Our Own Devices

Our Own Devices

Ever wonder how a rotary telephone works, how sailors and pilots navigated by the stars, or how mechanical calculators perform complex math using only gears? Then you've come to the right place! Our Own Devices is a channel dedicated to the fascinating world of vintage technology, and the many elegant and ingenious ways our ancestors solved even the most complex technical problems.

Want more fascinating history? I am a regular staff writer for Today I Found Out and many of its sister channels: www.youtube.com/@TodayIFoundOut

I also have a historical adventure novel titled 'Our Own Devices' set in 1920s Morocco. Check it out at my personal website: www.gillesmessier.ca

And finally, I make 1920s/30s-style Art Deco posters, which you can purchase on my Etsy store: www.etsy.com/ca/shop/DecoEchoes



SHORT: Kodak Disc Cameras

SHORT: Kodak Disc Cameras

Cold Open Supercut

Cold Open Supercut

Mystery Object #5 ANSWER

Mystery Object #5 ANSWER

Mystery Object #5

Mystery Object #5

Minox: the OG Spy Camera

Minox: the OG Spy Camera

SHORT: Hectograph

SHORT: Hectograph

Mystery Object #4 ANSWER

Mystery Object #4 ANSWER

Mystery Object #4

Mystery Object #4

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  • @yomommaahotoo264
    @yomommaahotoo2649 сағат бұрын

    All staged folks...and here's just one of many proofs: Apollo missions supposedly provided astronot breathing air for 2 weeks at a time of 5psi and under of pure oxygen. Sea level atmosphere where we evolved to breathe is 14.7 psi of 21% oxygen and the vast remainder nitrogen. Every low earth orbit space capsule since the apollo farce has provided near earth's atmosphere pressure and oxygen/nitrogen content (space station, skylab, space shuttle). There is zero independent evidence of humans breathing pure O2 at 5 psi and 3.4 psi (space suits) for days and weeks at a time.....and a human would develop H.A.P.E. (high altitude pulmonary edema) and die breathing such. It is a fact that one cannot except for short periods of time breath low pressure pure O2, or deadly HAPE develops as well as oxygen toxicity. It was staged fool.

  • @wurlitzer1100
    @wurlitzer110012 сағат бұрын

    I have a 15 AC (pedestal mount) since I was 6 y.o. Yes it its unstable, but I love it! I still fire it on 4th of July and New Years Eve. Much to the neighbors chagrin. As a kid we had an apple tree in the yard and by July 4th the apples were just the right size to jamb in the barrel and shoot. Its a shame you didn't us real Bangsite for the demonstration, it makes a big difference. If too much calcium carbide it used (the problem with the demonstration I believe) it put out a big flamey flash but only a funny 'BLOOP' sound.

  • @geebs76
    @geebs7612 сағат бұрын

    Me in the 60's: Mom, I need more Bangsite. Mom: NO! Me, a little later: Dad, I need more Bangsite. Dad: Okay, let's go to the hobby store!

  • @bassett_green
    @bassett_green15 сағат бұрын

    That "giggity" absolutely broke me

  • @tjtarget2690
    @tjtarget269018 сағат бұрын

    Notification Squad!!! :D

  • @joeminella5315
    @joeminella531519 сағат бұрын

    👍👍👍👍👍

  • @redlogicsquare
    @redlogicsquare19 сағат бұрын

    14:44 Today I learned: the surface of the moon has UXO (unexploded ordnance) left behind. 🤔

  • @EllAntares
    @EllAntares20 сағат бұрын

    Carbide gun. We used to make it out of pipes.

  • @hedgehog3180
    @hedgehog318021 сағат бұрын

    It's weird how smartphones these days are so useful for physics experiments that physics exams are like the only exams where you're allowed to use them. A lot of their features might seem kinda pointless but they're genuinely useful in a lot of physics experiments.

  • @antr7493
    @antr7493Күн бұрын

    Apollo astronauts were carrying Plutonium on there mission to the moon. I love the 60s

  • @americafirst3738
    @americafirst3738Күн бұрын

    EXCEPT WE NEVER LANDED ON THE MOON

  • @scottrichards2044
    @scottrichards2044Күн бұрын

    Another book you might like to check out on the Recon pilots of WW2 is called " Eyes of the Eighth" a story of The 7th photographic Reconnaissance Group 1942-1945. There alot of there missions that the pilots flew and some of those the where shot down along with the photos they came back with and where are in the photos. My father was one of those pilots and one of the most highly decorated recon pilots in the 8th Air Force 7th photo group

  • @woodwaker1
    @woodwaker1Күн бұрын

    So many abbreviations!

  • @raym909
    @raym909Күн бұрын

    wow, this the best breaking down of the moon trips. GOOD JOB

  • @lawrencelaird2919
    @lawrencelaird2919Күн бұрын

    I still have my cannon, from 1967. It’s the smaller model with rubber tires. The neighbor kid had the “Big” cannon, much envy on my part😅

  • @jonahsmedley3266
    @jonahsmedley3266Күн бұрын

    Yoooo they made dune thumpers real.

  • @fopjn01sendsit
    @fopjn01sendsitКүн бұрын

    I still have my grandfather's. Havent used it in a few years.

  • @bradlevantis913
    @bradlevantis913Күн бұрын

    Border guard…. Anything to declare? You…. A cannon Border guard….. move along

  • @Kr-nv5fo
    @Kr-nv5foКүн бұрын

    aeiouaeiou John Madden

  • @steveh1792
    @steveh1792Күн бұрын

    A fellow I once worked with years ago made several of the corner reflector cubes for an LRRR array. Turns out they were something that good amateur telescope makes could produce. Remembering that something you made with your own hands sits on the moon, reflecting the occasional laser beam back to earth seems pretty cool.

  • @sarkybugger5009
    @sarkybugger50097 сағат бұрын

    And will still be in exactly the same spot in a million years. I hope he signed it.

  • @StringerNews1
    @StringerNews1Күн бұрын

    It really is remarkable how much scientific data the Apollo missions yielded over such a short time. Sad that so many people have forgotten, or never learned what was done there. Even worse that professional science deniers have made a business of lying about the details, dismissing it as "playing golf and riding dune buggies" or even worse, claiming that nobody went at all.

  • @Skibbityboo0580
    @Skibbityboo058020 сағат бұрын

    I mean if you take away all the video evidence, the people that witnessed it live, other countries confirming it (even enemy countries), the scientific equipment that we left there that we still use today, the photographs, and moon samples that we brought back, is there really any evidence that we actually went to the moon?

  • @donaldhoot7741
    @donaldhoot7741Күн бұрын

    Usually when you do a story on a device I will go to Ebay and try to buy one. E.G. The Minox spy camera. I cannot find a used ALSEP set !? Can you believe it;;? Great viddy!

  • @kingfish4575
    @kingfish4575Күн бұрын

    Never knew the details of the moon tests.

  • @worldtraveler930
    @worldtraveler930Күн бұрын

    I remember in the 90's visiting the Davis mountains in West Texas and seeing the part of Apollo that still functions where they go out and use some of the telescopes to laser range the moon!!! 🌙🤠👍

  • @fredblonder7850
    @fredblonder7850Күн бұрын

    16:41 Sound drops out.

  • @martymcpeak4748
    @martymcpeak4748Күн бұрын

    the Government sure does love their acronyms lol

  • @michaelabratzel6371
    @michaelabratzel6371Күн бұрын

    The name of the "lander" proofs that there was never a moon landing. They called it "eagle" - a bird. And as we all know, birds aren't real.

  • @onkcuf
    @onkcufКүн бұрын

    I know(believe) we/they went there. They had a car and played golf and picked up some rocks and crashed shit into the moon. That echoed for an unusually long time l

  • @onkcuf
    @onkcufКүн бұрын

    5:43 they function because all they got to do is reflect.

  • @onkcuf
    @onkcufКүн бұрын

    870 years? Not my problem. 4:00

  • @onkcuf
    @onkcufКүн бұрын

    Thanks for this. As a kid then I never knew.

  • @frequentflyer56
    @frequentflyer56Күн бұрын

    Thanks for a great look into the experiments conducted on the moon. Fascinating.

  • @koppadasao
    @koppadasaoКүн бұрын

    The best quote from the Moon must be "That may have been a small step for Neil, but it was a big one for me."

  • @blacksquirrel4008
    @blacksquirrel4008Күн бұрын

    Say what you will about NASA, but they’d be damned if they were going to be out-acronym-ed by the military

  • @tomschmidt381
    @tomschmidt381Күн бұрын

    I grew up during the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo era. I had not realized until this that the active Lunar experiments were power by a SNAP thermal generator. Fantastic overview.

  • @ibrahimkocaalioglu
    @ibrahimkocaaliogluКүн бұрын

    Nice information thank you. Did you watch live apollo websites. it has full voice recording of eva activities.

  • @Joel-ry7ez
    @Joel-ry7ezКүн бұрын

    Can't understand your speech. Would be great if you announce better!

  • @jp-um2fr
    @jp-um2frКүн бұрын

    After that superb presentation, I had a problem. My brain really, really hurt. What happened to the gum molecular regurgitating tritium powered sock dispenser ?

  • @ChrisAthanas
    @ChrisAthanasКүн бұрын

    All these failures but made it there first try no problems Yeah right

  • @gowdsake7103
    @gowdsake7103Күн бұрын

    Which is EXACTLY they tried the ideas ! Honestly is that the best you have . Oh and of course you forget Apollo 1 and 13

  • @kalpi_plays
    @kalpi_playsКүн бұрын

    minor audio issue at 16:40 ish; the name of the LSG is skipped. Keep up the good work

  • @dell177
    @dell177Күн бұрын

    We used the Tektronix equivlent with a pack fil;m back. Later on we had a small epson plotter that ran over GPIB and had 4 pens so you could plot in color.

  • @patrickshannon4854
    @patrickshannon4854Күн бұрын

    Very interesting video. I was breathless, as I watched the Apollo 11 landing in my Squadron Day Room at Keesler AFB, Mississippi. I think the Moon landings constituted one of the greatest engineering feats of the 20th century. It's all the more astounding when you consider it was mostly done with slide rules & brilliant, seat of the pants engineering. The Apollo missions are a proud monument to human ingenuity.

  • @ddegn
    @ddegnКүн бұрын

    I was six years old and watched it live on TV from our home. I was bit confused because they said it was the first time someone went to the moon but I remembered earlier moon mission. The young brain didn't realize the earlier mission hadn't landed on the moon. It was still an amazing thing to watch.

  • @cocotoni1977
    @cocotoni1977Күн бұрын

    At 17:54 we see the proof that the landings were staged and actually shot on Earth. Joking of course. Excellent presentation Gilles as always.

  • @ruthandjoebarrett
    @ruthandjoebarrettКүн бұрын

    Great video! Very, very interesting. Didn't know they fired mortars on the moon.

  • @bradlevantis913
    @bradlevantis913Күн бұрын

    Set up a multimillion dollar experiment Trip over a cable and render it useless Literally the story of my entire work life

  • @Lensman864
    @Lensman864Күн бұрын

    Firstly; an excellent presentation. Secondly; I'm annoyed that, yet again, after spending 10 minutes researching and writing a comment regarding the technicalities of Project Apollo that had zero contention or problematic language my comment was removed! There is no incentive to add comments to your videos if you or more probably KZread are deleting them!

  • @Rob2
    @Rob2Күн бұрын

    It is a waste of time to write long comments on KZread, because the risk is so high that either the KZread algoritm or the creator's "banned word list" somehow decides your comment has to be removed.

  • @Lensman864
    @Lensman864Күн бұрын

    ​@@Rob2 Lesson learned! Thanks.

  • @Allan_aka_RocKITEman
    @Allan_aka_RocKITEmanКүн бұрын

    Regarding the discovery the Moon is slowly drifting away from Earth at the rate of 3.8 centimeters per year, since the end of the Apollo program in 1972 to now [2024] the Moon has drifted about 197.6 centimeters further away from Earth {if I did the math right}. Not particularly Earth-shattering, but still fascinating.

  • @Allan_aka_RocKITEman
    @Allan_aka_RocKITEmanКүн бұрын

    Starting at about 12:48 in this video: _"Thumper"?_ They were trying to find _Lunar Sandworms._ 😉 {Great video, Gilles...👍}

  • @Perfusionist01
    @Perfusionist01Күн бұрын

    Fascinating! I hadn't learned any of this before. THANKS

  • @shaider1982
    @shaider1982Күн бұрын

    Huh? This has been in productin longer than the M1911? Cool👍