The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course History of Science #21

You probably know some of the signs of industrialization in the nineteenth century: Trains connected cities, symbolizing progress. But they also brought about the destruction of rural lands, divisions between social classes, and rapid urbanization. But there's a whole lot more to talk about in this episode of History of Science!

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[Quinn]

Who else is here because COVID-19 is forcing you to have school at home :(

[nantukoprime]

Mauveine, the first synthetic dye, was a big deal because it was purple.

Purple was extremely expensive before Mauveine, to the point that it was pretty much restricted to the nobility and the Church. Before, the most common suitable dye came from sea snails. That rare dye, Tyrian purple (known as the 'royal purple'), could be so concentrated from a color standpoint that the modern RGB scale used for web pages cannot accurately display it.

[kayleedork]

" We did something! " hilarious! 😄

[HarmlessOSRS]

If you did “crash course cooking” I’d pay youtube red to watch that

[JaimeNyx]

If only modern devices would make better use of interchangeable parts, a *NINETEENTH CENTURY CENTURY TECHNOLOGY*, in their repairs...

"Oh, your screen is cracked? Might as well get a new phone, since the screen costs half as much on its own to replace."

[McClungMusic]

11:51 Am I the only one bothered by the fact that "all of these nice people" has suddenly changed to "these people"? Who's not being nice to Hank?? Be nice people!

[Corporis]

Please tell me John is hosting the Review of the Anthropocene episode. No reason.

[thezebraherd]

Am I the only one who is super into the industrial revolution it is so underrated

[georgytodorov]

The HMS Dreadnaught was launched in 1906 and gave her name to the class of battleships based on her construction... that's definitely NOT the mid-1800's.
Maybe you meant to say ironclads?

[davidrosner]

The Industrial Revolution not only streamlined the production process through the factory system and led to the explosive growth of the middle class but also changed the way people in Europe and North America viewed science and the notion of invention. Europeans essentially "invented" the idea of the invention during the 1800s. Entrepreneurs and scientists constantly tried to invent to devices, improve the designs of machines and advance general scientific knowledge to increase profit margins and improve standards of living. In the 1800s, people also became accustomed to the idea inventions and scientific discoveries would continue to advance and improve peoples' lived in the future. Although they did not know exactly how scientific advancements would pan out over time, by 1800 the smartest westerners new technology would transform the world and make the future different and better than the past. Shortly after the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin noted that he wished he'd been born 200 or 300 years in the future because machines, technology and scientific discoveries would have utterly transformed the world for the better. Many other European and American mathematicians, scientists, inventors and intellectuals shared this notion of a future transformed by technology for the better. This had never occurred before in history and is the paradigm shift that made the Industrial Revolution the most significant event in world history since the Neolithic Revolution and the dawn of recorded history. It is no coincidence that the 1800s is also the century that witnessed the dawn of science fiction as a genre that exemplified this newfound notion of a future made better by technology. The Romans were great engineers and actually invented the steam engine but lacked a way of thinking about the future that allowed them initiate an industrial revolution and transform the world through machines.

[aspiahmacaurog]

These Industrial revolution's process began in British on 18th century and from there it became spread widily to the other parts of the world. Industrial revolution made the lives of humans easier and the development growth of economy. But it sad to say, that it has negative impact in our environment. That mostly most of us didn't see and care about the negative effects in our environmentand when it comes to our mother earth. I hope we can less using factories that can destroy the mother earth.

[yisraelkatz]

I love the bit about America, "We did something!"

[tomb]

Silly video- the non conformist protestant faith was the key. The protestant work ethic and individual response to a knowable loving just God who was created order. Not left wing nonsense trying to masquerade as science

[loganm]

So excited to see what they think of the 18th century Biologists, I really hope that yall talk about Alexander von Humboldt! He is so underappreciated in the world of science!

[cboisvert]

It's a shame you skipped the ancestry of the steam engine. The ancient eolipyle used steam, but was just a curiosity until scientists got to understand pressure, develop tools to handle it, which set the scene for Savery's and later engines: first Torricelli understood the role of air pressure, then Pascal tested it by climbing up mountains and church towers with a column of mercury in hand - evaluating the size of the atmosphere in the process. Von Guericke, following them, built an air pump and tested it spectacularly. Robert Boyle improved that pump to study gases, and Denis Papin, experimenting for him, got the idea of the pressure cooker. Finally, looking to something safer than gunpowder to run engines, Papin made the first piston in 1690. 8 years later the savery engine was patented.
The story is interesting IMO because (1) it brings to light key people that didn't make it to your series so far (Pascal! Boyle!); (2) it shows (again) that science is not national: this story travels from Italy to France to England with power and prosperity. (3) it shows the importance of the royal society, which employed Boyle and Papin (Papin had to leave France because of his religion), and set challenges like pumping water out of mines.

[AbhishekChauhan-ybvt]

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[fungdom]

Why do you call the Industrial Revolution a “trope”? Almost sounds like you don’t think it was really a revolution, when to me it was the BIGGEST revolution. Great video otherwise.

[MakeMeThinkAgain]

One (social) aspect you really ought to go into is how unlimited, capitalist, industrial production came about since production was so severely restricted by the guilds. How did the guilds lose control?

[anungodlyamountofcereal]

Woo!!! Darwin and Wallace!!! My favorite scientists!!!

[lifewithdylan]

your basically my economic history teacher haha