The Creepy Clockwork Robots Of The 17th Century | Mechanical Marvels | Real History
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- Since the invention of clocks in the Renaissance period, the intricate maze of cogs and gears that make up their inner workings have been used for all kinds of things. One of these is the lost art of making automatons, lifelike creations such as dolls or animals. These incredible machines were ahead of their time and have entertained people for centuries.
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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.
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.
We still use clock work.
Virtually everything mechanical uses it, just different mechanics, but nonetheless, still timed.
That being said, to a man who has worked on machinery his whole life, these are truly wondrously made works of art.
That swan is stunning.
Masterpiece of engineering is an understatement
I found this documentary about these master craftsmen and their creations fantastic. Thank you.
I'm 64, when I was very little my father would take me with him to visit one of his friends, to keep me quiet and busy the friend would give me a box filled with broken pocket watches, I was fascinated.
It’s like watching your great ancestors evolve, AI😊
If you speed this up to 1.5 it is very watchable!
@bertspeggly4428 bawhahaha, he is kinda boring
This was very interesting I’m glad I watched it.
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 presentation. Thank you so much.
Creepy. Will probably have nightmares tonight,but the mechanical works inside are mindblowing!
😂😘
This is an awesome show.
I am truly amazed. The clock in Munchën freaked me out.
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.
Shouldn’t the title be “18th Century” not 17th…
Agreed😂
Of all the automatons, the one i would like to see up close and personal or perhaps own is the little boy at his writing desk.❤
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.
The 1700s were not the 17th century. Just sayin'.....
That's correct 👌
Yes it t'was the eighteenth century as a historician he should know that!!
Those cans remind me of the curves of a vinyl record....information on a groove....fascinating!
Thank you Real History I found this really interesting
What fascinates me is the Ancient Greeks who invented machines and statues that moved, bled, floated that were placed in pagon temples to scare worshippers. This was well before watchwork, usually relied on fire, sand and pneumatics.
All the animals in this are tortured, I shut it off. Couldn't see how cruel they were treated
I love this one, it's my second time around. It's even better that Austin Power's is the host.
That good ole uncanny valley coming into play real hard with this one.
Yeah, 4 me 2
Incredible intelligence and craftsmanship in the days when we needed entertainment, and there was no TV.
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
Simon Schaffer is the inspiration for Austin Powers.
If Stephen Hawking had Parkinsons instead of ALS
An automaton of Ned Ludd carrying a sixteen pound sledge hammer has allegedly escaped from Novelty Automation in London. Warning: DO NOT WIND HIM UP!
Cool 😎. Nicely presented 👍🏼
Absolutely fascinating!!
Wow, this is an amazing documentary!
These Are So Cool!!💓💓💓💓
Superb tour down History's mechanical visita ; thanks from old New Orleans 😎
Good stuff!
Outstanding.
Great documentary!
Loved this
Very good!
Thank you very much. God bless Everyone
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Kinetic and potential energy🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Fantastic!
..i like Professor Simon! :)
A very good documentary!
This is incredible
It's a wonderful video
What a beautiful journey 😊
This was TV 500 years ago.
Magnífico!
Play at 1.5x speed.
Обожаю 🥰 всякие интересные механизмы : часы всевозможные, музыкальные шкатулки, механические человечки, которые что-то пишут на бумаге или рисуют, играют на музыкальных инструментах, в шахматы ♟или танцуют. Всё, что вы показали в видео, всё это очень здорово 🤟 и очень интересно. Спасибо 🙏 вам наиогромнейшее, за такие интересные видео. 🥰👍❤️
thanks
brilliant
Joseph Merlín the worlds first performing Drag Queen!
11:25 The woman in the background, to the right, looks like she's lost in her own little world. No pun intended lol 😆
@14:37 is there anywhere I can get the full track? Name?
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.
A tad sensitive
@@webstercatthey were the cause of 2 world wars so yes…..they are inclined to overreact
Sir, this is not an American documentary. These are your neighbors, the British. But like father, like son I guess…
Modern robots can be as creepy too. Read about uncanny valley.
Horror ! Almost the same argument w/"
Artificial Intelligence." Silicon or metal how can any sane people even imagine that mechanical repetition or cybernetic software is sentient and self-aware ? Excellent video. Thak you.
Genius
Absolutely love these machines and art, sure do not have anything like it today, today is cheap tacky awful crap from China.
I'd have to see proof that Bern Switzerland was a hotbed of rebellion. It seems to me if Bern wasn't a hotbed, then there was another reason for the development of these automatons.
25:54 How could a thing like that just disappear? In all likelihood, it's up in the attic of some old mansion. Or maybe it's in pieces in some landfill. That would be a shame.
Did anyone else nearly not survive the CHIMES?!? Those were the most horrifying sounds.
The bells ! The bells ! 🤣
Music boxes???? Lmfao
What is old is new again! AI robots are here now, how long will we be?
Yet Again, its a Great Shame that, such an interesting, fascinating programe is marred by The Completely Unnecessary, Additional Inappropriate 'Musical?' Noise Throughout...Why? The narration & sounds from the automaton, clocks & watches would have sufficed!
The mad English dude is the creepy bit.
Wow
Indeed. Luddites, right?
Watch almost all these programs religiousls from PBS from 1978 to 2008 , then HD TV and cable ruined it. Now they are all up loads done in 2013.
The original Turk was lost in a fire.
This channel has took real shots from a different documentary. And overlaid other stuff.
Why is my dog having nightmares?
De ce nu subtitrati și în limba Română sau in toate dialectele ?! E păcat ,aveți postări interesante și v-ar putea aduce mai multi abonați și vizitatori !
People find this boring but is where robotics come from
Wait … I thought this was only a nightmarish Doctor Who episode
18th century.
They didnt know atoms back then
Cut out the creepy guy at the beginning
Charmant petit city work automatic
The chess dude is just a mechanical puppet.
There was a bit more mechanism inside of it (including a mechanical voice saying "check!), but its AI was a fake.
The ancient Greek invented clockworks (see Antikythera mechanism) and kinds of automata already 2000 years before this! Nobody knows how many technologically advanced civilizations lived before us on Earth and disappeared into nothing.
Revisiting Greek Automata: Clockwork Robots from the Ancient World
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Who is narrating this?
It is amazing to me every time I hear it… How many lives God has ruined😢😢 poor Christians ... 😅
*18th Century.
I was skeptical about the mechanical chess player and when they failed to explain how it supposedly worked I searched for it and it turns out it was an elaborate hoax- operated by expert chess players from within the box (it should have been a red flag as soon as he said he closed the doors after showing inside the cabinet lol) and the one shown in this video was a replica as the original was destroyed in a fire in 1854.
I don't understand why the documentary straight out lies about this being some Victorian era artificial intelligence,
I read in a book, that it was the author Edgar Alan Poe who debunked this machine. He rolled a lit cigar unter the machine and screamed "fire!". Suddenly a door opened and a coughing midget fled out of the cabinet. The apparatus had some clever stage magic tricks like a slideable clockwork that could be shifted to each door (those on stage were only opened one at a time) to pretend a larger mechanism, and a mechanical voice saying "echet!" (check!) to announce that game situation.
I sure hope they retire those two machines in the White House soon.
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?
Having a baby works too. Or does it?
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 😪
Zzzzzzzz.....
A great documentary from the BBC before it turned WOKE.
Well put!
If you didn't fast forward or fall asleep in this video, I'm calling BS
I'm still listening while working...so I didn't forward or fall asleep lol.😂
#Incult
I’m actually quite facinated although I wonder what kind of creepy grandma’s attic he was filming out of originally
@@danalynbegin6991 I was too but I found the video really difficult to watch. It was much too slow for me
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
The first home entertainment center...Rich Guys had live Music in their homes at this time too
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?
TLDR
Was it Trump’s fault?
Omg.....😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Way to legitimize antisemitism there🎉😂
@@annawhiteley3128 I know, right? What a wing nut. 😆 🤣 😂
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.