Lindybeige

A history of early motor cars, while making a model of what is supposedly the world's first car, but is it? This video was an utter nightmare to edit. It involved many days of work, very numerous and inexplicable computer crashes, the sudden loss of two days' work, and multiple attempts to render, s

I haven't done one of these for a while, and by Crikey - it was a lot more work than I had anticipated. I have a few more engines to look at, but don't hold your breath. The flame-eater engine is a concept that had a brief moment in the light, but was then cast into the shade by more powerful steam

Mark and I try to drill through a stone using the conjectured method that archaeologists suggest that stone age Man used to make stone axe heads. Will we make it though before running out of time? Make your guess at the half-way mark. Drilling through a stone with stone-age technology (YouTube)

Will I ever get any good at click-bait titles? No charge for this. Medieval Vices - not what you think (YouTube)

Hammers! Steel! Valkyries! History! Oh yes - and the hammers are really BIG! Ancient power-hammers and the city that put steel in the world (YouTube)

I was invited to a see a piece of experimental archaeology. What does one say when invited to stuff like this? Why 'yes' of course! A pyromaniac's dream. Ancient technology: Saxon glass-working experiment (YouTube)

I think you'll like this one, even though the speed of my talking threatens to put my voice above the range of human hearing at times. I calm down a bit in the post-production voice-overs. Lots of technology, history, as well as science. The ship that revolutionised naval warfare (YouTube)

Another of the trio that was published in my absence. I well recall my working on this late into the night, to have it ready before I left. It is a bit long. Perhaps one day I'll do a much shorter version that skips the pick-a-path stuff and just talks about the lock. HOW DO YOU OPEN THE DOOR? A pic