Gallus Light
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2014
- This lamp consists of a solid wood base, a brass housing containing a tea light candle, and a glass chimney. What is surprising about this lamp is that as long as it is lit, the candle flame rotates while it burns.
Designed by a Swiss sea captain and a Swiss engineer, the rotating candle flame is both soothing, and intriguing. Soothing since it rotates at around the rate of a human resting heart beat, and it also resembles the rotating light of a light house. But it is also intriguing - why does the flame rotate in this way?
The answer is in the design of the brass housing. Three angled air inlets have been created in the sides of the metal housing. As the candle burns, hot air rises up the chimney. The surrounding air is drawn inward through the air inlets, and because these are angled, they create a rotating air flow inside the glass chimney, which causes the flame to rotate. It is a really nice piece of physics! The glass chimney with it's tall narrow opening protects the flame from sudden drafts.
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Always love how Tim's using a completely different lighter in every video. Great way to quietly showcase his lighter collection. :P
Subtle flex.
nanaki get off this video
@Shane there are billions of videos on youtube, it's a little bit too easy to call someone a kid for asking genuine question. tells a lot about you (multiply numbers of video x the number of comment per video and you've got a very little chance to stump upon the same user except if the algo is lacking diversity
I wonder where he gets them from.
First vid I’ve seen of his and I noticed the lighter because I just bought a pair for my go bags.
Great centrepiece for a physicists first date.
Candle-lit dinners are for beginners; a REAL date is done with a rotating flame in a Gallus lamp!
Simply magical. :)
Hey just a Thought, you would Spin Too if you were on Fire !!! Im Sorry this was a Very stupid thing to Say !! Cabin Fever has Set in !!!
I didn't know that physicists ever date.
@@misterbigchip9501 So, they should get physical? 😁
I thought it might spin faster and faster until it formed a fire vortex but this is good enough.
Me too
I have never read anything so perfectly worded. This is good enough.
lol that wouldve been awesome
I wonder if we could've figured out a way to harness that in some way to make free energy
or something like that you know
if that was the case that is
witch
it isn't
lol
but idk
If it did that, I would have ordered one immediately.
Yeah, I was hoping for the Fire Vortex myself!
Thank you for these videos. You remind me of my grandfather. Every month he would have something new to teach to the grandkids. He would find fun stuff like this. I miss him and those times.
combining this trick with the trick where you light a previously extinguished flame by lighting the smoke would probably look neat
Saw that in a brusspup video, and I thought the same!
That would be very cool. Don't know if the wax particles in the smoke would be dense enough at the top of the chimney. Time for an experiment!
@@Theroha take a video and share it with us!
looking forward for it
@@SystemsJ4 I wish I had the supplies for that. Sadly, those were left behind when I left museum work. 😭
Was about to comment this until i saw yours haha, great minds think alike i suppose
I mean seriously, *anybody* else still not convinced that Tim is a wizard?
Of course, he is. He was even portrayed in the 'Monty Python and The Holy Grail'.
***** TIM THE FIREBENDER
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Don't be foolish he is a god
Dual Classed Grandmaster Artificer
Tim have you tried lighting the white smoke, it may shoot down to the candle and relight
Okay, this is a fine one to have around the parlor. Pretty neat just for whatevers sake
Finally my region in Switzerland gets a bit of attention, we always get lost behind the tourist regions. I can tell you, eastern Switzerland ist beautiful to visit and live.
Tim's collections never stops to fascinate and intrigued me
"it's a tea light that you have to light with a match."
*proceeds to light with a lighter*
you savage, Tim.
The English probably call a lighter a match, they call a flashlight a torch. Linguistical differences don't make him incorrect, it makes the viewer uninformed. DAAAANG!
I recently heard that the lighters were invented before matches. I wonder if that's true at all. Lighter flints require a rare earth metal.
@@beyondwhatisknown Google is your friend.
lighters weren't invented before matches. the ferrocerium flint now used in lighters wasn't invented until about 1904 (there were earlier lighters that used different ignition methods but the self igniting match was developed about a century earlier). also, the chinese used a form of match in the 6th century.
@@shelbyseelbach9568
No, we call lighters lighters and matches matches.
@@andrewmartin6445 You never know with you crazy bastards!
Keep up the good work Tim.I watch all of your videos and each one is interesting.
I did this with a burning barrel,installed six pieces of pipe angled the same way and installed a bit of chimney on the lid. The air swirled like I thought and worked great for burning loads of old papers!
these videos truly are something quite, magical.
lol i live in St. Gallen, but i didn`t know that this light exist XD
Same here :DD
I'm glad I found your channel. thanks bud.
I just spent two minutes looking at a candle go in circles.
Tim, you collect all the best stuff.
I just discovered this channel and I really like his videos. He's not talking too much which I really prefer when I watch those kind of videos.
Channel subscribed.
these video's are addictive!
ah, i see tims actually wearing pants today. nice
Aquatic Light and Magic tim doesnt need to wear pants normally but he was on an date
@@kons37flyingreaperoldchann21 Not a great date, then.
I would make a box of mirrors from 3 sides, black gravel on the bottom and put like a dozen of them inside. That would make an effect of rotating candle lights eternity.
that is simple yet ingenious! I love it!
I want one that creates a fire tornado.
Can you lite the smoke trail to re-lite the candle after its been put out though, or does the air flow happen to be too spontaneous for the igniting? (perhaps the chimney could be too long as well though)
I really like that, I bet its relaxing to watch the flame rotate in a darkened room :)
Tim....you have a great voice for audio books.
You have the most amazing things to see!
He seems very passionate about candles.
Wondering what it looks like in darkness (wall shadows)
Round and round and round .... amazing !!
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You spin my flame round right round Lol
R.i.p my guy
i love this channel so much. such a cool device
Loved candles as a kid.
Thank you Kanye, very cool!
Very beautifully crafted.
Muito interessante, vendo em 2021 e achando incrivel esse simples efeito!! Parabéns, curto muito seus videos!!
Really cool. Reminds me of National Lampoon's Christmas with Chevy Chase. Heat form candle makes decoration with four flaps spin.
Your voice gives me the tingles
You should try lighting the "smoke" coming off of the extinguished candle. The smoke given off by a recently extinguished candle is actually vaporized wax and if you hold a flame to it the flame will chase the smoke back to the candle and relight the wick! I imagine it would be a neat effect running down the glass of the gallus light
Definitely extraordinary!
would be interesting to see in a much grander scale. im sure it would look amazing
Now I'm trying to work out how to build one in my woodshop :)
Coriolas effect LoL. Do toilets flush clockwise in the southern hemisphere too? Great site Tim. I'm glad I found it.
I want it. Classiest candle I've ever seen.
that spin would drive me dizzy if this were the only light on the table.
(and yes, i would have expected more.)
I love this channel.
So it's basically like a lava lamp but candles. It really serves nothing important but still, soothing and calming to watch!
This guy never disappoints you.
It's a clock. That's one revolution per second. It's a scientific instrument for timing things. You could bake a perfect consistent cake with that, get your hardboiled eggs just right, etc., just by counting the revs the way a woman counts her crochet or knitting stitches.
What an invention.
But it's much cheaper and easier to make than a real clock if you don't mind doing a little counting or keeping track on a mechanical accumulator of some kind.
You could accomplish so much that requires a consistent measurement of time with that thing if you had any kind of scientific or precise mind during all those long cold winter nights.
Best way to use tea lights that I have seen.
Wow .... simple but fantastic .....
Many years ago I encountered a wonderful teacher name Pam Warren at Ingleborough Hall outdoor education centre in North Yorkshire. She entranced pupils with a very neat trick using one of those old globular light covers you used to see in offices + a candle + a carpet + darkness. She would gather the children around her in the cellar and they'd sit on the carpet. The candle would be lit and then the globe was lowered over it. After several seconds the glow started to fade until all that seemed to be left was the after-vision in your eyes after staring at the glowing ball ... but then, again and again, it would flare back into brightness, only to fade away again. Every recurrence lasted for less and less time and the brightness was also fainter every time until - of course, it eventually stopped completely. Throughout this experience, the children would sit in total silence except for gasps as the light flared each time. The trick, of course, was because the whole 'glowball' assemblage of candle and cover had to be sitting on the carpet rather than sitting on the flat stone floor where the seal between glass and stone would be far tighter and less liable to let a fresh supply of air to be drawn into the vacuum. Such a simple idea but in the hands of a brilliant teacher, it became pure magic.
He could make a birthday hat sound godly.
Wish this could come with a larger form… it would make a really great centerpiece!!!!
Disappointed Tim didn't use a Mickey Mouse lighter or maybe one that played 'Burning Ring Of Fire' while pressed.
Every time I hear that song I like of 2guys1hole
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Never heard of it... but in context I can only imagine lol
Oh man I wish I could get this for my fire house to show the practical effect of air currents and fire
extraordinary!!
This channel makes me believe there's sense in the world.
When he put out the flame and the smoke was coming out the top I wanted so badly to tell him to put the lighter flame at the top of the chimney to light up the match again. I feel like he would have loved that trick!
'Gallus' is Scottish slang, for something stylish or impressive, 'he's pure gallus by the way' lol, Rab C Nesbitt used it a lot.
It's Latin for a Celt of ancient France...or a rooster. Odd.
Rab Cs vest was the epitome of stylish.
How elegant!
Thank you for this video. Nice little light, fascinating effect.
I already checked the product page and I am interested.
Although: The manufacture claims that you must use special lights/candles.
Of course you could try any other, but if it doesn´t work or even damages the light, it would be clearly a user fault. Kind of a show stopper for me, I prefer when my physic toys run on standard consumables.
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+indeed Look up the price. You'll be so disgusted you'll turn your computer off.
+mrbibs350 Looks like the one company who makes these in USA patented it in US and Australia, they patented the use of physics in such a way that a flame rotates... I wonder if that patent extends to the UK.
It seems such a simple design, if the vents are angled correctly it should work, if someone has the skills to test it with wood and then release the design specs as a 3D file, one could probably 3D print it.
+Daniel Jackson That strikes me as odd that someone could patent that. A guy I knew a few years ago had a "water pipe" that had those holes in it and made the smoke cyclone up to the smoker.
Truly awesome :)
I would like to have one of those!
These are the things that would engage a grade school student more swiftly than any book or lecture
Thank You, Tim
Next time you put the flame out try relighting it from the smoke from the candle its a real neat trick you could do with it.
You spin me right round, baby, right round...
The light grey "smoke" coming off the candle when it's snuffed out is actually vaporized paraffin.
So that glass chimney would be a pain in the neck to clean?
Hey Tim, after extinguishing it, see if it will relight from the smoke coming out the top! Just hold an open flame where the white smoke is rising.
Nice!
Pretty cool!!
i was expecting the little metal bas to spin but the flame spinning is alot cooler
Pretty soothing
"You have to use a match."
*Uses lighter.*
great now the fire's spinning.
Pretty cool.
I'm always concerned about my candle wicks burning evenly, and the wax melting uniformly at rhe top....this device has fixed my life
Extraordinary
Beautiful.
Wich is the speed of spinning?
Extraordinary!
So you know that trick where you can light the smoke and itll re-light the candle? i wonder if that would work here
I'd like to see if, after blowing out the flame, you can replace the chimney and relight the smoke. Would there be enough wax particles to do it, and if so would the swirling effect go the length of the chimney until the wax was consumed?
Incredible!!!!!!!!!!
This is neat.
Soooooooo relaxing!
I'm literally....underwhelmed
I wonder if the air current is strong enough to power anything else.
For example, a small curved mirror around the flame, and turn it into tiny lighthouse.
I imagine this guy's house smells like an antique shop.
surface tension changes with thermodynamics which means as the air around the flame is spent to produce the energy, it also gets thinner meaning the flame has to chase higher pressures to keep itself fed.
due to the radius of the chimney, the air that is spent for the flame is about the same size of the flame meaning that only about a quarter of the air is spent in the flames locale meaning the flame can move in iterations of 25%, which allows it to rotate around since the next closest high pressure area would be directly to its side.
I wish he had shut the side entry holes. Will the flame stop spinning?
it looks cool but i was hoping the flame would extend to the middle of the glass structure
Wonderful.
You can relight the candle thru the smoke coming out of chimney. It works on any candle.
I wouldn't call it magic, this looks like science
Many people would argue that this can be explained by science but they're wrong. It's actually magic.
Where do you get all the cool toys?
I love this!
While the flame might spin around, I'm curious if it stays more steady and not do that "bouncing" thing that flames do from time to time.
Round, and round, and Round...
🕯 cool
Well, it's amazing to watch the fire spinning round and round in clockwise motion on both the attempts.
Strange phenomenon why it didn't spin the other way round on the second attempt.