"And then on the 13th of August, 1888 at 6:00 in the evening, I began as an assistant in a testing room at Westinghouse Electric". The amount of detail is incredible--to remember to the exact time and day you started a job from 45 years ago. Most of us can't remember what we had for breakfast yesterday. I think this comes from a sense of pride people from this period had in their work, but it also requires a divine sense of "presence". I find myself constantly wishing my time away waiting for the next thing. These guys treated every day as if it were a brand new blank canvas for life.
Life was much simpler even 40 years ago when I was a kid. It was easier to remember events because we weren't overloaded with constant information, new products, and the speed the world changes these days it's harder to remember small events. I could name every make, and model car when I was young, now I have no clue how many car makers there are I believe it's information overload that blurs the past for me.
@@sashafalcon5143 yes really. not even 1 in 10 kids nowadays has close the the intelligence as this man. Everyone is addicted to their phones and doesn't want to learn anything. If u took the average teenager and put them 100 years ago they'd die within a few days
Love how the cadence of vocal patterns of all these 1800's old timer's is so staccato, they all talk with a certain lazy drawl that suddenly speeds way up then gas-pedals back down multiple times per sentence. Like an old common rhythm we somehow lost along the way...
@@willietarkington1628 My great-uncle had it. He was an accountant with Allied Switch and Signal in Manhattan for many decades and died at the ripe old age of 94.
@Life in the 1800s Does is seem strange that we have absolutely no video or audio recordings of Nikola Tesla even though aside from inventing he was quite the showman?
Hello: I am an engineer and professor from Patagonia, Argentina. I have been teaching for more than 45 years and I love to have found your channel and to share it with my students. Thank you!!! Gracias.
I don't know how old you are, but I am 46 and can remember things from when I was around 2, so well over 40 years. I expect you will too. Barring alzheimer, there is no reason we will not remember some things all our lives. My granddad turns 100 in a couple of months, and he still spins the stories from his youth - and from all his life. So, rest easy! Pay attention and you too will remember lots! 😊
I'm 39 and I still remember my first day of school in 1989 like it was yesterday. I lost my Ninja Turtle hat that day. It was a one of kind I was so pissed.
I remember things at work in 1990 better than I remember what I did last week - we no longer use our memories. I used to have perfect recall of every conversation I had ever had, no longer, I literally can not remember my phone number now.
I’m an electrician and think that there will never be masters of the trade like there was in the Victorian era. Today if you want something made, you make a call and then pay the bill, back then the ac motor/alternator wasn’t even known about so the whole concept was made, tried and tested. It’s an amazing thing is eletrickery lol 💡 ⚡️ ⚡️
You're high. There are definitely still masters of the trade. You'll never meet them because you're an electrician, and they are electrical engineers doing research for NASA, Tesla, etc.
@@Lifeinthe1800s if someone back then made what i do rn (9/hr) theyd be rich as fuck. now cents arent rlly worth anything at all. then think abt how literally 1 cent was worth alot 100 years before that. like they even minted .5 cent coins bc of it.
I would kill (figuratively speaking) to see a video of Nikola Tesla. There is no way he did not test it out so we know it is out there. It has to be found, even a voice recording!
My grandfather helped design and build one of the first television transmitter stations in Cleveland, Ohio back in the late 1940's. I remember him telling me that their designs were based upon principles that none of them understood nor anyone of them could explain. They "just built something in a certain way because it would work". I often enjoyed watching him adjust the brightness and contrast that everyone at home would see on their tv sets or when he'd disappear into a little room and come out telling me which tv commercials were coming on next. It was amazing to me as a child. Then after many years of watching him fiddling in his basement with his ham radio system (with a gigantic antenna he constructed in his backyard) I chose the field of electronic engineering to follow in his footsteps. I remember the moment when the 'student became the teacher' after I got my education and my first job in the field and visited him to show him semiconductor board technology and it was all Greek to him just as all the schematics filled with vacuum tubes used to be to me. I excelled in my field and was able to sell off my engineering company nearly twenty years ago and now I have the luxury of being home for my two young sons. I can only hope I can be as much of a positive mentor to them as my grandfather was to me.
My Great Aunt Millie was born in Iowa in 1882 and I still amazed that so many of the inventions that we take for granted came along during her lifetime. SHe died in 1981. She was an Army nurse in WW1 and was stationed in France. But from the automobile, to the electric light and telephone... and planes and everything. I got to know here. .I wish I had been older to be able to ask her more questions about her childhood. and about my grandmother. Her younger sister who I never knew.
Wow. So cool. As a psychology student, I think it would be especially interesting to hear more about their opinions/ feelings back then. I wonder how people over time have changed in the way they think and feel
You know the old saying, "Opinions are like @$$holes: everybody has one." 😉 I really preferred when people focused on work then doing something productive at home in their spare time. My grandparents would only sit to watch the evening newe. Even then, Gran would be knitting. I feel like a slug in comparison and too much focused on myself.
I love stuff like this. I think there's books, too, in which perspectives of historical events are given by other famous historical figures who happened to be there. Eyewitness to History or something. Really cool to get as close to unbiased and unaltered history as we can. Thanks for sharing
Amazing to see a fellow Buckeye from long ago. Fun Fact: Thomas Mendenhall now has a building named after him called “Mendenhall Laboratory,” located on the South Oval of tOSU’s campus.
@@Mistydazzle What? A man of varied accomplishments! I wonder what glacier was called before? It's the source of Juneau's intoxicating water, may it long endure.
What an awesome channel! Thank you for this! There is a wonderful video from an old 1950's show "To tell the truth" where an elderly gentleman witnessed Lincoln being shot and Booth falling while leaving the theater!
I think of Tesla almost everyday. I always feel like I met him in a dream. I read books on him because of my dreams. I don't know sounds weird but it's true.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. These men wasted not. No computer, just a mind and pencil. Do one on the true story of the Hoover dam, please. Our forefathers looked ahead 300 years on that project. Now, they are drying up, due to the inability of men to make preparation for the future. What days we are in now, going to get tough. The tough need to get going, those not tough will regret it. I'm just an old man.... Call me nobody. Thank you for this video. If we forget our past, we are doomed to make great mistakes.
I'd like to know more about the work the two were involved with at Westinghouse. The lab where they worked was 3 miles from my current location, just past the bridge that collapsed last month in Frick Park in Pittsburgh. The lab was in the adjoining suburb known as Wilkinsburg.
Kudos for restoring and sharing this important piece of history! The end really left me wanting more. Surely he must have had much more to say about his work with Tesla and so on. Thanks all the same!
The Hoosac Tunnel! This is in my state & there are many rumors that is haunted. I loved Mr. Scott’s account of his experiences! I most especially appreciate them as some channels are trying to convince people that Tesla never existed & I loved that this blows that propaganda out of the water! GREAT VIDEO! 🙏🏼
Minute 3:40"....oil the bearings...".I had a two hp electric motor made c.1940. Weighed about 100 lbs, sorta big. At the back was a metal plate next to a spring loaded hole for oil. The metal plate had "oil once every twenty years"!!. I traded it to a friend....always remember that plate
They paved the way for todays society. They worked harder than anyone you and I have ever known so that we could have a better life. Sometimes I wonder if it was all worth it?
@@Lifeinthe1800s Yeah I've never found anything real but there are a lot of mislabeled artistic portrayals. It defies logic that there is no audio or video of Tesla. Surely he had something to tell the future. He always said he did.
Sad to think during this 1933 interview Nikola Tesla was still alive and in pretty good shape. But nobody had the balls to invite the great man to share the interview. What a waste.
Where is the 2-3 hour interview with Nikola Tesla? Your artistic and curious soul and your name would be celebrated in human history if you find and post that video. Video of the magnificent inventor and unique visionary who created the foundations of almost everything we use today - GPS, Radio, Wirelles, Internet, Radar, Generators, AC...
I like how his first job, as a "helper" earned 10.50 a week. That sounds horrible, but adjust for inflation and you have almost 1000 a week, for an entry level job. Rough times....
@@_mc_hon_3219 yes, it was considered a small amount, that he seemed humbled by. But today it is twice as much as the average worker, and almost 4 times minimum wage. Today is the tough times, the first gilded age was the good ol days for us poor folk
I can't believe there is film footage of this man. Then again, I can't believe I got to know my grandpa as a kid, who was old enough to be my great grandpa, so he died when I was 11. He was born in 1890! I have a very old photo of him as a young man in his WWI uniform. When I look at it, I feel like I must be a vampire.🤣
@@repentofidols And some people value newness. My grandmother tossed all the antiques she'd inherited and bought new furniture. Not an admirer of fine woodworking and craftsmanship.
I cant believe were lookng at a human alive in the 1800s. How far can we see back? Then think about that person knowing a 100 yr old. Thats a connection to 1700s. Unreal.
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