Humanity's advancement can be easily Milestone by fascinating and Innovative inventions the inspiring Creations are the reason we have a decently Advanced civilization today but sometimes humans do stretch our imagination too far to the bizarre and disturbing Dimensions that have resulted in some Eerie outcomes welcome to nutty history today we're looking back at some of the creepiest examples of technologies that were invented in history [Music] thank you my gosh you are radiating the year was 1933 and the popular Beauty magazine of its time the hairdresser and Beauty trait introduced to their British readers a new revolutionary
French product line that in their words was going to change the Cosmetics game forever though radio the magazine claimed that it would not only tone up and strengthen the tissues of your skin but would automatically remove fat and wrinkles now if you're wondering why this miraculous cosmetic product line can't be found on the shelves in supermarkets today the reason for that is the same reason that made this product line unique it's a magical secret ingredient it was radium well radium bromide to be precise but that doesn't alter radium's radiation property that took the life of
the scientists who discovered it Maurice clodoska Curry died of radiation poisoning in 1934 yet 27 years later though Radia Cosmetics were all the rage when it hit the shelves in Western Europe in fact radiation was The Fad not only in Beauty but also Ironically in health with o radium hat pads being sold as a source of beneficent Rays for hairs Supply and radiation directly to their consumers brains also why keep radiation only for external use when the spa towns of bath and Buxton were offering glasses of radial water in their pump rooms as beverages in
fact you could also buy sparklett Spa radium bulbs at any chemist to turn your tap water into carbonated radioactive water Spa radium bulbs were tap extensions that would add radiation flavor to the water who doesn't love radiation flavor the radio's extensive range of products included soap toothpaste day and night creams lipstick in 12 colors and other Cosmetics skin tonics and Beauty milks their advertising was focused on the Luminous properties of their products in the dark it was the perfect futuristic fad for the wealthy during the age of promising science and congruously these products were also
advertised as cures for a variety of diseases ailments and health issues funny enough the people who were putting radium in these products were Believers of an Antiquity Age Medical Theory called hormesis a phenomenon in which a harmful substance gives stimulating and beneficial effects to living organisms when the quantity of the harmful substance is small now it took them time to learn that what may be true for one toxic substance may not be necessarily true for the others let the meowsic play papanasius Kirker was inarguably one of the best known Jesuit Scholars of the 17th century
but he also was the weirdo who came up with the idea of a cat piano fortunately for cats no such instrument was ever constructed still Kirker described it as an instrument made with an arrangement of cats whose natural voices were at different pitches and arranged them in cages side by side so that when a key on the piano was pressed a mechanism drove a sharp spike in the appropriate cat's tail ouch Kirker that is straight up animal abuse what makes it even creepier is that Kirker envisioned this instrument in the hopes of raising the spirits
of an Italian Prince burdened by the cares of his position according to Kirker the result of the player would produce a melody of meows that became more vigorous as the cats became more desperate well I don't know if such an instrument would have worked but it seems like Kirker most likely didn't like cats at all Madison was entertainment the 17th century in leeden in the Netherlands and have got tickets for a special show tonight all you have been told is that the show will be nothing like you've ever seen before you grab a date and
arrive at a small private theater the auditorium well it's shaped like a cone with accommodations for about 200 people to sit and observe huge lamps focus on the performance stage and behind them you know the space for a small Orchestra in the dark but what intrigues you most is the furniture in the middle of the stage an operation caught surrounded by skeletons of dead animals and birds before you could realize what you were here to enjoy you would smell the aroma of perfume in the air to hide the stench of a corpse that is brought
onto the stage and placed on the cot followed by a surgeon arriving fully prepped in their gear and he begins explaining at first you may feel sorry for your date as you may have dragged them to a medical lecture but then the surgeon picks up the scalpel and opens up the belly of the cadaver to show the insides and starts operating on them the shock of that site would not even be over and you would realize you are here to see them perform a whole surgery the surgeon would commentate as they would go on with
their precise work most of the time these shows were about performing a public autopsy but often there were live patients too these live patients would be given a dose of Auntie or whiskey anatomical theaters such as arshi genesio in Bologna Italy vog in Amsterdam Netherlands and Salah hember not in Barcelona Spain are beautifully designed buildings with large windows for natural light that saw years of displayed during the 17th and 18th centuries of medicine veiled as entertainment these were the years when Mercury and Arsenal pyrite were used as drugs and amputations were performed in the most
contrasting fashion to what can be described as clinical leeches was still considered a healthy procedure and red hot pans were applied to the body for blistering in hopes of extracting the toxins out of the body all of this was on display in the anatomical theaters most of the audience to these shows were peers from the field of medicine and Nobles and Elites who needed a thrill in their life to take the boredom away often they would also sponsor the doctors who would come up with revolutionary techniques to advance the study of medicine and use the
anatomical theaters to present their ideas in practice would you go to one of these theaters let us know in the comments the real Westworld the concept of the hit show Westworld a theme park made of autonomous robots living like real people in a fantasy version of the Wild West appears futuristic it's yet another science fiction tale of caution about how violent Delights have violent endings regarding conscient artificial intelligence but the story of a grand Show created with artificial automatons is actually thousands of years old somewhere between the first and third Century CE most probably around
60 A.D lived a Greek mathematician and engineer named Heron and the Roman occupied Egyptian city of Alexandria arguably worthy of the title father of physics Heron's surviving writings have made many historians question why his work didn't cause the Industrial Revolution nearly 16 or 1700 years earlier the man had theorized designs for steam-powered devices a fire engine a coin-operated holy water dispenser an automated door and A Primitive but programmable automation to perform and entertain people a mobile mini theater Heron's ambitious Vision was a cart with rope wrapped around two independent axles and a falling weight to
provide Power Aaron could vary how the Rope was wound around the axle using pegs projecting from the axle that allowed the robot performers to change direction and move along a pre-programmed course using this technology Heron created a variety of small shows but he mostly focuses stories around Macabre topics and depicted Tales of Horror and tragedy with epic scenes of death and characters like gnarly monsters and ghouls death hounds banshees fake creatures and witches this primitive mechanism was very similar to a modern binary computer old-fashioned Punch Cards in the first half of the 20th century operated
on exactly the same principle using this system Heron's writing suggested that he was able to create a self-directed play of automatons of almost 10 minutes in length his shows were enigmatic for his audience who had never ever ever seen things like this before most plays back then were pretend and left a lot to the audience's imagination but Heron paved the way for special effects and allowed the audience to experience magic fear amazement and the thrill of something Supernatural for perhaps the first time Heron also invented perhaps the first systematic money making device for the church
a vending machine worshipers would drop a coin through a designated slot that was connected to a tray attached to a lever the weight of the coin would open a valve that allowed the Blessed holy water to flow out so worshipers could sprinkle themselves eventually the coin slid off the tray and with the aid of a counterweight the lever snapped back into place ready for the next worshiper seeking Divine favor the choo choo Club by the 19th century most of the quacky sort of medicines were beginning to phase out of use and doctors began to prescribe
substances that we now can recognize as medicine apart from of course Mercury Arsenal pyrate leeches and powdered Egyptian mummies around this time Physicians like Jon Snow and Dr ignaz semowwise also found a correlation between well-being and hygiene by the time the 20th century arrived Medical Science had Advanced enough to keep people healthy on a regular basis despite dabbling into radiation the anatomical theaters were also losing their charm by now and there was a void for a new fad interstage the wellness culture Wellness culture has been around us longer than we would like to admit today
we have Fitness influencers on Instagram who use Photoshop and filters to falsely advertise their Affiliated products in the 90s and 2000s we had telemarketing companies selling Abominations like the shake weight in the 80s Jane Fonda made neon leotards fashionable and defined a Whole Decade the point is Fitness gurus have existed for a long long time and it all probably started with Horace Fletcher this dude had a name good enough to be a professor at Hogwarts and was also perhaps the first diet fattest who made chewing food longer a trend at its core his philosophy sounded
a lot like what we now call intuitive eating similar to the tales of wisdom from the Middle East he advocated eating only when you are hungry eating what you crave but in moderation and stopping as soon as you are satisfied but he also then went on and created fletcherism a food fat that became known as the choo choo Club he promoted a Life Hack That promoted a palatable idea to the masses that they should eat anything they wanted whenever they wanted but by eating what he really meant was that they should only chew whatever they
want this ideology got him the mocking name the great masticator people were told that they should chew every morsel of what they ate as long as possible until the food was liquid and went down the throat easily whatever could not be turned down to a pulpy juice should be spat out according to a researcher who tried this fat after Fletcher's death confirmed that the crazy and disgusting practice did work for losing weight but it wasn't healthy at all he reported a loss of muscle mass and suffered heavily from sluggishness and brain fog obviously fiber plays
an important part in the human diet and cannot be turned into juice but a follower of the choo choo Club could swallow a lot of ice cream by simply letting it melt in the mouth no chewing required you can imagine how healthy a gulp of a sugary lump was swallow than actual fiber like lettuce and cucumbers could be thanks for watching yet another nutty history video if you'd like to watch more videos about creepy things from history tell us in the comments also don't forget to like share subscribe and click that Bell button to be
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