>disaster Trying to remove the mental image from my head where a massive tsunami wipes an entire coastal town off the map while Adam Savage laughs like a cartoon villain.
The internet was collectively holding our breath as Adam dangerously and recklessly tried to cut that sphere in two! I'm glad Adam had a moment of clarity. And I'm glad you guys cut in half the right way. Adam's fingers thank you too.
Thanks, guys! Having seen the original attempt a while back on Adam’s channel, I was so surprised by how bummed I was. You really made my day, and I love how much fun you had with it. Yay!
The strange smell is probably from the fine mist of water that contains one or more hazardous chemicals/powders that are inside the cathode ray tube. :-)
Inside cathode ray tube should be just vacuum so there's very little any chemical or powder there. The smell probably comes from electrolytic capacitors that used to have all kinds of weird chemistry back in the day.
@@MikkoRantalainen There's a layer that fluoresces when the electrons hit it which can contain some nasty stuff: "CRTs contain toxic materials such as lead, cadmium, barium, and fluorescent powders" (from Lecler, Marie-Thérèse et al. “Exposure to hazardous substances in Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) recycling sites in France)
I don't think Total Dissolved Solids is an illness. unless youre talking about Tax Deduction at Source? but he's not living in India to be able to utilize that.
heineman has a long history of working with him. "professional" is not one of the many, *many* words i have seen him use to describe savage. there's a reason mythbusters ended, you know
@@dragonfire_101 But they aren't this channel. Water Jet Channel was like 25% cool cutting stuff 75% Dan and Mitch shenanigans. It's like saying Joe is Blues Clues but we all know Steve was.
@@SKK329 of course when the creative direction is given to different people it changes the dynamic of the channel, but I’m sure Dan and Mitch understand this and I do not believe they would have let other people take it over if they did not trust them to do so
@@dragonfire_101 That’s all well and good. But I think people are just a bit disappointed seeing two randoms in the place of the original two that were on the show for years and people had a connection with. It’s fine content still, but most people subbed for Dan and Mitch.
the "go watch adam's video to ____" is actually an insanely good way to make sure you're not stealing viewers from anyone by including the clips that people would click on their video to see
@@ARCH1V3S It would be cool, but likely wouldn't be applicable. The waterjet damages anything in close proximity to it, their expensive cameras would not last.
@@memesarekeem not necessarily. there are MANY times they've put their cameras near things that could do major harm to it (see; many things relating to fire and molten objects, liquids of many natures, literal bullets). i'm sure that they could find a way to get a decent image without hurting the cameras. -...not to mention the fact that Gav both does SMG and is a head member of Rooster Teeth, and Dan is not only a big RT guy but is an ex-British military soldier; the likelihood they don't have the collective money to replace a camera need be is slim-
@@0xEARTH I suppose that's true. I wouldn't say it's impossible obviously, but I'm not show how nicely the video may come out depending on the set-up. Molten objects, even lava, are fairly "easy" to record. They're slow, and despite being hot, don't project heat to the point you can't get close (ENOUGH) to them. Same with fire, which was tamed by the cavemen. The waterjet is different, it is extremely highspeed and sprays everywhere. They could set the camera outside of the parameter of the water's (lets just call them projectiles,) but as the comment explained I think we might lose the aspect of being able to see the water actually "carve" into the object it cuts. The camera isn't as much as a worry as much as the quality (in this case, the quality of a viewer's enjoyment,) of the video is.
"I guess it creates a little image and expands it..." Exactly. Just like a flashlight works by enlarging photons. Or a particle accelerator uses graviolis to push protons around...
Lets be honest Mitch and Dan built the channel to what we see today.... it definitely isn't the same, I don't enjoy the videos as much anymore without the "taste test" and other funny Dan and Mitch only moments.....
@@wheelchair1410 I believe they started their own business of sorts, and so they do that now. they also have a new youtube channel called "Cars & Stuff"
The views aloneshow that the new hosts are just bad. Another viewer said the originals have a automotive channel now. These guys bought this channel is what I read from the other poster. Anyway I think they need to up their personalities and get back to waterjets for this to survive!
Hi, I've been watching your channel for a while and had a question more about the business side of the water jet. I install flooring and I've worked with a local water jet company a few times to cut complex designs into vinyl floors. They've always done good work but on the last and biggest job there were some issues and I don't know if they're to blame or not. It was a pretty simple design, just DNA and various diagrams of molecules so just a bunch of different size circles and bars connecting them. The problem was that when they cut the colored tiles they used the same dimensions as the outline in the white field tiles. So there ended up being a gap the width of the kerf between the designs and the places they were supposed to fit. It caused some problems since the material is flexible and easy to distort even when solid. Now I doubt we specced two different sizes so that could be it and it was our fault but we've done similar but smaller projects with them previously and whoever programmed the machine at that time realized what we wanted and accounted for the width of the cut. So do you think we should have been more clear, they should have asked for clarification or a bit of both?
Fun fact about not finding a signal: the analog waves those TVs ran off of have pretty much been 100% disabled. So even if you did get the right contrast settings... you wouldn't have connected to everything. If you tried in 2010ish, you might have gotten PBS.
Yeah all those analog TV signals are mostly (completely?) gone now, about all you could do is hook up a video source to it like an old VCR or something and have it playing while cutting. Was still cool though, to see how much punishment it took before it finally died.
@@DwellerBenthosThe broadcast stations now use a different part of the RF spectrum. You can get an adapter so old TV sets like this can still display broadcast TV signals.
@@RobRoss Right, those converter boxes they were practically giving away with the government subsidy back when they switched over. You'd still need an antenna that could receive a signal, hook it up to the box, then to the TV which is why I said an old VCR would probably be better and less hassle to hook up and get working. Plus that would be a more more reliable signal as to what is playing if you're going to record it for youtube, don't want to have a TV show or news broadcast on the set while it's being cut, you might be misconstrued as to voicing an opinion on said content, can't have that.
Philo T Farnsworth was not the first person to demonstrate television in the US, never mind the first on the planet. The world’s first public demonstration of "real" television took place in London on 26 January, 1926 before an audience of 40 members of the Royal Institution, Britain’s leading organisation for promoting scientific research. The man behind the demonstration was a 37-year-old Scotsman called John Logie Baird. And what he showed on screen, 19 months before Farnsworth, was far superior to Farnsworth’s "blob of light", as it was famously described by Albert Abramson in The History of Television. At the 1926 demonstration, Baird transmitted images of the observers from one room to another. The screen displayed half tones - black and white, and shades of grey - using a method he had patented three years before.
While I think there's still broadcast TV, you now need a digital tuner to turn the signal into something old CRTs can display. I remember trying to source something for my mother's TV much like the sliced one when the changeover was happening.
4:01 OMG, that NOISE! I know it is only analogue white noise, but it takes me back as you no longer have this chaotic, grating sound with our modern digital TVs and radios (although, side note, if I am going to be subjected to interference give me analogue over the FAR more obnoxious digital interference any day, but that's just me). I grew up in the 80s & 90s and I remember my Mum had a TV/Radio combo unit in the kitchen. It wasn't exactly portable - the black & white TV screen was maybe slightly smaller than this one but, extending off to the right of the screen, was a long, analogue, old school type tuner. The whole thing was about the size of a Playstation 5, just slightly longer and slightly fatter. Anyway, Mum had this thing in the kitchen throughout the 1980s, it rarely got used, and for almost a decade it sat on top of the equally obsolete 1980s microwave oven. As a kid I used to think the thing was so cool and I used to flick the switch back and forth which toggled it between being a radio and a TV. Part of the issue was that our kitchen used to be in the basement, and with it being an analogue device, the reception was terrible and 90% of the time, particularly with the TV, all you could pick up was that familiar white noise EXACTLY as we hear at 4:01. Anyway, by the time I was 15/16 (c.1992) I had almost forgotten about the thing. It still sat in the kitchen and, extremely rarely, my Mum would listen to the radio on it but the TV function had not been used for at least 3 years. I was home alone and, no joke, it was Hallowe'en (because of course it was!). At the time we lived in a tall town house and my bedroom was effectively the attic, where I was very lucky and was fully decked out with my own little TV (no flat screens back then, it was a great big lump with a little 14"screen, lol). With it being Hallowe'en, and with me being a dumb teenager, I was watching scary TV shows (I literally think it was the infamous "Ghostwatch" on the BBC which, if you don't know about it, look it up, it was amazing!). Anyway, waiting for the show to end (we had no "pause" in those days) I went down the 3 flights of stairs to the kitchen in the basement to make a tea and grab a snack. Our kitchen was quite long and you could turn the lights on in 2 sections - I switched the lights on for the counter by the kettle, but the old TV/Radio device was now at the far side of the kitchen, in the darkness. As I was making my tea, a little jumpy anyway as it was the middle of the night, on hallowe'en, I am home alone, watching scary TV shows and I'm a stupid teenager, all of a sudden the blasted black and white little TV screen TURNS ITSELF ON .... FULL VOLUME! As it was situated at the far side of the room, in the pitch black, the white fuzzy light of the screen lit that half of the room up like a strobe light, and the rough, white noise sound was deafening. I swear it almost gave me a heart attack and I stared at it from across the room for a second in fright ..... when it just SWITCHED ITSELF OFF AGAIN!!! Right in front of my eyes, with nobody but me in the room, stood well over 10ft from it! I have to admit, I was pretty terrified. I didn't want to go near it at first and I cannot recall if it came back on again or not (I think it did it a couple of times, but it was 30 years ago now so I'm not certain). Anyway, I went over to it and could not see anything wrong with it, so I just pulled it's cable out of the wall. I quietly picked up my tea & my snack, returned to my room in the attic and I did not leave for the rest of the night. Turns out it all had a very mundane explanation. It was broken. My Mum had been listening to the radio and the thing had just died. Mum opted for the standard "push every button" attempt at fixing it and, in doing so, she had flicked the toggle switch over to the TV setting, at which point the device had switched back on, on it's own, and then it switched off again. Mum simply switched off the power and had left it alone, assuming it broken. She never told me or anyone else that the thing was kaput. Anyway, earlier that day on Hallowe'en, Mum had had a cleaner come by and dust the house whilst she was away (she must've thought her teenage son who had the house to himself for the weekend was never going to do it himself but I don't know what gave her that idea!!!). Anyway, the cleaner seems to have run her duster over the device and accidentally flicked the power switch back on. However, as the device was broken, nothing had actually come back on and she had never noticed. The device, turned on by the cleaner and left on full volume from my Mother's previous "fix" attempts, sat in the kitchen "dormant", just waiting for my arrival for a midnight snack on Hallowe'en like some evil trap. It was so traumatising that even now, 30 years later, when I hear that White Noise I am immediately reminded of that moment ... and I must make myself a cup of tea ....
Back before PVRs existed my dad would bring a tiny tv like that out for the Olympics. He'd have NBC recording on the VCR to watch later, CTV on the main tv and then CBC on the portable tv because public stations could still be picked up with antennas. With that setup he could watch three live broadcasts of the sports events a day.
Oh yeah, the best early mornings of my childhood trying to get the B/W crt TV on using its *very* stiff dial which was also the volume. Off to blaring static in the blink of an eye. While trying not to wake the parents, and early enough to only be able to 'watch' the test screen anyway. Lol
Congratulations on this collaboration, must have been a blast for you :) I like the sliced PEPPERONI box! I'm surprised Adam requested to cut a device that could have been easily dismantled with tools (except the screen) with much less damage and garnet everywhere. Good for you, anyway!
I would guess that cutting something straight trough the middle gives a different look and Adam wanted to see that, maybe also curious if it looks the way he imagined it. Or he was pissed that he got a electric shock from a television that many years ago, and now he finally seeked out revenge but cutting one in half :p
I used to watch this channel all the time and I've never seen these two men before. Who are they? What happened to the guy who would lick stuff? I feel like I'm living in some kind of Mandella Effect alternate reality!
Congratulations dude. Ive been watching for many many years. This channel is keeping its flow. Its a slow meandering flow but it is what it is. Like a lazy river of youtube.
I just LOVE so so much that all over youtube more and more amazing and creative creators are getting the chance to more fascinating collaborations like this. such a great age of entertainment and education
It’s amazing that such a common tech from the 1980’s is so unfamiliar to these kids. He thought it had a charger and thought the image was made at the back (no, it’s not*) and projected - I suppose he thought it was like a digital projector. *The image is made in the middle - the electrons are accelerated forward at the back - some pass through the grid - the rest just make the grid glow, and then two sets of magnets in the middle direct the electrons to a focused point on the screen phosphors.
Oh this is SO FUN! I'm definitely subscribing now! Happy for you that you got to collab with one of the Millenial childhood heroes of science, and excited to check out your backlog of videos!
roflmao a charger for a tv... i can only imagine the disapointment when they unplugged it. also didnt tv stations do away with air waves? do tbey need some box adaptor to get any reception? wonder if they ever figured out the B/W stood for black and white
just a heads up, not a great idea to poke around even dead circuit boards with your fingers (especially not so soon after it was powered on.) you could have deadly charge built up in certain components, for like many days.
The broadcast encoding and frequency standards changed with HDTV/digital television, so unless someone is operating a pirate old school TV station there is nothing the tuner could still decode.
I think about the rain episode every time I am in the rain. I deliver to people and they will see me WALKING to them in the rain. They will yell to run but I never do. When I get to them I tell them MYTHBUSTERS proved you get MORE wet if you run than if you walk. LOL!!! So funny you brought that up to Adam!
You wouldn't receive any signals regardless, because TV is ATSC now, NOT analog, which that tuner can decode. More info than you probably wanted...Great video.
We had SO much fun with this ... Thank you again SO MUCH!
Man what an honor to do this for Adam Savage. I've been waiting to see the inside of this. Lol
This was awesome
It looks like it was a blast all around!
haven't watched the entire video yet, but how do you feel about the fact that they very likely taste tested your big foil ball?
@@frankierzucekjr x
It was fun to watch 👍
I like how Adam laughs at everything. Success, failure, accident, disaster, whatever, it always makes him laugh.
All of it is part of learning, and learning new stuff is the joy of his life.
Pain
Must be those electric shocks he accidentally had at a young age
Failure is always an option 😊
>disaster
Trying to remove the mental image from my head where a massive tsunami wipes an entire coastal town off the map while Adam Savage laughs like a cartoon villain.
Ya know it's easy to forget Adam is a living legend by how genuine he is. Along with the fact he is very open minded so he has kept up with the times.
a very good reason as to why Adam Savage is one of my favorite people ever to exist, like he's just such a good guy
He’s just a guy
The internet was collectively holding our breath as Adam dangerously and recklessly tried to cut that sphere in two! I'm glad Adam had a moment of clarity. And I'm glad you guys cut in half the right way. Adam's fingers thank you too.
Just a reminder that they could only get static on the TV because all broadcast channels are digital now.
If you do this again they sell converters.
Came looking in the comments for someone to mention this, the tv would only have been able to pick up analog signals.
@@zeromotivation1817 I'm happy to have been of service.
yeah but you can get an image if you plug a cable box into the antenna port (after all the port on the box is made to do just that)
Thanks, guys! Having seen the original attempt a while back on Adam’s channel, I was so surprised by how bummed I was. You really made my day, and I love how much fun you had with it. Yay!
what happend, who the hell are these guys?
The strange smell is probably from the fine mist of water that contains one or more hazardous chemicals/powders that are inside the cathode ray tube. :-)
Inside cathode ray tube should be just vacuum so there's very little any chemical or powder there. The smell probably comes from electrolytic capacitors that used to have all kinds of weird chemistry back in the day.
@@MikkoRantalainen Some could be the circuit board itself, those things smell odd if you break them in half
@@GiantJanus That's because they're fibreglass and you're smelling tiny needles of glass that are embedding themselves in your lungs forever
@@Berkeloid0 whoops, guess my lungs are a bit fuzzy!
@@MikkoRantalainen There's a layer that fluoresces when the electrons hit it which can contain some nasty stuff:
"CRTs contain toxic materials such as lead, cadmium, barium, and fluorescent powders"
(from Lecler, Marie-Thérèse et al. “Exposure to hazardous substances in Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) recycling sites in France)
adam is such a professional he probably sent you all his footage without you even asking for it and he made an outtro and everything
So sad that he has T.D.S.
Hope he can recover and get better
I don't think Total Dissolved Solids is an illness. unless youre talking about Tax Deduction at Source? but he's not living in India to be able to utilize that.
@@katfishzomby he's got T.D.S. really bad. I think he got it back in 2016.
@@seanverrett107 there are no diseases called tds tho?
heineman has a long history of working with him. "professional" is not one of the many, *many* words i have seen him use to describe savage. there's a reason mythbusters ended, you know
i miss Dan and Mitch
What happened to them
@@adamlumpkins2000 They run a different channel now that focuses on repairing cars. They sold this channel to these two new guys.
Jup, it will be never this fun like it was with them
Dan & Mitchell... bring them back
I don't think we're going to get them back. :/
Yeah this was really weird with Adam asking about what they do. He's really not talking to the people on the call lol
wait wheres the OG waterjet guys?
@@joshuagibson2520 channel name is "Cars & Stuff"
That's a awesome collab to see. I loved Mythbusters. So cool you guys got to work with him.
It’s really weird hearing “we’re the waterjet channel” and it’s two guys I’ve never seen before. Cool collab though
They had the torch passed to them so they aren’t stealing any credit
They've been on the channel for some time now
@@dragonfire_101 But they aren't this channel. Water Jet Channel was like 25% cool cutting stuff 75% Dan and Mitch shenanigans. It's like saying Joe is Blues Clues but we all know Steve was.
@@SKK329 of course when the creative direction is given to different people it changes the dynamic of the channel, but I’m sure Dan and Mitch understand this and I do not believe they would have let other people take it over if they did not trust them to do so
@@dragonfire_101 That’s all well and good. But I think people are just a bit disappointed seeing two randoms in the place of the original two that were on the show for years and people had a connection with.
It’s fine content still, but most people subbed for Dan and Mitch.
the "go watch adam's video to ____" is actually an insanely good way to make sure you're not stealing viewers from anyone by including the clips that people would click on their video to see
You guys should do a collaboration with the Slow Mo Guys. I’d love to see that water jet slowly carving through something.
Lol that's literally just watching a waterjet at normal speed.
@@Complete.cyclepath Eh not exactly, it would be wicked to watch the water slowly carve into something.
@@ARCH1V3S It would be cool, but likely wouldn't be applicable. The waterjet damages anything in close proximity to it, their expensive cameras would not last.
@@memesarekeem not necessarily. there are MANY times they've put their cameras near things that could do major harm to it (see; many things relating to fire and molten objects, liquids of many natures, literal bullets). i'm sure that they could find a way to get a decent image without hurting the cameras.
-...not to mention the fact that Gav both does SMG and is a head member of Rooster Teeth, and Dan is not only a big RT guy but is an ex-British military soldier; the likelihood they don't have the collective money to replace a camera need be is slim-
@@0xEARTH I suppose that's true. I wouldn't say it's impossible obviously, but I'm not show how nicely the video may come out depending on the set-up. Molten objects, even lava, are fairly "easy" to record. They're slow, and despite being hot, don't project heat to the point you can't get close (ENOUGH) to them. Same with fire, which was tamed by the cavemen. The waterjet is different, it is extremely highspeed and sprays everywhere.
They could set the camera outside of the parameter of the water's (lets just call them projectiles,) but as the comment explained I think we might lose the aspect of being able to see the water actually "carve" into the object it cuts.
The camera isn't as much as a worry as much as the quality (in this case, the quality of a viewer's enjoyment,) of the video is.
Glad you guys got some good recognition by a legend.
One of the best entertainment channels on TH-cam, always a good laugh
Did you know that Dan and Mitchell never existed? If you remember them from this channel, that's just the Mandela Effect!
where are the original guys?
Where are the original guys? I am seeing these two more and more and I haven't been able to find out why
They’re focusing on their car channel
They sold this channel to these two dweebs and are now making videos about cars.
5:32 made me actually spit out my drink 🤣
Ah, so that's what does the cutting in a MIL-ling machine.
@@LordDragox412 zing!
Seen you over on Adam's channel also 👋
Couldn’t even get Mitchell for Adam Savage
At 5:50 I absolutely expected to hear "I take back what I said about my mother In-Law. Um I'm actually not married. . . . anymore" lol
who are these guys??
So sad to see such a classic channel do a bait and switch with new hosts. I hope the boys are doing well with their car channel. RIP to a real one.
"I guess it creates a little image and expands it..." Exactly. Just like a flashlight works by enlarging photons. Or a particle accelerator uses graviolis to push protons around...
Where are the other two?
They are about as awkward as me
What happened to the two original water jet guys??
I love how they legit didn't know what B/W stood for on the TV. lol Oh, how young you guys must be!
I noticed that too... and everybody seems to have forgotten that pretty much every analog TV transmitter in the US has been shutdown.
I don't care for these two, subscribed for the lick-testing
Lets be honest Mitch and Dan built the channel to what we see today.... it definitely isn't the same, I don't enjoy the videos as much anymore without the "taste test" and other funny Dan and Mitch only moments.....
Agreed
Why did they actually leave? Been wondering about it for a while now.
@@wheelchair1410 I believe they started their own business of sorts, and so they do that now. they also have a new youtube channel called "Cars & Stuff"
The views aloneshow that the new hosts are just bad. Another viewer said the originals have a automotive channel now. These guys bought this channel is what I read from the other poster.
Anyway I think they need to up their personalities and get back to waterjets for this to survive!
@@41A2E Thanks for the reminder about their other channel. I didn't know they were putting out new content.
Wait, Where’s the waterjet guys I know and love? Where are they?
Can you please elaborate. I've seen so many comments about 'Dan and Mitch' and tbh i don't know who they are.
What happened to the original hosts of this channel?
Where'd Dan and Mitchel go?
Never expected two of my favorite channels to collide
Sad it wasnt with the original crew :(
That's a big fan boy moment. Awesome.
Would've been cooler with the OG Water Jet fellas.
I haven't been here in a while, WTF IS THIS!?
Where are those two ol' muppets?
Why someone else is on camera?
They made a new car channel and handed this one off to these guys
This is so great... There are no more analog TV signals to pick-up anymore.. They've all been re-claimed and repurposed!
So glad you cut the demon core in half, the level of sass coming off that thing was way too cancerous.
"Abrasive like my mother-in-law." LOL!
Wait, what happened to the OG waterjet guys ??
Hi, I've been watching your channel for a while and had a question more about the business side of the water jet. I install flooring and I've worked with a local water jet company a few times to cut complex designs into vinyl floors. They've always done good work but on the last and biggest job there were some issues and I don't know if they're to blame or not. It was a pretty simple design, just DNA and various diagrams of molecules so just a bunch of different size circles and bars connecting them. The problem was that when they cut the colored tiles they used the same dimensions as the outline in the white field tiles. So there ended up being a gap the width of the kerf between the designs and the places they were supposed to fit. It caused some problems since the material is flexible and easy to distort even when solid. Now I doubt we specced two different sizes so that could be it and it was our fault but we've done similar but smaller projects with them previously and whoever programmed the machine at that time realized what we wanted and accounted for the width of the cut. So do you think we should have been more clear, they should have asked for clarification or a bit of both?
Fun fact about not finding a signal: the analog waves those TVs ran off of have pretty much been 100% disabled. So even if you did get the right contrast settings... you wouldn't have connected to everything. If you tried in 2010ish, you might have gotten PBS.
Yeah all those analog TV signals are mostly (completely?) gone now, about all you could do is hook up a video source to it like an old VCR or something and have it playing while cutting. Was still cool though, to see how much punishment it took before it finally died.
@@DwellerBenthosThe broadcast stations now use a different part of the RF spectrum. You can get an adapter so old TV sets like this can still display broadcast TV signals.
@@RobRoss Right, those converter boxes they were practically giving away with the government subsidy back when they switched over. You'd still need an antenna that could receive a signal, hook it up to the box, then to the TV which is why I said an old VCR would probably be better and less hassle to hook up and get working. Plus that would be a more more reliable signal as to what is playing if you're going to record it for youtube, don't want to have a TV show or news broadcast on the set while it's being cut, you might be misconstrued as to voicing an opinion on said content, can't have that.
WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE!?
-Patrick Star
This was wholesome af man, these boys are lucky as all hell to talk to a man so many of us hold up on a pedestal as a hero.
John login Baird invented the tv 2 years BEFORE farnsworth,you’d be surprised how many inventions are Scottish.
Where is Dan and Mitchell???
0:50 "So let's not screw this one up."
Great ventriloquist trick.
His lips didn't move.
This was by far the best collab ive seen in a while.
"It's purpose is to be abrasive...just like my mother in law." LMAO
Philo T Farnsworth was not the first person to demonstrate television in the US, never mind the first on the planet. The world’s first public demonstration of "real" television took place in London on 26 January, 1926 before an audience of 40 members of the Royal Institution, Britain’s leading organisation for promoting scientific research.
The man behind the demonstration was a 37-year-old Scotsman called John Logie Baird. And what he showed on screen, 19 months before Farnsworth, was far superior to Farnsworth’s "blob of light", as it was famously described by Albert Abramson in The History of Television.
At the 1926 demonstration, Baird transmitted images of the observers from one room to another. The screen displayed half tones - black and white, and shades of grey - using a method he had patented three years before.
Ok maybe I have missed something from not watching in a while. What happened to the original 2 guys on this channel?
Where are the cool guys from this Chanel
"I take back what I said about my mother in-law......I'm actually not married." 🤣😂
Definitely earned a subscriber! Good stuff guys!
While I think there's still broadcast TV, you now need a digital tuner to turn the signal into something old CRTs can display. I remember trying to source something for my mother's TV much like the sliced one when the changeover was happening.
My mom still has her CRT TV with a digital converter box from the switchover. If it breaks, I'm not even sure you can get another converter!
We miss Dan and Mitch
4:01 OMG, that NOISE! I know it is only analogue white noise, but it takes me back as you no longer have this chaotic, grating sound with our modern digital TVs and radios (although, side note, if I am going to be subjected to interference give me analogue over the FAR more obnoxious digital interference any day, but that's just me). I grew up in the 80s & 90s and I remember my Mum had a TV/Radio combo unit in the kitchen. It wasn't exactly portable - the black & white TV screen was maybe slightly smaller than this one but, extending off to the right of the screen, was a long, analogue, old school type tuner. The whole thing was about the size of a Playstation 5, just slightly longer and slightly fatter. Anyway, Mum had this thing in the kitchen throughout the 1980s, it rarely got used, and for almost a decade it sat on top of the equally obsolete 1980s microwave oven. As a kid I used to think the thing was so cool and I used to flick the switch back and forth which toggled it between being a radio and a TV. Part of the issue was that our kitchen used to be in the basement, and with it being an analogue device, the reception was terrible and 90% of the time, particularly with the TV, all you could pick up was that familiar white noise EXACTLY as we hear at 4:01. Anyway, by the time I was 15/16 (c.1992) I had almost forgotten about the thing. It still sat in the kitchen and, extremely rarely, my Mum would listen to the radio on it but the TV function had not been used for at least 3 years. I was home alone and, no joke, it was Hallowe'en (because of course it was!). At the time we lived in a tall town house and my bedroom was effectively the attic, where I was very lucky and was fully decked out with my own little TV (no flat screens back then, it was a great big lump with a little 14"screen, lol). With it being Hallowe'en, and with me being a dumb teenager, I was watching scary TV shows (I literally think it was the infamous "Ghostwatch" on the BBC which, if you don't know about it, look it up, it was amazing!). Anyway, waiting for the show to end (we had no "pause" in those days) I went down the 3 flights of stairs to the kitchen in the basement to make a tea and grab a snack. Our kitchen was quite long and you could turn the lights on in 2 sections - I switched the lights on for the counter by the kettle, but the old TV/Radio device was now at the far side of the kitchen, in the darkness. As I was making my tea, a little jumpy anyway as it was the middle of the night, on hallowe'en, I am home alone, watching scary TV shows and I'm a stupid teenager, all of a sudden the blasted black and white little TV screen TURNS ITSELF ON .... FULL VOLUME! As it was situated at the far side of the room, in the pitch black, the white fuzzy light of the screen lit that half of the room up like a strobe light, and the rough, white noise sound was deafening. I swear it almost gave me a heart attack and I stared at it from across the room for a second in fright ..... when it just SWITCHED ITSELF OFF AGAIN!!! Right in front of my eyes, with nobody but me in the room, stood well over 10ft from it! I have to admit, I was pretty terrified. I didn't want to go near it at first and I cannot recall if it came back on again or not (I think it did it a couple of times, but it was 30 years ago now so I'm not certain). Anyway, I went over to it and could not see anything wrong with it, so I just pulled it's cable out of the wall. I quietly picked up my tea & my snack, returned to my room in the attic and I did not leave for the rest of the night.
Turns out it all had a very mundane explanation. It was broken. My Mum had been listening to the radio and the thing had just died. Mum opted for the standard "push every button" attempt at fixing it and, in doing so, she had flicked the toggle switch over to the TV setting, at which point the device had switched back on, on it's own, and then it switched off again. Mum simply switched off the power and had left it alone, assuming it broken. She never told me or anyone else that the thing was kaput. Anyway, earlier that day on Hallowe'en, Mum had had a cleaner come by and dust the house whilst she was away (she must've thought her teenage son who had the house to himself for the weekend was never going to do it himself but I don't know what gave her that idea!!!). Anyway, the cleaner seems to have run her duster over the device and accidentally flicked the power switch back on. However, as the device was broken, nothing had actually come back on and she had never noticed. The device, turned on by the cleaner and left on full volume from my Mother's previous "fix" attempts, sat in the kitchen "dormant", just waiting for my arrival for a midnight snack on Hallowe'en like some evil trap. It was so traumatising that even now, 30 years later, when I hear that White Noise I am immediately reminded of that moment ... and I must make myself a cup of tea ....
What happened to the guys that used to be on this channel?
Back before PVRs existed my dad would bring a tiny tv like that out for the Olympics. He'd have NBC recording on the VCR to watch later, CTV on the main tv and then CBC on the portable tv because public stations could still be picked up with antennas. With that setup he could watch three live broadcasts of the sports events a day.
got a sub for the mother in law joke haha!!!
This guys channel popped up for the second time and I swear his sidekick in the cap looks like PC Principal from South Park.
It's so cute how nervous you guys are talking to Adam lmao
What ever happened to the dudes who started this channel? Do they even work there anymore?
Oh yeah, the best early mornings of my childhood trying to get the B/W crt TV on using its *very* stiff dial which was also the volume. Off to blaring static in the blink of an eye. While trying not to wake the parents, and early enough to only be able to 'watch' the test screen anyway. Lol
Wait... who are these dudes...
I can't believe I fell down this rabbit hole just browsing TH-cam this is the 3rd video so far on this project
Congratulations on this collaboration, must have been a blast for you :) I like the sliced PEPPERONI box!
I'm surprised Adam requested to cut a device that could have been easily dismantled with tools (except the screen) with much less damage and garnet everywhere. Good for you, anyway!
I would guess that cutting something straight trough the middle gives a different look and Adam wanted to see that, maybe also curious if it looks the way he imagined it. Or he was pissed that he got a electric shock from a television that many years ago, and now he finally seeked out revenge but cutting one in half :p
so sad adam has tds, hope he gets better soon.
I used to watch this channel all the time and I've never seen these two men before. Who are they? What happened to the guy who would lick stuff? I feel like I'm living in some kind of Mandella Effect alternate reality!
Haven't seen their videos pop up since the concrete slinky just to look the channel up on see these two no personal guys🤔😓
Congratulations dude. Ive been watching for many many years. This channel is keeping its flow. Its a slow meandering flow but it is what it is. Like a lazy river of youtube.
9:41 I think my brain kinda broke when he said this. Thinking of a CRT as an adjustable light bulb feels wrong
YOU DIDNT EVEN LICK TEST IT FOR ADAM SAKE!!! Amazing upload guy I loved it
I just LOVE so so much that all over youtube more and more amazing and creative creators are getting the chance to more fascinating collaborations like this. such a great age of entertainment and education
I can't help but to think this would have been more enjoyable with the og WJC crew, but you guys did okay.
Adam Savage is a human treasure. It's incredible you guys got the opportunity to collab!
i remember seeing adams video on this was not expecting him to collab with you guys lol
Great collab! Such awesome young fellas! I would be giddy talking to THE Adam Savage as well!😂
Wait… where are the normal water jet channel guys?!?!
"go watch adam's video..." okay propably didnt come back
I didn’t expect seeing this collab, but it is so welcome.
There needs to be many more savage collabs
What happened to Mitchell? My first time watching this channel in a while.
I actually think about that running in the rain thing every time it rains for what must be… the better part of 20 years?
It’s amazing that such a common tech from the 1980’s is so unfamiliar to these kids. He thought it had a charger and thought the image was made at the back (no, it’s not*) and projected - I suppose he thought it was like a digital projector.
*The image is made in the middle - the electrons are accelerated forward at the back - some pass through the grid - the rest just make the grid glow, and then two sets of magnets in the middle direct the electrons to a focused point on the screen phosphors.
And also that it would still pick up signals...OTA TV signals nowadays are digital.
@@DavidPlass they did use the word “static” though. But I’m not sure they understood “b&w”.
I think to the rain stuff myself. Classic episode!
This guy is just a LEGEND.
Also Jamie Heineman is.
And RIP Grand Imahara.
Seeing the water jet ENCROACH INTO THE IMAGE as it penetrated the CRT was BONKERS.
Oh this is SO FUN! I'm definitely subscribing now! Happy for you that you got to collab with one of the Millenial childhood heroes of science, and excited to check out your backlog of videos!
I'm amazed at how clearly you could speak when talking to Adam, I'd be mute. Legend.
roflmao a charger for a tv... i can only imagine the disapointment when they unplugged it. also didnt tv stations do away with air waves? do tbey need some box adaptor to get any reception? wonder if they ever figured out the B/W stood for black and white
just a heads up, not a great idea to poke around even dead circuit boards with your fingers (especially not so soon after it was powered on.) you could have deadly charge built up in certain components, for like many days.
I was actually curious about that.... like that maybe the water caused any residual charge to discharge?
@@SPUDIKIN Possibly, but without certainty I wouldn't risk my life.
It's a shame that these old TVs will never pick up a proper signal again; all of the broadcast TV channels have gone to digital signals
Where is Mitch and the other guy/s !?
The broadcast encoding and frequency standards changed with HDTV/digital television, so unless someone is operating a pirate old school TV station there is nothing the tuner could still decode.
Was about to make the same comment.
Every time I see anyone running in the rain I think of myth busters.
who are these guys where are the usual 2 guys
I think about the rain episode every time I am in the rain. I deliver to people and they will see me WALKING to them in the rain. They will yell to run but I never do. When I get to them I tell them MYTHBUSTERS proved you get MORE wet if you run than if you walk. LOL!!! So funny you brought that up to Adam!
Wasn't it dependent on the distance of travel?
Why didn't you guys cut the TV's power supply in half as well?
🤣🤣 That'd be very funny 🤣🤣🤣
You wouldn't receive any signals regardless, because TV is ATSC now, NOT analog, which that tuner can decode. More info than you probably wanted...Great video.