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I've always heard Ricoh pronounced as Ree-Coh, not Rye-Coh. Is this a regional thing, or have I been wrong for a number of decades?

shout out to the 'fiddly bits' 😄

Cat's Whisker, I never new they were called that! WOW, brings me waay way back. I had a crystal radio when I was around 15, was listening regularly in my bed on Radio-Canada (fr), "Le Cabaret du Soir Qui Penche (Guy Maufette)", the best I've ever listened to. Isn't it always like that, the old stuff still lives in me. You can use the tokens to share my pleasure as a boy if you can listen to a bit of French and great music. (title of one yt video in quotes up here)

Do not have it nor read it.. but there is a book on the subject of the gun sight Rings of Fire: How an Unlikely Team of Scientists, Ex-Cons, Women, and Native Americans Helped Win World War II by Larry J. Hughes $30 kindel ed.

Very interesting video. I just bought a WW2 German LP34 flare pistol, it's made in 1942 by Berlin-Lübecker (duv).

The audio cut at 10:15

I've seen some old film of them setting up the Ra-La experiment and it looked very hairy! Radioactive Lanthanum is pretty scary and these guys had to position it wearing standard work clothes and long sticks! That method definitely wouldn't be allowed now!

Instead of saying 'increment downwards', you might simply say 'decrement'. Minor point in an otherwise enjoyable video :) It's amazing how old mechanical toys can inspire us, software doesn't have quite the same appeal...

This is why this is such a great channel, i learn so much about history, technology, science and so much more from a video about some item i have never seen before. The punch card video was particularly mind blowing and rabbit hole opening for me (was basically completely unaware of analog computing technology that was once the peak of efficiency for industry, truly incredible stuff) but every video is absolutely wonderful and so full of knowledge.

I've also seen one of these at a gun show.. strange.

Bro, you are obviously someone I would Cabinet....but before you get on camera. No bowtie bill nye. Take it off. You're cool without it. That's why I'm your friend and you're my Cabinet

The same device was sold under the Penol name.

“Fiddly bits” it’s a technical term. 😊

I like this very much, but I would have liked to see how to perform a single simple addition on it. I still don't know if I can see the second number displayed to make sure I entered it right, or if each digit accumulates the addition as I enter the second number.

I wasn't expecting Hitler 😄

And here I am using google as a calculator... the epitome of resource abuse.

For anyone else that didn't quite get it at first, it's painfully simple to operate. You press the buttons until you have the first number you want. Then select addition or subtraction with the lever on the side. Then you enter in your second number, and the answer will be displayed. It's that simple. As an example 124+88, so from zero, press the hundreds button once, the tens button twice, and the ones button four times. Select addition, then press the tens button eight times and the ones button eight times, and it should display the answer of 212. All the calculator is actually doing is single digit addition/subtraction, just like you were taught in elementary school.

❤😂 I was born in 1966 and growing up I distinctly remember my parents having a version of this, it was red and white. I remember using it to help my mom count savings from coupons in the newspaper of all things lol. Love your channel and your presentations!

What a blast from the past! I remember these! Thanks!

phenomenal vid! its a travesty u dont already have a million subs. they will come EDIT: i dunno what it was called, but as a kid i remember my mom had a completely mechanical "push button" adder kinda like this, for the grocery store. to keep track of your expected bill before you got to the checkout

I like your suit. Very classy…gray with the blue tie….props and dap….❤ the channel, Sir

I remember when I was a child we had one similar to that one. It wasn't as complicated as it. I think it had 4 digets and I'm not sure if it was for pounds shillings and pence or it was just 10 digits. I remember it was red with white buttons. This was back in the sixties in Australia. Cheers from OZ!!

This got funnier and funnier the longer it went.

I remember a similar device that was sold at supermarkets. It was intended for you to keep track of how much you had put into your cart so you wouldn't be surprised when you got to the checkout and overspent.

Could you double check your "human as a thermogenerator" efficiency calculations? 2000 kcal is 8,3MJ (8300kJ) per 24h (24*3600 = 86400s) is 0,96kW = 96W and not 8kW as you said.

Great video, Gilles...👍

In my first jobs we sometimes used an "Addometer". It was flat, about 12 inches long with 8 wheels arranged similarly to the ones in this Alexe. The numbers were printed on the housing with holes in the wheels. To use it a stylus was inserted in a hole to move the wheel clockwise or counterclockwise. There was a bar pulled from the side to clear it. I remember it feeling 'solid metal cheap.' That is, made of steel, but designed to work, not to feel substantial and valuable.

Q: "ptoink!" isn't that a sort of tossed ball game from the south of France? (meant to be played on the town square, while consuming a carafe or two of dry white wine) A: nein!nein!nein!nein!nein!

Preemptive congratulations on 100k subs and the richly deserved play button that will follow.

Bingo🎉

I still haven't got used to my Magic Brain.

I remember playing with one of these as a child.

If someone sends you a deluxe version , go ahead, open it, I dare ya! I double dog dare ya!

technically, what the zeroing bar is doing is "decrementing", not "incrementing"

"Eat my shorts" - Bart Simpson. Cool device! I shall Ebay one.

CONGRATS ON 100K!!!!

Blue on red with white, its my top 5 possession. The first? 1920's Adding Machine B)

The only shorts that don't suck.

I have a version of the simple one flying around somewhere. Not very practical for doing random additions or subtractions as you can likely do it faster in your brain than doing all these button pushes (and these are not easy going keyboard keys). What you can use it for (although it's rather large for that) is for counting up or down repetitive stuff passing by, without having to look at the little machine all the time. (For counting up singles there are of course much smaller devices and likely already where available at that time.)

I lost your channel. Been subbed for a long time. Couldn't find your videos. First time in forever they were in a feed.

Deceptively simple, it’s like the plastic version of something a deep sea explorer will eventually find with “Antikythera Inc, Made in Greece” etched into the bronze.

Added another Ian McCollum achievement to your growing "rivalry" - pushing a trigger and having things *ptoing* all over the place!

I guess the Curta calculator would be quite interesting to you

I guess I’m Nein-th

Musst du mich mit meinem ehemaligen Führer so erschrecken ? 😮😢🎉😂

I’m 3rd!

I guess that makes me second.😅

First. Finally.

Discovered your channel just a few weeks ago, got me hooked instantly. Awesome stuff man!