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Here in America we really don't learn about British inventions. Today I am very interested in learning about some of Britain's most important contributions to the world. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
It’s common knowledge outside of the US because Americans don’t like being told that they didn’t invent it and that the US is the centre of everything.
There is a world beyond the US and thank you for looking beyond your country’s borders and gaining knowledge of the world.
"Next you’ll say the British invented life"
***Looks nervously at Dolly the sheep***
And Louise Brown
We discovered DNA so close..
@@beng7845 No, we also invented DNA cloning. Dolly the sheep was the world's first cloned live animal from the DNA of a donor egg.
We did discover DNA 🧬
Frank Wittal invented the jet 🛩️ engine at Farnborough Hampshire
Once you watch this video, it helps non Brits to understand how such a small Island nation had the biggest Empire in the world. Not just having a well trained military, but some of the best brains in world too.
Have you commented on when Britain nuked America -trice?
Just a reminder of how far we (brits) have fallen! 🤣
@@eleanorrichards3879 Indeed. 😔
Alas, we have come full circle. Britain is now on it’s arse, I’m very sorry to say, which is courtesy of our Far Left Woke bastards.
Signed, a lamenting native Brit, London.
Alas, we have come full circle. Britain is now on it’s arse, I’m very sorry to say, which is courtesy of our Far Left Woke bastards.
Signed, a lamenting native Brit, London.
Very proud Brit here! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Here too! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
But your told to be ashamed though
@@nicolajohnson1887 nah we proud
@blocoes2757 we ended slavery too but we get shit for that too.
@@nicolajohnson1887not really I'm Brit we just hate our gov
This will rock you Americans to the core, no pun intended. Apple Pie is British, we gave it you.
and Baseball, oh and a brit invented basketball too.
The Pilgrims took it over with them, along with a lot of other things that 'merkins' take for granted!
@@Wabbit_Hunta Well, then, thanks. It's delicious.
@happyapple4269 basketball was played for a few years, before someone had the idea of cutting a big hole in the basket..
Ice hockey also is British.
Magna Carta.The most important document ever written. English Common Law,
The first bill of rights, now made defunct by ethnic minorities and 'multiculturalism'.
Yup constitution based on it
Only the Magna Carta isn't technically English Common Law
What of brehon law before it. Well over 900 years old before magna carta. Suppressed by the statutes of kilkenny and finally overthrown in the 17th century. The first apartheid statutes. 😊
I think our laws are in the process of being rewritten at this moment 😢
Flushing Loo? Loo is Brit slang for toilet. But, whilst I'm here. The lightbulb was invented by Brit Joseph Swan, not Edison.
Swann sued Edison for patent theft... and won!
Actually a Scottish bloke James Bowman Lindsay invented the lightbulb but didn't patent it because he believed that it was a gift to mankind not for profit
Edison, the self promoting gobshite typical robbing Amerikkkan 😂
@@TheGingerburger Similarly the Cats Eye reflectors, not patented as he couldn't afford to, patents are expensive. His engineering company still did alright from it. There was a previous design by someone else but not self cleaning or retractable in a solid cast iron mount that did not catch on with road authorities as prone to damage and caused punctures.
the word loo is victorian, they didnt like to call it a toilet so they said i am goingto room 100....hence loo
Not just the first electronic programmable computer, but also the inventions that enabled their invention - Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine and later Analytical Engine were the first programmable computers, but mechanical.
Ada Lovelace worked with Babbage on the Analytical Engine and, essentially, invented computer programming.
The most fundamental invention that supports life - the Yorkshire Pudding is British
I thought that was Spotted Dick!
100% true, not an exaduration i just love em
It's so good in a roast that it's not a roast without it
@@Ungus_3rd YEP, IT WAS A YORKIE WHO INVENTED THOSE ''CATS-EYES'', IN THE ROAD, WHICH ARE SELF CLEANING WHEN A CAR RIDES OVER THEM.
@@skipper409 and black pudding
Learning that the brits invented the steam engine, and started the industrial revolution (among other things) *is* very common knowledge almost everyone (atleast in western europe) learns in school.
Steam power was Heron of Alexandria and he invented - among other things - opening doors driven by steam power and an early form of the modern dispensing machine for drinks [water if I remember correctly] which used tokens. But the modern steam engine was British.
@@MayYourGodGoWithYou his steam engine was for sure the first. but it was weak, lacking the torque to do much at all other than be a party piece. george stevensons rocket was the first "modern" steam engine. it was built using the forges in my home town before winning the rainhil trials.
@@philmarsden9594 Stephenson's steam engine was something totally different [the mind boggles as to where we'd be if Heron or, better still Archimedes, had invented a steam engine of the same calibre. Especially Archimedes with his penchant for nasty weaponry, we can be glad they didn't] partly because of the more modern uses it was suitable for. The thought of a steam run train running around the old Roman empire would indeed be a sight to behold as would steam powered factories [they did have water powered ones interestingly enough, or at least one, same one where they found what appeared to be the first ever production line so they were advanced in ideas but held back by lack of ''modern'' technology which is probably fortunate in some respects] but I think it best it was Stephenson who made the leap between Archimedes/Heron and the then ''modern world''. The various British inventors put their discoveries to good use FOR EVERYONE, If Archimedes discovered it instead, once the Romans had quickly worked out what he built and they would have done we would likely still be living under the modern version of the old Roman civilisation/empire much as modern China is simply an extension of their 5000 year old civilisation brought up to date.
In fact the mere thought of Archimedes with Stephenson's steam engine gives me the shivers, he had a very nasty mind when it came to what to do with things against people he didn't like and I'm very glad the world DID have to wait that long. The 'Rocket' under Archimedes especially really does not bear thinking about. Steam in those days was much safer used merely for Heron's party pieces.
Europian world history is fairly Eurocentric. Which, to be fair, it's the same in the states although there it's america centric etc. That's honestly national pride and just cultural awareness 101. Though it's always funny to me how the US has only been relevant for the past 130 years or so, while for other countries that's a footnote worth of time historically.
"God is British, that's why we don't have earthquakes. You don't shit on your own doorstep". Al Murray
@@MichaelLamming Britain does have Earthquakes but usually just little ones and a lot of them in the last few years were down to Shale Gas Exploration Al Murray is a very funny man 😄😁
If anything is evidence that earth is an alien experiment, the isles of Great Britain and Japan are our strongest evidence.
Opposite sides of the globe.
One with and one without fossil fuels and metal ores.
One with and one without much arable land.
Everyone trying to kill both islanders all the time.
Both written histories start approximately 0 AD
I mean, this is a joke comment but there's so many parallels it really does look like an experiment sometimes.
Forgot one!
Both are roughly 130,000 square miles in size.
We do have earthquakes, we just haven’t had many thankfully, and the ones we have had where really small
@@LindaOvenstone-hg3glwe had one not so long ago in south Wales and it shook my house 😂. But in general we don't feel ours that's all lol. Al Murray is quality tho 😂
Sorry but did you mean he's a Yorkshireman.
The average man wakes up, put on his clothes = UK
Makes himself tea or coffee and gets the milk from the fridge = UK
Puts some bread in the toaster = UK
Leaves his house made of steel, concrete and glass = UK
Puts on his waterproof jacket because its raining = UK
Gets in the car driven by an engine and drives to work on tarmac roads and nice inflated tyres = UK
Goes to the ATM to get some cash = UK
Gets to work where he answers the phone = UK
Gets to work on his computer = UK
Connects to the WWW = UK
Gets a drink of fresh safe water = UK
Goes to the toilet = UK
Finishes work and drives home safely = UK
Relaxes at home watching TV = UK
Mostly watching, Golf, Football, Rugby, Tennis, Cricket = UK
he then goes to sleep.
He is Scottish no?
By bread I presume you mean sliced bread, and modern mass bread production. Bread goes way back to Mesopotamia and Egypt, about 5000 years ago, plus or minus a bit.
@@DavidBrown-im4ph No. I was meaning the toaster 🙂
@@DavidBrown-im4ph yeah, funny story to bread, a king was captured (forgot who) and to stop secret messages going to him, they cut the bread into slices
@@stevenmclaren2730 Maybe, but then down that road..The English invented hagis :)
Yes Tyler, Britain also invented the Thermos flask/ water bottle too. Sir James Dewar was the inventor of the vacuum flask. 👍
"The list of Scottish figures during the Enlightenment in every field vastly out numbers England or any other country. From the television and penicillin, to tidal energy turbines" -"As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics--contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since." Oh, by the way, the US Navy owes its history to Commodore John Paul Jones, who was from Dumfries & Galloway. You're welcome!
Sir James Dewar Born on 20 Sep 1842; died on 27 Mar 1923 Scottish chemist and physicist who blurred the line between physics and chemistry. Inventor of the Vacuum flask.
@@Yesser-Thistle73yes, yes, aye.
As an Irishman, I tip my hat to the Scots, English & Welch lads….
@@simonman3042 and I raise my mug to you my friend across the...what even is the body of water between GB and Ireland called? Honest question.
actually, in terms of clothes... it wasn't just the mechanisation of clothing production, but how we dress, the basic trousers-jacket-shirt-skirt-dress which is the standard form of dress throughout the world is completely British, in fact to be specific, is in the invention of one man, called Beau Brummell
He sounds French.
@@gillianboakes9455 born in London, in Downing Street in fact
And the standard black tie ensemble for formal evening wear, a shortened dinner jacket as a slightly less formal version of the originally standard white tie attire, invented by us Brits.
Every American should watch this video like you Tyler so they understand it’s not all about America 😂
Every Brit should watch it too. I am sure the vast majority have no clue what Britain contributed to the world.
The Americans wonder why some really don't like them and its the ignorance and arrogance they have. Assuming they are the only powerful first world nation in the world when in reality they are a 300 year old clusterfuck of ex colonists.
@@Silvermachine7 i agree, iv picked up a lot of stuff over the decades since i left school but a lot of this information wasnt taught back in the 70s and 80s from what i can remember, yes the basics of certain sciences and the big names but rarely with any background etc
@@Silvermachine7 if tey wen tu scule tey did
Henry Ford didn't invent the assembly line. He invented the modern form of the assembly line but there were assembly lines before then. For example gun manufacture in Birmingham UK.
they built steam engines the same way too,also world first skyscraper 8 floors.somewhere up north cant remember where.
Actually you're going to hate who possibly came up with the first assembly line - if it was done earlier they haven't found any evidence. The old trope of ''what did the Roman's ever do for us'' ring a bell, and it was actually a factory but I can't remember what they were manufacturing now.
:)
A very good candidate for the first automated production line is Marc Brunel's mechanisation of ship block manufacture.
(Isembard Kingdom Brunel's father).
First production line
And first to assemble steam engines to distribute so the beginning of powered manufacturing Matthew Boulton Birmingham England
This is common knowledge all over the world. Only Americans think that everything is invented in the US. Britain is huge, but so much that we use every day is invented elsewhere. The car was invented by the German Karl Benz. The electric drill was invented in the 19th century in Australia. In fact Australians invented the aircraft cockpit voice recorder, aka black box, and the inflatable emergency slides used on every commercial airliner was Australian too. They even invented the technology that Wifi is based on, likewise the first commercial plastic "glasses" were Australian, and while the ultrasound scanner uses British technology, the Ultrasound itself is an Australian invention.
But we are all in awe of the gigantic contribution of the British. Their greatest invention was the Industrial Revolution itself.
And of course, as Al Murray is want to quip, tongue in cheek, - the British invented gravity.
The Scientific Method.
We invented the invention machine itself.
Australians are disenfranchised british people ,,,,, .
@ I suppose we should also add the British Empire as one of the greatest achievements of Britain, exporting democracy and the rule of law across the globe. But it had other benefits, like claiming the New Zealander Rutherford and the Australian Howard Florey.
Florey shared the discovery of penicillin with Fleming and Chain. While Fleming noticed the culture in the petrie dish, but wrongly deduced what the actual active component was, he abandoned the idea for ten years, and it was Florey (and Chain as a key figure in Florey's team,) who actually first isolated penicillin and then developed the penicillin as a product to be used in medicine. But because of the special relationship due to the British Empire, Britain still manages to claim Florey's team's work as British. Especially since they conducted their work at Oxford University. It is often said that Florey saved the lives of 80 million people, for while Fleming noticed what happened in the petrie dish, it was Florey's team that put the penicillin into human bodies to fight disease.
Another sort-of invention was the Rhodes Scholarship. Florey was a Rhodes Scholar, and it was the scholarship that took him from Adelaide University to his supremely important role at Oxford.
@@artistjoh
Well, there were a few people who didn't like the Empire.
But someone was going to do it anyway and better us than the French or Belgians or Dutch or Spanish or Portuguese or Russians.
We are nice by comparison.
@@artistjoh you know colonialism wasn't a good thing right?!
The Germans didn't independently invent the Jet. Frank Whittle patented it in 1930 and was successfully tested in 1937. The Germans got hold of the patent. The Germans did build the first jet powered aircraft.
You saved me from writing a correction 🙂
Me too especially living not that far from Derby. This little detail is so often overlooked. The German's pinched it.
@@trevdfield7520 could be worse if fiat had stole the idea they probably have aircraft by 2050,note this is a joke
Shame you cut off the last part of the video - where he sums the major outcomes including eradication of disease, famines, and helped create countries, including the USA.
and slavery.
@@happyapple4269Brits didn't invent slavery but they did end it.
@@happyapple4269 slavery is as old as mankind. read the bible the jews were slaves in egypt thousands of years before england became a unified country. by the way slavery was outlawed in england in 1117 @ the synod of westminster so nobody born in or sets foot on english soil could be enslaved for over a thousand years
@@happyapple4269you really want to research history… 🤦♀️
My ancestor is in every encylopedia, he came up with Daltons law regarding pressure in gasses and also put forward atomic theory
Are you colour blind?
Smart guy!
Do you have normal colour vision? (apparently using the proper medical term got my previous comment removed)
@DraftingandCrafting yes he also worked in the field of colour impairment in vision , crazy how we can not call it as it is
Hi Tyler, just a regular old Brit here. I would love to see you react to an old wartime video called “Know your ally: Britain” or the 1943 short film “A Welcome to Britain” with Burgess Meredith! Much love from Blighty!
Thanks for the suggestions!
I second this!
This
Rutherford finished his education at Trinity College Cambridge. He also carried out all of his research in Britain. He was born of British parents in New Zealand and was later awarded the title Lord Rutherford in Britain. The people of New Zealand were British citizens at the time
No they weren't, they had dual nationality with their first nationality being New Zealand, which was already an independent country.
Rutherford moved to England in 1851, New Zealand got its independence in 1907. Although I except he was a duel citizen that was born British.
@@MichaelLamming The 'Rutherford' atom was proposed by Rutherford in 1911. Most of his discoveries, and professional honours including a Nobel prize were following his return to Britain from Canada to become a professor at Manchester University in 1907. He received his title in 1931. My comment stands.
He was British and a kiwi, who was born British in New Zealand from British parents. He may well have had duel citizenship, I certainly don't have a problem with that. He is officially British/New Zealander. He was basically a Brit, who was also a New Zealander as that is where he was born.
@@MichaelLamming *accept
. . . The standardisation of threads for nuts and bolts is a seemingly small development that changed engineering.
I'd go as far to say it enabled engineering in many ways.
The British Standards Institute ( BSI.) held various absolute standards for length. Also Grenwich standardised the measurement of time.
@@hiscifi2986 until some astrobullshittery "experts" decided that silicon = 1kg and wavelengths = 1meter
@@owenthorpe2435 Even the metric system was a British idea - John Wilkins, First Secretary of the Royal Society proposed a universal system of rational, interrelated weights and measures in 1688 - but it took the French to implement it a century later.
@@simonbone If I remember correctly, didn't we almost revolt over which measurement system to use?
Catseyes are an inspired piece of design - quite literally: The inventor (Percy Shaw, who lived in Yorkshire) would often have to drive home at night. Headlights were not brilliant at the time (mid-1930s), and would be further hampered during World War 2 by regulations which covered them over apart from a small slit, to minimize visibility from above. He would use the tramlines laid in the road as an indicator to see where the road was going - these would always be shiny due to the tram wheels repeatedly running on them.
However, when the tramlines were removed from the road, it became much more difficult to see where the road was going at night. According to the legend surrounding this, one night when Percy was out driving, the light from his car headlights was reflected by the eyes of a cat which happened to be on the road that night. It might not have actually been a cat, since many animals have eyes which are similarly reflective, including foxes - which are common in the UK, so it might have been a fox. But anyway, he thought it was probably a cat, which is what the device he subsequently developed was named after.
The "catseye" device is basically a pair of retroreflectors, angled to reflect light from vehicle headlights, mounted in a metal box and covered with hard rubber. This is bolted to a small metal tray, which is set into a depression in the road. It also has a flexible rubber wiper which moves over the surface of the retroreflectors whenever any vehicle wheel runs over the device. So they are self-cleaning and therefore need almost zero maintenance once in place. Plus they act like a "rumble strip" for lane boundaries or road centre-lines.
The reflectors can be a variety of different colours: White reflectors are used to indicate the centre-line of a two-lane road which has one lane for either direction, and to indicate the lane separations on roads which have at least 2 lanes for either direction. Red or orange reflectors are used on motorways (what you call freeways in the USA), with red on the left boundary and orange on the right boundary. Green reflectors are used on motorways to indicate slip-roads - what you might call on-ramps or off-ramps.
It is said that if the cat was facing the other way....he would have invented the pencil sharpner.
@@jesscourt9068Ken Dodd said that😂
Very informative thank you, so it wasn't a man running under the road lighting candles then. 😊 ❤ 23:48
You missed his final point about how many lives have been saved & enhanced by these British inventions, especially in the field of medicine, transport, & power generation, making the modern world much better than that before the 18th century, which brutely hard & short.
In olden days, the UK was mighty & creative.. America has been the most powerful & biggest contributor in the past 100 years.
😂. Hardly. Alas, now America is going backwards, (as trump said he wants) to 1800's.
@@emmafrench7219 try and think for yourself abit more love hes not as bad as you think
@@CoopDawgSmoke ahem:
-Trump and his party have established that they wish to deport 20 million 'illegals', don't remember if this is over his four years or every year so I'll leave this at that, with illegals being defined somewhere around grandfather laws level of xenophobia.
-They have established that they want to reverse a lot of legislation giving equal rights to LGBTQ people suchas rights to gay marriage and equal treatment in ventures suchas job searching and buying products.
-Trump has established the framework, bare boards more accurately, of an economic plan that would leave the US in an economic depression which would likely spiral into a full on recession whilst also alienating alot of their close allies.
-Since his first term Trump has established that he doesn't view NATO as something beneficial to the US and its interests in spite of the fact that Europe is one of the US' largest trade partners by raw monetary value and secure countries are more likely to be open to cross ocean trade than those under threat.
-And Finally, Trump has established on numerous occasions that he is friendly with the dictators of Russia and North Korea and is at least amicable with Emperor Xi Jing Ping of China whilst he has railed against leaders of other democratic nations in the same period.
Overall, Trump and the Republicans WILL force the US back a ways in terms of how other countries view the US and how the US views other counties and I have very little evidence from his prior term to reassure me that any of it will be good.
But we had to invent or discover cures for disease and illness, because our transport inventions also allowed for the more rapid spread of illness and disease, etc.
First commercial railway engine in the world was built in Newcastle Upon Tyne (the Rocket) about 4 miles from where I am now. Mr Parsons first turbine ship is in the Discovery museum in Newcastle. Joseph Swann from Newcastle invented the first commercial lightbulb and Cragside House was the first electrically lighted house in the world.
And Mosley Street was the first electrically lit street.
That's quite some horse drawn journey to the Rainhill Trials in 1829 (Rainhill which is a 5 min walk from me), where the Rocket won the on, what is now the world's first intercity railway line Liverpool to Manchester Victoria.
Also, on that line is the world's first railway viaduct, the nine arches Sankey viaduct in Newton-Le-Willows, a 5 min drive from me. Designed and built by George Stephenson in 1830.
For some reason this just gave me a flashback to reading about the Rocket when I was aged 7 in 1991. I can't remember what book, but I have a distinct image in my head that I haven't thought of until now.
This is going to frustrate me trying to remember what book I would read and re read. Was fascinated by trains at that age.
Wie aye
No the first commercial railway engineer was built in Cornwall by the mine engineer Richard Treverick (excuse my spelling), which he invented purely to work hauling the ore and the spoil around the mine where he was in charge. What he didn’t do was invent the tracks that his engine ran upon, nor did he ever use his invention to pull carriages to carry passengers or wagons to safely move livestock or finished goods. His engine did have the advantage that it could disengage the drive system so it could be used as a stationary engine to power other equipment around his mine works but it could not be used down the pit because of the lack of sufficient ventilation and the lack of access because his pit was a more vertical hole than an inclined slope.
We invented the apple pie. Something like 500 years before we invented America.
Then Americans kicked you out and surpassed you.
Yeah, you Brits still haven’t apologised to the world for that last bit…. 😆
@@mikehamilton7487 Look the bratty teenanger still might turn to be a descent adult.
@@JoannDavi Surpassed how? Crime, being hated, racism, mass shootings, if you mean things like that then yes. If you mean actual contribution to the world then America does not even come close.
@@mikehamilton7487 Yeah sorry! 😳
Okay, kinda on a binge of these, but I had to comment-- I love just how genuine your reactions are, and how humble you were in your video on the Blitz video-- I actually got pretty emotional watching you react to that and as a Brit, I just want to thank you for being so open minded and respectful. There's no 'yeah, the brits did that, BUT...' that we usually get cause we're seen as pretty small on the map.
One thing I really do recommend is watching songs from an old kids show called 'Horrible Histories'. There's some on youtube I'm pretty sure. They're fun, catchy parodies that go into deep, dark and often times gruesome details of history, but in a way that makes it fun and safe for young kids to learn. There's even one about the R.A.F. and the Industrial Revolution, but my personal recommendation is 'The Monarch Song'-- a long rap listing each ruler and one fact or so relating to them!
A cool insight into why the world thinks America is uneducated. Because it is. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
We don't think the yanks are uneducated, we know they are.
On another note, the first time DNA was used to catch a criminal was by a British detective aided by the British scientists who first worked out how to read people's DNA and the first criminal to be arrested and convicted on this type of evidence was a brit.
I was listening to something earlier to day where someone was claiming they had submitted some paperwork correctly but that it didn't go through because the CHEQUE GOT LOST IN THE POST. This was in TWENTY TWENTY FOUR, who still uses cheques in 2024 to pay some government department somewhere [outside of the USA that is]. I haven't seen a cheque this century.
it’s easy to mock Americans for being uneducated, yet we are also uneducated in many ways.
We are not taught of the horrific atrocities our country has committed especially under the British empire nor are we even taught much about our neighbouring countries, Scotland, Ireland n wales.
While UK has a lot of cool inventions, much like America we still have a lot to learn.
I read that the Japanese had done a study and 95% of proper inventions were created by Europeans or populations from Europe and about 55% of inventions were from the UK. I've not even tried to check it but sounds right.
I do think this is at the heart of some of the attitudes of the brits rightly or wrongly, they extremely proud country, and been investing and making world and life changing contributions for hundreds of years before the founding of many countries, helped abolish salivary, and all this tech. But they very reserved they don't shout about their success, they let them speak for themself, so when younger nations like the USA, speak loudly and puff their chest out. It conflicts with the british nature, and it's like a grand parent looking at a young buck.. thinking yes yes... we already done so much. and this comes across as looking down on others. very strange dynamic. and many other countries also have delivered so much. so its collaboration and sharing of ideas that made the world we live in.. not the keeping it to our selfs.
Why do you think it hurts so much our own government is trying to change our once proud culture
Only thing we really are proud about is WW2, that we talk about a lot in history, etc.
However, even then... America out guns us on bragging about WW2. They pretty much claim that their the reason we won the war, reality was that several British army and politicians were dragging it out on purpose. The Americans were tied up with debt and resources in Europe, and to fight Japan had to free things up. That meant entering the European war to end things so they could focus on Japan. In the process, they gained the knowledge of the first n-bombs and dropped two on Japan... Which was a bad thing.
A lot of British people at the time and even now, do not support that movement. The war with Japan was end-able without that tech.
@@CoopDawgSmoke I've seen plenty of anti-royalists who want the royals gone, the House of Lords as well.
As I said to one of them; why will there be left to call "British" if you get rid of everything British in Britain?
You say about the abolition of slavery but we were one of the countries who began slavery (amongst others in Europe)
@@AngelEmfrbl
It is quite triggering for Brits when Americans say "we saved you Brits in WW2
The reality is we were fighting for two years and at one point on our own when Western Europe had fallen and France had surrendered. Only once Pearl harbour was hit did US join in and support us and that was after our equipment was deplated and lost many men fighting!
Btw in regards to your comment about japan. The war was over yet the Japanese wouldn't stop fighting and so that is why they were bombed.
"Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.” - Winston Churchill
Industrial mass production is usually attributed to Henry Ford and that is true to an extent, but
the mass production of ships' pulley blocks for the Royal Navy ( who needed 100,000 a year )
at Portsmouth Block Mills started in 1803. The designer was Marc Isambard Brunel a French refugee who became a British citizen and was the father of the UKs most famous engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
So American and French in origin..
@@cindz4618 Brunel senior couldn't progress in a backward Country like France was, so he came here.
Adam Smith died in 1790. His study on the division of labour in pin production is the first record of a production line.
Adam Smiths Division of Labour and the Wealth of Nations was where it all came from.
Mass production started with clothing in 18th century. Ford is credited for inventing the production line and mass production of cars, not mass production everything.
Mass production and a form of the mass production assembly line actually began IN ROME during the empire. Not as modern as it is today but run on much the same methods with one person doing the same thing over and over passing the item on to another person for the next part. I can't remember what they produced though I do remember they used water power rather than the steam power used later in the industrial revolution. And I can't remember the channel with the video which was originally made by and shown on the BBC last century some time. It was headline making because they found the actual factory - remains of - and worked out how it was done. Ford was very definitely a late comer to the production line by around 2000 years.
If you watch Queen's "I want to break free" you get to see that tea making alarm clock in the video.
Cats eyes are those reflective dimplets on the street covered in metal to safely devide lanes at night. Just like the lane devider lines but for after dark.
Cats eyes reflectors, the original ones as pictured cast iron with rubber centre with reflective lenses were self cleaning when a vehicle ran over them by wiping dirt off the lenses. Clever yes.
@@ArthurKiplingand still made by the same factory just up the road from me
The layout of the QWERTY keyboard for computers was invented by the Brits, to keep the commonly used letters in the English language lexicon apart, to avoid typos.
It was created by americans. And not for computers, but typewriters.
Also possibly to prevent jamming of the type bars in a typewriter
Flushing the loo, loo means toilet lol
Correctamundo
Loo - people used to empty their chamber pots by throwing the contents right out of their bedroom window (with apparently little regard that it was them who would have to be walking over it on the morning, but hey)
They would shout the French phrase 'Gardez l'eau' (watch out for the water!) as they did, hence the word 'loo'
@@mariuscheek Sorry sir, l'eau is pronounced "low" as in low down. Further, I read somewhere that the toilet bowl, also known as the water closet or Waterloo; "loo" for short (cos that's where you met your end), was invented by a british plumber/inventor with the unfortunate sounding name of Crapper. Thus giving the US one of their favourite words; crap!
Yorkshireman Thomas Crapper is often credited with inventing the flushing toilet. He didn't, but he massively improved it by adding the U-bend and ballcock. Crapper toilets became a must have in homes around the UK and the world, giving us the word crap.
Earliest recorded flushing toilet is Roman so that was probably thieved from somewhere else
@@DJRockford83 Ah yes, remind me again what the Romans did for the world
:)
The person who invented the u-bend was a Scots man called Alexander Cummings in 17-75 and he patent it so it was not Mr Thomas crapper
Unrelated news, but one of my favourite words, crapulent, is an old way of saying drunk.
Age is a factor. When I visit my daughter at Manchester University, I'm impressed by all of the things that happened there - Alan Turing built a stored-program computer in 1948, Rutherford split the atom there, John Dalton discovered the atomic structure, Joule did his thing, etc. Lots more than seemed to happen at my own university, Warwick. Then I remember that Warwick only opened in the 1960s, and all of that stuff was discovered before then.
3:12 Your mind is about to explode, then with the rest of the list. Our knowledge of 1800 history doesn't focus on American Independence that much because we had to learn about all these inventors. From Yorkshire
The catseye reflector... my grandad went to school with Percy Shaw.
If Mr Shaw had seen the cat walking away from him he would have invented the pencil sharpener!
The British also invented the Grain seed drill by Jethro Tull
You're just "Living in the past".
A Scottish gentleman invented the flask that your water bottle is based upon.
Good point! James Dewar👍👍
Im English. The Scots are great. Contributed an immense amount to Britain's success
We also invented football, rugby, tennis, golf, motor racing, so a pretty significant cultural contribution, as well as major contributions to all of the arts
Despite being the grand old age of 163 years, The Long Shop in Leiston, East Anglia, has survived in near original condition Run by the Garrett family from 1778 to 1932, Leiston Works produced agricultural machinery and early portable steam engines which powered the agricultural and industrial revolution in rural Suffolk. The Long Shop Museum’s name reflects the length of its main building where a boiler on wheels would start at one end and have engine parts added as it moved from workstation to workstation. Way before Ford!!!!!
One thing not mentioned properly was the chronometer - John Harrison was the first to engineer a watch/clock in the 18th century that was accurate enough for determining Longitude, which is absolutely vital for precise navigation.
There's a TV series about him - called, unsurprisingly , 'Longitude'.
@@mariuscheek John Harrison's Chronometer makes me laugh😂 it's the pocket watch that Del boy and Rodney from Only Fools and Horses found when they were cleaning out the garage and made them Millionaires it's one of the funniest episodes 😆😁
Yeah & apparently he had to fight the government of the time to claim the prize that was offered for succeeding.
@@Lazmanarus No surprises there, then...
Just to point out that little bottle you picked up as an example.
Yes we invented that to..
but forgot to invent: "too"
@@JoannDavi The English language is British too lol
@@zacharysleep7318 no it's not ya dafty, it's English
@@zacharysleep7318 The English language is not really a British invention but an amalgamation of all the other languages that we have come across over the years of empire!
They did invent the road !!! John Loudon McAdam (23 September 1756[1] - 26 November 1836) was a Scottish civil engineer and road-builder. He invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads with a smooth hard surface, using controlled materials of mixed particle size and predetermined structure, that would be more durable and less muddy than soil-based tracks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The romans invented roads we just improved them
@@longshanks7157not really, Roman roads have last for over 2000 years, Tarmac roads need resurfacing every 50 years or so. We didn’t improve them, we made them easier to build.
@@danielriley7380 Roman roads couldn't withstand HGVs.
It was a Welshman who thought of adding tar to make "tarmacadamised" or "tarmac" road surfaces.
It is common knowledge that the Industrial Revolution started in Britain!! It was then Brits that took it to America, along others, and built your railways
@@alchristie5112 it's also common knowledge that English folk hate language shit, like double exclamation marks
Well they were physically built by the Irish and Chinese but otherwise yes.;-)
Yes, I hope it still is. I'm a 60 year old Norwegian who learned about the Industrial revolution; where it started, when it came to Norway, and how it changed just about every aspect of our lives - and our economy. Thanks Britain! ❤
Brit’s did everything sure sounds great as long as you ignore the colonialism of it all.
Colonialism & slavery went sorta hand n hand with our Industrial Revolution n railways
British railways were funded by former slave owners & used materials that came from slavery like a lot of our Industrial Revolution did, that’s not even accounting for the railroads across the world that were built by slaves.
The Americans were taught and made a movie of how they captured the first German enigma machine. Guess what it was actually HMS Bulldog a British naval ship.
😮"what did the British ever do for us" -
Well, speaking as a "Brit" I would suggest that "we" invented social politeness, and the punishment of unfettered sarcasm for those who fail to observe it.
Americans frequently misunderstand this as "British wit" or "British humour" .
Just as they misunderstand the phrase "I want", which in English mandates the additional word "please". Otherwise, it has no real meaning and will often be ignored.
Failure to observe this "quaint tradition" frequently results in an expression of contempt.
This is a common mistake for Americans often because they have been inappropriately educated.
Modern democracy and law and order too. Well, before ethnic immigration and 'multiculturalism' ruined the West!
Loo is a derivation of Garde a' Leau - French for 'watch out for water' - when toilet waste was thrown out of upstrairs windows into the street.
I thought it was because of hotels having a room 100 as a toilet 🚻, you weren't embarrassed asking for room 100 or Loo, but you could be correct.
Are you sure it's not derived from "Gardez l'eau"?
Churchill was involved in the introduction of the tank in WW1 - he suggested that they used a code word for the vehicle as a water tank - hence the word "Tank".
It was originally called a land ship
This makes me proud, people may say what they will of the British, regardless of their own histories being just as checkered. But this little island has done some truly great and unique things. The British with their technology literally created a New Age that revolutionsed our entire existence and possibilities as a species. Truly remarkable among many other great achievements.
You should react to "the British crusade against slavery "
Nobody wants to, it goes against their narrative. White man is bad .
The Royal Navy fought to stop the slave trade and William Wilberforce persuaded Parliament to abolish slavery. btw we never had segregation.
Slavery was outlawed after the Norman Conquest.
So we never had slavery on UK shores
@christinemarshall1366
@@christinemarshall1366 Or "Jim Crow Laws".
The first vertical takeoff aircraft was invented by the British and it was called “ Jump Jet Harrier”.
That is what I answered to further up on comments , we where forced to share with American engineers who could not get theirs off the ground that's why their are two Harrier jets the massive American one and ours. Our own government stabbed us in the back saying the Americans where further along than us. Bull shit as usual.
@@raykeogh1972 French couldn't get theirs to work either. The F35 is a Russian Yak in its basic design by the way
The equivalent of cats' eyes in the USA are Botts' dots or Stimsonsite reflective markers, but cats' eyes are mounted on springs, which makes them more resilient and also helps to wash them in the rain.
You should watch some of Fred Dibnah's historical programmes, also he made ones about his steeplejacking but later he made ones about the industrial revolution, I grew up on these and so none of these are really a surprise to me. I am from Shildon in the north east which is the town the worlds 1st proper railway ran from and there is a massive railway museum there
Im so proud of Scottish inventors whos amazing inventions changed the world 🌎 Alexander Graham Bells Telephone,John Logie Bairds Television,Alexander Flemings Penicillin,Kirkpatrick Macmillans Bicycle,William Cullens Refrigerator, Alexander Woods Hypodermic Syringe, James Watts imoroved the Steam Engine,Alexander Cummings invented Flushing Toilets,Janes Hutchison Full Body MRI scanner,Alan MacMasters Toaster,John Boyd Dunlops Pneumatic Tire, James Goodfellows ATM we still use,William Patterson helped establish the Bank of England and invented Paper Money,John Louden MacAdams Tarmacadam Road Surface and the list goes on 😂
Thank-you Scotland. 🏴👍💕
(From a 71yo English woman)🏴💕🇬🇧🖖
I think the bike might be disputed in Germany and the telephone in Italy but I agree that the Scottish have contributed a lot.
Thomas Newcomen invented the atmospheric steam engine in 1712. He was English.
Frack off censorbot everyone hates you
Refrigeration through the sealed reciprocating compression was Carrier
"Britain created life". Well, yes.. the first cloned animal - Dolly the sheep in Scotland.
The irony of saying 'What did the Brits ever do for us?' in the English language is not lost on me ;)
Cat's eyes are built into different parts of the road and reflect your headlights. They use different colours to convey different information in the dark. One colour for the centre of the road, one for the edges, another colour for turnings, etc. Very useful on unlit roads and doesn't add any light pollution since it just relies on your headlights. When you drive over them they get pushed down into the road and a tiny wiper cleans the reflective lens. It's a really cool invention!
Except in America where they forgot the going down into the road but
I grew up just a few miles from the original Reflecting Roadstuds factory near Halifax in Yorkshire. The inventor, Percy Shaw, lived on the premises and we would occasionally see him driving his Rolls-Royce around. Apparently he got the idea from driving to his favourite pub on a foggy night and narrowly missing the landlady's pet cat because of how its eyes gleamed in the headlights. The self-cleaning mechanism is a lot of its success.
How can you tell Americans they live in the greatest country in the world if they didn't invent everything?
Did you know that the American constitution was based on, amongst other things , British constitution( yes it does exist) and the Magna Carta ….😇 but perhaps the biggest gift we gave to the world is …..our language !!!!
It is a shame that they put so much effort into murdering it.
@@davidberriman5903 it's alive and well. It's strengths are being simple enough, and able to adapt to absorb much new input.
9:16 The Battle of the Somme was the first time tanks were used by the British in warfare.
They were a disaster, but very true.
@@theriddick2735true the tanks were bad, but considering they were the first ever tanks and look at modern British tanks. Though I will admit that the general idea of a tank wasn't first invented by a British person but the country the guy belonged to was ignorant about the concept.
@wiliamrossiter I remember reading they scared the sh*t out of the enemy at first, but it soon changed. Still in use globally today so they can't be knocked, can they?
@@theriddick2735 yeah and while British tank development fell behind in WW2, after was a different story.
@@wiliamrossiter Very true brother.
Norwegian here, most of this I was taught in school. The train, steam engine, industrial revolution, loom, tank, telephone, radar and lots more. Henry Ford too, for the record.
The Americans are only educated about America in school unlike the rest of us, often Americans know less about America than other from other countries as well as about the rest of the world.
Necessity is the mother of invention
Wasn't that Frank Zappa ??
She also was British
Tanks got their name because the employees assembling them initially were told that they were making mechanised " Water Tanks " to transport Water to troops over difficult terrain ..
Americans are generally taught that they invented the world, everything in it and everything about to be in it. That's the words of my American wife not me as a Brit.
And the Brits -what do they say then ?
@ pretty much the same if they even think about it
It’s best summed up as, Britain invented modernity. You are welcome World 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Hi Tyler,
9:00, the Cats Eyes are a reflection device similar to 'Bots Dots', set into the road, they reflect the beam from your headlights.
They were invented before 'Bots Dots' (which are the device used on US roads) they have 2 advantages, they can be driven over , the US version breaks if driven over, and secondly they are self cleaning, driving over them cleans the reflective lenses.
The street and road lights are so useless now that the local bypass has put cats-eyes back on the roads. It's like being on an airport runway now. A really good invention. 🇬🇧
Just watched a programme and it appears the composer.of the American national anthem came from Gloucester. It was originally a drinking song.
Not everyone in Britain are geniuses, we have quite a lot of Americans living here too! 😂
We have Evan Edinger (from New Jersey) but American has Lawrence Brown (from Grimsby) ...
(what goes around, comes around?!)
@@brigidsingleton1596 Just a pity that they gave us back James Corden !!
@@enemde3025😂
@enemde3025
Oh no, did they?! 😢😥😕
Cats Eye reflectors are something we have in the centre line of our roads. They reflect your headlamps and help you to see where the road goes in poor conditions. The real genius is the main body is rubber, and when a car runs over it, it pushes the reflectors down and washes them in a little resevoir they have which catches rainwater.
The UK is still good at invention/ creations.
During Covid the British was the first to develop a test for Covid 😊
The first ever corona virus was discovered by a Scottish nurse ( midwife ) in her free time
@@RobertHogg-u8wok…. This is how this sort of thing works. If someone who is Scottish, Welsh or Northen Irish does something good, they automatically get claimed by the British, if they something bad… they remain Scottish, Irish or Welsh.
@Squiddy-go1du when you say British are you talking about the English. Seeing as Britain isn't England. But just a part of a greater picture of Great Britain.
@@Squiddy-go1du you must be english! Were all British only certain c**ts among us are english
@@straightreject2947 Don't confuse them. Bless.
Don't forget, the telephone, tv, in the world wide web (WWW), hovercraft, tanks etc.
Brits also developed the concept of steel framed high rise buildings. The first, I think, were multi-storey mills during the industrial revolution.
The first iron multistorey building was a a brewery in Shrewsbury. They have recently restored it it was in a right mess .
“Cat’s eyes”. Years and years ago Percy Shaw was driving along a Yorkshire road (England) at night time when a cat ran across the road and Percy noticed that the cat’s eyes lit up in the glare of his car’s lights. He used the total internal reflection theory to industrialise and copy the idea of the cat’s eyes in little manufactured glass balls that are embedded in our roads. They are used as a demarcation of boundaries even when there are no other lines on the road.
Dont forget "the Imperial system" is ours too, it was the British Empire that gave the rest of the world the system to use, so that standard parts could be made anywhere in the world.
The cats eyes on the road are reflective and work in the same way a real animals eye "shines" in the dark if you point a light source at it, Swamp lands full of crocodiles or the wild west with wolves. The design includes a rain water collection system that cleans the "eyes" every time a car drives over them. The cars weight pushes the top into the water.
1:39 The British were also a source of finance for railroads in the US and Russia, helping both those countries to expand westward and eastward.
Thank you for mentioning scanners, Brits also invented total hip replacement, and beta blockers.
James Naismith was the creator of Basket ball, born in 1861 to Scottish parents in Canada. It was in 1867 that Canada first became independent from Great Britain, so technically he was born a British citizen of Canada. He later moved to the USA where he codified the rules to Basket ball. So Britain, Canada and the US all have a share. To be honest, he was 6 when he became Canadian so I'd rather give it to Canada as Britain just about invented every other sport anyway.
Britain’s the only empire that was once greater than even the romans.
How did he fail to mention the light bulb, and Electricity itself? 😮
Too many creations, so little time. The Americans must know that one and definitely know Edison created alternative currents.
But there are others he mentioned just as important, also why just American's that guy didn't create his video just for American's to watch it. I'm sure he could have fitted it in if summarised a little more
@@theriddick2735 Edison preferred using direct current, not alternating current. Westinghouse was the main proponent of AC in America.
@@theriddick2735 Actually Edison proposed using Direct Current, where Tesla & Westinghouse proposed Alternating Current, because it's easier to send it long distances without serious losses.
Both forms of electricity were invented before either proposed them.
Here's my fav ourite - the Newcomen engine, often known as the nodding donkey, which Mr Newcomen ocame up with to pump out water from coalmines initially.
Remember the Atom Bomb was based on British and French wor moved to the USA to avoid bombing by the German Air force in the 1940s
Arguably this all came about when the English and Scottish stopped fighting and we had the “ Scottish Enlightenment “ where a good % of these inventions are Scottish 🏴, this is why I like to shout our corner often lost in the UK context ❤️🏴 we also have the oldest national flag the St Andrews Cross or saltire as it is commonly known as 👏👏👏
I would argue it all came about because Elizabeth 1st died childless. When King James left for London he took almost the entire Royal Court with him to support him in the HoL, this left a huge power vacuum into which the Church happily stepped.
One of the things they did was to set up Sunday Schools to teach people to read the bible, figuring the more who could read it the greater their hold on power would be. This was so successful they then encouraged Mill owners to allow anyone under 11 one day off a week to attend college, providing them a basic education, mainly in religion, which in turn was so successful that by the mid 1700's the literacy rate was almost 50%, compared to 12% in England, and if you remove the wealthy, only 2%.
When that Enlightenment hit we were perfectly placed to take full advantage. All because an English Queen struggled to get her hole 😄
Didn't know we had the oldest National Flag!
Boris Johnson revealed that every single chocolate hob-nob in the world was made in London
Britain also had the first powered flight in 1848. The USA had the first powered flight carrying a human.
It's 2024.
USA > UK
America has been the biggest contributor in the past 100 years.
@JoannDavi Britain still invents and designs about 50% of everything. I was a design engineer myself.
@@JoannDavi Check your facts, don't just beat your chest and chant USA .The USA is the richest country ever to have existed but for outright new inventions or scientific discoveries it has never been at the front .
@@JoannDavi Did you miss where he mentioned MRI & Cat Scanners, also the discovery of DNA, the World Wide Web, penicillin, programmable computers, television, etc.
Arthur C. Clarke (a Brit) published a technical paper (not a SF story) on geosynchronous communication satellites in May 1945.
That was a good guess on the Cats Eye reflectors, they're these little reflective devices that reflect your headlights a tiny bit so you can see the divisions between road lanes. The best bit is that, if you drive over them, the rubber caps would press down and wipe the reflectors clean.
Unlike their American counterparts, British road reflectors (called 'cats eyes' because of the way they glow in the dark) when driven over retract into a well filled with water and a brush which cleans the lenses as they spring up again.
Sadly they are not used so much now due to... you guessed it.. MONEY cost
cats eye reflectors are basically little metal devices with a high visibility disks/plastic in the middle, they are placed in the middle of the road, between the lanes.. so when you drive in parts of the country where there is low visibility and no street lights, they reflect your headlights to show you where your lane is, and work as a guide... They are called cats eyes because they're like glowing cats eyes at night.. they're actually really nice, I like driving at night and and seeing them..
In Australia we know this - it is common knowledge, For a start Australian invented the Sarich orbital engine, the black box, spray on skin, electronic pacemaker, developed the platform for google maps, polymer bank notes,, cochlear implants, electric drill as a beginning. USA definitely didnt invent everything
The American 'education' system is dier!
Finally an Aussie that recognises New Zealand as the inventor of the Pavlova! 🤣
@@anglosaxon5874Dire... ffs.
@@anglosaxon5874
*Dire ...actually. 👍
@@anglosaxon5874Brilliant. How good is your English?
I've just watched this through a second time, and l love this reaction. It puts a smile on my face how mind-blown you are! It's fascinating that the development of the industrial revolution in Britain isn't taught well in America - as it was initially started (in part) with the finance generated through raw materials provided by American colonies - cotton in particular- and then through trade with an independent USA.
I think the biggest point is the British built on previous knowledge to push us into the modern age.
Also the equals sign = was invented by a welshman called Robert Recorde back in the 1500's and also introduced plus and minus to the english speaking community.
I currently live less than 200meters from the first passenger line in the world, Darlington to Stockton
Brits know we started the industrial revolution it’s taught in history at school.
8:48
A cat's eye you find in the road reflect light back at you so you get an idea of where the road markings are, and by extension the road itself, at night further beyond what you might be able to see clearly with your headlights. you can get different colours for different things (white for normal markings, red for no entry, green for access onto slip roads).
interesting thing is you can drive over them without damaging them, and doing that cleans them
we created america!
I think that Amerigo Vespucci, American first nations, the Spanish, the French, the Dutch, and especially the Founding Fathers would dispute that claim. 🙄
@@t.a.k.palfrey3882 I can't speak for the others, but you could argue that the founding fathers of the US were British, at least until the US was founded.
Well we all make mistakes!
We created America? We should apologise.
@@t.a.k.palfrey3882
The majority of the Founding Fathers were from Britain...as well as the Dutch etc...
The first full-scale steam locomotive to run on a railway was the "Puffing Devil", built by British inventor and engineer Richard Trevithick in 1804. The first commercially successful steam railway engine 'The Rocket' was invented by British engineer George Stephenson in 1829.
That’s why we have Trevithick day.
Haha! I'm so happy this topic finally came around . I remember telling you that a previous video was wrong in saying that the USA invented the Internet when I know it was the uk. Glad that's been cleared up haha!
Two Americans 🇺🇲🇺🇲invented the Internet.
Tim Berners Lee (a Brit🇬🇧) invented and gave the world for free the WWW worldwideweb which takes longer to say in its abbreviated form than in its full length form!! 👍😏🏴💕🇬🇧🤭🖖