How it's Made - Fluorescent Tubes

[moniker127]

That factory is beautiful. Props to the engineers who designed it.

[bpmagruder]

These tubes must be from a different country, because our tubes are straight.

[pogpog28]

Agapito Flores (A filipino inventor) was the one who invented Fluorescent bulb not that french man.

[RODALCO2007]

Very interesting and complicated ptocess.

Thanks for posting.

[iamevildoing]

Holy crap thats amazing

[waltermyerspark]

imagine a horror movie in that factory.

[michaelMtutorials]

at 4:55 the machine drops them instead of placing them, Wouldnt that damage it

[HexterDaChino]

@michaelMtutorials theres pads

[TheRealGeriBoss]

thumbs up if you thought at 1:55 that it is a FINGER!!! :)

[Catemonster]

7 PEOPLE ARE INCANDESCENT

[TimMc333]

1:14 it's Bender!

[hati3kuro]

Narration in the end sounded a bit like "The tickets are now diamonds"

[TheRicksta0433]

yes this is all very well... but what makes all the "Fluorescent Tube" making machines?? thumbs up if u think this?

[lexichronicle2]

@TheRicksta0433 all how it's made videos are like this.

"A machine does this, and then passes it to another machine" or... "A worker packs a box"

"Urgh.... another box! WHEN WILL IT END!?"

[animesis]

Edison didnt "invent" the incandescent he improved it.

[Hedgehogstudioss]

In these lights electrons are snapped out of their paths to make light

[neelaImani]

I don't know why, but I like it better when people with British accents narrate Discovery Channal videos.....I can actually get it quicker.

[therealandycook]

3:11 "one important step remains" really? only one? ... 3:56 "but one step remains" ohh okay thats the last one? ... 4:10 "water tight way" wtf? i thought it was filled with gas? gas isn't a liquid. 4:20 "and its all finished" ...oh really?

[StrickenRecord]

@therealandycook Water-tight is fluid-tight, and as gasses are fluid substances it is thus fluid-tight. Would you seriously say "gas-tight" when most people understand "water-tight" without any needless use of extra words? He did say "one step remains" too many times, though.

[danazoppik]

and today we've seen:

- 1 person

- 2 hands

- 10 fingers

- 14 perfect functioning light bulbs made from scratch... a minute

I-Robot anyone? All it lacks is a 'shitting on the little man' sign.

[tripjet999]

And, finally, they are mishandled by the monkey who stocks them at the hardware store! (LOL!)

[MyConscienceHatesMe]

The guy sounds like Ross from friends :S

[estsoldat]

hey are those chemicals inside the bulb dangerous and if they are then how? Dudes like to hit each other with these things

[deathgrim66623]

thomas edision did not invent the light bulb it we ben frankling about 100 years before him and btw bens light bulbs are still burring to thins day in a new york fire station

[DjinnJuggler]

phosphorous.. lol. far from it.

[vilalge82]

How about "Fluorescent Recall" ? just imagine

[Xclibur2001]

I wish I could make my own flourecent lamps!!!!!!!!!!!

[AlexxPie]

what would those bend lights be used for? ive only ever seen straight ones

[byHISstripesiamheald]

@AlexxPie we have a circular flurescent lightbulb thats part of an incubator in the biology room at my school

[Tigrou7777]

@AlexxPie

it is called a "u-tube"

[zanuha]

I love this show, too bad it was canceled in Finland. Now i can watch it on youtube, awesome!

[TheShawMaestro]

That may not be David, but he sounds very unprofessional. Schwimmer

[wannawatchu66]

The narrator is NOT David Schwimmer.

[lms264t]

Thomas Edison did not invent either the telephone or the light bulb. I read that he went to the Patant Office and bribed a corrupt official to let him look at the origianl patent applications, which he was allowed to rake home and copy. Edison the made his own changes and filed his paptent applications with the same corupt offical. The fellow that invented the telephone was literally bankrupted by Edison and commited suicide. What a great man Edison was.

[martyrindia]

It is not telephone he invented but gramophone.How can he bribe ?once he cant listen. Earlier bulbs filament was carbon filament with a short life.

[blackXSpr]

Alexander Graham Bell created the telephone, nobody ever claimed Edison created the phone.

Get your facts straight

[alexalexdobre]

@Ims264t The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell! :)

[MaveJDatthews]

That's totally Ross from friends.

[notinfrimstime]

it was not edison who invented the light lamp but a chap called swan who then went into partnership with edison who like lots of other things he did not invent he got the credit for it. like the telephone he had some1 working in the patent office who sold him the plans so he could file them before the guy who invented it could.

[boxa888]

tesla invented the florecent light! bastards!

[killerdoug1]

im TOTALY with you on this!! Tesla's bulbs also dint burn out since they didn't use filiments at all....ant modern florescent bulbs do.....its like its'nt the point of igniting a gass is to get away from filaments why are we using the thing in witch we are trying to eliminate. its really an oxymoron when i think of it.

[killerdoug1]

also it dosent say the other guy invented it it says he devloped the floresent tube, it dosent even match the time it was invented......but THE REALLY SHOUD credit tesla tho i agree with that

[ClosetKitten]

@boxa888 they said It was been reported that Agapito Flores received a French patent for a fluorescent bulb and that the General Electric Company bought Flores tesla invented alternating current and tesla coil and also some other invention such as deathray thingy.

[bamaslamma1003]

It's called "phosphor," not "phosphorus." Big difference.

[WindowsAndMacintosh]

@bamaslamma1003

Some people say, "phosphorus" because phosphor is a phosphorus compound.

[vikro11]

@WindowsAndMacintosh I think the reason it's called phosphor is because white phosphorus burns in air while emitting a white light. It is historical very much like neon lighting or lead pencil. In some parts of the world, gasoline is called benzene. These words come from the average joe and they are not aware of the composition of these substances.

[tommern84]

Yes. it is Friends-David

[vitriolicscott]

Yeah, this narrator's voice is just awful.

[ijunkie]

Is the voice David Schwimmer from Friends???

[GARYindeed]

whata crappy voice for a spokes person

[PyrotechnicAnarchy]

the sun isn't on fire

[TheGeek1028]

Ehhh...A mercury arc lamp produces bluish-green light. A fluorescent lamp uses phosphor that changes the UV rays emitted into a visible form of light. A germicidal produces very little light but much UV-C and is almost completely clear.

[weinerschnitzelboy]

if the sun made yellow light, why is the white piece of paper that you hold out in the sun not the color of yellow. also if you know science, the color of the flame depends on how hot a flame is. red flames are hot. yellow flames are hotter, blue flames are even hotter, and white flames are the hottest

[TheGeek1028]

And then you have plasma, which is about x1000 hotter.

[bluebutdude1]

they should not use mercury

[TheGeek1028]

They have to.

[mikeroofsoft]

what would you suggest....? Corn syrup? Starch? Yeast? Chalk? Sour Milk?

[mima14031985]

Well, how can a fluorescent lamp work without mercury? :-P

[weinerschnitzelboy]

the sun is yellow, but not the light that comes out of it.

[syphilistic]

Yeah right after I go blind.

I tried the CCFLs for a year when I switched back to a REAL BULB. It felt like I was being blinded by the sun.

Let the treehuggers go blind because I won't.

[Natesmodelrailroad]

I've noticed that the CCFLs are actually brighter than a regular light.

Over about September of '09, I got a new ceiling fan installed, and put 5 CCFL bulbs, with 100 watts of light power, adding up to be a painfully bright 500 watts of light. Me and dad joked around about it.

After I put a remote module, I learned that I couldn't use CCFLs and had to switch back to incandescent, down to 300 watts....It's bright, but I still miss my 500 watts of power.

[grumblekin]

It will really help save the Earth to use these. The few cents of electricity we save will definitely make up for the poisonous mercury these things release if they're not meticulously recycled.

[ductonius]

If you get your electricity from coal power (most people do) the extra electricity you use with incandescent bulbs ends up causing more mercury to be released than is used in producing a CFL.

[VikingRaider]

Too bad that the spectrum of light from these is very sub-standard. It is not sufficient to stimulate the eye & brain into normal functioning. Many people diagnosed with depression are simply not getting enough "natural" light waves, even from working under fluorescent lights. Regular incandescent lights give a much more natural spectrum of wavelengths, as the source is a burning filament: kind-of like the burning sun.

[ductonius]

The color of a bulb depends on the 'temperature' it produces. For incandescent this is directly related to the temperature of the filament, which is typically between 2000K and 3300K (degrees Kelvin).

For a florescent light the 'temperature' has to do with the coating on the inside of the glass. Normal florescent tubes have a color temperature of around 3000K, which is like incandescent bulbs. Florescents can go up to 5500k, which is very close to the actual color temperature of the sun.

[Ramsez]

does anyone actually like these stinking tubes??

[joanhustle]

I thought the narrator sounded like Ross from friends!!

[sixty9lies]

The narrarator of this video sounds like Napolon from Napoleon Dynamite. hahaha

[skyblue64ss]

Gosh.. idiot, lmao jk, it does sound just like him

[mima14031985]

This is very interesting stuff. Thanks for posting this video

[YamahaPhyscho]

mercury makes me wet!

[BlooBeluga]

fluorescent lights piss me off. i feel dumber just being under them, almost catatonic.

[BodyX93]

man , isthere an episode how its made xbox, ps3, wii or anything to show

[hyedenny]

The authors of this video made a serious mistake! They DO NOT coat the inside of the tube with Phosphorus!

It is coated with fluorescent and often phosphorescent chemicals such as Lanthanum Fluoride, Zinc Sulfide, and Yttrium Oxide doped with various rare earth metals.

[hondac55]

lol omg, you're right, stupid discovery is teaching us that men have vaginas and women have a penis.

[dmix09]

yay for mercury!

[ahsure]

That is awesome

[figamarsa]

i have neever seen a "U" tube. I always seen a linear tube

Non ho mai visto tubi fluorescenti fatti ad U, li ho sempre visti lineari o circolari

[funkedouted]

hey mark put a tube in it.

[JustMakingComments]

The mercury in the lamp can make us dumb, once it makes its way into the fish we eat, causing the inability to pay attention in class.

[InfiniteQuantum]

what did you say :)

[absinthelover420]

i knew i shoulda payed attention in science

[reindeerss]

you should have "paid" attention to english as well.

[absinthelover420]

lol oh im sorry if a tiny grammatical error came out

what? do you think im stupid because of a tiny little error.. oh muffin, go hang yourself you stupid cunt

[S0NYSUX]

that reply takes away any bit of doubt I would have.

[sdkkhhhlkdj589987]

Batukhan: The filament is coated with an electron-emissive coating that ocnsists of compounds of barium, strontium and cesium. This coating enables the tube to operate at a lower voltage.

It is also part of the planned obsolescence that guarantees a continuing market. I can (and do) cut off the filament electrodes, seal on "cold cathode" (neon-style) electrodes and make lamps that last forever, at the expense of slightly higher operating voltage.

Neon John

[sdkkhhhlkdj589987]

As someone who makes fluroescent and neon tubes, this video makes me want to scream! It is NOT, repeat NOT phosphorus that goes in the tube. That myth has been around forever. The word is phosphor, contains no phosphorus and is non-toxic.

Video Junkei: All commercial fluorescent tubes contain filaments, even single pin ones. The single pin filament is heated by ion bombardment instead of filament current.

Neon John

[jamesassbag]

In video it also says that edison invented the light bulb, all he did was find the best material for the filament by throwing everything at it.

Edison was a douche, why do people insist on giving him credit?

[oppositronic]

i like how they include the signature of the artist in the animation part so you know it's not just a computer program

[archiepama]

actually the florescent light was invented by a filipino

[azntranc3951]

man your the kind of people that we all hate. whats wrong with you huh?

[batukhan]

Confusing.. Didn't get the part about filaments..

[VideoJunkei]

Some tubes need filaments to start, (2-pin)

Many tubes how only use 1 now, and no filament.