Thermodynamics: Crash Course History of Science #26

It's time to heat things up! LITERALLY! It's time for Hank to talk about the history of Thermodynamics!!! It's messy and there are a lot of people who came up with some ideas that worked and other that didn't and then some ideas that should have come first actually were figured out second.

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[cryptocoinkiwi]

1:28
"In fact Ether was the explanation for many unknown phenomena in the 18th century."

The year 2215:
"In fact Dark Matter was the explanation for many unknown phenomena in the 21st century"

[gravityvertigo]

"What did you do on your honeymoon?"
"Man you KNOW I forced water through a perforated cylinder."

[declan]

" In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics"

[BillySugger]

Love the animation of Joule’s honeymoon. Great work guys! 😂😂😂

[armorsmith]

It looks like Joule’s wife wanted to measure the heat produced by reciprocating linear motion.

[hedgehog]

This episode makes it more understandable how scientists at the time thought that they were just on the brink of solving science and creating a unified theory of everything. Like thermodynamics just showed up and suddenly made a ton of connections, it seemed only a matter of time and experimentation before we'd have a working theory of everything. However ovens happened.

[ice]

I thought of an idea for a new little side series: Crash Course Spotlight. It would be a series where people who were talked about in different crash course series get their own videos to be talked about in more depth. So for example Hank Green and Dr. Somara would have an episode where they talk about Nicolas Carnot (as he was talked about in both the Engineering series and here on the History of Science series). They would go over his importance to both of those series, and then go into more detail about his life and work. It could even just be added material for the Crash Course Recess series as well. Either way I think it would be nice to give light to how the work of different people have shaped many fields in multiple ways.

[swapnilkagane]

How diverse topic you From ethics to To the point ... Cristal clear .... Hats off.... Love from

[liptoncetea]

What a feeling when you get a video from both John and Hank on the same day

[flamedragon]

I love the new History of Science of series. Hank you out did yourself again. Keep it up.

[Kayclau]

I just realized that, since this is both a science series and a history series, shouldn't it be hosted by both Hank and John Green?

[perfectplayingplaids]

Working on his honeymoon... Joule was on his grind gotta respect that ☺️🙂

[kjonesusmc]

Can Crash Course please do a series on International Relations?!?!?! It would be so perfect if CC would help teach us how different people have explained the interactions between nations, how economics play a part in our decisions, or even how the international institutions such as the UN are "supposed" work.

[ericBorja]

I always find it interesting how the language of science changes over time. In these videos, Hank says things like "X scientist called this phenomenon Y, which we today know as Z".

[djb]

This series is the best crash course yet

[Qrow]

just spent a marathon watching his videos from 6 years ago, and hes so old now! So precious :)

[lindavilmaole]

"Thermodynamics united Chemistry and Physics the way Principia united united mathematics and astronomy!" Thanks, Hank Green!

[MinaHaroun]

I hope by the end of this series you guys would have managed to produce a timeline wall ornament, I would definitely buy a dozen.

[mrseanpaul]

Can't wait for you to get into the "black body problem" ! :) (yes I am "History of science" nerd, been studying this stuff on my own time for years!!!)

[IIGrayfoxII]

Homer: Lisa get in here, In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics