Inside The Victorian Era's First Eco-Home | Historic Britain | Absolute History
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- Cragside was the home of William Armstrong, a Victorian industrialist and scientist known as the ‘Modern Magician’. Alan explores the world’s first ‘eco home’ - lit by hydroelectric power and brimming with Armstrong’s inventions that intrigued even royalty. In Cragside’s Pinetum, Miriam O’Reilly tests her head for heights as she scales one of its towering trees, while Angela Rippon heads to William Morris’s home near London to learn about another of Armstrong’s passions: the Arts and Crafts movement.
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What a house! What a man. He was a genius and his desire to have the young boy be the first to turn on the lamps speaks to me of his foresight. He understood that he was doing something historic.
Absolutely beautiful. I once read that England had been stripped of all it's forests due to the many years of various wars. Lovely to see one.
The original steampunk house
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Imagine in Tesla and Armstrong had lived closer together...chronically and geographically.
Lol, around 13:50 when he tries to pass off an Archimedes Screw as new technology. Maybe he meant new to the estate?
At 13:32 he says that it’s something Brand New for Crag Side. In reference to the Archimedes Screw. Not that the Archimedes Screw was something new. I’m sure that he probably seen the Archimedes Screw quite often. Because farmers have been using it for a really long time to move water around to water their crops
To think that people nearly a century and a half ago foresaw the need for renewable energy and the eventual decline of fossil fuels, and only now is the greater part of the population starting to really take it seriously. Imagine if society had taken these ideas and fully embraced them then, what sort of amazing renewable energy tech we might have by now.
Not really when you consider how filthy london was in the 19th century. Theres a reason it took the great stink of 1858 just to install a proper sewer system
Much like today, in order to get that, you had to be extremely wealthy. Well out of the means of any middle class and certainly miles beyond anything the lower class could afford. But much like today, who gets shafted on the "green ideas"? The lower class. They aren't building hydro on their palatial estates.
The majority of people don't have limitless wealth and thousands of acres of untouched forest land at their disposal. Comparing the average person today to this exceptionally wealthy man is simply ridiculous.
@@M123Xoxo When modern solar panels were first marketed for consumer use, they were also very expensive. As rich people and corporations bought them, production became more efficient and the quality and power of the product increased while prices slowly became more affordable. Now, an average working class person can have solar on their own home. Investment gets things started, but businesses will always seek to expand their consumer base.
The point I was making is that, had the wealthy and the large businesses invested back then in renewables, it is likely that the technologies would have been improved and production streamlined much earlier. As with pretty much everything that did manage to catch on in the Victorian period, it would have only been a matter of short years before versions made for mass consumer purchases were available. Remember, Tesla was already trying to figure out solar power in the later part of his career, and it's very possible he would have had enough support and funding to succeed in his lifetime if renewable energy had become popular, as solar doesn't require access to running water like hydro does.
@@cristiaolson7327 honey , you are lying
1) an average working cannot afford a solar panel . Only with governmental assistance
2) we still don’t know how to recycle solar panels , this batteries are poisonous for the environment .
Great man with historic vision. Such visionaries drove our world forward and created our modern world where men have lived a lifestyle 99% of our ancestors before 1900 could only dream about!!!
Omg. Love it. The hanging lights. Wow
Nice documentary!!!like the way the old man hosted it also
What would life be like if Armstrong and Tesla had been able to work together?
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That fireplace got an audible My God! from me lol
We visited 2 weeks ago, and when we entered it was an audible … oh my goodness me. From all 3 of us. A stunning house
So cool - fascinating
Always à pleasure gréât documentaire 👌
This is a very exciting video thank you I'm 15 minutes into it and I'm ready to see the house
I challenge anyone to tell me what legitimately makes “Castle” Drogo, a castle. It’s a plutocrat’s flight of fancy. That’s all.
It’s definitely a castle
Castle Drogo is a country house and mixed-revivalist castle near Drewsteignton, Devon, England. Constructed between 1911 and 1930, it was the last castle to be built in England.
I love how they were thinking ahead of global warming
Not so much climate change as scarcity of fuel...
was this in Jurrastic park?
Their pronunciation makes it sound like they're saying "crackside" - another name for butt. When I started watching this I thought "What an awful name." Imagine my reaction at 6:27. It wasn't until I read the info below the video I realized it was "cragside" which is only marginally better. I guess Armstrong was a genius at everything except naming things.
A crag is a steep or rugged cliff or rock face.
people have been living in eco homes for centuries.. but cool house anyway :)
There has to be some
ghost stories
the ghost be helping you do math homework and table manner
Hot air does not rise. Heat radiates. Work in an old building there’s countless radiators hanging on the ceilings
Warm air does indeed rise - the warmer air becomes, the faster the molecules move. Faster moving molecules cause air to be less dense. So warm air is less dense than cold air. The colder, denser air tends to sink, while the warmer tends to rise.
Those ceiling mounted radiators in the building you work in are probably 100 years old.
We've learned a thing since then.
Hot air balloons ring a bell?
Too many ads!!! Stop watching after #3 ad.
Welcome to youtube lol- gotta pay to get rid of ads.
@@oceansoflorewi and in my opinion, it's worth it. Lol
Use Brave, if ads bothers you.
Amazes me how people neglect to understand these souls coming to earth had been prept by the cosmic side to bring to earth that inovation. He was born with that knowledge given to him by God and to do what he had done was his purpose on earth. "There is more in heaven and earth than in your philophies Horation."