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.

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.

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.

Masterpiece of engineering is an understatement

Outstanding presentation. Thank you so much.

This is an awesome show. I am truly amazed. The clock in Munchën freaked me out.

Creepy. Will probably have nightmares tonight,but the mechanical works inside are mindblowing!

@jasearon4532

9 күн бұрын

😂😘

This was very interesting I’m glad I watched it.

Simon Schaffer is the inspiration for Austin Powers.

@benjaminrapp7418

15 күн бұрын

If Stephen Hawking had Parkinsons instead of ALS

That good ole uncanny valley coming into play real hard with this one.

It’s like watching your great ancestors evolve, AI😊

Thank you very much. God bless Everyone Philadelphia USA 🇺🇸 Nostrovia ❤❤❤

@LaurieValdez-zk3dy

8 күн бұрын

Kinetic and potential energy🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Thank you Real History I found this really interesting

Superb tour down History's mechanical visita ; thanks from old New Orleans 😎

Cool 😎. Nicely presented 👍🏼

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.

Outstanding.

Good stuff!

These Are So Cool!!💓💓💓💓

Very good!

What a beautiful journey 😊

brilliant

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.

Magnífico!

Shouldn’t the title be “18th Century” not 17th…

..i like Professor Simon! :)

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.

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

Wow

Did anyone else nearly not survive the CHIMES?!? Those were the most horrifying sounds.

@terenceflanagan1225

23 күн бұрын

The bells ! The bells ! 🤣

What is old is new again! AI robots are here now, how long will we be?

Music boxes???? Lmfao

They didnt know atoms back then

The chess dude is just a mechanical puppet.

Why is my dog having nightmares?

The 1700s were not the 17th century. Just sayin'.....

@gdcitizen2

13 күн бұрын

That's correct 👌

Absolutely love these machines and art, sure do not have anything like it today, today is cheap tacky awful crap from China.

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.

@webstercat

10 күн бұрын

A tad sensitive

@lyndawilliams4570

8 күн бұрын

@@webstercatthey were the cause of 2 world wars so yes…..they are inclined to overreact

Cut out the creepy guy at the beginning

IT'S OFTEN SAID THAT IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO BUILD IT, I TRIED BUT IT WAS MESSY 😅 HERE'S MY STORY I WENT TO THE LOO AND HAD A 💩 POO THEN.TO UNDERSTAND IT I TRIED TO BUILD IT , TROUBLE IS IT WAS DIFFICULT AND DIFFERENT EVERYTIME I SADLY I NEVER GOT TO UNDERSTAND IT 😪

18th century.

This channel has took real shots from a different documentary. And overlaid other stuff.

Who is narrating this?

It is amazing to me every time I hear it… How many lives God has ruined😢😢 poor Christians ... 😅

The original Turk was lost in a fire.

Who in the world was hiding in the Turks chess cabinet? Who ever it was beat the lot of Europes chess masters.,, how could they be unknown?

Zzzzzzzz.....

If you didn't fast forward or fall asleep in this video, I'm calling BS

@jeffnichols7834

Ай бұрын

I'm still listening while working...so I didn't forward or fall asleep lol.😂

@javiercito97

Ай бұрын

#Incult

@danalynbegin6991

Ай бұрын

I’m actually quite facinated although I wonder what kind of creepy grandma’s attic he was filming out of originally

@885Blackjack

Ай бұрын

@@danalynbegin6991 I was too but I found the video really difficult to watch. It was much too slow for me

@teresac1239

Ай бұрын

I had to re-watch it in the day to make it thru...lol

You need to do a new segment, "The Future of Automatons", and show GOP/MAGA politicians... ;-P

Around the same time that automatons began to be built to dazzle European aristocrats and princes, ordinary people were recruited and sometimes kidnapped to receive military training. In case of war, soldiers advanced in columns, shooting and receiving shots and then killing and being killed with bayonet blows. The battles between these soldiers, reduced to the condition of automatons by conditioning and fear (they were killed in case of desertion or refusal to fight) caused tens and even hundreds of thousands of deaths, injuries and mutilations. And just as they lost interest in their old and eventually broken automatons, European aristocrats and princes were not very interested in the fate of broken soldiers after wars. They had an inexhaustible supply of poor servants who could quickly be transformed into flesh-and-blood automatons to fight new battles. Automata have no life. Soldiers have to be systematically dehumanized. The military ideal has always been influenced by rationality that at some point allowed the construction of mechanical marvels resembling human beings in a world in which not all human beings could really imagine that they were human. And now the human soldiers and killing automatons will all be controlled by artificial intelligence, virtual robots in charge of maximizing the destruction of enemy cities while children and women are murdered with great mechanical efficiency and precision, as is the case in Gaza. Is the god of the Israelis an automaton of perversity? Is he only happy when Jews mechanize and automate the killing of innocents?

@mvc9178

Ай бұрын

TLDR Was it Trump’s fault?

@TheListOf

Ай бұрын

Omg.....😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@annawhiteley3128

Ай бұрын

Way to legitimize antisemitism there🎉😂

@TheListOf

Ай бұрын

@@annawhiteley3128 I know, right? What a wing nut. 😆 🤣 😂

@user-rg3kf1ti4m

28 күн бұрын

Since you insist on inserting your propaganda into a video that has nothing to do with your twisted views, do you mean innocents like Hamas gang-raping women, roasting babies alive in ovens, pouring petrol over parents and burning them alive in front of their children, torturing animals, hiding behind human shields, stealing humanitarian aid from the "innocents" who cheered when elderly hostages and children were paraded through their streets etc, etc? I think the tinpot god you have a problem with is the one the Gazans worship.

The history of automatons is fascinating and the artisans who created them are not appreciated nearly enough. That being said, the undercurrent of rich-hating that this video has is misplaced. If you spent years of your life painstakingly carving little gears and assembled them into a facsimile of human life, you would want to keep it away from poor people, too. Poor people don't tend to have the imagination nor the appreciation for works of fine art. Also, the machines are expensive and artists need patrons. Look at what happens to public art exhibits in parks or public use pianos: they get destroyed. Protecting your work from poor people is rational. Its like taking a dog to the Sistine Chapel; its a waste of time.

The first home entertainment center...Rich Guys had live Music in their homes at this time too