The Brady Collection - Objectivity 9 

Speaking of things with "Brady", is there any chance we could see a video about Brady's reagent on Periodic Videos?

Chill ladies, there's Brady Very Large enough to all of you.

Objectivity I think you should have looked at "Brady periodicals". I suppose it's the collection of all your uncut Periodic Videos? :-)

I second this question.

Ruzhong X. you second that question?

morpheus970 Sorry for the phrasing; was tired this morning. Like seconding a motion; I also want to know what the Gentleman's Magazine is about. Given what would be the normal interpretation of the phrase (i.e. Playboy) it seems incongruous in the archives of The Royal Society.

Those must be from Feynmans's collection.

If it's the original "The Gentleman's Magazine", then I'm afraid it's a rather disappointingly literal title. It was a periodical about the kinds of news, poetry, quotes, literary and philosophical material that the educated gentleman would be interested in. One interesting thing about it is that it was the first periodical to use the word "magazine" in the sense of a periodical, in an extended metaphor implying that the gentleman readers would be "armed" with the knowledge/information in the publication just as a soldier would be armed with weapons stored in a magazine (a military warehouse).

JustOneAsbesto That was hilarious

Bas Snabilie #cavemanbrady

JustOneAsbesto such large, much brady

I bet Brady's unseen face at the moment was like "( ͡° ᴥ ͡°)"

JustOneAsbesto his hand gestures speaks volumes

Timothy Galvin Keith and I were just discussing a video along those lines.... Stay tuned! - Brady

Timothy Galvin This is a great idea (which sadly doesn't seem likely to happen after all this time.) But on the other hand there's a lifetime's of stuff already in the archive to discuss...

people would destroy it, but I agree that all of this should be available digitally

well - for seeing Professor Poliakoff, visiting the university of Nothingham would make more sense. He is a living Professor and not an artifact ;-)

I imagine they're part of the ventelation system. The air needs to maintain low humidity in order to preserve the artifacts.

Yes, I'm also curious about these. I'm not sure how they might be used to keep humidity down - there are other ways that don't require a resource that needs to be replenished, so this would seem strange.

They probably are carbon dioxide cylinder. In case of fire, they would fill the room with CO2 and prevent valuable stuff from burning.

Most likely part of a professional fire supression system, using something like Halon.... yeah, I just googled it, halon comes in orange cylinders just like those.

It was mentioned of the periodic table videos. Instead of putting the fire out with water, which would damage the artefacts, it uses gas instead which displaces the oxygen and I think it gets sucked away through some vents at the top. They're at the top because the oxygen would have been displaced by a heavier gas, and therefore have risen.

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