American Reacts to Why You Should Thank The British!

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ความคิดเห็น • 364

  • @postiekeefveness4415
    @postiekeefveness4415 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    As an Englishman, I have always respected the input of Scottish scientists in the science fields. My claim to fame is that I invented the word 'Spuncture' way back in 1966 when my very first condom developed a leak. Mind you, I had been using it for 3 years.

    • @BaddaBigBoom
      @BaddaBigBoom 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      😆😆😆😆

    • @Bobmudu35UK
      @Bobmudu35UK 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😂

    • @alec1113
      @alec1113 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What a wank thing to say .😂

    • @LiverPools-ib5fv
      @LiverPools-ib5fv 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What are you waffling about you 🤡. Not a single English, Scottish or Welsh guy invented anything without working with a mixture of all these people in universities to begin with. Smh

  • @Erwin_Von_Heidenheim
    @Erwin_Von_Heidenheim 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

    Britain is probably the single most important collection of nations in history.

    • @Jimmy_Jones
      @Jimmy_Jones 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah. You collect all the cards and trade away the bad ones.

    • @MostlyPennyCat
      @MostlyPennyCat 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Gotta catch em all

    • @davidware9549
      @davidware9549 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Jimmy_Joneswell that’s not true cause Canada and Australia ain’t bad but we gave then back

  • @TG-it8zt
    @TG-it8zt 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    The one that is always miscredited is nuclear energy / weaponry
    Oppenheimer and the manhattan project came after a British project called Tube Alloys
    Britain doesn’t have deserts to test nukes so shared our research with the US, who subsequently shut us out and took the credit

    • @neuralwarp
      @neuralwarp 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      We did a lot of testing in our Australian deserts. But yes, USA claimed supersonic flight after the war, too

    • @TheCornishCockney
      @TheCornishCockney 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Not for the first time either.

    • @Roz-y2d
      @Roz-y2d 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Why am I not surprised?

    • @yedead1
      @yedead1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      They also took credit for the invention of computers as they were classified here and we sold them the rights to computing technology. Though I wouldn't say Colossus was the first computer maybe first electronic computer since I'd argue that Charles Babbage's Difference Engine was the first computer.

    • @markmaher4548
      @markmaher4548 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@neuralwarpThe tests down under were during the 50's & early 60's.

  • @DarthBill-h6f
    @DarthBill-h6f 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    As a Brit from Cornwall, Richard Trevithick the Cornish inventor of the worlds first steam powered railway locomotive is a source of pride.

    • @pzpete
      @pzpete 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Trevithick's great gift was the tubular boiler, which enabled the use of high pressure steam. His Camborne road locomotive, the Puffing Devil, ran on Christmas Eve 1801. The first official run of one of his railway locos was in 1804. In 1807 he installed a locomotive at Wylam colliery, where one of the engineers was George Stephenson.

    • @DarthBill-h6f
      @DarthBill-h6f 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@pzpete "Goin' up Camborne Hill, Coming down"

  • @speleokeir
    @speleokeir 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    The wright brother's had the first manned propelled flight, but didn't invent propellor engines. A British inventor made the first powered aircraft and first unmanned flight.

    • @JJLAReacts
      @JJLAReacts  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Oh I see! Thanks for pointing that out!

    • @Captain101-x1o
      @Captain101-x1o 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And the first heavier than air unpowered flight - Sir George Cayley.

    • @robertabbott7770
      @robertabbott7770 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The first powered flight ( unmanned ) was by John Stringfellow in 1848 , this was with a steam powered engine in the town of Chard Somerset .

    • @gagada124
      @gagada124 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JJLAReacts The person is correct about the Wright brothers, who also, were NOT the first in powered flight, it was German Gustav Whitehead in 1901. check things out before leaving comments.

  • @RogersRamblings
    @RogersRamblings 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Peter doesn't go back far enoughfor the start of the industrial revolution. It's starting point was in 1709 in the Shropshire village of Coalbrookdale. In the surrounding hills were iron ore, coal and limestone. The coal was of suitable quality to be made into coke. A Quaker by the name of Abraham Darby learnt to smelt iron ore with coke using the limestone as flux.
    The bridge that Peter describes as the first steel bridge is actually the first iron bridge built in 1779 and still in use today. The village that grew up around it is still known as Ironbridge.
    One of the reasons that industry took off in England at that time was because Quakers were excluded from much of public life and so invested their money in new industries. many of the chocolate companies, Cadbury's, Fry's etc, were created by Quaker families.

  • @taz454
    @taz454 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    I " accidentally walked into a strip club"
    Nobody believes you! 😂

  • @vaguelyright6833
    @vaguelyright6833 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    The British Empire... God's gift to an ungrateful world.

    • @Layla-kd4ui
      @Layla-kd4ui 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      There's that joke: Why does the Sun never set on the British Empire? - Because God doesn't trust an Englishman in the dark. (boom, boom).

    • @georgeamery
      @georgeamery 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Layla-kd4ui The saying "the sun never set" is very often misunderstood. It simply means the Empire was so vast that when one part where the sun was setting, other parts the sun would be rising. So in effect many parts were dark at different times. This could apply to a modern day huge country.

    • @Layla-kd4ui
      @Layla-kd4ui 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@georgeamery yes, I know.

  • @seanoconnor8843
    @seanoconnor8843 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    The Wright brothers flew a copy of an Italian design that had been flying for a couple of years. The Wright brothers filmed it and claimed they were first. A bit like Thomas Edison, never invented anything but patented other people's inventions

  • @KeplersDream
    @KeplersDream 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    He didn't say that famines are a thing of the past. He said that famines are _effectively_ a thing of the past. You jumped in too quickly with your objection. Famines still happen, but not because we don't know how to prevent them. Any political or financial greed that leads to famine is irrelevant to the point he was making. If we could eliminate that greed, famines would most _certainly_ be a thing of the past.

    • @Roz-y2d
      @Roz-y2d 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Well said.👍🏻

    • @DILLYJENN
      @DILLYJENN 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      He always objects too fast.

    • @eddhardy1054
      @eddhardy1054 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He does come across as a bit of a tw*t

    • @GamerSpartanFire
      @GamerSpartanFire 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We have already proven that if it wasn't for waste from all nations on earth including greed, we could feed the world just shy up 2x over
      The maximum population we theoretically could feed is around 14 billion

  • @klaxoncow
    @klaxoncow 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    The Penny-farthing bicycle had two different sized wheels because they hadn't come up with gearing yet.
    It had to be that big so that the motion of your legs pedalling it would translate into a decent speed for the vehicle, as you wanted a bike to be able to travel further distances faster. Otherwise, you might as well just walk there instead.
    If you think about it, the motion of your legs pedalling once - doing 360 degrees - translates to the circumference of the wheel, because the pedals were directly attached to the wheel on the penny-farthing.
    So the bigger the wheel, the bigger the circumference, so the greater the distance travelled as you pedalled.
    (The smaller wheel is just there for stabilisation. Otherwise, it's just a massive unicycle and remaining balanced would be a nightmare.)
    Indeed, if it weren't impractical, then make the wheel even bigger and now you've got an even faster bike! But, obviously, that would get silly fast, as if the wheel's too big, then your legs won't reach the pedals and how the hell do you get on the thing in the first place?
    Therefore, you can see the Penny-farthing as being the maximum practical extent that you could take this idea of making the wheel bigger to move faster.
    But then Rover came up with the "safety bicycle" - gotta love how they included the word "safety" because the penny-farthing was so bloody dangerous, that "our bicycle is not going to injure, maim or kill you" was the primary salespitch for it - which solves the problem with a chain and gears.
    So the wheels can be more reasonably sized - and both wheels the same size - because it's the gearing that's translating your pedalling into faster motion of the wheel instead.

    • @HappyDragneels_page
      @HappyDragneels_page 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      must have been a nightmare trying to go up any sort of incline when your perma stuck in 8th gear XD

  • @jerry2357
    @jerry2357 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    4:57 The Wright Brothers' aeroplane used a conventional piston engine. The turboprop is essentially a jet engine where the exhaust turbine drives a propellor. Turboprops are very efficient for smaller airliners used for regional services.

  • @timglennon6814
    @timglennon6814 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    The first Test Tube, IVF Baby was born in my home town hospital, called The Royal Oldham Hospital.
    Doctors Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards and the nurse Jean Purdy, for developing in Vitro Fertilisation.
    A healthy baby girl wa born called, Louise Joy Brown. Louise is still alive to this day.
    She was born 25th July 1978. She is 46 years old.

  • @-_James_-
    @-_James_- 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Cat's Eyes are so much more than just reflectors. They're usually pairs of circular retroreflectors located in a spring loaded housing, so when you drive over them they are pushed down into their casing which has a fixed rubber wiper that cleans them.

  • @MichaelLamming
    @MichaelLamming 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The Wright brothers didn't fly a jet or Turbine. The engine they used was a piston reciprocating engine, thus you can thank the British for piston and piston ring.

  • @chippydogwoofwoof
    @chippydogwoofwoof 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    As a Brit i feel ashamed that my only discovery is that 9 pints might be one too many when one has work the next day. You are welcome world.

    • @-_James_-
      @-_James_- 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Lightweight. 😉

    • @happyapple4269
      @happyapple4269 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      its a travesty that your hard work will go largely unnoticed

    • @chippydogwoofwoof
      @chippydogwoofwoof 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@happyapple4269 😆 thank you it really is.

    • @Probeionic
      @Probeionic 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Everyone knows that 7 is enough on a 'school-day'.

    • @chippydogwoofwoof
      @chippydogwoofwoof 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Probeionic well hot damn if everyone knows that means my research was all for nothing and I had planned on testing the theory again this Friday, screw it, I will carry on my painstaking research anyway. It's a thankless task but if someone has to down loads of beer and eat a crappy kebab on the way home it might as well be me.

  • @redrumtruecrime
    @redrumtruecrime 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    JJ Spearmint Rhino called, you owe them a shift‼️😅😅😅😅

  • @carlosdeferrer3585
    @carlosdeferrer3585 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Not only have we discovered antimatter but now actually make it at CERN.

    • @wizzerdsuntzu
      @wizzerdsuntzu 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@carlosdeferrer3585 Who Is WE, I s that the Royal we?

    • @carlosdeferrer3585
      @carlosdeferrer3585 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@wizzerdsuntzu yes, as he was referring to humans being clever.

  • @charliegarnett2061
    @charliegarnett2061 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    My grandad invented the cats eye, he has the first ever one gold plated and it was passed down to me which I have now! Very proud of our brittish inventions😁

    • @eddhardy1054
      @eddhardy1054 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Is it true that he almost invented the pencil sharpener?

    • @charliegarnett2061
      @charliegarnett2061 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@eddhardy1054 the pencil sharpener was invented before he was alive in the 1890s I believe

    • @geoffos42
      @geoffos42 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@charliegarnett2061 It's a joke. "It is said that the man who invented Cat's Eyes did so after seeing light reflect in the eyes of a cat coming towards him during the night; it is speculated that had the cat been walking away from him, he would have invented the pencil sharpener."

  • @HankD13
    @HankD13 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    How about Magna Carta, English Common Law - as a foundation, copied and expanded upon by most stable democracies around the world, and the long, incredibly expensive crusade to end slavery around the world? Not too bad to have in the plus column either.

    • @ffotograffydd
      @ffotograffydd 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Only four of the 63 clauses in Magna Carta are still valid… people are just fixated on it despite it never actually doing what it was intended to do.

    • @HankD13
      @HankD13 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@ffotograffydd But point is that Magna Carta lays out the basis of a fair democracy over autocratic rule, and those ideals were adopted around the world.

    • @ffotograffydd
      @ffotograffydd 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It laid out itself?

    • @theevilmrfry
      @theevilmrfry 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ffotograffydd you mean like Americas Second Amendment? Them mf'ers are fixated with that, yet it has nothing to do with 'muh right to own a dozen AR-15s'

  • @Audulf-of-Frisia
    @Audulf-of-Frisia 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The British should be very proud of their history in all it's forms. Such a small island conquering large parts of the world.
    That's impressive and something to be proud of.

  • @robertlangley1664
    @robertlangley1664 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    When a Aussie calls us bastards it mean he loves us ,but he wouldn’t amid it but we are not that bothered

    • @peterwilliamson5953
      @peterwilliamson5953 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      i find it very endearing , im Scottish so i know a few sweary endearing words myself

  • @daveofyorkshire301
    @daveofyorkshire301 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The first programmable automation was in textiles long before computerisation.

  • @epicduckdoctor
    @epicduckdoctor 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The British also invented the Jaffa Cake which is a type of cake.

  • @WILFREDRUSSELL-h8n
    @WILFREDRUSSELL-h8n 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    It’s highly dubious to undertake a moral balancing act by weighing the bad against the good. You might call it science-and-technology washing. Great Britain is truly great. The British are the prime beneficiaries of Britain’s past and current glories. They could have benefited even more without the burden of empire, which eventually broke the bank. The empire was unnecessary - but let’s not blame the sons for the sins of the fathers and just get on with sharing British inventiveness where it can improve the lives of others.

    • @HankD13
      @HankD13 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Empire was a survival strategy against the more populous and powerful European powers, mainly Spain and France. As colonial Empires go - it stands up extremely well to all the others that existed. If not British, all those nations would have been French, Spanish, Belgium, Dutch, Portuguese, German, Italian or even Ottoman. And the post empire experience of all colonised nations, not many fair as well as the British ones. The long, incredibly expensive and bloody fight against slavery around the world, is not a bad epithet for Empire either.

  • @emcr1
    @emcr1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Omg i forgot all about the teasmade! 😆
    I need one, I'll just replace the teabag in the mug with coffee.
    The uk also invented the hat umbrella in the 19th century.
    Testament that the weather has always been unpredictable 😆

  • @michaellack5139
    @michaellack5139 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    We invited gravity according to Al Murray 😂

    • @GBURGE55
      @GBURGE55 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The very people who invented it!

    • @spireitexi
      @spireitexi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And time zones, since we 'invented' Greenwich Mean Time.....which means the Germans don't sit down for lunch until we day so! 🤣

  • @baldfeller
    @baldfeller 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    He moved on from transport without mentioning the Hovercraft, it's a bit niche, but you can take one to the Isle of Wight, and it will get you there in 10 minutes, instead of 45 on the ship ferry.

    • @spireitexi
      @spireitexi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'll raise you Sir Frank Whittle

  • @waynelowe3329
    @waynelowe3329 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Basically nearly everyone on earth lives their lives using something Britain invented or discovered at some point.

  • @Spiklething
    @Spiklething 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    16:10 you _accidentally_ walked in there. Sure, I believe you

  • @NJTRAF
    @NJTRAF 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Britain, like pretty much every country, has a past that is both good and bad.
    What I find funny, as a British man, is that people only seem to remember quite a small period of time in our history which coincided with the empires of France, Portugal, Spain and The Netherlands (among others)
    The French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch Empires are seemingly ignored for the most part. Even the Belgian Empire, in which the Congo in particular had some absolutely awful atrocities.
    Go further back, you’ve got the Greeks, Ottomans, Romans, Egyptians, Arab & Persian Empires etc. and nobody in 2024 is giving them shit 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

  • @riicky83
    @riicky83 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Penny Farthing Bicycle had steps on the bar that attached the front wheel to the back wheel. Granted ti was somewhat easier to use a step ladder to get on and off.
    I remember riding one as a kid thanks to a school trip to a museum that had one.

  • @onecupof_tea
    @onecupof_tea 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I think the professor meant Britain and UN helped
    create Israel after WW2, so Jews would have a safe country.
    It was one of the worst decisions we made, and the worst place to put them.

  • @MsPinkwolf
    @MsPinkwolf 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I wish i could take some credit but I'm not a smart M*********** 😂

  • @DanPyjamas
    @DanPyjamas 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Yeah the mini was the first front engined, front wheel drive car. The article you read was talking just about front engine and rear wheel drive.

    • @spireitexi
      @spireitexi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Designer of the Mini, Sir Alec Issigoniss, from Derbyshire (where I live), just like Sir Frank Whittle

  • @PaulReardon-qh9fk
    @PaulReardon-qh9fk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Always love the little anecdotes about your music background 👍

  • @MrTonyHeath
    @MrTonyHeath 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Sandwiches, chicken tikka masala, cricket, football...

  • @kevinrichards8119
    @kevinrichards8119 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    We were smart mother f******,then 😊best wishes from Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

  • @zaphodbeeblebrox6627
    @zaphodbeeblebrox6627 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I think you misunderstood the Mini Minor part.
    In 1959 Sir Alec Issigonis designed the Mini minor due in part because of the 1956 suez crisis which threatened most of Europe with oil and fuel starvation, so he designed a sub compact economical car capable of carrying up to four adults and their luggage in the smallest space possible.
    The BMC ( British Motor Corporation) Mini Minor was the first car to produce a TRANSVERSE engine and gearbox layout driving the front wheels.
    This was the design pattern that all other manufacturers around the world eventually copied.
    You open the hood on just about any FWD car these days and it'll be a transverse layout.

    • @eddhardy1054
      @eddhardy1054 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Let's face it mate, he misunderstands most things

  • @nolaj114
    @nolaj114 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Hi JJ..if you look at where the pedals are on a penny farthing bicycle and the fact there are no gears/chain, it makes more sense.

  • @ninamoores
    @ninamoores 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The first operational VTOL aircraft. The Harrier.

    • @neuralwarp
      @neuralwarp 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That was the 4th. But we invented the 2nd (autogyros) and 3rd (helicopters) too.

  • @RockinDave1
    @RockinDave1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    He meant non artifically manufactured famines I believe. For example Holodomor in Ukraine in 1933 was due to Stalin taking the entirety of Ukraine's grain supply to feed Russia, this did not happen due to any natural situation.
    While there are nations who still have higher populations than they can supply food (apparently Britain can only grow around 70% of the food it needs to feed the population, although it has been argued that this could be 100% if people adapted their eating habits to not want foreign grown fruits etc) the global supply chain should in theory mean that no human need go hungry due to food being unavailable.

  • @tomfoolery9749
    @tomfoolery9749 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Daimler was the first transverse engine but the way he tells it was wrapped up with a load of other parts together which may have been Mini.

    • @Thurgosh_OG
      @Thurgosh_OG 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Daimlers were rear wheel drives though, the Mini was the first production front wheel drive.

    • @tomfoolery9749
      @tomfoolery9749 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Thurgosh_OG Exactly, that's what I think I was pointing out. The first example as he puts it wasn't a single invention but a series of inventions put together for the first time. San Panopoulos didn't invent the pizza but he was the first to add ham and pineapple.

  • @MrTonyHeath
    @MrTonyHeath 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Iron Bridge isn't made of steel. The clue is in the name.

  • @AntonGully
    @AntonGully 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Also, I appreciate the quarter inch screw (ad infinitum) comment. You get it. A lot of people wouldn't.

  • @JamesLMason
    @JamesLMason 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "accidentally walked in there" 😂

  • @TheR4360
    @TheR4360 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Hey thanks for interesting facts about Steve Ray Vaughan.....great Brits ruled the world.

  • @lindylou7853
    @lindylou7853 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Standardisation in manufacturing… started by Pepys who was in charge of the naval supplies …starting standardising pulleys etc on ships. Before the universally used joints and bits and bobs were made for ships. Before everything was made as a one-off per ship …

  • @AntonGully
    @AntonGully 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The big wheel on the Penny Farthing was an actually smart design for the time, only superseded when GEARING became a thing. If you had had two wheels the size of modern bicycles, but with no gearing, it would have been a nightmare to move faster than a smart walk.

  • @jennyvowles8279
    @jennyvowles8279 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    H C Booth, the inventor of the tea-making alarm clock, also invented the vacuum cleaner, arguably of far greater significance!

  • @eddhardy1054
    @eddhardy1054 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Only a child of the American educational system would not know a zillion is a slang number

  • @leeharris7727
    @leeharris7727 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “Is this guy Australian…?”
    Lemme think……… 🦘 😂😂😂

  • @matshjalmarsson3008
    @matshjalmarsson3008 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Many inventions can be argued having been made by different people/countries. Eg the first zipper was made in Finland, but was perfected in Sweden.
    The propeller existed for many years, designed by different people, but the first one really working was made by a Swede.

  • @belperflyer7419
    @belperflyer7419 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The big wheel on a so-called penny-farthing (or high ordinary) was to get the gearing right - with the pedals attached directly to the wheel the bigger the wheel, the higher the gear. To this day gears on pedal cycles are measured in inches by some of us - the value being the equivalent diameter wheel. They we quite dangerous (going over the bars was always likely) until Starley introduced the Rover safety bicycle (which eventually became the Rover car company. He also invented a differential to make tricycles easier to turn round corners (difficult with a 'live' back axle that drives both rear wheels). I have a 1956 trike with differentially driven rear wheels.

  • @christiner302
    @christiner302 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My mother always wanted a Teasmade. She got her wish eventually and was never without one.

  • @darleschickens3726
    @darleschickens3726 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    'Accidently' walked onto the strip club stage 😆 trying to earn some extra cash

  • @brianhanna3128
    @brianhanna3128 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Between them Faraday & Clerk Maxwell are responsible for most studio mics - em induction for dynamics & ribbons, capacitance for condensors & PZMs! Also the Penny Farthing bike with the huge wheel strikes me as a bike in high gear without having any gears, one revolution of the pedals makes a much larger circumference than normal revolve at the same rate, like the way the inside and outside of the same record are moving at different speeds & why tape machines have those tension rollers since one reel gets slower as the other gets faster. As I'm sure you know, there's audio everywhere dude :)

  • @hilarykirkby4771
    @hilarykirkby4771 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I take objecgtion to Israel being elevagted to pole position in the Middle East! I am a Brit and have deep regrets over the blight that Brits have imposed on the rest of the world.

  • @TheEyez187
    @TheEyez187 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    ... and on top of all that, we ended slavery! 💪💪

  • @chrisbamber2762
    @chrisbamber2762 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    there are a few inventions that arnt mentioned a lot that were british inventions as well the submarine (although the first won was built by a dutchman) was designed by a brit, the reflecting telescope,the tin can phone, the hollow pipe drainage system,percussion ignition which is the basis for firearms(maybe not the best invention),the light switch and the lava lamp for a few

  • @MichaelLamming
    @MichaelLamming 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    No modern cement, no modern concrete.

  • @christiner302
    @christiner302 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The Penny Farthing bike was that shspe to do with gearing, or lack thereof.

  • @daveofyorkshire301
    @daveofyorkshire301 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    _The Great Barrier Reef’s size has remained relatively consistent over the past 100 years. According to the World Heritage listing, the reef’s area is approximately 34,870,000 hectares (86,200,000 acres). There is no evidence to suggest a significant change in its size over the past century_
    Why not look into things before dismissing people just because they've been labelled.

  • @Varksterable
    @Varksterable 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    JJ, how can you not remember the Map Men video's "It was the beginning of the internet." 🤭🤭

  • @DS-uy6jw
    @DS-uy6jw 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Also, keep up the swearing, ya rebel. Love it :)

  • @Pablopax4
    @Pablopax4 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks for the SRV info! that was great, single coil pickups are noisy, and he was a Strat fiend.

    • @JJLAReacts
      @JJLAReacts  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, I love his tone!

  • @MostlyPennyCat
    @MostlyPennyCat 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    CPUs are also dominated by the British, 250 billion cpus have been made using the ARM architecture.
    They hold a 98% market share for mobile and a severe chunk of everything else!
    Further to that, almost the entire internet is powered by British DSPs called Firepath
    And finally, they were both invented, ARM and Firepath, by one Sophie Wilson
    The internet hardware and all smartphone hardware.
    You're welcome world! 😉

  • @Stuffed_Cat
    @Stuffed_Cat 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Video starts discussing all the great countries that came about because of the Brits. Many of these regions were full of fractured tribes constantly warring against each other. We came along and gave them a common foe to hate, thus uniting them. So we were helping BY being bastards. Our subtle manipulation can be astounding! 🙂

  • @Pablopax4
    @Pablopax4 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Also Rory Gallagher's tone, AC 30+ Tone booster. I'm a Strat guy with Fishman and Lace sensors on my Strats nowadays.

    • @JJLAReacts
      @JJLAReacts  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh hell yeah! A strat through an AC30 is so satisfying! Some say it sounds boxy but I disagree. In a mix you need those low mid frequencies to stand out. You have fine taste, sir.

    • @Pablopax4
      @Pablopax4 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JJLAReacts Yeah, makes the Les Paul guys eat their notes, Strats don't have to sound thin.

  • @DarkenGrowl
    @DarkenGrowl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Bengal famine, that he mentions at the end was not a thing that should be blamed on the British. It was not the British fault. A lot of misinformation about this and Churchill out there and is quite popular.

    • @Thurgosh_OG
      @Thurgosh_OG 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The famines in Bengal were quite a regular occurance and were ended by the British.

    • @Langstrath
      @Langstrath 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yes, Bengali famines regularly happened roughly every 2 - 3 years for centuries before the British rule of India.

  • @StraightAA
    @StraightAA 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks mate... Very entertaining.

  • @PHDarren
    @PHDarren 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    The Wright Brothers used a piston engine, Turboprops use a gas turbine with a propellor.

    • @robertlonsdale5326
      @robertlonsdale5326 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They might not have been the first either.

    • @klaxoncow
      @klaxoncow 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@PHDarren And, as covered in the video, the Brits invented the piston engine.

    • @Varksterable
      @Varksterable 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Check out "aerial steam carriage" and/or "John Stringfellow Chard".
      Which I only found out about many, many years after living only a few miles from Chard. 🤔

    • @neuralwarp
      @neuralwarp 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      We invented aerodynamic wings. Cayley, UK. Checkmate.

    • @Varksterable
      @Varksterable 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@robertlonsdale5326Have a look into/search for "John Stringfellow Chard".
      It's interesting.
      I'd lived only a few miles from Chard for about a decade before I even heard of the guy. 😳

  • @helenwood8482
    @helenwood8482 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A distant relative of mine in Biggleswade invented the tractor, tandem and bicycles for women.

  • @nolaj114
    @nolaj114 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Zillion is kind of slang and means a very large - but not specific numerically - amount. A gazillion is even more! Don't you use those words in the US? I'm really surprised by that.

  • @robhingston
    @robhingston 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    English is the international language of the world

    • @thedisabledwelshman9266
      @thedisabledwelshman9266 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      america does not know english.😂🤣🤣

    • @mehallica666
      @mehallica666 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@thedisabledwelshman9266 Americanese.

  • @clivenewman4810
    @clivenewman4810 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    World, you're welcome 🇬🇧

  • @coljagman5441
    @coljagman5441 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Accidentally walked into a strip club? Yeah sure you did mate!

  • @wulfgold
    @wulfgold 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I know literally EVERY reaction channel's done it + it's the only thing I'm not sick of seeing - but you should check out a) Isembard Kingdom Brunel for some stunning industrial age innovations and b) the legendary Fred Dibnah MBE - he's an excellent story teller and (still) a joy to watch.

  • @gutinstinct4067
    @gutinstinct4067 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    For anyone who's interested in a list of uk inventions : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_innovations_and_discoveries

  • @fatbelly27
    @fatbelly27 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think Brunel invented the first propeller, for his ships. He drew the design on the back of an envelope. These days they are computer designed and 4% more efficient

  • @colinbirks5403
    @colinbirks5403 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Penny Farthing bikes (Brit coins.) not quite so daft, One rotation of the pedal bakes the wheel cover a larger distance. (circumference)

  • @TheEyez187
    @TheEyez187 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    6:12 - It's crazy, Iron Bridge looks the same still!
    His facts were right, but some of his earlier "ideas" were questionable.
    Yes, there should b thanks for all, Brit and Proud, but he's going on like if we hadn't of created them, no other person/country would ever have either! Yeah we might not have some of the stuff, but someone would make it eventually!

  • @charles5553
    @charles5553 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The inventor of the radar was pulled over for speeding in Canada he told the police he didn't like what they did with his invention
    I think that is true 🤔🤔

  • @LilMonkeyFella87
    @LilMonkeyFella87 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have a playlist on my channel of 24 videos titled "I Never Knew That About Britain" . They are all interesting videos about inventions and trivia about the UK. A bunch of the things mentioned in this video I have videos for. I think you might like them and it'll learn you something. A few of my favourites I have up
    "I Never Knew That About Britain - How a mill in England gave rise to the world's skyscrapers"
    "I Never Knew That About Britain - How the London Stock Exchange started in a coffee house"
    "I Never Knew That About Britain - How a group of Welsh women stopped Napoleon invading Britain"
    "I Never Knew That About Britain - How a bicycle lead to the world's first tractor"

    • @JJLAReacts
      @JJLAReacts  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I found it, thanks! I'll check these out!

  • @DS-uy6jw
    @DS-uy6jw 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yeah, antimatter is a real thing that we've actually created. But it is CRAZY expensive to make. I remember reading that if we had to make a gram of it, it would cost more than the world economy. But we've definitely made lots of antimatter atoms. Bit of a pain to store though because it can't touch...well, literally anything.

  • @AntonGully
    @AntonGully 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The thing is, we still have brilliant people born in the UK every year, but the career path open to them, after a lifetime of education is still either reality TV star, influencer or finance. Nobody WANTS to be anything else. We even have some of the most popular YT stars in the world. They could have been scientists. We could have gotten better.

  • @andyleighton6969
    @andyleighton6969 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I believe that in France, unless it's specifically signed otherwise, it's still "priorate a droit" at a roundabout.

    • @MrTonyHeath
      @MrTonyHeath 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wrong.

  • @scotmax8426
    @scotmax8426 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    ach i can't go this guys videos. don't know why, the infos good. i'll be back for yer next one ;) lol

    • @TfL1901
      @TfL1901 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same.

  • @pogmeistergeneral941
    @pogmeistergeneral941 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    speaking of british inventions, i highly suggest watching “the imitation game” its about alan turing inventing the computer to crack the n azi enigma machine (spoiler sad ending)

    • @Thurgosh_OG
      @Thurgosh_OG 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Turing didn't invent the computer, though his probability in cryptanalysis contributed to its design. It was Tommy Flowers, an electrical engineer, designed and led the team that built the Colossus computer.

  • @BaddaBigBoom
    @BaddaBigBoom 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Rolex originated in UK

  • @darkpitcher5242
    @darkpitcher5242 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Paul Durack was smarter than Albert Einstein just not as keen on publicity

    • @WILFREDRUSSELL-h8n
      @WILFREDRUSSELL-h8n 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@darkpitcher5242 I think you mean Paul Dirac. Einstein noted Dirac’s genius and that it verged on madness (that sounds like a compliment to me). Was Dirac smarter than Einstein? Interesting question. Many scientists, physicists, mathematicians etc contributed to the acceptance / proof of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. Perhaps that’s why Einstein is more famous than the likes of Dirac. Einstein lived quite modestly. He didn’t seek fame - it was thrust on him

  • @cuthbert246
    @cuthbert246 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    He said turbo prop not propeller

  • @lindylou7853
    @lindylou7853 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bicycles … the penny farthing was always an oddity …

  • @lindylou7853
    @lindylou7853 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Tim Berners-Lee decided to share the www to promote the sharing of scientific papers. He would have been the world’s richest man if he had charged for a copyright.

    • @onecupof_tea
      @onecupof_tea 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's ironic what companies like Virgin. Sky, and others are charging for a free commodity.

  • @lindylou7853
    @lindylou7853 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sir Frank Whittle …. Jet engine … we gave the copyright for that and radar to Americans as they were ‘ allies …. Major Ivan Hirst re-launched a German factory as .Volkswagen … post ww2

  • @robhingston
    @robhingston 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Cause and effect …The British laid the foundations for the modern world..

    • @JJLAReacts
      @JJLAReacts  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Never has a truth more truthful been truthed.

  • @helenwood8482
    @helenwood8482 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bell didn't invented the telephone at all. An Italian did. Bell was at the patent office and stole the design (the Italian had left it there until he could afford to patent it).

  • @GazGaryGazza
    @GazGaryGazza 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    The argument about where would we be without the Brits is stupid because the chances are someone else would have done exactly the same, some may be worse and some may have been better inventions but we'd still be in a similar place.

    • @Darrenski
      @Darrenski 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      So why didn't they then? They'd only had all of human history up to then to do it. Saying an achievement doesn't count because someone else would have got there in the end, eventually, one day, maybe, is as good as saying nothing. All that matters is who did and when they did. I'll tell you what does mean nothing though, most of the countries that contributed nothing yet still get to share in the ingenuity of the British whilst at the same time slighting them using their own language. I mean, how would you like all your achievements rubbished because someone else would have done it sooner or later. That's just a totally illogical nonsense argument based on 100% supposition.

    • @GazGaryGazza
      @GazGaryGazza 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Darrenski Lol, no one is rubbishing the achievements, just the guys comment that if the individual that did invent or discover hadn't then the world would have had to do without it. That is absolute nonsense, if you truly believe gravity wouldn't have been discovered and explained if Newton hadn't then you're bonkers mate 🤣

    • @Captain101-x1o
      @Captain101-x1o 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠@@GazGaryGazzanot really.
      Someone may have invented it eventually but no guarantees it would have been invented by now! Most inventions and discoveries take from others and are shared regularly across disciplines and borders. It’s all a big team effort and the Brits are the MVP. Your welcome.

    • @GazGaryGazza
      @GazGaryGazza 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ⁠@@Captain101-x1olol, I’m British but just aware we do not hold any exclusivity deal on inventing or discovering things. To suggest things invented and discovered 200 years ago may still not have been is madness. Please take care of your self ❤

  • @matthealey187
    @matthealey187 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Oh no... Rolf Harris has reincarnated!!

  • @gwaptiva
    @gwaptiva 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He obviously forgot to mention Mathus