The History of Engineering (in exactly 20 minutes)

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[pulverizedpeanuts]

Zach really is an engineer by heart
even the title of this video is an approximation

[PanophobicCuber]

> Exactly 20 minutes
> 21:06
Probably a rounding error.

[tannerdoberenz]

I was about to get mad that it wasn’t exactly 20 minutes, but then I was relieved that the ad was 1:07, and the engineering stuff was indeed exactly 20 minutes. It made my engineer brain happy, thank you.

[tc]

“Scientists investigate that which already is. Engineers create that which has never been.” --- Albert Einstein

[aegoni]

Shoutout to the Ancient Greeks for making an Archimedes

[baggepinnen]

A thing to keep in mind that if we have found an 8000 year old boat, all we can say is that boats are _at least_ that old, they may be much older. Wooden objects tend to not survive that well unless very specific circumstances exist.

[mcb]

We all just gonna ignore the fact that the first telephone cable across the Atlantic stopped working within a week and they had to do it all over again?

[paulshin]

4:20 Should mention the digital computer Colossus built by Thomas Flowers in 1943 at Bletchley Park (for the purpose of breaking the German Lorenz cipher during WWII), though that was until not long ago shrouded in secrecy.

[highgroundproductions]

One thing a lot of people miss is that these inventions took a very long time to get adopted. Steamships were really only used intensively from the 1830's, and until 1870 or so they all still had a full set of masts and sails. The first photo may have been taken in 1826, but it only really started getting popular in the late 1840s - Felix Mendelssohn, a pretty famous dude, died in 1847 with no photos ever taken of him. Trains only got big from the 1840's (before that there were a few small scattered lines here and there). Until about 1850, most people were country peasants whose lives were still mostly medieval.

[vincent-wmvf]

I’ve been so bored on this platform for so long but this video is exactly what I needed. Thanks for this I’m so happy 🙏

[Imagine_Beyond]

It would have been cool if you added Robert Goddard and his invention of the liquid fueled rocket in 1926. That is considered the beginning of modern rocketry

[coin]

This is my new favourite video on your channels! Really informative yet lighthearted. Nice work!

[wafikojulio]

i think its crazy that we did irrigation before the wheel, like i know how a wheel works intuitively but creating waterworks seems much mor ecomplicated

[fregus]

If u wanna know more about Archimedes inventions and happen to be in Greece, there’s a great museum in Olympia, Peloponnes

[FlorinSutu]

0:22 - There was another guy who got himself airlifted in a balloon, in Brazil, less than 20 years before the Montgolfier brothers did the same in Paris.

[Imagine_Beyond]

Wow 2 videos 1 day. That got to be some kind of new record

[antipoti]

This video is in no way exhausitve or organized in any way (like giving a proper timeline or picking the most important and game changing inventions and building a logical structure of how/why things came to life), however it is still very entertaining and interesting.

[SoloRenegade]

Great overall summary. So many other neat and critical technologies along the way, but there is only so much time.

[michelramon]

8:41 the audacity of calling a glider the first plane 💀💀💀

[davidcovington]

Talked about Watt, then showed a locomotive using strong positive steam pressure, something Watt did not like. His machines used the vacuum of condensed steam to pull, not push.
Any errors, blame the cereal box I read.