Lightbulbs: The Path Toward Illumination Perfection
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- I like lightbulbs.
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The fact I actually learned something and was actively interested in this absolute fever dream speaks volumes to your talent
He's honestly great at what he does. I love Tyler.
Agreed, I love these videos. Never thought I'd be interested learning about lightbulbs.
holy shit it's a knowledgehub video that doesn't feel like tripping on drugs while playing donkey kong
What do you mean it doesent
Yeah, this one feels like tripping on drugs while in a supermarket's light bulb aisle
i know, its a shame
Ah, so it wasn't Donkey Kong causing me to think my light bulbs were flirting with each other, it was the drugs! Thanks!
ZOMG, tripping and fluorescent lights do NOT go well together! When you're trippi, you notice the 60Hz flicker...and it is extremely off-putting.
*tyler's descent into darkness has gotten a little brighter*
YES
Eye of the hurricane
Can you turn on the light? So I can see what you did there👶
Nah his descent to darkness just outran the speed of light. Hence this video.
Could you illuminate us as to why one would ruin such good puns?
The vaccine is slowly returning Tyler’s sanity. I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
A bit of both
The man talked about light bulbs for 16 minutes using Jimmy Nutron memes, What do you mean by "sanity"?
Obviously not, sanity is blanity
@@nelsondisalvatore9812 It's all relative.
@@vetren23 relative to what?
God I worked at Home Depot for a few years and I remember having to explain to everyone that wanted to buy a lightbulb Kelvins/color temperature/cri/daylight vs soft white etc. and they always said the same thing “just gimmie a lightbulb”
smh lightbulb normies dont even care about the kelvins, they just buy any light bulb 🤬😡
Well, what can you do about it... they ain't the brightest bulbs.
@@jrwhrwiutrwuitwiut i’m ashamed this made me chuckle
@@floppa_9530 no respect for bulb culture
Yep I feel you there. I worked at the electrical department at menards and had to explain these things to so many people and even after I explained it there was a lot of people that just didn't get it. I also had a lot of older people get mad that we didn't carry incandescents anymore and I tried to tell them why LED is so much better but they weren't having it.
0:00 genuinely surprised that sentence didn't end with 'big butts and I cannot lie'.
Mood
Fun fact: Only 10% of energy in an incandescent light bulb is used to create light. The other 90% of a light bulb's energy creates heat
NO! NO! NO! Many people say I am sick in the head. NOOOO!!!! I don't believe them. But there are so many people commenting this stuff on my videos, that I have 1% doubt. So I have to ask you right now: Do you think I am sick in the head? Thanks for helping, my dear rea
And that's why they're illegal in most of europe
Fun fact: non incandescent light produce a lot of blue light that can and will mess up your sleep schedule
NO! NO! NO! Many people say I am sick in the head. NOOOO!!!! I don't believe them. But there are so many people commenting this stuff on my videos, that I have 1% doubt. So I have to ask you right now: Do you think I am sick in the head? Thanks for helping, my dear rea
@@malicekerendu3574 what isn't illegal in most of Europe ffs
You could tell Tyler was running low on video ideas, sat back, looked at his ceiling and went 'I GOT IT!'
A light bulb must've lit above his head when he got the idea.
Red LEDs were commercialized in the 60s, but blue LEDs didn't become affordable till 30 years later (the man who did so got a nobel prize). This is why you don't see basically any blue seven-segment displays (think alarm clocks and cold-war era computers)
Lol never knew that
What about the green ones?
1993, so within most viewer's lifetimes. After that, the final big hurdle was white LEDs, which came out two years later. They started showing up in holiday lights by the late 90s, apparently their first big use as home lighting (of a sort).
@@nitrosherbert888 green ones were around the same time as red ones, just shortly after
Funny thing: my art college was initially a typical college, so the bulbs were the long bright white fluorescent bulbs. When it became an art college, they were stuck with them. My teachers made it clear that the bulbs would make our paintings seemed washed out compared to incandescent bulbs and sunlight.
It's weird, but from a CRI perspective, somehow we got it right the first time with the janky old 1870s design incandescent bulbs, with their beautiful color fidelity. We're now able to achieve about 98 CRI with consumer-available LED lamps, but a lot of galleries still rely on halogen (which is incandescent but with a hotter, more compact design that provides some level of higher efficiency) to ensure the best possible viewing conditions for artwork.
@@nathaniellindner313 >somehow we got it right the first time with the janky old 1870s design incandescent bulbs,
well, it's because it's a really "natural" process of just heating up a thing until it glows, hard to fuck that up
I know, this comment is old......
Still, as an artist myself, aside from me using only LED today, I always considered flourescent to be better for art, than incandescent. Because you just need to buy the right type of flourescent of pure daylight color and you are good. But incandescents are always kinda yellowish, naturally containing more red light, which makes all the warm colors in that spectrum hard to distinguish in drawings. It also made a big difference in what kind of light source a scanner used, I also mostly had this problem with warm colors there. Today all my artwork is digital, which takes the whole issue on the 21st century level. My digital drawings look different on all the different screens there are. My tablet is LCD, my main computer monitor is OLED. Drawings looking fine on the tablet are over saturated on the OLED, contrary when looking perfect on the OLED, they look too desaturated on LCDs.........
Well, light is and will always be a central issue of all visual media. No surprise, I know.........
This sure was an odd Technology Connections video!
(but seriously, great vid!)
Can't tell if Tyler is Memeing us or he took too much acid and now his seen the Outer Gods and has become crazy.
It can be both.
Memes that are so dank and absurd it comes normal again
mans just likes lightbulbs 😩 leave him alone
you mean Tyler?
@@observer5615
Oh yea. I get confused.
"Fluorescents never made it into the home."
*Laughs in college dorm.*
Well that isn't a home. So he still isn't wrong.
*laughs along in old house kitchens*
@@kingnekogon This! There was some florescent bulbs back in my grandad's kitchen.
Alao there was a bunch in some of the rooms in one of my highschools.
Eww, your college dorm looks horrible then. It’s also not good for the skin apparently. Just get a nice yellow lamp...
@@kingnekogon I never understood why it was thing to put fluorescent tubes above a dining table (I wasn't there in the 60s). I even less understand why some still have them.
Lightbulbs scare me because they can magically pop up above my head when I think of a good idea
Me Too! I didn’t think that anyone else have this problem!
Huh, didn't notice that for me. Guess I just never had a good idea
fun fact: fluorescents don't actually emit visible light when the gas is exited, they give off inferred, the white coating on the glass is what actually makes the light you see.
Veritasium made a video on lightbulbs a couple weeks ago...
Then Polygon did a video on light bulbs last week...
And now you? Is there some sort of conspiracy going on here?
Yes.
The conspiracy needs an anti-conspiracy
Big light comes for all.
I guess the algorithm is recommending videos about lightbulbs a lot, so everyone jumps on the bandwagon before it's over.
Technology Connections too
My chandelier has all three types of lightbulbs installed. That is the perfect balance.
*Fun Fact:* If you had a brilliant idea when you're thinking something, there's always be a bright lightbulb at the top of your head.
It seems i have never had a brilliant idea :c
This is 100% Factual
Gen X gets LEDs, Millennials and Gen X get Flourescents, and anyone older gets incandescent.
and here I thought Tyler will be expressing his secret love for illumination studio, especially one of their films from their catalogue called "lightbulbs", which I have never heard of
Your channel is chef's kiss. One of my favorite bits is discovering what you find interesting enough to create content around. The range is astounding.
Your editing is so good you could talk about the history of plastic cutlery and I would be invested the entire time.
I actually just watched a 20 minute history lesson on lightbulbs while eating ben and jerry's....
These new fangled "lightbulbs" will never replace oil lamps and candles
I wonder if this will have anything to do with the planned obsolescence of the lightbulb and how we could all have lightbulbs that last forever(ish) if not for the greed of corporations.
Edit: Lol as I was writing this he started talking about it.
There's light bulbs that last forever but only Dubai Princes can buy them
It would fit well with the "corporations sucks and that's why" stance from previous videos.
Well there's millions of people that would lose their jobs if the light bulbs become "foreverish"
And as always happens in history the only way to make a huge amount of people to leave conformity and to adapt the better things is by forcing them into extreme pain and death.
So in my opinion is just let the population circle to do it's job and let humanity go into the madness of war again and figure it out on it's own.
I have a love affair with LED lights. As soon as I had a home of my own to do with the lighting as I wished, it became my obsession to replace everything. The house came with some unusual fixtures, some of which didn't really have available equivalents when I first moved it, so every once in a while I would hit the internet to search out replacements. My last wave of effort I think finished the job; I am pleased. And over that time I think I picked up all the most important functionality traits of bulbs - color accuracy, temp, brightness of course, as well as standards for socket and actual bulb. Joy!
This is like technology connections had a pcp fueled rant. Very entertaining.
"You're probably watching this video with millions of them right now."
Jokes on you I use a CRT.
Fellow retro gamer?
APRIL FOOLS! I swear we went back in time 3 years and actually got KNOWLEDGED. Plus, it was cool poop. 👍
cool poop?
This is not an YTP, the term sus was never used here
This is almost like a throwback to the old school knowledge hub videos, you know before everything Tyler talked about was video game focused.
Every time a light bulb burns out and I have to replace it, I'm reminded of that firehouse that's had the same light on for over 100 years and suddenly I'm mad at lightbulb companies all over again
Bulbs of light!
I remember when my area switched traffic lights to LEDs. They used to be blinding at night. I'm glad they figured that out lmao.
I saw a speed limit sign all LED illuminated to make it stand out. The thing is it was so bright I couldn't see the numbers. Epic fail
@@lajya01 The US government at it's finest. "Lets make it safer" *causes more accidents before they work out the kinks*
Uncle Sam doesn't do drawing boards very well, lets face it.
@@dudepool7530 I'm in Canada but policy makers are just as stupid in both sides
Physicist here
I love your explanation of black body radiation
I absolutely love this both from a history perspective and a passion perspective.
i really like the jazz music in this video for some reason
First time I've EVER seen a lightbulb advert on youtube (as an adroll) was on your video. Its good to know that there are more than door dash adverts on here.
I learned way more than I ever expected from a 20 min video on lightbulbs
First we have the thesis (honest educational content), then we got the antithesis (dank ass weird shit) now we get the synthesis (dank ass educational content)
To add onto what could come next after LEDs, one thing that you didn't mention in the video was one of the craziest potential things we could get if we switch to laser-based lighting: Centralized lighting systems. Instead of every room in your house having it's own lightbulb, you could have one big lightbulb in your basement whose light could then be beamed to any part of your house using a system of pipelines and mirrors throughout the building. Turning on light would be simply opening a pipeline to said location and increasing the luminosity of the central bulb proportionally for it. It's just like having centralized heating with a boiler and radiators, but for light.
Basement? What if you put it in the attic and collected light from the roof in the daytime, I guess that wouldnt be lasers at that point
That sounds overly complicated. We already have wires in all homes, why add an extra layer of mice food? What if you want a different color temperature, or a different color? What if it's an apartment building?
What about all the people using lamps? Do you add "light sockets" in the house?
Sounds fancy, but it's not really practical.
This sounds like the hyperloop of lighting. It's cool sounding but as soon as you start to think about it for more than a second you realize how impractical and inefficient it would be
This video made me very happy that I became a patreon supporter. I already knew a good chunk of it, but the presentation never disappoints, and I learned a few things.
The world is a much better place with you in it. thanks for the videos!!
after seeing so many lightbulbs, it feels like they don't even exist.
Thanks KnowledgeHub for the history of light bulbs, I like having warm colour temperature light bulbs in lamps it's easy on the eyes.
Beautiful. Informational and quirky. I love it.
A return and an improvement, the old with the new, i love it
At this point you and Technology Connections should team up
Enjoyed this one a lot, thanks.
Nice. I love the genuine passion for an odd, niche thing really shines though. The script roles easily because this is obviously something you've actually spent some time thinking about, and not a script you wrote because it was time for a new video. Great work.
i've noticed that there has been an influx of news stories about lightbulbs in the last few weeks. some were even posted by national news outlets. though the coincidence is odd, this is by far the best one. i love this channel no matter where it goes, but it pleases me you tackled a subject a bunch of other people just tackled but did it best. it's not even close how much more informative this was over the others. also, WAY more entertaining.
Hey Tyler, just wanted to say that this is probably my favorite video of yours. I dont know why, but I've watched it like several times over the past year.
Video idea: the history of advertising. And in a similar retrospective way as this video. Or however you wanna do it.
But i think it would be a great topic for you to cover in your style. It could touch on how consumer goods even became a "thing" at the end of the 1800s, and how simple advertisements started out, like "buy ___, it's the best". And how the general trends shifted over the decades to outcompete the then-stale market, all the way to gnar-tacular 90s/00s, to the sincere/ironic/awkward 2010s and beyond.
I think it'd be pretty neat.
I still use incandescent bulbs in the lamp on my night stand.
I also have nostalgia for all the wacky things that florescent bulbs do. The buzzing and the flickering and the slow start up and the bad colors. It really fills a place in my heart.
Today on KnowledgHub: "How lights work: unironicly"
tommorow: "The Armenian genocide: did it help the war effort?"
.....is this an actual video?
@@3bydacreekside i wouldnt be suprised lmao
Can we actually take a whole day to go thru all of TYLER's Soundcloud and appreciate how mf gooooood his music is?????
Oh I have his whole album on repeat on spotify it's so good
Loved it man, your the best
Without the invention of the light bulb we wouldn’t have Knowledge Hub
Let that sink in
The sound quality is much better now. Thank you Mr.Hub
This is like one of my favourite TH-cam channels.
The content and subject that I have always yearned for!
I love this channel so much
Knowledge returns to the hub, and all and sundry rejoiced.
This talk about lighting brings me back to film school.
Thanks for the video, it was geat and mesmerizing production. I love LEDs
I just watched a 16-minute video about lightbulbs... Ah, who am I kidding? I could listen to Tyler talk about a ham sandwich for six hours.
This is a cool video. I'm a total nerd and want point out that LED's are single color only. If you ever purchase an LED that can change colors, it's actually made of 3 small LEDs for Red, Green, and Blue. You still have to address each individual diode. RBG LEDs that are sold in electronics kits for instance are marketed and packaged in a way that make it seem like it's a single unit, but it's not.
this was actually a really good video. loved it
I love this channel and I want a light ups that last forever
I absolutely love that ending🤣🤣 had me in stitches I swear
i now love lightbulbs, thanks mr knowledge
You did an awesome job with this man, very well done. Jsuk the buzzing you said that fluorescent lamps give off is actually from the ballast of the in the tube form of the fluorescent lamps. In order to get the lamp to start the gases inside need a higher amount amps to ignigite the gases and then a why they flicker. The screw in Lamps have a built in miniature on in the base that doesn't give off the same amount of noise. - Electrician
This video is quite *illuminating*
Best video ever and learned something! 👍
First video that’s not an acid trip, nice.
This video deserves wayyy more views.
I love this channel
I'm really enjoying this video, actually. I hope you make more like this--so long as you actualy like to. Please don't let the viewer-count discourage you.
I feel enlightened.
This video gives me heavy Technology Connections vibes
The mundane nature of this topic was refreshing within the context of this channel.
Who woulda thought that the lightbulb episode would be way less flashy, and way more sane?
THIS IS IT
I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS VIDEO FOR YEARS
YES!!!
wow, a video not about video games, but with tylers new style on it. I like it.
Glad you’re on the rode to one million subs dude
This is top tier content fr
bruh this channel is so underrated
I have some of those cool LED ones that you can change the color on. In my bedroom it's more yellow because when I was growing up, we had those yellow ones that got really hot and it reminds me of home. :)
This is amazing
Filled my room and basement with color changing LED light bulbs. Much fun.
Nice advanced pun there at the end!
One of the last college essays I wrote was about lightbulbs, so finding this in my subscriptions was a surprise XD
This video felt like a stroke. I love it!
Thank you, Uncle Tyler, for returning to semi-sanity even if it's just for one video. We love you dude.
Jomama is a lightbulb.
When California got rid of traditional bulbs I stockpiled the old ones. Not because I related the new ones with work or color temperature (although sometimes they give me headaches) but because the porch light in my ye olden apartment has a ye olde timer attached that won’t work with new bulbs. Since the landlord won’t swap it’s either find old bulbs or be in the dark!
Man I understand the obsession with lightbulbs. Was on vacation this week doing some bedroom remodeling. Discovered GE WiFi smart multi color lightbulbs and how to voice link them to Amazon Alexa.
Let’s just say I bought 30+ bulbs and redid all the light fixtures in my house on top of buying a Amazon Alexa for every room to totally voice control the lighting in my house... it’s.. Amazon.. I mean amazing.
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That goddam dinosaur is so cool
Honestly I love how much light an LED can put off for 3-4 bucks as it really helps int he Winter with depressiong due to a lack of light in general (older technologies just didn't put off enough light unless you put like a 2000 watt bulb in a socket)
Never thought I'd see the words Illumination and perfection in the same sentence.
I like the audio 10/10
This guy's seriously gonna go from talking about videogames for years to being a goddamn electrical channel.
Keep it up!