# Mechanical Principle: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-28, Mechanical Principle has 800,000 subscribers, 305,880,168 total views, and 442 videos. It ranks #93,828 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Mechanical Principle](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Mechanical Principle is “China's Backyard Elon Musk Built 300+ Crazy Vehicles by Hand — This Is INSANE!”, a Short published Oct 26, 2026.
- These are Mechanical Principle’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Jul 17, 2023 and Oct 26, 2026 (48 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 4,233. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Hoover Dam’s Secret Design Shocked Engineers” (115,619 views, Jun 18, 2026). Least viewed: “This Tiny Habit Can Wake Up New Pathways in Your Brain” (290 views, Jun 22, 2026).
- Median length: 0:59 for 48 Shorts.
- In this sample, Mechanical Principle’s consecutive uploads were a median of 2 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 308 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 28, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [China's Backyard Elon Musk Built 300+ Crazy Vehicles by Hand — This Is INSANE!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/BcKYgLxvh5U/) | 2026-10-26 | Short | 872 | 2:13 | - |
| [Hydraulic Press vs Axe! The result is incredible.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/VdguCcu2_aE/) | 2026-10-07 | Short | 1,357 | 1:15 | - |
| [A Whole Truck Suspended 300m in the Air: China's Mega Construction Is On Another Level](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/qicUW_5lyyE/) | 2026-10-04 | Short | 3,317 | 1:00 | 1.35x |
| [Why do the world’s tallest dams seem to top out at around 300 meters?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/MD0LWGDQhPE/) | 2026-09-17 | Short | 7,331 | 1:49 | 4.69x |
| [Unbelievable! This Train Hit 375 MPH Without Touching the Track](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/jtNrrTuyHzw/) | 2026-07-25 | Short | 1,411 | 1:43 | - |
| [America Built a Giant Concrete Arch 890 Feet Above the Colorado River](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/jErzsukRuCE/) | 2026-07-20 | Short | 4,687 | 0:49 | 1.48x |
| [This 100-Gear Machine Is More Terrifying Than a Black Hole](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/H1-IIqACiKE/) | 2026-06-25 | Short | 1,587 | 1:46 | - |
| [The Eiffel Tower was almost torn down. What saved it?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/MQ6F7rDPs8Q/) | 2026-06-24 | Short | 1,400 | 1:38 | - |
| [This Tiny Habit Can Wake Up New Pathways in Your Brain](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/boc8apt__nY/) | 2026-06-22 | Short | 290 | 1:37 | - |
| [Why is Chernobyl considered the most horrific nuclear disaster in human history?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/P6Dg1ZcgrqA/) | 2026-06-22 | Short | 1,637 | 1:49 | - |
| [Why the Three Gorges Dam Can’t Release Floodwater Nonstop](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/b6L_fsNS1U4/) | 2026-06-20 | Short | 7,910 | 2:38 | - |
| [Hoover Dam’s Secret Design Shocked Engineers](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/CU8D3VNIWtA/) | 2026-06-18 | Short | 115,619 | 2:29 | 12.34x |
| [Ancient China had PROGRAMMABLE machines](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/nl1oo0OiQ68/) | 2026-06-17 | Short | 1,193 | 1:49 | - |
| [How the SR-71 Used Air Itself to Fly at Mach 3](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/UYXCv5Wfd_4/) | 2026-06-16 | Short | 9,303 | 1:50 | - |
| [How Do Giant Planes Stop After Landing at 280 km/h?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/uOEoykrpzaQ/) | 2026-06-16 | Short | 9,450 | 1:28 | - |
| [Elon Musk's Raptor 3 like alien tech — so clean, so simple. But here's what they don't tell you](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/1uXJasQj83w/) | 2026-06-16 | Short | 962 | 2:30 | - |
| [Pressure Didn’t Just Crush — It Released Something](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/wM9pxat3vHY/) | 2026-03-25 | Short | 3,389 | 0:52 | - |
| [Pressure Doesn’t Just Crush — It Releases Energy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/9wgoDhiWbEI/) | 2026-03-08 | Short | 26,878 | 0:50 | 1.62x |
| [Heat Changed Everything — Pressure Finished It #welding #hydraulic](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/yXzLLC9qk10/) | 2026-01-11 | Short | 6,653 | 0:49 | - |
| [Pressure Doesn’t Just Crush — It Releases Energy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/pdiwsJZVjG4/) | 2026-01-09 | Short | 49,824 | 0:52 | 9.37x |
| [Some Didn’t Break at All — And That’s the Problem](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/G3Iio9aO4OI/) | 2026-01-06 | Short | 31,088 | 0:46 | 6.48x |
| [They All Failed — But Not for the Same Reason](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/9dRjZijjoxk/) | 2026-01-05 | Short | 37,959 | 0:58 | 8.63x |
| [You Think These Are Unbreakable? Watch This](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/TjuTLBF-smk/) | 2026-01-04 | Short | 15,639 | 0:39 | 11.27x |
| [Super-hard iron anvil challenges hydraulic press](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/NsK-ZpgGq3o/) | 2025-03-02 | Short | 17,524 | 1:00 | - |
| [Pliers and hydraulic presses](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/M8OCYIAGWQk/) | 2025-02-24 | Short | 4,860 | 1:00 | - |
| [Anvil vs Hydraulic Press](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/-HPTvNoinwI/) | 2025-02-23 | Short | 3,652 | 1:00 | - |
| [Wooden board vs hydraulic press](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/HBNpmawf9s4/) | 2025-02-23 | Short | 4,066 | 1:00 | - |
| [Can a hydraulic press penetrate steel?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/MVQ07SpadVA/) | 2024-12-22 | Short | 4,733 | 0:59 | - |
| [Imported hammer vs hydraulic machine](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/n3GoSLud-3I/) | 2024-12-18 | Short | 2,483 | 0:59 | - |
| [Hydraulic press forging hammer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/5tp5ADsKcbE/) | 2024-12-18 | Short | 2,261 | 0:59 | - |
| [1000 degree iron awl vs hydraulic press](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/eNpMOlPLeFI/) | 2024-12-01 | Short | 2,215 | 0:59 | - |
| [Steel bars and hydraulic presses](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/o9iqoWL2ve0/) | 2024-12-01 | Short | 2,543 | 0:52 | - |
| [Steel pipe hydraulic press](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/YdB-cHXDe_0/) | 2024-11-27 | Short | 10,237 | 0:22 | - |
| [Large wooden hydraulic press](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/yOCbOPXEP0M/) | 2024-11-27 | Short | 4,199 | 0:22 | - |
| [Weight vs Hydraulic Press](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/1rLQmrcGYE8/) | 2024-11-25 | Short | 12,763 | 0:49 | 2.21x |
| [Red-hot spring vs. hydraulic press](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/7t0zAVSYoww/) | 2024-11-24 | Short | 86,305 | 1:00 | 16.82x |
| [The moment of decompression of hydraulic press](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/rdfgRLEyuWI/) | 2024-11-24 | Short | 4,267 | 0:47 | - |
| [Various hard goods vs hydraulic presses](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/vvF9ektQFgM/) | 2024-11-24 | Short | 7,774 | 0:40 | - |
| [Will the anvil be cut?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/Y-4FHjQHzuY/) | 2024-11-24 | Short | 3,941 | 0:40 | - |
| [The hammer will be cut off?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/zGRIOj10aHs/) | 2024-11-24 | Short | 2,512 | 0:46 | - |
| [Hydraulic Press vs Glass Ball](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/T6xAjbqO6j4/) | 2024-11-23 | Short | 7,313 | 0:31 | - |
| [Spring hydraulic press, which one is better?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/SDchNeNrls0/) | 2024-11-22 | Short | 16,118 | 0:40 | - |
| [Glass Ball vs Hydraulic Press](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/Z5r5lxwREiA/) | 2024-11-22 | Short | 2,485 | 0:33 | - |
| [Steel ball challenges hydraulic press](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/BZbspN4TRs4/) | 2024-11-22 | Short | 3,713 | 0:40 | - |
| [A 500-ton hydraulic press challenged the fire extinguisher. What was the result?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/baRKw5JSGwM/) | 2024-05-14 | Short | 6,020 | 0:32 | - |
| [Thousand-ton hydraulic presses battled against springs and met their opponents.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/uyQny24l_pc/) | 2024-05-08 | Short | 1,841 | 0:59 | - |
| [Armor-piercing projectile VS hydraulic press #automobile](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/DYXII3lO6wo/) | 2024-05-07 | Short | 10,994 | 0:34 | - |
| [Filled liquefaction tank vs hydraulic press#Shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@mechanicalprinciple/videos/LBVjZneHJEc/) | 2023-07-17 | Short | 2,753 | 0:43 | - |

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