Man Born in 1853 Talks About Childhood in the 1860s- Enhanced Video & Audio [60 fps]

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  @shawnpilgrim2355 · 4 years ago

  Imagine sitting there, talking about your life, never knowing that in 90 years a bunch of people will be listening to you from a device you would never believe could ever be possible.

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  @coltyn2003 · 4 years ago (edited)

  This is incredible that I can watch someone born over 170 years ago speak about his life.

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  @salg23 · 4 years ago

  This guy witnessed the invention of telegraph, telephone, trains, steamboats, planes, tanks, automatic weapons, automobiles, radio, cinema and probably heard some news about a television device before dying. Amazing.

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  @Corax_Dawai · 1 year ago (edited)

  This man died in the 1900s.<br>He was born in the 1800s.<br>He knew and talked to many people who were born in the 1700, e.g. grandparents and other elderly relatives he spent a lot of time with.<br>So this gentlemen witnessed and experienced the spirit of three different centuries.

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  @JerseyFerdinand · 4 years ago

  This man lived through the civil war, saw the first lightbulb, a telephone call, the radio and then silent and talking films, horses being replaced by cars. Everything we take for granted today. He saw them first. Amazing.

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  @brianc1377 · 4 years ago (edited)

  The company this man co-founded, the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, merged with Thomas Edison&apos;s company, Edison General Electric, to become General Electric in 1892.

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  @user-yr4os6jz4r · 4 years ago

  I talked extensively to a man born in 1886. &nbsp;He told me stories of the past that somehow seemed magical. &nbsp;He died when I was 12yrs old in 1971. He was my grandpa. I visited him almost everyday.

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  @footstepsthroughhistory · 4 years ago (edited)

  I&apos;m 48. My first job, as a teen and right out of high school, was as an activity aid and nurse assistant in a nursing home. This was in the early/mid 1990s (1991-1995). We had some very old patients, a few over a hundred years old. It amazes me to recall stories that these people told of their childhood in the 1890s or early 1900s. One elderly lady, I remember her name to this day (Lucille), recalled her mother dying when she was six in 1894, and two of her siblings succumbing soon after, all due to influenza. Although she was so young when the events occurred, it stayed in her memory as fresh as if it had happened yesterday, her grief still palpable 98 years later. She was born in 1888, and was 104 when telling me these stories about how fast she had to grow up at the point of her mother&apos;s death. At age six, she was required to help out with her younger surviving siblings and do the majority of cooking. At six! Her whole life was equally sad and fascinating. She lost her husband in WWI and a son in WWII. <br><br>I was only around 18 or 19 years old, but I was enthralled with hearing her story, and the life stories of so many of these nursing home residents (the ones like her, without dementia, who, although very old, had razor sharp memories and could recall things I only read about in books). I still remember all of their names. All of them. It set me on a course in life to pursue an academic career in history, eventually earning a master&apos;s degree and becoming a historian. It all started with the stories told by very old residents in a nursing home. <br><br>To this day it astounds me that, as a woman born in the 1970s, I have spoken to and touched the hands of a few people born in the 1880s, and they have forever touched my heart. &lt;3

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• PU

  @pubpine · 4 years ago

  I love how he isn’t interrupted the whole time. Interviews these days are something else

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  @sto620 · 4 years ago

  We’re hearing directly from one of the people responsible for the lighting and electrical systems that completely changed the world. Incredible.

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  @that-dude-from-the-internet · 1 year ago

  At <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oqbLSisnME&amp;t=113">1:53</a> , in the transcript on the right side of the screen, he doesn&apos;t say &quot;lightning jar.&quot; &nbsp;He said &quot;Leyden jar.&quot; &nbsp;It was invented by Pieter van Musschenbroek of the city of Leyden around 1746 (probably a few years earlier). &nbsp;It was the first capacitor ever made. &nbsp;Benjamin Franklin called these jars &quot;batteries,&quot; but they unlike a battery, they released all of their energy at once.

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  @gregsvoice5628 · 4 years ago

  It&apos;s amazing how much of a difference it makes having this old black and white footage colourised. It just makes it that much more real, and gives a feeling that this wasn&apos;t so long ago.

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