These Machines Have Been Running Since Before You Were Born | Tales From the Bottle
Did you know there are machines that have been running since before any currently living person was born? They might just outlive you too…
“A long-term experiment is an experimental procedure that runs through a long period of time, in order to test a hypothesis or observe a phenomenon that takes place at an extremely slow rate. What duration is considered “long” depends on the academic discipline. For example, several agricultural field experiments have run for more than 100 years, but much shorter experiments may qualify as “long-term” in other disciplines. An experiment is “a set of actions and observations”, implying that one or more treatments (fertilizer, subsidized school lunches, etc.) is imposed on the system under study. Long-term experiments therefore contrast with nonexperimental long-term studies in which manipulation of the system studied is impossible (e.g. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot) or undesirable (e.g. field observations of chimpanzee behavior).”
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@adityarachmadi7647
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
"These Machines Have Been Running Since Before You Were Born" you mean my mom fridge which always running since the fall of soviet union
@daneluitjens2634
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
Not surprised that Jeff Bezos would rather pay for a 10000-year-long clock than pay his warehouse workers a few more dollars per hour.
@djr6876
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
I remember when our local news carried that light bulb story. I cant believe it’s still going !
@timmy6890
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
Cool!
@steamandsmoke97
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
Steam Pumping Engines in many an old Waterworks. Many have ran for decades without stopping. They took forever to wear because they turned so slowly and were kept continuously lubricated by the watch engineer. Many parts of the Engine could be adjusted as it ran. They were insanely reliable and almost never broke down.
@sean..L
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
Solar Sands will love this one.
@ChrissehCat
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
The avocado green refrigerators that have been running faithfully in Midwestern garages since the 1970s. 😂
@BikerInChrist
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
Lindsay Graham was here.
@Kaasschaaf-OG
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
The airliners from Ryanair deserve a honorable mention. I flew in a 43 year old machine that still had ash trays in them. Quite a machine
@RussellRadio
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
your illustrations never fail to crack me up. The lightbulb on the treadmill was especially hilarious.
@Nonexistent-o3n
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
“approximately 14 billion years” True Estimation
round(13.8)=14
14 (without the word billion)
@clumsyjackhoff5856
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
its a literal crime that you dont make 1 hour plus videos
@CyberPotato1
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
The telephone network is not only one of the longest running machines, I think it may also be the largest machine ever built.
@johnmoore8067
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
Light bulb lit in 1901. They REALLY don't make 'em like they used to I guess.
@wolfywolfhowl
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
My wife is a working machine, the day she shuts her mouth is the day I know she passed on.
@petercapon9878
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
Apparently glass acts as a liquid over the centuries
@ozAqVvhhNue
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
Shannon's 10^120 estimate for how many chess games there are is a comedically small lower bound because of flawed methodology. A more rigorous estimate is around 10^34082
@electricgecko86
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
Just FYI, this video did NOT, and still has not, appeared in my subscriptions feed!
@guyincognito1406
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
There’s a mine serving as a database for insurance documents.
@adamhbrennan
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
42
@Hunyadi1442
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
My electronics lab equipment in college should have been included
@RobbertGBonez
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
never knew about the Clock of the Long Now.
@anthonyberent4611
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
If you are talking about the oldest working machines what about watermills? There is a working watermill in England that is known to have already existed in 931 CE.
@StarKnight619
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
"No valuable parts that would encourage looting"
IMMEDIATELY mentions Stainless Steel and Titanium
@nunget42
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
My brother loves to tell me about an old Volvo stationwagon that ran for a little over a million miles. It only stopped when the owner of the vehicle passed away.
@theoneallinblack
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
The two manhole covers scientists blew into the sky with atomic bombs might be the most distant man-made objects.
@Boredfingersboard
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
Do Irish people call cash points/cash machines / holes in the wall atms?
@unicornvole2192
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
6:13 is that the Overwatch theme???
@Human_1716
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
My Nokia from elementary school
@kokeanikilator
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
my computer has been running uncleaned for 10 years!
@abdelali9279
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
this video felt like if started playing before I was born
@dfpytwa
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
I have one of those black 7 piece ball point retractable pens that the US military and other government institutions used to use. I bought it out of a vending machine for a quarter at my high school in 1982. I used it for the last half of my senior year, wrote letters home while in the Marines with it, kept it my checkbook for decades to write checks to pay bills and balance my checkbook. I pad my last bill with it 4 years ago before it gave out. 44 years of use. I still keep it's corpse in my checkbook as a keepsake. Good luck with any pens made since then.
@pistacheboi7104
August 16, 2026 at 1:15 am
I bet on my life Badlands Chugs could drain that pitch in under 20 seconds.