SYSK Selects: How Jackhammers Work

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 30 May 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

It’s likely that without the invention of the pneumatic jackhammer, the Industrial Revolution wouldn’t have hummed along quite so smoothly. Certainly a lot more trains would go around mountains than through them. Learn about this essential tool in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:31.1	Hey everybody.
0:32.4	This is Chuck here on a Saturday.
0:33.9	It's beautiful.
0:34.7	It's sunny.
0:35.8	It's actually rainy and cold.
0:37.0	But maybe by the time this rolls around it'll be beautiful and sunny.
0:40.6	But I know on February 16th 2016 it was not beautiful and sunny because we released an
0:46.6	episode that has gone down and stuff.
0:48.5	If you should know history as from our point of view, quite possibly the most boring
0:53.7	worst one.
0:55.0	So I thought I would pick this one and re-release it into the world and just see if it's as bad
1:01.1	as I thought it was.
1:02.5	This is our very, very infamous episode on Jackamers.
1:05.8	Yes, we did an entire episode on Jackamers and here it is right now.
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