The 1751 Machine that Made Everything 

Rex Krueger B

Yes great video. I’m also enjoying ur lathe build as well Rex

Thanks so much!

I don't think that's true. Just having a fuel source doesn't lead to the technology to use it. The Romans were aware of oil, but couldn't figure out what to do with it. You're confusing necessary and sufficient conditions. Fuel is a necessary condition, but not a sufficient one.

I've turned plenty of small steel parts on my small wood lathe. I use the sharpened end of an old file as a cutting tool, files to shape, and a hacksaw as a cut off tool

that's enough of that, young man.

Adam 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ba dum tsh.

Ah snap!

...we should bar anymore lathe puns!

Lindsay Technical Books was a catalog that had those and other books for any type of project imaginable including books on Tesla, chemical compounds, alcohol for people or cars, etc. I miss that catalog. It looks like Your Old Time Bookstore has some of their publications but that catalog was a treasure.

Just in case someone stumbles upon your post and wants to know more about Gingery and these books en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Gingery

Reminds me of the Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments that taughts kids how to make their own little science lab and even included a section on how to make their own glass products.

Sand casting. Where do the techniques originally came from ? Because இரும்பூ -> Iron...

Gingery* not gingerly, I had a hard time finding metalwork instead of redheads 😅

hehe

Isn't that where Farnsworth thunk up television?

Sounds like we need a new word for ‘farmer’???

@@Zerpersande They do what farmers do, lol, no need.

@@Zerpersande More automation means more time to do other things relevant to the job; farmers are plenty worth the title, though there is plenty of sitting

Il faut venir au conservatoire des arts et métiers de Paris il y a aussi le 1er tour pour fabriquer des vis !

It's the lady of machinery.

Von Neumann? Nah...

Lathe makes round parts. Milling machine is more versatile. Millturn is awesome

Adam Savage in his video talking about his Lathe

3d printer

When I worked @ Dapa that's Exactly what I did !!!

You'd need $10 million of land to live as a hunter gatherer.

​@@markingraham4892Uh... No. That's not a true statement.

That's awesome! I hope he got to meet Charles Lindbergh as well, what a pioneer!

I am sorry you might not understand this but I have to say it Where hasn't a croat been Why am I saying it, thank you for asking. Well you see a lot of croatains left the country in search of greener lawns and well as I see we croats went everywhere and built something also everywhere

He oui il y a énormément d'inventions qui viennent de la FRANCE 🇫🇷🇫🇷 et les plus importantes, les conserves, la mine de crayon, l'eau de javel, la photographie, la boîte de vitesses de voiture, le cinéma, la machine à coudre etc, etc.....! 🇫🇷. He oui les amis, bonjour de France.

Lathes are where the DC concept of mother boxes come from

Lucky you. I had calculus at 8AM, followed by physics and then chemistry.

You are absolutely correct. Without a modern lathe we would not have the complexity of parts needed for our equipment we use presently.

Brandon Berry I had to take several semesters of machining for a vocational classes in high school in small town Kansas. There were several machines, some newer, but there were older World War Two machines that the school received as donations after the war ended. They were more accurate and intuitive than the newer ones.

I used to work in a machine shop that was full of WW2 era machines that still had the Lend/Lease tags riveted to them.

i own a german lathe of 20 30's it was the time that lathes where used for engine parts and gun parts.. with that, a high need of high precision was back than already needed. than again my lathe weights about 800kg+ while same size new lathe would weight only 150-250kg so as long as it does not fall.. (iron is extreme hard but it can crack when falling ) than you have a decent machine. also keep in mind consumer products can not be compared to industrial stuff. today industrial machines are made so it survive all. bearings are 10 sizes bigger than needed. platework is 5mm instead of 0.5mm shafts are 30mm instead of 8mm. i work in a factory and only the boxes folding machine the bearings for the arm that graps the boxes. max load is 1kg with the arm. shaft of 20mm, mounted on 2 plates of 8mm, 4 bearings both sides of the plates..even after running 100 years that machine still dont need a swap of parts. and than we look at machines from 50 years and older.. you can add that times 5 of overpowering. casted iron, solid block of 20cm xD that is why my lathe is so heavy xD i love old machines.. milling machine, lathe, cold saw, all casted iron machines.. you just know even under heavy load the frame would not even bend 1 micron. love it ;)

@@blackdaan If it ain't broke by now it probably never will.

I feel the same way about old guns.

The most brilliant inventions are always just under our noses!

If it had been a snake,..... it would have bit you,... kind of thing.

@@Duplicitousthoughtformentity to be fair though, I bet the clay would keep falling off

What else should we be inventing that we haven't seen yet? How can we accelerate this process ?

But then the clay would fall off.

fuck off nazi

Same. The presentation is so convincing though it can be argued that the machine's success is supported by other successful machines. One can be biased to the lathe if one appreciates its beauty. Speaking of algorithm, digital technology is the mother of tech or progress of our time.

@@BibleStorm Lol.... Complaining about "alt-right nazis" then proceeds to condone violence against them........ just like the nazis did to people who they didn't agree with. Double standards much?

@@mr.techaky7655 When we speak of the allied forces who killed nazis in WWII do we call them nazis?

@rigegs Do you think hitler's propaganda machine was factual?

Don’t forget the 3-phase (polyphase) AC induction motor, invented by Tesla.

@@glenholmgren1218 Why would that be remotely as significant as the invention of the electric motor itself? Which had a host of developers, probably starting with the Hungarian Anyos Jedlik in 1828, sixty years before Tesla had anything to do with it. The industrial uses of electric motors were fully realised long before AC motors came along.

@@cr10001 Industrial revolution did fine from 1870 to invention of AC induction motor. Eiffel Tower went up.

Le 1er véhicule à vapeur qui a réellement fonctionné était le fardier de cugnot en 1769 (toujours un Français), visible au conservatoire des arts et métiers de Paris! 🇫🇷

I'll take your old one

There are shops on your farm?

@@whitedragon9731 the internet is great you can shop, study, socialize, from virtually anywhere

@@hirumi9 I don't think you understood his question

Indeed!!

Try lemmino and mustard, you'll love them

Absotutely! THIS is the type of content that consumes most of my online time sucking... sure beats just another moron takin a hit to the sack or other useless schlock. Thanks, very well done all around 👍👍

There’s a lot of channels like this. But, they are hard to find if your algorithm isn’t leaning towards these channels.

Now after watching youtube shorts.

A hammer should have been your priority! You can fix ANYTHING with a hammer. And if you can't fix it, you can use the hammer to vent your frustrations on the offending device. Win - Win!

"Making round things square and square things round!"

@Favel Konefka. Yes??? How does that apply to what they said?

Hammer to make hammer bubba

@@se6586 rock

Hammer is a tool, not a machine

@Favel Konefka. A lathe can make all the screws, gears and shafts for it's self. The rest of the lathe can be made with hand tools and casting.

Funny you imagine being back in time and having the oportunity to bring inventions to an earlier time. I do the same. hahaha (but probably not as thoroughly as you do)

I have always wondered that too! such a simple thing as getting a ruler to be true, is not easy.

You might like the book "The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch" by Lewis Dartnell

We have the benefit of modernization to even romanticize about bygone days. The things we romanticize were mundane at the time they existed in mainstream.

The lathe was used to create the metal planer which in turn created a much precise lathe, INCLUDING THE WAYS. The more precise creates metal creates an even more precise metal planer. Which in turn creates a much more precise metal lathe and so forth and so on. This also includes jigs, fixtures, tools, dies, extenders that handles much larger metal pieces but the size increase is gradual until you ended up larger and more precise machine tools. Between 1800 and 1900 the industrial revolution has achived, in the laboratory, precision measured in several millionths of an inch and a sufficient amount of that accuracy has been transfered from the laboratory to the machine tool industry between 1800 to 1900. In WW II the micro-inch was achived, and now in high-tech machining facilities accuracies of tolerances are now measured in nanometers for the mechanical parts of the "STEPPER" which is the key manufacturing equipment in making the silicon IC chips used in your and my computers. Study industrial history and you will know, but these books are old books and out-of-print books carefully stored and preserved in library archives and were prudently microfilmed many times by a multi-copier microfilm writer. That technology has been in existence in the early 1950s and your library, if it is properly funded and administered and managed, should have several such equipment and a microfilm scanner-reader for you to read direct from microfilm or transferred rapidly to your portable computer or whatever you have.

Yes Scott

It could be used to make the bearings and bore ganged metal rods for the straight-line drawing mechanisms described in A. B. Kempe's historic 1871 book 'How to draw a straight line'. The pdf can be found on Project Gutenberg, and is an amazing insight into how to construct a straight line from first principles. These mechanisms could then be used with a metal cutting toolbit to shape even straighter lathe bed ways.

Perhaps a 3D Printer can print itself.

When my lathe was waiting for a new motor, I used my mill as a lathe. Obviously a bit cumbersome, but it got the job done.

Thanks for sticking around ;-)

Thanks for continuing to farm! Machinists like to eat as well.

Thanks for feeding the world

Is this one of those "Best of Both Worlds" scenarios?

on the farm, downtime equals lost money. You usually either had the machining tools or you were friends with someone that did. I was blessed to grow up in a farming family that included welders, machinists and blacksmiths.

Welcome to the machine takeover.

Where have you been? Its alright. We know you been playing with Vaucansons duck again. Huh?

HOW CAN YOU HAVE ANY PUDDING IF YOU DONT EAT YER MEAT!!!!

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@Susan Farley yes, but still, wrong album.

We will always have farms, but perhaps not farmers. Overseers of AI that control mass farms, maybe.

Not really, we will eventually do away with farms, as wasteful of resources. Even today, we have begun to produce meat via stem cells, for sale, and we have factories in some American Cities that produce vegetables vertically and hydroponically. We are on the cusp of an agrarian revolution, every bit as big as the early neolithic revolution. Or the effect that the lathe pictured in this video, had on industrialization. It doesn't stop there though, and plans are afoot for nano scale production of everything we might need or want. Food, clothing, medicines, vehicles, and much more. By the end of the century, at the very latest, we will be living in a world / Solar System / Galaxy, that is beyond anything Star Trek Second Generation dreamed of... but we won't be ordinary humans anymore, and we won't be the Borg. Yet the boundaries between human and machine will be blurred. Our Machine will become more Human and we will become more Machines, whatever that may mean in 82 years. If we were suddenly transported to that time from where we sit now, we would be as bewildered by the changes, as anyone from the 1740's brought into our world.

Cro-magnon Gramps Moving farm production from horizontal in dirt to vertical in buildings will probably have less impact than either the agricultural or green revolutions. It’s a evolution, not a revolution.

We may not always have them but will always need them. Look at South Africa right now. People often times bite the hand that feeds them. Sad really

10000 Subscribers without Videos Challenge there won’t be cows or any other animal farming in a decade or two.

Its only 6/25/2019 in Detroit. What the hell time warp place do you live in?

@@wind-solar 71 year old mistake.

@@wind-solar Jesus dude!! You don't know this guy...all he's saying is he likes your voice while watching the vid. Now pull your head out of your ass and your foot out of his and just accept a compliment from an older gentleman who took the goddam time to give you one.

Al Grayson ~ Wow... I’m alone in my car, just pulled over at a gas station to read some of the comments; when I came across your comment I actually wowed out loud! What a great addition to this honoring of the lathe!!! I’m so grateful for youtube at moments like these!!

I didn't know that. Thanks, Al. There is a vague resonance with the invention of valve gear for steam engines. The steam engine evolved from rudimentary steam-powered pumps used for dewatering mines in (I think) Cornwall, which in turn evolved from manually driven sailing-ship pumps, used to evacuate the holds and bilges of seawater which continually leaked in through the seams between planks. The Cornish pumps used pistons exposed to the water from below, and to steam above. The steam was cooled to condense it, creating a vacuum and lifting the piston and the water below it. The pump had valves operated by boys. One smart boy got bored, and after improvising a lashup mechanism with string and bits of wood to activate the valve at the correct moment in the cycle, skived off, for which he was duly punished. (IIRC) Thos Newcomen got wind of this enhancement, and incorporated a self-acting arrangement on his "Atmospheric Engine", which was the precursor to the steam engine. And the rest is history.

@@Gottenhimfella i'm Cornish and haven't heard that one before, sounds probable though. Trevithick was inspired as a boy by the Watt engines used in Cornish mines as well, which led him to build the first high pressure engines.

As "lath" also refers to the small strips of wood you find supporting plaster. Later on came metal lath which served the same purpose.

In that moment, were you euphoric?

Thanks for the info, brother. Wish I could go, but sadly I'll take your word for it. Thanks

I think the original lathe was all made by hand. You can achieve incredible accuracy that way just don't count the hours involved. Using the basic lever principle you can magnify errors. If you have a machine slide driven by a lead screw it usually is able to be moved by a thou at a time on a standard lathe but if you change the dial calibration to a bigger size dial greater accuracy is achieved. Back in 1985 I used a lathe dated 1918 to do some screw cutting 8 tpi thread. I was amazed how well it worked. How many mistakes were made to get to the first lathe is unknown but it would be handy to know. Its called development.

John Smith : "blue~printing" is a term I heard from a machinist.....when tasked with achieving high tolerances of fabricated precision parts

John Smith :". change the dial calibration" ....innovation became very useful to the Router and the Radial-Router tools dialing to 1000ths....imo

New Holland?

this is awesome

I felt that. Its because we aren't pressured to learn this for a grade, rather we learn this because we want to which also makes learning and retaining the info from this easier and more valuable

CA School: "Now, let's take a look at the racist history of the lathe."

This is why public funding of education is obsolete, and truly unconstitutional.

@@solar_sailor9995 I think the reasons go far deeper than that. In publicly-funded educational institutions, one tends to be taught solely via rote memorization. While this works well for early learning where you're just simply trying to learn the alphabet and that 2+2=4 (something that grown adults still seem to have trouble with 🙄) this same approach tends to lead to complete disinterest once you reach the higher grade levels and are now onto more complex topics like "Why was America founded the way that it was?" or "What makes this machine more important than other machines?" etc. etc... These are more complex subjects where the focus needs to be on learning HOW to think and not so much on WHAT to think. Once you reach this point, simple rote memorization of dates, places and events doesn't even BEGIN to explain what makes all of these concepts important and ultimately leads to a feeling of intense boredom because the very POINT of history and other subjects like it becomes lost. In special regards to history in and of itself, the very point of the subject lies within its name...hiSTORY, in other words, it's literally the STORIES of the past which are meant to inform us, teach us and make us think about what these events have to teach us about our lives today. To use the Gettysburg Address as an example, if all you do is learn when the speech was given and who delivered it...well, all that does is help you pass a test and says nothing about what that speech actually MEANS and the impact it had on the eventually ending of slavery in the U.S. and the eventual end of the Civil War. However...if you can read it, hearing the voice of President Abraham Lincoln in your mind as you do so, whilst looking at a picture that was painted depicting Gettysburg, PA right after the battle...well, then that's something else entirely. By doing so, you're now able to put YOURSELF there on that day and feel as inspired as every American who was present on the day President Lincoln gave that speech. Now, that moment in history takes on a whole new life and one becomes just amazed at how much truly does survive the test of time. This is the difference between being educated in a typical classroom versus being educated in your spare time on sites like RU-vid. A good educational RU-vidr will not just simply give you dates, names and places to memorize...hell, sometimes they don't even give you that information at all, considering those facts superfluous to the real point of what that RU-vidr is trying to get across. Instead, one is presented with an engaging story where one is also shown bits and pieces from that story so that the events you are being told about are able to themselves come alive and actually touch you in a way that simple rote facts cannot. This is REAL education, the way that it should be, where the viewer is not only empowered to think but also EXPECTED and ENCOURAGED to, so that the subject is able to become as exciting as it truly IS. I was never all that certain back when I was growing up as to what sort of subject would ever excite me, although I will admit that my High School history courses were made much more exciting than any other course of instruction thanks to several out-of-the-box thinking teachers who made it their mission to make their subjects as fun and engaging as possible, even within the strictures of teaching to the test imposed by "No Child Left Behind" which was starting to take shape within my Junior and Senior years. That said...I will say that the documentaries I saw in my young adulthood coupled with the educational content that I've found now on RU-vid has made me a history FAN... And I personally hope that it does the same for many others. ☺😁👍

I have learned way more from RU-vid than all of my schooling 🤷🏻‍♂️

Put it in a Miata.

What’s the name of the museum?

Musée des Arts et Métiers 60 Rue Réaumur, 75003 Paris

Your concept may have applied during the early days of the industrial revolution but in today's modern era your lathe would become nothing more and nothing less than a heap of rust if trucks didn't deliver your steel 😉

@@domesticatedwolverine4152 obviously everything is interdependent

flewggle All the other economic, technological and social preconditions did not exist. Ancient societies couldn't just reorganize for mass commodity manufacture production.

Many inventions and concepts were conceived much sooner than we were able to actually use them. Transistor being another well recognized example.

I don't think that can be take as a "given", flewggle, and not just for the valid reasons given by others. Pipe organs were manually pumped for a thousand years or more, being cranked by hand or foot like lathes, and that didn't hold back their development appreciably. Hero's invention was so inefficient and feeble it would not have matched the power output (or modest appetite for fuel) of a young child. And it's easier (and some would say, more fun) to create small children than steam engines, even feeble ones. ;-)

i always wondered who invented the first presision machines, because how in earth can someone make precision machines when they didn't had precision tools? I gues that clock makers were the first people who invented precision tools and machines, because designing and making an apparatus that runs almost perfectly on time must have bin almost a world wonder when the first mechanical clocks were made, and i'm even stunned by clock makers today when you look at al those fine tiny pieces that go in to it. Those people are the einsteins of mechanics imo.

@@3DPeter These watch makers and clock makers we're really stealth geniuses. Even Socrates stated he had students "Not of his time". The Incas had calendars able to read two thousand years in advance. European didn't have a monopoly on genius. I can imagine back then when religion was the end all and be all of formal teachings certain thoughts and ideas were frowned upon. "The earth isn't the center of the universe" thinking got a lot of people in the dungeon or killed. Be it proof through mathematics, mechanical or other means. My point is a LOT of inventions have been destroyed out of fear and ignorance. Now the only difference is corporations have taken the place of the religious sects of yesterday and are going around stomping out competition through lawsuits or threats. As the saying goes Times may change but things always stay the same.

So, like most things then.

in my opinion, the lathe is so much more significant and beautiful than the mona due to it's usefulness and significance to the technological development of our own history.

So... like most things then...

@@thestonedraider8684 there's arguably nothing more significant toward our development technologically than the lathe, if the video is anything to go off of. Ultimately while the mona lisa did nothing to produce anything in the material sense, it did introduce a new manner of thinking that was profound and inspiring, due to it's rare and unique 3d perspective that was otherwise completely unthought of in a time period where our culture was limited to 2d paintings and drawings, with little to no perspective. It's only valued today because there are enough people alive to care about it as a spectacle of achievement within european culture. However if they were to die off, or people stopped giving a damn, it'd eventually become worthless, like many other ancient paintings have, ultimately becoming lost to time, only to either be destroyed, or rediscovered once more later on.

lol you fucking moron I agreed with you.

'solar calendar'? You're not referring to the Antikythera mechanism I hope. That lathe would be a dawdle in comparison.

I watched this just after the latest clickspring video and was thinking the same thing too. A lathe like that would fit nicely into his shop.

The way he even made his own hand files to make the antikythera, just seems like this lathe would be right up his alley.

The guy over at Primitive Technology will be there in a couple years...

You deserve to win the internet today for that comment tehbonehead.

Yes but if you can't turn metal that's not going to help. The point is to mass produce so many industry parts that needed to be precise and round. The lathe is the big winner

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This is why homeschooling and online schooling is becoming more common nowadays. EDIT: It's NOT? @First Last, are you high? There's a huge influx of students taking courses online. Pretty sure EDX, Corsera, Lynda, etc didn't exist a few decades ago.

@@UnrealZii It's not. And a good thing too, since many homeschooling curricula have many omissions of correct information while including falsehoods to promote specific ideaologies (i.e young-earth creationism, islamic supremacy, etc.)

Oh, and "public" schools don't omit and promote? C'mon!

@@felttip4431 The false premise is that the US public education system doesn't have many omissions of correct information while including falsehood to promote specific ideologies.

@@felttip4431 Then explain why the desire to instill a religious mindset into home-schooled students is often a fourth stated reason for why people choose homeschooling. Furthermore, the percentage of people who do say this is a first and foremost important reason is only %17. homeschoolbase.com/homeschooling-statistics/ (Uses; U.S. Department of Education). Now explain why home-schooled individuals typically score 15 to 30 percentile points ABOVE public-schooled students on SAA(Tests). "(The public school average is the 50th percentile; scores range from 1 to 99.) A 2015 study found Black homeschool students to be scoring 23 to 42 percentile points above Black public school students (Ray, 2015)." (NHERI.org). www.nheri.org/research-facts-on-homeschooling/ Finally, now prove your claims. I don't see a single source there boiyo.

The highest the calculator I found goes to is 999 years. 1 penny at 3% compounding interest over 999 years = $66,740,196,419.12

No one would pay 3% interest on a penny.

and inflation would easily outpace any interest gained XD

I got have a graphing calculator that goes on infinitely. When we input the equation 0.01x1.03^x which represents your hypothetical situation. When x=5000 (5000 years from when the penny was deposited) you would have 1.53 x 10^62 dollars. That number is so large I can guarantee that no human can comprehend it and unless you have seen a googol written down (even though a googol is significantly larger) have never even seen a number so large. It’s incredible and your joke has an incredible number in it. P.s Why have I spent so much time obsessing over this?

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Or just use a 3d printer and make 12 million thumbs up in the same time as a dozen from your old style machine.

*Additive Manufacturing!* _R i g h t o n O b i W a n ._

@@obi_wan_kenobi561 3d printers are much, much slower than traditional molds and CNC

@@barmiro Slower, less accurate, and weaker...

@@o11o01 Yep, they're more of a curiosity than anything actually useful at the moment.

But this one was at the right time for them to be used and adopted into production. It’s the takeoff point for the biggest revolution. Oh and the main reason is likely that this lathe is still around. Any of Andrey Nartov’s lathes are lost to time?

Yes, one can make a stainless steel pot on a lathe ! I like lathes more than any other tool!

I see what you did there

HEY-O!

No pun intended ? Lol

Rise Of Kingdom in nustshell be like

Ba da boom

If you've not played with machine tools, then you're in for a treat. I found it a life-changing experience. Before I started machining as a hobby, I'd go to a hardware store to look for "a thing". Afterwards, I'd browse and see things I could make things *from*. I hope you enjoy it.

Sadly, older people seem to have a knack for deeming something new as useless. I hope I never do. Prove her wrong.

I won't say that she is old enough to consider a lathe as a new thing. She just sees it as a useless and expensive thing.

make something your grandma can use with the lathe that way she cant doubt you again. shes senile if she thinks such a machine is useless. they built the world were in.

I've got my lathe as a hs grad present from my parents and at the time they thought I was crazy to have a need for 1954 9" southbend. But today for eg I've made a new shaft for the dishwasher pump that cost me $15 instead of 180 for a whole new motor and waiting a couple weeks 😁 It sure has a limited amount of uses but when you need it there is no other tool capable of the job

very dmt like ,, machines that make other machines