The "Wonderful" Uses of Asbestos - Amazing Inventions | British Pathé
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- THE THINGS THAT WOW US - THE MONTH OF AMAZING INVENTIONS ON BRITISH PATHÉ (AUGUST 2015): Newsreel of the Week: The "Wonderful" Uses of Asbestos (1942).
A look at how asbestos is formed and at the various fireproof goods it can be used to make. One of many inventions we might now consider rather dangerous!
Here's the next film in our playlist of Dangerous Inventions: • They're Fireporoof (1966)
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"Modern electric knife"
looks like a pizza cutter with a motorcycle motor.
Still too modern for me to have one.
Those fabric saws are no joke. They are like deli slicers that roll around on the table.
they still look the same
That's exactly what that is
Dont forget you got the safety hand guard to.
"And here, in the cafeteria, is one of our lovely young ladies enjoying an asbestos sandwich and an asbestos smoothie. There's no excuse for going hungry when you've got asbestos around!"
I read that in my head with the high pitched news presenter voice 🤣
Did you know asbestos isnt toxic for your stomache. It wont kill you if you eat it. However if you breath it in. Thats a whole other story. The only reason asbestos is dangerous is cause it gets airborn. And you dont want any of that in your lungs.
Lol
The new "Wonder material." What could possibly go wrong? Fast forward to 2021. The all new "Wonder Vaccine" for Covid 19. What could possibly go wrong? 🤔
😆😂😂😂
It really was a miracle product. Too bad it turned out to be so dangerous.
I used to work in a factory processing Vermiculite. They used to put artificial lungs on us to test the air for silicate and asbestos. Didn't last long as i started to wonder if the larger amounts of asbestos in the ore would get airborn in the top of the factory where it was not heavily tested. except once a day for 5 minutes to change the direction of the hopper. The fine dust 3 floors up and the heat. Yuck
Glass fiber is far more remarkable
@Joshua Joestar fiber glass is pretty much at the end of its development, composites using part glass fiber may be used in the future, but once nanotube technology is working on an industrial scale it will become a thing of the past just like asbestos, and i think in 20 years carbon fiber will be cheap enough that it will replace it, while polystyrene will dominate in insulation, fiber glass has a dim future ahead.
@@johnbrentford5513 you're*
i don't think it's dangerous, it's more like.. an economical war thing
"What could possibly go wrong?"
+rockstopsthetraffic -Marie Curie
Well, I think Sklodowska knew that she could be in harm's way for the sake of scientific research. It's not like she was selling radium and polonium for use in every household product.
...Famous last words
Well, they knew far too well the effects of asbestos on humans long before this film was made. First death being related in very early 1900's.
Idiots for one.
1:21 Thank god the cutter had a hand guard!
+Drakotar Lol very witty.
Yes, Safety First, you know.
Wouldn't want to lose your hand, you wont be able to cover your mouth when you spend the rest of your life coughing up blood.
you can breath a huge sigh of relief about that, but you won't be able to stop coughing up blood afterwards.
Unfortunately, no lung guard.
It's all natural.
What could go wrong lol
Always has been
Exactly why I think organic mercury should be legal in children's toys.
Vegan
yes, based on this documentary it's clear to me now that asbestos saves lives. listen to the science!
I wonder how many of them had serious lung problems throughout their life. My old grandad use to work on the London Underground in the 1950's and late last year he got told he has asbestosis, apparently according my nan on the X-ray it was like somebody had poured baby powder over his insides, 1 month later he got told he also had lung cancer. Sadly he passed away 3 months later at the young old age of 78 bless him.
Lol "young age of 78"
young is like in he's 40 xD
+Lime Lemon You must be in your teens. also, he wrote "Young old age". which it is.
+Lime Lemon Insensitive and irrelevant comment.
+MadCowGoMoo I'm truly sorry to learn of your loss.
+FireWaia It's more like middle old.
WHAT A WONDER PRODUCT! WHERE CAN I BUY ONE OF THESE ASBESTOS SUITS?!
HUGE JACKEDMAN to be honest, it is probably the best suit possible for fire fighting, it literally cannot possibly catch on fire for any reason, to bad it will kill you tho
Mate you don't want one unless you want lung cancer
The Doctor with breathing apparatus on you would be fine with the fire fighting suit!
@Nidhogg lmao perfect explanation xD
@@SR-ol6xm it can stay on anything t contacts, little bits of fibers
What is more sad is that it was a double edge sword and actually did save many, many people from burning to death. A lot of people owe their lives to the fact they had asbestos in their homes or the building they were in when a fire happened.
Burning alive vs drowning in your own fluids at age 56.
yes the asbestos in their homes got airborne then killed the remaining survivors. acute analysis
A very sad irony indeed
We can do better, especially as there are significantly safer alternatives for almost all applications. Add to that the costs for abatement, and prohibiting production and use of asbestos is a no-brainer.
What few people seem to know: drinking water runs through asbestos concrete pipes in many places. The limits are pretty high, and are often exceeded. Ingestion of asbestos fibers is linked to intestinal pre-cancerous lesions and their progression.
Hemp
I remember the large asbestos mittens laying around in my father's steel workshop back in the 70's; we kids used to play with the things all day long, what good ol' childhood memories.
do you have any lung issues?
@@ALaKouji Not at all.
how scary is this, I wonder how many in this film died from this horrid material. It is what killed my father, and he suffered badly. The really scary part of this is that people were aware of the dangers earlier than when this film was made.
Carmel Reynen, asbestos manufacturers such as Johns Manville knew about the hazards even in the 1930s. Those were different times. People were rightly more concerned about avoiding starvation during the Great Depression, and making ready to defend Christian civilization from the new barbarians of Europe and Asia. Thousands of WWII shipbuilders used asbestos almost daily, without dust masks or HEPA filtration. Many of them survived to a decent old age.
Yup, got my father too, mesothelioma, 1st symptoms Feb 2010, diagnosed March 2010, died on 1st Jan 2011. Aged just 70.
Evil stuff.
@@rdouthwaite he should swim and dive in to instead
@@stephenarling1667 Steve McQueen got cancer from working in the ship yard during WWII, I dodged the bullet, when I started construction about 1980, I exposed myself to mountains of the stuff not knowing any better, I used to knock the stuff off beams with a hammer and go home covered in dust, it's a roll of the dice, it got some, and some like me got lucky.
@@bigredc222 it takes 10 to 80 years to develop. As I heard 10 to 12% of industry got sick....
This is pretty sad to be honest
Not really, the people you see in this video didn't knew better.
Anony Think that’s the point
@@Ano_ny it doesn't make it any less sad, just because they had no idea. One can still feel empathy for them. I'm feel sorry if any of then went on to get ill.
Red Pilled Fox some types of plastic, if not all plastic. Research that is currently is in its infancy is exploring the effects of micro plastics (the microscopic fibers that fall off plastic and get in our food and drink, such as in water bottles and those containers used to store sandwiches and the like) on the human body. Because of the process of making plastic and the chemicals involved, I find it unlikely that all types of plastic will be deemed completely harmless, but this research has only been going on for a couple of years since apparently only now have we discovered that microscopic bits of plastic can float around in our bottled drinks and can be found in our food.
@@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588 yep, plastic. Micro plastics will be (maybe already is) in our drinking water.
Asbestos is non hazardous if left alone. When the material is cut or sawn (dry) then the fibers are released. Same goes for all asbestos derivates like asbestoscement (brandname Eternit) ao.
Exactly.
ZerokillerOppel1 yes but impossible to leave alone when in brakes clutches , and insulation, plaster you name it , it was in it
Yes, but things as simple like drilling a hole in the wall unknowing it is full of asbestos can get you in a lot of trouble.
@@hades996 unlikely cause disease unless you where doing it every day
@@jayden793 that ofc is bulshit , you can get it from a one time exposure
So amazing it will take your breath away
Even the snow in Bing Crosby's White Christmas is 100% white asbestos!
Sold in wartime Christmas.
r/makemesuffer
And the snow in wizard of oz, they get covered in the stuff
i got some snow
@@lostpockets2227. Snowcaine?
now i know why my seat in school won't catch fire
Franz Marcos DID U TRY TO BURN IT 😐😶😶😶😶😶😶
Every generation thinks they are now smarter than the last. But still have no idea. How dumb will we look today in another hundred years. 'Who knew online social media caused mental problems. Remember that generation that lived their lives online... so weird and sad'.
I imagine in the future the internet (in its current form) might be getting slammed for ruining social cohesion. "Truth" is near-indecipherable in the sheer amount of misinformation that can be posted online, and that's spawned some insane political rivalry.
@@madmax07ish yes its getting more and more toxic over the years like water pouring out of an hole. Hard to controll
All generations have trouble of their own. Now, it's obesity, among other things. Then, it was Asbestos and Cigarettes and Leaded Gasoline.
@@hiimryan2388 I agree that the internet is at the root of much of this stuff, but is politics any more insane/extreme than 100 years ago? Maybe late 20th century politics was just unusually mild.
More probably about plastics and various chemicals in everyday products
Never forgot my grandad telling me a story about how him and his mates used to play football with chunks of asbestos on their work breaks and they all worked with it during steam engine manufacturing. Most of them have since died of Asbestosis... luckily he’s not one of them
your dad hasn't gotten lung issues from it?
Wow! This Asbestos stuff is gonna change people's lives forever!!
From the inside out, I would say
I feel like a may get cancer by watching this.
Mr Sunshines what
@Mr Sunshines What
Hol up
Engrish weely gud
It wasn't cancer. It was just the inhaled fibres doing what it did before it was 'harvested'....it carried on growing in their lungs causing the congestion we know as asbestosis. I know of many such deaths in the worlds fire services that should never have happened.
I work as a asbestos deconstructer and this footage is just horrifying. So little that they knew
STAHP TOUCHING IT! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
@FRIENDLY JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN The guy probably goes apeshit if he gets his hands dirty.
Fascinating and terrifying. Thanks for upload.
Seeing all these people handling all that asbestos with their bare hands or even wearing them makes this video extremely uncomfortable!!
The joys of hindsight, 100% knowledge, for foolish people :-)
When I was seven years old, my dad built a garage out of asbestos, he was sawing it into the lengths and widths that he needed, he didn't wear gloves or mask, dust was flying everywhere. We thought nothing of it at the time.
@@Simon-1965 did it affect your or your dad's health?
@@szimonettaster neither of us as far as I am aware.
its ironic that it was used to produce a protective suit but then later you needed protection from it
If it seems to good ti be true, it almost certainly is, goes for most things, asbestos was one of them
I need an asbestos box for this here radium.
It upsets me that my landlord (a "social" housing association) would not remove an asbestos sheet from a cupboard. They just slapped paint on it to make it "safe". It was left to me to write on it that it is asbestos and should not be drilled. I'm probably full of the stuff anyway. My school had fireproof curtains and asbestos ceiling tiles.
+Siskin's Bits and Bobs
You can always double down and paint your asbestos panels with lead paint.
@@Palexco thank you, ill commence painting once im let out the sulphur mines
Yes, don't irritate the asbestos.
Two things leave asbestos alone and it will do you no harms secondly get a job and buy and house and stop stealing from the taxpayer
You have too much time on your hand !!!!
Wow this mineral is like magic. What could go wrong?
Don't tell the russians.
It is an amazing product... with only one side affect - death.
@@childebrand1 well if you die after you touch it you wont die from abestos
Looks amazing- cant wait to get some
Warren Zevon approves!
Our MCM, 1974 built house was right on the cusp of "don't use asbestos". No one will clean our air ducts, because they are probably wrapped in asbestos. White powder and fiber does come from the ducts, so we really don't want to break up anything. I wish we had the money to "abate" the stuff while we are getting the roof replaced, but the roof is costing us bucks as it is.
get the samples tested.
1, Some powder from within the ducts
2, the wrapping around the ducts
3, the tape between the joints
be safe!
Did we ever come up with a material that can replace asbestos as a clothing type of material? I want my flame proof tablecloths and clothes! It's so cool to see them be completely unaffected by fire.
Nomex
Simply use asbestos but try not to breathe too much
Glass or Stone fibre can do the same.
I remember as a kid, that the burn proof pad on the end of my mother's ironing board was made of the stuff! It was everywhere at one time.
Nothing like enjoying a nice cigar in your asbestos recliner...
Jokes aside. Asbestos is a great technical resource, but with the known dangers. Some old main waterpipes in our public freshwater grid are containing asbestos. I guess the lime in the water seals it of inside so the inside surface.
I work as a boiler inspector. I used to know guys who worked on boilers and they all said, "Asbestos is great stuff, why I used to mix asbestos powder in a bucket that stuff would be blowing all around and nothing ever happened to me!" And then they would light up a cigarette and cough for ten minutes. Those guys are all gone now. I wonder why?
It is most dangerous when it is in the form of insulation that is crumbling. "Friable" it's called when it's floating in the air. When it's in the form of paint, linoleum, cement, cinder blocks, shingles, pipes or flat sheets like the 4 x 8 that my father bought to cut and put around our wood stove, it's harmless unless you disturb it. Funny how dad died of cancer.
*Nice, an asbestos blanket to keep me warm...*
Good to see this side of history, yes we all look differently at the stuff now but still we can learn from the past.
A modern, electric knife with a safety hand guard is used - what about a safety mask!? The risks were known whilst this video was being filmed.
its sad how dangerous it is to use, as it seems such a useful substance that can have so many uses
where can i buy this product!!!
Lol that asbestos shield :) straight out of star wars.
Worthy comment
looking at this in 2021, and wondering how much longer lives they all could have had without asbestos..
I mean, Brazil used asbestos in construction for much more time than the rest of tue west and most of those people died in ages that people died with Strokes or câncer
I don't think asbestos changed this THAT much.
Asbestos body suit ? Cut to the chase and just buy a bodybag.
All this video needed was Troy McLure and a "scientician" going, "Uhhhhh."
(Simpsons reference btw)
Yes, we remember him from self help videos such as Smoke Yourself Thin and Get Confident, Stupid!
...and nodding slowly
is that a Simpsons reference ?
little did they know. . .
My grandfather told me about when he was working in some shipyard and the workers were making asbestos cement: there were so many asbestos fibers in the air that he couldn't see the sun
At what age he die?
Reminds me of the film The Man In The White Suit.
"Hey, lets put some asbetos curtains in our living room!"
If you see this today and now how the handle asbestos when it is removed from old roofs etc. - unbelievable
the things i would do to get such a suit as a display item in my office. (safely enclosed of course😂)
So amazing!
How many of those poor lasses paid the price for working on that 'wonderful' material. If you listen carefully to the narration the clue to the tragedy is spoken.......'the silk like fibre.....grew in cracks'.....' Damn, damn, damn what prophetic words and the 'knew' all along as even in the early middle ages its use was causing 'mysterious' deaths. Oh they knew alright, it was just too useful a material to suppress hence all the lawsuits. Those responsible for its continued use long after it was deemed so dangerous aren't the ones who paid the ultimate price.
Even as late as the 1970s the British Standard for asbestos made no mention of the hazards from it.
I feel bad for those workers, and for those who used it.
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Just makes me thinking how many old products and houses and clothes-like materials still have this asbestos in it even now in 2021. Probably we need to manipulate very carefully with everything that is vintage.
We have artex ceiling in our 1986 house so had to do the test to check if it contains asbestos. Other thing when I was a soviet child we was playing with asbestos , crushing it (asbestos roof pieces) and it was fun.. it was! 😬🤞
Amphibole are very dangerous, but Chrysotile are reasonable safe. With safety measures taken, occupational diseases are less common than in other industries.
Alexander Hamilton - Too bad the people in this video had no safety measures whatsoever.
I was holding my breath. Those poor women.
Love the music.
Australia had blue asbestos mining town of Wittenoom
With what we know today about asbestos watching this is scary knowing that all these people probably died horrible death from asbestosis.
Oh, the good old days...
Ray Bradbury must have seen this film prior to writing Fahrenheit 451
I heard a lot of the asbestos health cases are mostly related to truck drivers. Asbestos was in their brake pads and would grind into fine powder and they would breath it in over years of driving.
+Dogman I think you're thinking of the mechanics that change brakes more frequently.
Spiny Norman im definitely not thinking that.
Dogman Oh yes you are. Shut up.
Spiny Norman ive never thought that my entire life. Never will, never have.
Dogman okay...
Show this to the hypocrites who think that everything made by nature is healthier.
You know what else is natural, arsenic.
there are millions of things "made by nature" that will kill you.
Another health and safety video by Chumley Warner
My mix tape, Asbestos's one weakness.
Amazing invention.
"Coughing blood again, eh Jimmy? Well, I'm sure it has nothing to do with your fireproof pants."
Brought to you by James Hardie: The company that made a killing.
"Asbestos was really cool. A fireproof fibrous mineral, people found out it made good pans and pots and walls and socks. The a nerd studied a ton, found it stabbing people in the lung. Mesothelioma rocked the nation but you may be entitled to financial compensation."
It's frustrating that the material causes so much long term damage to humans. Asbestos really is an incredible material. Fires have been an immense issue throughout the centuries and killed many people before modern fire fighting methods existed.
Think of a time before plastic, before modern metals, before a standardized method of producing items where all things needed to be made by hand. Nearly everything that was made sturdy was made of wood, metal, or both if you could afford it. Although asbestos most certainly killed people over the course of decades, I can guarantee you that it also absolutely saved hundreds of thousands of lives at the time of its use.
We see it as a stupidly dangerous thing to use now, and yes, it's better not to use when it can be avoided, but even now there are some products that _still_ contain asbestos because it is such an irreplaceable material.
"...I don't believe anything natural can hurt you."
-Gwyneth Paltrow
Made me want to shout at the screen. WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? DON'T TOUCH IT!!!!
You’re a moron. Go to top of comments to find out why
They didn't realise it was dangerous.
It's OK, the modern electric knife had a hand guard.
I used to attend a clinic where every surface had a sticker on it - asbestos ! No drilling or cutting -Do not disturb! Danger of death
Because apparently asbestos is perfect safe if it isn't disturbed.
Made for a safe cosy feeling.
Was this before or after they whiped out all the hemp farms that were used as various insulation and other products they replaced to kill man.
Only they knew how these old composites would eventually breakdown into super fine breathable particles causing inflammation. Concerning to me is today's increments of composites with even smaller particles used like cf. Btw I've recently seen recently produced asbestos based composite roof sheets still used in latin america.
What is terrible is that all those lady's had guaranteed painful deaths written into their contracts. 😲
What about asbestos exposure at the Ottawa Mail Processing Plant before , during and after asbestos removal ?
This product is amazing, I'm investing money in this
The comments seem to ignore the fact that asbestos is not one substance but 6 minerals with significantly varying toxicity from simlar fatality to plaster dust exposure to pretty lethal.
I'll take your entire stock!
Good evening Mr Chumley Warner.....😜
wow this stuff is great *caugh caugh
Cough
It is important for working in an asbestos factory that your asbestos cutter has a handguard.😂😂
That was horrifying!
Bonjour du Québec!
Asbestos (the city) is going to change its name now. I live close bye. Anyway, bygones. I don't know enough to contest this.
I remember my grandmother making oven mits insulated with asbetos. As you would.
What do they use as a substitute?
Привет из города Асбест, Россия. )
Breath a sigh of relief, you're surrounded by asbestos
Seeing Rhodesia on that map broke my hearth
My grandparents lived there for years
Everyone calls is terrified of it now; however, like lead, it has uses that would remain viable provided the exposure to it is prevented.
Why yes, I would like to make a bonfire of the table cloth.
"... knife with a safety guard ..." - And no one is wearing asbestos safety gear ... what a worry
1:05
I wish Rhodesia was still on maps today.
Such a pity with what happened.
Sad to watch this and think that everybody featured in this video probably died of mesothelioma or asbestosis.
What are we using today that will be looked back on like we look at asbestos
The plastic pollution in our food and water
If only they knew what a ticking time bomb asbestosis would turn out to be. It amazes me that the USA/ Canada have stopped production But Russia had embraced it by even calling the town where it is mined ASBESTOS Town. There is a massive open cast mining operation there, the Russian people who are working with out masks or protective clothing, there are misconceptions that it’s doing no harm and the being treated for something else in a hospital where it was played down.
International Agency for Research on Cancer
Group 1: Carcinogenic to humans
Asbestos (all forms) and mineral substances (such as talc or vermiculite) that contain asbestos
Processed meat (consumption of)
Can someone explain to me what the problem was with it? I've never heard of Asbestos before.
+Chris Projahn If a fibre gets into your lungs, even a tiny one that you could barely see, you could well end up with Asbestososis, which will result in death.
I have it in my head that even just one single fibre will actually cause it, not maybe cause it, but don't want to say guaranteed as i can't be 100% sure without researching.
+Chris Projahn The fibers they talked about tend to break apart into microscopic pieces that gets breathed in very easily, they then get stuck in the cells of the lungs and cause damage to said cells causing cancer.
Thanks, now i know. :D Also do you know how many people died from this thing? Seems kind of like the uranium messup.
Chris Projahn Don't think there is any way to know, and it's still an ongoing thing, it's not (completely) banned in either the US or Canada and in Brazil despite it being banned it's estimated 15000 people a year die from it due to illegal usage.
People still getting ill from working with it years ago. The worst kind you might find would be pipe lagging. Don't touch old stuff in buildings/houses if you don't know what it is would be my advice.
Probably still safe to use in star lifting. Look it up on Isaac Arthur's channel.
They built these wonderful products as best os they could
If you or a loved one was diagnosed with Mesothelioma you may be entitled to financial compensation
So....all these people probably died of cancer?? That’s terrible! :(
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