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  • Fantastic for learning :) 

  • wow this is great stuff.

  • uhm superconductors?

  • I thought there was something wrong with my computer speakers, but then realized that this was filmed in 1945 and stereo probly did not exist. Also aren't there 118 elements

  • @seroyer2 you answered your own question in your first sentence

  • And powers our computers!

  • 92 elements ? lol outdated but nice 

  • can anyone explain voltage better?

  • @fender7802 Think of voltage as tension. Pretend i have a container of water 5 feet high and another at ground level. I then connect these 2 containers with a pipe. Water will flow from the 5ft one to the ground level one. The higher i make it, the higher the tension of it going down the pipe. This difference between the 1st and 2nd container would be the voltage.

  • They sure do know how to educate in the 40s. Now I can understand quantum mechanics better. Had to go back to the basics. This video taught me things I wanted to know as a kid but was to afraid to ask.

  • My left headphone doesn't work...

  • @Shabasky1 My right headphone doesnt work :(

  • I really like the animation illustrating the neutrons and nuclei from 4:21 through 4:56.

    I also like the characters of the neutrons -- those little raindrop or ghosty-looking guys. I could imagine them in an episode of "Wonderful World of Disney."

    I like the voice-over guy as well. He sounds almost like he's doing an advertisement sometimes.

  • Wait a minute... bring atoms together and you get a conductive thing (as long as they're the same kind of atom)? And that thing with the batter with the solutions brought together... I need to know more about that. These graphics are superior to what is done with computers, today, btw.

  • Thanks for sharing the knowledge

  • GOOD VIDEO!!!! :)

  • good video but the sound of the video is quite soft

  • those 8 who dislikes got electricuted

  • what kind of video editing tool they used back in 1945? such an excellent video. but there were no computers back then?

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  • @Omatunto thought this was analog but actually it looks like film. editing would be done by cutting and connecting strips of film together.

  • @inurkiewicz

    ok. but how did they create animations?

  • Hi! Have you tried intellectus list building (do a search on google)? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my work buddy got a ton of buying leads added to their list.

  • clears up a lot of the basics thanks for sharing this

  • What a nice little video. Made during that impossible period of time that probably almost never occurs in any technological race, when the atomic bomb had been invented but not yet the transistor. Of course they knew HOW a transistor was SUPPOSED to work, they just couldn't GET it to work. The next year, they succeeded, and all we've done since is made it cheaper. Yes sir, the 20th century is where it's at, and we're living in a footnote now.

  • @medexamtoolsdotcom Thanks to William Shockley.

  • @ion010101 Actually, no, NOT thanks to William Shockley. William Shockley didn't do SHIT. He signed his name, as the project manager, and that's ALL. He took credit for the whole thing, but he wasn't even involved with it. I know this because I PERSONALLY SPOKE to someone who really WAS there, Nick Holonyak, who also invented something else, perhaps you have heard of it, a little thing called the "light emitting diode".

  • @medexamtoolsdotcom Nick said "he had NOTHING to do with the bipolar point-contact transistor"? Or was it more like, "that guy was a dick to work for, and he tried to patent the fet...".

  • @ion010101 Well, I definitely remember from his story that he said "all Shockley did was sign his name". That is the one part of the story I remember above all else. But I look up Nick Holonyak and he was only 18 years old at the time, which means that either he was a very career minded intern or this too is heresay, and he merely relayed this story from people who really wore there, who he later worked with. Still, he was pretty sure of what he said, and that's good enough for me.

  • what about M theory thats smaller than Electrons

  • its funny ..... this was used to teach house wives back then ....... and now it is still doing the same

  • They didn't explain the part at 07:00 (where the solutions become equalised and the metals charged). I think people would not understand that and get frustrated. It's very difficult to explain something you understand thoroughly, because you have to get into the mindset of someone who doesn't know anything about it.

  • @ToneSpectra

    can you explain that? I really cant understand why the metals are charged and why mixing the solutions is necessery for it to operate.

  • Electricity comes from Jeebus.

  • I want that coffee pot at 00:37

  • is it me or does can u hear this video in one ear

  • @MrTerriblez youre not alone :))

  • Anyone in this class agree?

  • @TailsVIII I don't see anything wrong with it.

  • This video fucking sucks

  • great video!! 

  • electricity promotes sexism

    

  • Yeah make that women cook and clean lol. I can see why we don't see these vids on the air now. No tv station will have the balls for air that lol.

  • Up next, the latest invention...THE MICROWAVE!

  • Helpful video

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  • but h'what is electricity?

    and h'where does it come from?

  • Awesome video!

  • This is tremendous!

  • God is electricity

  • why arent more of these videos maid these are AWESOME

  • @zero3609 Because information is more commodified now than it once was. I remember hearing about carbon credits a decade ago. Imagine, the air we breathe being commodified. Insane, but it's considered a sensible move. This planet will blow your mind on a daily basis.

  • Much better than the dumbed down shit I had to watch when I was at school.

  • wow! what a great little film! thanks for uploading this!

  • No fucking sound!

  • fantastic video.

  • Very Good

  • cool

  • Excellent. Though perhaps purple (Jimi H.) isn't such a good colour for "balance"

  • OMG! this is the best and simplest explination i've ever seen! This video is the shit!! I hope they still use this video in school!!

  • 92 elements?

  • old but useful!

  • why is the copper have a weaker negatively charged than the zinc when being put i a an electrolyte? if anyone know ,can you please give and answer because i am stuck!!

    thank you

    

  • i did all this on my Casio in 6th grade.

  • It really doesn't mater about the age of the video. Its content is simplicity in its explanation. Why over complicate something that can be explained in a simple form. For someone who does not understand electricity this would be a perfect learning tool.

  • at 6:55 are the two solutions the exact same?

  • I dont get 5-7 minutes. So the chemical slowly eats at the zinc but when the atoms dissolve into the fluid electrons are left behind making it negative??? and why when you put the two solutions together do the metal objects gain their charge back?

  • very good information for 1945 as it is still exceptable huh

  • Positive is blue not red 

  • Pretty cool this reminds me of the Stark Industries videos from the Iron Man 2 movie.

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  • its rare to find decent professional simple instruction as this

    all to often folk wanna complicate things and imply things or assume others will know

    and mess everything up, ..unlike this simple video which doesn't miss a beat and clarifies as simply as possible

  • Dumbing down education has been a slow but steady process from 1900 to today (especially after WW2).

  • @ion010101

    dumbing down education? that mean lowing the bar of gradeing?

  • @frank0067 Relying too much on grades.

  • Man this is much better educational video, then the one that are made today.

  • Damn. This is better than the educational videos of today.

  • Mumbler

  • does the zinc loose a certain no. of atoms or does it keep loosing its atoms until the zinc rod deteriorates 

  • holy shit this is old

  • Excellent video it helps dummies like me understand the world around me. But I still can't under stand voltage:(

  • @PAM2167 - Voltage should be the easiest part. It's a potential to produce work. Hold a baseball up: it now has 'voltage', if you drop it it produces 'current'. The higher you hold it, the higher the 'voltage'.

  • Zehr Gut

  • Excellent video! Thanks for the upload.

  • Thank you willmed not only will I use this for studying electricity but It's perfect mystery science theater riffing material.

  • Classic.

  • Great and informative video

  • Magnifico!!!

    Many thanks from an old (but not as old as the movie!) Italian physics teacher...

  • where is the sound?

  • Beautiful

  • They were my words too ;)

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  • Thank you for putting this knowledge available to us with that format, makes me remember my dreams of invention in my childhood. Excellent!!!

  • Thank you SOOO MuCH! ^^

    You're AWESOME!

  • the simplicity of explanation was so motivational

  • Electricity comes from Jesus ! No no, I'm kidding, electricity comes from wall plugs !

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  • Duh.... thymonico.. It's a 1942 film and the narrator did say. "Known". Which means, during 1945. Seems obvious to me. Still, a good old flick.

  • Even though the science can become very complicated, I love how simple it can also be at times.

    Atoms are awesome. :)

  • they look like little ghost!!!..... the electrons that is

  • @snldistrict It's complicated because there is unjustified math involved so science class is not so much about learning stuff, but finding X thought stupid useless formulas that has no implications in real life. So 85% time in science class is wasted on calculations and 15% on actually learning things

  • @snldistrict the law of nature is ridiculously simple. its so simple that we still cant get our heads around it. and modern science is way off track in my opinion

  • @ActiveStorage Well why don't you prove it and collect about a dozen Nobel prizes?

  • @comanchio1976 someday lol

  • Coulombs meausre charge, so an amount of charge in some space, imagine a cup full of electrons. If there where 6.241 509 629 152 65×10to the power of 18 electrons in the cup then that would be one coulomb of charge! Amps measure electric current, which is a flow of electron just like a current of water but here the things flowing are electrons. So if you have moving charges you have a current and hence you measure how fast they're moving in amps. It's explained in the video btw.

  • tanx a lot...

  • you're talking nonsense

  • i think you have a lack of electrons in your brain. ^_^

  • fukn great vid, i love that old school stuff

    cool

  • ampers measure the amount of coulombs passing through a point in a second

    1 coulomb is a pack of 6.24 x 10 to the 8gth elementary charges.

    1 Elementary charges is the electric charge carried by a proton (or the negative charge carried by an electron)

    Electric charge determines the interaction between subatomic particles (protons. neutrons, electrons) that produes and are influenced by electromagnetic fields.

    here you got, i didn't went deeper

  • Gee, this was swell. It was the bees knees.

  • inconcievable speeds, hmm faster than light!!!!

  • thanks for the help[ asvab test monday

  • this guy has the same name as me.

  • Now, I can hear someone saying that the neutral atoms in a piece of wood don't have electrons flying around, or it'd be conductive...

  • What's weird is that electrons don't exist, they merely probably exist, most of the time near the nucleus, only occasionally further away. That's f*cked up.

  • What do you mean electrons do not exist?

  • I have no idea.

  • Then please! found some idea...

  • What you're describing is an electron when it acts like a wave. Electrons can act like waves and like particles, depends on how you look for it.  How can it be both? Think of how a coin can be heads or tails, depending on how you look at it. But its neither heads nor tails, its a coin.

  • Bullshit.

  • MY THEORY OF GRAVITY

    Gravity is created by electromagnetism created by orbiting electrons of the positively charged nucleus.

    There is no such thing as 'gravity'. Gravity is just the cumulative effect of electromagnetism.

    That's it.

  • Thats a rubbish idea, but I won't try arguing with idiots.

  • Jerk

  • Actually, I don't know why I thought it was such a bad idea. It sounds quite plausible, but please try publishing it somewhere more prominent that youtube.

    Apologies,

    Peter

  • so, electric current is energy of nucleus transferring from one atom to another?

  • Where are you getting that?

  • thanks for catching that, so the energy is electrons from atoms transferring to or from other atoms in an attempt to maintain natural balance?

  • Electric current is just the movement of electrons; a current, like a current of river water. Energy is the ability to do work. When you move a wire, mechanical energy, through a magnetic field, the mag. field pushes the electrons. Electrons are bunched closer together = the force of repulsion. This force has the ability to do work, pushing electrons. So the forces of attraction or repulsion from separated charges is the "electrical energy", given the name "voltage". I think I have that right.

  • Thank you, thank you, thank you...

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  • Thank you! In spite of its antiquity, the information is very concisely presented. Thanks for sharing it.

  • Someone pointed out to me that back in the day there was less fear and trepidation about sharing straight information with the general public. Today there is well nigh a wall between information and people. You have to use your lending library, university library, and even the internet to really dig and get at the info. you want. You could pay thousands of dollars to watch a prof show off in front of a class, but you have to study his questions, not your own.

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  • stupendo,chiaro,ottimo

  • This film gets it's facts *mostly* right!  Amazing!

    Most modern grade-school material is filled with errors (such as: charge is always static, batteries supply the electrons, electrons flow at light speed, many others.)

  • Likely the best ever done video on an Introduction to Electricity.

  • that's a great video dude! I would have preferred this to be taught taught to me in school in the seventh grade rather than my teacher telling me stupid stuff like: electrons orbit the atom or current flows(!). Believe me I had to read A LOT of stuff over the internet to deminish the legends our teachers make us believe about the atom. Everything is clear and precise.

  • Great video.  Information is information--doesn't matter to me how old it is. Newton's an old timer and we still use calculus. Thank you for posting these!

  • They still use this kind of films in schools? Wow, was expecting something a bit up-to-date.

  • @willmed : look at the title, it has 1945 in it. That means it was made in 1945.

  • @willmed what did you expect ? HD video with 50 cent's voice over to make it more exciting, theres nothing new in this field up to date.

  • @willmed

    LOL Your tax dollars hard at work.

  • what video would you suggest for an introductory to electricity

  • I'd recommend this one! Not only is it retro 1940's, which for some reason has a better look to it than any other decade, but it's actually the best presented info. on the subject I've seen to date. On the innerents there is allaboutcircuits dot com. But I want to ask, what would be your very first question about electronics? The first thing you want to know.

  • hey! thnx for interest in my question!...well mostly electronics that have to do with cranes.......and how to be a whiz on reading schematics.....

  • @killath303 they dont make new ones because the elites of the world wants an ignorant brain, BUT want a hard worker or go to war

  • u dont now what u talkin about, this past time vids are the best for teaching people, they are so clear and concise even a retarted penguine could understand it.

  • @killath303 This video is awesome. It explains it very simply and effectively. Where is a video shown in an "expensive" school? i doubt it is any more effective than this 1945 video...

  • @killath303 wut skul u go 2?

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