FunFact: When the film Monty Python's Life of Brian was banned in Norway under blasphemous laws, in Sweden the marketing campaign ran with 'A movie so funny they banned it in Norway' :)
Yeah, same thing with Mercedes and the ABS system. Hey USA, there's an idea for you somewhere (hint: doing good for humanity without cashing in at any cost - but simply because it's the right thing to do)
Worth remembering, about the 3 point seatbelt, is that the inventor worked for Volvo. The CEO of Volvo, recognising the importance of this as a life saving device (and I believe having lost someone in a car accident without seatbelts) gifted access to this patent to ALL other car manufacturers. They could have made a fortune by charging for it but put lives above money. I was expecting dynamite to be included in this, as it was invented by Alfred Nobel, the man whose name is used for high ranking prizes in multiple industries. ❤
Very nicely done by Volvo! Other things that could have made it to top ten is the wrench, the propeller for motorboats and the computer mouse. All those tools are universally used tools.
I love Sweden my best friend has lived there for over 20 years and I've visited a lot, it's so clean and beautiful with an amazing rich history, absolutely one of my favourite countries that I've visited.
Spotify is swedish, Adjustable spanner, Electrolux household appliances, Essity - from baby care to toilet paper, Walking frame/walker, Ikea , dynamite, blow torch, tetrapak, propeller , minecraft. And so on. And swedish song writers have written worlds biggest hits for years.. not us, Sweden… especially max martin… 🤘🤘
Swedish inventions : Blow tourch - Carl Richard Nyberg Tetra pak - Ruben Rausing Kerosene stoves (Primus) - Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist Steam Turbine - Gustaf De Laval The milk separator - Gustaf de Laval Inkjet and Ultrasound - Helmuth Hertz Artificial Kidney - Nils Alwall Dry Milk - Ninni Kronberg The Celsius temperature scale also comes from a Swedish man named Anders Celsius. The first central bank in the world was Swedish, Founded 1668. And still exist today. Zipper - Gideon Sundbäck Propeller - John Ericsson Adjustable wrench - Johan Petter Johansson Pacemaker - Rune Elmqvist Gauge blocks - Carl Edvard Johansson Vacuum cleaner In 1942, the Swedish paper company Paulistr invented the first disposable diapers. Ball bearing AGA-lighthouse Bluetooth Modern day rollator - Aina Wifalk Mobile phones Color graphics on computers Safety matches GPS Classification of all plants & animals - Carl von Linné The dynamite - Alfred Nobel - Yes the guy who started Nobel Prize Padlocks Spotify Skype Kick sled Laminate flooring Wall bars - Teacher Per Henrik Ling Ring binder Dishcloth - Curt Lindqvist Sincerely Tom.
GPS was actually developed by the American Department of Defense, however, another positioning positioning system called AIS (Automatic Identification System) is based on a technology (STDMA) developed by Swedish inventor Håkan Lans. AIS is used by ships and airplane, for them to automatically identify other ships/planes. Worth noting is the Lans also invented the graphic processing technology that enabled the use of color graphic, as well as a precursor to the computer mouse with the patent "Arrangement for producing a pattern on a light-sensitive surface". Other trivia - as a twelve year old he built a motorized soapbox car, and at 18 a submarine(!) capable of reaching a depth of 90 meters / 295 ft. 😀 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A5kan_Lans sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A5kan_Lans en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_identification_system en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organized_time-division_multiple_access
@@t-man78 Rollatorn uppfanns 1978 av Aina Wifalk skickade in idén till en statlig utvecklingsfond. Hon fick pengar och kontakt med ett företag som gjorde konstruktionen och tre år senare drog tillverkningen igång. 40 år senare är det många som tar sig fram - och har fått bättre livskvalitet - tack vare Aina Wifalks uppfinng. Vi Svenskar är jävligt smarta, vi ska vara jävligt stolta.
@@willvangaal8412 BLUETOOTH Behind the standard are, among others, the companies Ericsson, IBM, Toshiba, Nokia and Intel. By Nils Rydbeck, Penny Link, Tord Wingren, Torbjörn Gärdenfors, Sven Mattsson and Jaap Haartsen. The reason for choosing the name Bluetooth was that Jim Kardach from Intel had read a history book about Harald Blåtand and thought it was a suitable name to bind the working group which consisted of members from Intel, IBM, Ericsson and Nokia, all with blue LOGO. The symbol for "bluetooth" is two stylized runes; ᚼ ("H") and ᛒ ("B").
@@SilverionX Officially that is correct. But for example in the UK they still use miles per hour, I think most countries use inches to determine the size of car wheels or screens. And in my head, I still use PS instead of kW. But here's the real kicker: The USA were among the FIRST signatories of the "treaty of the metre". They just forgot to tell their people about it.
@@Arsenic71The UK adopted the metric system back in the 60s, but the population refused to adapt to it. Some things are still specified in inches here in Sweden as well though. But it’s mostly because it’s products that were produced in countries who use the imperial system, so it made it a lot easier to just keep the inch measurements than to convert it into centimeters with decimals. Like an 18 inch tire makes more sense than a 45.75 cm tire. If it was founded in the metric system they would probably have made it a 45 cm tire.
@@da206hbe AIS is kind of an improvement of GPS, used by ships, I think planes also uses it. It makes it work better and gives the possibility to track vessels and makes it easier to avoid collitions etc
The rollator (a walker with wheels) was invented by a Swedish woman suffering from polio to help her get around. It as given my 83yo father a new sense of freedom.
Very interesting! My mom had an implanted pacemaker then a defibrillator for many years,but it never zapped her(thankfully). It gave me peace of mind and I’m so grateful for that. I love learning about other countries! Thanks for another fun reaction video!❤️❤️
The old more unsafe matches are the ones you can strike against any rough surface to ignite. The difference is that with the safety matches you must use the striking surface that's on box to ignite it.
Amazing inventions,and there are many more swedish people blessed the world with...and the most amazing part is that such a small numbered people could come up with so many world class inventions..it speaks alot about Sweden...alot..
Äh, no... It's a thing of all Germanic tribes. If you check out, where since 1400 , more than 90% of all important invetions and discoveries were done, you end up in a map that includes Sweden, Norway, the eastern part of Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, the German speakin' part of France, Swiss, Austria and of course Germany. Here we are...! And what is the main invetion, which made this advancement possible in first hand? The invention of the printing press in Germany. Therefore the German Johannes Gutenberg was elected to the most important person in the last millenium...
They made the three-point seatbelt to an open patent so all could benefit from it. The adjustable wrench is also a swedish invention. The dynamite-stick is also invented by a swede (Alfred Nobel). Spotifie is also swedishmade
Håkan Lans was born in 1947 and during his career has, among other things, invented a predecessor to the computer mouse and a system for creating color graphics in computers. His STDMA anti-collision system is the world standard in aviation and shipping
The binomial system of taxonomy was invented by Swede Carl Linnaeus, by which humans are classified as *Homo sapiens* etc. I’d say that’s a bigger deal than most of these.
That was cool but he missed Swedens most famous invention, the dynamite. Invented by Alfred Nobel who left his fortune after dying to get started the well known Nobel Prices...
@@willvangaal8412 Based on information about "Short-Link", wich is the first name of Bluetooth, it was 2 Swedes, one at Ericsson and a doctor who invented it. However, a Dutch dude did get the credit for it, was deserved for sure. But he was not the pure inventor. The main inventors of the technology was Swedes at Ericsson. The patent was under a Swede and all. If they didnt invent it, they wouldnt get the patent ;p
Don't forget the color graphics card! Håkan Lans invented it and then spent years fighting people infringing on his patent. He also invented a navigation system for planes and boats that is world standard today.
Computer mouse, the positioning and proximity systems for boats and aircraft, TetraPak (food packaging such as milk cartons), modern refridgerator, Respirator, propeller, blow torch, ball barring and dynamite. These are just scratching the surface. Swedes spend a lot of time finding solutions to problems and improving designs on existing ones.
The wrench and the ball bearings were Swedish inventions. Carl Von Linné, also from Sweden, laid the foundation for modern nomenclature in biology and modern systematics, which groups plants and animals.
I can tell you more. Like the colorgrapics - Håkan Lans But we have also made a big impact on the US ;) Walgreens, started by Charles Rudolph Walgreen son on swedish emigrants. Nordstrom, started by Johan Nordström and Carl Wallin both swedish emigrants. Mossberg shotguns, started by O.F Mossberg, swedish emigrant And probably a few more
Johan Petter "JP" Johansson (1853-1943) opened a mechanical workshop in Enköping in 1886. There he invented two tools that have become very important: the adjustable pipe wrench (patented in 1888) and the wrench (patented in 1891 and 1892).7 Feb. 202
As a swede i just gotta sub to you :) love your reaction. I love it when americans discover little Sweden and our littlebig history :). Small country but with great innovation spirit i guess we got that from the vikings mindset to always think of new ways to improve our bleak and harsh existence. Sweden even developed the modern warfare, Dynamite, and yeah long list.
Some inventions I *think* were originally invented by Swedes: Dynamite, Spotify (100% sure about this), modern fridges and blow torches. And obviously Minecraft.
The more you know... When Al Murray said. "Why would the British, the very people who invented gravity, want to go somewhere where there is none... I hope you know what he meant! ❤ from Northeast England ❤️
Yes... It was a discovery and not an invention. And finaly, the German Albert Einstein showed, that Newton was wrong. And Al Murray, is not so funny at all...
You could add 100 more items to this list, not to mention world famous companies, foundations and scientific discoveries. But one thing that has to be mentioned is the Noble Prize and the Nobel Foundation, founded by Alfred Nobel. It is the highest honor to receive in the entire world - it is the gift that keeps on giving.
Also to give more credit to Nils Bohlin and Volvo, they chose to make the 3-point seatbelt freely available for anybody as they felt the saved lives outweigh monetary gains from the patent.
"Made in" owes a lot of its history to the Swedish safety match. Since Swedish matches were known for their superior quality around the world, Japan named one of their island Sweden and set up a match factory there.
Celsius is easy. Boiling point at 100 degress, freezing point at 0 degress. That's all you need to know, the rest is just learned by feeling it i guess. Like how hot or cold something feels like with weather and such.
Johan Petter "JP" Johansson (1853-1943) he invented two tools that have become very important: the adjustable pipe pliers (patented in 1888) and the wrench
the white skyscraper at 8:15 is called turning torso and stands in malmö in the south coast of sweden... my father who is a carpenter got the heebe djeebes looking up at it saying that it should not be able to stand twisted like that....
Iii am Sweee Dish. Well, Ok, I am Scottish. The Band ABBA were Swedish. There is a Video you should watch by Scotland Unplugged called 'How Scotland Invented the Modern World' It doesn't tell you everything, but just enough.🧸🧸
Very innovative! Let me just add some: Alfred Nobel - Dynamite, and many more Carl Edvard Johansson - Precision blocks Håkan Lans - The mouse, graphics, gps and so much more... There are so many others that has made a great impact on our world!
if you see the matches that he turns their heads towards each other, they are kind of the old ones, so if you have a box of matches in your trouser pocket, a violent movement is enough to light them.
We can still get Coke in original small glass bottles. It tastes different, even though it's identical. Try Champagne from a wide glass and a flute glass... they taste very very different. It's about how the bubbles escape and go up your nose 😮 Cool eh! ❤ from Northeast England ❤️
John Ericsson and the USS Monitor: A Maritime Revolution John Ericsson, a renowned engineer and inventor, made significant contributions to the development of the propeller and naval warfare. His most famous creation, the USS Monitor, was a revolutionary ironclad warship that played a crucial role in the American Civil War. Before Ericsson, while the concept of a rotating device to propel ships existed, it was Ericsson who developed a practical and efficient propeller design. His innovation involved replacing the traditional "goose-foot" propeller with a more streamlined design featuring blades mounted in a ring, greatly improving the propeller's performance.
Before the safety match, you could strike a match on almost any surface and it would light up. In some Westerns, you see a character striking one on another persons neck to light it.
We'll have to watch it on our own unfortunately. We've done reactions to Geography Now in the past and they did not play nice when it came to copyright takedowns.
The worlds first automatic mobile network was actually invented in Sweden back in December of 1951 by a Swede called Sture Lauhrén and the first mobile phone call was from his car on the 3rd of the December 1951 to a landline. The worlds first mobile network that covered more than one country was NMT (Nordic Mobile Telecommunications) back in 1981. It was invented in 1969 however it took several years to integrated it to the Nordic countries different automated phone systems.
Being one of those beautiful people (at least according to my wife) I'm going to have to like this video. Oh and also, that invention from Bohr about the seatbelt, he realised how many lives it could save so he did NOT patent it. It was free for anyone to use. There is a lot of that in history and idiots making small changes to it that saves more lives but only for those that can afford it. Those people needs to learn what a guillotine is and how it might be used if they keep doing that.
A video about Sweden that´s very good is made by a swedish photographer/filmmaker named Jonna Jinton. One of her videos is called "Living with the Dark Winters in Sweden | Midnight sun & Polar night" Absolutley amazing and beautiful Please react to that.
Great reaction video. If you want ideas of videos to react to about Sweden. Sweden have a bunch of great music performers, writers and producers....react to "Top 50 Songs Written by Swedish Songwriters & Producers!" a 7 year old video but a bit mindblowing also for a swede like me🙂
Slight correction about Skype. The main driving force behind Skype was actually more Janus Friis from Denmark but it is generally recognized as a shared development. Dynamite is a Swedish invention. Swedes have always been huge in inventions within mechanical engineering. Sweden is really, really good at making weapons as well. Sweden produce some of the best bearings in the world (SKF).
Many inventions are also being buried by big multinational corporations because if they saw the light of day these companies would go bust, don't forget that part. Other Swedish inventions are Spotify, the adjustable "crescent" wrench and Dynamite.
What was not mentioned in the video you watched is the graphics of computer games and computer games. It is in Sweden that you invent the 3D on computer games and then improve the graphics, so thank Sweden that today's computer game graphics look so realistic. As well as Sweden, it is the country that develops computer games and it is to Sweden that people go to train as computer and game programmers and developers. So thanks to Sweden, you can now use the computer to make scenes for movies, such as for Matrix, King Kong and more. What they don't mention that Sweden invented is the dynamite that Alfred Nobel invented. More Swedish inventions: Anna Borgström - Refrigeration technology. for refrigerators and freezers. Barbro Hjalmarsson - The Sink and the Cradle of Blood Triomix Birgit Johansson - The buoy ring and the fairway marker Björn Jakobson - The baby carrier for carrying children in your arms safely. Johan Petter "JP" Johansson (1853-1943) opened a mechanical workshop in Enköping in 1886. There he invented two tools that have become very important: the adjustable pipe wrench (patented in 1888) and the wrench (patented in 1891 and 1892) Electric hearing aid, 1901. Diode (electron tube), 1904. Gyro compass, 1905. "Mått-Johansson's" measuring set, 1901. In the early 2000s, two Swedish innovators invented the first gesture- and swipe-controlled mobile interface, the one that would later be called "swipe" and used daily by billions of users worldwide Then we have: Tetra Pak Lightweight concrete Spherical ball bearing Lidocaine The chemical substance lidocaine was discovered in 1946 by Nils Löfgren and Bengt Lundqvist.[5] Astra then handled sales under the name Xylocain - an effective anesthetic for, among other things, the oral cavity. The separator Inventor Gustaf de Laval apparently thought things would go quickly and did not have time for the then method of separating the cream from the milk. It involved waiting until the cream floats to the surface. Instead, he invented a separator - a spinning cylinder where the heavier milk is pushed out towards the sides and the cream stays in the middle, to then be emptied into each outlet pipe. The propeller John Ericsson was the first who - at the same time as the Englishman Francis Pettit Smith - designed a boat that was effectively powered by a propeller.] Both exhibited their boats in 1830s England. John Ericsson later designed the famous battleship USS Monitor which participated in the American Civil War. The walker Aina Wifalk was affected by Polio as a young person and had difficulty walking for the rest of her life. When she wore out her shoulders from walking with canes, she solved the problem herself by inventing a walker (or walker) in 1978. We think the walker deserves the place as the next best Swedish invention, considering how much easier it has made life for so many elderly people. These are some of the inventions Sweden is behind.
This is just sratching the surface, soo many known things were invented in Sweden. You could look att several of this kind of video and they would all mention different things 😁
I really have to comment on the phone topic! Today people use their phones like back in the day. I dont know why but some people hold the phone tho the ear when listening and when they talk they will move it to the mouth its so confusing...
The two I wouldn't exclusively give Sweden are the safety matches - they invented a manufacturing process I believe - and flat screens because that was one small step on a long list of necessary inventions that made it possible. There were lots of other ones missed though.. here are a few samples: - Spotify - Dynamite. The inventor Alfred Nobel was distressed by the misuse of his invention so he instituted the Nobel Price so his fortune was used to further science and culture. - Plant and animal taxonomy. In 1761 Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) invented the naming scheme used for organisms globally to this day. - Mobile phones. The science behind mobile phones was developed by many inventors globally but the first commercially successful implementation was NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephone) or 1G that was developed by Swedish company Ericsson and was introduced in all of Scandinavia in 1981 & 1982.
Alfred started the Nobel prize after a mix up when his brother died and a french news paper mixed them up, they wrote a lot of bad stuff about him because people had died when miss using dynamite. So in a way to clear his name he set a side a part of his fortune and founded the Nobel price.
There are a Swedish scientist that have made technology that is/has been so important that he did not get anything for his work . His work was taken and used by many nations . It has even been through judicial system but they did not dare to interfer with governments that have stolen his work.
also a stereotype that americans never travel outside USA, which is weird, as I guess it would cost as much to fly over the entire country in USA as to fly to italy or something?, ofc I have no idea, maybe flying inside usa is very cheap there :o
13:50 A man named Ivar Kreuger had a large company, that worldwide made and sold matches. He lended money to countries, with no interest, but in exchange for monopoly on matches. He died under mysterious circumstances, and his imperium consisting of building technology, real estate, iron ore, telecom, ball bearings and much more were valued to almost nothing. Competitors bought at pennys on the dollar
The walker, Spotitfy, the virtuall keyboard, bluetooth, the milking machine, the fridge, the green ring button on your phone, the disposable diaper. Swedish inventors/inventions on Wikipedia
- Color television (the cheapest, most effective and widely used system) was invented by a Mexican - The contraceptive pill was invented by Mexicans... And others that will surprise you You should react to the video of Mexican inventions
"10 Pretty Decent Inventions From Finland" Texas born livwd in Finland 'bout four years th-cam.com/video/upKS3uwS25Q/w-d-xo.html Atleast few that US took the props. Just bit pissed off..
FunFact: When the film Monty Python's Life of Brian was banned in Norway under blasphemous laws, in Sweden the marketing campaign ran with 'A movie so funny they banned it in Norway' :)
Ha! I remember that!
I will never forget that! 😂
And Norways claim to fame is the invention of the osthyvel (cheese slicer) 😉
Far more, but I cant list it typing with my pointy
@@psy-op1201 For which I'm eternally grateful!
Worth noting Nils Bohlin and Volvo refused to patent the seat belt due to it's importance and effectiveness at saving lives.
Not quite true. They patented it but then released the patent into the public domain.
It was an open patent that meant everyone could use it for free.
If they didn't patent it, someone else would. They had to. Goes for any invention.
Yeah, same thing with Mercedes and the ABS system. Hey USA, there's an idea for you somewhere (hint: doing good for humanity without cashing in at any cost - but simply because it's the right thing to do)
@@Arsenic71Now that's a lot to ask of the USA where profits come before taking care of humans is the norm!
Worth remembering, about the 3 point seatbelt, is that the inventor worked for Volvo. The CEO of Volvo, recognising the importance of this as a life saving device (and I believe having lost someone in a car accident without seatbelts) gifted access to this patent to ALL other car manufacturers. They could have made a fortune by charging for it but put lives above money. I was expecting dynamite to be included in this, as it was invented by Alfred Nobel, the man whose name is used for high ranking prizes in multiple industries. ❤
Very nicely done by Volvo! Other things that could have made it to top ten is the wrench, the propeller for motorboats and the computer mouse. All those tools are universally used tools.
I love Sweden my best friend has lived there for over 20 years and I've visited a lot, it's so clean and beautiful with an amazing rich history, absolutely one of my favourite countries that I've visited.
Here to show support for my Swedish siblings, love from Norway.
Spotify is swedish, Adjustable spanner, Electrolux household appliances, Essity - from baby care to toilet paper, Walking frame/walker, Ikea , dynamite, blow torch, tetrapak, propeller , minecraft. And so on. And swedish song writers have written worlds biggest hits for years.. not us, Sweden… especially max martin… 🤘🤘
Things like Spotify and IKEA are not inventions.
@@akyhne If skype is included in this then Spotify is as well.
@@akyhne yes in a way they are. Cuz the were invented and made by someone..
I agree. Inventing a concept is also a kind of invention, right?
@@akyhneso skype is but spotify is not 😂
Swedish inventions :
Blow tourch - Carl Richard Nyberg
Tetra pak - Ruben Rausing
Kerosene stoves (Primus) - Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist
Steam Turbine - Gustaf De Laval
The milk separator - Gustaf de Laval
Inkjet and Ultrasound - Helmuth Hertz
Artificial Kidney - Nils Alwall
Dry Milk - Ninni Kronberg
The Celsius temperature scale also comes from a Swedish man named Anders Celsius.
The first central bank in the world was Swedish, Founded 1668. And still exist today.
Zipper - Gideon Sundbäck
Propeller - John Ericsson
Adjustable wrench - Johan Petter Johansson
Pacemaker - Rune Elmqvist
Gauge blocks - Carl Edvard Johansson
Vacuum cleaner
In 1942, the Swedish paper company Paulistr invented the first disposable diapers.
Ball bearing
AGA-lighthouse
Bluetooth
Modern day rollator - Aina Wifalk
Mobile phones
Color graphics on computers
Safety matches
GPS
Classification of all plants & animals - Carl von Linné
The dynamite - Alfred Nobel - Yes the guy who started Nobel Prize
Padlocks
Spotify
Skype
Kick sled
Laminate flooring
Wall bars - Teacher Per Henrik Ling
Ring binder
Dishcloth - Curt Lindqvist
Sincerely Tom.
GPS was actually developed by the American Department of Defense, however, another positioning positioning system called AIS (Automatic Identification System) is based on a technology (STDMA) developed by Swedish inventor Håkan Lans. AIS is used by ships and airplane, for them to automatically identify other ships/planes.
Worth noting is the Lans also invented the graphic processing technology that enabled the use of color graphic, as well as a precursor to the computer mouse with the patent "Arrangement for producing a pattern on a light-sensitive surface".
Other trivia - as a twelve year old he built a motorized soapbox car, and at 18 a submarine(!) capable of reaching a depth of 90 meters / 295 ft. 😀
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A5kan_Lans
sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A5kan_Lans
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_identification_system
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organized_time-division_multiple_access
@@t-man78 Rollatorn uppfanns 1978 av Aina Wifalk skickade in idén till en statlig utvecklingsfond. Hon fick pengar och kontakt med ett företag som gjorde konstruktionen och tre år senare drog tillverkningen igång. 40 år senare är det många som tar sig fram - och har fått bättre livskvalitet - tack vare Aina Wifalks uppfinng. Vi Svenskar är jävligt smarta, vi ska vara jävligt stolta.
No bluetooth is Dutch .
@@willvangaal8412 BLUETOOTH
Behind the standard are, among others, the companies Ericsson, IBM, Toshiba, Nokia and Intel.
By Nils Rydbeck, Penny Link, Tord Wingren, Torbjörn Gärdenfors, Sven Mattsson and Jaap Haartsen.
The reason for choosing the name Bluetooth was that Jim Kardach from Intel had read a history book about Harald Blåtand and thought it was a suitable name to bind the working group which consisted of members from Intel, IBM, Ericsson and Nokia, all with blue LOGO.
The symbol for "bluetooth" is two stylized runes; ᚼ ("H") and ᛒ ("B").
@@t-man78thats right
Celcius is really easy; water freezes at 0 degrees celsius, water boils at 100 degrees celsius.
Yeah, and if i remember right there are only three countries in the world using Farenheit, US being one. 😄
Originally it was the other way round. Then people thought it made more sense to have freezing at 0 and boiling at 100.
@@NikesZ28 Liberia and Myanmar are the other two I think.
@@SilverionX Officially that is correct. But for example in the UK they still use miles per hour, I think most countries use inches to determine the size of car wheels or screens. And in my head, I still use PS instead of kW.
But here's the real kicker: The USA were among the FIRST signatories of the "treaty of the metre". They just forgot to tell their people about it.
@@Arsenic71The UK adopted the metric system back in the 60s, but the population refused to adapt to it.
Some things are still specified in inches here in Sweden as well though. But it’s mostly because it’s products that were produced in countries who use the imperial system, so it made it a lot easier to just keep the inch measurements than to convert it into centimeters with decimals. Like an 18 inch tire makes more sense than a 45.75 cm tire. If it was founded in the metric system they would probably have made it a 45 cm tire.
Let's add the propeller, the gun turret, the computer mouse, the AIS, dynamite, the adjustable wrench, the organization/naming of species...
What is AIS? Am I supposed to know?
@@da206hbe AIS is kind of an improvement of GPS, used by ships, I think planes also uses it.
It makes it work better and gives the possibility to track vessels and makes it easier to avoid collitions etc
@@da206hbe There are websites where you can see where ships and planes are in real time, those are based on AIS
Lets not forget ball bearings
@@Atzygood one
The rollator (a walker with wheels) was invented by a Swedish woman suffering from polio to help her get around. It as given my 83yo father a new sense of freedom.
The designer of the USS Monitor was a swede too.
John Ericsson
Very interesting! My mom had an implanted pacemaker then a defibrillator for many years,but it never zapped her(thankfully). It gave me peace of mind and I’m so grateful for that. I love learning about other countries! Thanks for another fun reaction video!❤️❤️
Sweden has your back! (or heart)
@@lipgloss202 ❤️❤️
The old more unsafe matches are the ones you can strike against any rough surface to ignite. The difference is that with the safety matches you must use the striking surface that's on box to ignite it.
Dynamite, the electric refrigerator and the adjustable wrench are typically mentioned as well when talking about Swedish inventions.
Amazing inventions,and there are many more swedish people blessed the world with...and the most amazing part is that such a small numbered people could come up with so many world class inventions..it speaks alot about Sweden...alot..
Äh, no... It's a thing of all Germanic tribes. If you check out, where since 1400 , more than 90% of all important invetions and discoveries were done, you end up in a map that includes Sweden, Norway, the eastern part of Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, the German speakin' part of France, Swiss, Austria and of course Germany. Here we are...! And what is the main invetion, which made this advancement possible in first hand? The invention of the printing press in Germany. Therefore the German Johannes Gutenberg was elected to the most important person in the last millenium...
The tall white building is the Turning torso in the city of Malmö in the south of sweden.
They made the three-point seatbelt to an open patent so all could benefit from it. The adjustable wrench is also a swedish invention. The dynamite-stick is also invented by a swede (Alfred Nobel). Spotifie is also swedishmade
Håkan Lans was born in 1947 and during his career has, among other things, invented a predecessor to the computer mouse and a system for creating color graphics in computers. His STDMA anti-collision system is the world standard in aviation and shipping
The binomial system of taxonomy was invented by Swede Carl Linnaeus, by which humans are classified as *Homo sapiens* etc. I’d say that’s a bigger deal than most of these.
That was cool but he missed Swedens most famous invention, the dynamite. Invented by Alfred Nobel who left his fortune after dying to get started the well known Nobel Prices...
Yes, Yes watch more about Sweden please!
Bluetooth and the AGA lighthouse by Gustav Dalén and wrench.
Bluetooth is Dutch .
@@willvangaal8412 Based on information about "Short-Link", wich is the first name of Bluetooth, it was 2 Swedes, one at Ericsson and a doctor who invented it.
However, a Dutch dude did get the credit for it, was deserved for sure.
But he was not the pure inventor. The main inventors of the technology was Swedes at Ericsson.
The patent was under a Swede and all. If they didnt invent it, they wouldnt get the patent ;p
Don't forget the color graphics card! Håkan Lans invented it and then spent years fighting people infringing on his patent. He also invented a navigation system for planes and boats that is world standard today.
Computer mouse, the positioning and proximity systems for boats and aircraft, TetraPak (food packaging such as milk cartons), modern refridgerator, Respirator, propeller, blow torch, ball barring and dynamite. These are just scratching the surface. Swedes spend a lot of time finding solutions to problems and improving designs on existing ones.
I agree, Håkan Lans and so many more..
Its fun that i have to listen to people from other countries, to realize how much we have done for the world 🥰.
The wrench and the ball bearings were Swedish inventions. Carl Von Linné, also from Sweden, laid the foundation for modern nomenclature in biology and modern systematics, which groups plants and animals.
I can tell you more.
Like the colorgrapics - Håkan Lans
But we have also made a big impact on the US ;)
Walgreens, started by Charles Rudolph Walgreen son on swedish emigrants.
Nordstrom, started by Johan Nordström and Carl Wallin both swedish emigrants.
Mossberg shotguns, started by O.F Mossberg, swedish emigrant
And probably a few more
Johan Petter "JP" Johansson (1853-1943) opened a mechanical workshop in Enköping in 1886. There he invented two tools that have become very important: the adjustable pipe wrench (patented in 1888) and the wrench (patented in 1891 and 1892).7 Feb. 202
Perfect timing. Off to Denmark today before heading to Sweden next week
As a swede i just gotta sub to you :) love your reaction. I love it when americans discover little Sweden and our littlebig history :). Small country but with great innovation spirit i guess we got that from the vikings mindset to always think of new ways to improve our bleak and harsh existence. Sweden even developed the modern warfare, Dynamite, and yeah long list.
Some inventions I *think* were originally invented by Swedes:
Dynamite, Spotify (100% sure about this), modern fridges and blow torches. And obviously Minecraft.
The more you know...
When Al Murray said. "Why would the British, the very people who invented gravity, want to go somewhere where there is none...
I hope you know what he meant!
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Yes... It was a discovery and not an invention. And finaly, the German Albert Einstein showed, that Newton was wrong. And Al Murray, is not so funny at all...
Im from the same village as Anders Celsius and the central primary school in the village is named Celsius too
You should react to the 10 most beautiful subway stations in Stockholm, you’d love it
You could add 100 more items to this list, not to mention world famous companies, foundations and scientific discoveries.
But one thing that has to be mentioned is the Noble Prize and the Nobel Foundation, founded by Alfred Nobel. It is the highest honor to receive in the entire world - it is the gift that keeps on giving.
8:35 The building is in Malmö Sweden called Turning Torso
Also to give more credit to Nils Bohlin and Volvo, they chose to make the 3-point seatbelt freely available for anybody as they felt the saved lives outweigh monetary gains from the patent.
"Made in" owes a lot of its history to the Swedish safety match. Since Swedish matches were known for their superior quality around the world, Japan named one of their island Sweden and set up a match factory there.
Celsius is easy. Boiling point at 100 degress, freezing point at 0 degress. That's all you need to know, the rest is just learned by feeling it i guess. Like how hot or cold something feels like with weather and such.
Just for a bit of fun have a look at What Did The British ever did for us?Cheers both.
Greetings from Sweden!
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Johan Petter "JP" Johansson (1853-1943) he invented two tools that have become very important: the adjustable pipe pliers (patented in 1888) and the wrench
The matches you saw can very well be "old matches", they pretty much have not changed design at all.
Amazing inventions, especially concerning safety
the white skyscraper at 8:15 is called turning torso and stands in malmö in the south coast of sweden... my father who is a carpenter got the heebe djeebes looking up at it saying that it should not be able to stand twisted like that....
You missed out on dynamite (Alfred Nobel) and the refrigerator (Gustav de Laval) to name just two of the more important Swedish inventions 😉
Iii am Sweee Dish. Well, Ok, I am Scottish. The Band ABBA were Swedish. There is a Video you should watch by Scotland Unplugged called 'How Scotland Invented the Modern World' It doesn't tell you everything, but just enough.🧸🧸
Very innovative!
Let me just add some:
Alfred Nobel - Dynamite, and many more
Carl Edvard Johansson - Precision blocks
Håkan Lans - The mouse, graphics, gps and so much more...
There are so many others that has made a great impact on our world!
This is super! I love your faces throughout this video 🥹😘
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What, not dynamite in the video?
if you see the matches that he turns their heads towards each other, they are kind of the old ones, so if you have a box of matches in your trouser pocket, a violent movement is enough to light them.
We can still get Coke in original small glass bottles. It tastes different, even though it's identical.
Try Champagne from a wide glass and a flute glass... they taste very very different. It's about how the bubbles escape and go up your nose 😮
Cool eh!
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Give your brother my sympathy 😢
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John Ericsson and the USS Monitor: A Maritime Revolution
John Ericsson, a renowned engineer and inventor, made significant contributions to the development of the propeller and naval warfare. His most famous creation, the USS Monitor, was a revolutionary ironclad warship that played a crucial role in the American Civil War.
Before Ericsson, while the concept of a rotating device to propel ships existed, it was Ericsson who developed a practical and efficient propeller design. His innovation involved replacing the traditional "goose-foot" propeller with a more streamlined design featuring blades mounted in a ring, greatly improving the propeller's performance.
Thank you for sharing, I learned a lot there myself.
Before the safety match, you could strike a match on almost any surface and it would light up. In some Westerns, you see a character striking one on another persons neck to light it.
Great video! Would highly recommend watching Geography Now: Sweden! Our country is beautiful and awesome in many ways. :)
We'll have to watch it on our own unfortunately. We've done reactions to Geography Now in the past and they did not play nice when it came to copyright takedowns.
@@RNTV That's dissappointing from them, either way! Quality video, hope you do watch it and enjoy! I'm binging all your football videos right now 😄
The worlds first automatic mobile network was actually invented in Sweden back in December of 1951 by a Swede called Sture Lauhrén and the first mobile phone call was from his car on the 3rd of the December 1951 to a landline. The worlds first mobile network that covered more than one country was NMT (Nordic Mobile Telecommunications) back in 1981. It was invented in 1969 however it took several years to integrated it to the Nordic countries different automated phone systems.
Do you know that the red paint on houses are from FALUN copper mines sice 15-1600! World’s largest/ oldest copper mine
The phones that you held one bit to your ear and the other bit in the other hand were called "Candlestick phones".
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Being one of those beautiful people (at least according to my wife) I'm going to have to like this video.
Oh and also, that invention from Bohr about the seatbelt, he realised how many lives it could save so he did NOT patent it. It was free for anyone to use. There is a lot of that in history and idiots making small changes to it that saves more lives but only for those that can afford it.
Those people needs to learn what a guillotine is and how it might be used if they keep doing that.
A video about Sweden that´s very good is made by a swedish photographer/filmmaker named Jonna Jinton. One of her videos is called "Living with the Dark Winters in Sweden | Midnight sun & Polar night"
Absolutley amazing and beautiful
Please react to that.
What do you want to know? Sweden is wonderful and have a lot of cool people and stuff!
Great reaction video. If you want ideas of videos to react to about Sweden. Sweden have a bunch of great music performers, writers and producers....react to "Top 50 Songs Written by Swedish Songwriters & Producers!" a 7 year old video but a bit mindblowing also for a swede like me🙂
This is the one you should react to (+ some ABBA😀 )
The TNT Dynamite, the computer mouse and the GPS system. 🧨🧨🧨💥💥💥
Slight correction about Skype.
The main driving force behind Skype was actually more Janus Friis from Denmark but it is generally recognized as a shared development.
Dynamite is a Swedish invention.
Swedes have always been huge in inventions within mechanical engineering.
Sweden is really, really good at making weapons as well.
Sweden produce some of the best bearings in the world (SKF).
You did see the ”old matches”, two striking one …
Fahrenheit to Celsius, subtract 30 then divide by 2. Celsius to Fahrenheit, multiply by 2 then add 30.
Sweden, "ABBA"
Drops mic, leaves the room.
Also Spotify
Uddevalla, my hometown
I'm from Sweden and some things I know are invented by swedes but some things I had no idea. Wow
Many inventions are also being buried by big multinational corporations because if they saw the light of day these companies would go bust, don't forget that part.
Other Swedish inventions are Spotify, the adjustable "crescent" wrench and Dynamite.
And what about dynamite, propeller, Pohlhem connection, Bofors; Hägglund, SAAB, Swedish wrench and so on
Skype was the idea of the Dane. Not the Swede. The Swede was the main programmer and co-owner.
He who invented the flat screen invented the computer mouse to .
It was Håkan Lans
What was not mentioned in the video you watched is the graphics of computer games and computer games. It is in Sweden that you invent the 3D on computer games and then improve the graphics, so thank Sweden that today's computer game graphics look so realistic. As well as Sweden, it is the country that develops computer games and it is to Sweden that people go to train as computer and game programmers and developers.
So thanks to Sweden, you can now use the computer to make scenes for movies, such as for Matrix, King Kong and more.
What they don't mention that Sweden invented is the dynamite that Alfred Nobel invented.
More Swedish inventions:
Anna Borgström - Refrigeration technology. for refrigerators and freezers.
Barbro Hjalmarsson - The Sink and the Cradle of Blood Triomix
Birgit Johansson - The buoy ring and the fairway marker
Björn Jakobson - The baby carrier for carrying children in your arms safely.
Johan Petter "JP" Johansson (1853-1943) opened a mechanical workshop in Enköping in 1886. There he invented two tools that have become very important: the adjustable pipe wrench (patented in 1888) and the wrench (patented in 1891 and 1892)
Electric hearing aid, 1901.
Diode (electron tube), 1904.
Gyro compass, 1905.
"Mått-Johansson's" measuring set, 1901.
In the early 2000s, two Swedish innovators invented the first gesture- and swipe-controlled mobile interface, the one that would later be called "swipe" and used daily by billions of users worldwide
Then we have:
Tetra Pak
Lightweight concrete
Spherical ball bearing
Lidocaine The chemical substance lidocaine was discovered in 1946 by Nils Löfgren and Bengt Lundqvist.[5] Astra then handled sales under the name Xylocain - an effective anesthetic for, among other things, the oral cavity.
The separator Inventor Gustaf de Laval apparently thought things would go quickly and did not have time for the then method of separating the cream from the milk. It involved waiting until the cream floats to the surface. Instead, he invented a separator - a spinning cylinder where the heavier milk is pushed out towards the sides and the cream stays in the middle, to then be emptied into each outlet pipe.
The propeller John Ericsson was the first who - at the same time as the Englishman Francis Pettit Smith - designed a boat that was effectively powered by a propeller.] Both exhibited their boats in 1830s England. John Ericsson later designed the famous battleship USS Monitor which participated in the American Civil War.
The walker Aina Wifalk was affected by Polio as a young person and had difficulty walking for the rest of her life. When she wore out her shoulders from walking with canes, she solved the problem herself by inventing a walker (or walker) in 1978. We think the walker deserves the place as the next best Swedish invention, considering how much easier it has made life for so many elderly people.
These are some of the inventions Sweden is behind.
Fun Fact. It's only the USA. That has Fahrenheit. The rest of the world use Celsius.
Celsius is easy as hell, 0 degrees celsius is freezing point and 100 degrees celsius is the boling point of water.
This is just sratching the surface, soo many known things were invented in Sweden.
You could look att several of this kind of video and they would all mention different things 😁
i have a album with the box arts from long ago, with matches
and there are so so much more Swedish inventions
Dont forget Linux ^^
Linux is a Finnish invention
I really have to comment on the phone topic! Today people use their phones like back in the day. I dont know why but some people hold the phone tho the ear when listening and when they talk they will move it to the mouth its so confusing...
React to Geography now Sweden 🇸🇪 And Jonna Jinton.
The two I wouldn't exclusively give Sweden are the safety matches - they invented a manufacturing process I believe - and flat screens because that was one small step on a long list of necessary inventions that made it possible.
There were lots of other ones missed though.. here are a few samples:
- Spotify
- Dynamite. The inventor Alfred Nobel was distressed by the misuse of his invention so he instituted the Nobel Price so his fortune was used to further science and culture.
- Plant and animal taxonomy. In 1761 Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) invented the naming scheme used for organisms globally to this day.
- Mobile phones. The science behind mobile phones was developed by many inventors globally but the first commercially successful implementation was NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephone) or 1G that was developed by Swedish company Ericsson and was introduced in all of Scandinavia in 1981 & 1982.
Alfred started the Nobel prize after a mix up when his brother died and a french news paper mixed them up, they wrote a lot of bad stuff about him because people had died when miss using dynamite. So in a way to clear his name he set a side a part of his fortune and founded the Nobel price.
There are a Swedish scientist that have made technology that is/has been so important that he did not get anything for his work . His work was taken and used by many nations . It has even been through judicial system but they did not dare to interfer with governments that have stolen his work.
And Bohlin/Volvo refused to pattern the 3-point seatbelt.
I'm from Sweden and actually, all of our military looks just like that thumbnail.....
he also forgot the swedish clothing company H&M and lots of other stuff that is invented and created in sweden
also a stereotype that americans never travel outside USA, which is weird, as I guess it would cost as much to fly over the entire country in USA as to fly to italy or something?, ofc I have no idea, maybe flying inside usa is very cheap there :o
think they forgot dynamite TNT :)
13:50 A man named Ivar Kreuger had a large company, that worldwide made and sold matches. He lended money to countries, with no interest, but in exchange for monopoly on matches. He died under mysterious circumstances, and his imperium consisting of building technology, real estate, iron ore, telecom, ball bearings and much more were valued to almost nothing. Competitors bought at pennys on the dollar
The walker, Spotitfy, the virtuall keyboard, bluetooth, the milking machine, the fridge, the green ring button on your phone, the disposable diaper. Swedish inventors/inventions on Wikipedia
Is the word you're looking for "foray"?
- Color television (the cheapest, most effective and widely used system) was invented by a Mexican
- The contraceptive pill was invented by Mexicans...
And others that will surprise you
You should react to the video of Mexican inventions
"10 Pretty Decent Inventions From Finland" Texas born livwd in Finland 'bout four years th-cam.com/video/upKS3uwS25Q/w-d-xo.html
Atleast few that US took the props. Just bit pissed off..
8:18 turning torso in Malmö my hometown. I for one HATE that building it´s SO ugly. A spanish architect designed it
Adjustable spanner, computer mouse, Ball bearings, cow milking machine, refrigerator, dental anasthetics, car turbo......