The History of Engineering (in exactly 20 minutes)

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

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

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

Shoutout to the Ancient Greeks for making an Archimedes

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.

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?

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.

the Archimedes screw patent pending since 230s BCE is insane tsk tsk

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

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

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.

Bro roasted Titanic 😂

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 🙏

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.

Damn that Brilliant ad really ruined ur 20 minutes exactly title

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

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

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

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

That was a great vid!