American Reacts to Norway's Greatest Inventions | Part 1
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As an American I never realized how many things we use were invented by other countries. Today I am very interested in learning about Norway's greatest inventions that we use everyday. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
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The Tripp Trapp chair is extremely common in Norway, and it works really, really well for tiny babies to adult size (as long as your butt is not too wide).
My parents built their house in 1976, and were among the very first users of the H Window (Husmor-vindu). It is sooooo much more practical than any other window I have ever come across in any country!
there are all over the Nordic countries in all restaurants and private homes here in Denmark for sure, practical and fit the Scandinavian interior style
To make artificial fertilizer, you first need to pull nitrogen out of the air. This process was invented in 1910, I think. That requires enormous amounts of electricity, but as it happens, Norway had started building hydropower in 1909, which gave us unlimited amount of power. So for a very long time, Norway had a global monopoly on artificial fertilizer and it has been said that this invention doubled the size of humanity by allowing an enormous increase in food production. Yara is still the largest producer. It used to be a part of the same company that started hydroelectric power, Norsk Hydro. So this is really how Norway got rich. People think it was oil, but it wasn't.
Also worth of saying, a biproduct of this was heavy water... used in nuclear reactors.
Before this the exploration of the seas for islands with bird shit on them was the game to play :) The english accent of the op video is so bad...
honestly I think it's way older.. the pun of it has to do with the logo of the fertilizer ( dating back to viking times ) cause of most vikings were farmers tbh so that's basically my thought about it
@@TrymTH-camMainChannelFertilizer is way older, even older than the Viking age. They used minerals, manure and other biproducts to fertilize soil even back in ancient Egypt.
But truly artificial fertilizer was first mass produced in Norway, extracting Nitrogen directly from air using hydroelectric power.
I live in the town where it was first mass produced
those chairs are popular in Sweden too. They are in more or less every restaurant and people have them at home too if they have young children. The windows are very common here too, I even got windows like that in my appartment.
H-window. (Husmor vindu) "Housewife-window". What's even more interesting is that the English word "Window" stems from Old Norse composed of the two words "vind-auge" meaning : "Wind-eye".
Not sure if someone said it already but the trip trap chair also has a guard for the upper body that can be attached to prevent the child from falling forward, might not be as commonly used but for more active/restless children I can clearly remember it being there when I was younger.
The bow has changed over time, and with it you can use the chair from the child can sit up, and even before for short periodes of time. Now they have the "tray" for the youngest children, but i love the bow we bought for our children (now for the grandchildren). Since you can slide de seat forwards, you can make the space so narrow that the child doesn't need a harness to prevent falling out.
ah i see, i haven't seen it used in like 20 years, so i figured it had changed. I remember being so angry being stuck behind that bow in kindergarden 😂@@ahkkariq7406
Hello from Switzerland, the "TripTrap" chair is absolutely brilliant, my daughter has twins (now almost 6 years old) and practically as soon as they could sit she got 2 TripTrap's, the children always sit at the right height at the table Chair is absolutely secure. Even today they still sit on these chairs to eat every day and I can't imagine anything better. I mean, I've seen toddler chairs from "brand manufacturers" that weren't much cheaper and weren't even remotely worth the money in terms of quality and functionality.
In principle, swing windows are a simple and ingenious idea, be it for ventilation (the warm air/steam goes out at the top, fresh air comes in at the bottom) or for cleaning. In the 1970s you often saw apartment buildings with windows like this, but they were abandoned for various reasons. Some of them may be that the middle hinge and the lock are special and sometimes expensive, furthermore the window protrudes considerably into the room when it is open and last but not least I also see the disadvantage that the handle is at the bottom, which is easy for children to reach (unlike the turn/tilt windows common in Europe, where the handle is located at a medium height). Nowadays we almost only see these windows as skylights (installed in the sloping roof).
I don't know when the H window was invented, but my parents installed them in the 70s. The windows are popular all over Europe. Fun fact: the H stands for husmor, the Norwegian word for housewife 😂
For small children, there is a safety bar in the same shape as the back rest that you can mount in front so that unruly children don't fall off.
Most people have theese windows where I live.I grew up using the tripp trapp chair every day.
Yeah the age window or flipping window are very common in Norway, and it's very easy too use specially when you are at second floor or higher.
Instead of rental some proffesionel cleaner and have to rental scaffold you could do this by your self. Saves alot of money and make it much safer to do the job. Even i hate too clean things make the whole thing actually funny too clean the window.
Tripp-trap chair are very common. Almost every restaurant has this. But it's also very common too see kinda belt either in wood or plastic in front of the top too protect the children too not fall down.
You mean "H" window... 😉
It has several names.@@LeNaSmileyStar
@@MrLasox LoL , your too funny 🤣🤣
@@skrallanmo2594he said the letter H, sounds like age in English. If it has more names its definitely not age window.
@@Kraakesolv Really?? I can't see that " Yeah the age window or flipping window are very common in Norway, and it's very easy too use specially when you are at second floor or higher." ...
The Tripp Trapp is brilliant. My youngest has used hers since birth; she is 12 now, and still using it.
12 😅 og bruker Tripp Trapp stol 😌
@@Kolex06 Du vet de kan justeres for voksne, også?
@@tinydarkjewel er ikke lit godt å sitte på, etter 6-7 år nei takk, likte ikke å side på de som liten heller
@@Kolex06 Det er vel heller et eksempel på personlig preferanse; jenta mi har aldri hatt noe å utsette på den.
@@tinydarkjewel en 12 åring burde ikke sitte på en trip trap stol, ho burde lære seg vanlig stol hva gjør ho hjemme oss andre?
Yes, Stokke (the Tripp Trapp) is kind of a "fashion" brand amongst celebrities/rich people in the USA. The actress Jessica Capshaw tweeted about it a few years ago. I´ve seen the brand in several kids stores in different reality shows from the USA.
About the window. I have an appartment (Rekkehus) from early 70's, and I have the "rotating" window in every room as standard!
I had a Tripp trapp chair as a kid. It was really nice and it was cool to have my very own chair
My children have used this chair both the window and the chair are common in uk
6:58 The designer if the TripTrap chair also designed an other famous chair: Lt. Commander Worf chair. Have only ever seen it be used by Klingons...
The window is very common in norway🙂 but i think it's called a H-window, because it sort of resembles a H when you swivel it around. The man in the video just pronounced "H" kind of strange.
H-vinduet its a brand. The professional language is toppsving vindu.
He pronounces a lot of things strange, maybe it's supposed to be a funny thing... but it's mainly confusing (imo) 😜😜
@@ronnyjohansen1636 thank you, i didn't know that🙂
EVERYONE uses Tripp Trap chair chairs for their kids here, and they are sold all over the world. I bought one at Nordstrom for some friends in USA, they loved it
Hi Tyer, yes the H-window - 'Husmorvindu' Housewife window - makes cleaning it so much easier. And yes Norwegians clean their windows on the outside because we have the most beatiful sunsets, the midningnt sun in the summer and the aurora borealis during winter. So we enjoy the view. And the Tripp Trapp is very common in Norway. And yes I live by the fjord in Norway. And I have the most amaziing view.
I have the H-window right in front of me, and the chair to my left right now. Both of them might be older than me. 🤣 I grew up with the chair, and took it with me when I bought my own house.
The window revolution started in 1959, in a basement in a woodwork factory at Vegsund outside Ålesund. Here, Harald Kvasnes produced windows on a small scale, but thought that the window solutions of the time were cumbersome and not very functional. With this as a starting point, he began to try out possible alternative solutions.
H-Windows stands for Housewives - Windows. And YES it is beyond normal here.
Never thought about trip trap spoken in English until you did it. Sounds more like an anti-zombie safety measure around your house. Trip on a string, fall down a spiky hole
Trip trap is what we Norwegian say the sound of walking in steps of bridges sounds like.
I used to work in preschool, the chairs are present in every preschool I ever been to. I had it to my kid to. It’s very solid and can stand some serious rough use. So I would say it’s very common in Norway ❤My friends in the Nederlands had the chair too.
The Windows I had in every house I lived in. Very useful for high houses😅
I had a Trip Trap chair growing up, and as I grew older and my feet could reach the floor the bottom plate was used for storing comic books that I read while eating instead. And then later the chair was replaced with a normal one.
The H-window is known by many names now, but H-window was the original (H-vinduet in Norwegian). Now there are many window manufacturers that make the same type of windows. It is really practical if you need to wash the windows on the 2nd floor of your house. Instead of going out and using a long pole to clean it you just stand inside, flip the window around and wash. I guess many Norwegians care a lot about cleaning wingdows as we like to see the light when we can, and if you don't wash the outside the windows looks really dirty when the sun is shining on them.
May be the child chair is not so well known because it costs $240 ?
This type of window you would find in Germany as a roof window only. In a straight wall it is not neccessary, because our windows open towards the inside of the room, so there is no need to climb around on the outside.
Together with Professor Kristian Birkeland, Eyde was central to the establishment of the Norwegian nitrogen industry through the development of what we today call the Birkeland-Eyde method. The method forms nitric oxide from nitrogen and oxygen in the air. This in turn forms the basis for the production of saltpeter (especially lime saltpeter), which is used for mineral fertiliser. Eyde was behind the creation of the Eydehavn industrial site north of Arendal.
I’m a U.S. American emigrant now in Mexico and I rent an apartment, but when I used to have a house I would have loved having windows like that. My house had the standard double sash, double hung window that only slide up and down and it was a pain cleaning the outside. I don’t think Americans are or were lazy or didn’t care about cleaning their windows on the outside it was just a huge hassle doing so. You could get on a ladder and do it that way, but that could be dangerous if you fell off the ladder. Sometimes I would use a garden hose and if I had the money I’d buy the cleaner that you attached to your hose and clean the windows with that. Honestly, this Norwegian window system is so much better and should be sold worldwide.
The trip trapp chair can be used from about 9 months to adulthood. For adults you swap the seating plate and the foot plate.
haha "trip trap" in english gives the chair a whole new meaning.
In norwegian I think it might be a word play on "Tripp-trapp-tresko" the game, making it playfull. But ofcourse, its "Tripp-trapp-tre stol".
The words could also mean "tippy toe staircase chair", a nod to the fact that the chair allows kids to get in and out of it by them selves when they get older, while the chair seat is still high enough for them to sit at the table with the rest. ... as long as they don't "trip trap" 👀😅
Wow, I've never been this early to a video. Lol. Love these reacts!
Still got the chair I used 30 years ago, with a safety harness because I could not sit still 😂 Great invention 👍
We, in the Netherlands, also have 2 tripp-trapp chairs, it is also here very common.
i grew up with the tripp trapp chair and my bedroom window works like that aswell, didnt know about the fertelizer tho, proud of my country for sure
Mostly everyone has windows like that in Norway. Ofcourse we clean our windows outside.
in denmark alot house with angle roof have velux windows, that can be flipped over too, for better cleaning :D
also the tripp trapp chair is well known here
H-windows are pretty much the standard window. Same goes for the Trip trapp. The name basically means step by step. Newborn seat came in 2011 i think. So can only be used on models made after that.
Tripp trapp chairs are very common in Finland as well. I never had one as a kid but almost every friend whose house I visited had one. My little (half) brothers have had them since they began to start eating solids. The younger of them is 2.5 years old and still has a tray attachment on his but the older is 4 and has stopped using the tray except for this Christmas. My dad had me, my sisters and their husbands over for dinner and table space was limited due to a total of 7 adults and 2 kids eating at a 6 person table so my brother's tray was attached for the occasion to help fit everyone.
Actually, while the Vikings didn't invent farming, they did start an agricultural revolution...
Many of them settled in the area of France now called Normandy...
And since they set themselves up as local kings, they started taxing the locals.(nothing new there) But they also killed off the 'competition'(local bandits that was preying on the farmers). That allowed the farmers to open new and larger fields further from the safety of the village.
The H-window. Remember, Norway is not flat. Whatever flat ground exists has traditionally been used for farming, roads or other useful things, and you didn't build houses there. And when you build on a slope, one side will end up high off the ground. That makes it difficult to clean a regular window.
Other places there's just so little space that they were forced to build two story homes even if a large one-floor building was cheaper. Or they expanded an old one-floor building. Again, you got windows high up that needed cleaning on the outside.
Mykids are in their early 20s now, and had Tripp-Trapp chairs when they were little
The trip trap stole works from 0 month uo to 99 year 😅 you can use it as an adult
Our kids has one each (from denmark) they are very safe, and one of the chairs we have was my own chair when i was a baby 😅 i'm 37 so they are very durable.. we needed to sand it down and that, but the wood was just fine..❤ they are comfortable to site on for an adults too
Nitrate fertilizers are not just a good thing. Nitrate based fertilizers, possibly only after short stemmed wheat is maybe the invention that has saved the most lives in history. Possibly in the billions.
I doubt that. Too expensive for many farmers in the world. They cause a lot of pollution due to overuse in richer nations, where ridiculous levels of food waste get generated. And the competition with more complete natural fertilisers like manure promotes other waste problems. Rather than saved billions of lives, it's man billions of dollars for a few. It's a lot more about making money than feeding people.
@@johnmcmullan9741 yara is literally the most known brand name in the 3rd world because of the fertilizer bags
@@trulybtd5396 What a predictable Norwegian statistic! LOL! Mental. They still use only a fraction of what gets used in richer nations, Europe, US, China, etc. What little that does get used in poorer countries is probably used by multinationals growing food for the richer nations. Fact-check, for example, how little artificial fertilisers get used in Africa.
@@johnmcmullan9741 yes, do that
Very ironic watching this video while sitting next to our Triptrapp chair. Swede here :)
7:34 Exactly
Those chairs is also very popular in Denmark 🇩🇰
Finally you reacted to this one too
You don't have H windows in the US? I've seen people cleaning those high towers from the outside, that's just dumb, make the windows flippable. :D Come on we're not living in the 70s no more.
Huge windows are usually fixed, not meant to open. That's why you have the little window or air gap that can be closed at the side of the window in some hotels. These buildings have professional equipment to clean the windows from the outside.
You really are just an average American. May you live forever.
Every home in Norway with children living in them will have at least one tripp-trapp chair. We have two :D
It's so fun to watch you learn about Norway😅😊. Have you watched The road trip with Off She goes? And how did you like the scenery she shows you?
Off she goes is great, but Itchy Boots is the best. Hope she returns to Norway at some point.
The Tripp Trapp was formerly known and sold under the name KinderZeat in America
"So Norway did it out of necessity."
Well, they say becessity is the mother of invention, and in a country where you only have a few months to grow and harvest your crops outside, you want the yield to be at max. It's totally logical.
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The "H window", the 'H' in the name, stands for 'Housewife', and was invented to help the average norwegian housewife when they were cleaning the house.
Tyler!!! We call the window "Husmorvindu" 😊
Well, about 50% everything invented past a certain date was invented in America despite only being 8% of the population. Thats the stat Ive come across. It doesn’t mean we don’t think about inventions from other countries, but we do create/invent A LOT.
The word window it self, is from and old Norwegian word.
hehe I like it when he called the soil for earth :D
Yeah, almost everyone has the H-Window :)
Hi, you have heard of Tripp-trapp chair before, you have reacted to it in a previous video 😅👍🏻.
We Norwegian are inventiv. Just because we have to be.
My parents had the flippy window at least one house in Atlantic Canada
trappe = stairway
trip-trap ~ step by step
My tripp trapp was red
Tyler - Do you ever stop your girlish giggle ?
tyler rumple 🤣🤣🤣
You can not do a single post on all of the British greatest inventions. You would need to do a series on it.
Whoah, this Norwegian guy is intense. Made me uncomfortable
Yes it’s safe and if they fall they will sit still next time 😎
If you keep your blinds closed and curtains drawn all the time I think most Norwegians would think you were up to no good, or very strange and recluse,
Tyler
Like always, the explanations from the guy in the video, is rather confusing. Besides he looks and acts like he belong in a mental institution. But so far on this video, he is a bit more restrained and factual than he uses to. But please Tyler! Do not look at more videos from this guy. it will only confuse you.
Your reacting to a fake TH-camr
“We assume that a lot of things we use were invented in America.”
That’s because they were.
No, they weren't. The majority of inventions that the average US citizen thinks are from the US, such as the car, the computer, the internet, the radio, the light bulb, the television, the assembly line, etc., etc., have been invented in other countries.
It is only your own totally baseless belief in your own excellence and your wretched education system that makes you believe that you are the main reason for the progress of humanity, of which you are an excellent example.
You are not!!
sure america has inventd some stuff, but most is from europe
No, that's because you are american and as usual, think that everything revolves around you.
No, they didn't.
Running out of ideas?
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- I wouldn't say that out loud if I were you...
'Caus, you're one to talk.
For a multilingual person, you have surprisingly only two ways of expressing yourself.
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No Norwegians did not invent fertiliser, they came up with a way of making a specific (nitrogen-based) type of artificial fertiliser. Plants need a lot more than nitrogen. To be fair, it did not save the world from anything. If anything, it promoting overuse therefore pollution problems.
Norwegians did not invent the high chair. They simply designed one to go on top of a child's chair. Very frugal.
Windows are made in most countries. Never heard of these 'Norwegian invented' window frames. Clearly I'm missing out, but I like to go outside to wash our windows. Otherwise it could get a bit messy inside.
In part 2, I bet you mention the cheese slicer. LOL!
On top of a child's chair? The Trip trap chair is nothing like other children's chair. It is an adjustable chair that grows with the child. There are certainly imitations today, but they are just that - imitations.
@@ahkkariq7406 We've had 2. As the child grows, you just remove a piece of wood from the top. LOL!
They are specifically listing the H-window, not windows in general. In general, your response seems to ignore half of what is being said. So you are either a troll, or you need help with understanding
@@johnmcmullan9741 Even if you have had 10 of the Trip Trap, it still is nothing like children chairs existing before it was invented.
And btw - good luck going out to wash windows in third floor.
@@ahkkariq7406 I can't believe I'm here debating a child's chair marketed to 'grow with the child'. They'll soon grow to fit a standard dinner table chair. Trust me, I don't do BS. A remarkable invention for Norway, I guess. At least in the minds of Norwegians. LOL! Get a window cleaner, for goodness' sake.