When we visited Poland in 2018, my son was going to write to the President of Poland and propose that they build "The Great Pole of Poland" I guess he was too late, they already had the great pole of Poland! They should rebuild it, make it bigger!
@@zepter00 5G hardly pass a kilometer, let alone continental radio transmission. Satellites are vulnerable to debrides, can be easily destroyed with rockets, lasers, space-guns, communication is influenced by weather and good calibration of antenna to them. An earthquake can decalibrate antennas which might not be pleasant for average people. Radio is by far the cheapest, most mainstream and long ranged way of communication for majority of people. Hard to beat that in case of a war, solar storm, emergency, etc. .
G'day from Newcastle Australia. I watched this for something to watch, not expecting a train museum to pop up as I am a steam train nut. Thank you for the information that you shared with us.
Hey Ryan - loved this film clip - thank you - well documented and presented - it’s somewhere I have always wanted to visit - from the clip I felt I was there.
True we had a tower outside my town that was 1,999ft tall it was impressive how tall it was especially when I was a kid but a hurricane destroyed it because iHeart Media didn’t properly maintain it.💯😴
The remains of the tallest man-made object remind me of the remains of Titanic...... Living in India, in 1970s, I was a fan of polish radio because it was always transmitting classic piano music. The movie ' pianist' reminds me of those days.
4:43 this would appear to be a dipole antenna. Essentially the same antenna you use for the radio in your house; one wire stretched horizontally and another wire vertically from the horizontal length to the radio to carry the signal. Fascinating to see a dipole antenna on such a scale!
Remember reading the Guinness Book of Records in 1980 trying to comprehend the sheer size of the mast.. Nothing came anywhere near it back then.. Good vid Old Dude !! 👍😜
I miss going to Poland for the whole of the 2010s I only went there 3 times per year with my ex partner and daughter who is half polish absolutely love Poland and the people augustowski noc
Hi Ryan, I enjoy your videos and your work of the more obscure contemporary history of Poland. Things that are not so well-known, but very interesting nonetheless. In the early 1970s, in Krakow, there were groups of foreign students studying in the various higher schools of education in that city. There was a very well-known Cracovian Artist, who started the międzynarodowy studium Folksongu. I was part of that group at the time. The man who formed this was Adam Macedonski, poet, writer, painter, and activist who a couple of years ago received the order of the White Eagle. You can look him up on both Wikipedia and RU-vid. The reason that I am telling you about him and about the group he formed during those communist times, could be an interesting segment for you to do. Adam is still alive and living in Krakow, but he is an elderly man. He is known for many things, however, the Studium he formed in those years is very interesting and hardly documented. It was based on the rights of man and that piosenka złącza świat. This was quite an extraordinary feat for that time in history. He wrote a theme song that we always started our student concerts with that was based on the unity of the world. Our group consisted of students from Brazil, France, Mexico, Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Greece, Afghanistan, North Vietnamese, Sudan, US, Hungary, and of course Poland. Should you have any interest in finding out more about this, you can contact Adam, he still lives in Krakow, and/or myself. Btw, we all performed in our native languages and singing our native songs. Who knew at the time, how extraordinarily international Krakow was! The world never did.
Interestingly, the Soviet Warsaw Tower collapsed on August 8th, 1991; and the Soviet Union collapsed on December 5th, 1991, four months after the tower collapsed. "At 16:00 UTC on 8 August 1991 a catastrophic failure led to the collapse of the mast. While replacing frayed guy wires, one of the main cables had to be replaced by two temporary ones." - Google "On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state." - Google
In fact there were some conspiracy theories around that collapse - for example that this mast was destroyed by Soviets, just few days before August coup in Moscow.
This story definitely fills me with sadness. Such an immense feat of engineering and what used to be the single tallest *THING* that humanity has ever constructed, completely wasted by poor management and even poorer repair attempt. Honestly miserable... *But what makes me even sadder is that nobody recorded the collapse!* It would've made for one of the most insane videos ever, could you imagine such a tall construction snapping in half mid-air? Would've produced one of the loudest sounds ever recorded.
maybe no one recorded it, but there were witnesses from nearby houses... The mast suddenly falling made a sound like a jet taking off... and then a thump and silence...
I would be surrised if that tower was leaning from age. I think it's liky that tower was still attached when the tower fell and was yanked out of position. the concrete anchors for it are shifted, and I would expect them to be pretty substantial, enough to resist frost under no load. the safety rail at the top is also damaged. i would suspect the cable was anchored to the central post, and it mangled all that on the way down, and subsequently had the cable land on it after it was slack
Detefon. Odbiornik kryształkowy. Jedynym nieoczywistym elementem tego odbiornika był detektor (stąd nazwa), który przekształcał fale wielkiej częstotliwości (cz. radiowej czyli setki kiloherców) nadawane przez nadajnik na fale o częstotliwościach akustycznych (czyli w tym wypadku poniżej 4000 herców). Bardzo ciekawą cechą takiego odbiornika jest to, że emituje on w słuchawkach energię odebraną bezprzewodowo z nadajnika (nie wymaga żadnego zasilania). Druga cecha polega na tym, że najprostsze modele takich odbiorników w zasadzie odbierają wszystkie stacje naraz; w praktyce słychać tam po prostu stację, której nadajnik jest najbliżej. W czasach gdy nadajniki miały niewielkie moce i było ich dość niewiele, całkiem dobrze zdawało to egzamin.
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