Sailing ship voyages for whale and trade was 5 years ... plenty of time to build a ship in a bottle after you sober up. Do you know why there are 18 shots in a bottle? Because there were 18 holes in one Golf Game.
Yea lightship r lighthousemen, t keep ur head alight r u go cuckoo, some men n women who wr der too, saviors of d metal men in wooden ships, some people guys!!!!
Excellent segment, I kind of wondered how bottling model ships was done, before watching this segment I thought the models were painstakingly assembled inside the bottle with long tweezers tools piece by piece at a time.
The oldest ship in bottle dates to 1784 by Italian Gioni Biondo. It is also one of the most impressive ships in bottles I know of. Suggesting that ships in bottles have existed for much longer than stated in the video. Not everyone builds ships in bottles with a hinged system. This is the easiest way, and some bottlers actually do fabricate them completely outside the bottle and add each piece one by one, reconstructing the model inside. Though, since this is quite painstaking, few take this route. Many ship hulls are however, built in multiple sections to pass through the neck of the bottle and re-assembled inside. If cut horizontally down the middle rigging lines would be pre-glued to one side, the adjacent side rigging is left loose and runs through holes or fittings that must be pulled tight, glued, and cut away. There are an incredible number of ways to fabricate a ship in bottle; it is an amazing artform!
@@hgrogers85 1784 is not much older than the approximation of 1830 implied in the show(1980-150). Especially if you consider the show seemed to be speaking of when they became widespread rather than a solitary example.
ong, i found a channel called bits and bytes a while back that explained all the basics to computers at the time, it went really in depth to. Whole thing just uploaded to youtube
I am 50 and love this show. No long winded story or technicalities, this show just shows you how to do stuff at the basic level and then up to you if you want to try whatever project or thing they show
Extremely informative. I live in Portsmouth, a seaside city so ships in bottles are a dime a dozen around here and I've always been curious how this was done.
Thanks. Curiosity Show was a national science program for children featuring Dr Rob Morrison and Dr Deane Hutton. It was made in Adelaide, South Australia and screened nationally in Australia as well as in Europe, Asia and Australasia (14 countries) from 1972-1990. Deane and Rob intentionally used everyday items around the house (like old cans) so that children could repeat the demonstrations with materials they had to hand. In 1984 Curiosity Show won the Prix Jeunesse International, the world's top award for children's TV programs. Rob and Deane are steadily uploading segments at ru-vid.com Why not subscribe?
this is only how the shitty looking ones are done. any good, realistic model, is assembled piece by piece in the bottle, not mashed through the neck fully completed like this. you can only use this method with very very simple models.
My dad used to make these when he worked away on lighthouses and would bring them home whenever i got the chance to see him. it was such a mind boggling thing looking at them when i was a little kid and he never would tell me how it was done. loved the video thank you.
Maybe because its complicated to explain to kid this process haha *Kids, or to "a kid" forgot I wrote this comment got a notification and the grammar bothered me.
I remember watching this as a child!! My favorite episode was when you demonstrated how a fax works with pencils and graph paper. Thanks for showing us to go to first principles.
@@CuriosityShow you’re awesome rob!! :) couldn’t express more how valuable you are in what you do and how easy you make it for other people to recreate experiments and demonstrations, rather than just selling some sort of over priced science kit. Thank you again!!
I have absolutely no idea why this old, completely not at all related to anything I've ever watched video was on my feed, but what a cool video! my grandad had several of those and I was always fascinated by them!
This show is amazing. Simple topics, simple conversations and explanations. You give the viewer everything they need in a small amount of time. Brilliant.
The most amazing thing I think is the patience of the people wo invented this, it explains why though, months on a ship would drive anyone to perfect any kind of craft available
Even if you know how it's done this is still a fascinating process. There's a local glassblower who does glass ships inside of glass bottles - I would love to see how that's done!
+CuriosityShow Rob! these days im a software engineer + cryptographer and in my spare time enjoy as many videos as i can watch about quantum physics, the universe, life, and the brain. SEE WHAT YOU DID TO US KIDS!!!
I remember rushing home to watch The Curiosity Show when it was first on, back in the days (oh, how my nieces and nephews laugh at the very thought!) before we had VCRs! I even remember watching this segment - and the messes I made trying to achieve a similar result. Happy days ETA I ended up a physicist, though with a BA in philosophy as well, with a particular interest in the philosophy of science. I generally put it down to having had "a misspent youth"
Thank you for re-entering my life, I missed you guys so much. Along with the Julius Sumner-Miller videos, now also available via RU-vid, my childhood is accessible at the click of a mouse.
Oh my god this video is a time capsule. I am instantly back as a kid when i stayed up way too late to watch tv while my parents were asleep and programs like this with the low quality and synthy music all about something no one cares about but just interesting enough to catch your attention those were simpler times
I have been showing this to my family and even watched some as a group tonight, very entertaining as well as informative! Also, I believe the same guys that made this show for television, are the same ones responding in the comments :) Dont experience that often!
Thanks - you are right - Rob. Curiosity Show was a national science program for children featuring Dr Rob Morrison and Dr Deane Hutton. It was made in Adelaide, South Australia and screened nationally in Australia as well as in Europe, Asia and Australasia (14 countries) from 1972-1990. Deane and Rob intentionally used everyday items around the house (like old cans) so that children could repeat the demonstrations with materials they had to hand. In 1984 Curiosity Show won the Prix Jeunesse International, the world's top award for children's TV programs. Rob and Deane are steadily uploading segments at ru-vid.com Why not subscribe?
I always assumed they built the ship or other object, then spun a glass bottle around it à la clay on a pottery wheel, pinching the top as narrow as desired. I’ve seen large seashells in bottles, so those must be done the way I’ve surmised. Unless they raise the live snails in the bottles, then kill and clean them at the end.
Although many hobbyists refer to the craft as the "impossible bottle," building a ship in a bottle is simple and straightforward. All you need is a model ship, a bottle, and tools to secure the ship inside to create this intricate, beautiful project. Whether this is your first or one of many, a slow and patient attitude will help you build a strong ship in a bottle. Before you know it, you'll have created your own elegant and whimsical ship in a bottle!
all of the sudden i thought, how do they put ships in a bottle, i thought it was one if two things. 1. they cut the bottle then seamlessly glue it together or 2. they painstakingly assemble it in the bottle with tweasers peace by peace and take months to even years doing it, i never thought this was how... the things i think of when i should be focusing🤦🏼♂️😂
The popularisation of resin 3D printers could be quite a boon to the “ships in a bottle” art form. The level of detail in such a small scale with resin printers is incredible.
Wow, incredible! I'd always wondered how they've managed to fit those miniature ship figures or models into the narrow openings of those bottles. So today, I decided to break down the mystery of how these "ships in bottles" are made by simply watching a video of how it's done and I really love the craft. Perhaps I'll buy one when I get an opportunity to visit the UK.
Just imagine the boredom to fiddle around with trinkets like these and finally say "Look everybody, I put a ship in a bottle" and everyone awes and ooo's in amazement.
YLW Pyro Yes, but best to start with a simple fore-and-aft rig (schooner or ketch) as you'll learn a lot before getting into the seriously tricky square riggers. - Rob
Thank you so much for this! I was curious before, wondering how they did it but I assumed the makers were just incredibly patient and had a very steady hand. Loved this but I'm klutzy so I absolutely know I'd flub it if I tried. I'll stick to painting and beadweaving.
The things we forget cause we don't do them. I will always be amazed by people with talent that do out of the box things. One of my fav was the millennium falcon in a bottle
Many thanks. Curiosity Show was a national science program for children featuring Dr Rob Morrison and Dr Deane Hutton. It was made in Adelaide, South Australia and screened nationally in Australia as well as in Europe, Asia and Australasia (14 countries) from 1972-1990. Deane and Rob intentionally used everyday items around the house (like old cans) so that children could repeat the demonstrations with materials they had to hand. In 1984 Curiosity Show won the Prix Jeunesse International, the world's top award for children's TV programs. Rob and Deane are steadily uploading segments at ru-vid.com
Heh, just making light of what was stated at 7:54. By the by, I just discovered this channel (and soon suscribed), and I look forward to exploring the entire library. Funnily though, these clips looked a little "vintage", but, seeing the high number of recent uploads, I wondered if you were deliberately applying a filter for a nostalgic effect. I imagined that that would be a thing _Australian hipster science nerds_ would do. But then I read on Wikipedia the story of the show and was straightened out. Cheers, you have a new fan in the US!
Mac MashPotato It's an odd hobby, but some people manage to work out how to put all kinds of things into a bottle - cars among them. Sometimes they are made in several parts and assembled inside the bottle, piece by piece. Rob
Mac MashPotato Technically, it can be done but it requires a LOT of time and patience. You do need steady hands too. I've seen someone put a diorama of a Civil War scene in a bottle. I asked the guy how the freak he did it. His reply: LOTS of time and steady hands! I lack the latter so I can't build models like this.
Thanks. Curiosity Show was a national science program for children featuring Dr Rob Morrison and Dr Deane Hutton. It was made in Adelaide, South Australia and screened nationally in Australia as well as in Europe, Asia and Australasia (14 countries) from 1972-1990. Deane and Rob intentionally used everyday items around the house (like old cans) so that children could repeat the demonstrations with materials they had to hand. In 1984 Curiosity Show won the Prix Jeunesse International, the world's top award for children's TV programs. Rob and Deane are steadily uploading segments at ru-vid.com Why not subscribe?
Hey Rob, my wife was talking about this a couple of weeks ago, and said that I had once used a word for the practice of bottling ships... but I have no idea what that word might have been. Any ideas?
As a builder of folk art in bottles (google Chris Wood bottles), I love the video, but I do want to say that ships in bottles are a bit older than he said. If this was 1984-5, then the 150 years he said since the first ship in bottles, would point to 1834-5, but the earliest dated ship in bottle in existence today was built in 1784 in Italy by Venetian Sea Captain Gioni Biondo. So, then it was 200 years old & today it is 231 years old! Two of Biondo's amazing ship in bottles are known (including a 1792 example now in the Marine Museum in Lisbon), both visible on this page with another 18th C. example- www.barcosenbotella.com/BeB_Historia.htm (or google his name & bottle in images if this link fails). There were probably earlier models, but they have not survived. Other scenes built in bottles date back to 1719, the date on the earliest two examples to have survived. I hope this is informative.
+Holly Wood You are quite right. What I meant was that the wholesale production of ships in bottles as a commonly practised pastime at sea seems to have depended on the availability of more mass-produced clear glass bottles (medicine bottles were especially prized) for sailors to start making them in good numbers, and that was around the mid 1800s. The early Biondo examples are fantastically well done - as were many of the exquisite bone ships moidelled by French prisoners in the Napoleonic wars - not bottled, though. - Rob
I never watched this show when I was younger cuz I'm American, but coming back and watching shows a lot of people hold fondly from childhood is.... Interesting
