American reacts to Who Invented The Worlds most Important Inventions

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  • @DeDaanste
    @DeDaanste 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1175

    We, Europeans, even invented the USA 😁 but that failed a bit 😅😂🤣

    • @101steel4
      @101steel4 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

      Massively lol

    • @AwakenedAvocado
      @AwakenedAvocado 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      White people are so overrated sometimes

    • @ravensfan777
      @ravensfan777 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ah yes, it failed so bad that it has surpassed every nation on Earth in economic power and military strength. As of 2023, the US has a GDP of about $26 trillion. Meanwhile, Europe has a collective GDP of about $18 trillion as of 2023. Imagine a country having more strength than an entire continent. I don't even want to imagine how lopsided the comparison would be if we chose any individual European country instead.

    • @WesterwalderAdler
      @WesterwalderAdler 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      😂😂😂

    • @MoreThanaPint
      @MoreThanaPint 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      It's all Columbus and Vespucci fault... And free will, mostly free will

  • @anglosaxon5874
    @anglosaxon5874 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +736

    Michael Faraday was English NOT American!

    • @suit1337
      @suit1337 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +86

      Enrico Fermi was italian

    • @redceltnet
      @redceltnet 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      If you checked his passport, you'd find that he was British. What with English not being a nationality since 1707.

    • @anglosaxon5874
      @anglosaxon5874 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@redceltnet Ahh shut up you Baahaaa baahaa
      Edit: Passports didn't exist then einstein! Only Ambassadors/consulate officials had a sort of passport.

    • @knottyeti
      @knottyeti 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

      And A.G. Bell was Scottish.

    • @Shutup638ageufnfi
      @Shutup638ageufnfi 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Technically most Americans have British decent so the USA is British

  • @Wifitreker
    @Wifitreker 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +165

    « Volta cool name for a battery inventor » I can’t stop laughing are they really this clueless in the us ?

    • @AussieFossil
      @AussieFossil 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yes 😁

    • @josipmoskatelo
      @josipmoskatelo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      "wow im european and im smarter than every american look how open minded i am" 🤡

    • @qalbi_ibn_lari
      @qalbi_ibn_lari 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Easy to do when your education system is shit, you're locked in your own country like a prison, and live isolated from the rest of the world.

    • @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv
      @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@josipmoskatelo
      Willis carrier- air cooling 1902
      Sergei brin, Larry page - Google 1998
      Norman woodland - barcode
      Ray Tomlinson - email
      Thomas Jefferson - swiveling chair
      Adolf Rickenbacker - electric guitar
      Roger Easton - gps
      Christopher scholes - qwerty keyboard
      🇺🇸

    • @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv
      @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@josipmoskatelo
      Made in usa
      Willis carrier- air cooling 1902
      Sergei brin, Larry page - Google 1998
      Norman woodland - barcode
      Ray Tomlinson - email
      Thomas Jefferson - swiveling chair
      Adolf Rickenbacker - electric guitar
      Roger Easton - gps
      Benjamin Franklin - bifocals,lightning rod
      Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan - skyscrapers
      Christopher scholes - qwerty keyboard
      🇺🇸
      And Einstein, Vladimir zworikyn, Issac Asimov, Alexander Graham bell, sergei brin, Tesla made it huge in USA

  • @davidbroadfoot1864
    @davidbroadfoot1864 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

    The first telephone was demonstrated by Johann Philipp Reis, in Germany - on 26 October 1861. Bell's patent was issued in March 1876.

    • @johnmaclagan2263
      @johnmaclagan2263 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Who did he call ?

    • @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv
      @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Or Antonio meucci 🇮🇹

    • @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv
      @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Helicopter is azboth Oscar and Igor Sikorsky 🇺🇦

    • @johnmaclagan2263
      @johnmaclagan2263 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv there is audio evidence of Alexander Graham Bells phone call - sure its in a museum in Nova Scotia I believe

    • @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv
      @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@johnmaclagan2263 yeah but Germany and Italy may have their own too

  • @lynnhamps7052
    @lynnhamps7052 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +559

    So many of these attributed to the US are actually British! The guy who made that video didn't do his research but probably just went off what her always been told!...😤🇬🇧

    • @Songfugel
      @Songfugel 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      amen

    • @kenvoysey8222
      @kenvoysey8222 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bell was Scottish dude ! So many errors in this video it clearly is done by a lazy fat American !

    • @CHALETARCADE
      @CHALETARCADE 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      Motion camera given to the UK is a joke! Same for the steam engine, which was improved in the UK, but not invented there, but no need to argue, most inventions come about gradually in different nations, it's a collective endeavour, but that fact doesn't jive well with chauvinists.

    • @jasmineteehee3612
      @jasmineteehee3612 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      Lynn totally agree with you, Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish. The uk invented the web.

    • @drcl7429
      @drcl7429 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@CHALETARCADE You might argue Savery invented the first useful Steam Engine. The principles were demonstated centuries before.

  • @101steel4
    @101steel4 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +683

    I'm shocked America isn't claiming the English language too.

    • @sabrinahakem6602
      @sabrinahakem6602 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      Some do

    • @McKamikazeHighlander
      @McKamikazeHighlander 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well, on this list, they're claiming that Alexander Graham Bell (a Scot) and Michael Faraday (an Englishman) were Americans, aswell as the outright lie that an abolute charlatan like Edison invented the lightbulb

    • @bblake5116
      @bblake5116 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@brianbrotherston5940 what,, no way.

    • @101steel4
      @101steel4 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      ASMR language videos. Americans use the US flag to represent English 🙄

    • @Arltratlo
      @Arltratlo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      but plenty of Americans are proud to speak American!

  • @stefanomartello3786
    @stefanomartello3786 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +110

    Fermi was italian tho...
    They gave him the american citizenship soon after he moved to the US, when he was already 43.

    • @alfaruuto5182
      @alfaruuto5182 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Also Michael Faraday was British

    • @PAINNN666
      @PAINNN666 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Strange how Marconi not american🤣🤣 I remember he live in US too.

  • @maximkretsch7134
    @maximkretsch7134 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    4:22 "Alessandro Volta - cool name for a battery inventor" is in itself the most American comment possible. 😂 (I really hope you meanwhile realised that the physical unit is named after the inventor to honour his invention.)

    • @lbhh
      @lbhh หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @axoram
      @axoram 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      😂😂

    • @thomassmith839
      @thomassmith839 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      i paused the video and went on a whole exasperated tangent to myself about it 😭😭😭

    • @peterwilkins7013
      @peterwilkins7013 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Are you deaf? That's exactly what he said immediately after.

    • @maximkretsch7134
      @maximkretsch7134 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@peterwilkins7013 He asked a question, to be precise. And irrespective of this my comment is still true. 😊

  • @johnmilk534
    @johnmilk534 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +825

    "Alessandro Volta. Cool name for a battery inventor" gotta love the US education system

    • @Autumn1608
      @Autumn1608 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

      I know lol It killed me :D

    • @suit1337
      @suit1337 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +82

      wait until he finds out that most derived units in the metric system are named after invetors
      like Farad after Michael Faraday or the Watt after James Watt - both of them were mentioned in the video

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      To be fair, he did turn it around and wondered if the unit is named after him

    • @monalisa3852
      @monalisa3852 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      😂

    • @giosue5676
      @giosue5676 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      @@suit1337 and volt like alessandro volta

  • @Skyl3t0n
    @Skyl3t0n 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +500

    In my opinion the printing press (Johannes Gutenberg 1450, Germany) is on the same level as the internet, in terms of how far it has brought humanity.
    That allowed cheap widespread knowledge to educate everybody.

    • @xCLiCH3E
      @xCLiCH3E 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      and propaganda, widespread propaganda x)

    • @johnsmith-cw3wo
      @johnsmith-cw3wo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      @@xCLiCH3E lucky no propaganda is spread through the internet.

    • @PortugalZeroworldcup
      @PortugalZeroworldcup 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      ​@@xCLiCH3Eprinting press 🇩🇪
      China had an original version too but Germany more popular
      Same with football ⚽ 1863 English modern version of what they played
      But cricket 🏏 is 100% English

    • @JimAtHome
      @JimAtHome 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Educate everybody that could read and write

    • @RubraLIber
      @RubraLIber 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I agree, the press and Protestantism (for Protestants it was a duty to read the sacred scriptures independently, so more and more people learned to read, things went much worse in Catholic countries) were the indispensable bases on which a public opinion was slowly formed, always more freed from the narrative of power in force in those eras, it laid the foundations for future democracies.
      At the end of the 19th century in Italy 90-95% of the population was illiterate, while in Germany it was the exact opposite, around 90% of people were literate

  • @mydogiscalledoscar
    @mydogiscalledoscar 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    The pendulum clock was the first truly accurate timepiece ever invented.
    It really is up there in terms of historical importance.

  • @damianpritchard1456
    @damianpritchard1456 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Marconi was Italian, but he set up his radio at Bush House London on the Strand. this was where the BBC headquarters was for a hundred years.

  • @danielmachac4764
    @danielmachac4764 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +164

    99% of those "US" inventors are from Europe 😂

    • @Usabby1776
      @Usabby1776 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      people who were born in america have american nationality making them american genius

    • @theseeker3073
      @theseeker3073 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@Usabby1776So if a cat is born in a doghouse, it’s suddenly a dog?
      Edit: Before you come to argue back with “the two aren’t the same species so it doesn’t count”, feel free to switch up “cat” to husky and “dog” to german shepherd, as the species (lupus familiaris) is the same. My point remains.

    • @lyt48
      @lyt48 หลายเดือนก่อน

      99% of those foundations of knowledge, labour, finances, other resources called European are from Asia & Africa.

    • @justnadaaa8434
      @justnadaaa8434 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      ​​@@Usabby1776 how is Michael Faraday American please? Or Graham Bell?

    • @Usabby1776
      @Usabby1776 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@theseeker3073 nope they’re still American 😂😂😂

  • @billtbodger
    @billtbodger 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +655

    Edison did not invent the electric light bulb, he did however improve it by using a vacuum drawn glass bulb to make it brighter and last longer. Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the Telephone but he was the first to patent it. In many parts of the World Air Conditioning is only used where temperature controlled envoirenments are needed to test electronics. The Principle for microwave ovens was discovered in the UK by Radar operators but never taken further.

    • @manueltapia1859
      @manueltapia1859 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes the people from US take the credit for everything like they the only who invent things. Haha

    • @Anson_AKB
      @Anson_AKB 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +83

      first public demonstration of a telephone in germany was by Phillipp Reis in 1861.
      Alexander Graham Bell got a patent for his version of the telephone in 1876.
      and the italian Antonio Meucci started patent registration in 1871 but couldn't afford it.
      thus (as is the case with many inventions) many people invent the same thing around the same time, and mostly build upon the work of others, but only one becomes famous, eg because he could afford registering a patent, or because he had better publicity, etc

    • @richardjohnson2026
      @richardjohnson2026 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      1835, James Bowman Lindsay became the inventor of the world's first electric incandescent light bulb. He did not patent it and Edison took James's plans improved them slightly and patent it

    • @Anson_AKB
      @Anson_AKB 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @@richardjohnson2026 Edison's patent was from 1879, which was an improvement on a lightbulb which Joseph Swan had patented 10 years earlier. Other precursors of lightbulbs were as early as 1802 (Humphry Davy), and also 1854 by the german Heinrich Göbel who put a bamboo filament in a glass bulb. And in 1875 Herman Sprengel invented the vacuum pumps to finally make lightbulbs practical. Thus it took most of a century and many inventors to invent it and improve on other older versions, and only one of them became famous as the "sole inventor" of the lightbulb, after all the components came together, including vacuum pumps and power generation and whatever else was necessary.

    • @janolaful
      @janolaful 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      Alexandre Graham Bell was actually Scottish.

  • @costelbanasu6447
    @costelbanasu6447 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Flush toilet - actually first was discovered in Crete Island , Knossos Palace , around 1800 BC. Same for the floor heating of rooms

    • @barhat961
      @barhat961 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It was invented in indus valley

  • @fredmidtgaard5487
    @fredmidtgaard5487 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    As a university professor, I was giving a course in East Africa on wildlife ecology for a class consisting of half Eastern African and half European students. During a break, I overheard a heated argument about who invented the most important stuff first. Suddenly a calm Tanzanian said, well we invented the use of fire for cooking and heating... And the discussion stopped. The Africans won!

    • @muddyhotdog4103
      @muddyhotdog4103 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Lol

    • @alexwtf80
      @alexwtf80 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Actually the first evidence of human fire usage is from Israel, not Africa

    • @muddyhotdog4103
      @muddyhotdog4103 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@alexwtf80 lol- We know Neanderthals used fire to cook their food. I mean it's kinda dumb to even claim something like that anyway, I doubt we really know who really was the first to cook food as we're taking tens of thousands of years ago and archeologists aren't gong to find every fire pit with food left behind. We only can get a rough idea where/when some people were doing it.

    • @Thre1152
      @Thre1152 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @fredmidtgaard5487
      It's very unlikely that fire and cooking got "invented" in this part of Africa. I would even rule this out.
      Anyway, there are tons of misconceptions and false narratives in terms of history and who invented what. For instance, neither the compass, nor paper or gun powder were invented in China. This is illusional. Until the Manchu intruded in China in the 17th century (coming from Tibet), bringing along civilisation, China was presumbly in a Stone Age condition before that, or maybe on a early, primitive agriculture level.

    • @Alex-uo7th
      @Alex-uo7th 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@alexwtf80 I assume it was already used to burn city to the grounds

  • @user-wf3lr1gj7o
    @user-wf3lr1gj7o 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +195

    Michael Faraday was born in England to British parents, lived his his life in UK and died there too. I can't see where he's American. I'm not a flag waver, but that's definitely a stolen one. 😮

    • @Arltratlo
      @Arltratlo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      hey, you both speak English, you are both entitled to steal from others!

    • @artsed08
      @artsed08 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      You should be a flag waver 🇬🇧

    • @PortugalZeroworldcup
      @PortugalZeroworldcup 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Arltratlothen ts eliot can be Bri' ish ??
      Tom Holland American?

    • @LeafHuntress
      @LeafHuntress 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@artsed08 NO.
      Unless you're really into vendelzwaaien,* nobody should excessively wave them, because hyperpatriotic bullshyte is just plain stupid & can cause wars.
      *en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_throwing

  • @ooReiss
    @ooReiss 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    It blows my mind how someone has the audacity to publish a video about national inventions and didn’t bother doing the necessary research into the inventors. So many of these are attributed to nations that the inventor was not even a citizen of.

    • @FilaStary
      @FilaStary หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is not educational video

    • @gabrieleferraioli7767
      @gabrieleferraioli7767 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think that the nation shown is the place that sponsored the invention. For example Fermi was italian but he was part of the Manhattan project and there he invented nuclear reactors. So the inventor is italian but the invention is american because they paid him and provided him with the equipment, if this makes sense. I'm italian and studing physics so on Fermi I'm quite sure, I don't know for the others

  • @davidberriman5903
    @davidberriman5903 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    Alfred Nobel developed dynamite as a safer way of transporting nitro glycerine. Nitro was quite unstable and often didn't get delivered successfully because it exploded en route. Nobel soaked clay in nitro thereby stabilising it for transport.

  • @davidbroadfoot1864
    @davidbroadfoot1864 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Traffic lights were invented in London, and first installed there on 9 December 1868. Variants of that design was installed allover the USA in the first two decades of the 20th century.
    The first *electric* traffic light was developed in 1921 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

    • @mehere8038
      @mehere8038 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      that's interesting. I'm also curious, pre electricity, how on earth did they work?

    • @Mrst3lios89
      @Mrst3lios89 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@mehere8038 my first guess would be people obviously… when the electric ones came out, they either lost their jobs or moved in a different department. Actually, they were probably policemen??

  • @rasputinorco
    @rasputinorco 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +154

    13:35 Fermi was not American, he was Italian, he was not interested in politics, but like everyone else in those times he had to be a member of the fascist party to work, he emigrated to the USA not to escape repression but because the government stopped financing his projects as it should. In America he was integrated into the Manhattan project and was always controlled by the American secret police until the end of the war. He had dual citizenship, he was not American

    • @Arltratlo
      @Arltratlo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      Americans think different about nationality,
      if you are fortunate to have skills, they call you American,
      if not you are just a immigrant!

    • @ruggerobelloni4743
      @ruggerobelloni4743 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Fermi's wife was Jewish and so his relocation was a very
      smart and timely move.

    • @PortugalZeroworldcup
      @PortugalZeroworldcup 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Einstein, Ralph Baer and Tesla also came to USA

    • @mehere8038
      @mehere8038 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      inventions credit goes to the country where they are invented though, not the individual. Penicillin was actually multiplied/made usable by an Aussie, but because he was part of Fleming's team. working there, Australia doesn't get credit for inventing antibiotics. Plenty of other examples like that available

    • @PortugalZeroworldcup
      @PortugalZeroworldcup 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mehere8038 did penicillin improve the population in several countries in last century??

  • @euromaestro
    @euromaestro 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +138

    For Motion Picture Camera, they correctly say Louis Le Prince. However, he was from France, not the US nor Uk.

    • @sebastiendoquin918
      @sebastiendoquin918 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      French-Bashing....

    • @clarissat867
      @clarissat867 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@sebastiendoquin918 like clearly he was definlty french

    • @PortugalZeroworldcup
      @PortugalZeroworldcup 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Edgard varese - electronic music
      Jacques costeau - scuba 🤿
      Nicephore niepce - photography 🇨🇵

  • @luizmoura455
    @luizmoura455 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Hahaha. The Wright brothers invented the catapulted glider. That thing wasn't able to take off and land by itself.

    • @xuser48
      @xuser48 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wright brothers made the first powered flight.

    • @joaovictorbarbosa49
      @joaovictorbarbosa49 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@xuser48 That wasn't an airplane

    • @xuser48
      @xuser48 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@joaovictorbarbosa49 - What?

    • @vonKaiser1917
      @vonKaiser1917 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      always remember Santos Dumond

    • @diezel74dan
      @diezel74dan 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Spyker Broos from Nederlands taught Wright Broos make it 2 turn left and right...

  • @yvonnethomsen3886
    @yvonnethomsen3886 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    It is generally accepted that television was invented by John Logie Baird, a Scottish scientist. In Australia our TV awards( like your Emmys) are called Logies .

  • @lesleydickson7746
    @lesleydickson7746 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +339

    According to Wikipedia Alexander Graham Bell was a British citizen in 1872 when he got the first patent for the telephone. He didn’t become an American citizen until 1882. 😊

    • @jonathancauldwell9822
      @jonathancauldwell9822 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      Michael Faraday was British too.

    • @stefanb4375
      @stefanb4375 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      Telefon, 1861 Philip Reis, in Frankfurt/Germany... He just has not patented it

    • @nightcorelore5648
      @nightcorelore5648 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      Someone invented something, quick relocate them to the USA as soon as possible = this video in short

    • @nightcorelore5648
      @nightcorelore5648 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@stefanb4375 as a german I’m not even mad how much stuff like this they left out about Germany, but instead I’m mad about how hard they try to credit USA for everything… this attitude is exactly why American schools are failing… well that and the pew pew

    • @georgefuters7411
      @georgefuters7411 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sandy Bell was a Scot who invented/patented the telephone while living in Canada before retiring to the US 🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @applecider7307
    @applecider7307 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +102

    Stopped watching half way through, so many mistakes, Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish for example.

    • @lawomega1
      @lawomega1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      YOu mean british

    • @applecider7307
      @applecider7307 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@lawomega1 No I don't, I mean Scottish, he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, that makes him Scottish first and British second.

    • @Mark-Haddow
      @Mark-Haddow 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The pedal bicycle was also invented by a Scot. The invention Germany gave was the Swiftwalker, which needed the rider to propel the bike using their feet on the ground.

    • @johnnorth4667
      @johnnorth4667 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      { stopped watching when Michael Faraday called from the U.S. rubbish video

    • @johnmaclagan2263
      @johnmaclagan2263 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just scottish
      We don't have to pretend to be British - some of us in Scotland want Britain to break up

  • @andrejmulkovic5708
    @andrejmulkovic5708 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The Genetic Fingerprinting actually became an idea because of one Croatian officer that for the first time used a criminals fingerprint on a sheet of paper.

  • @cristianionica6853
    @cristianionica6853 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Michael Faraday {born September 22, 1791, Newington Butts⁠, United Kingdom - died August 25, 1867, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland} was an English physicist and chemist. He was Sir Humphry Davy's assistant.

  • @kingvii7250
    @kingvii7250 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +170

    I never cease to be amazed at America's ignorance of the outside world. And the complacency that one exhibits.

    • @elainehumphrey2307
      @elainehumphrey2307 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      I’m of the same opinion. History of their own country, is basically all they learn about.

    • @marieross6231
      @marieross6231 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You mean about the flush toilet invented by John Harring ton? That's why lots of people call it the john.😮😅😊

    • @mehere8038
      @mehere8038 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      any wonder when even videos they see that are supposed to be about "the world" are like this one & totally skewed to their own country's inventions?

    • @shaaravguha3760
      @shaaravguha3760 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@mehere8038 This video was clearly focused on more modern inventions (as well as significant ones around the time of the industrial revolution).
      It is true that most of the major technological breakthroughs were done by either the soviets or the Americans. The soviet breakthroughs were mainly done by their military and this video clearly wasn't showing off military inventions so obviously the US would dominate it. (the only reason they weren't the only ones here was because they went all the way back to the industrial revolution where europe dominated the technological breakthroughs. If you went back 100 years before then europe would almsot entirely be making up the list. If you went back 1000 years after that then it would most certainly be the arab states, china and some parts of india which dominate. Another 500 years would be the romans, han and mauryans.)
      You get the point, the US dominates because they focused on the period of time where the US was at the cutting edge of technology. (they still are, most of the worlds breakthroughs are happening either in the US or Europe due to their large research institutions. China is catching up aswell, but as of right now that's all they're doing. Catching up.)

    • @mehere8038
      @mehere8038 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@shaaravguha3760 wtf are you on? Please tell me you don't actually belive that?
      Tell me who invented the
      working electric refrigerator
      wifi
      latex gloves
      goggle maps
      CPAP machines
      pacemakers
      iron lung ventilator
      cochlear ear
      black box flight recorders
      spray on skin
      medical ultrasound
      duel flush toilets
      polymer money
      gene silencing
      antiviral/flu meds
      radar system to detect stealth aircraft
      EXELGRAM (anti-counterfeiting tech)
      blast glass
      cervical cancer vacinne
      quantum bit
      quantum logic​ gate
      ATM machines
      Frazer lens (allows near & far objects to be simultaniously in focus in films)
      digital product activation
      multi-focal contact lenses
      Polilight forensic lamp (used to detect fingerprints at crime scenes & analyse paintings to see additional paintings under them & erased paint of writing)
      baby safety capsule for cars
      airplane emergency escape slide
      frozen embryo baby
      hovering rocket
      microwave landing system (what all planes/airports use to land planes when visibility is poor)
      wine cask
      plastic glasses lenses
      braces for teeth
      solar hot water systems
      sunscreen
      granny smith apple
      secret ballot voting
      ghost bat military figher jet/drone combo
      mass producable cardboard stealth attack drone (in use in Ukraine)
      got it yet? That's only a part list of course, but that entire list is from a single country that didn't get a SINGLE mention in this video. Do you honestly think not a single one of those inventions was more worthy of the list than the bandaid?
      Figured out what country that list is from yet? Here's an extra tip, they also invented the winged keel for sailing boats & used it in a certain yatch race the US had won eternally until that invention.
      I could list off a tonne more inventions from the same country or from other countries also not mentioned in this video. Tell me you honestly think the US is inventing more than the above in terms of revolutionary, life changing inventions in global use today & note that the population of the country that invented all the above is 13 times less than that of the US, with only 27 million people & only coming into existance in 1901
      Lets see you come up with a list that long for US inventions of equal importance to the world as those above! Not possible, is it! The US is good at selling itself, NOT inventing stuff! It lags WAY below the world in the number of inovations!

  • @wjdietrich
    @wjdietrich 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +96

    Edison is known for buying others inventions then patenting and claiming them as his own.

    • @javiervicedo4201
      @javiervicedo4201 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Yes and yes

    • @KevPack65
      @KevPack65 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Buying or stealing.

    • @Athenswinslava
      @Athenswinslava 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He was workaholic too. Not just sitting at home and buying them. He was very intelligent too

    • @ababbington1
      @ababbington1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Athenswinslavayes. Intelligent enough to steal them. All he did was patent an idea that was already invented and nothing more.

    • @andreschachel5863
      @andreschachel5863 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The real inventer was a german clockmaker. But he had no interest to make money with it. It was only to light his shop

  • @007EnglishAcademy
    @007EnglishAcademy 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    WHOA! Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland and was educated at two different British universities. United Kingdom (1847-1922)
    British-subject in Canada (1870-1882)
    United States (1882-1922)

  • @Tortuex_
    @Tortuex_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    also *vaccination* was invented by the UK but *vaccines* by Mr. Pasteur, in France

  • @xenotypos
    @xenotypos 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +170

    Saying the US "invented airplanes" is kinda ridiculous and a gross simplification. No country really did, it was the result of constant research and improvements from the 1880s to the 1900s. The Wright brothers were just a part of that process.
    Also, they missed some very important inventions (like the printing press or photography), and included some "meh" inventions.

    • @Andi_de
      @Andi_de 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      True. But the first person to fly was Otto von Lilienthal. Everything that came after was based on his findings. You “just” had to put these and the combustion engine together. What the Right brothers "invented" was the control system for the flight train.

    • @suit1337
      @suit1337 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      and even then Otto Lilienthal built a functional glider almost 10 years before the wright brothers
      almost 100 years before that George Cayley built a functional glider (but with no human aboard)

    • @jbird4478
      @jbird4478 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That's true for pretty much all inventions. All inventors are standing on the shoulders of giants, as they say.

    • @iantellam9970
      @iantellam9970 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yes - 'inventions' rarely come out of nowhere. Mostly the claimed 'inventor' is just making one step of an ongoing process of technological evolution but for various reasons becomes the name associated with early developments in that technology. Quite often it's the person who was able to commercialise it best, meaning their variant is the one that becomes the standard - not that they were the one who made the key leap in engineering. Edison and Bell for instance.

    • @xenotypos
      @xenotypos 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@jbird4478 Some inventions are more like that than others, and some weren't even invented at precise moment, since they were just the result of continuous slight increments.
      To take a concrete example, it's hard not to credit Heron of Alexandria with the first steam machine, or not to credit the guy who invented canned food in the early 1800s. They did it almost from 0, even if nothing is never from 0 fondamentally speaking but by that I just mean they did most of the job.
      As opposed to that, inventions such as the car, photography, cinema, the computer or planes, had dozen of people making equally important breakthroughs, so it would be very unfair to just credit it to one guy. It's done regardless to make history simpler for the mob, and sometimes because there's an agenda ("that guy from my country did it blablabla").
      I mean, regarding planes in particular, crediting the Wright brothers is very misleading, other planes did fly before them, and it was just a "race" for who would make the most practical plane first. Some say it's Santos-Dumont (his model didn't require a catapult) some say the wright brothers, some say it's others before them even if those versions weren't very fonctional. I think the Wright brothers made important advances, but not more than those before them and than those after them (just 2 years after they presented their plane, the Wright brothers' model was already obsolete and replaced by better concepts).

  • @johnnyuk3365
    @johnnyuk3365 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +259

    As others have said lots of errors in this, and as you said Ryan very difficult to assign many of these inventions, particularly since the late 1800’s, to one person. A critical thing is who got the patent in first. Edison was notoriously good at this, e.g the lightbulb, but to his credit he was a greater improver of other people’s inventions.
    Alexander Graham Bell (born Scottish) was working on the telephone with many others, he applied for a patent for something that he knew didn’t work hoping he could get it to work. He did. He seemed to have a close relationship with the Patent Office which helped. His wife was deaf, so he bizarrely “invented” something which was totally useless to her. He wondered why she never answered the phone.
    The biggest horrendous error in this was to call Micheal Faraday an American. To us Scientists and Engineers (in the U.K. but I believe worldwide) , Micheal Faraday is a hero. He didn’t just invent the electric motor but established the fundamental principles of electromagnetism on which the modern world is founded. He is up there with Newton, Darwin and Einstein. I don’t believe he ever left the U.K, let alone become American.

    • @Ali-ew3oe
      @Ali-ew3oe 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      adding on that: Femi was Italian so nuclear reactors are not really a US invention (although Fermi was working in US). Internet hasn't been invented in the US as well but at the CERN (by a Belgian if I remember correctly)

    • @tamibenz6626
      @tamibenz6626 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      Didn’t Thomas Edison steal most of‘his’ ideas from Nikola Tesla??

    • @johnnyuk3365
      @johnnyuk3365 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@tamibenz6626Now that is an interesting question. I don’t think Edison really stole anything from Tesla, but Tesla worked for Edison and they had a fundamental breakup over electricity. Edison thought the future was DC and Tesla was for AC, so Tesla went to Westinghouse to promote AC, and the past 100 years has proven Tesla right. Westinghouse didn’t appreciate him either and he died in a hotel room in poverty. I should be pleased that Elon Musk has resurrected his name, but I just don’t like Elon Musk. There is a movie about Tesla but can’t remember the name. I think it was on Netflix.

    • @torstensteinert776
      @torstensteinert776 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@Ali-ew3oe Actually the internet was invented by the american DARPA, what CERN invented was the world-wide-web (www) which is build as part (or maybe on top of) the internet.

    • @mehallica666
      @mehallica666 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      ​@@torstensteinert776The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee; an Englishman.

  • @readinginfrench1123
    @readinginfrench1123 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    John Logie Baird (13 August 1888 - 14 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926.He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube.

  • @jasper7015
    @jasper7015 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The comments from this guy, is exactly what europeans would expect.
    That is not a complement..

  • @1969JohnnyM
    @1969JohnnyM 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

    I'm shocked how anyone ever thought that someone as consequential as Michael Faraday was anything but English. You learn about Faraday in late primary school and onwards. I don't think he even ever left England let alone travelling to America.

    • @ianmarshall9144
      @ianmarshall9144 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He traveled to France with Davy ,

    • @ptnhs3114
      @ptnhs3114 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      And John Loggy Baird who invented the telephone was Scottish, not American. Someone need to do their homework. Humphry Davy invented the first electric lightbulb in the UK in 1802

    • @timetraveler43
      @timetraveler43 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Johann Philip Reiss, a German invented the precursor of the telephone.

    • @PortugalZeroworldcup
      @PortugalZeroworldcup 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@timetraveler43him and Graham bell and Antonio meucci
      TV is both Philo Farnsworth and John l Baird
      Bulb Edison and Joseph Wilson swan

    • @bradleyedwards9244
      @bradleyedwards9244 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Aaaaahh noooò! James Harrison invented the first patented refrigeration "system". An Aussie ,1858 if a remember correctly

  • @gymjunke1
    @gymjunke1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Michael Faraday Was born in England lived his entire life in England and died in England. He did invent the Electric motor, in England!

  • @Otacatapetl
    @Otacatapetl 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    "Volta. Cool name for a battery inventor". That has to be the most American comment ever.

    • @lucio2649
      @lucio2649 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "Watt" did you say?

  • @peterwilkins7013
    @peterwilkins7013 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The world's first traffic light was outside Parliament in London

  • @biancawichard4057
    @biancawichard4057 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    it is clear that this video was made in the US and they got a lot wrong besides they left out very important inventions that were not invented in the US. in the Netherlands were more than 2 inventions as mentioned in this list, for example the fire hose, the microscope, the telescope, the audiotape, videotape, cd, blueray , wifi and bluetooth, the submarine, the Stock Exchange, the artificial heart and many more

    • @rmyikzelf5604
      @rmyikzelf5604 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not audiotape or video tape, but the compact cassette. And the CD. And as far as I am aware not the artificial heart, but the artificial kidney!

    • @biancawichard4057
      @biancawichard4057 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      all 3 vyou say its not but they are philips invented the audiotape and the videotape and than the cd and the artificial heart was infented by willwem kolff who also invented the artificial kidney@@rmyikzelf5604

    • @solinvictus1234
      @solinvictus1234 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      1. The Stock Exchange was invented by the Italians in medieval time, under the Medici family, that also inventing the Banking system.
      2. The CD was invented by James Russel. An American.
      3. The telescope was invented by an Italian Galileo Galilei, that showed publicly his first telescope prototype in Venice in 1603.
      4. The first artificial heart was invented by a Russian, Vladimir Demichov in 1937.

    • @peterbrown6458
      @peterbrown6458 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@solinvictus1234 WIFI was invented and patented by the CSIRO in AUSTRALIA,

    • @mickgrace2558
      @mickgrace2558 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wifi, I think you will find, is an Australian C.S.I.R.O invention. As is the refrigerator.

  • @BrokenCurtain
    @BrokenCurtain 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +213

    1:48 Before pendulum clocks existed, people had to use things like sun dials, water clocks, candles, hourglasses and so on to measure time.
    Spring-driven clocks already existed, but they were really inaccurate before Huygens incorporated the pendulum, which provided a massive increase in precision.
    To help you understand the importance of this, consider being a businessman who is trying to schedule half a dozen meetings in an afternoon. Having a good clock means your grasp on time moves from using generic terms like "dawn", "noon" and "dusk" to something like "01:48 PM" - this makes everything much more efficient.

    • @adrianboardman162
      @adrianboardman162 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      The way I look at a pendulum, is like using a Metronome when I'm playing music. It keeps me in time. The pendulum does the same thing, but for the clocks hands.

    • @BrokenCurtain
      @BrokenCurtain 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@adrianboardman162 Yeah, you're right. It's the same thing.
      Fun fact about Huygens: when he was a child, he received a liberal education which included studying music. So it's possible that he followed the same thought process as you.

    • @JoachimTHIBAULT
      @JoachimTHIBAULT 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      The pendulum accuracy also permit lots and lots of progress in science and shipping navigation (The time of the day is crucial in the position calcul with sun or stars). In those domains accuracy is crucial.

    • @BrokenCurtain
      @BrokenCurtain 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@JoachimTHIBAULT Pendulum clocks don't work well on ships, though. The first really precise maritime watches made by John Harrison were spring-powered and used balance wheels.

    • @adrianboardman162
      @adrianboardman162 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@BrokenCurtain I'm Autistic, so I'm probably thinking a bit too outside the box, But it does make sense that a metronome set to 120 (2 beats, or Tick Tocks) a minute would equals 60 seconds, or a minute. I'd need to properly look into it.

  • @adrian5783
    @adrian5783 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Romania: The first fountain pen, insulin 1922, jet engine 1910, 3D movies, hyper cd- Rom

    • @mehere8038
      @mehere8038 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      wow, I didn't know those, facinating

    • @janetbest6638
      @janetbest6638 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Insulin was invented in Canada. Nicolae Paulescu (Romanian) claimed to have discovered insulin.

  • @thepicard83
    @thepicard83 7 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    They did not mention the fact that sweden invented seatbelts, The wrench, X ray machines, Pacemaker, Håkan Lars invented the navigationsystem that became standard for all trafik today. He also invented the GPS system to prevent objects from colliding. The system was named STDMA. Coathangers, The defibrillator, berings and more. We may be a very smll country but we did come up with great things :)

  • @agniisourgod5690
    @agniisourgod5690 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Bro hitting us with his annual quota US propaganda

  • @dikkiedik9463
    @dikkiedik9463 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Generations of children in the United States were raised to revere Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone. They learned about how his work with the deaf led to interest about the artificial transmission of sound, and how he filed the first patent for the telephone in 1876.
    But while Bell may have been the first to patent the telephone, he was not the first to have invented it.
    That honor goes to a little-known Italian immigrant named Antonio Meucci.
    After moving from Italy to Staten Island in 1850, Meucci began to experiment with the electromagnetic transmission of sound. In 1856, he succeeded in building a functioning telephone which he described in his notes:
    It consists of a vibrating diaphragm and an electrified magnet with a spiral wire that wraps around it. The vibrating diaphragm alters the current of the magnet. These alterations of current, transmitted to the other end of the wire, create analogous vibrations of the receiving diaphragm and reproduce the word. (translated)
    Meucci developed over 30 different types of telephones, but began running into financial problems. Unable to secure funding for his invention, it was not until 1871 that he finally applied for protection of his idea. In one of history's most bitter lessons, his caveat omitted any mention that the variable electrical conduction in the transmission wires was to be converted to sound-- the key point of the telephone. Meucci's poor command of English may have been the prime factor in his inability to secure a patent with his poorly-written caveat. To make matters worse, the Western Union affiliate laboratory he had been working with lost the functioning models of his invention. Five years later, Alexander Graham Bell successfully filed his patent for the telephone, and has been credited with its invention ever since.
    Meucci tried to challenge Bell's claim, but failed in court. He died nearly penniless and unknown to history until 2002, when the US Congress officially recognized him as the true inventor of the telephone.

  • @vasiltashkov594
    @vasiltashkov594 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    John Vincent Atanasoff, OCM, was an Bulgarian - American physicist and inventor credited with inventing the first electronic digital computer. He moved to the states where he did his invention.

  • @careytitan9097
    @careytitan9097 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    George Cayley from Scarborough Yorkshire was an early aviation pioneer who experimented with gliders. In 1799 he set in place the concept of the modern aeroplane as a fixed-wing flying machine.
    He experiments led him to develop an efficient cambered airfoil and the first person to identify the four vector forces that influence an aircraft: thrust, lift, drag, and gravity.

  • @squarecircle1473
    @squarecircle1473 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    The original video I think was not very good because it did not mention the printing press. The printing press, invented by German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg in the year 1436, is arguable one of the most important inventions. It's right up there with the steam engine and the internet in terms of the revolutionary ripple effects it caused. It facilitated the mass-production of books and mass-spread of knowledge, and caused an information revolution. I'm not even German yet I feel frustrated lmao

    • @brendamiller5785
      @brendamiller5785 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Gutenberg Press

    • @MrEvers
      @MrEvers 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      printing was invented in China centuries earlier, though Gutenberg's version is more well known in the west cause it created a revolution.

    • @BlueFlash215
      @BlueFlash215 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@MrEversNo. It was different.
      Gutenberg's version had interchangable letters whereras the early European and Chinese printing press only could copy a set of pre-made scripts.

    • @PortugalZeroworldcup
      @PortugalZeroworldcup 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@BlueFlash215The QWERTY layout was devised and created in the early 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes

    • @einflinkeswiesel2695
      @einflinkeswiesel2695 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@PortugalZeroworldcup that's a completely different thing that has absolutely nothing to do with the printing press

  • @TerryD15
    @TerryD15 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    The first light bulb wss not by Edison but invented by Joseph Swan an English inventor who also installed the first domestic lighting systems in the World- to quote from Wikipedia:
    "His house, Underhill, Low Fell, Gateshead, was the world's first to have working light bulbs installed. The Lit & Phil Library in Westgate Road, Newcastle, was the first public room lit by electric light during a lecture by Swan on 20 October 1880. In 1881 he founded his own company, The Swan Electric Light Company, and started commercial production."

    • @Stolzer_Sachse87
      @Stolzer_Sachse87 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      first lightbulb was a german invention also the telephone... there are so many wrong things in this video...

    • @TenBuckCanuck
      @TenBuckCanuck 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In reality Edison was a fake and contributed next to nothing. He merely worked in a patent office and stole others ideas, hiding the original patent firms and claiming he invented them.

    • @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv
      @KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Made in usa
      Willis carrier- air cooling 1902
      Sergei brin, Larry page - Google 1998
      Norman woodland - barcode
      Ray Tomlinson - email
      Thomas Jefferson - swiveling chair
      Adolf Rickenbacker - electric guitar
      Roger Easton - gps
      Benjamin Franklin - bifocals,lightning rod
      Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan - skyscrapers
      Christopher scholes - qwerty keyboard
      🇺🇸

    • @user-yk1cf8qb7q
      @user-yk1cf8qb7q 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv Tim Berners-Lee (UK; CERN) HTTP + WWW Foundation (No WWW = no Google);
      Lewis Essen, Jack Perry (NPL UK) - cesium Atomic clock (no Atomic clock = no GPS);
      Michael Faraday (UK)- electromagnetic coil = pickup = electric guitar;
      The tower of Nevyansk had a lightning rod in 1745 and Prokop Diviš built one on Monrovia in 1754 (Franklin invented it for the US);
      QWERTY keyboard is not useful on modern keyboards, only on mechanical typewriters to prevent mechanical key interlock, Alphabetic keyboards are of more use now, but in early computing it was thought that they would be used by trained typists forever so we're stuck with them;
      Eugene Emanuel Viollet-le-Duc Suggested the first Skyscraper type building; in his lectures in the early 19th C;
      UK experimental engineers Gordon, Faraday and Henry - early electric motor later developed elsewhere - (no motors = no Aircon);
      Swivel chair -Wow.
      John Shepherd-Barron - 1967 invented and installed first ATM at Barclays Bank, London (copied by US engineer Don Wetzel in 1968).
      Every inventor stands on the shoulders of earlier pioneers back to the Stone Age.

    • @ryanellis9325
      @ryanellis9325 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Edison invented next to nothing worth mentioning, any of 'his' big ones we're stolen or the patent was bought. He was a nasty wee shit Edison.

  • @itkenverta
    @itkenverta 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've seen an american arguing that without them the world wouldn't have vehicles, modern clothing etc, pretty much everything. The list was long and so ridiculous I took a s/s but that phone was stolen and everything was lost.
    Edit: lol at "pacifist" swedes, they used to be blood hungry vikings, then they captured Finland, and after that there's been a saying "finns fight the swedish wars".

  • @johankaewberg8162
    @johankaewberg8162 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Volt (the unit) is named after Volta, just as the Ampere is named after Ampere, the Coulumb after Coulumb and the Watt after Watt (and the Newton after Newton)

  • @andreanecchi5930
    @andreanecchi5930 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +158

    for the telephone Antonio Meucci an Italian had created the prototype , this is a translated article : The invention of the telephone was at the center of a long controversy between the Italian Antonio Meucci and the American Alexander Graham Bell. In 1834 Meucci began working on this project in Florence, and then perfected it in Cuba, where he arrived as a political refugee. Meucci built several prototype telephones that he submitted to the American company Western Union Telegraph Company asking for funding. The company not only gave him a negative response, but also told him that it had lost its prototypes. In 1876, however, a former Western Union employee, Alexander Graham Bell, who had examined Meucci's devices, patented the telephone! Only in 2002 did the United States Congress officially recognize, albeit very belatedly, that Meucci was the inventor of the telephone.

    • @janolaful
      @janolaful 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Alexandre Graham Bell wasn't american he was scottish born in Edinburgh

    • @nomaam9077
      @nomaam9077 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Johann Philipp Reis invented the telephone 10 years before Alexander Graham Bell!

    • @nerd8968
      @nerd8968 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      And i'm pretty sure that Enrico Fermi was from Italy, not from the USA.

    • @cockneyse
      @cockneyse 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Alexander Graham Bell that Scottish inventor who first demonstrated it to Queen Victoria in her house on the Isle of Wight... that "American"???

    • @BennoWitter
      @BennoWitter 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Too me the inventor of the telephone will always be Philipp Reis. He even called his invention "Telephon"

  • @alphaomega3499
    @alphaomega3499 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Gustave Whitehead, a German immigrant is said to have invented powered flight before the Wright brothers, and Santos Dumont from Brazil is also proposed as a pre-Wright brothers powered flight pioneer. John Logie-Baird of Scotland invented the television, and the German, Braun, perfected rocket flight.

  • @Fr34k0fn4tvr3
    @Fr34k0fn4tvr3 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Wait till he finds out sydney, australia invented wifi lol

    • @heatherwardell2501
      @heatherwardell2501 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ryan knows, he did Aussie inventions; they didn't invent it but made it useable

    • @ExternalInputs
      @ExternalInputs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@heatherwardell2501 That really opens up the first aeroplane. The Wright brothers didn't invent it, they just made it usable, unlike all the previous inventions that didn't fly.

    • @metalvideos1961
      @metalvideos1961 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      wrong thats the netherlands. Australia didnt invent it. the 802.11 protocol that let you connect to WIFI is invented by the Dutchman Vic Hayes. Australia had NOTHING to do with. Australia only improved on it. the Chip that we use in our Modems are invented in Ausralia the WIFI itself is a Dutch invention

  • @IanDarley
    @IanDarley 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    A point to note: The device that produces microwaves inside a microwave oven - the cavity magnetron is a British invention, without this we wouldn't have the oven. It was invented and intended for use in high power radars. A prototype was loaned to the US for experimentation and during these experiments a candy bar melted in the pocket of a scientist, this gave him the idea for the oven. A world-changing invention that wasn't mentioned was the escape wheel clock. Unlike pendulum clocks, these are not affected by movement, this allowed accurate time keeping aboard ships and made accurate longitude plotting and hence precise sea navigation possible. By knowing exactly what time it was at Greenwich (GMT) and checking for local high noon with a a sextant, you knew how many degrees West or East you were.

    • @Julia-lk8jn
      @Julia-lk8jn 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Cool, I didn't even think about that, but of course it'd make a huge difference to have an accurate clock on ship. Thx

    • @jimmyb640
      @jimmyb640 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Magnetron is a Scottish invention.

    • @IanDarley
      @IanDarley 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@jimmyb640 Scotland is both inside Great Britain and part of the United Kingdom. What is your point? (apart from the fact that it was invented in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom).

  • @AprilJMoon
    @AprilJMoon 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    The person who created this video must have come up with many of these inventors nationalities off the top of his head with no actual research as he changed some nationalities to American when almost everyone knows that they were not

    • @JohanHultin
      @JohanHultin 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Very clear the creator is american, notice how a majority of the inaccuracies make the USA look alot better.

    • @metalvideos1961
      @metalvideos1961 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      this guy didnt do reseach at all lol. Telescope is a UK invention? yeah no fat change. it was created in the Netherlands by Hans Lippershey in 1608. The Microscope was also invented in the netherlands by Dutch Father-Son team, Hans and Zaccharias Jansen in 1590s.

  • @einflinkeswiesel2695
    @einflinkeswiesel2695 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    You know, in Europe we always wait for someone named like a scientific unit to be born so they can invent something that is related to that unit. Definitely not the other way around xD

    • @andreasfischer9158
      @andreasfischer9158 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I always wondered how Albert Einstein got his surname. He was born in 1879, and einsteinium wasn’t discovered until 1952.

  • @lycian123
    @lycian123 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Graham Bell was Scottish Canadian, he died in Canada. He held dual UK and US nationality.

  • @redceltnet
    @redceltnet 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    The Wright brothers didn't "invent" aircraft. There was competition in several countries for people to produce a powered aircraft. The Wright brothers's design was the most successful as it stayed in the air for roughly the same distance as the wingspan of a modern jet.

    • @mytwocents2817
      @mytwocents2817 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well actually Gustav Weißkopf was earlier and flew over a higher distance several articles in newspapers document this his flight wasn´t filmed but stated.

  • @dereknewbury163
    @dereknewbury163 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    The word "paper" is derived from the Greek, "papyrus". Papyrus is a plant, common along waterways and was used by Egyptians as early as the 4th millennium BCE to write upon.

    • @drsnova7313
      @drsnova7313 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I guess it's not about having some flat, plant-based sheet to write on, but the particular manufacturing process: Unlike papyrus (and similar things from different fibers that existed in Asia), paper wasn't woven, but it was made from pulp - which allowed for easier and cheaper production of it.

    • @paolocarpi4769
      @paolocarpi4769 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Papyrus rolls were too costly, difficult to manufacture and fragile to become widely used. Paper instead was the reason people learned to write and read and knowledge become progressively accessible to common people.

    • @TriloByte101
      @TriloByte101 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@drsnova7313dude egyptians got chinese nuts handed over to them😂😂😂 😂 paper was never invented by chinese and nobody whose history dates back to 2000years or more don't recognise it... paper was not invented by them it's just that their process was different...😂😂😂

    • @Astuga
      @Astuga 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also while paper made from rags, mullberry and other materials may have been invented in what is today China, modern paper made from wood pulp is a complete different technology and was invented in Europe during a long process step by step by French, British and Germans.

    • @GamerWithAttitude1
      @GamerWithAttitude1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The video he's watching is full of errors. And he can't figure out, as a poor american 😭

  • @pe1pqx321
    @pe1pqx321 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    BlueTooth: a Dutch invention
    Microscope: Antony van Leeuwenhoek (a 17th century Dutch person)
    Compact Disc (partially) a Dutch invention

    • @metalvideos1961
      @metalvideos1961 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Compact disc is 100% a Dutch invention same as the DVD. you are thinking about the Blu-ray which is invented on the Dutch idea of the CD. but Blu-ray is a joined creation of Philips Sony JVC and Panasonic. also dont forget WIFI its also a 100% Dutch Invention

  • @christinagane1352
    @christinagane1352 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Getting "inventing" confused with "developing"

  • @lundypete
    @lundypete 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +251

    Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish. However most of his work on the telephone was actually in Canada.
    The lightbulb was invented by Swan in Newcastle, UK. Fair to say Edison made it commercially viable.
    Regarding AC, its one of the most environmentally damaging inventions. Not only in its electrical consumption but also its direct impact on global warming.
    Arguably, the first mechanical computer was invented by Babbage in the UK in the 1820s.

    • @johnp5990
      @johnp5990 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      Henry Woodward was a Canadian med student who invented the lightbulb based on Swan's work and others. He was too poor to see it through himself. He patented his lightbulb in Canada in 1874, and later in the US in 1876. When the US patent was filed, Edison was told about it. Edison and five colleagues spent the next 2 years trying to invent a lightbulb to beat Woodward to market. They couldn't figure it out so in 1878 Edison went to Woodward and bought the exclusive rights to Woodward's US patent, promising that Woodward would get the credit and make enough money to sell his lightbulb in Canada and Europe. Edison then took the patent and studied Woodward's design, and also made several small changes which Woodward mentioned he wanted to make. Edison took the new design and filed a patent in 1879. The US Patent Office decided there were just enough changes that it qualified as a separate invention. Edison manufactured and sold his (stolen) design, allowing him to keep all the credit and money for himself.

    • @GGysar
      @GGysar 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Inventions never happen in a vacuum, but as a person who knows a thing or 2 about computer science, I would still say, that Konrad Zuse invented the computer because his computer works pretty much exactly the same way modern computers today do, something the previous inventions just didn't.

    • @Youtube_Stole_My_Handle_Too
      @Youtube_Stole_My_Handle_Too 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Bell didn't invent the telephone, but an Italian.

    • @blackkohi
      @blackkohi 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@TH-cam_Stole_My_Handle_TooMeucci did

    • @manueltapia1859
      @manueltapia1859 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The same goes to the airplane before the Wright brothers one brazilian man already did the same thing!!!

  • @micade2518
    @micade2518 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    A/C in every American appartment/building: thanks guys for effing up the Planet!

    • @m0t0b33
      @m0t0b33 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      no, no... it's the cows' fault.. they fart too much. 😆

    • @micade2518
      @micade2518 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@m0t0b33 Hmmm ... It's not their farts that are methane-laden, but their burps.
      Cows technically only have one stomach, but it has four distinct compartments made up of Rumen, Reticulum, Omasum and Abomasum, and they feed of hyper-high fiber grass (in an ideal world as, nowadays! ...) that they take ages to digest.
      There is far too much cattle on this earth!

    • @nox8730
      @nox8730 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@m0t0b33 No, in the USA they started to make meat in laboratories, using cell culture (actual fact). There is no cows anymore in their fields. Only burgers.

  • @enrico4237
    @enrico4237 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is a lie that the Wright brothers were the first aviation pioneers.
    Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal (born May 23, 1848 in Anklam, Province of Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia; † August 10, 1896 in Berlin, German Empire) was a German aviation pioneer. He is considered to be the first person to carry out successful and repeatable gliding flights with a flying machine (glider), thus helping the "heavier than air" flight principle to be used for the first time in humans and paving the way for its later success. His experimental preparatory work and first flight tests from 1891 led to the concept of the wing. The representation of aerodynamic properties of wings in the polar diagram was developed by him and is still used today. The production of the normal glider in his machine factory in Berlin was the first series production of an aircraft. Its flight principle was the conversion of kinetic energy and potential energy into lift and propulsion (gliding).

  • @mrflibblegamingstream355
    @mrflibblegamingstream355 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The history of artificial refrigeration dates back to the 18th century. Scottish professor William Cullen designed a small refrigerating machine in 1755

  • @brianbradley6744
    @brianbradley6744 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    The excessive use of AC in North America is astounding. When in motels in both Canada and the US (from the UK) we were kept awake by the AC in adjacent rooms thrumming all night when it absolutely was not needed. It was neither too hot or too cold. I think it is a case of habitual use.

    • @gerardflynn7382
      @gerardflynn7382 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The original Air conditioning was invented in Greece 3,200BC.

    • @vogel2280
      @vogel2280 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@gerardflynn7382 A cooling fan is not the same an AC, since it lacks the concept of a heat-pump.

    • @ruggerobelloni4743
      @ruggerobelloni4743 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I lived in San Diego and every
      Summer I had to take a wool sweater with me to wear on the Trolley or in a supermarket.
      At the movies the chill, .loud
      sound track and buckets of pop corn took some getting used to (in Raiders the darts
      coming at you were very cool)
      On a lighter mood, girls come
      to bed with cold feet all over
      the world.

  • @Kari.F.
    @Kari.F. 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    DNA identification is called genetic fingerprinting. It doesn't have anything to do with physical fingerprints.

    • @martijnspruit
      @martijnspruit 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Exactly. The use of fingerprints is almost a century old.

    • @marekvojta9648
      @marekvojta9648 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh now it does give a sence. Still don't understand why isn't it called simply DNA analysis well English is crazy😅

    • @Kari.F.
      @Kari.F. 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@marekvojta9648 They used it to explain what DNA and genetic material was back when it was a very new science that most people didn't understand yet: It identifies an individual the same way fingerprints do. It was the easiest way to explain to a jury how reliable DNA was as evidence in criminal cases where the defendant had used gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints. It was easy to understand, so the word "fingerprint" stuck.

    • @Arltratlo
      @Arltratlo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      shsh, English speaking people geting confused easy...

    • @marekvojta9648
      @marekvojta9648 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Arltratlo Well I'm having English as my second language that's why it confused me. We call it literally DNA analysis (well we also know that Europe is not in middle of Earth and apart form Americans😉😀so that's probably why we use more descriptive name)

  • @frankschmiedel5687
    @frankschmiedel5687 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    14:18 = Alan Turing invented the Turing machine in England during World War II. With this calculating machine he was able to crack the German encryption machine Enigma, which shortened the war by years

  • @MadTamB
    @MadTamB 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A lot of these, it is difficult to decide which was the point that the item was invented as they are all a series of improvements on an original. The bike, was credited to Germany because that was the very first one, but refrigeration, that wasn't the original.

  • @alchristie5112
    @alchristie5112 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Yes, Volta is the reason the unit of electrical energy is called the “Volt”.
    And also James Watt is the reason we use “Watt” for power.

  • @Rachel_M_
    @Rachel_M_ 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    Michael Faraday, inventor of the motor, was British, not American.
    Marco i was in Britain when he developed the radio, the first transmission was In Somerset, UK.

    • @williebauld1007
      @williebauld1007 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      as was Alexander Graham Bell who invented the telephone, he was Scottish

    • @elunedlaine8661
      @elunedlaine8661 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      My mother met Marconi when she was 4 years old

    • @Rachel_M_
      @Rachel_M_ 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@elunedlaine8661awesome 😁

    • @Rachel_M_
      @Rachel_M_ 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@williebauld1007i thought he was but wasn't 100%. Thanks buddy 👍

    • @williebauld1007
      @williebauld1007 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Rachel_M_ no problem mate 👌🏻

  • @keithhurst2970
    @keithhurst2970 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The first practical television was invented by a Scotsman John Logie Baird and first exhibited in 1926, although some of the first experiments in the field of sending pictures by Telegraph can be traced back to the 1830's. The "Baird televisor" was a crude electromechanical device with rotating discs and was soon improved upon by the first fully electronic Televisions after the invention of the Cathode Ray Tube.

  • @leniere309
    @leniere309 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The clay thing you mentioned was called the Bagdad battery and it produced a single volt of electricity.
    Cheers.

  • @sklag1
    @sklag1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Sorry but 3 of the inventions claimed by the US are wrong. Michael Faraday inventor of the electric motor was English. Alexander Graham Bell inventor of the telephone was Scottish. There were several light bulbs before Edison made a successful commercial light bulb

    • @mongrgic
      @mongrgic 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Not to mention that Edison stole some of the inventions of other inventors.

    • @amerigovespucci4807
      @amerigovespucci4807 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The thelephone is Italian, Marcucci. Only in American is Bell😂😂😂😂

    • @sklag1
      @sklag1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@amerigovespucci4807 Interesting, I have just read up on Meucci Thanks for that.

  • @Jeni10
    @Jeni10 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    “Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/; 23 June 1912 - 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist.[6] Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer.[7][8][9] He is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.” More on Wikipedia.

    • @zoedundas8423
      @zoedundas8423 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Not to mention Tommy Flowers who built the first programmable computer at Bletchley Park

    • @Arltratlo
      @Arltratlo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Zuse computer got an keyboard, no need to use a paper card or to rewire the computer... modern computer!

  • @andreasbippus5217
    @andreasbippus5217 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The concept of aerodynamics you mentioned was actually first utilised by Otto Lilienthal a german.

  • @graciefolden2359
    @graciefolden2359 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    🇨🇦: Bell was born a U.K. citizen in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and moved to Brantford, Ont., with his parents at the age of 13. He was a U.K. subject in Canada and considered a Canadian citizen before the official creation of Canadian citizenship in 1947. All have claims on being the telephone's “father.” Even if priority of claim is accorded to Bell, the telephone is hardly an all-Canadian invention as many Canadians believe. According to Bell himself, the telephone was conceived in Brantford, Ontario, Canada but developed at his workshop in Boston, Massachusetts.

  • @catherinewilkins2760
    @catherinewilkins2760 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    John Logie Bared credited with invention of TV, a Scottish man, so British. Michael Faraday also British.

    • @williebauld1007
      @williebauld1007 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As was Alexander Graham Bell who invented the TV

    • @rickconstant6106
      @rickconstant6106 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@williebauld1007 telephone

    • @Deano-Dron81
      @Deano-Dron81 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@williebauld1007Telephone you mean.

    • @williebauld1007
      @williebauld1007 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Deano-Dron81 aye! Why on earth I said tv is beyond me

  • @GazEndo68
    @GazEndo68 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +104

    Alexander Graham Bell (telephone) was a British inventor. John Logie Baird was the Brit who invented the television. Lightbulb wasn’t invented by Edison but he patoned it.

    • @stephenkorky1014
      @stephenkorky1014 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Also Michael Faraday was British. "The electric Motor"

    • @albinjohnsson2511
      @albinjohnsson2511 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Yeah, there's a lot of these. Faraday was also British, and Fermi was Italian (although he became American later in life).

    • @nomaam9077
      @nomaam9077 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Paul Nipkow / Ferdinand Braun / Manfred von Ardenne invented television. All three were German.

    • @Cau_No
      @Cau_No 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      *patented
      Philipp Reis is another inventor connected to the phone, from Germany.

    • @sharonmartin4036
      @sharonmartin4036 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Humphry Davy demonstrated the first incandescent light to the Royal Institute in Great Britain, using a bank of batteries and two charcoal rods. The INVENTOR was therefore British, and yes, Edison tweaked the design and patented it.

  • @SuperMasterMedia
    @SuperMasterMedia 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Theodor Ionescu invented the 3D movies.1946
    Petrache Poenaru invented the fountain pen.1827
    Nicolae Paulescu contributed to the invention of insulin.1916
    Eugen Pavel invented the Hyper CD-ROM.1999
    Henri Marie Coanda invented the aircraft.1910-he produced a jet propulsion system adapted for jet aircraft.
    Aurel Persu built the first aerodynamic car model.1924
    Ana Aslan invented the anti-ageing cream.1948
    Anastase Dragomir invented the ejection seat.1929
    Aurel Babes contributed to the cervical cancer screening test.1927
    Alexandru Ciurcu was one of the inventors of the reaction engine.1866
    Just 10 inventions that changed everyone's life from Romania

  • @bifrostbeberast3246
    @bifrostbeberast3246 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Baghdad battery, you are right. Though it couldn't be proven without a doubt that it was used as battery, it was a clay container with two metal rods and corrosion inside from likely acid, which would resemble a crude battery.

  • @iantellam9970
    @iantellam9970 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    1:46 The pendulum keeps the clock running at a constant speed. Without a pendulum mechanical clocks were wildly inaccurate. It's a vital invention because it heralded the beginning of true mechanical time-keeping which changed the world drastically.

  • @gregmccallum3124
    @gregmccallum3124 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    6:07 I challenge this fact as being wrong. I Googled it and it says it was Fred W Wolfe in 1913. Also, Australia invented the Coolgardie Safe in the late 1890's which is the premise of how a fridge works.

    • @manueltapia1859
      @manueltapia1859 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What you can expect with a country who things invented everything and take credits??? They don't know that in México was invented the birth control pill!!! Hoorray to Australia

  • @markmark63
    @markmark63 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Michael Faraday was English (& yes it is still a nationality). He was born, lived, worked, and died in Britain - where he invented the Electric Motor. Alexander Graham bell was Scottish.
    But the most annoying one for us Brits is the light bulb. Edison came to Britain in the mid-19th Century to patent his "invention" - only to be refused because this type of incandescent bulb had already been in mass production for 40 years by the Swan company. However, Edison did have some great ideas about improving the production process. So they went into a 50/50 partnership called Edison & Swan and the company still exists to this day.

  • @tismeagen684
    @tismeagen684 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    On the US section of "electric Motor" where Michael Faraday is shown, it should be noted Michael Faraday was British, he was born in Surrey, England. The telephone was invented by Alexandra Graham Bell who was Scottish / Canadian not American.

  • @gregmccallum3124
    @gregmccallum3124 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    Not a single mention of Australia:
    Wi-Fi. In 1992 a determined Australian man by the name of John O' Sullivan and his colleagues at CSIRO group stubbled across Wi-Fi. ...
    Cochlear Implants. ...
    Ultrasound scanner. ...
    Electric drill. ...
    Google Maps. ...
    Spray-on skin.
    And so much more.

    • @SerenitySoonish
      @SerenitySoonish 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was salty about that too, especially WiFi 😂

    • @leohickey4953
      @leohickey4953 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Somebody will be along soon to tell you the actress Hedy Lamarr invented Wi-Fi, but she didn't (despite being a very clever woman, some of whose work was eventually incorporated into Bluetooth).

    • @clementg2437
      @clementg2437 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      It’s just random « inventions », full of mistakes and clearly missing some context

    • @drcl7429
      @drcl7429 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I don't think you can stumble across wifi. It was an adaptation of existing technology in to a protocol. It took the ideas of wired ethernet hubs and adapted them to a different media. That was mostly developed by NCR and Bell.
      O'Sullivan and his team did invent Orthogonal Mutiplexing though (and has the court judgements and settlements to prove it) which comes in much more useful nowadays when trying to make wifi faster.

    • @jannekelind1220
      @jannekelind1220 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      WiFi is invented by Cees Links and not Australia

  • @rasputinorco
    @rasputinorco 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    7:50 mistake. The telephone was invented by Antonio Meucci, an Italian, he worked in Cuba and New York, patented first the "talking telegraph" and then the "telettrofono", founded a company in America and held the patents for years, then the business stopped they went as well as he hoped, the investors were missing and he lost the patent because he lacked the 10 dollars needed to renew the patent, and only at that point, with an expired patent that Alexander Bell was able to patent his telephone, if Meucci had renewed the patent the commission he would never have granted the patent right to Bell. You can also find it written on Wikipedia. So who is the inventor of the first electrical system for carrying the voice? Tell me?

    • @ruggerobelloni4743
      @ruggerobelloni4743 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Meucci was also badly hurt
      in the Staten Island ferry fire
      and the setback was dramatic.

  • @Cepterman
    @Cepterman หลายเดือนก่อน

    Earle Dickson invented the “Band Aid” (as in the product), however that was not the first plaster made to take care of small wounds. The origins of the concept go way back to ancient Egypt where they used fabric soaked in honey and oils to aid their wounds.
    The first modern plaster (band aid) was invented in 1882 in Germany by Paul C. Beiersdorf. That’s nearly 40 years earlier than Dicksons Band Aid.

  • @davidbroadfoot1864
    @davidbroadfoot1864 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Charles Babbage (England) originated the concept of a programmable computer. Considered the "father of the computer", he conceptualized and invented the first mechanical computer in the early 19th century.
    The first modern analog computer was invented by Sir William Thomson (later to become Lord Kelvin) in 1872 (England).
    Zuse (Germany) was responsible for numerous milestones, including the world's first commercial computer.

    • @davidbroadfoot1864
      @davidbroadfoot1864 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As for Alan Turing, he is considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. He helped design one of the first stored-program computers (but not the first).

  • @Jeni10
    @Jeni10 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Before refrigerators, we used ice boxes. They were metal lined wooden boxes with a purchased block of ice inside. Before we knew how to freeze water into blocks, we cut them from frozen lakes and stored them underground in natural caves.

    • @Arltratlo
      @Arltratlo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      in 1895, a German froze air to make it liquid!

    • @leglessinoz
      @leglessinoz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      An Australian made the first machine to create ice for refrigeration

    • @PortugalZeroworldcup
      @PortugalZeroworldcup 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ArltratloWilliam Cullen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 refrigerator
      Though I don't know condensation

  • @lloydcollins6337
    @lloydcollins6337 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    8:15 The lightbulb is very contentious and was almost certainly NOT invented by Edison. Edison had one good quality, he could see when a product was ready to market. He employed hundreds of inventors and scientists and was ruthless about stealing their ideas and getting them to market when they were ready under his name - he filed all the patents so he got the credit.
    One of his scientists/inventors likely invented the light bulb at roughly the same time as Joseph Swan in the UK, which is why the UK arm of Edison's company was sued by Swan's light bulb company for breaching Swan's UK patent on the light bulb. Edison lost, and tried to counter-sue in the US for Swan breaching the US patent, but they decided to pull out because if Swan could prove prior research they may have lost their American patent. So instead Swan and Edison negotiated a merger and formed the Ediswan company, which manufactured light bulbs in the UK until 1928 when it was purchased by a company that was eventually purchased by Siemens.

  • @italico3222
    @italico3222 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor and entrepreneur, famous for the development of a remote vocal communication device, which he called "teleprophone" and that several sources accredito as the first phone ...The real inventor of the phone

  • @simhedgesrex7097
    @simhedgesrex7097 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The industrial revolution in the UK started about 1760, and was driven by water power to run mill machinery, and canals to transport goods. The stationary steam engine (for pumping water out of mines) started to have an impact in the early 1800s.
    Michael Faraday was British (Electric Motor) not American.
    Television: John Logie Baird (British), though the system he invented did not go on to be widely used.
    And I love the way that "Coronavirus" is on the list of the "World's most useful inventions"!

    • @mehere8038
      @mehere8038 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      His name did in Australia though :) To this day, the annual television awards in Australia are called "logies" in honour of him

  • @stephanthomas9531
    @stephanthomas9531 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    It is an American dream and a cherished and oft-told tale that the Wright Brothers were the first to fly powered. But it was a German named Gustav Weisskopf

  • @matthewoertel2454
    @matthewoertel2454 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I think you need to find a better video to watch....Edison didn't invent the light bulb, the French invented cinema, a Scot invented the phone, and a Brit invented the electric motor. Very badly researched.

    • @CatGrindle
      @CatGrindle 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hear hear.

  • @DomainRider
    @DomainRider 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Charles Babbage invented the first digital programmable computer, the Analytical Engine, back in the 18th century, but it was necessarily mechanical, and the precision engineering of the time wasn't really up to the job (and the money ran out), so only parts of it were built. In 1991 the Science Museum in London used his plans to build the simpler Difference Engine, which worked OK.

  • @alexfoster307
    @alexfoster307 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The incandescent light bulb was invented by Joseph Swann, an English man, Thomas Edison was a knob and took credit for it. And also the Telephone, Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish, not a yank.

  • @barrywood7322
    @barrywood7322 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Charles Babbage 26 December 1791 - 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.
    Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer". Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found in Babbage's Analytical Engine, programmed using a principle openly borrowed from the Jacquard loom. Babbage had a broad range of interests in addition to his work on computers