In Northumberland, I learn a shocking fact about some lamps, and utter the phrase "it gets worse". | 🌍 AD: Get the best deal NordVPN's offering right now: https://nordvpn.com/tomscott | 🗺️ England series map: https://www.tomscott.com/england/ 🟥 MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/ (you can find contact details and social links there too) 📰 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER with good stuff from the rest of the internet: https://www.tomscott.com/newsletter/ ❓ LATERAL, free weekly podcast: https://lateralcast.com/ https://youtube.com/lateralcast/ ➕ TOM SCOTT PLUS: https://youtube.com/tomscottplus 👥 THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: https://youtube.com/techdif Written and presented by Tom Scott Producers for Penny4 https://penny4.co.uk/ Cambria Bailey-Jones Guy Larsen Studio Associate Producer Heloise Lowenthal Studio Director of Photography Jamie MacLeod Studio Gaffer Frank Hammond Head of Post for Breadbox Studios https://www.breadboxstudios.co.uk/ Mandy Celine Associate Post Producer Isla McTear Senior Editor Jamie MacLeod Assistant Editor Alex “J’Rassic” Bate Sound Supervisor Dan Pugsley Sound Assistant Maggy Apodaca Subtitles by So Speedy https://www.sospeedy.co.uk/ With thanks to the Historic County Borders Project https://www.county-borders.co.uk/ Executive Producer Tom Scott © Pad 26 Limited MMXXVI
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As far as the shady side of rich Victorians go, international arms dealing is relatively light.
And they say there were no neurodivergent people in the past
Hang on, arms dealer? rich? uses ill-gotten fortune for private engineering marvels? Is he 1800s iron man?
Electrified bowl of mercury is wild
After "it gets worse" I was expecting something to do with the slave trade, but I guess he was just too late for that!
The people you highlight in this video are the true stars - always so excited to share their knowledge.
Calling Siemens just some guy even back then was a bit eh, there is a reason a physics unit is named after him
Tom having to explain what an incandescent light bulb is...
'The future is already here --it's just not evenly distributed' - William Gibson
Tom Scott posting regularly again feels like reconnecting with an old friend.
Being told what an incandescent lamp is - it's the one thing I didn't expect to happen in my life.
Twice in this video, there's an "it gets worse", and both are justified. | 🌍 AD: Also, I talked to NordVPN's CTO in the ad read! Go get the best deal they're offering: /tomscott | And there's a map linked in the description.
Armstrong in 1868: I guess you guys aren't ready for it, but your great-great-great-grandkids are gonna love it!
20:30 wait, backup... DR SUESS coined the term "nerd"?
I have to wonder if this partially inspired the recent game Blue Prince. Similar sense of using technology, including hydraulics, to improve life in a massive/expensive manor. The parallels just keep going throughout the tour.
That he built the marble fireplace just for the aesthetic. Within the house of tech.
Ah, an electrified bowl of mercury being handled by a 10-year-old child. Who then lived into his 70s...? William Armstrong, you... absolute madman.
Eventually, his company merged with Vickers (probably most famous for building machine guns in World War One) to form Vickers-Armstrong. V-A was one of the most important British arms makers of WWII, producing tanks, guns, aircraft, and ships.
Tom at the end in his mind going 'Don't say slavery. Don't say slavery!' Oh it's just guns to the Confederate US. 😬😬
8:10 Why does it feel like if you rotate the vases in a certain sequence, an alcove will open in a wall and reveal Armstrong's secret last invention?