Six and a half minute film showing every step of the automated process of making a 100-watt incandescent light bulb. The machinery is apparently quite old and difficult to maintain.
Probably one of the most complex fully-automated processes I've seen. The music is Bach's Brandenburg Concerto.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a0c_1419298643
Manufacturing microprocessor dies is also quite complex and highly automated.
Inside an Intel fab.
The bizarre part: Microprocessors are really just elaborately painted and carved rocks.
Sure, they're carved on incredibly pure rocks using light and chemicals, and painted with exposure to a controlled vapor, but....details.
Also,
Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major: Good stuff.
How many jobs would be created if that factory wasn't automated. It's shameful that we find this beautiful when this "beauty" is destroying our country and our countrymen's lives. Sure they may not have a home, but they can sleep under that street lamp with that 100 watt light bulb that a robot made!
Darn machines, taking away jobs from
hardworking people.
At what level do we start to establish a border between acceptable and unacceptable elimination of labor?
Here is a better one. Haven't you watched the 'How it's Made' series? There are a million of them with much more complex products. It's always fascinating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImSGcmJCegM
It'd be nice if they'd ever put the series out on disc, but only if they're the ones narrated by Brooks Moore.
Yeah it's a great series, if a little antiseptic in presentation. It still seems to me the light bulb process is about as complicated as any I've seen.
Bah, I'd have loved if they'd have gone into more detail, and at least found a pun-writer who was worth more than $2/hr.
I'm the sort who didn't really care for the episodes where it was just one or two people making something. (Kayaks, fishing flies, hand-painted figurines...)
I liked seeing all the machines. Some of the little touches were interesting.
"Dammit, the flap on this box keeps getting caught. I know! I'll put a tiny whirling thing here to give it a stiff slap to bend it downward slightly!"
but
"...there's absolutely no room here to add anything else. Dammit."
I'd also have liked to see more use of high-speed cameras. They'd sometimes slow a machine down to a lurchingly-slow crawl where it looks like it's about to keel over and die because it wasn't meant to run at that speed, but it can be interesting to see the motion of parts as they're being flung around faster than a regular TV camera can see.
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