Simon has more KZread channels than I have friends.

@dseb99

3 жыл бұрын

if you spent as much time on friends as he does his own channels then you'd have more ;)

@timothy2935

2 жыл бұрын

Felt that...

The Victorians' daring and enthusiasm never ceases to amaze me.

@archlich4489

3 жыл бұрын

I want an airship that hosts other airships

@kualajdm

2 жыл бұрын

Victorian is an era of time in Britain, not a Country.

@dylanplumley280

13 күн бұрын

@@kualajdm It was an entire era of history, of the world. Britain was a superpower. Pax Britannica!

simon whistler, over the course of the last half-decade, is responsible for probably 95% of all general knowledge i've acquired after leaving school

I believe building a sand castle on top of Mt. Everest may qualify as a MegaProject.

@thomasewing2656

2 жыл бұрын

A Mega-Stupid Project just like TRYING to climb it in the first place!

@carstarsarstenstesenn

2 жыл бұрын

yeah but it was only a proposed project

@Taintedgod771

2 жыл бұрын

.... I'm going to have to remember this for when I do it.

"Guys I'm gonna build a steampunk skyscraper. " "What's steampunk?" "It's science fiction from the future about the past.....but NOW." 🤯

@jonaseggen2230

3 жыл бұрын

Minecraft: "Hold my beer"

@MAGGOT_VOMIT

3 жыл бұрын

Don't leave out the "CAUTION!! HOT STEAM!!!" warning placards everywhere. xD

0:45 - Chapter 1 - The origins of the 1st skyscraper 3:45 - Chapter 2 - An oversight of the design 5:05 - Chapter 3 - A different landscape 6:10 - Chapter 4 - Potential flaws & risks 7:20 - Chapter 5 - A missed opportunity ? 8:25 - Chapter 6 - A final glance

@WaukWarrior360

8 ай бұрын

Not the first skyscraper. That's like saying Da Vinci invented the tank

I know that modern techniques showed it was unsound, but if it was built and stood for a minimal time, the shock and awe would have spread over the world. Even after it's collapse it would have probably pushed for better understanding of what went wrong and advanced building processes much earlier and further than we have now.

No giant steam locomotives going up and down the walls of a Victorian era skyscraper - sounds like a ‘Dr. Who’ episode.

Mega projects recommendation: muskrat falls, a 7 billion dollar hydro electric facility in Newfoundland, Canada. We love you Simon!!!

There were plans for a inner city rooftop Airport in London around 1930, it was like a spoked wheel in the air, there were other crazy ideals about airports around that time, could be a good side project

@malcolmjcullen

3 жыл бұрын

The King's Cross Airport, designed by Charles W. Glover.

@annescholey6546

3 жыл бұрын

Metropolis Fritz Lang

@oldenweery7510

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, people had some really odd concepts for anything to do with flight! I was surprised when I saw "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" and they included the airship _Hindenburg_ actually tying up to the observation deck of the Empire State Building, in NYC. They actually kicked this idea around at the time! Can you imagine a Dirigible (or Zeppelin, if you prefer), a huge lighter-than-air vehicle that had to be guided to a docking mast by a gang of ground crewmen hanging onto heavy lines (ropes!) dropped from the airship, so it could be winched down close enough to the ground for the passengers to disembark. It was a tough enough task to perform at ground level, where the wind strength was only a fraction of the blasts whirling around a skyscraper in the midst of the Manhattan canyons. Imagine people trying to walk down a boarding ramp from a monstrous sausage whipping around in high winds, bucking and bobbing a thousand feet above concrete sidewalks and streets... Yikes! It gives me nightmares to even _try_ to picture it. Stay safe.

@meetoo594

3 жыл бұрын

@@oldenweery7510 Its what the spike on the top was designed for, a mooring point for zeppelins iirc. As an aside, the sci fi series `fringe` had a mirror universe in which passenger airships docked atop skyscrapers, they conveniently didn't show how the passengers got on and off the airships.

@oldenweery7510

3 жыл бұрын

@@meetoo594 Simple: the airships were moored to the mast---then the Transporter "Beamed" them inside the building! It's fiction, after all. Stay safe.

Starting my day off great today!!! Keep it up Simon

@dmeemd7787

3 жыл бұрын

😊🤘🏻🤘🏻

As a welder, yeeeeeah this sounds like this shit would have collapsed by now. All that weight, plus gravity, plus corrosion of the Iron superstructure. I mean the Mackinac Bridge is made of steel and they have to constantly paint the damn thing to keep the steel from rusting. Imagine the maintenance needed on Iron in a glass building 50 stories high. Plus the best they could do at the time was rivet the beams together which adds more weight and is weaker than even welding methods of the 1920s and 30s. Side note, I went to the Imperial War Museum in London last year and it was interesting to see that all the heavy equipment like field guns and the tanks from WW1 were riveted, where as everything from WW2 was welded.

How about Watkins Tower? This was supposed to be Great Britains version of the Eiffel Tower. Alas, only about a quarter or so was built. Ideal subject for this channel👍

Now here's the King of KZread SIMON!

I've suggested this on Megaprojects, but maybe it's a better fit here: Titanic the movie. Specifically the infrastructure necessary for the most expensive movie production of all time (then). Waterworld would also be cool, but that's probably a good one for Business Blaze. That dumpster fire of a production really needs some Simon Snark.

May I suggest a few topics such as the Illinois Tower imagined by Frank Llyod Wright and maybe the original concept for Epcot as a city by Walt Disney.

How about the "skyscrapers" of Edinburgh , where they just kept adding and adding to the structures without any codes? A lot of them ended up burning down, but there are still a few left like the Gladstone, built in the 17th century. Could make an interesting video.

I thought theTower of Babel was the first skyscraper design.

50 vertical feet of cast iron and glass is a lot easier than 500 feet. The hall design is all repeating elements horizontally,

Hey there, Simon... Miss Omerta here; longtime viewer, first-time commenter. It occured to me that a potentially good topic for a video on your "Sideprojects" channel would be the various large camera obscura constructed for public entertainment throughout the years. Though widely produced during antiquity and Victorian times, camera obscura were were occasionally built in recent years, too. Of note, the later includes the one in San Francisco you can still experience today. Maybe this topic won't provide sufficient material for an entire video, but I thought that I'd suggest it. Cheers!

@neilgoodman2885

3 жыл бұрын

Dear Ms Omerta: The camera obscura is the idea, I think, that the Polaroid company has used to build a free-standing 3 foot by 4 foot artists' version (glass, wood frame and bits of metal connectors). If memory serves (and it does not always) this version must be reserved for use by qualifying photographic artists. Warmly, supra.

@imarchello

3 жыл бұрын

your playlist is gold, thank you for that, very entertaining. Eric Wareheim ftw

@Simonsvids

3 жыл бұрын

There is one that you can visit in Aberystwyth, Wales which was built a few years ago.

London skyscraper is falling down , falling down, falling down!

There was also the planned construction of an even taller equivalent of the Eiffel Tower in Wembley Park. The tower would have been taller than the modern day Shard but they ran out of money, leaving a large stump in the middle of the park. The site of the tower is now Wembley Stadium (the foundations of the tower were uncovered when Wembley was being demolished and rebuilt.

London, the skyscraper capital that almost was.

@USER-G291

3 жыл бұрын

I’m glad it wasn’t

@bartrulz8846

3 жыл бұрын

Omg!! I thought the "guy above me's" name was a comment. I was like "what d-bag" haha. Keep up the good work Simon.

@christopherdean1326

3 жыл бұрын

I read somewhere a while ago, that Selfridges store in Oxford St was planned to be the base of a huge tower. I remember seeing a picture of the concept, and the tower dwarfed the building, despite the huge size of the store as it is today. This is what it would have looked like! assets.londonist.com/uploads/2011/01/i875/unbuilt_selfridges.jpg

Excellent Video Simon!!!! Charles Burton was a wonderful dreamer, and architects should be dreamers. Did the Victorians like the design, or did it intimidate them? Burton was ultimately correct about steel and glass. He beat Mies Van der Rohe to the idea by at least 70 years.

@6:10 The modern skyscraper was _unthinkable_ before *Westinghouse* had invented the elevator _ratchet brake_ which allayed everybody's fears.

I spent over a year in architecture school and this is the first I've heard of this crazy skyscraper! That isn't to say we didn't cover anything like this either. The works of Antonio Sant'Elia come to mind. Many sketches but no actual buildings constructed.

It has been said that the enabling technology for the skyscraper was the telephone - vertical transport is so limiting that, without a phone, an occupant of a skyscraper is isolated. The vertical Crystal Palace was definitely an idea before its time.

Simon's not kidding, the crystal palace video was pretty great 👍🏼

Fascinating story, didn’t know about it at all and I do like London skyscrapers 😀

Love these side projects, was a Blaze OG, so anything weird is my wheelhouse.

Great video Simon. How about a story on the world's first reinforced concrete skyscraper, The Ingalls Building.

How interesting! I had learned that the Crystal Palace was dismantled, but there was no mention of the new one...! Then again I was learning about Hyde Park and the Great Exhibition in a literature class, not a history class. (Context for the Victorian novels we were reading for the semester.) I imagine it would be an interesting project to fiddle with in the theoretical sense - calculating just how many floors COULD have been supported, and so on. Wonder if anyone's done something like this as a computer modeling problem, or as a paper...though I'm sure I'd never understand the maths. I'm a writer not an engineer, hehe However I have to say I'm just as glad that Britain did not have a gigantic iron and glass phallus to show to the world. Sorry if that seems crude but honestly this would be a case where the structure would quite literally have been the biggest "steeple" in all England. Innovative, maybe even beautiful, but still a great big - well.

I was waiting for am elevator designer ba-da-bum-bum-tss and then realized I wasn't watching the blaze🤣

Good video 👍

A suggestion....the original design for the catholic cathedral in Liverpool that was never built.

Considering the entire thing would have been made out of cast iron elements that were dimensioned to support a six (?) story building, its not surprising it never got built.

Simon, have you discussed the Chicago Exposition of 1893? Temporary "Crystal Palaces" made of wood requiring boxcars full of nails to construct and all gone in a little over a year.

You should definitely do a video on the secret bunker at greenbier

@highlandoutsider8148

3 жыл бұрын

What secret bunker at Greenbrier 🤔🤫😅

@Sledgeace

3 жыл бұрын

I think he did it on megaprojects correct me if im wrong

@Dr.RichardBanks

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sledgeace he definitely did

@sandybarnes887

3 жыл бұрын

He did on his Geographics channel. kzread.info/dash/bejne/fKmYj7N6iZa8p7g.html

Sideprojects and the beautiful colour grade. 🙏

Brilliant and eccentric - Fonthill meets the grain elevator - The "perfect" > contemporary < skyscraper is in a way both an advertisement and a warehouse. This would be the perfect Victorian monument to industry - !

Dis be dope af 🔥🔥🔥

sandcastle good luck getting enough sand up mt everest. just build an igloo

@TheGrinningViking

3 жыл бұрын

It'd melt in a few years tho.

@happilyham6769

3 жыл бұрын

You could build a tower out of all the dead bodies left up there.

@TheGrinningViking

3 жыл бұрын

@@happilyham6769 that's the kind of innovative thinking we need young man. You'll go far in the world 👍🏼👍🏼

@TheLoxxxton

3 жыл бұрын

You do know Simon has no legs dont you?

@annescholey6546

3 жыл бұрын

Or an Ig a house without a loo

id be curious to see a video on those giant ice breaking ships in the arctic.

DO A VIDEO ON THE ANTARCTIC SNOW CRUISER PLEASE!!

The Futurism movement envisioned giant skyscrapers of the sort in Sky Captain .

Simon i love you but it bugs me when you film with dirt on your glasses lens

@neilgoodman2885

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, "Jiminy" you are cute.

It reminds me of the Eddie Izzard bit of stand-up 'Leonardo da Vinci invented a helicopter that did not work. And so did I'.

Bloody hell Simon yet another channel XD

We Americans appreciate the british architect's ideas regarding both the recycling of the crystal palace's materials, and the obvious RISKS of a 50 story building, - in the 1850's, for heaven's sake! The designer would most likely have been accused of heresy of some sort, wether his design endured or failed, at that time nothing so vastly outside the limits of the imagination of the common man could go on successfully without serious consideration of the supernatural being afoot! We believe that the skyscraper would have failed, - likely prior to it's structural completion, and thankfully bringing far less fatalities. Better still, the designer abandoned the idea altogether, but allowed anyone who wants to see it to do so, and allows people like Simon to teach us about historical figures on this medium, and how cool is that?

Thank 4 this what about the Firth of Forth Bridges as they had to build a new road bridge as the old road bridge almost Fell down due to it design

Mr. Whistler: WOW! This puts Jules Verne's work into an entirely different light! "20,000 Leagues" was perfectly fit to the culture of the Victorian world, stunning! >>The idea of vertical steam locos for elevator/lift muscle is jaw dropping. Your statement materials science would have been the reason for a Mega-Disaster seem sanguine, as well. However, I thought the reason skyscrapers did not "take off" was that elevator/lift technology was a) nonexistent and b) therefore, unsafe (no emergency brakes). >>We should remember that Britain was a first here. So one warm fuzzie hip-hip hooza for that modern couple, Victoria and Albert (but where was all that fresh clear, clean water) ;-). Warmly, Yada, Yada, Yada

Hey Simon check out Shibam Hadramawt its a city in Yemen with 500 year old mudbrick skyscrapers. I remember hearing about its from an old documentary. I think it was a Terry Jones Documentary. Might make for a good mega projects.

Excellent channel! What's the count, now? 10 channels! Cheers

Ahem, Simon, great video but look up the Oriel Chambers in Liverpool. It is the Archaeopteryx to modern skyscrapers and it actually exists to this day. PS: It would suit a side project.

it would be neat for anno 1800 to add in the Victorian skyscraper since it already has the crystal palace

Thank you .

Could you do a video on the planned Victorian London 'death pyramid'?

I'm thinking about my unfinished hotel

“...a one thousand foot struc cha.”

Squish squish y'all

Please check "palacio de cristal" a replica of the palace made in Porto, Portugal :)

Ok if you made this you gotta do one on Wright’s mile high Illinois tower

Hey I smashed the thumbs up bottom on my old phone and broke it, now I just lightly press the button!!!!!

Dear Simon and Danny, Please make an episode of Side Projects on the cinematic marvel "Space Cop".

Only Simon would find sand on Everest!

The Shard is so tall that on an overcast day the top disappears in the clouds.

Idea for a video- Bertha, the TBM (biggest in the world at the time) that dug the SR99 tunnel in Seattle threatened to break down shortly after the beginning of tunneling. So, a vertical access shaft had to be dug a ways in front of the position of the TBM along the right of way, large enough for the TBM to be driven into. Then, the entire cutterhead was removed, lifted out by crane, set down on a work site nearby, and then fixed. The cutterhead was again remounted, the shaft filled in, and tunneling completed successfully. Albeit several years behind shedule. kzread.info/dash/bejne/n5qYq7Z9gNecnqw.html

Objective added : Build sandcastle on top of Mt Everest

I normally don't have anything nice to say nowadays and for good reason but this was an interesting story.

Still waiting for videos on TOR and on the internet

The Shard is the tallest building in Europe, 22 Bishopsgate is the second tallest in Europe. Commerzbank in Germany is the third tallest building.

Mr. Whistler, your mission, should you choose to accept it, build a sandcastle on top of Mt. Everest. This sandcastle does not have to be the tallest ever built, but by virtue of its location, the Mt. Everest Sandcastle will be the highest ever built. Keep Calm and Blaze On. This message will self-destruct.

1:50 "Prince Albert" hehe

'I live in a giant bucket."

@dorsk84

3 жыл бұрын

Tuesday coming. Did you bring a coat?

@octavian23nc

3 жыл бұрын

@@dorsk84 The spoon is too big. THE SPOON IS TOO BIG!

Dude. Your beard is an architectural marvel.

You are wrong about one thing. You don't build sand castle on Mount Everest, you build a ice castle and then call it tallest building 😍

Google... 'Imperial Monumental Halls and Tower'. Now's that's a skyscraper I wish that had been built to get the trend going in London.

@M4rtinK

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, that's pure WH40k in victorian form!

Cool one! I didn't notice any advertisement in this video.... did I just blank it out?

@MrTruehoustonian

3 жыл бұрын

You blanked out there's two.

@theobserver9131

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrTruehoustonian I guess it's a senior mental adblock thing.... ;) ...could be worse I guess....

@MrTruehoustonian

3 жыл бұрын

@@theobserver9131 shit I wish I had that I could mentally skip ads without even knowing it sweet.

Crystal Palace - how did all that iron and glass burn? Or was it the contents that burned and destroyed the shell?

@echodelta9

3 жыл бұрын

Lots of wood platforms and dividers lots of sumptuous fabric wall hangings and drapery. All in a glass shell. The mega mall of the Victorian age.

Like the stonehedge or replica

3:53 definitely didn't hear clock at first

There will come a day... when the armies of beard and chest hair meet on the battlefields of Simon’s neck.

@annescholey6546

3 жыл бұрын

The Spartans had no chest hair😂

Dating Simon's videos from his beard... SCIENCE!

@Tom Soden, No, Simon now has more channels than the BBC!

Let Danny live out his childhood dreams and write a side project a root for greatest elevators

terrestrial telescopes, from the first to the largest!

Soooo, Burton was an OG elevator designer.

My suggestion is that the Business Blaze videos are closer to this duration. The sheer length of them puts me off watching most of them. The vibe is great but there's just so much waffle that pads out the videos about 10 minutes longer than they need to be.

No, Simon, you're the Boi. Say it with me: "The Boi with the blaze."

You should do the not done outdo the French with an even bigger Eiffel tower in London it all ended in folly

The E is silent in Sydenham

No trains running vertically? 😢 You did, truly, disappoint me Simon. Don't worry Danny, you're safe, we don't have bunker busters... yet 😈

Remember the olden days when Simon was mainly trying to provide information of interesting topics? Now it's just nippy segways between commercials. But for how long? How long will the smooth voice last without no actual message?

@MrBLAAHHHHHHHHHHH

3 жыл бұрын

Remember when you weren’t a dumb ass? Neither do we.

9:23 Is that supposed to be "WRITER" Nupur Chowdury?

So how does a glass and steel building burn?

Who depends on a clock on a building to tell time?

But could you actually call a tower like this a "skyscraper" ? It's roughly similar to the Eiffel Tower just glazed & cast vs wrought iron yet no one calls the Eiffel Tower a skyscraper. This even shows with the mentioned first skyscrapers in America - while much smaller at 10 stories high, it's 10 stories of human occupied commercial space. The tower described in this video would presumably be just an empty shell with observation terasses and maybe some exhibition space on the lower floors - unlikely the cast iron structure would hold it's own weight at the proposed height, let alone any usable internal load (people, furniture, heating, sanitation, lighting, etc.) in all the upper floors.

The Phare du Monde would be make a good video.

Not the first skyscraper or even the first design. Thats like saying Da Vinci invented the tank... although, atleast his design had actual "blueprints".

I hear Prince Albert and the first question comes to mind, "Do you have Prince Albert in a can?"