British cats eye reflectors actually have a little reservoir to hold rain water so when you pass over one it dips into the water and cleans itself.... genius 🇬🇧
@@peterjackson4763 The French still refused to ban slavery in it's overseas territories (plantations, see Haiti), whilst the British had pushed countries to follow suit in banning it during the congress of Vienna. Slavery had been banned in Britain since the 11th Century and many cases of slaves brought to Britain were freed. Slavery was banned in it's overseas territories and a huge sum of money was borrowed to compensate 'losses' for land owners. This was still being paid off until 2015. The West Africa Squadron was also tasked at tax payer expense to intercept and free slaves on ships off west Africa participating in the slave trade. The UK is responsible for the abolishment of slavery in Europe and across many overseas territories of it's own and by the extension of other powers.
@@white-dragon4424 Bring forward the Stokes mortar, the Blacker Bombard, the tank, the dreadnought battleship, the PIAT and the Boyes anti-tank rifle, to name a few!
@@lloydcollins6337 The aircraft carrier, the angled flight deck, the steam catapult, and what the Americans call the "meatball" to help pilots land on carriers, all originally invented for the RN. Oh, and the jet engine, invented by Frank Whittle.
There is a reasonable claim that the US constitution is much closer to the Dutch constitution than any other preceding document. I can imagine many English speakers don't know of that claim. However, there were enough Dutch settlers to create The New Netherlands and New York was previously called New Amsterdam. So the knowledge was present. I'm busy, but I'll try to remember to find a link and try to post a successful search (I think YT prevents links beyond its own content). Best Wishes. ☮
@@gbulmerThere is indeed. I wrote a comment on their response about US sovereign land at Runnymede a few days ago. The claim in that video was that the US Consitution is based on the 1628 Petition of Right. I rejected that & stated it's the 1689 Bill of Rights that the US Consitution is most closely based upon. Magna Carta is just 1 in a very long road of steps towards our Parliamentary democracy. A key step in reigning in monarchs, but the 1689 Bill of Rights, signed by William & Mary, marked the end of absolute monarchy forever in GB. Back to your point about The Netherlands. It's almost always forgotten that 35 of the 102 Plymouth Pilgrims were members of the English Separatist Church, radical Puritans, who had earlier fled to Leiden to escape persecution in England. They returned from Leiden and then joined the colonists on the Mayflower. Several of the Founding Fathers were scholars of history, and the English religious battles in particular. Jefferson & others would also have been familiar with continental European religious struggles. The wording and structure of the US Consitution has distinct similarities to the 1689 Bill of Rights, and I was told when reading history at Uni many years ago to the Consitution of The Netherlands. Used to have a bit of spoken Dutch due to having some Dutch friends when growing up, but I've never learnt to read it. Always makes me laugh when Americans treat their Consitution as if it's some magical holy relic that materialised out of nowhere. Have always taken American relatives & friends to Runnymede when they've come over to stay, and made sure that they realise their consitution is just a small step on a journey towards equal rights & liberties for all, that didn't start with Magna Carta In 1215. The journey goes back well over a 1,000 years. There's a good but very small display about Magna Carta at The British Library in London. Free entry to their galleries and well worth a visit. I go quite often as some displays change regularly. It's very close to King's Cross/St. Pancras, so if I have to change trains, I take a break & visit the library.
@@adamlancaster77 (Great) Britain is three countries, England, Wales and Scotland, though Wales is a principality...the UK consists of four countries, which include the above and also Northern Ireland. I know you know that, but this additional comment's info is for Steve and Lindsay of course. 👍🙂🏴💜🇬🇧🤭🖖
Don't forget, the Brits also brought you apple pie. Before the British came to America, there were no apple trees in America. Apples have been in Britain since Roman times and apple pie has been in Britain for at least 600 years.
@@gbulmer The Romans also introduced rabbits into the British ecosystem. We then took them over to North America. If it wasn't for the Romans there wouldn't be a Bugs Bunny!
@@white-dragon4424 😀Thank you for replying. Are you sure? I'm reasonably sure some rabbit and hare species are native to America. Nice idea, though. Also, Spain might have taken some before Brits; "Hispania" means "Land of the rabbits". Best Wishes. ☮
@@gbulmer Maybe the Spanish did. I know that the Romans brought rabbits to Britain, and we undoubtedly took lots over to the 13 Colonies for food, and a lot of those probably escaped. I know the Spanish brought hares, but they're different to rabbits, hence the name.
@@davidglow3 He didn't invent the internet. The internet wasn't invented as such, it developed by a combination of American, French and British Technology. Berners-Lee did create the HTTP protocol which the majority of internet traffic uses today. He did create the first browser too but a lot of HTTP traffic today is not using a browser for humans. So much data is transferred between machines using HTTP because there isn't anything better.
@@drcl7429 you have HTTP and HTTP/S the S representing SSL encryption. You say there is not anything better? How did you come to this conclusion? HTTPs is the world standard, there is nothing else that needs to be in its place.
Interesting fact about our cats eye markers, when they are run over they are designed so that the centre section (the eyes) go down on a spring & the rain water collected in the void washes the eyes so basically they’re self cleaning
They, for some reason, have watched a cut version of the original video, he does mention the www and a few other things, I don't understand why someone would cut that out..
And Sophie Wilson, who invented the CPU in every smartphone and the chip in practically every broadband modem. So it wasn't just the software, we invented the hardware too.
Arguably, 7/8th of the people complaining about the British Empire are only here today because of it. The Empire was central to stopping the ELE created by 1940s Germany.
@@AbzScotland It isn't a lie plonker. The flooding and wild fires every year now are one obvious piece of evidence. Combine that with species migration, Arctic temperatures that are warming at a faster rate than the rest of the planet and 1000s if other indicators all of which the science stated would happen decades ago.
It’s fashionable to talk our country down but we have so much to be proud of. We consistently punch above our weight even now,despite the poor leadership we’ve had of late 🇬🇧
The political left confuse bring successful with being ‘bad’. If the left are criticising you then you know you’re succeeding at something. Britain was very successful so is hated by the left
Alan Turring, (engliah- known as father of computers, cracked the enigma code with the help of other scientists and mathematicians, built worlds first computer that ended ww2 by 2 years) Alexander Flemming (Scottish, accidentally invented penicillin, help of two other Oxford researchers made available in 1940s to all Brits) William Wilberforce (white Christian minister who petitioned the ending of slavery until his death- and it was finally passed, then the US followed after) etc etc
here is one! I am a Yank and had an appointment with a patent attorney in Manchester England, trying to fit us in, we were put in a small back room being used for storage. The room had a plaque of the company's first patent. It was for the Dewey decimal system.
@@drcl7429 Aussie here. American wins this one lol * Melvil Dewey (born December 10, 1851, Adams Center, New York, U.S.-died December 26, 1931, Lake Placid, Florida) was an American librarian who devised the Dewey Decimal Classification for library. cataloging and, probably more than any other individual, was responsible for the development of library science. *The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system was conceived by Melvil Dewey in 1873 and first published in 1876.
The true giants are the Sumerians. By the time their empire fell, they'd given the world writing, the wheel, numbers, accounting, receipts, sewers, the use of copper, sailboats, chariots, literature, recipe books, law codes, monarchy, service stations, and countless other inventions. They handed us civilisation in very nearly its current state, and so much of what we've gone on to accomplish has been iterative improvements over what they did first.
In fact that is an Isaac Newton quote, it is inscribed on the edge of a British £2 coin which is minted at the Royal mint which Newton was a governor of
Loved this video. I’m British (Welsh and English mainly) and this opened my eyes up to all our achievements. I knew most of them but not all. Keep up the good work and I quite often find your videos astonishing! 🇬🇧🏴🏴
Three items gifted to the USA by Britain in 1940, before the US entered the war, The Whittle Jet Engine, The Cavity Magnetron (Radar (and microwave ovens)) Penicillin.
Also, "Tube Alloys" project which advanced the Manhattan Project, bringing their research forwards. At that time, we were too busy fighting a war, all on our own. With the promise that they would supply the UK with details of "the bomb" too. The US reneged on this. Also too, they reneged on the reactor stuff later also. Giving us only the outdated research.
Antibiotic resistance is also being driven by your food standards, its being addressed in this county and we have banned the importation of any meats that have had antibiotics to stimulate growth, its one reason we wont import American meats, also our doctors are educating patients on the correct use of antibiotics and stopping them from being prescribed unless absolutely needed.
I am a long term USA resident from the UK originally and I still don’t go to the doctor for antibiotics for everything because eventually they won’t work the one time you need them.
@caroleannbrunnock8793 they will work under 2 conditions, 1st you need to stop getting a daily micro dose every time you eat or the same antibiotic will not work when you need it most, 2nd (where the uk fails) is people don't take them correctly, people stop taking the halfway through when they feel better, 50% of the time it's ok but 50% the infection gets a little bit stronger and a little bit more immune to the antibiotics as you need to restat them again a week later at a higher dose for longer, if thousands do this on the regular it dosent take long to develop a bacteria that's fully resistant to that antibiotic.
I love watching you guys and your take on the British culture. I sometimes can be a bit complacent and take for granted being a Brit and watching you makes me appreciate where I am and my heritage. Keep up the fun videos ❤
@@carolsmith1859Well as an Englishman I can honestly say I love Scotland & the Scots. Wouldn't be without them & yes they definitely punched above their weight when it comes to inventing things 👍
Aussie here. I know that John Logie Baird, Scottish Inventor (13 August 1888 - 14 June 1946) an electrical engineer invented the television. Our Australian TV awards are called The Logies 😊
Customers in these coffee shops would give a little extra money to the proprietor to get a quicker service.. ( yep, this is reasonable to assume how the tipping culture started )
Just the other day, a British MP said that Britain was responsible for 51% of all the inventions in the last 1000 years, so that's Britain 51% the rest of the world 49%
Throwing waste from windows stopped about 300 years ago. Joseph Bazzelgette made the London Sewage system in about 1856 - and it’s still working nearly 200 years later!
It has been said that in the last 1000 years the British have been responsible for 51% of the world's inventions, considering it is a tiny island and once had a very small population that is some achievement! That is more or less the same cats eye as the original invention, ones on the highways and motorways are different, they are white and have reflectors on the side like the orange ones on cars, one of the great specifications of the cats eye is that wen you drive over them they dip into their recepticle and are cleaned. My tap water here in South Yorkshire comes from bore holes 900 feet underground from a natural spring that has one of the best quality mineral waters in the world, it tastes very very good.
Abraham Darby was the father of the Industrial Revolution and he was born & bred in Dudley, just up the road from me. He moved to Telford and discovered a new method to cast iron & as a result the very first iron bridge in the world was built in a place now called Ironbridge, where the bridge still stands today. What he discovered was a game-changer. What had to be remembered is that everywhere we went, we took our laws, democracy and prosperity to these nations.
I believe it was only built as an advert as well, although became a toll bridge. Also i believe Derby was credited with being able to increase iron production many fold. Iron was already being made. Invented the blast furnace. Also Coalbrookdale first mass produced items, China ware.
One of the major health related British discoveries he didn’t mention was the discovery/invention of the IVF procedure by Sir Robert Edwards and Dr Patrick Steptoe. At least 8 million babies have been born worldwide using the IVF process since the first ‘test tube’ baby, Louise Brown, was born in the UK in 1978.
Apparently, Percy shaw got the idea for Cats eyes when he was walking home from the Pub one night and a Cat came walking towards him in the dark and he noticed how bright it's Eyes sparkled in the dark. If would have been walking away from him, he would have invented The Pencil Sharpener 😜😜
Personally, I'm forever in love and have serious respect for Scottish science for identifying Penicillin and later, with excellent timing , 2 additional Scottish scientists created mass quantities and invented a distribution method, with the help of a few in the states, needed to expedite pencillion for WWII. It saved the lives of numerous soldiers, including my American soldier father that would not have survived without it and the Scots.!❤❤❤
There are thousands of Scottish inventions and innovations which are generally classed under the GB label, or even "English". Even the ATM was invented by a Scotsman!
Only watched a video yesterday where they said in America they can't really drink their tap water. I was surprised. In England most areas it's the norm the drink out of the tap as it tastes fine. Generally clean water.
I mean...most places in the US the tap water tastes "fine" but they add so much junk back into it that I'm not sure why you'd want to here. But there are some places over here that the tap water is actually unsafe to drink--Flint, MI comes to mind for their high levels of lead in their drinking water. It's a shame this day and age it's even an issue.
The one thing the guy didn't mention was what most of the world call the diesel engine. The heavy oil engine was, in fact, invented by a British inventor called Herbert Ackroyd Stewart. The first one was running in 1891 six years before Diesel brought out his engine that was based on Akroyed Stewerts with improvements to it
I've seen this reacted to elsewhere. It is greatly abridged in this version, and I believe it was referred to then. Also jet planes and DNA, and other things I can't remember. Have a look at one of the other reactors.
This video should be shown to kids at school here in Britain. Kids nowadays in the uk are taught to hate this place because colonialism and slavery are the main topics. Truly brainwashed
How is it brainwashing to teach children about colonialism and slavery? It happened. They do learn other things in history lessons you know. I have two kids in school at the moment and I know what they're being taught.
Even bigger than that is the US Military invention of the Internet in the 60s. Without that powering the WWW Cern and Sir TBL wouldnt have invented that.
@@unofficiallymike The internet is essentially the joining of millions of individual networks in to one massive one, with the ability to time share resources, I think,being what you suggest the Americans invented. And you are largely correct that this was done as a collaboration with US defense funding, but there was input from the UK and France on that too. Without the WWW/HTTP Tim Berners-Lee it would never have caught on with the masses.
Despite Britain being our former colonial rulers, and myself being from a medical background, I cannot overstate the contribution of the British and their inventions/discoveries to modern mankind-the first CT scan, Penicillin, first hip joint replacement, cloning, test tube baby, antisepsis, stem cells and vaccines, just to name a few of the tsunami of medical inventions and discoveries. Brits should be really proud!
People don't give the UK enough credit. As the guy said at the start, they all mostly start maligning the UK due to the empire, forgetting that EVERYONE was at it at the time. But as you now know, the world would be incredibly different without the UK
I live on Portland Isle, South Dorset, United Kingdom. People have farmed and had built settlements here for 8,190 years..........so old, but we walk locals walk past / drive past old ruins not taking any notice at all.
As well as inventing calculus, Isaac Newton invented the reflector telescope and what is undoubtedly the most important invention of all - the cat flap!
With all due respect to Steve and Lindsay, if I had been able to choose a country to be born in, it wouldn't be the US, so I am glad I was born in England, thanks Mum (Mar 1917 - Oct 2015) R.I.P.
07:33 UK road reflectors ( cats eyes )have 2 marble-like reflectors that are self-cleaning....When a vehicle rides over them, they are pressed down into the casement which contain brushes and any collected rain water to clean the glass marbles....
The first ship propeller was designed by Ismbard Kingdom Brunel. It was designed by hand and when analysed it is within 5% of maximum efficiency that any modern computer can design. Ps react to him he is probably the greatest Briton of all time.
I live in south west England and this was brunels playground here. His railway survives to this day as does his retirement home in torquay which sadly never completed before his death the foundations were laid and it was built to brunels spec .it has new owners now I don't know how friendly they are about letting people walk around, when the Christian folk owned it it was open to the public magnificent house
A Swede called John Ericsson invented the ship propeller in 1839 (source: The National Inventors Hall of Fame). Brunel saw an experimental screw-driven river launch and realised its greater potential to paddle wheels. He designed and tested various propellers before his final design for the SS Great Britain in 1843 (source: the Isambard Group). But you are correct about its efficiency, an amazing achievement before the age of computers.
@@jonathanbuzzard1376 They actually aren't more important, they came up with scientific theories, Brunel built the modern world. I would even put Nelson above newton and Maxwell.
@@mattsmith5421 without Newton and Maxwell you could not build the modern world. No Maxwell, no radio, no TV, no wifi, no colour tv, no colour photos or film. Maxwell was way way more important than Nelson, only those ignorant of his greatness think that. Unfortunately if you are not a physicist you won't comprehend how important he was.
That's an older style of Cat's Eye with a metal body and rubber portion containing the reflective eyes and is squishable when driven over to clean the eyes. They were invented by Percy Shaw after he encountered a cat while driving at night and it's eyes lit up when his headlights shone towards the cat.
Initially we used an acoustic pipe between lands end and France, where a person shouted into a trumpet shaped unit and their voice was heard in France. The we used copper coaxial cable for telegraph and then voice. Eventually the ships that make the cable and roll them off the back of the cable laying ships now use fibre optic cables and they attach electronic repeaters at fixed distances to boost the signal output. Satellite systems are also used however the speed from ground stations to satellite and then back down to an earth ground station is much slower than undersea fibre optic cable.
Shades of Monty Python's classic Life of Brian movie and it's fabulous "What did the Romans ever do for us"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh and remember the US Navy was a British Invention😉
The first merchandise Seed Drill (planter): Jethro Tull 1701. It made a small furrow, dropped in the seeds (Wheat, Barley, etc) then covered it again. This ment far less was taken by Birds or failed to germinate, the time spent on hand sewing was 3 or 4 times greater than with a drill. Modern Seed Drills work with the same principle.
The world owes a great deal to the suffering of the British working classes whose labours allowed so many of these to be invented by a small privileged group of inventors and thinkers (not all, admittedly, some inventors worked their way up from simple beginnings). The Industrial Revolution is often the first thing that people think of, but it mustn't be forgotten that the British played a huge role in the Agricultural Revolution, the Transport Revolution, the Communications Revolution, the Medical Revolution, and the Scientific Revolution. Not only were key ideas developed by the British, but they continue to do so today. In these woke times, there is a tendency to focus on the negative aspects of Britain's role in the world, yet, as it said in the video, without the positive contributions of our small island nation, the world would be a different place. Life, for so many people would not be as good. No doubt someone else would eventually have come up with the same ideas, but Britain has catapulted the world into much that is good in our lives. If I was still teaching, I would be using the original video in my lessons to counter the current "Britain is bad" attitude.
It's really impossible to know just how influential those 51% of invented were to the other 49%. I imagine, most of the world's other inventions wouldn't have come to be, without the earlier ones.
i think probably the most significant to the modern world was James Clerk Maxwell theory of electromagnetism , and Alexander Fleming discovery of penicillin. As a Scot i am proud of the contributions from oor wee country
He missed quite a few out. A few well known ones are Lord Kelvin (thermodynamics), Boyle (chemistry and pressure law), James Hutton (invented the science of Geology), Adam Smith (modern economics), Babbage (literally invented the concept of a digital computer), and Robert Hooke (physicist, created the microscope).
@@UnknownUser-rb9pd Also missed were Sir George Cayley, the father of aerodynamics, worked out the principals of flight, & flew gliders in the early 19th century, & William 'Geology' Smith who worked on stratigraphy & made the first good geological maps.
The 70s had some fantastic things I'm a big lover of onyx furniture I remeber my grandparents had onyx everything including ciggeratte lighters and lamp stands with faux gold lions feet. And their globe that opened up into a drinks cabinet
@@Ghhft33I would love an authentic one I know they are oldy fash now but I love them. I did pick an onyx lighter up at a car boot sale a few years ago. And a complete cutlery set with patterns on nan used to call them her best 👌. Usually they came out on special occasions and set at the table. Soup spoons fish knives etc. The 70s were cool times
I’m British and I can tell you, my first drink of the day is Coffee. I wouldn’t be able to function without that drink. I also love tea throughout the day.
Let's not forget some of the sports that the Brits invented too. Football (soccer). Tennis. Cricket. Rugby. Boxing. Golf. Baseball (stems from Rounders). Darts Snooker. Hockey. And so on and so on & so on etc etc etc. All these sports now played on a massive scale worldwide.
@@WayneCrow85 Everyone else was doing that ''wrong doing'' Especially the Africans and Arabs. They were far, far worse than any other county in 'known' history.
He Missed some big ones. Brit Frank Whittle, invented the Jet Engine. Ada lovelace (The famous poet Byron's daughter) invented computer software, more than 100 years before the electronic computer in 1940s.
My home City of Sheffield famous for its Cutlery Manufacturing was also known for Steel Manufacturing. It’s where Stainless Steel was invented. Also Sir Henry Bessemer invented the Bessemer Steel production. It made steel much lighter and stronger than previously.
Americans will say that they live in the Greatest country in the World.. They Don't!!.. they live in the most powerful Country. Britain is the Greatest.
the clue is in the names. 'The (sort of) United states of America' and 'Great Britain'. Al Murray's comment is the best..... we don't have earthquakes.....because we don't deserve them.
It's interesting that this guy has even an axe to grind on some levels of history. The British invented the industrial revolution. That's a fact. And in only the name of national pride I wish we were that strong and that inventive today. Because we could do more for ourselves and the world than we currently are.
Sir Joseph Whitworth, made the most important "invention" of the Industrial revolution. When he developed the British Standard Whitworth (BSW) screw thread standard. He standardised nuts and bolts etc. So that they were all interchangeable.
@@AlainnCorcaigh yes the internet was invented by America. but that is only a programme that got added to the WWW. the WWW was sending data around the world long before the internet was invented. it is like saying that the guy who put the hood ornament on a car invented the car.
Just a walk around a British Graveyard makes you realise the changes since antibiotics and antiseptic products were invented, it's heart breaking seeing the grave stones from the 1700 and 1800 hundreds of children who died at such a young age, literally thousands upon thousands of families that lost 5 and 6 children usually to disease either before a year old or before they reached age 10.
I would say one of our finest inventions. The rest our material but you cant put a price on human life I.m.o and youre right even adult graves they were young people who died
You don't have to go that far back. My Grandma was born in 1925 she had two sisters and one brother, only one of the sisters survived past 5 years old, the other 2 children died from illnesses that would have been treatable only about 10 years later.
@@martinwebb1681 Thank you for mentioning our British Graveyards, Where I live we have a huge Graveyard, and we are allowed to walk our dogs there….clean up after of course!! I was there only the other day, and it’s sad to see the majority of graves are as you say from the 1700 and 1800 Dead at such young ages .
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British cats eye reflectors actually have a little reservoir to hold rain water so when you pass over one it dips into the water and cleans itself.... genius 🇬🇧
With little brushes that clean the eyes when a car wheel compresses it.
Self cleaning!..👍
really? didn't know that, how clever
Came here to say the same thing brilliant idea
@@vallee3140 AREN'T WE ?
Another important one is that the British were the first to ban slavery and then forced every other country to ban the practice.
That's a lie.
We weren't the first. The French banned slavery after their revolution, but Napoleon brought it back a few years later.
Definitely not first
@@peterjackson4763 The French still refused to ban slavery in it's overseas territories (plantations, see Haiti), whilst the British had pushed countries to follow suit in banning it during the congress of Vienna. Slavery had been banned in Britain since the 11th Century and many cases of slaves brought to Britain were freed. Slavery was banned in it's overseas territories and a huge sum of money was borrowed to compensate 'losses' for land owners. This was still being paid off until 2015. The West Africa Squadron was also tasked at tax payer expense to intercept and free slaves on ships off west Africa participating in the slave trade. The UK is responsible for the abolishment of slavery in Europe and across many overseas territories of it's own and by the extension of other powers.
Africa are still selling their own. So it hasn't ended either.
Us Brits get so much grief, it’s really rather lovely to see something positive about us.
Scotland is second only to the Ancient Greeks for their contribution to mankind.
nah it's not, we suck. ;)
@@uthikoloshe very British-sounding name.
@@SpeedfreakUK yeah that guy is a nob
🏴🇬🇧 My Pride Flags.
This list doesn't scratch the surface off British inventions.
Especially military inventions.
@@white-dragon4424 Bring forward the Stokes mortar, the Blacker Bombard, the tank, the dreadnought battleship, the PIAT and the Boyes anti-tank rifle, to name a few!
@@lloydcollins6337 The aircraft carrier, the angled flight deck, the steam catapult, and what the Americans call the "meatball" to help pilots land on carriers, all originally invented for the RN. Oh, and the jet engine, invented by Frank Whittle.
not QUITE everything!
The US Navy
Your Constitution and Bill of Rights was based on the Magna Carta written in England in the 13th Century!
They know. They covered it recently.
There is a reasonable claim that the US constitution is much closer to the Dutch constitution than any other preceding document. I can imagine many English speakers don't know of that claim. However, there were enough Dutch settlers to create The New Netherlands and New York was previously called New Amsterdam. So the knowledge was present. I'm busy, but I'll try to remember to find a link and try to post a successful search (I think YT prevents links beyond its own content).
Best Wishes. ☮
@@gbulmer sssh dont you know facts are problematic
@@gbulmerare you an Anglophobe by any chance?
@@gbulmerThere is indeed. I wrote a comment on their response about US sovereign land at Runnymede a few days ago. The claim in that video was that the US Consitution is based on the 1628 Petition of Right. I rejected that & stated it's the 1689 Bill of Rights that the US Consitution is most closely based upon. Magna Carta is just 1 in a very long road of steps towards our Parliamentary democracy. A key step in reigning in monarchs, but the 1689 Bill of Rights, signed by William & Mary, marked the end of absolute monarchy forever in GB.
Back to your point about The Netherlands. It's almost always forgotten that 35 of the 102 Plymouth Pilgrims were members of the English Separatist Church, radical Puritans, who had earlier fled to Leiden to escape persecution in England. They returned from Leiden and then joined the colonists on the Mayflower. Several of the Founding Fathers were scholars of history, and the English religious battles in particular. Jefferson & others would also have been familiar with continental European religious struggles.
The wording and structure of the US Consitution has distinct similarities to the 1689 Bill of Rights, and I was told when reading history at Uni many years ago to the Consitution of The Netherlands. Used to have a bit of spoken Dutch due to having some Dutch friends when growing up, but I've never learnt to read it. Always makes me laugh when Americans treat their Consitution as if it's some magical holy relic that materialised out of nowhere. Have always taken American relatives & friends to Runnymede when they've come over to stay, and made sure that they realise their consitution is just a small step on a journey towards equal rights & liberties for all, that didn't start with Magna Carta In 1215. The journey goes back well over a 1,000 years.
There's a good but very small display about Magna Carta at The British Library in London. Free entry to their galleries and well worth a visit. I go quite often as some displays change regularly. It's very close to King's Cross/St. Pancras, so if I have to change trains, I take a break & visit the library.
We're far too modest to make a song and dance about it but we've always punched well above our weight.🇬🇧
So true
I'm not saying Britain is the best country in the world, but we're in the top one! (Rest in peace Mr Clough)
Only Britain is Great
Yes it is 😂
Britain isn't a country it's a land of 4 countries
@@adamlancaster77
(Great) Britain is three countries, England, Wales and Scotland, though Wales is a principality...the UK consists of four countries, which include the above and also Northern Ireland.
I know you know that, but this additional comment's info is for Steve and Lindsay of course. 👍🙂🏴💜🇬🇧🤭🖖
Too bad this country is now full of chav morons.
THIS is why the Brits have EVERY reason to be proud of what they gave to the world.
We are lions led by lambs sadly
@@chucky2316fascists now
@@CarolWoosey-ck2rg lmao... No
@@CarolWoosey-ck2rg the govt and the lefties won't stop me being pro english and british.
@@CarolWoosey-ck2rgStop being a bitter old dear
I'm a Brit. And it's because our weather is so rainy, we stay indoors tinkering with ideas and stuff, until we invent something. 😅
😂😂😂 💯
Boredom is necessary for creativity to flourish!
@@zollykod2541necessity is the Mother of invention, as the saying goes.
The weather is so unpredictable that we have to be adaptable and invent other options quickly when we have to change plans because of rain ! 🤣
It's not just the British, all the colder nations if you look back progressed faster... Hotter countries not so much - check it out! )))
Don't forget, the Brits also brought you apple pie. Before the British came to America, there were no apple trees in America. Apples have been in Britain since Roman times and apple pie has been in Britain for at least 600 years.
I’m American and our history was a lot of British history because it’s really seen as still our history
By that argument, didn't the Romans enable the USA to have apple pie? 😀
"What did the Romans ever do for us?" (Life of Brian)
Best Wishes. ☮
@@gbulmer The Romans also introduced rabbits into the British ecosystem. We then took them over to North America. If it wasn't for the Romans there wouldn't be a Bugs Bunny!
@@white-dragon4424 😀Thank you for replying. Are you sure? I'm reasonably sure some rabbit and hare species are native to America. Nice idea, though. Also, Spain might have taken some before Brits; "Hispania" means "Land of the rabbits".
Best Wishes. ☮
@@gbulmer Maybe the Spanish did. I know that the Romans brought rabbits to Britain, and we undoubtedly took lots over to the 13 Colonies for food, and a lot of those probably escaped. I know the Spanish brought hares, but they're different to rabbits, hence the name.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee not only invented the world wide web but gifted it to the world for free - absolutely incredible
There was a dumbass presidential candidate who claimed he dun that.
Don't forget Flemming and penicillin. Crick and Watson etc. etc. And Dr. McCauley's work on insulin production for diabetics....
He invented the browser,not the internet,which was developed in the late 1960s by the American army.
@@davidglow3 He didn't invent the internet. The internet wasn't invented as such, it developed by a combination of American, French and British Technology. Berners-Lee did create the HTTP protocol which the majority of internet traffic uses today. He did create the first browser too but a lot of HTTP traffic today is not using a browser for humans. So much data is transferred between machines using HTTP because there isn't anything better.
@@drcl7429 you have HTTP and HTTP/S the S representing SSL encryption. You say there is not anything better? How did you come to this conclusion? HTTPs is the world standard, there is nothing else that needs to be in its place.
I’m so proud to be British 🇬🇧
And thank you guys for this amazing video ❤
Interesting fact about our cats eye markers, when they are run over they are designed so that the centre section (the eyes) go down on a spring & the rain water collected in the void washes the eyes so basically they’re self cleaning
he also never patented it amd gave most of his wealth to charity
I'm proud to be British & what my Great Nation has given to the world. Rule Britannia 🇬🇧🇬🇧
As a scot I'm British 1st
@@daviel6595 Same.
@@daviel6595 well I’m an Englishman and I…………concur. 🇬🇧
Proud to be English, British. Great History, art and innovations
Brits also invented the communication satellite (arthur c clarke), the Internet, computers and even texting!
Proud to be Scottish and proud to be British. 🏴🏴🇬🇧🇬🇧
We are all brothers together
@@CarlBrowitt-ye8uo
...and sisters too!!
A proud Brit from England, who had a grandmother from Auld Reekie.
As an Englishman I'm proud of my Scots, Welsh and Irish brothers and sisters.
You would not be able to watch this video without Sir Tim Berners-Lee who invented the World Wide Web.
They, for some reason, have watched a cut version of the original video, he does mention the www and a few other things, I don't understand why someone would cut that out..
@@rohnnyjotten3985 That's very interesting.. ......
And Sophie Wilson, who invented the CPU in every smartphone and the chip in practically every broadband modem.
So it wasn't just the software, we invented the hardware too.
@@MostlyPennyCat No.
Oh rly?
So proud, thanks for the recognition. truly humbled... Simon , UK British and proud !! Great channel guys.
They also invented what saves many lives in the car industry, the air bag. I'm proud to be British.
British and Proud of our History
We have contributed far more than We have taken
unlike most other Empires
Arguably, 7/8th of the people complaining about the British Empire are only here today because of it. The Empire was central to stopping the ELE created by 1940s Germany.
Including climate change.
@@Paul-yh8km yeah, spreading that lie as well to benefit the elites. LOL
@@Paul-yh8km Climate change existed before humans existed...
@@AbzScotland
It isn't a lie plonker.
The flooding and wild fires every year now are one obvious piece of evidence. Combine that with species migration, Arctic temperatures that are warming at a faster rate than the rest of the planet and 1000s if other indicators all of which the science stated would happen decades ago.
It’s fashionable to talk our country down but we have so much to be proud of. We consistently punch above our weight even now,despite the poor leadership we’ve had of late 🇬🇧
So right- annoys me when the wokes in this country are the worst offenders in putting their own country down
It's we, the people, that punch above our weight. The politicians are shite.
The political left confuse bring successful with being ‘bad’. If the left are criticising you then you know you’re succeeding at something. Britain was very successful so is hated by the left
The country actually contains three countries and a Province.
Alan Turring, (engliah- known as father of computers, cracked the enigma code with the help of other scientists and mathematicians, built worlds first computer that ended ww2 by 2 years) Alexander Flemming (Scottish, accidentally invented penicillin, help of two other Oxford researchers made available in 1940s to all Brits) William Wilberforce (white Christian minister who petitioned the ending of slavery until his death- and it was finally passed, then the US followed after) etc etc
here is one! I am a Yank and had an appointment with a patent attorney in Manchester England, trying to fit us in, we were put in a small back room being used for storage. The room had a plaque of the company's first patent. It was for the Dewey decimal system.
I don't understand. Dewey was American.
@@drcl7429
Aussie here. American wins this one lol
* Melvil Dewey (born December 10, 1851, Adams Center, New York, U.S.-died December 26, 1931, Lake Placid, Florida) was an American librarian who devised the Dewey Decimal Classification for library. cataloging and, probably more than any other individual, was responsible for the development of library science.
*The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system was conceived by Melvil Dewey in 1873 and first published in 1876.
We all stand on the shoulders of giants. British Giants
The true giants are the Sumerians. By the time their empire fell, they'd given the world writing, the wheel, numbers, accounting, receipts, sewers, the use of copper, sailboats, chariots, literature, recipe books, law codes, monarchy, service stations, and countless other inventions. They handed us civilisation in very nearly its current state, and so much of what we've gone on to accomplish has been iterative improvements over what they did first.
Absolutely 👍🏻❤️🇬🇧
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Old Ted down the pub is 6ft 7”.
He’s a giant and he invented whole loaf casseroles.
Hollow an uncut,Chuck your chicken casserole in it and munch.
In fact that is an Isaac Newton quote, it is inscribed on the edge of a British £2 coin which is minted at the Royal mint which Newton was a governor of
Makes me so proud to be British watching this, but I love watching your reactions more thank you from the UK 🇬🇧 lots of live to you both ❤❤❤
The SS Great Eastern laid the first cables from England to America , boat built by one of the greatest brits , Isambard kingdom Brunel 👍
The cable was designed by maxwell and the idea came from lord kelvin. Absolute powerhouse team
The British invented the harrier jump jet, and the usa still use them today with a great amount of weaponry and the first ever Vtol. Jet.
Loved this video. I’m British (Welsh and English mainly) and this opened my eyes up to all our achievements. I knew most of them but not all. Keep up the good work and I quite often find your videos astonishing! 🇬🇧🏴🏴
Three items gifted to the USA by Britain in 1940, before the US entered the war, The Whittle Jet Engine, The Cavity Magnetron (Radar (and microwave ovens)) Penicillin.
Britain also furnished them with the means to go supersonic and make the atom bomb viable.
Tube Alloys, The Maud research, differing forms of ASDIC, Geosurvey nav Chart, Geo Magnetic nav Charts, Various Explosives
@@paulbantick8266 Is correct, the explosive containment, Cambridge University I think.
Drs. Randall & Boot at Birmingham University, 1940, now every kitchen has a cavity magnetron.
Also, "Tube Alloys" project which advanced the Manhattan Project, bringing their research forwards. At that time, we were too busy fighting a war, all on our own. With the promise that they would supply the UK with details of "the bomb" too. The US reneged on this. Also too, they reneged on the reactor stuff later also. Giving us only the outdated research.
I remember my grandparents having a Teasmaid by the side of the bed back in the 70’s. Good memories x
In the 70's I worked for a company that repaired them. Customers pleaded for quick repair as starting the day without a brew up waiting is hell.
My parents had one in the 70s too.
The ticking of the clock was horrendously annoying
Luke warm tea 😂
I had one of those too, bloody noisy!
It’s crazy how many things the Scottish invented for such a small country
Scotland for hundreds of years had a world leading and truly excellent education system. Destroyed by Labour and then the SNP
As an Englander, I totally agree :)
English here, fully agree. The Irish maybe need to catch up? 😂
Stop complaining. We all know it. England gives praise to native English people who did the job in America. Stop crying.
@@Deano-Dron81 what are you talking about?
Antibiotic resistance is also being driven by your food standards, its being addressed in this county and we have banned the importation of any meats that have had antibiotics to stimulate growth, its one reason we wont import American meats,
also our doctors are educating patients on the correct use of antibiotics and stopping them from being prescribed unless absolutely needed.
Another good point as well!
I am a long term USA resident from the UK originally and I still don’t go to the doctor for antibiotics for everything because eventually they won’t work the one time you need them.
@caroleannbrunnock8793 they will work under 2 conditions, 1st you need to stop getting a daily micro dose every time you eat or the same antibiotic will not work when you need it most, 2nd (where the uk fails) is people don't take them correctly, people stop taking the halfway through when they feel better, 50% of the time it's ok but 50% the infection gets a little bit stronger and a little bit more immune to the antibiotics as you need to restat them again a week later at a higher dose for longer, if thousands do this on the regular it dosent take long to develop a bacteria that's fully resistant to that antibiotic.
I love watching you guys and your take on the British culture. I sometimes can be a bit complacent and take for granted being a Brit and watching you makes me appreciate where I am and my heritage. Keep up the fun videos ❤
Scotland invented so much.....for one of the wee countries in the world. Check that out. Hugs from Dundee, Scotland x Love watching you both ❤
Absolutely correct! (I was a student in Dundee, long ago!)
Pretty sure that Scotland is part of Great Britain 🤔
@@EvenMadderMax when it suits yeah
@@carolsmith1859Well as an Englishman I can honestly say I love Scotland & the Scots. Wouldn't be without them & yes they definitely punched above their weight when it comes to inventing things 👍
Aussie here. I know that John Logie Baird, Scottish Inventor (13 August 1888 - 14 June 1946)
an electrical engineer invented the television.
Our Australian TV awards are called The Logies 😊
Coffee shops were in the UK from the 1600s, before tea
Customers in these coffee shops would give a little extra money to the proprietor to get a quicker service.. ( yep, this is reasonable to assume how the tipping culture started )
Just can’t argue we found a superior drink with tea, the numbers don’t lie. 😂
@@DukeDanseMacambre born and lived in England my whole life, and cannot stand tea or coffee 😅..coffee breath is the worst
Just the other day, a British MP said that Britain was responsible for 51% of all the inventions in the last 1000 years, so that's Britain 51% the rest of the world 49%
Aye Lee Anderson MP great speech he made.
@@cheryl71000yeah pitty he is completely useless
@@damiendye6623which MP isn’t? 😏
That is a stat that a Japanese think tank came up with in the ‘90s. The MP was just quoting it
How do you know an MP is lying, their lips are moving.
Throwing waste from windows stopped about 300 years ago. Joseph Bazzelgette made the London Sewage system in about 1856 - and it’s still working nearly 200 years later!
It has been said that in the last 1000 years the British have been responsible for 51% of the world's inventions, considering it is a tiny island and once had a very small population that is some achievement!
That is more or less the same cats eye as the original invention, ones on the highways and motorways are different, they are white and have reflectors on the side like the orange ones on cars, one of the great specifications of the cats eye is that wen you drive over them they dip into their recepticle and are cleaned.
My tap water here in South Yorkshire comes from bore holes 900 feet underground from a natural spring that has one of the best quality mineral waters in the world, it tastes very very good.
Abraham Darby was the father of the Industrial Revolution and he was born & bred in Dudley, just up the road from me. He moved to Telford and discovered a new method to cast iron & as a result the very first iron bridge in the world was built in a place now called Ironbridge, where the bridge still stands today. What he discovered was a game-changer.
What had to be remembered is that everywhere we went, we took our laws, democracy and prosperity to these nations.
What was it called before they renamed it?
@@giddy9052 Nobridge uptfromford,
@@giddy9052 It was called Coalbrookdale
@@dee2251 👍 thanks
I believe it was only built as an advert as well, although became a toll bridge. Also i believe Derby was credited with being able to increase iron production many fold. Iron was already being made. Invented the blast furnace. Also Coalbrookdale first mass produced items, China ware.
Our pleasure!
One of the major health related British discoveries he didn’t mention was the discovery/invention of the IVF procedure by Sir Robert Edwards and Dr Patrick Steptoe. At least 8 million babies have been born worldwide using the IVF process since the first ‘test tube’ baby, Louise Brown, was born in the UK in 1978.
She was 2 years above me in school 😊 never realised the significance of IVF back then lol she was just grown in a test tube they told us 😂
Apparently, Percy shaw got the idea for Cats eyes when he was walking home from the Pub one night and a Cat came walking towards him in the dark and he noticed how bright it's Eyes sparkled in the dark. If would have been walking away from him, he would have invented The Pencil Sharpener 😜😜
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or tea towel holder
Good one 😂😂
What a great video. Thank you for enlightening us all.
Personally, I'm forever in love and have serious respect for Scottish science for identifying Penicillin and later, with excellent timing , 2 additional Scottish scientists created mass quantities and invented a distribution method, with the help of a few in the states, needed to expedite pencillion for WWII.
It saved the lives of numerous soldiers, including my American soldier father that would not have survived without it and the Scots.!❤❤❤
There are thousands of Scottish inventions and innovations which are generally classed under the GB label, or even "English". Even the ATM was invented by a Scotsman!
I live in the same town Alexander Fleming is from - see his state every day just outside my house
@@Yesser-Thistle73and the Bank of England.
Only watched a video yesterday where they said in America they can't really drink their tap water. I was surprised. In England most areas it's the norm the drink out of the tap as it tastes fine. Generally clean water.
I mean...most places in the US the tap water tastes "fine" but they add so much junk back into it that I'm not sure why you'd want to here. But there are some places over here that the tap water is actually unsafe to drink--Flint, MI comes to mind for their high levels of lead in their drinking water.
It's a shame this day and age it's even an issue.
Same in a lot of European locations. There's a reason why plastic bottles are a environmental problem world wide
Actually feeling quite proud to be British after watching this.
All this and a ton more from, as you say, this little island. So,so proud to be British 🇬🇧 🙂
True fact UK Cat's eyes are self cleaning when you run over them with your wheel.
Just like real cats.
I’m so proud to be Scottish/ British. Some people as you said just focus on the bad
Great reaction! Proud to be British 🇬🇧
The one thing the guy didn't mention was what most of the world call the diesel engine. The heavy oil engine was, in fact, invented by a British inventor called Herbert Ackroyd Stewart. The first one was running in 1891 six years before Diesel brought out his engine that was based on Akroyed Stewerts with improvements to it
I've seen this reacted to elsewhere. It is greatly abridged in this version, and I believe it was referred to then. Also jet planes and DNA, and other things I can't remember.
Have a look at one of the other reactors.
This video should be shown to kids at school here in Britain. Kids nowadays in the uk are taught to hate this place because colonialism and slavery are the main topics. Truly brainwashed
How is it brainwashing to teach children about colonialism and slavery? It happened. They do learn other things in history lessons you know. I have two kids in school at the moment and I know what they're being taught.
Gen Z morons mainly.
The biggest one I never heard mentioned is the World Wide Web, without which none of us would be here, watching you both.
It is mentioned in the original as well as tarmacadam
Even bigger than that is the US Military invention of the Internet in the 60s. Without that powering the WWW Cern and Sir TBL wouldnt have invented that.
@@unofficiallymike The internet is essentially the joining of millions of individual networks in to one massive one, with the ability to time share resources, I think,being what you suggest the Americans invented. And you are largely correct that this was done as a collaboration with US defense funding, but there was input from the UK and France on that too. Without the WWW/HTTP Tim Berners-Lee it would never have caught on with the masses.
@@unofficiallymike The British invented the powerlines, that the Internet uses though.
So, we did invent the Internet really.
Fun fact..., Coffee was around in Britain before Tea!
We probably nicked it by raiding Spanish ships from S. America.
@@flybobbie1449 so was chocolate 14th centry elizabethan times
@@flybobbie1449😂5
Despite Britain being our former colonial rulers, and myself being from a medical background, I cannot overstate the contribution of the British and their inventions/discoveries to modern mankind-the first CT scan, Penicillin, first hip joint replacement, cloning, test tube baby, antisepsis, stem cells and vaccines, just to name a few of the tsunami of medical inventions and discoveries. Brits should be really proud!
Yes amazing tally ho
People don't give the UK enough credit. As the guy said at the start, they all mostly start maligning the UK due to the empire, forgetting that EVERYONE was at it at the time.
But as you now know, the world would be incredibly different without the UK
The Brits gave the world, football and The Beatles. Thank you!
Really thought the Chinese invented it.
And Led Zeppelin 😂
Not that I contributed personally, but you're welcome.
You forgot The Rolling Stones!
And baseball (rounders - a game played by English schoolgirls). And rugby (started in Rugby boy's school, hence the sport's name).
0:13 right off the top of my head I’d say we discovered the land mass you now call home 😂
Well if you don't count chinese anscestors,vikings,spanish
@ and Portuguese but hey go
Cats eye reflectors actually get cleaned automatically when passed over by a vehicle - much better than reflective strips.
We are supposed to drive to the left of cats eyes.
Hot milk in tea? Steve, you philistine!!
Steve isint quite ready for tea and sandwiches on the lawn yet. We will educate them
That thought turned my stomach too!!😮
No, not hot milk...cold milk in hot tea
@@reactingtomyrootsso tea hot, milk and sugar?
I have what they call builders tea, very strong, milk no sugar. Considering you didn't use to drink tea your getting there Steve
The Teamaid with a radio alarm clock - awesome - wake up to your favourite morning radio and its brewing you a cuppa at the same time 😊😊
I live on Portland Isle, South Dorset, United Kingdom.
People have farmed and had built settlements here for 8,190 years..........so old, but we walk locals walk past / drive past old ruins not taking any notice at all.
Our politicians need to watch this video about history of this country
Trouble is most of our politicians are immigrants
Scottish British and proud 🏴🇬🇧
As well as inventing calculus, Isaac Newton invented the reflector telescope and what is undoubtedly the most important invention of all - the cat flap!
cat flap most important to allow for freedom to do more research whilst not wasting time letting the cat in and out all day , true genius
I love being British. If I had a choice of where I could be born I would pick Britain.
Me too. 🙂
And me !👍🏼🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️
No argument
I love my country and heritage I hate our politicians and Westminster with a passion
With all due respect to Steve and Lindsay, if I had been able to choose a country to be born in, it wouldn't be the US, so I am glad I was born in England, thanks Mum (Mar 1917 - Oct 2015) R.I.P.
07:33 UK road reflectors ( cats eyes )have 2 marble-like reflectors that are self-cleaning....When a vehicle rides over them, they are pressed down into the casement which contain brushes and any collected rain water to clean the glass marbles....
The first ship propeller was designed by Ismbard Kingdom Brunel. It was designed by hand and when analysed it is within 5% of maximum efficiency that any modern computer can design. Ps react to him he is probably the greatest Briton of all time.
I live in south west England and this was brunels playground here. His railway survives to this day as does his retirement home in torquay which sadly never completed before his death the foundations were laid and it was built to brunels spec .it has new owners now I don't know how friendly they are about letting people walk around, when the Christian folk owned it it was open to the public magnificent house
A Swede called John Ericsson invented the ship propeller in 1839 (source: The National Inventors Hall of Fame). Brunel saw an experimental screw-driven river launch and realised its greater potential to paddle wheels. He designed and tested various propellers before his final design for the SS Great Britain in 1843 (source: the Isambard Group). But you are correct about its efficiency, an amazing achievement before the age of computers.
Nope both Issac Newton and James Clark Maxwell are more important, I would put Brunel third.
@@jonathanbuzzard1376 They actually aren't more important, they came up with scientific theories, Brunel built the modern world. I would even put Nelson above newton and Maxwell.
@@mattsmith5421 without Newton and Maxwell you could not build the modern world. No Maxwell, no radio, no TV, no wifi, no colour tv, no colour photos or film. Maxwell was way way more important than Nelson, only those ignorant of his greatness think that. Unfortunately if you are not a physicist you won't comprehend how important he was.
The Brits invented the tank, electric light bulb 💡 Swan invented, Edison patented it, Television 📺, Radio 📻 to mention just a few
This actually makes me really sad.
How great Britain was and now we cant even give our elders heating 😢
That's an older style of Cat's Eye with a metal body and rubber portion containing the reflective eyes and is squishable when driven over to clean the eyes. They were invented by Percy Shaw after he encountered a cat while driving at night and it's eyes lit up when his headlights shone towards the cat.
And invented the pencil sharpener when it walked the other way ;0)
Who was it who said that if that cat Percy saw was facing away from him, it would have led to the invention of the mechanical pencil sharpener...?!
@@brigidsingleton1596 The guy up there ^^^
@elemar5
No; I meant the original joker!!
@@brigidsingleton1596 Ken Dodd
Initially we used an acoustic pipe between lands end and France, where a person shouted into a trumpet shaped unit and their voice was heard in France. The we used copper coaxial cable for telegraph and then voice. Eventually the ships that make the cable and roll them off the back of the cable laying ships now use fibre optic cables and they attach electronic repeaters at fixed distances to boost the signal output. Satellite systems are also used however the speed from ground stations to satellite and then back down to an earth ground station is much slower than undersea fibre optic cable.
Shades of Monty Python's classic Life of Brian movie and it's fabulous "What did the Romans ever do for us"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh and remember the US Navy was a British Invention😉
Damn that John Paul Jones!...hehe
Almost every navy until recently wore almost identical styled uniforms too... Especially the officers...
The first merchandise Seed Drill (planter): Jethro Tull 1701.
It made a small furrow, dropped in the seeds (Wheat, Barley, etc) then covered it again.
This ment far less was taken by Birds or failed to germinate, the time spent on hand sewing was 3 or 4 times greater than with a drill.
Modern Seed Drills work with the same principle.
I thought J T invented the Aqualung.
It just shows you what a difference to the world that one person can make, possibilities are endless.
The world owes a great deal to the suffering of the British working classes whose labours allowed so many of these to be invented by a small privileged group of inventors and thinkers (not all, admittedly, some inventors worked their way up from simple beginnings).
The Industrial Revolution is often the first thing that people think of, but it mustn't be forgotten that the British played a huge role in the Agricultural Revolution, the Transport Revolution, the Communications Revolution, the Medical Revolution, and the Scientific Revolution. Not only were key ideas developed by the British, but they continue to do so today.
In these woke times, there is a tendency to focus on the negative aspects of Britain's role in the world, yet, as it said in the video, without the positive contributions of our small island nation, the world would be a different place. Life, for so many people would not be as good.
No doubt someone else would eventually have come up with the same ideas, but Britain has catapulted the world into much that is good in our lives.
If I was still teaching, I would be using the original video in my lessons to counter the current "Britain is bad" attitude.
Well said
Not everything, but 51% of everything in the last 1000 years. As a Brit I am pretty happy with that.
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It's really impossible to know just how influential those 51% of invented were to the other 49%. I imagine, most of the world's other inventions wouldn't have come to be, without the earlier ones.
i think probably the most significant to the modern world was James Clerk Maxwell theory of electromagnetism , and Alexander Fleming discovery of penicillin. As a Scot i am proud of the contributions from oor wee country
He missed quite a few out. A few well known ones are Lord Kelvin (thermodynamics), Boyle (chemistry and pressure law), James Hutton (invented the science of Geology), Adam Smith (modern economics), Babbage (literally invented the concept of a digital computer), and Robert Hooke (physicist, created the microscope).
@@UnknownUser-rb9pd Also missed were Sir George Cayley, the father of aerodynamics, worked out the principals of flight, & flew gliders in the early 19th century, & William 'Geology' Smith who worked on stratigraphy & made the first good geological maps.
Hutton's unconformity!!! The birth of modern geology.
How about Issac Newton and gravity theory?
And d and a
Did he mention Frank Whittle and the jet engine?
They skipped that part, and Charles Darwin and evolution too. Maybe more but that’s the bits I noticed
I’d completely forgotten my grandmothers tea alarm clock from 50 years ago, that made me smile 😁
The Teasmaid was a must have in the 70s. I loved mine
The 70s had some fantastic things I'm a big lover of onyx furniture I remeber my grandparents had onyx everything including ciggeratte lighters and lamp stands with faux gold lions feet. And their globe that opened up into a drinks cabinet
👍 and You can also make Coffee in it 😁
@@chucky2316 I still have one of those, sits proud in the corner lol
@@Ghhft33I would love an authentic one I know they are oldy fash now but I love them. I did pick an onyx lighter up at a car boot sale a few years ago. And a complete cutlery set with patterns on nan used to call them her best 👌. Usually they came out on special occasions and set at the table. Soup spoons fish knives etc. The 70s were cool times
You should do a video about inventions by Scots. It would be about five hours long 🏴
I’m British and I can tell you, my first drink of the day is Coffee. I wouldn’t be able to function without that drink. I also love tea throughout the day.
Coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoon!
Instant coffee was invented by a NZ'er.
Always amazes me that IVF is never mentioned.
And many transplant surgeries were pioneered here too.
You could sit here all day and say things like this about us though. Sports?.... you'd need hours and hours of a video to not leave anything out. :)
It was also protons neutron and electrons was also missing but I think they cut some of the video.
Actually,I was wondering,the other day,how Louise is doing.
@@eh-i1841 Her younger sister was the first IVF baby, to conceive and give birth naturally. They are both now mothers.
Let's not forget some of the sports that the Brits invented too.
Football (soccer).
Tennis.
Cricket.
Rugby.
Boxing.
Golf.
Baseball (stems from Rounders).
Darts
Snooker.
Hockey.
And so on and so on & so on etc etc etc.
All these sports now played on a massive scale worldwide.
Golf originated in Scotland.
@@Yesser-Thistle73 last time I looked, Scotland was part of Britain! 🤔 😂😂 Hence me saying Brits!!!
One of the big reasons for the boom in sport, was another simple, yet Great British invention, called the lawnmower.
Only sports we didn’t invent Lacrosse & Polo
How did he not mention Arthur Clarke inventing the communication satellite
We British where the first country to stop slavery
😂😂😂😂😂
After realising our wrong doings 😅
Yes, and then we forced the rest of the world to follow suit .... eventually.
@@WayneCrow85 Everyone else was doing that ''wrong doing'' Especially the Africans and Arabs. They were far, far worse than any other county in 'known' history.
Denmark abolished participation in the slave trade in 1803, 30 years before the UK
I've always been proud to be British.
He Missed some big ones. Brit Frank Whittle, invented the Jet Engine. Ada lovelace (The famous poet Byron's daughter) invented computer software, more than 100 years before the electronic computer in 1940s.
He didn't miss anything as they stopped the video before he was finished.
I always say, focus on the positives even in a bad/sad situation, there are positives in a negative situations, always find the positives ❤❤❤
Good to have a follower of the Eric Idle school of thought in the comments section.
@AbzScotland who?
When ur life is negative all u can do is look for the positives or u just give up
@@helenbarnett695 International comedian and writer of "Always look on the bright side of life". Its on youtube.
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My home City of Sheffield famous for its Cutlery Manufacturing was also known for Steel Manufacturing. It’s where Stainless Steel was invented. Also Sir Henry Bessemer invented the Bessemer Steel production. It made steel much lighter and stronger than previously.
Americans will say that they live in the Greatest country in the World.. They Don't!!.. they live in the most powerful Country.
Britain is the Greatest.
Yeah - the clue is even in the name! lol
As Al Murray said, "The clue is in the name for f**k sake, Great Britain"
the clue is in the names. 'The (sort of) United states of America' and 'Great Britain'. Al Murray's comment is the best..... we don't have earthquakes.....because we don't deserve them.
It's interesting that this guy has even an axe to grind on some levels of history. The British invented the industrial revolution. That's a fact. And in only the name of national pride I wish we were that strong and that inventive today. Because we could do more for ourselves and the world than we currently are.
Sir Joseph Whitworth, made the most important "invention" of the Industrial revolution. When he developed the British Standard Whitworth (BSW) screw thread standard. He standardised nuts and bolts etc. So that they were all interchangeable.
Did he also manufacture big guns and first electric home.
well you wouldn't be online if it wasn't for us Brits for a start. the telephone, TV, computer and world wide web was all invented in GB.
The Internet was created by 2 Americans so they are the ones responsible for us being online
@@jeanlongsden1696 and the microwave oven and LCD screens.
@@AlainnCorcaigh nope. An Englishman called Tim bernias- Lee is credited for inventing the interweb
@@AlainnCorcaigh what are you going to do with the Internet without the British invention of the world wide Web.
@@AlainnCorcaigh yes the internet was invented by America. but that is only a programme that got added to the WWW. the WWW was sending data around the world long before the internet was invented. it is like saying that the guy who put the hood ornament on a car invented the car.
The teasmaid!!! Greatest invention ever!!
It was a waste of time. T
The novelty soon wore off as it created more washing up than ever.
@ doesn’t that count for every kitchen appliance ever?
On the day of Alexander Graham Bell's funeral, the whole telephone network in North America fell silent for one minute.
That's pretty cool! Never knew that. :) Hope you're doing well, Martin.
And he was a Scot.
Just a walk around a British Graveyard makes you realise the changes since antibiotics and antiseptic products were invented, it's heart breaking seeing the grave stones from the 1700 and 1800 hundreds of children who died at such a young age, literally thousands upon thousands of families that lost 5 and 6 children usually to disease either before a year old or before they reached age 10.
I would say one of our finest inventions. The rest our material but you cant put a price on human life I.m.o and youre right even adult graves they were young people who died
You don't have to go that far back. My Grandma was born in 1925 she had two sisters and one brother, only one of the sisters survived past 5 years old, the other 2 children died from illnesses that would have been treatable only about 10 years later.
@@martinwebb1681 Thank you for mentioning our British Graveyards,
Where I live we have a huge Graveyard, and we are allowed to walk our dogs there….clean up after of course!!
I was there only the other day, and it’s sad to see the majority of graves are as you say from the 1700 and 1800
Dead at such young ages .
@@steveparker1466 Thank you.for your comment ,it’s very sad all the lives lost!
My mum has a Teasmaid (The name of the alarmclock/tea maker). It also has a built in radio. She still has it, but only uses for it the clock now.