Mercury-powered electronics get Chris Boden's workshop-comedy treatment

An ignitron tube joins a boat lift, a sanding table and a Peltier box in his four-upload week.

Channel: Chris Boden Story of October 19, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

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Chris Boden found his biggest new audience in an older kind of electronics: the ignitron, a mercury-based tube used to control large electrical currents. His October 13 upload has reached roughly 877,000 views, comfortably the largest audience for his four new videos.

An ignitron is a controlled rectifier, converting alternating current into current flowing in one direction. That puts it squarely in Boden's territory: industrial equipment with a physics lesson attached, delivered through comedy rather than a solemn technical manual. Viewers picked up on the combination of mercury and high voltage, while others brought up the history of mercury rectifiers on electric railways. One even heard a potential album name in the description of water-cooled quicksilver.

The rest of the new batch stayed hands-on, covering a boat lift, a sanding table and a Peltier box. The ignitron upload also has the strongest daily momentum across the channel, with the sanding-table and Peltier-box videos next among its currently busiest uploads.

Boden added 10,000 subscribers over seven days, although daily views are running a little below their usual level. Among nearby science channels, Beyond the Observable Universe had a particularly substantial viewing week; Boden's weekly view gain was also larger than those of BBC Earth Science, Scott Manley and Animagraffs. For his own viewers, the week's conversation returned to a familiar invitation: several mentioned instinctively answering when he asks whether they want to see something cool.

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The videos drawing views on Chris Boden right now

Boat Lift #chrisboden #comedy #educational #engineering #mechanical #…219,212 views · 2026-10-14 Peltier Box #chrisboden #comedy #educational #physics #science #elect…188,808 views · 2026-10-16 Sanding Table #chrisboden #comedy #educational #tools #teaching #trad…187,375 views · 2026-10-15

The numbers

Here is how Chris Boden's uploads and audience moved over the week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Beyond the Observable Uni…

13,640,638

Chris Boden

4,602,381

BBC Earth Science

1,697,076

Scott Manley

1,392,408

Undecided with Matt Ferre…

883,823

Animagraffs

653,610

Destiny

291,406

The Modern Rogue

215,854

Domain of Science

105,874

subscribers

1,790,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,182,916,995

views per day

737,662

typical day: 831,460

first-day views of each video posted this week

Ignitron Tube #chrisboden #comedy #educ…

321,645

Boat Lift #chrisboden #comedy #educatio…

154,465

Peltier Box #chrisboden #comedy #educat…

138,050

Sanding Table #chrisboden #comedy #educ…

115,222

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Beyond the Observable Uni…

2,070,000

Destiny

2,010,000

Animagraffs

1,940,000

Scott Manley

1,870,000

BBC Earth Science

1,820,000

Undecided with Matt Ferre…

1,810,000

Chris Boden

1,790,000

The Modern Rogue

1,720,000

Domain of Science

1,670,000

As of October 19, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.