👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 as much as I applaud this reference, I still think the death ray could have worked. A few minor flaws failed that experiment. Time of day, weather conditions, materials..etc. I think a large parabolic copper mirror shined to perfection on a sunny day at high noon...it could work.
The 60 seconds you used to squeeze the turtleships into the end of this video is overwhelmingly deserving of a follow up video. More specifically Admiral Yi Sunsin, who designed the ships as a General a year prior, having never commanded anyone on the open water, and followed that up by never losing any of his two dozen massive fleet battles in the following decade. De Ruyter and H. Nelson fight over 2nd and 3rd on the podium the more you learn about Admiral Yi.
I learned about him while visiting my Korean friends in Korea.... from the dad of one of my friends... who didn't speak English and my Korean is rough, haha. It was really interesting and I went and read about him afterwards! Super fascinating!! Even the Japanese respect Yi Sun Shin and he creamed them!
My wife is from Yeosu. Years ago, starting in Yeosu, she and I traveled around Korea visiting places associated with Yi, Sun-Sin. It is kind of interesting to me that as he fought each successive battle, his fleet kept getting smaller and smaller. Korea could not replace his losses but he kept winning.
You weren't there man... you don't know what it was like! Wait.... Neither was I. I don't know Jack. I used to though. Nice guy, he was a blacksmith who also worked at the local museaum.
Inventions. They were drawings and pipe dreams. An invention is something that is actually made I'm afraid to say. As much as I am a fan of da Vinci, its a bit like saying Jules Verne invented the nuclear submarine just because one appears in 20,000 leagues under the sea.
I hope this includes the RPG equipped Dodge Viper my brother used to destroy my bronze age villages in Age of Empires. A mystifying technological leap, that one ;)
A good honorable mention: major Patrick Ferguson and his breechloading rifle that he developed for the British during the American war of independence. It was the first breechloading gun adopted for service by the British military. He commanded an experimental corps of rifleman at the battle of brandywine and supposedly had the chance to shoot Washington off his horse. This special rifle could be fired from prone and could fire 7 rounds per minute as opposed to the 3 of a musket.
I can think of two examples of organ guns that both pre-dated the machinegun: the Billinghurst Requa Battery gun which saw some limited use during the American Civil War and the Mitrailleuse - invented by a Belgian in 1851 and deployed (unsuccessfully) by the French during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. Just saying. I really enjoy all your channels and your presentations. Very well done.
Humans are going to human. Ever stick your finger in an ant bed? Shake a hornets nest. Enter a chimps territory? Humans have definitely utilized tools better than any other creature, but we are in no way special. Nor are we more violent than any other creature. Animals gonna animal. It's just sad our drama spills out on to other critters in such a profound way. Edit: autocorrect derp
Actually, the Discovery channel did a show a decade or more ago and had engineers, artists and blacksmiths create five or so different Da Vinci concepts.They built the tank with materials and methods only found and used during Da Vinci's time. Guess what? It worked. Well.
Except Da Vinci drew one of the gears the wrong way so the tank as drawn would not be able to move. The guns worked of course, but all that noise in an enclosed space would have left all the occupants deaf...also mentioned on the Discovery channel show. The inventions were more dangerous to the user than the enemy. Remember the scythe-chariot?
@@asthmatickobold7844 da vinci apso wrote all his notes mirrored...he was notoriously paranoid about his invemtions and only made war machines for funding really he despised war its likely the mistakes werent mistakes
@jimmy blackmon Da Vinci purposely put in mistakes, especially on novel weapons of war, in case his plans fell into the wrong hands. We know this because some were ones he clearly understood well (such as gears), but were the wrong way round, thus rendering a device inoperable if it were to be built). He however would obviously change one he built, to remove the flaw. So we have no way to know which were deliberate copyright-protection mistakes and any which may have been a real lack of knowledge. Given that he was the original pioneer for things like helicopters, there were bound to be a few things he did not grasp fully.
Even better example for a precursor for the machine gun would've been the Chambers flintlock machine gun. It was actually built and theres a Forgotten Weapons video on it. Multi-barreled, with multiple projectiles and powder charges in each barrel, and its designed so that you pull the trigger once, and the thing fires continually for 2 minutes.
Da Vinci's armoured car also featured slanted armour. This feature was lacking in the earliest 20th Century tanks and it took quite some time for modern designers to realise that if you slant the armour away from the vertical then projectiles fired horizontally had more material to penetrate before they could do serious damage to the soft insides (i.e. the occupants).
The organ gun cropped up before the machine gun: A ribauldequin, also known as a rabauld, ribault, ribaudkin, infernal machine or organ gun, was a late medieval volley gun with many small-caliber iron barrels set up parallel on a platform, in use during the 14th and 15th centuries. When the gun was fired in a volley, it created a shower of iron shot. They were employed, specifically, during the early fifteenth century, and continued serving, mostly, as an anti-personnel gun. The name organ gun comes from the resemblance of the multiple barrels to a pipe organ. As an early type of multiple barrel firearm, the ribauldequin is sometimes considered the predecessor of the 19th century mitrailleuse.[1] (Wikipedia)
I once heard that da Vinci's 'turtle car' was not working, because its wheels were rotating in opposite directions. But da Vinci was no fool. Could it be that this flaw was intentional, meant to prevent a copycat from claiming this device as their own? The Byzantines didn't only invent the Greek Fire, but also an early flame thrower to blow it onto the enemy's ships. Archimedes was working in his house on whatever it was, when the Romans invaded the city. One of the Roman soldiers broke into his house, and Archimedes cried, 'don't interrupt my circles'. The soldier ignored that and struck him down. Marcellus, the general of the Roman army, was furious about this; he had wanted to catch the famous scientist alive in order to make him work for the Romans instead.
This is why we all come here fact boy "humans will human" so eloquent an perfectly put. Love your work Simon, you deserve all of my sweet sweet watchtime!
Archimedes didn’t use the mirrors to light ships on fire. They already discovered he was using the mirrors to heat up copper pipes that had munitions in them and then water plunged in to violently vaporize, expand and rifle the explosive/flammable munitions at the ship to light it on fire. It was a solar powered steam canon.
5. Jet VTOL bomber, 1911-1917, Russia 4. ETC gun, 1840s, England 3. Leonardo's long shell for artillery, 1490s-1500s, Itali 2. Automatic rifles and pistols, 1664, England 1. Multiple barrel steam machine gun, Roman Empire
Given the videos I saw in the past day or two, I'm kinda surprised this list does not contain the Proximity Fuze. That's how the algorithm usually works. Weird.
Perhaps the mirrors were not used on charging vessels - perhaps mirrors were directed against the operators and soldiers onboard to make them sweat, tired and slow down immidiate duties, even take the armor off and try to swim ashore making them easy targets for archers and slingers. Setting vessels on fire is either just a story or they managed to do it once or twice on a hot day. This one makes a better story than a military style explanation.
Archimede's Death Ray was a series of adjustable concave mirrors reflecting the sun onto a specific spot. The effect would be like having several magnifying glasses focusing the sun on a certain spot.
That just makes it even more bullshit, the ships are supposed to be moving towards you, meaning it won't be at the ray's focal point for almost any time, meaning once it's too close the mirror's useless. Though it wouldn't matter anyway, it'd be useless from the start, since ships bob up and down cause, you know, they're on the sea.
Da Vinci's rotating canon was more like a Gatling gun of canons instead of a machine gun. since the Barrels are allowed to cool a bit between firing and the machine gun uses only one barrel. A hand-driven machine gun, the Gatling gun was the first firearm to solve the problems of loading, reliability, and the firing of sustained bursts. It was invented by Richard J. Gatling during the American Civil War.
I know you won't read this Simon but after more than a year of watching your videos and not subscribing to a single one of your channels..... I'm gonna subscribe to Sideprojects. You win this round, Simon.
Da vinci's car... was first tank design. Even though his design was ahead of its time, that didn't stop people from buying his designs for their own battle usage. People wanted his latest and greatest weapon ideas. Another documentary I watched about his tank said they'd pay for designs that da Vinci personally added flaws into the design. Because da Vinci was a pacifist and didn't like war. His tank, the gear system for the drive train to move the vehicle, was drawn backwards, so when someone built the tank, it would only turn in a circle.
The machine gun was NOT first used in WW1. The Gatling gun was invented in 1862 and was used in the American Civil War. Most of modern warfare was first introduced in the Civil war: Telecommunications (Telegraph), Photography (Mathew Brady), Aviation (Ballooning for battlefield observation), Mechanized (steam driven and Rail), Submarine, and many more. Maybe American Civil War innovation would be a good topic for you.
The intro is missing and it says [INTRO] right now. It might be fixed, but that's how it is right now. Pretty cool, I think. Edit: There is no chapter four, only 2 chapter 5's
Can you imagine being in a trench or foxhole, tired and dirty and hungry, then look at the man next to you and ask: why is the ground vibrating, and wtf is that noise?!! Only to look up and see that English behemoth of a tank lumbering are you, its guns blazing.....for a man who had no idea such a fantastic piece of armor existed, it most surely caused many soldiers to s*** all down the back of their pants....
I have something to add to the mirrors though. Would the death ray be more effective if the environment was to be hot? I feel it would be more effective since it took a little bit for the light to put the wood on fire.
Perhaps no one bothered to use the same material as the Romans did to coat the wood from damage in water? Many of which are flammable. The Myth busters used a modern-day boat. MIT used a dry Replica but not a precise replica. They both could have research and recreated a real one since one was dug up in a coal mine.
Strangely no mention of repeating crossbow developed by the Chinese far earlier one would think that kind of weapon would have first seen service? And it was not just early, crazy idea like 'Da Vinci's funnies', but perfectly functioning weapon.
just wrote out a similar thought, i was imagining leaking containers floating at sea, if greek fire was volitile enough and less dense than water you could accuratly fling jugs or something of the stuff.
Its like how even in the 1600's they needed pumping setups to keep ships afloat because they'd leak. A little motivation from heat would cause bigger gaps opening the hull. Eventually opening the molecules to let water through.
I'm surprised they didn't add chariots for Proto-Indo-European expansion. The invention of wheel and chariot is the force of creation behind most modern cultures and languages.
for the death ray, I think a parabolic mirror is more likely like that picture showed. I mean, if they could accurately measure the size of the earth with math they could focus a mirror surely right? More than one mirror if it wasn't powerful enough?
Mythbusters already tried the right mirror design and with a group. The accounts of what happened were distorted so much during the three centuries between the event and it being written down that we don't know what happened.
whatever was Archimedes "Death ray" powerfull enough to set ships on fire or not, but being on those ships and being blinded by sun rays directed by mirrors isnt best thing anyway
Armored ships go back before the Civil War's ironclads lol. Actually, the reason that the first submarine's attempted attack on a British ship failed was because the ship had iron sheathing.
As for the death ray, wouldn’t the Roman boats be stationary if they can’t find a place to land? Haven’t received orders? The romana liked to mock people from boats. Also, these boats were not that fastz
Well sort of. We can easily replicate the effects we just aren't sure how they managed it when they did. We have ideas but as there's no way of knowing which one is right we'll never actually know what they did..
Napalm is close enough - it gets exactly the same job done. It might be more worthwhile to get the ancient Roman concrete recipe since it appears to last longer than modern concrete.
Still not all that impressed about da Vinci's tank invention. He could have supplied it with an engine, if he had developed Herons stream machine, witch was invented about 1600 years earlier (Hero's Aeolipile). And he could have started the industial revolution at the same time. I mean; he used Archimedes' screw in a helicopter design, which would greatly have benefitted from an engine too 😀
DaVinci's biggest issue with creating his inventions was funding. Everyone wanted his artwork, and just wrote off any contraptions he made. So, no, because of renaissance red tape, he could not have kick started the industrial revolution. Now, if you really want to blame someone for wasting valuable technology early, and the chance to start a technological revolution: go back a a few more years, and have a go at ancient China. You know, the people who invented a highly accurate seismometer before the village of Vinci was probably even settled.
Has anybody thought of the possibility that Archimedes mirrors were used to blind the people on the ships while archers shot flaming arrows to set the them on fire?
Who cares? They were all sniffin' each other's bee whole's and but chugging each other's sea men all day anyway. It probably smelled awful with all that be whole juice flying around all the time.
Why did you use a fake night vision camera video for the drone, firing the missile? It says "reboot", a version number, followed by a few random numbers in hex.
@@redram5150 There's lots of accounts of it having the opposite effect - people who could no longer stand pork because the smell reminded them of burned human bodies.
@8:51 It's pronounced "Guh Book Sun" GuhBook is for turtle and "sun" is a vessel/ship. Why the official english representation of korean words is so whacked is beyond me. Somebody in Korea really really messed it up.
Because it's NOT based on English. It's a "Romanisation", meaning it is a way to represent Korean sounds using the Roman alphabet. Not everything revolves around English, mate. 한국분인 거 같은데, 한국어의 로마자 표기의 역사에 대해서 한번 찾아보시죠. 그게 그렇게 간단한 문제가 아닙니다. 말씀하신 것과 같이 한명이 모든 걸 결정한 것도 아니고요. 만일 그랬다면 왜 북한은 다른 표기법을 쓰고 있을까요?
1:25 - Chapter 1 - Leonardo da vinci's armored car
3:10 - Chapter 2 - 33 barreled organ
4:30 - Chapter 3 - Greek fire
6:05 - Chapter 4 - Archimedes death ray
8:10 - Chapter 5 - Armored battleships
"Our death ray doesn't seem to be very effective. I am standing right in it and I'm not dead yet"
- Jamie Hyneman
A Top 5 line ALL TIME on MythBusters for sure!
I imagine that Japanese guy who got the crazy high dose of radiation thought that at one point
Myhbusters used polished metal, they think that was all that was available at the time
MIT may have used glass mirrors.
Thought of that the second he mentioned the death ray!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 as much as I applaud this reference, I still think the death ray could have worked. A few minor flaws failed that experiment. Time of day, weather conditions, materials..etc. I think a large parabolic copper mirror shined to perfection on a sunny day at high noon...it could work.
The 60 seconds you used to squeeze the turtleships into the end of this video is overwhelmingly deserving of a follow up video. More specifically Admiral Yi Sunsin, who designed the ships as a General a year prior, having never commanded anyone on the open water, and followed that up by never losing any of his two dozen massive fleet battles in the following decade. De Ruyter and H. Nelson fight over 2nd and 3rd on the podium the more you learn about Admiral Yi.
Not to mention the fact that modern military still study his tactics... including his 13 vs 330 (including 150 battle ships) victory.
I learned about him while visiting my Korean friends in Korea.... from the dad of one of my friends... who didn't speak English and my Korean is rough, haha. It was really interesting and I went and read about him afterwards! Super fascinating!! Even the Japanese respect Yi Sun Shin and he creamed them!
My wife is from Yeosu. Years ago, starting in Yeosu, she and I traveled around Korea visiting places associated with Yi, Sun-Sin. It is kind of interesting to me that as he fought each successive battle, his fleet kept getting smaller and smaller. Korea could not replace his losses but he kept winning.
When you're besieging Constantinople and "Fortunate Son" starts playing in the background...
You weren't there man... you don't know what it was like!
Wait....
Neither was I. I don't know Jack. I used to though. Nice guy, he was a blacksmith who also worked at the local museaum.
Da Vinci's inventions could definitely be an episode of Megaprojects.
Inventions. They were drawings and pipe dreams. An invention is something that is actually made I'm afraid to say. As much as I am a fan of da Vinci, its a bit like saying Jules Verne invented the nuclear submarine just because one appears in 20,000 leagues under the sea.
It was on Mythbusters. It didn't work and they really tried to get it to work.
I hope this includes the RPG equipped Dodge Viper my brother used to destroy my bronze age villages in Age of Empires. A mystifying technological leap, that one ;)
Or the machine gun wielding Cobra Car of the sequel ^^
To be fair, the US has rolled M1A1's into Iraqi villages that weren't much beyond the bronze age.
Just a little hacking
Chk chk chk chk chk
lol, oh man, I remember that. I can almost even remember the cheat code... but not quite.
A good honorable mention: major Patrick Ferguson and his breechloading rifle that he developed for the British during the American war of independence. It was the first breechloading gun adopted for service by the British military. He commanded an experimental corps of rifleman at the battle of brandywine and supposedly had the chance to shoot Washington off his horse. This special rifle could be fired from prone and could fire 7 rounds per minute as opposed to the 3 of a musket.
I see Da Vinci's tank, I click.
I'm not the only one who noticed? There is hope for humanity!
I saw the tent tank and clicked too
From Assassin's creed!
@@shriyamsaikia6691 no, from Leonardo Da Vinci
Correct. Lol
I can think of two examples of organ guns that both pre-dated the machinegun: the Billinghurst Requa Battery gun which saw some limited use during the American Civil War and the Mitrailleuse - invented by a Belgian in 1851 and deployed (unsuccessfully) by the French during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. Just saying. I really enjoy all your channels and your presentations. Very well done.
Humans are going to human, great line!
Lol was going to post same thing
Humans are going to human. Ever stick your finger in an ant bed? Shake a hornets nest. Enter a chimps territory? Humans have definitely utilized tools better than any other creature, but we are in no way special. Nor are we more violent than any other creature. Animals gonna animal. It's just sad our drama spills out on to other critters in such a profound way.
Edit: autocorrect derp
I died at that lol
Actually, the Discovery channel did a show a decade or more ago and had engineers, artists and blacksmiths create five or so different Da Vinci concepts.They built the tank with materials and methods only found and used during Da Vinci's time. Guess what? It worked. Well.
But just because it worked a decade ago doesn't mean that it would have worked 500 years ago.
Except Da Vinci drew one of the gears the wrong way so the tank as drawn would not be able to move. The guns worked of course, but all that noise in an enclosed space would have left all the occupants deaf...also mentioned on the Discovery channel show.
The inventions were more dangerous to the user than the enemy. Remember the scythe-chariot?
@@asthmatickobold7844 da vinci apso wrote all his notes mirrored...he was notoriously paranoid about his invemtions and only made war machines for funding really he despised war its likely the mistakes werent mistakes
@jimmy blackmon Da Vinci purposely put in mistakes, especially on novel weapons of war, in case his plans fell into the wrong hands. We know this because some were ones he clearly understood well (such as gears), but were the wrong way round, thus rendering a device inoperable if it were to be built). He however would obviously change one he built, to remove the flaw.
So we have no way to know which were deliberate copyright-protection mistakes and any which may have been a real lack of knowledge. Given that he was the original pioneer for things like helicopters, there were bound to be a few things he did not grasp fully.
Keep cranking them out Simon👍
Even better example for a precursor for the machine gun would've been the Chambers flintlock machine gun. It was actually built and theres a Forgotten Weapons video on it. Multi-barreled, with multiple projectiles and powder charges in each barrel, and its designed so that you pull the trigger once, and the thing fires continually for 2 minutes.
Da Vinci's armoured car also featured slanted armour. This feature was lacking in the earliest 20th Century tanks and it took quite some time for modern designers to realise that if you slant the armour away from the vertical then projectiles fired horizontally had more material to penetrate before they could do serious damage to the soft insides (i.e. the occupants).
Definitely my next bumper sticker… “My weapon system can beat up your weapon system!” 😂
The organ gun cropped up before the machine gun:
A ribauldequin, also known as a rabauld, ribault, ribaudkin, infernal machine or organ gun, was a late medieval volley gun with many small-caliber iron barrels set up parallel on a platform, in use during the 14th and 15th centuries. When the gun was fired in a volley, it created a shower of iron shot. They were employed, specifically, during the early fifteenth century, and continued serving, mostly, as an anti-personnel gun. The name organ gun comes from the resemblance of the multiple barrels to a pipe organ.
As an early type of multiple barrel firearm, the ribauldequin is sometimes considered the predecessor of the 19th century mitrailleuse.[1] (Wikipedia)
You need to do a Biographics video on Admiral Yi Sun-shin.
Always waiting for the next ones love all your channels
The Bob Semple tank was a masterpiece of engineering
I once heard that da Vinci's 'turtle car' was not working, because its wheels were rotating in opposite directions. But da Vinci was no fool. Could it be that this flaw was intentional, meant to prevent a copycat from claiming this device as their own?
The Byzantines didn't only invent the Greek Fire, but also an early flame thrower to blow it onto the enemy's ships.
Archimedes was working in his house on whatever it was, when the Romans invaded the city. One of the Roman soldiers broke into his house, and Archimedes cried, 'don't interrupt my circles'. The soldier ignored that and struck him down. Marcellus, the general of the Roman army, was furious about this; he had wanted to catch the famous scientist alive in order to make him work for the Romans instead.
I think I prefer side projects to mega projects, which is impressive because I enjoy mega projects a lot!
Wow, Koreans used to make the most advanced warships 500 years ago.
Great video 📹
Wow the last time I was this early Davinci was still making contraptions!
Lol
This is why we all come here fact boy "humans will human" so eloquent an perfectly put.
Love your work Simon, you deserve all of my sweet sweet watchtime!
Archimedes didn’t use the mirrors to light ships on fire. They already discovered he was using the mirrors to heat up copper pipes that had munitions in them and then water plunged in to violently vaporize, expand and rifle the explosive/flammable munitions at the ship to light it on fire. It was a solar powered steam canon.
So, this channel is Simon halfway between "today I found out" and the boi with the Blaze?
5. Jet VTOL bomber, 1911-1917, Russia
4. ETC gun, 1840s, England
3. Leonardo's long shell for artillery, 1490s-1500s, Itali
2. Automatic rifles and pistols, 1664, England
1. Multiple barrel steam machine gun, Roman Empire
Given the videos I saw in the past day or two, I'm kinda surprised this list does not contain the Proximity Fuze. That's how the algorithm usually works. Weird.
That is because it was not ahead of its time. It came at just the right time. That is another video.
Perhaps the mirrors were not used on charging vessels - perhaps mirrors were directed against the operators and soldiers onboard to make them sweat, tired and slow down immidiate duties, even take the armor off and try to swim ashore making them easy targets for archers and slingers.
Setting vessels on fire is either just a story or they managed to do it once or twice on a hot day. This one makes a better story than a military style explanation.
Archimede's Death Ray was a series of adjustable concave mirrors reflecting the sun onto a specific spot. The effect would be like having several magnifying glasses focusing the sun on a certain spot.
That just makes it even more bullshit, the ships are supposed to be moving towards you, meaning it won't be at the ray's focal point for almost any time, meaning once it's too close the mirror's useless. Though it wouldn't matter anyway, it'd be useless from the start, since ships bob up and down cause, you know, they're on the sea.
Da Vinci's rotating canon was more like a Gatling gun of canons instead of a machine gun. since the Barrels are allowed to cool a bit between firing and the machine gun uses only one barrel.
A hand-driven machine gun, the Gatling gun was the first firearm to solve the problems of loading, reliability, and the firing of sustained bursts. It was invented by Richard J. Gatling during the American Civil War.
I know you won't read this Simon but after more than a year of watching your videos and not subscribing to a single one of your channels..... I'm gonna subscribe to Sideprojects. You win this round, Simon.
Da vinci's car... was first tank design. Even though his design was ahead of its time, that didn't stop people from buying his designs for their own battle usage. People wanted his latest and greatest weapon ideas. Another documentary I watched about his tank said they'd pay for designs that da Vinci personally added flaws into the design. Because da Vinci was a pacifist and didn't like war. His tank, the gear system for the drive train to move the vehicle, was drawn backwards, so when someone built the tank, it would only turn in a circle.
I wish we could just bring some of these great thinkers from history to modern times and see what crazy shit they can make
You forgot the giant steampunk tarantula that briefly came up once upon a time in the West.
Hated that movie when it first came out, but it's actually a fun flick.
@@TheN0odles once upon a time in the West, madman lost his damn mind in the west, Loveless.
As for Archimedes, only had to light their sails. Keep up the great content👍
I'm reminded of the old saying, "there's nothing new under the sun."
from the bible
Because, you know....humans! Lol Simon you legend 🍻
The machine gun was NOT first used in WW1. The Gatling gun was invented in 1862 and was used in the American Civil War. Most of modern warfare was first introduced in the Civil war: Telecommunications (Telegraph), Photography (Mathew Brady), Aviation (Ballooning for battlefield observation), Mechanized (steam driven and Rail), Submarine, and many more. Maybe American Civil War innovation would be a good topic for you.
The intro is missing and it says [INTRO] right now. It might be fixed, but that's how it is right now. Pretty cool, I think.
Edit: There is no chapter four, only 2 chapter 5's
Can you imagine being in a trench or foxhole, tired and dirty and hungry, then look at the man next to you and ask: why is the ground vibrating, and wtf is that noise?!! Only to look up and see that English behemoth of a tank lumbering are you, its guns blazing.....for a man who had no idea such a fantastic piece of armor existed, it most surely caused many soldiers to s*** all down the back of their pants....
I have something to add to the mirrors though. Would the death ray be more effective if the environment was to be hot? I feel it would be more effective since it took a little bit for the light to put the wood on fire.
Perhaps no one bothered to use the same material as the Romans did to coat the wood from damage in water? Many of which are flammable. The Myth busters used a modern-day boat. MIT used a dry Replica but not a precise replica. They both could have research and recreated a real one since one was dug up in a coal mine.
U mentioned the Civil War as far as iron ships. Well, they used the organ gun also. usually these guns were used to guard bridges
Koreans also used a type of rocket launcher called Hwacha at the same time. Pretty impressive and devastating against troops in tight formations.
0:06 alright there Philip DeFranco
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Simon, maybe you've already covered this, but what about the top 5 Nikola Tesla inventions that still haven't been built or built successfully?
I wonder if that death ray was more than just mirrors but maybe also attachments of magnifying glasses in the front?
Good video 👍
Do one on the floating fortress!!!!
I would have liked to see the steam cannon that Archimedes (supposedly) made for Siracuse.
Strangely no mention of repeating crossbow developed by the Chinese far earlier one would think that kind of weapon would have first seen service? And it was not just early, crazy idea like 'Da Vinci's funnies', but perfectly functioning weapon.
Da Vinci was just something else huh.
8.99/10 for blaze but still excellent!
Keep up the good work fella and stay safe!
I bet the bloke who invented the bow and arrow was quite the "Bertie Big Bollocks" of the tribe at the time.
I think the death ray would work on oil laden sails and then the pitch etc would melt and the ship would fall apart.
just wrote out a similar thought, i was imagining leaking containers floating at sea, if greek fire was volitile enough and less dense than water you could accuratly fling jugs or something of the stuff.
Its like how even in the 1600's they needed pumping setups to keep ships afloat because they'd leak. A little motivation from heat would cause bigger gaps opening the hull. Eventually opening the molecules to let water through.
Admiral Yi Sun-Sin is the inventor of the Turtle Ships.
The early tank would be the most dominant force of any military against arrows
I'm surprised they didn't add chariots for Proto-Indo-European expansion. The invention of wheel and chariot is the force of creation behind most modern cultures and languages.
What is the poster through the door in the background? I’ve seen it in many videos but can’t make it out.
Anyone else think da vinci's tank was a flying guillotine? 🤣
aim the death ray at the SAILS. you got fire
Why did you not include Leonardo's early concept of the thermonuclear device?
for the death ray, I think a parabolic mirror is more likely like that picture showed. I mean, if they could accurately measure the size of the earth with math they could focus a mirror surely right? More than one mirror if it wasn't powerful enough?
Mythbusters already tried the right mirror design and with a group. The accounts of what happened were distorted so much during the three centuries between the event and it being written down that we don't know what happened.
The DaVinci tank looks like it would have succumbed to one of them greek fire bomb things... :P
Come back on VisualPolitic!😬
In The Door Into Summer Robert Heinlein suggests that perhaps Leonardo da Vinci once existed in a distant future.
No "Die Glocke" and "Haunebu" popularized by "The Ancient Aliens"? ;-)
Alternative title for this video: Why we should be glad the Ancients didn't have access to modern weapons
i think the british empire is definitely a mega project
whatever was Archimedes "Death ray" powerfull enough to set ships on fire or not, but being on those ships and being blinded by sun rays directed by mirrors isnt best thing anyway
Wasn't War Elephant a great grandfather of a tank idea? Even before it ancients used armored wagons with archers and spear throwers.
The “death ray” might have actually been a means of dazzling the people on the boat while other soldiers got close with a crate of flammable material.
The death ray was a set of concave mirrors focused on one spot. So for example a ship sail....would def of caught fire making ship next to useless.
Armored ships go back before the Civil War's ironclads lol. Actually, the reason that the first submarine's attempted attack on a British ship failed was because the ship had iron sheathing.
Dr Evil pioneered the death ray to shoot down Vaders tie fighter..😃
You should do how after burners on jets work
As for the death ray, wouldn’t the Roman boats be stationary if they can’t find a place to land? Haven’t received orders? The romana liked to mock people from boats. Also, these boats were not that fastz
Greek Fire is way ahead. No one has managed to work it out yet so surely it's ahead of its time
I would like to point out, I made the original comment before I could have possibly watched the video
Well sort of. We can easily replicate the effects we just aren't sure how they managed it when they did. We have ideas but as there's no way of knowing which one is right we'll never actually know what they did..
Napalm is close enough - it gets exactly the same job done. It might be more worthwhile to get the ancient Roman concrete recipe since it appears to last longer than modern concrete.
I fucking love you guys. All of you. Yes. YOU.
I can't think of 'Death Ray' without thinking Tesla. He preferred calling Teleforce which is a cool name in it's own right. 🔫
Don't forget about the first submarine that came out during the Revolutionary War.
Still not all that impressed about da Vinci's tank invention. He could have supplied it with an engine, if he had developed Herons stream machine, witch was invented about 1600 years earlier (Hero's Aeolipile). And he could have started the industial revolution at the same time. I mean; he used Archimedes' screw in a helicopter design, which would greatly have benefitted from an engine too 😀
DaVinci's biggest issue with creating his inventions was funding. Everyone wanted his artwork, and just wrote off any contraptions he made. So, no, because of renaissance red tape, he could not have kick started the industrial revolution. Now, if you really want to blame someone for wasting valuable technology early, and the chance to start a technological revolution: go back a a few more years, and have a go at ancient China. You know, the people who invented a highly accurate seismometer before the village of Vinci was probably even settled.
The turtle boats weren't invented during the invasion of korea. they were reintroduced but they were much older than then
4 weapons ahead of thier time, plus 1 piece of fiction.
Great beard, sir!
Wow think you could squeeze any more advertisements in there?
Has anybody thought of the possibility that Archimedes mirrors were used to blind the people on the ships while archers shot flaming arrows to set the them on fire?
Interesting that he mentioned the US Civil war, but didn't mention the first use of the submarine in battle
I love simons beard. So jealous mine doesn't look like that
Next video: how Simmon cranks out vidoes.
Cocaine... Allegedly
I thought Babish made a new channel for a second
That wasn't the Roman empire, it was still a Republic in 214 BC
Who cares? They were all sniffin' each other's bee whole's and but chugging each other's sea men all day anyway. It probably smelled awful with all that be whole juice flying around all the time.
My brother's fart was ahead of its time :)
Whistlerrrrrrrrrrr!
Yeah well, you got to see what I'm working on Outback...
Why did you use a fake night vision camera video for the drone, firing the missile? It says "reboot", a version number, followed by a few random numbers in hex.
Imagine the stench after using greek fire on soldiers , grim.
I dunno. Sorta smells like pork. I’m kinda hungry now for BBQ
It can't be as bad as when your mom changes your dad's diapers.
@@redram5150 There's lots of accounts of it having the opposite effect - people who could no longer stand pork because the smell reminded them of burned human bodies.
@8:51 It's pronounced "Guh Book Sun" GuhBook is for turtle and "sun" is a vessel/ship. Why the official english representation of korean words is so whacked is beyond me. Somebody in Korea really really messed it up.
Because it's NOT based on English. It's a "Romanisation", meaning it is a way to represent Korean sounds using the Roman alphabet. Not everything revolves around English, mate.
한국분인 거 같은데, 한국어의 로마자 표기의 역사에 대해서 한번 찾아보시죠. 그게 그렇게 간단한 문제가 아닙니다. 말씀하신 것과 같이 한명이 모든 걸 결정한 것도 아니고요. 만일 그랬다면 왜 북한은 다른 표기법을 쓰고 있을까요?
The geniuth of Da Vinci
Mythbusters tried the death ray in THREE episodes without success.