to map a conflict for every day.
That is awesome
I wish i could have that
I want one. Gonna buy one.
Can you please suggest me a standard good book contains all kinds of old,new,traditional, non traditional maps which in could purchase
golden, golden knowledge
I like how it showed Bolivia with access to the Pacific Ocean. Atlas before they lost the access in the war. Thanks for the video.
jk1776yt isn't that the pacific ocean
Definitely a brain freeze on my part. Thanks for correcting the obvious error. I bet they wish they had access to the Atlantic too. I corrected my comment for posterity.
Just imagining someone hand drawing the holy Roman empire .
I have a 105 year old map, it's cool that my favorite TH-camr is also interested in cool maps like I am.
This is really cool.
OMFG the the way you're manhandling that book is how you tear pages, agh.
This is pretty cool.