The sabotures tried to destroy the machines making the sabot or shoes. Jacquard had troubles, the farmers. Still, it was about not having to pay workers who could pound tar and die
Pre Covid I met an automaton (karakuri) maker from Japan in Toronto at The Japan Foundation. The man was a master of his craft and a brilliant entertainer despite the language barrier.
This is a wonderful example of how something that was a piece of art and engineering ended up being a mechanical marvel and driving the industrial revolution. We need artists and creative people to spur on ingenuity.
We still use clock work. Virtually everything mechanical uses it, just different mechanics, but nonetheless, still timed. That being said, to a man who has worked on machinery his whole life, these are truly wondrously made works of art.
Automatons in some form were used in ancient temples to dispense water or other things, collect a fee while giving a little show or something I believe.
How easy we overlook that we are standing on the shoulders of giants. This videos remind us to have some perspective on things. Can't imagine what the engineering nightmares to design and build all the elements to be contained in a mechanism of automatons translated to today's devices that operate on morses law that uses the word nano, quantum and uv to design something that society either gets entertained by or finds has some usefulness long enough before its pushed into oblivion.
Iam totally fascinated by anything mechanical I always have been. As a kid I use to take things apart to see how they worked them try and figure out ways to make it better, reassemble. A lot of trial and error I found myself being disciplined by my dad if I couldn’t get it back together and in working order, that discipline only encouraged me to try harder. Anyway I love automatons I would love to be able to collect these pieces of art but they are way way out of my financial means
I'm 64, when I was very little my father would take me with him to visit one of his friends, to keep me quiet and busy the friend would give me a box filled with broken pocket watches, I was fascinated.
25:54 How could a thing like that just disappear? In all likelihood, it's up in the attic of some old mansion. Or maybe it's in pieces in some landfill. That would be a shame.
What fascinates me is the Ancient Greeks who invented machines and statues that moved, bled, floated that were placed in pagon temples to scare worshippers. This was well before watchwork, usually relied on fire, sand and pneumatics.
Обожаю 🥰 всякие интересные механизмы : часы всевозможные, музыкальные шкатулки, механические человечки, которые что-то пишут на бумаге или рисуют, играют на музыкальных инструментах, в шахматы ♟или танцуют. Всё, что вы показали в видео, всё это очень здорово 🤟 и очень интересно. Спасибо 🙏 вам наиогромнейшее, за такие интересные видео. 🥰👍❤️
As a person of European heritage, I find your description of these marvelous machines as "creepy" as quite insulting. But, I am quite used to this attitude. And the way Anglo-Americans love to spew hatred toward all things German! The Germans of the Black-Forrest region of the German Rump-State. The Germans of Austria. The Germans of Switzerland, who built many of these beautiful machines. This is a technology that gave hope and inspiration to millions across Europe. They are not "creepy", they are dazzlingly beautiful, testament to a culture, and tribute to the hard mental, and physical work that went into their creation, thank you.
Horror ! Almost the same argument w/" Artificial Intelligence." Silicon or metal how can any sane people even imagine that mechanical repetition or cybernetic software is sentient and self-aware ? Excellent video. Thak you.
I'd have to see proof that Bern Switzerland was a hotbed of rebellion. It seems to me if Bern wasn't a hotbed, then there was another reason for the development of these automatons.
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I was skeptical about the mechanical chess player and when they failed to explain how it supposedly worked I searched for it and it turns out it was an elaborate hoax- operated by expert chess players from within the box (it should have been a red flag as soon as he said he closed the doors after showing inside the cabinet lol) and the one shown in this video was a replica as the original was destroyed in a fire in 1854. I don't understand why the documentary straight out lies about this being some Victorian era artificial intelligence,
I read in a book, that it was the author Edgar Alan Poe who debunked this machine. He rolled a lit cigar unter the machine and screamed "fire!". Suddenly a door opened and a coughing midget fled out of the cabinet. The apparatus had some clever stage magic tricks like a slideable clockwork that could be shifted to each door (those on stage were only opened one at a time) to pretend a larger mechanism, and a mechanical voice saying "echet!" (check!) to announce that game situation.
I knew there was no way that the Turkish chess player could know what pieces were where. Now if they had long rods underneath each chess piece to let the turk know what pieces were where they probably could have pulled it off. But the moment I saw it I knew right then that something wasn't right
The ancient Greek invented clockworks (see Antikythera mechanism) and kinds of automata already 2000 years before this! Nobody knows how many technologically advanced civilizations lived before us on Earth and disappeared into nothing. Revisiting Greek Automata: Clockwork Robots from the Ancient World th-cam.com/video/TmtUQ4q6pes/w-d-xo.html
Fascinating to think how revolutionary clockwork was. The idea of a robot taking over your work must have been around much longer than we might think.
The sabotures tried to destroy the machines making the sabot or shoes. Jacquard had troubles, the farmers. Still, it was about not having to pay workers who could pound tar and die
Pre Covid I met an automaton (karakuri) maker from Japan in Toronto at The Japan Foundation. The man was a master of his craft and a brilliant entertainer despite the language barrier.
This is a wonderful example of how something that was a piece of art and engineering ended up being a mechanical marvel and driving the industrial revolution. We need artists and creative people to spur on ingenuity.
Masterpiece of engineering is an understatement
I found this documentary about these master craftsmen and their creations fantastic. Thank you.
That swan is stunning.
This was very interesting I’m glad I watched it.
We still use clock work.
Virtually everything mechanical uses it, just different mechanics, but nonetheless, still timed.
That being said, to a man who has worked on machinery his whole life, these are truly wondrously made works of art.
Outstanding presentation. Thank you so much.
This is an awesome show.
I am truly amazed. The clock in Munchën freaked me out.
Of all the automatons, the one i would like to see up close and personal or perhaps own is the little boy at his writing desk.❤
Creepy. Will probably have nightmares tonight,but the mechanical works inside are mindblowing!
😂😘
It’s like watching your great ancestors evolve, AI😊
Those cans remind me of the curves of a vinyl record....information on a groove....fascinating!
If you speed this up to 1.5 it is very watchable!
@bertspeggly4428 bawhahaha, he is kinda boring
Thank you Real History I found this really interesting
I remember seeing an article on this back in the 60s, in the old Science Digest magazine. There was also one of a woman who played a piano.
Automatons in some form were used in ancient temples to dispense water or other things, collect a fee while giving a little show or something I believe.
That good ole uncanny valley coming into play real hard with this one.
Yeah, 4 me 2
How easy we overlook that we are standing on the shoulders of giants. This videos remind us to have some perspective on things.
Can't imagine what the engineering nightmares to design and build all the elements to be contained in a mechanism of automatons translated to today's devices that operate on morses law that uses the word nano, quantum and uv to design something that society either gets entertained by or finds has some usefulness long enough before its pushed into oblivion.
Iam totally fascinated by anything mechanical I always have been. As a kid I use to take things apart to see how they worked them try and figure out ways to make it better, reassemble. A lot of trial and error I found myself being disciplined by my dad if I couldn’t get it back together and in working order, that discipline only encouraged me to try harder. Anyway I love automatons I would love to be able to collect these pieces of art but they are way way out of my financial means
so well done documentry lovely thank you
An automaton of Ned Ludd carrying a sixteen pound sledge hammer has allegedly escaped from Novelty Automation in London. Warning: DO NOT WIND HIM UP!
😊what an Exquisite diversion, thank you👏🌟🌹
I'm 64, when I was very little my father would take me with him to visit one of his friends, to keep me quiet and busy the friend would give me a box filled with broken pocket watches, I was fascinated.
Thank you very much. God bless Everyone
Philadelphia USA 🇺🇸 Nostrovia ❤❤❤
Kinetic and potential energy🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
This is incredible
Trust a Cambridge professor to turn this into a diatribe on the struggles of the working classes. Lenin would be proud.
Wow, this is an amazing documentary!
Superb tour down History's mechanical visita ; thanks from old New Orleans 😎
Incredible intelligence and craftsmanship in the days when we needed entertainment, and there was no TV.
Great documentary!
..i like Professor Simon! :)
I adore automatons, they are so very special. 💚
Absolutely fascinating!!
Magnificent!
A very good documentary!
It's a wonderful video
I think that the 1971 movie The Abominable Dr. Phibes with Vincent Price, took inspiration in these ancient automatons
25:54 How could a thing like that just disappear? In all likelihood, it's up in the attic of some old mansion. Or maybe it's in pieces in some landfill. That would be a shame.
What fascinates me is the Ancient Greeks who invented machines and statues that moved, bled, floated that were placed in pagon temples to scare worshippers. This was well before watchwork, usually relied on fire, sand and pneumatics.
Outstanding.
Cool 😎. Nicely presented 👍🏼
Loved this
Обожаю 🥰 всякие интересные механизмы : часы всевозможные, музыкальные шкатулки, механические человечки, которые что-то пишут на бумаге или рисуют, играют на музыкальных инструментах, в шахматы ♟или танцуют. Всё, что вы показали в видео, всё это очень здорово 🤟 и очень интересно. Спасибо 🙏 вам наиогромнейшее, за такие интересные видео. 🥰👍❤️
Wild that these don’t/didn’t use electricity. I sort of get how they worked, but not to the extent of knowing how they could do such precise actions
Fantastic!
Good stuff!
What a beautiful journey 😊
As a person of European heritage, I find your description of these marvelous machines as "creepy" as quite insulting. But, I am quite used to this attitude. And the way Anglo-Americans love to spew hatred toward all things German! The Germans of the Black-Forrest region of the German Rump-State. The Germans of Austria. The Germans of Switzerland, who built many of these beautiful machines. This is a technology that gave hope and inspiration to millions across Europe. They are not "creepy", they are dazzlingly beautiful, testament to a culture, and tribute to the hard mental, and physical work that went into their creation, thank you.
A tad sensitive
@@webstercatthey were the cause of 2 world wars so yes…..they are inclined to overreact
Sir, this is not an American documentary. These are your neighbors, the British. But like father, like son I guess…
Modern robots can be as creepy too. Read about uncanny valley.
Very good!
These Are So Cool!!💓💓💓💓
thanks
The Turk chess player was actually a scam. A man was hidden under the table, that man was the player, not the pseudo-robot.
riveting!
FYI- Ancient Greeks had automatons! Read about it in a great book called Gods and Robots.
I love this one, it's my second time around. It's even better that Austin Power's is the host.
Shouldn’t the title be “18th Century” not 17th…
Agreed😂
Magnífico!
That got very gory 😳😳😳😳
brilliant
11:25 The woman in the background, to the right, looks like she's lost in her own little world. No pun intended lol 😆
Horror ! Almost the same argument w/"
Artificial Intelligence." Silicon or metal how can any sane people even imagine that mechanical repetition or cybernetic software is sentient and self-aware ? Excellent video. Thak you.
@14:37 is there anywhere I can get the full track? Name?
Joseph Merlín the worlds first performing Drag Queen!
Does anyone know what the french publication he talks about opposing the aristocracy is named?
Genius
The 1700s were not the 17th century. Just sayin'.....
That's correct 👌
Yes it t'was the eighteenth century as a historician he should know that!!
Look at you …that’s all that says 😂
Simon Schaffer is the inspiration for Austin Powers.
If Stephen Hawking had Parkinsons instead of ALS
This was TV 500 years ago.
Absolutely love these machines and art, sure do not have anything like it today, today is cheap tacky awful crap from China.
I'd have to see proof that Bern Switzerland was a hotbed of rebellion. It seems to me if Bern wasn't a hotbed, then there was another reason for the development of these automatons.
Play at 1.5x speed.
@25:25 I'm sorry but covering you automatons with human skin is just horrifying...💀
Wow
Could you tell about the man who built a woman, destroyed her, rebuilt her, destroyed her again, and killed himself??
Did anyone else nearly not survive the CHIMES?!? Those were the most horrifying sounds.
The bells ! The bells ! 🤣
Indeed. Luddites, right?
Music boxes???? Lmfao
Watch almost all these programs religiousls from PBS from 1978 to 2008 , then HD TV and cable ruined it. Now they are all up loads done in 2013.
Wait … I thought this was only a nightmarish Doctor Who episode
All the animals in this are tortured, I shut it off. Couldn't see how cruel they were treated
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What is old is new again! AI robots are here now, how long will we be?
And we are allegedly evolving?!
I was skeptical about the mechanical chess player and when they failed to explain how it supposedly worked I searched for it and it turns out it was an elaborate hoax- operated by expert chess players from within the box (it should have been a red flag as soon as he said he closed the doors after showing inside the cabinet lol) and the one shown in this video was a replica as the original was destroyed in a fire in 1854.
I don't understand why the documentary straight out lies about this being some Victorian era artificial intelligence,
I read in a book, that it was the author Edgar Alan Poe who debunked this machine. He rolled a lit cigar unter the machine and screamed "fire!". Suddenly a door opened and a coughing midget fled out of the cabinet. The apparatus had some clever stage magic tricks like a slideable clockwork that could be shifted to each door (those on stage were only opened one at a time) to pretend a larger mechanism, and a mechanical voice saying "echet!" (check!) to announce that game situation.
We can't make anything that lasts 5 years let alone 500!
I knew there was no way that the Turkish chess player could know what pieces were where. Now if they had long rods underneath each chess piece to let the turk know what pieces were where they probably could have pulled it off. But the moment I saw it I knew right then that something wasn't right
They didnt know atoms back then
18th century.
This channel has took real shots from a different documentary. And overlaid other stuff.
The original Turk was lost in a fire.
The mad English dude is the creepy bit.
Charmant petit city work automatic
People find this boring but is where robotics come from
The ancient Greek invented clockworks (see Antikythera mechanism) and kinds of automata already 2000 years before this! Nobody knows how many technologically advanced civilizations lived before us on Earth and disappeared into nothing.
Revisiting Greek Automata: Clockwork Robots from the Ancient World
th-cam.com/video/TmtUQ4q6pes/w-d-xo.html
The first home entertainment center...Rich Guys had live Music in their homes at this time too
The chess dude is just a mechanical puppet.
There was a bit more mechanism inside of it (including a mechanical voice saying "check!), but its AI was a fake.
Cut out the creepy guy at the beginning
Who is narrating this?