Out of the Fiery Furnace - Episode 3 - Shining Conquests
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มี.ค. 2016
- From the Stone Age to the era of the silicon chip - metals and minerals have marked the milestones of our civilization. OUT OF THE FIERY FURNACE traces the story of civilization through the exploitation of metals, minerals and energy resources. Renowned radio and BBC television commentator Michael Charlton hosts seven, one-hour programs filmed in more than 50 different parts of the world. This very unusual public television series combines the disciplines of history, science, archeology and economics in order to explore the relationship between technology and society.
Legends of the Golden Horn, the Golden Fleece and gold in the New World prove that this ( precious metal has sparked many of history’s greatest explorations and migrations. From the Renaissance, to the last century, to the creation of nations in the Southern Hemisphere, this episode examines the remarkable influence of precious metals on our history. (60 minutes)
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Disclaimer: This video series, produced in 1986 by Opus Films is shown here for Educational Purposes. It includes footage of cultures in India, China, Near East, etc. and ancient methods of manufacturing metals. It is hoped that this information is useful for archival and educational purposes to viewers all across the world. The video is provided here under the Fair Use policy. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
I have seen archaeologists time and time again try to build a kiln to fire pottery or smelt iron ore and they make the same three mistakes over and over and those are: First, they make only a small furnace which, because it is small, will lose its heat very easily because of only a small fire inside cannot keep the heat up if the air supply should for a moment drop. Secondly, heat is the essential factor so the bigger the fire and larger the oxygen supply, essentially thick walls and small apertures makes for good insulation to prevent the escape of heat. Thirdly, they always try to use the kiln/furnace while it is still green; the water in the clay walls turns to steam reducing the heat in the furnace. They talk about smelting being a difficult and complicated job but, it is not. These are things the Chinese caught onto very quickly and apply remedy to achieve there result.
Thanks.
Thank you for this information. I will relay it to the humans I come into contact with once I perfect and utilize my time machine and travel back to 15,000 BCE
@@stereomaster4231 Funny comment - but I think he was talking about the replicators attempting it in the 1970's - and if you built that time machine I will happily jump off for a couple weeks in ...1985 when this series came out thanx
Thank you for putting this up, this series has opened a whole new window of interest for me by teaching me exactly what mankind found out in the (almost) exact time frame we learned these skills. Very interesting 🧐
I love the beginning, reminds me of TV in my childhood.
Here I am taking life’s leisure for granted
Really enjoying this series
It is interesting that you still can watch something not full of commercials on the web today.
Great series with a great narrator and fantastic musical theme! Thanks.
These productions or documentaries should be required to watch for all middle school kids to give them a sense and appreciation for the incremental builditive aspect of societal development - it would be motivating if not inspirational and obviously educational but most importantly tamp down the dismissive casual attitude many people have about the technological complexity that makes life livable
All schools would do is talk about the evil of European colonizers and blah blah blah lets give Africa everything we own because racism.
Great series!
Best episode so far.
23:16 "Neither reason, mathematics nor maps would be of any use to [Columbus]." Note that "reason" back then meant sense perception.
My channel has this whole series re-uploaded if you have trouble trying to watch
Metalurgy in North America would be the Vikings in Newfoundland for making Iron.
Hey, the natives knew how to make grass huts.
It looks that the story of Gutenberg is similar to that of Nicola Tesla.
I like how the presenter commented on China's lost advantage in manufacturing.
If only he knew how dependent the world would become on Chinese cheap manufacturing of everything.
I’d also add that the presenter, while praising initial innovations in the east, sets them aside as ultimate dead ends or failures, and then is quite poetic and flowery in his descriptions of advances and successes in the west.
yes, all inferior made junk which the West has subordinated itself to as well as decimated it's economic power.
@@roadbox it’s transparently racist, which is a shame considering the overall high quality of the series.
@jesse milligan I don’t think your English language analogy is a good one. Science doesn’t have a nationality, and the widespread acceptance of the English language in science has nothing to do with any supposed intellectual superiority of the west. Economic factors have been the driving factor, and a lot of those come from geography rather than philosophy.
While China these days does produce a huge amount of steel and other industrial products the machinery and know-how came from the West. And before western investments into China they could only produce low or variable quality steel - see for example the failure of Mao's Great Leap Forward.
The statement about China's lost advantage is true. China really lost their advantage to the West for centuries. And eventually it was western investment, manufacturing processes, technology and know-how that transformed China into the production powerhouse it is today.
Ruthless audacity
Mates, enjoy this documentary. Should you feel there are parts unaddressed, please write, research and make documentaries about it. I'm sure we can all learn from all of it. Even from the alien loonies, as what would happen in case we lost contact with all the historic research compiled so far by our current cultures. Don't stop researching, don't be a revisionist bigot, share knowledge, discuss knowledge. History is not pretty nor condescending, it teaches what happened, so research what happened with those you feel have been left out.
Not sure what you mean. I appreciate when people provide updates here.
1:04 "the one that separates europe from asia" - all in your imagination - if the bosphorus were a large body of water separating all of europe from asia - then maybe europe could be considered a separate continent - but that sea is a tiny fraction of the imaginary boundary - fact is europe merges rather seamlessly with asia and is considered part of asia by many geographers- it's not even a sub-continent in the way that india is - which is separated by huge mountains and is part of a different tectonic plate
europe is is even less separate from asia than great britain is separate from the continent
18:29 "the first work to be printed with a movable metal type" - the first existing movable metal type work was printed in Korea in 1377 - bronze movable type was used in China even earlier
Yes and the European languages are Indo European.
Calm down, dude. You seem to be offended.
@@VitalMusic217 - actually - you seem more offended by facts
@@johneyon5257 You are the one taking the consideration of Europe as a separate continent as a personal affront.
@@VitalMusic217 - eurocentrism is arrogance - that insults everyone else - to think is isn't offensive is to be racist - and to deny facts is to be stupid - go ahead an be comfortable in your position - and let me laugh at you
Made a biting true comment about the last episode now can't download anymore to watch? Hmmmm I wonder why?
it works at 360p not 480p
It was surely because your wisdom surpassed the ability of the posters to respond to
it might be because youre stupid
These days we _know_ that the Inca did not build Machu Picchu, rather they built upon it. No one knows exactly who built those megaliths! Brien Foerster has done amazing work on this topic, and those ''people'' with the _huge_ heads had 25% bigger brains ….probably had something to do with it.
ALIENS?!?!
Why do you totally ignore the contribution of the Islamic world to metallurgy?.
It was dominant for over a thousand years occupying the most strategic and central part of the earth, introducing many technologies to humanity, but this documentary totally ignored it so far.
This whole series ignores the East and Africa. It has a British Imperialist outlook. These guys all learned Greek and Latin at school. Anything not Greek, Roman or British is savage to them. The current loon who is British P.M. is a "Classics Scholar".
@@casteretpollux did you not watch the first 2 fucking episodes covering China and India?
One college in Cambridge has more noble prizes than the whole of of the Islamic world combined.
Another fragile crybaby wanders aimlessly through the night, void of context, set in his ways, and determined to blame everyone else for the well earned perceptions they decry.
@@PibrochPonder *Nobel - ironic that you’re trying to call others stupid.
Outstanding
What about papyrus? I hardly see the point in crediting China with everything known to man.
I credit China with creating fireworks (because they kept pissing into campfires instead of toilets), pandemics (because they didn't have toilets), and dog eating (because they're a gross, toiletless culture.