The Most Important Material Ever Made [22:22]

YouTube ^ | November 13, 2024 | Veritasium

[SunkenCiv]

The Most Important Material Ever Made | 22:22 
Veritasium | 18.4M subscribers | 7,151,493 views | November 13, 2024

 

00:00 Glass and our place in the universe 
01:23 How Gorilla Glass works 
04:35 What is glass? 
05:15 Is glass a liquid? 
07:29 Different types of glass 
09:59 Invention of transparent glass 
11:56 Why is some glass transparent? 
14:54 Invention of glass lenses 
15:52 Development of magnification 
18:02 How to make glass more durable

[central_va]

Duct tape

[Leaning Right]

> We are so lucky. <

Yep. The average person in the United States today lives better than a medieval king did.

I’d like to say more, but I’ve got to put my favorite music on. It’s time for my perfect-temperature bubble bath.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, I’d never have made it as a pioneer. Of course, technology also gave us the ultimate distraction, the virtual world online.

[SunkenCiv]

I *do* slightly prefer the Cord to the Duesenberg...

[TigersEye]

Glass is a very controversial subject. Can’t be disseminating potentially world shattering info on the interwebs. :)

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Even the Model J?

She's a doozy!

[pepsi_junkie]

Can’t have mischief night without it!

[Getready]

I always say(not that it matters) that we are many degrees removed from living in the open.
Somebody grows or slaughters our food
Somebody stores, packages , delivers our food
Somebody supplies the materials to give us shelter
Someone makes the cloth, and makes garments for us to wear
Someone extracts and delivers fuels for heat and cooking
Someone brings us relatively clean water
Someone builds sewage systems
Something washes, drys our clothes
Someone helps heal us
Someone or thing built by men, transports us around
Someone helps us in our spiritual journey
Someone can and often does cook, and serve us our food
People entertain us.
There are good teachers ( although idiotic teachers in public schools) for youngsters
Etc...

Now, if we could rid ourselves of those who “feed on life’s sacred fire”

[SunkenCiv]

I was with family and wandering through the auto section of the Greenfield Village museum. We went around to a new row, and about three or four vehicles along, there was Duesenberg, right next to it a Cord. I think that spot is the center of the world. 😎

[pepsi_junkie]

Few think about it but for most people in the 19th century the world worked pretty much exactly as it did in the 9th century if you got rid of the warlords, plagues and kings. You had a plow, you raised your animals, you harvested and sold etc. The 20th century took us from horse and buggies to the moon. And along with that tech - radio, TV, airplanes, computers, etc - came the small things that really impacted peoples lives. Vaccines (the real ones), accessible cameras like the Brownie and the polaroid made it so we all had pictures of everyone in our lives, etc.

But nobody talks about stuff like athlete's foot powder or adhesive bandages, pr disposable diapers or zippers, paperback novels, tea bags, washing machines, effective insect repellents, sun screen. or, yes, feminine hygiene products. But boy can you imagine living a world where they didn't exist? 120 years ago every adult could imagine that world, because they grew up in it and were still living in it.

[SunkenCiv]

I'm pretty sure modern civilization got its earliest start with the emergence, about 300 years ago, of the bidet. 🚽🧻

[sasquatch]

I’ll bet a nickel you’re wearing plastic refractive thingies.

[Inyo-Mono]

But nobody talks about stuff like athlete's foot powder or adhesive bandages, pr disposable diapers or zippers, paperback novels, tea bags, washing machines, effective insect repellents, sun screen. or, yes, feminine hygiene products. But boy can you imagine living a world where they didn't exist? 120 years ago every adult could imagine that world, because they grew up in it and were still living in it.

I think about things like that every time I recall stories my Grandmother, who lived with us when I was a child, told me about her childhood and young adult years. She was born in 1888.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Oldest cub would agree with you.

Took them a couple of years ago. I had not been there since I was a tot and DH had never been there.

It is still fun.

[aquila48]

Bookmark

[SunkenCiv]

I’d not been there since before I’d started school, I guess. I vaguely remember wandering through the ‘village’ itself. We went up for the Titanic exhibit, which also wasn’t bad at all.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...people in the 19th century the world
worked pretty much exactly as it did in the 9th century...”
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I understand and agree with what you are saying.
But what changed it?
The steam engine?
the industrial revolution?

[jonrick46]

I would say steel. We could have been on a planet where steel was as scarce as gold. Because it is plentiful, we had to learn how to refine it, get it to melt and put it into a mold.

[GranTorino]

God made glass.
He made us because he forgot to make plastic.

[pepsi_junkie]

I understand and agree with what you are saying. But what changed it?

Capitalism unleashed and the freedom to dream, create, and sell your ideas for profit, no matter who you are or what your class background was.