Man Born in 1860 Talks About Working in 1879

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0:00 Introduction
1:48 Francis Jehl Speaking
This is a video of Francis Jehl (September 6, 1860 - February 11, 1941) speaking in 1932 about working as a lab assistant with Thomas Edison in 1879. Before working there, he studied chemistry at Cooper Union at night and worked as an assistant for Grosvenor P. Lowrey. Mr. Lowrey was a founder of both the Edison Electric Light Company and the first Edison company in New York. In 1882, Jehl went to Europe to introduce the Edison light system in the various European countries.

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@CatherineStryker 3 ай бұрын

Fascinating. I love hearing these old speech cadences. People listened and spoke to each other very differently.

@itsjustme9354 3 ай бұрын

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@LeoFerland-ro7rn 3 ай бұрын

I'm thinking that, though speech patterns and cadences have changed over the times, here they must have been told to speak clearly, slowly and loudly because there was only one microphone and it was pretty poor compared to the ones we have now.

@user-xm3iy6ht1z 3 ай бұрын

Just adding to the conversation... His speech makes me think that it's ingrained from him being used to giving that spiel, and that he also might be a little hard of hearing.

@mazocco 3 ай бұрын

It fascinates me how in his accent we can see what came from british english and what went to countryside american english and also urban american english. It all connects in his accent.

@user-xm3iy6ht1z 3 ай бұрын

@@mazocco Good insight! 🙏

@seandelap8587 3 ай бұрын

Its truly mindblowing that this man likely came into contact with people that were born during the 1700s when he was young and there are people alive today that may well have come into contact with him at some stage during their youth history really isn't all that long in the grand scheme of things

@charlesmaximus9161 2 ай бұрын

@@mikecorleone4469 I am much younger than you and both sets of my grandparents are actually older than yours. My dad’s parents were born in 1914 and 1917, and my mothers in 1909 and 1912. They both had my parents rather late in life and my parents were both the youngest out of many siblings; dad is the youngest of nine and my mother is the youngest of eight. Both sides Catholic. I am just 41 years old, and yet, my great-grandparents were Victorian era folks.

@oreally8605 3 ай бұрын

Like hearing from a time capsule. Someone who would be 163 years old today. Have a blessed Easter.

@MokiGirl 3 ай бұрын

Wonderful old video ! My grandfather's first job was working for Edison in West Orange as an apprentice machinist. Edison was already an old man. My grandfather told me Edison hardly ever slept, only took cat naps. He also said creditors were always coming to the factory because Edison never paid his bills, I guess his mind was always filled with too many ideas to attend to the everyday things. He also said when Edison died, they stationed a 24 hour guard at his grave to make sure no one stole his body because they were afraid he would be dug up and his brain would be dissected.

@LollieVox 3 ай бұрын

Oh wow thanks for sharing that! How cool that your grandfathers first job was working for Edison!!! ❤

@sirhcffoh294 2 ай бұрын

Wow you knew someone who knew Edison.

@robertkeeney3898 2 ай бұрын

If you happen to be related to an ancestor who was a public figure, you'll understand how certain little stories or even secrets get passed down the generations. It can be interesting to hear new little details about them. @@sirhcffoh294

@robertkeeney3898 2 ай бұрын

Thanks it's neat to hear about stories like that. I'm a distant relative of Emily Dickinson on my mother's side and she has info about the family passed down to her. Here's one in exchange: Cooley Dickinson (full name Caleb Cooley Dickerson) was Emily's cousin. He was said to be eccentric, and would often be seen walking in Northampton wearing a women's style hat with a huge feather sticking out of it. He had his own wealth (not sure about his occupation), but rumor was that after he befriended a retired jeweler with dementia and took his money. When Cooley died he bequeathed money to build a hospital, which is named after him. These little anecdotes as they're are passed down may or may not be completely factual, but even rumors are part of the history. 🙂

@MokiGirl 2 ай бұрын

@@robertkeeney3898 Thanks for sharing ! Great story !

@55points 3 ай бұрын

My grandmother was born in 1883. She often talked about the wonders going on during those times. She lived to see most of 1980 and died at age 97' Her father was born around 1850 in Denmark. He had a store in Antigo Wisconsin. My grandfather and she lived in Chicago and had a cottage next to the Lombardi's of football fame on Green Bay WI. Their son, (my father) knew Curly Lambeau as a child.

@amadandearbhte4318 3 ай бұрын

Wow! What a crazy time to have been alive. Born before the car, lived to see concord and man on the moon! Born listening to ernest bloch in concert halls, died listening to Queen on the record player. Born with men in three piece suits and top hats. Died with hot pants. Humanity changed so much in that period, what a time to have been alive! I'm sure she had many cool stories to tell :)

@55points 3 ай бұрын

@@amadandearbhte4318 She did, she was an amazing woman. She marched for women`s rights to vote in Milwaukee, they lost a fortune in the crash but survived they sold everything and moved back north and bought a family farm in 1933 which is still in the family, Still at 97 half of her long hair was still Danish blonde done up in a bun in the back. She was still writing poetry until she quietly and peacefully left, a lady always knows when to leave. I miss her every day.She was always in matching dress and heels, a jade dinner ring and her wedding diamond ring, on her elegant hands.

@Dwightaroundyolips 2 ай бұрын

@55points she sounds amazing

@kasiawolak613 2 ай бұрын

😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@kencoleman7762 3 ай бұрын

These old videos are amazing to watch. Thanks for cleaning them up so well.

@BunnaySango 3 ай бұрын

Interesting little tidbit how he referrs to 1914 as "nineteen hundred and 14". Kind of throws me back to the "2 thousand and" of the 2000s and 10s.

@orangecatfarm7194 3 ай бұрын

My two-times great-grandfather, Rockwell Kent, probably knew this man. Rockwell was Thomas Edison's patent attorney when he developed the electric lamp. Joseph Banker, a former partner of Cornelius Vanderbilt and adopted father of my two-times great grandmother, Sarah Ann Banker, asked Sarah to accompany him one winter night to a demonstration of the electric light at the estate of Grosvenor Lowrey in Irvington, New York. Lowrey was looking for investors, and had asked Banker to the demonstration. That night, Sarah met Rockwell Kent, who was in attendance. Some months later, Sarah and Rockwell eloped over Joseph Banker's strong objections, as he did not wish his daughter to marry someone of such "modest" means as an attorney. Thank you for sharing this video of one of my ancestor's contemporaries, it sort of breathes life into my family's distant past.

@malgorzataweglowski9704 3 ай бұрын

its like going back in time I wished I asked more questions when one of my great grandfather born in 1906 was alive but i was just a kid...and he died when I was 16 years old.

@JaffaGaffa 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, second that. Mine was born in 1895, lived to 1985. I remember his warm gaze and humour. He helped build train tracks in northern Sweden all the way cross to Norway (Mountains and fjords) with hand tools and dynamite. I was 9 when he died. Just too young to get it.

@rvvanlife 3 ай бұрын

This video is more interesting and unique than you realize: It is one of the oldest recordings of someone talking in there normal way,in this case, from 1932. That there is such a rare thing. Its a rare peak in the window of how they used to talk back then, that was not acting singing, reading the news doing a play. The only way to here how they spoke in the 1870s, is when they do an interview of them in there old age in the 1930s or 40s.

@PhilKelley 3 ай бұрын

Apart from the poor spelling, which the people back then would surely have chastised, you have caught the cadence of their speech very well. Thank you. I would appreciate any specific videos you can recommend that would demonstrate how people spoke in the 1870s.

@rvvanlife 3 ай бұрын

@@PhilKelley I ment to say that: There are videos from the 1940s that did Interviews from someone who was born in the early or mid 1800s. Peoples way of speaking does not changed from back then. This video showcase to us today, by a recording in the 1930s/1940s, how there speech sounded in the mid 1800s.

@rvvanlife 3 ай бұрын

@@PhilKelley Videos I recommend ; " Man born in 1853 talks about childhood in the 1860s " " Man describes surviving an Indian battle in 1868 " " Ex slave talk about slavery in the USA " " Woman born in 1878 talks about childhood in the 1880s " There is also recordings of Teddy Roosevelt here on YT.

@PhilKelley 3 ай бұрын

@@rvvanlife Thank you, that was kind of you to post this.

@rvvanlife 3 ай бұрын

@@PhilKelley Your welcome

@huf67 3 ай бұрын

I loved whatever song he played on the organ. It's probably something I should know but doesn't come to mind.

@DistantEarlyWarning 3 ай бұрын

It's "Nearer My God to Thee", an old English church hymn, but it's most famous for being the last song the band played on the Titanic before she went down.

@huf67 3 ай бұрын

@@DistantEarlyWarning ... Thank you!!

@keenowl1410 3 ай бұрын

That guy wouldn't look at Francis in they eye for nothing. Francis had to literally continue to step in front of him to talk to him. How interesting.

@serenitynow288 3 ай бұрын

I noticed that too. It was kinda rude to me.

@brick6347 3 ай бұрын

3:00 _Nearer my God to Thee_ I guess that song had a different vibe about it in the 1800s. First thing I think of now is the Titanic.

@EuropeYear1917 2 ай бұрын

“Gentlemen, it has been a privilege playing with you tonight.” - Maestro Wallace Hartley, Bandmaster of RMS Titanic, 14 April 1912

@user-zt1ey8kp3m 3 ай бұрын

This is wonderful! I so enjoy hearing people from the far past. I just found someone who has him in his family tree and sent her the link! Joy!

@Wyattinous 3 ай бұрын

It’s been a little under 2 months my friend, great to see you❤

@JulieMelberg 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this! Wow!

@ashleybass7889 3 ай бұрын

Just think, in a hundred or so years, our videos from today will be considered "way back when in the past". I hope future peoples appreciate ours like we do these.

@dahliaaboelmakarem5109 2 ай бұрын

Ohh thank you for these wonderful inspiring videos these are the lost Gems . Old is indeed precious Gold. 😊

@serenitynow288 3 ай бұрын

Excellent video! I love to learn from things like this and wonder what it was like to be alive back then. Work was so different but very important in pioneering inventions.

@redrooster1908 3 ай бұрын

Fun fact. Many of my cousins graduated from Thomas Alva Edison High School in MN in the 70s

@InspiredJJ 3 ай бұрын

Maybe add “for Thomas Edison” in the title so more people will see this!

@joandeigan7826 3 ай бұрын

That was so cool! I just loved this video!

@Castlependragon 3 ай бұрын

Dear Mr. Jehl, im writing to you from 2024 wondering where i can get one of those anti-snoring devices. Thank you😊

@jeffmiller6954 5 күн бұрын

I, Jeff Miller, spoke with a man who interviewed with Thomas Edison in 1922 -- of course, this was no Zoom call but an in-person interview. Yardley Chittick had graduated from MIT and passed some IQ-like test prior to speaking with him. I called Chiitick in 2004 or 2005 and he was born in 1900 and lived until almost 108. He turned the Wizard of Menlo Park down and worked for a golf club manufacturer. Humphrey bogart was an older prep-school class mate who apparently bullied Chiitick. Chittick told me to walk for exercise. I had called him after hearing him on NPR.

@barbaradobner6050 3 ай бұрын

That was interesting..I always enjoy listening to people's stories from the past...What I understand is ,that they were hard workers,didn't stop to solve a problem until it was fixed.And of course they were exhausted so a nap would help them to continue the work...But I loved how he explained the fun they had when someone started snoring..😂

@alvincash3230 2 ай бұрын

The church my wife and I attend sang "Nearer My God to Thee" a couple weekends ago. Such a wonderful old hymn!

@mauiskater 2 ай бұрын

I can’t help but hear Bernie Sanders when I listen. I love the reactions of the young kids. I don’t think they fully comprehend how important this man is and will become. He’s like the crazy uncle that is a genius. ❤❤love this

@patrickvalentino600 2 ай бұрын

2:16 as a Jersey native, very amused to hear that accent, "it is a poifect replica", even a hundred years ago

@itsjustme9354 3 ай бұрын

Absolutely fascinating 👏

@Joy-TheLazyCatLady 3 ай бұрын

"Hunt and peck" method. We still use that term today for typing. 😹

@Fast93Civic 3 ай бұрын

Love this

@sliftylovesyou 3 ай бұрын

Could you add subtitles to your videos?

@chelsey8737 3 ай бұрын

I would so appreciate captions too

@benjamineastman9950 3 ай бұрын

You can click on closed caption in the video

@sliftylovesyou 3 ай бұрын

@@benjamineastman9950 They are auto-generated and not of great quality.

@h1c2e35 3 ай бұрын

@@sliftylovesyou you can edit them to be what ever you want color size and all lol

@h1c2e35 3 ай бұрын

@@sliftylovesyou you click cc, then click cog wheel, then cc again, top right says options, edit the cc and put it how ever you want on every video.

@terrytitus5291 2 ай бұрын

Those workers were very dedicated That is some real history!

@Patrick3183 3 ай бұрын

He 100% has the 1800s accent

@jayce808 2 ай бұрын

Wow. This is great.

@letthelightshinein 2 ай бұрын

So beautiful!!! I cannot get enough of these videos!! I swear I was born in the wrong century 😂

@chrismaurer2075 6 күн бұрын

I have been in that lab at Greenfield Village Dearborn Mi . There is a chair in the middle of the floor and it is there because Henry Ford and Edison met there and Edison was the last person to sit in it right where it is .

@ghostmantagshome-er6pb 2 ай бұрын

1879 was just an interesting year. It pops up all the time. America was in the zone.

@lawrenceterry9283 3 ай бұрын

He obviously worked with Tesla wish he had brought that up.

@deniseblackburn33 2 ай бұрын

So interesting 😊

@EuropeYear1917 2 ай бұрын

(* “Nearer My God To Thee” begins playing *) “Gentlemen, it has been a privilege playing with you tonight.”

@lorie76yt 3 ай бұрын

The accent changes are so interesting - I noticed a lot of these old guys (born before 1900ish), say “Gawwd” instead of God, “woik” instead of “werk” (work) and use their ‘speechifying’ voice etc., for public speaking :)

@Mohawk_Matt 3 ай бұрын

That’s was so cool

@botcontador3286 2 ай бұрын

I was born in 1979 and am watching this in 2024. I am 44. This is like someone in 2032 recounting an event that took place in the year I was born. BTW in a some what unrelated note, albert einstein was born in march 14th of 1879. I remember it cause it was pi day exactly 100 years before I was born.

@ClassicHolic 3 ай бұрын

What was he playing on the organ? So beautiful!

@jonhall4602 3 ай бұрын

Nearer my God to thee. Fun fact: it’s what the band played as the Titanic sank.

@lorie76yt 3 ай бұрын

@@jonhall4602 Apparently, the band did not play “Nearer My God to Thee” that rumor was something that was started in 1912 and wrongly perpetuated in the media, and all the movies that followed, according to the Los Angeles Times, who did a deep dive on the subject - “Harold Bride, the radio operator, one of the last to leave the ship, told the New York Times (after the tabloids had spread the hymn myth) that the last tune performed was “Songe d’Automne (Autumn Song)”a then-current pop hit by British dance bandleader Archibald Joyce. It’s a beautiful waltz and makes a much more fitting swan song than the wretched hymn. Truth is always richer than fiction.”

@MrsRanchoFiesta 3 ай бұрын

Napping at work was acceptable, however "snoring" was not! 🤭 This gentleman was 19-yrs old working for Thomas Edison

@cat-mum-Jules 3 ай бұрын

Oh wow 😊

@ConnerKirk433 3 ай бұрын

🧐

@End3rWi99in 2 ай бұрын

"Where can I procure one?"

@carpep0203 Ай бұрын

This is great quality footage for the 30's Then you look at footage from the 40's and its MUCH worse

@joshcoletti Ай бұрын

4:55 haha never thought I'd hear him say this

@jerseyoutcast 3 ай бұрын

What type of hat was Mr. Jehl wearing?

@muhwezijesse3522 2 ай бұрын

Are you on Instagram too?

@cleokey 3 ай бұрын

👍👍

@johntexas8417 3 ай бұрын

I was born 100 years later, 1960.

@zaymoney252 2 ай бұрын

So odd hearing someone say the 60s, 70s and 80s but instead talking about the 1860s 70s and 80s.. KZfaq is literally a Time Machine.. We’ll never kno what the future hold but can always visit the past within a click

@svsugvcarter 3 ай бұрын

His voice reminds me of Chico Marx.

@spectre-8 3 ай бұрын

Why is he yelling?

@DirtySoap 3 ай бұрын

Back then, microphones could only pick up really loud sounds.

@ALEXBOWN 3 ай бұрын

@DirtySoap Also, no hearing aids.

@sharonfleshman6961 3 ай бұрын

Yes, I think he is a little hard of hearing.

@theodoreweaver7541 2 ай бұрын

NJ Heritage, plus the accent?

@jasonpalacios1363 2 ай бұрын

Also Benjamin Harrison was the first POTUS to have electricity in the WH but him and his wife were so scared of it that they used candles instead.

@bigeegs95 3 ай бұрын

Like that old original NY accent. Burnt is pronounced "boint". First is "foist".

@jamierosales1539 Ай бұрын

This dude is fucking hilarious.

@clemfandango619 3 ай бұрын

Genuinely thought he was German, but apparently not.

@whatismynametakeawildguess 3 ай бұрын

ooowWWEEEE

@indiosveritas 2 ай бұрын

I think I'd rather be one of " the boys "who worked around Nicholi Tesla . Edison and that stupid organ would drive me crazy . 🤨

@spankflaps1365 3 ай бұрын

So basically, life in the 1800s was rock hard for everyone, except the top 5% of society.

@prdamico 3 ай бұрын

same as today, lol.

@_koza 3 ай бұрын

Sounds familiar. lol

@JKtheSlacker 3 ай бұрын

I mean, as of 1890, about 90% of people in the world lived in what would be considered abject poverty - and that number was going down! In 2024, that number is something like 10%. We've made incredible strides.

@meeshafletcher Ай бұрын

Lmfao😂