Edison was a serial stealer of other people's ideas. Another thing that was, arguably, stolen was penicillin. When Fleming discovered it (1929), he was unable to actually isolate and purify it, and various attempts were made until around 1939 it was isolated and tested at Oxford University. At that time, it was not possible for British companies to produce it in quantity, because of World War II commitments. Some was taken to the USA to see whether they could produce larger quantities than the Brits - and after some work, using corn steep syrup (a waste product) they managed to produce much larger quantities of penicillin. However, for quite some time the Americans kept virtually all of it for themselves. They patented the process of producing penicillin, and at the end of the war British companies had to pay royalties to the American companies for penicillin (the Brits didn't patent it, they though that it would be unethical to do so).
@@LADYRAEUK Similar story for rocketry and space research post WW2. With the UK being promised shared information in exchange for curtailing its own space efforts.The promise went unfulfilled.
This has been some of the more unsavoury aspect of the American dream they are ruthless in exploiting ideas for money and there is no special relationship when it comes making money.
Joe Swan invented the light bulb but Edison decided to take Swan to court over it. Edison's attempts were a failure. The court discovered that Swan was making and selling light bulbs a year before Edison even started experimenting and so the case against Swan was dismissed by the courts. This is the country of invention and the things that we have made are astounding, but we have been doing it for thousands of years.
thousands of years lol and is that a royal we , why do so many people live of the reputation of others , just because you're from the UK doesn't make you an inventor.
Well, we also had a country that enabled people to experiment, mostly at their own expense. The UK has also been slow to recognise and reward those who have made significant discoveries/inventions.
I owe having the use of my hands to the work done and techniques used by Sir Archibald McIndoe, and the brave men (often burnt RAF aircrew) of the East Grinstead Guinea Pig Club. Plastic surgery used for its original use. I’m a bloody lucky man.
@@richardchurch9709 Thank you. My burns were 34 years ago. I often look at them now and thank those brave souls who paved the way, WW2 techniques certainly still in use in 1987. I’m grateful too that it was important that the burns unit I was in, thought it the right thing to do - to share the information of those young men, not much older than the 17 years I was at the time.
One thing I remember hearing when I was much younger is that the British, and the Germans, are very good at inventing things, these things are then stolen and made commercially viable by the USA, which in turn are stolen by the Japanese and made smaller - and better
Which is of course exactly what the US says China does in current times... Go figure... Personally I think the patent system is designed to achieve precisely the opposite of what it claims, to reward non-innovation.
Germany is in the lower hitparade Geoff, number 1, Switzerland, 2, the UK, then on 3 Sweden, and followed by the Netherlands and yes after the Dutch comes the USA!
We never owned the Americas. We had settlers in The Thrteen Colonys. Napoleon sold of most of the West Lusisianna Territory to Thomas Jefferson acting for the United States at the time after King Luis no longer cared for it on account of his head being a bit basket case (Guillitiened).
American Idol. Most people in most countries think "American Idol" was the first "Idol" show and are astonished to find out it started out in the UK with "Pop Idol". It is the same franchise so it not just a "similar name" thing. Sausage Rolls. A company in the US in recent years claimed to have invented a new snack consisting of a cooked sausage wrapped in pastry which they called "Puff Rolls". They then get ridiculed by the Brits because we have had Sausage Rolls for over 200 years(i think). House of Cards. The US series which originally featured Kevin Spacey was world famous. But years earlier it was a British series. The US version was based on the UK version and had similar themes even practically the same storylines in the beginning.
@@mr.balloffur Outside the UK, yes. Don't forget Pop Idol only had 2 seasons and I don't think was shown outside the UK and America and I don't think the UK version was even that heavily promoted in America. If the find out it actually started in the UK they are amazed as "American Idol" is full nowadays of Hollywood style glitz etc.
I'm sorry but edison was well known for 'patenting' other people's work and inventions and gas been included in many fictional books. He even swayed the US government from being similar to the UK in the safety plug, but went with his 110v service.
Whenever I was asked this question many years ago, I would always answer by saying "The Americans took our English Language, and then promptly buggered it up," but I lost friends over that, so now I just keep me big gob shut, and smile sweetly. To answer your question Amanda " :) "
the settlers took the recipe for apple pies with them to america, the first winters were so cold that the only way to keep warm while running to the outhouse was to clasp a hot apple pie to the side of your head. That's why they became known as pie on ears..... 🤣
Edison was a talented man and accounted for minor inventions but he was more of a investor and a ruthless one at that. Whereas, Tesla was an absolute maverick inventor and engineer who's genius is unquestioned. Edison took advantage of teslas lack of business skills and he deceived him on so many occasions resulting in Edison becoming a extremely rich fraud and Tesla dying a broke genius. This is something we see all too often.
Edison did invent sound recording (the phonograph), which has had more than a minor impact. But undoubtedly, his greatest invention was that of the industrial research laboratory. Tesla undoubtedly had better ideas but was hopeless at turning them into practical reality. Society needs both individuals with great ideas and individuals who can make them economically viable.
@@denmaroca2584 A somewhat misleading comment in regards to Tesla vs Edison. Tesla invented the 3-phase AC electrical supply system that is in use universally today. Edison's DC system was never practical on a large scale. Tesla was exploited by George Westinghouse. It's a long ( and sad) story but well publicised on-line if you care to research it.
@@trevcam6892 Well, yes. Tesla's AC system was superior (eventually), but he was hopeless in the business of making it a practical reality. Edison's DC system may have been inferior but he made a profitable business using it (still working in New York in 2007!) which later merged with its chief rival to form General Electric.
To be honest Amanda I'm quite happy with America having stolen ideas, recipes, songs etc from the UK because it's a compliment to us, while as you rightly said, you would have been missing out on some great things as well! Thank you for a great fun video as usual!
@@jayt9882 until you here an arrogant accent with tobacco (..or oil, or orangins getting in the way of pronouncing,) bragging on and one etc, usually throwing in some proselytizingly crass godbox-ing too.
The Jet engine and vital components found in Radar. Two important inventions crated up and sent to the states as down payments to the USoA for WW2 loans.
No they were sent to the US to enable the allies to win the war. There was no money changing hands. Possibly the most important was the proximity fuse which destroyed the Kamikazes and the V1 flying bombs. Only the US could make them in the gigantic quantities required.
Edison didn't invent the light bulb: that is common knowledge outside of the US. And he, fortunately, lost the battle of electricity DC lost out to Tesla's AC. DC was just NOT feasible over long distances. (look it up) Actually, Edison is quite over-rated, but he patented a load of ideas and arguably slowed down progress because he blocked the successful development of ideas, until the patents expired.
Absolutely correct. Edison used his media contacts and political pals to massage his reputation. He also stole the credit for inventions made by his fellow Americans who did not have his 'pull' with influential people.
Ironically high voltage DC is now a common way of moving electricity around distances from generation source to substations. Edison could be viewed as essentially the first technology patent troll from one perspective. From another perspective, he was essentially Steve Jobs 1.0 - after all, Jobs never invented anything from scratch (his partners, or his staff did all the invention and development. Famously Jobs was completely dismissive of the concept of the iPhone, that later reinvigorated Apple as a company, and staff developed it in secret). Later he simply purchased smaller companies that had developed unique technologies (such as the touch screen system that went on to be the foundation of the iPad/iPhone). Famously, he effectively plagiarised the whole GUI layout and mouse system of the Mac from IBM (as Gates did for the PC) when IBM demonstrated their research systems to both young men.
Another reason for moths to hate Thomas Edison - also the title of a book I have. Moths may be attracted to the lamp light, but they also look down on Edison because they have a higher moral compass.
Jet engines. In the autumn of 1940, a team led by Sir Henry Tizzard was sent to America by Churchill, taking over various inventions and a mass of research data, including the proximity fuse (which meant an anti-aircraft shell could explode without actually hitting the aircraft), and the cavity magnetron, which made centimetric airborne radar possible - and which dramatically improved the range of the US Navy's ship-borne radar. As an aside, you almost certainly have a cavity magnetron in your home - it's what powers you micro-wave oven! Tizzard also too across the results of the pioneering work done by Frank Whittle on his jet engine, together with the work done by Rolls-Royce engineers on smoothing the airflow and avoiding destructive pulsing. This was freely given to the US government on the clear understanding that American engine makers would only use it for military aircraft - leaving the civilian market for British engine makers. That didn't last long . . .
Though with RR's current R&D successes and the fact that GE isn't doing any and P&W are focused on smaller engines, there is a good chance of RR ending up with a worldwide monopoly...
Atomic bomb: The Manhattan project to develop atomic weapons came about during WW2 because Churchill authorised the Tizard Mission to convey a metal box-load of scientific secrets to the USA. "The mission also opened up channels of communication for jet engine and atomic-bomb development and is seen as one of the key events in forging the wartime Anglo-American alliance." Because of the war, Churchill correctly judged that the USA had more resources to make such British discoveries come to fruition far sooner than Britain could manage. The Miles aircraft company was the first to successfully break the sound barrier, before Chuck Yeager, but their aircraft was unmanned. They had figured out the secret, which involved changing the tailplane incidence when approaching the speed of sound. The USA Bell X1 rocket aircraft was the first MANNED aircraft to break the sound barrier, thanks to British inventive genius!
Less known about Robert Fortune, the famous Scottish botanist who was employed by the East India Company to steal tea plantings from the Chinese (circa 1850) so as they could try growing it in India and cut the Chinese out of the lucrative trade, was his subsequent raid on behalf of the American government. Anyway, he went in on commission, stole the tea and brought it back across the Pacific. They tried to planet it in the mountains of Virginia but it wouldn’t take. And by all accounts the US Government then bilked on Fortune’s fee!
The lyrics come from the "Defence of Fort M'Henry", a poem written on September 14, 1814, by 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by British ships of the Royal Navy in Baltimore Harbor during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. The poem was printed in newspapers and eventually set to the music of a popular English drinking tune called “To Anacreon in Heaven” by composer John Stafford
Deffo English now if wanting Sainsburys donoughts over a Krispy Kreme. There are still some trad bakers with original goodies around like Coughlans. I go the one in East Croydon as its 10 minutes from Victoria x
Englishman Joseph Swan took Edison to court, in America itself, over the stealing of his idea for the lightbulb filament and won. Edison offered Swan a deal and the Edison Swan company was created.
I love the way you say Bri(t)ain, without saying the "t"....so British! But most of this shouldn't be surprising really, afterall most of the early settlers came from Britain, so obviously they'd take much of the culture with them.
None of the early settlers came from Great Britain; they were English. Settling in the Americas did not turn them into a bunch of Irish Catholics with a similar lack of rights. The only person to seriously talk of one “Great Britain” had his head separated from his shoulders. Therefore, anything that came over before 1707 was not borrowed from the “British”, but England; the “borrowers” were English subjects as much as any others who remained in East Anglia.
Was on a chocolate tour in York and apparently the difference between british and American chocolate is that, due to the distances between farms and factories in the states they add an acid to the milk to keep it good ... This acid with the milk has the same chemical make up as baby sick.. Go on taste a hershey,You'll taste it now
The theft of copyright and patents was seen by the USA as vital to help it transform from a rural and agrarian economy to a modern industrial power (much like China more recently). What can be said to the credit of the USA is that from this IP they have developed a huge industrial behemoth and created the modern world as we know it, and we have all benefited from this. This is a bit long, but I hope you find it of interest. Alexander Hamilton, US first secretary of US Treasury, granted incentives for immigrants, particularly from Britain, that could bring IP that could be patented in the USA, despite being the Intellectual Property of other countries. Hamilton’s deputy, Tench Coxe, created a system of bounties/rewards to entice people from overseas that had IP secrets to come to the USA. In 1787 he sent an agent, Andre Mitchell, to the UK and he took a trunk of models and drawings of British industrial machinery to the USA, but it was seized by the British authorities. Hamilton also created US patent law in 1790, this was amended to only allowed patents for US citizens from 1793 as a means to protect US IP, even when it had been stolen. The US IP Act specifically excludes protection for foreign authors or inventors (section 5 1790 Copyright Act). This was so the USA could steal foreign IP without any legal recourse. An example is the only Edgar Allen Poe book that that was successful enough to be reprinted in his lifetime was stolen from British authors (a treatise on Molluscs - The Conchologist’s First Book). Another is the US patent granted to George Parkinson for a textile spinning machine that was a copy of one he had used in Britain. Samuel Slater, brought the IP for cotton carding and spinning machines to the USA from the UK (in particular, Arkwright’s water frame). This made him so rich in the USA that on his death his wealth was equal to 10% of the USA’s GDP. President Andrew Jackson called Slater the father of American Manufactures. US citizen Francis Lowell visited UK weaving factories to produce copies of them in the USA, building the city of Lowell to house his factories using the stolen IP. He was able to visit as he was a cloth merchant and customer of the weaving houses. US theft of British IP was so extensive that export of textile machinery and emigration by textile workers from the UK became a criminal offence. The USA in the 19th century tried to steal the secrets behind Sheffield’s Stainless steel, and got Sheffield craftsmen to come to the USA, but they failed to replicate the process correctly. Copyright theft did not just effect technology. For example, Charles Dickens in 1842 found that he could not enforce his copyright for his own original works in the USA despite them being printed by publishers and newspapers. US publishers were reprinting the works of many overseas authors without any payment for copyright. Ironically the USA is now a vigorous campaigner for copyright and IP protection. The USA took a very hard line in the negotiation for the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights administered by the WTO. But the appropriation of IP did not stop in the 19th century. The UK freely gave the USA (so not theft) nuclear secrets to help in the creation of the atomic bomb (US scientists at the time thought this impossible due to a fundamental misunderstanding of fission). The UK provided lots of information plus scientists to the Manhattan Project at a time when the USA was well behind in nuclear research. After the war all the UK scientists were kicked out and were not even allowed to take their own notes with them. This was completely contrary to the Quebec agreement between the USA and the UK regarding nuclear cooperation. The USA refused to further cooperate with Canada and the UK as agreed in the Quebec Agreement, claiming the agreement did not exist (but later found it in a desk draw of a senior US naval officer!). The USA wanted to keep nuclear technology for itself.
The Quebec Agreement was tossed out because it was discovered that the Soviets were getting nuclear secrets from the Cambridge Ring (obviously called that after the majority had defected, except for Anthony Blunt, the Queen’s photographer). Sharing science with Britain was sharing it with Moscow, and frequently faster.
@@Egilhelmson Wrong on so many levels. First, the Quebec agreement was not adhered to before it was known about the Cambridge spies. Second the Cambridge spies were not involved with atomic secrets, although Alan Nunn had been to Cambridge he was not one of the Cambridge 5 - see below. Third, the majority of the secrets from Los Alamos and the Manhattan project were given away by US spies and traitors. Pravda said that thanks to Morris Cohen (US citizen), "the designers of the Soviet atomic bomb got piles of technical documentation straight from the secret laboratory in Los Alamos." Harry Gold, US citizen, was the courier for passing secrets from the US to the Soviets. David Greenglass (US citizen) provided drawings to the Soviets. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, US citizens that spied for Russia for decades. Theodore Hall, US citizen, passed the Fat Man drawings to Russia. George Koval, US citizen that passed information about the Fat Man detonator to the Soviets. Irving Lerner, US citizen, caught photographing secret nuclear information. Saville Sax, US citizen, acted as a courier for the Soviets Oscar Sebor, US Citizen, passed on Los Alamos secrets to the Soviets Morton Sobell, US citizen, passed nuclear secrets to the Soviets. There were a couple of British spies. The most significant was Klaus Fuschs a German who obtained British citizenship. he had not been to Cambridge and he passed information to the Soviets when at Los Alamos. He was unable to pass the 'secret' of the bomb, as he did not know it himself, but did supply information on how much Uranium was needed. The only one that had been to Cambridge was Alan Nunn. He did not work on the Manhattan project, nor in the USA. He did pass some Uranium samples to the Russia and some library materials. His role was minor and insignificant compared to the secrets spilt by the American spies and traitors, but it is always useful to blame your allies, the people that gave the secrets of the bomb, information without which the USA would not have started the Manhattan project and would not have developed the bomb (at that time). Burgess, MacLean and Philby of the Cambridge 5 were traitors and spies and did operate at a high level in the UK diplomatic and security services. They did not have access to nuclear secrets. Whilst there have been a number of British spies, their number pales into insignificance when compared to US traitors. Nearly American 70 spies, mainly for the USSR, have been identified in the Cold War era. this has continued since the cold war with ten spies for Russia identified, 4 spying for China, three spying for Israel and 5 spying for Cuba.
Supersonic technology (before the X1 flight). Apparently there was supposed to be some technology exchange between the countries. UK provided their research then the US suddenly went 'sorry, we've now classified it as top secret'.
The 13 stripes on the US flag were originally on the British India Flag. It originally had a British Union Flag in the top left corner. Betsy Ross sewed a circle of stars similar to the EU flag over the Union flag. Sir Joseph Swan’s home was the first in the world to be lit by electric light bulbs. The Savoy Theatre in London was the first to have electric lights. The Paris Exibition was also lit by Swan’s light bulbs. Edison visited Swann at his home where the bulb was demonstrated to him. He returned to the US and made a one of his own and tried to patent it. The international court ruled in Swann’s favour. Edison used bamboo as a filament, Swan eventually changed his design to extruded cellulose, this was to become the industry standard. They formed a company together in the U.K. called Ediswan. Swan also invented the black paper that is still used in photography. The cathode ray tube was also one of his projects.
Hello Amanda. I've been to Joseph Swan's house in Gateshead (N E England (an awesome house that I can wholly recommend) the first house in the world to be illuminated by Swan's light bulb that also lit up The Savoy Hotel London. Indeed Swan took legal action against Edison who proved that he been there first. However, in latter time the companies merged and used Swan's bulb with Edison's filament.
Thank you, Amanda, for another enjoyable vid. Hope you remember - for anecdotal purposes - that a 'Sandwich' as we know it could easily have been a Portsmouth if the Earl had adopted the title-name instead. President Theodore Roosevelt proposed that the USA adopted The Liberty Bell March as the national anthem. Brits best know it as the theme music of Monty Python's Flying Circus. It's a wacky world, eh ?
I don't think it'd make a difference - It's not like the people of P***smouth are known for bragging about external events that they had no control over and enlisting them as some kind of achievement....*Rolls eyes*
@@LADYRAEUK I’m Welsh/British & I agree with you Edderson did invent the light bulb. It’s nice to have polite Americans in the U.K. like you. Who’s interested in the facts & is always keen to know more. Iv watched other American you tubers that live in the U.K. I watched Even,Warden Raving,You & Girl Gone London are all fantastic but another one I watched but can’t remember name of there’s channel always criticised the U.K.. then he contradicts his wife who is usually right.
@@NicholasJH96 Nearly a decade before Thomas Edison began working on incandescent lamps and a more affordable way to bring the bright world of electricity to Victorian homes, a fine country house near the town of Rothbury in Northumberland, England, was lit entirely by electricity.
A friend of mine from New Zealand, has a daughter studying at Yale University, I have to send her British Chocolate on a regular basis, mainly Galaxy milk chocolate, which she adores. She describes American chocolate as inedible.
Yep, my local club and premiership team, Southampton was originally set up as Southampton St. Mary's YMCA football club way back in the 1880s so that's not surprising and actually, I thought there would be a link between cricket and baseball, it's the way it's laid out with innings and overs.
There is a game called rounders that was played at schools as late as the 1970s, mostly by girls. I looked it up, and it was first seen in 1744 in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, where it was called base-ball.
Sorry Amanda but I’ve tried a Hershey bar and they are awful, it’s got to Cadbury’s chocolate. It’s just the best. You are so right about Sainsburys donuts.
I agree about Hershey chocolate but Cadbury has been going downhill for many years, since the American takeover, when they started changing the recipe. Although nit US owned anymore, they have made no moves to return to their original recipes and as a result I and many people I know do not buy Cadbury. Galaxy is probably the best general chocolate bar in the UK these days.
@@Thurgosh_OG actually now you mention it Cadbury’s chocolate is smaller and yes it’s not as nice as it was when I was younger. I don’t eat as much as I use to.
It's true that Mr Fry of Fry's Chocolates invented the chocolate bar here in Bristol and also we have a claim to fame down yerrrr that Fry's were the first manufacturer to make chocolate Easter Eggs. Finally, William Penn Jnr who was from Bristol founded your State of Pennsylvania!
Humphrey Davy (mentioned in the light-bulb section) is most famous for the Davy Lamp, a lamp you could use in mine without the risk of igniting gas. Before modern electric lighting and lanterns most miners carried them.
@@LADYRAEUK . Davy got the credit mainly because he was Sir Humphrey Davy and very popular at the time. However George Stephenson had shown an example of his version and explained the principle nearly three months before Davy showed his. Unfortunately Stephenson was a relatively unknown North Country engineer so received no accolades or reward.
I played rounders at school in the 1960s. At our school it was considered a game for girls only, sometimes they had mixed games when they let the boys join in.
The one factual one I know about is mechanical weaving looms etc. Not exactly stolen as they existed before concepts like patents and intellectual property were widely recognised/respected I believe, but it was a huge advantage to the US to not have to pay the inventors when they had their industrial revolution
@@LADYRAEUK No worries. It does make for an interesting debate though about copyright/IP/Patents when you consider how strongly they are all now protected in the US! Copyright is the funny one - you can design a machine that saves lives, or a wonder drug and you can make money to try and recoup the costs of developing it for 20 years before anyone else can make it. You can write a book and it'll be exclusively yours until you die, and your descendents can still make money from it for 75 years after that point. I completely get why we need copyright, but damn if it doesn't feel like it is over-protected!
Hey Amanda, regarding doughnuts, if there is a Dorringtons bakery anywhere near you, try their jam doughnuts, they are awesome. I suggest you go early though as they tend to sell out by lunch time! Great video, as usual, keep it up.
Hi Amanda, you are heads above the majority of American commentators/reactors to uk content videos. So nice to have an intelligent balanced review. Can I request you to visit the videos of “Scottish History Tours”. Here you will find a lot of accurate stories of Scots who influenced America and USA in particular. Slavery, the Alamo, etc,etc keep up your intelligent reviews/comments. Eric Clifford 23Jan 2022
There are a few American Patriotic/National songs that are done to British tunes, even one using God Save the Queen music. So much for getting away from the British monarchy lol.
I once heard an American say 'why are they playing 'My country 'tis of thee?' when the British National Anthem was played at a London NFL game! The funny thing about it is that it is constantly used as background music in the movie Sergeant York which is about a WW1 American war hero!
Baseball in England: In 1803, Jane Austen wrote Northanger Abbey and described her heroine thus: "and it was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of 14, to books".
I would have agreed with you about Cadbury's Dairy Milk some years ago but when I moved to France and couldn't buy it, Milka became my choc of choice. When I then tasted CDM some years later, the texture felt 'gritty' in comparison to Milka's smoothness and just as yummy taste!
Not being a big chocolate fan (more savoury than sweet) I was impressed with the chocolate at the Lindt factory in Köln. Mind you I did design it myself! Rice krispies and Gummy bears! It's the future!
Mandy........ Your starting to UUUrrrgh like the Tailors off the Fast Show.......... UUUuurrrrgh Suit you!!!! sir (particularily after the Doughnuts) 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
If you look back at advertisements for early light bulbs you will find they are billed as “Edison-Swan light bulbs”! If he invented them why did he sell them with Swan?
The music for To Anacreon in heaven was also used in a presidential campaign song called Adams and Liberty and another Francis Scott key song called When the warrior returns before it was used for the American national anthem
Evening Amanda, a useless piece of information for you Sir George Williams was born in Dulverton, Somerset in 1821 about 25 miles up the road from where I grew up and live in Somerset UK. Yep he was a Wurzel and probably spoke with the Same accent as I Do. PS, Arthur C Clarke (2001space odyssy) was born in Minehead not to far away from Sir George Williams.
The Americans didn't steal this, the British gave it to them. We had an aircraft capable of flying supersonically and we gave information to the Americans that solved the problems they were having with the Bell X1, which allowed Chuck Yaeger to break the sound barrier.
What about the computer? All the technology and intelectual property of the computer (the first in the world) that was used to crack the enigma code in WW2. This was shared with IBM and the rest is history.
If you are talking about Colossus, the fully electronic machine developed at Bletchley Park, it was never used to decipher the Enigma code: the code-breakers had an electro-mechanical machine - the Turing Bombe - to do that. Colossus was used to decipher the much more complicated and secure ciphers used by the German High Command. These were code-named by the allies after types of fish. Also, there were academic institutions, laboratories and other commercial computer manufacturers and players on the scene before and at the same time as IBM produced their first electronic computer e.g. University of Manchester, Univac, Ferranti, Joe Lyons.
One thing he didn’t mention is the huge number of British companies that have been regularly snapped up by American hedge funds. And the NHS is heading the same way bit by bit. We are just a colony these days As for fruit and nut it’s the best!. Most British people find baseball and American football , the televised version at least utterly slow and boring and that’s before you add in the annoyance of adverts every ten minutes. They even stop the play for the ad breaks
Not forgetting British TV quizzes also have a multitude of questions on US facts and figures. For Baseball questions answering Babe Ruth, whoever he may be, seems to get the mark. We also have extensive in depth coverage of US elections from the media with few people over here understanding or caring what it is all about.
The first plastic surgery patients were mainly RAF pilots who went down in flaming planes. They were found to have survived the burns better when they were in salt water (sea) so he used salt water baths. They called themselves the Guinea Pig Club. Another 'invention' from this time from the wounded soldiers and flyers was the Paralympics
The defence of Fort McHenry was the name of the drinking song that the American anthem borrowed from also have you tried the custard doughnuts from Sainsbury's they're awesome😋.
nukes, X plane, jet engine, pressure suite, ejector seat. The Spirit of St lois was in fact the 90th transatlantic flight, Brits did the first non stop. Heavy Metal.
So glad you Americans did steal baseball. You guys turned it into something special. Aussie baseball fan here. Was at Opening Round Season 2014 at the Sydney Cricket Ground for Dodgers @ D-Backs and it only served to turn me into an addict. Well done guys.
Well i'm certainly glad of something us Brits have nicked from the US,.....root beer. Our supermarkets sell it and i always keep a few bottles in the fridge,...especially for those summer days. Errrm,....when we have them that is !! But hey,..we Brits like to share so as we say,.....fill yer boots !! xo.
This might sound interesting for some, but I think one thing America stole from British was the Aston Martin design. Remember the newly designed Ford Mondeo/Fusion, people were saying it's grille looked like an Aston Martin grille 🤔! After all, Ford is American and many cars they owned at the time like Jaguar had similar design's. It was on Donut Media RUclips channel Amanda. It's only my thoughts though, but what do you think Amanda?
Where do I start? Well... basically everything! Btw, the tune to the National Anthem was taken from the song “To Anacreon in Heaven,” which was a song written in 1766 as an anthem for the Anacreontic Society which was an amateur mens’ music club in London.
Yeah the US anthem was a English pub song. I've always known that. And for some reason Americans play the English anthem (Land of hope and glory) at graduation. With the YMCA he was talking about the organisation and not the song.
America is to a very large extent just a transfer of European(Much British) technowledgy. Enormous transfers took place in the last war to maintain raw material supplies from the USA. Stolen designs and inventions litter the list from The Ford Motor company to aero engines. Look up the Court case over the hydraulic tractor for farming invented by MR FERGUSON (English) and the production of the Fordson tractor in America. The USA is not alone in stealing British designs and inventions which are so numerous. Britain invented the modern world without a shadow of doubt.
It isn't really surprising that a lot of things that have been around for a long time originated in the UK rather than the USA, as the UK has been round for millennia longer and the Mayflower passengers then took those ideas and items "across the pond". To find things that are truly American rather than imported from elsewhere (and have any age to them), look to your indigenous people's customs, ideas and creations.
I knew about the old English drinking song, The Anacreontic Song, sometimes known as To Anacreon In Heaven, as I have an interest in old music. It surprised me too when I first found out.
I agree with the message you are presenting....we are after all multi-cultural so I tend to be less concerned about who devised what....if it's fun, tasty or enjoyable who cares where it started.
Given that the US is still a very new country that was made up mostly of European settlers, everything over 200 years old came from somewhere else! Nothing is "stolen" it is just adopted or copied. Europe for its part, adopted the use of Potatoes, Tobacco (thanks for that) coffee and tea for example, from around the world.
@@bobtudbury8505 Try looking up the definition of the word. You cannot "steal" anything that others do not own. Of course settlers to a new land will keep habits from their home. Did they "steal" English?
@@grolfe3210 copyright etc is stealing, what has english got to do with it? it is obvious this was passed one, why am i replying? there are some thickos one here
@@bobtudbury8505 Copyright and patent infringement is stealing, yes. However you cannot get a patent or copyright something that already exists. If someone gets a patent on a light bulb then you can still file 100 patents on developments of the light bulb in some way. Perhaps you know less than you think.
Mac and Cheese is an English dish, American Football is a combination of Football and Rugby, The American Constitution is based on the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights so is the Right to bear Arms also is from the English Bill of Rights and even American English the way it is spelled is taken from Old English where we use the more modern form and in1767, the first drinkable, man made glass of carbonated water was created by Englishmen, Dr. Joseph Priestley
My other half is from canada. Can't wait to back there. She made fantastic apple pie. But she put cheese on her's. Yuck fu*king yuck !!!! .... But your lovely as always xxx
I’m English and ever since I was little I’ve always had a fascination with the US and hopefully one day I’ll get there. 🏴 🇺🇸 ✌🏼. Great channel btw 🙂.
Jet engine was one that america stole and patented from a British inventor.....also Donald Trump who is from Scottish descent....but you can keep him!!!
Edison was a serial stealer of other people's ideas.
Another thing that was, arguably, stolen was penicillin. When Fleming discovered it (1929), he was unable to actually isolate and purify it, and various attempts were made until around 1939 it was isolated and tested at Oxford University. At that time, it was not possible for British companies to produce it in quantity, because of World War II commitments. Some was taken to the USA to see whether they could produce larger quantities than the Brits - and after some work, using corn steep syrup (a waste product) they managed to produce much larger quantities of penicillin. However, for quite some time the Americans kept virtually all of it for themselves. They patented the process of producing penicillin, and at the end of the war British companies had to pay royalties to the American companies for penicillin (the Brits didn't patent it, they though that it would be unethical to do so).
I had no idea, thanks for sharing
America stole a heck of a lot from UK during and after the war: nuclear weapons; radar; the computer; advanced cryptography; and much more.
@@LADYRAEUK Similar story for rocketry and space research post WW2. With the UK being promised shared information in exchange for curtailing its own space efforts.The promise went unfulfilled.
This has been some of the more unsavoury aspect of the American dream they are ruthless in exploiting ideas for money and there is no special relationship when it comes making money.
@@MrRjhyt And the jet engine
Joe Swan invented the light bulb but Edison decided to take Swan to court over it. Edison's attempts were a failure. The court discovered that Swan was making and selling light bulbs a year before Edison even started experimenting and so the case against Swan was dismissed by the courts. This is the country of invention and the things that we have made are astounding, but we have been doing it for thousands of years.
thousands of years lol and is that a royal we , why do so many people live of the reputation of others , just because you're from the UK doesn't make you an inventor.
@@anthonyg4671 It's an opinion, but I wouldn't hold onto it and I certainly wouldn't have published it.
Edison patented other people's inventions - the greatest thief of technology ever. All he invented was the pen to write out patent documents
@@johngrant5448 opinion ?
Well, we also had a country that enabled people to experiment, mostly at their own expense.
The UK has also been slow to recognise and reward those who have made significant discoveries/inventions.
I owe having the use of my hands to the work done and techniques used by Sir Archibald McIndoe, and the brave men (often burnt RAF aircrew) of the East Grinstead Guinea Pig Club. Plastic surgery used for its original use. I’m a bloody lucky man.
That was truly pioneering work.
Long may your luck continue sir.
@@richardchurch9709 Thank you. My burns were 34 years ago. I often look at them now and thank those brave souls who paved the way, WW2 techniques certainly still in use in 1987. I’m grateful too that it was important that the burns unit I was in, thought it the right thing to do - to share the information of those young men, not much older than the 17 years I was at the time.
McIndoe was also a New Zealander.
@@margaretreid2153 Was the work done in Britain or New Zealand?
One thing I remember hearing when I was much younger is that the British, and the Germans, are very good at inventing things, these things are then stolen and made commercially viable by the USA, which in turn are stolen by the Japanese and made smaller - and better
Which is of course exactly what the US says China does in current times... Go figure... Personally I think the patent system is designed to achieve precisely the opposite of what it claims, to reward non-innovation.
dont forget how great us brits are at inventing sports then watching everyone do them better than us ....
Germany is in the lower hitparade Geoff, number 1, Switzerland, 2, the UK, then on 3 Sweden, and followed by the Netherlands and yes after the Dutch comes the USA!
And then stolen by the Chinese and made at half the price.
@@katrinapaton5283 But with half the quality.
What did America steal from the British? Hmmm, tricky one. Oh, that's right: AMERICA!!! LOL
Lol
And the Yanks have been paying for it ever since.
Even that isn't true 😆it was the British fighting the British you come from them remember.
We never owned the Americas. We had settlers in The Thrteen Colonys. Napoleon sold of most of the West Lusisianna Territory to Thomas Jefferson acting for the United States at the time after King Luis no longer cared for it on account of his head being a bit basket case (Guillitiened).
American Idol. Most people in most countries think "American Idol" was the first "Idol" show and are astonished to find out it started out in the UK with "Pop Idol". It is the same franchise so it not just a "similar name" thing.
Sausage Rolls. A company in the US in recent years claimed to have invented a new snack consisting of a cooked sausage wrapped in pastry which they called "Puff Rolls". They then get ridiculed by the Brits because we have had Sausage Rolls for over 200 years(i think).
House of Cards. The US series which originally featured Kevin Spacey was world famous. But years earlier it was a British series. The US version was based on the UK version and had similar themes even practically the same storylines in the beginning.
And on the other hand some Brits think Britains Got Talent was the original.
Nice one Cliff...I wonder if anyone remembers Oppurtunity Knocks with Hughie Green ...???
"most" people?
@@mr.balloffur Outside the UK, yes. Don't forget Pop Idol only had 2 seasons and I don't think was shown outside the UK and America and I don't think the UK version was even that heavily promoted in America. If the find out it actually started in the UK they are amazed as "American Idol" is full nowadays of Hollywood style glitz etc.
@@robhiggins3287 technically it was. Simon Cowell created it and the only reason it started late was due to a legal dispute.
I'm sorry but edison was well known for 'patenting' other people's work and inventions and gas been included in many fictional books. He even swayed the US government from being similar to the UK in the safety plug, but went with his 110v service.
And then he would sue them for stealing his invention.
No comparison. One thing that has saved a lot of lives The British Electric safety plug, especially children.
And they haven't rectified that mistake.
@@iriscollins7583 Though the safety plug has one big design flaw as was pointed by a Romanian friend. They are really sore if you stand on them!
Joseph swan. Nicolas Tesla.
Just two of his Victims.
Whenever I was asked this question many years ago, I would always answer by saying "The Americans took our English Language, and then promptly buggered it up," but I lost friends over that, so now I just keep me big gob shut, and smile sweetly. To answer your question Amanda " :) "
America is second to none for taking the credit and public relations, you've got to love the land of the Red White and the blue on blue. 😆😁👍👊🇬🇧.
the settlers took the recipe for apple pies with them to america, the first winters were so cold that the only way to keep warm while running to the outhouse was to clasp a hot apple pie to the side of your head. That's why they became known as pie on ears..... 🤣
Badoom-tish!
And the Dad Joke Award goes to... ;-)
Ken Dodd still lives.....
Edison was a talented man and accounted for minor inventions but he was more of a investor and a ruthless one at that. Whereas, Tesla was an absolute maverick inventor and engineer who's genius is unquestioned. Edison took advantage of teslas lack of business skills and he deceived him on so many occasions resulting in Edison becoming a extremely rich fraud and Tesla dying a broke genius. This is something we see all too often.
Edison did invent sound recording (the phonograph), which has had more than a minor impact. But undoubtedly, his greatest invention was that of the industrial research laboratory. Tesla undoubtedly had better ideas but was hopeless at turning them into practical reality. Society needs both individuals with great ideas and individuals who can make them economically viable.
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A somewhat misleading comment in regards to Tesla vs Edison.
Tesla invented the 3-phase AC electrical supply system that is in use universally today. Edison's DC system was never practical on a large scale. Tesla was exploited by George Westinghouse. It's a long ( and sad) story but well publicised on-line if you care to research it.
@@trevcam6892 Well, yes. Tesla's AC system was superior (eventually), but he was hopeless in the business of making it a practical reality. Edison's DC system may have been inferior but he made a profitable business using it (still working in New York in 2007!) which later merged with its chief rival to form General Electric.
And Tesla are a far far better band than Edison!
On the baseball. I remember playing as a kid - our version was called Rounders. Loved playing that game
To be honest Amanda I'm quite happy with America having stolen ideas, recipes, songs etc from the UK because it's a compliment to us, while as you rightly said, you would have been missing out on some great things as well!
Thank you for a great fun video as usual!
Exactly - imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!
@@jayt9882 until you here an arrogant accent with tobacco (..or oil, or orangins getting in the way of pronouncing,) bragging on and one etc, usually throwing in some proselytizingly crass godbox-ing too.
We 🇬🇧 have been around a lot longer, so makes sense!
The Jet engine and vital components found in Radar. Two important inventions crated up and sent to the states as down payments to the USoA for WW2 loans.
No they were sent to the US to enable the allies to win the war. There was no money changing hands. Possibly the most important was the proximity fuse which destroyed the Kamikazes and the V1 flying bombs. Only the US could make them in the gigantic quantities required.
A lot more than that. Apparently the time fuses for bombs was the most important one, most effective.
Also the Un manned drone
@@jimattrill8933 The two examples I used are post war 1946-7. Sir Frank Whittle was non-to impressed.
Edison didn't invent the light bulb: that is common knowledge outside of the US. And he, fortunately, lost the battle of electricity DC lost out to Tesla's AC.
DC was just NOT feasible over long distances. (look it up)
Actually, Edison is quite over-rated, but he patented a load of ideas and arguably slowed down progress because he blocked the successful development of ideas, until the patents expired.
Absolutely correct. Edison used his media contacts and political pals to massage his reputation. He also stole the credit for inventions made by his fellow Americans who did not have his 'pull' with influential people.
Ironically high voltage DC is now a common way of moving electricity around distances from generation source to substations.
Edison could be viewed as essentially the first technology patent troll from one perspective. From another perspective, he was essentially Steve Jobs 1.0 - after all, Jobs never invented anything from scratch (his partners, or his staff did all the invention and development. Famously Jobs was completely dismissive of the concept of the iPhone, that later reinvigorated Apple as a company, and staff developed it in secret). Later he simply purchased smaller companies that had developed unique technologies (such as the touch screen system that went on to be the foundation of the iPad/iPhone). Famously, he effectively plagiarised the whole GUI layout and mouse system of the Mac from IBM (as Gates did for the PC) when IBM demonstrated their research systems to both young men.
Another reason for moths to hate Thomas Edison - also the title of a book I have. Moths may be attracted to the lamp light, but they also look down on Edison because they have a higher moral compass.
He did manage to electrocute an innocent elephant as a means of demonstrating an 'efficient' method of executing prisoners.
He did join up with swan, who created the 1st Street with electric lighting in the world in Newcastle. This was named the ediswan light company
Jet engines. In the autumn of 1940, a team led by Sir Henry Tizzard was sent to America by Churchill, taking over various inventions and a mass of research data, including the proximity fuse (which meant an anti-aircraft shell could explode without actually hitting the aircraft), and the cavity magnetron, which made centimetric airborne radar possible - and which dramatically improved the range of the US Navy's ship-borne radar. As an aside, you almost certainly have a cavity magnetron in your home - it's what powers you micro-wave oven!
Tizzard also too across the results of the pioneering work done by Frank Whittle on his jet engine, together with the work done by Rolls-Royce engineers on smoothing the airflow and avoiding destructive pulsing. This was freely given to the US government on the clear understanding that American engine makers would only use it for military aircraft - leaving the civilian market for British engine makers.
That didn't last long . . .
Though with RR's current R&D successes and the fact that GE isn't doing any and P&W are focused on smaller engines, there is a good chance of RR ending up with a worldwide monopoly...
Also we gave jet engines to the Russians which helped there jet engine program. Which if I remember correctly annoyed the hell out of the yanks.
Another great video Amanda, keep them coming. Your voice and delivery really is mesmerising. Already looking forward to your next one. 👍
Thanks so much, I appreciate it 😊
Atomic bomb: The Manhattan project to develop atomic weapons came about during WW2 because Churchill authorised the Tizard Mission to convey a metal box-load of scientific secrets to the USA. "The mission also opened up channels of communication for jet engine and atomic-bomb development and is seen as one of the key events in forging the wartime Anglo-American alliance." Because of the war, Churchill correctly judged that the USA had more resources to make such British discoveries come to fruition far sooner than Britain could manage. The Miles aircraft company was the first to successfully break the sound barrier, before Chuck Yeager, but their aircraft was unmanned. They had figured out the secret, which involved changing the tailplane incidence when approaching the speed of sound. The USA Bell X1 rocket aircraft was the first MANNED aircraft to break the sound barrier, thanks to British inventive genius!
Less known about Robert Fortune, the famous Scottish botanist who was employed by the East India Company to steal tea plantings from the Chinese (circa 1850) so as they could try growing it in India and cut the Chinese out of the lucrative trade, was his subsequent raid on behalf of the American government. Anyway, he went in on commission, stole the tea and brought it back across the Pacific. They tried to planet it in the mountains of Virginia but it wouldn’t take. And by all accounts the US Government then bilked on Fortune’s fee!
The lyrics come from the "Defence of Fort M'Henry", a poem written on September 14, 1814, by 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by British ships of the Royal Navy in Baltimore Harbor during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812.
The poem was printed in newspapers and eventually set to the music of a popular English drinking tune called “To Anacreon in Heaven” by composer John Stafford
"Jam in doughnuts", not jelly: you realise that you're terminally British now, Amanda? 😉🍻
Enjoying your videos: good job.
Deffo English now if wanting Sainsburys donoughts over a Krispy Kreme. There are still some trad bakers with original goodies around like Coughlans. I go the one in East Croydon as its 10 minutes from Victoria x
Jam and jelly are not the same thing
Englishman Joseph Swan took Edison to court, in America itself, over the stealing of his idea for the lightbulb filament and won. Edison offered Swan a deal and the Edison Swan company was created.
I love the way you say Bri(t)ain, without saying the "t"....so British!
But most of this shouldn't be surprising really, afterall most of the early settlers came from Britain, so obviously they'd take much of the culture with them.
None of the early settlers came from Great Britain; they were English. Settling in the Americas did not turn them into a bunch of Irish Catholics with a similar lack of rights. The only person to seriously talk of one “Great Britain” had his head separated from his shoulders.
Therefore, anything that came over before 1707 was not borrowed from the “British”, but England; the “borrowers” were English subjects as much as any others who remained in East Anglia.
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Was on a chocolate tour in York and apparently the difference between british and American chocolate is that, due to the distances between farms and factories in the states they add an acid to the milk to keep it good ... This acid with the milk has the same chemical make up as baby sick.. Go on taste a hershey,You'll taste it
now
The theft of copyright and patents was seen by the USA as vital to help it transform from a rural and agrarian economy to a modern industrial power (much like China more recently). What can be said to the credit of the USA is that from this IP they have developed a huge industrial behemoth and created the modern world as we know it, and we have all benefited from this. This is a bit long, but I hope you find it of interest.
Alexander Hamilton, US first secretary of US Treasury, granted incentives for immigrants, particularly from Britain, that could bring IP that could be patented in the USA, despite being the Intellectual Property of other countries. Hamilton’s deputy, Tench Coxe, created a system of bounties/rewards to entice people from overseas that had IP secrets to come to the USA. In 1787 he sent an agent, Andre Mitchell, to the UK and he took a trunk of models and drawings of British industrial machinery to the USA, but it was seized by the British authorities.
Hamilton also created US patent law in 1790, this was amended to only allowed patents for US citizens from 1793 as a means to protect US IP, even when it had been stolen. The US IP Act specifically excludes protection for foreign authors or inventors (section 5 1790 Copyright Act). This was so the USA could steal foreign IP without any legal recourse. An example is the only Edgar Allen Poe book that that was successful enough to be reprinted in his lifetime was stolen from British authors (a treatise on Molluscs - The Conchologist’s First Book). Another is the US patent granted to George Parkinson for a textile spinning machine that was a copy of one he had used in Britain.
Samuel Slater, brought the IP for cotton carding and spinning machines to the USA from the UK (in particular, Arkwright’s water frame). This made him so rich in the USA that on his death his wealth was equal to 10% of the USA’s GDP. President Andrew Jackson called Slater the father of American Manufactures. US citizen Francis Lowell visited UK weaving factories to produce copies of them in the USA, building the city of Lowell to house his factories using the stolen IP. He was able to visit as he was a cloth merchant and customer of the weaving houses. US theft of British IP was so extensive that export of textile machinery and emigration by textile workers from the UK became a criminal offence.
The USA in the 19th century tried to steal the secrets behind Sheffield’s Stainless steel, and got Sheffield craftsmen to come to the USA, but they failed to replicate the process correctly.
Copyright theft did not just effect technology. For example, Charles Dickens in 1842 found that he could not enforce his copyright for his own original works in the USA despite them being printed by publishers and newspapers. US publishers were reprinting the works of many overseas authors without any payment for copyright. Ironically the USA is now a vigorous campaigner for copyright and IP protection. The USA took a very hard line in the negotiation for the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights administered by the WTO.
But the appropriation of IP did not stop in the 19th century. The UK freely gave the USA (so not theft) nuclear secrets to help in the creation of the atomic bomb (US scientists at the time thought this impossible due to a fundamental misunderstanding of fission). The UK provided lots of information plus scientists to the Manhattan Project at a time when the USA was well behind in nuclear research. After the war all the UK scientists were kicked out and were not even allowed to take their own notes with them. This was completely contrary to the Quebec agreement between the USA and the UK regarding nuclear cooperation. The USA refused to further cooperate with Canada and the UK as agreed in the Quebec Agreement, claiming the agreement did not exist (but later found it in a desk draw of a senior US naval officer!). The USA wanted to keep nuclear technology for itself.
The Quebec Agreement was tossed out because it was discovered that the Soviets were getting nuclear secrets from the Cambridge Ring (obviously called that after the majority had defected, except for Anthony Blunt, the Queen’s photographer). Sharing science with Britain was sharing it with Moscow, and frequently faster.
@@Egilhelmson Wrong on so many levels. First, the Quebec agreement was not adhered to before it was known about the Cambridge spies. Second the Cambridge spies were not involved with atomic secrets, although Alan Nunn had been to Cambridge he was not one of the Cambridge 5 - see below. Third, the majority of the secrets from Los Alamos and the Manhattan project were given away by US spies and traitors.
Pravda said that thanks to Morris Cohen (US citizen), "the designers of the Soviet atomic bomb got piles of technical documentation straight from the secret laboratory in Los Alamos."
Harry Gold, US citizen, was the courier for passing secrets from the US to the Soviets.
David Greenglass (US citizen) provided drawings to the Soviets.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, US citizens that spied for Russia for decades.
Theodore Hall, US citizen, passed the Fat Man drawings to Russia.
George Koval, US citizen that passed information about the Fat Man detonator to the Soviets.
Irving Lerner, US citizen, caught photographing secret nuclear information.
Saville Sax, US citizen, acted as a courier for the Soviets
Oscar Sebor, US Citizen, passed on Los Alamos secrets to the Soviets
Morton Sobell, US citizen, passed nuclear secrets to the Soviets.
There were a couple of British spies. The most significant was Klaus Fuschs a German who obtained British citizenship. he had not been to Cambridge and he passed information to the Soviets when at Los Alamos. He was unable to pass the 'secret' of the bomb, as he did not know it himself, but did supply information on how much Uranium was needed. The only one that had been to Cambridge was Alan Nunn. He did not work on the Manhattan project, nor in the USA. He did pass some Uranium samples to the Russia and some library materials. His role was minor and insignificant compared to the secrets spilt by the American spies and traitors, but it is always useful to blame your allies, the people that gave the secrets of the bomb, information without which the USA would not have started the Manhattan project and would not have developed the bomb (at that time).
Burgess, MacLean and Philby of the Cambridge 5 were traitors and spies and did operate at a high level in the UK diplomatic and security services. They did not have access to nuclear secrets.
Whilst there have been a number of British spies, their number pales into insignificance when compared to US traitors. Nearly American 70 spies, mainly for the USSR, have been identified in the Cold War era. this has continued since the cold war with ten spies for Russia identified, 4 spying for China, three spying for Israel and 5 spying for Cuba.
Supersonic technology (before the X1 flight). Apparently there was supposed to be some technology exchange between the countries. UK provided their research then the US suddenly went 'sorry, we've now classified it as top secret'.
Heard that too. They broke the sound barrier first but, we eventually had concorde
The 13 stripes on the US flag were originally on the British India Flag. It originally had a British Union Flag in the top left corner. Betsy Ross sewed a circle of stars similar to the EU flag over the Union flag.
Sir Joseph Swan’s home was the first in the world to be lit by electric light bulbs. The Savoy Theatre in London was the first to have electric lights. The Paris Exibition was also lit by Swan’s light bulbs. Edison visited Swann at his home where the bulb was demonstrated to him. He returned to the US and made a one of his own and tried to patent it. The international court ruled in Swann’s favour. Edison used bamboo as a filament, Swan eventually changed his design to extruded cellulose, this was to become the industry standard. They formed a company together in the U.K. called Ediswan. Swan also invented the black paper that is still used in photography. The cathode ray tube was also one of his projects.
I love how your accent dips in and out of American and British 🥰
All U.K. money from ww2
Hello Amanda. I've been to Joseph Swan's house in Gateshead (N E England (an awesome house that I can wholly recommend) the first house in the world to be illuminated by Swan's light bulb that also lit up The Savoy Hotel London. Indeed Swan took legal action against Edison who proved that he been there first. However, in latter time the companies merged and used Swan's bulb with Edison's filament.
First person who knows their history: Well done that man!
@@theSFCchannel Ta very muchly.
Totally agree
Not a lot of people know about this....interesting...
Yep! That’s fact, contrary to popular belief in the USA?
I think we stole you from America Amanda. You are GORGEOUS girl x
Thank you, Amanda, for another enjoyable vid. Hope you remember - for anecdotal purposes - that a 'Sandwich' as we know it could easily have been a Portsmouth if the Earl had adopted the title-name instead. President Theodore Roosevelt proposed that the USA adopted The Liberty Bell March as the national anthem. Brits best know it as the theme music of Monty Python's Flying Circus. It's a wacky world, eh ?
It really is! Lol
I don't think it'd make a difference - It's not like the people of P***smouth are known for bragging about external events that they had no control over and enlisting them as some kind of achievement....*Rolls eyes*
@@LADYRAEUK I’m Welsh/British & I agree with you Edderson did invent the light bulb. It’s nice to have polite Americans in the U.K. like you. Who’s interested in the facts & is always keen to know more. Iv watched other American you tubers that live in the U.K. I watched Even,Warden Raving,You & Girl Gone London are all fantastic but another one I watched but can’t remember name of there’s channel always criticised the U.K.. then he contradicts his wife who is usually right.
I didn't know that about Portsmouth - it would actually have made more sense!! Port(er) from the French "to carry", and Mouth LOL
@@NicholasJH96 Nearly a decade before Thomas Edison began working on incandescent lamps and a more affordable way to bring the bright world of electricity to Victorian homes, a fine country house near the town of Rothbury in Northumberland, England, was lit entirely by electricity.
A friend of mine from New Zealand, has a daughter studying at Yale University, I have to send her British Chocolate on a regular basis, mainly Galaxy milk chocolate, which she adores. She describes American chocolate as inedible.
It is. I tried it once!
The all moving tailplane from Miles aircraft. Without Yeager would not have broke the sound barrier
They sure didn't steal spelling from Britain; they made up their own. They still can't make chocolate as good as Australia.
Cadbury fruit and nut, raspberry jam donuts damn you have got even more respect from me nothing beats them 😂 another great video 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Lol i have good taste! 🤣🤣
Thanks Graham, have a great weekend!
@@LADYRAEUK you have the best taste obviously for living in Britain 😂😂 thanks hope you enjoy your evening
With a cuppa...not of the Boston tea party variety though....
Nah it has to be custard doughnuts
I agree with dave has to be a custard one
Yep, my local club and premiership team, Southampton was originally set up as Southampton St. Mary's YMCA football club way back in the 1880s so that's not surprising and actually, I thought there would be a link between cricket and baseball, it's the way it's laid out with innings and overs.
There is a game called rounders that was played at schools as late as the 1970s, mostly by girls. I looked it up, and it was first seen in 1744 in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, where it was called base-ball.
Sorry Amanda but I’ve tried a Hershey bar and they are awful, it’s got to Cadbury’s chocolate. It’s just the best. You are so right about Sainsburys donuts.
I agree about Hershey chocolate but Cadbury has been going downhill for many years, since the American takeover, when they started changing the recipe. Although nit US owned anymore, they have made no moves to return to their original recipes and as a result I and many people I know do not buy Cadbury. Galaxy is probably the best general chocolate bar in the UK these days.
@@Thurgosh_OG actually now you mention it Cadbury’s chocolate is smaller and yes it’s not as nice as it was when I was younger. I don’t eat as much as I use to.
It's true that Mr Fry of Fry's Chocolates invented the chocolate bar here in Bristol and also we have a claim to fame down yerrrr that Fry's were the first manufacturer to make chocolate Easter Eggs. Finally, William Penn Jnr who was from Bristol founded your State of Pennsylvania!
Humphrey Davy (mentioned in the light-bulb section) is most famous for the Davy Lamp, a lamp you could use in mine without the risk of igniting gas. Before modern electric lighting and lanterns most miners carried them.
That’s brilliant
@@LADYRAEUK .
Davy got the credit mainly because he was Sir Humphrey Davy and very popular at the time. However George Stephenson had shown an example of his version and explained the principle nearly three months before Davy showed his. Unfortunately Stephenson was a relatively unknown North Country engineer so received no accolades or reward.
@@LADYRAEUK Literally. :-)
Davy was one of the pioneers of Electric lighting, but Swan made the significant breakthrough. The Geordie lamp was used in North Eastern coal mines
Crisps or potato chips are British too.
Not invented in USA.
They appear in a British cook book around 60 years before America claimed them.
Same with quickbread "American muffins" and the English Muffin too.
8.15 I'm sure many UK people here along with me played 'rounders' at school which is like baseball but no diamond to run around.
I played rounders at school in the 1960s. At our school it was considered a game for girls only, sometimes they had mixed games when they let the boys join in.
It was still a diamond shape when I was a kid in the 60's. The pitcher was not stood on a mound.
I'm loving how your accent is changing you can hear lots of dialect starting to seep through your American .
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The one factual one I know about is mechanical weaving looms etc. Not exactly stolen as they existed before concepts like patents and intellectual property were widely recognised/respected I believe, but it was a huge advantage to the US to not have to pay the inventors when they had their industrial revolution
I think that is how the shakers in the USA and Lancashire got their name from working on the looms
Thanks for sharing 😊
@@LADYRAEUK No worries. It does make for an interesting debate though about copyright/IP/Patents when you consider how strongly they are all now protected in the US! Copyright is the funny one - you can design a machine that saves lives, or a wonder drug and you can make money to try and recoup the costs of developing it for 20 years before anyone else can make it. You can write a book and it'll be exclusively yours until you die, and your descendents can still make money from it for 75 years after that point. I completely get why we need copyright, but damn if it doesn't feel like it is over-protected!
Charles Dickens visited America to persuade printers to pay him for his work.
@@LADYRAEUK sometimes ,I think it is a hidden history.? like the Molly McGuire stuff.. from the USA...not trying to be clever...stuff happens ...
Edward Elgar, who composed Pomp and Circumstance, was English.
Hey Amanda, regarding doughnuts, if there is a Dorringtons bakery anywhere near you, try their jam doughnuts, they are awesome. I suggest you go early though as they tend to sell out by lunch time!
Great video, as usual, keep it up.
Hi Amanda, you are heads above the majority of American commentators/reactors to uk content videos. So nice to have an intelligent balanced review. Can I request you to visit the videos of “Scottish History Tours”. Here you will find a lot of accurate stories of Scots who influenced America and USA in particular. Slavery, the Alamo, etc,etc keep up your intelligent reviews/comments. Eric Clifford 23Jan 2022
Excuse me!!!!!!!! Apple pie should be eaten with custard.😎
Lol 🤣🤣
There are a few American Patriotic/National songs that are done to British tunes, even one using God Save the Queen music. So much for getting away from the British monarchy lol.
Lol
I once heard an American say 'why are they playing 'My country 'tis of thee?' when the British National Anthem was played at a London NFL game! The funny thing about it is that it is constantly used as background music in the movie Sergeant York which is about a WW1 American war hero!
Baseball in England: In 1803, Jane Austen wrote Northanger Abbey and described her heroine thus: "and it was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of 14, to books".
I love how you’re starting to pick up the British accent. Welcome to the family! 😂😂
Lol thanks!
@@LADYRAEUK 7:31 Nothing can ever beat Lidl bakery 🤤
So they stole Strictly Come Dancing and the Weakest Link - but decided the NHS wasn't up to that standard?
No accounting for some folk!
I would have agreed with you about Cadbury's Dairy Milk some years ago but when I moved to France and couldn't buy it, Milka became my choc of choice. When I then tasted CDM some years later, the texture felt 'gritty' in comparison to Milka's smoothness and just as yummy taste!
Ah yes the Swiss chocolate in Milka is hard to beat, even the Belgians struggle to better it.
Not being a big chocolate fan (more savoury than sweet) I was impressed with the chocolate at the Lindt factory in Köln. Mind you I did design it myself! Rice krispies and Gummy bears! It's the future!
Mandy........ Your starting to UUUrrrgh like the Tailors off the Fast Show.......... UUUuurrrrgh Suit you!!!! sir (particularily after the Doughnuts) 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
If you look back at advertisements for early light bulbs you will find they are billed as “Edison-Swan light bulbs”!
If he invented them why did he sell them with Swan?
Rounders is very much like baseball.
I'll just add jet engines and the internet to this list....
Nah, we gave them the jet engines, oh and we gave them to the Russians too just to be fair!
As always your video was fun and informative. Keep going with that lovely soft voice!
Could listen to your voice all day
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The Harrier Jump Jet
Caburys is not the same anymore
The music for To Anacreon in heaven was also used in a presidential campaign song called Adams and Liberty and another Francis Scott key song called When the warrior returns before it was used for the American national anthem
Evening Amanda, a useless piece of information for you Sir George Williams was born in Dulverton, Somerset in 1821 about 25 miles up the road from where I grew up and live in Somerset UK. Yep he was a Wurzel and probably spoke with the Same accent as I Do. PS, Arthur C Clarke (2001space odyssy) was born in Minehead not to far away from Sir George Williams.
The Americans didn't steal this, the British gave it to them. We had an aircraft capable of flying supersonically and we gave information to the Americans that solved the problems they were having with the Bell X1, which allowed Chuck Yaeger to break the sound barrier.
Jam?!? Only custard-filled doughnuts are allowed in my house.
No way! Lol
@@LADYRAEUK Try the lemon curd doughnuts. ....soooooooo good
Baseball is mentioned in Jane Austin.
Amanda, have you ever had freshly cooked doughnuts at the seaside? They don't have a filling but they are lovely, especially when still warm
Oh yes! They are delicious!!
@@LADYRAEUK im definately a seaside doughnut guy....cos candyfloss smell alone makes me sick lol
I've never had a freshly cooked doughnut at the seaside because the bloody seagulls always snatch them out of my hands first!
Baseball is Rounders period.
What about the computer? All the technology and intelectual property of the computer (the first in the world) that was used to crack the enigma code in WW2. This was shared with IBM and the rest is history.
If you are talking about Colossus, the fully electronic machine developed at Bletchley Park, it was never used to decipher the Enigma code: the code-breakers had an electro-mechanical machine - the Turing Bombe - to do that. Colossus was used to decipher the much more complicated and secure ciphers used by the German High Command. These were code-named by the allies after types of fish. Also, there were academic institutions, laboratories and other commercial computer manufacturers and players on the scene before and at the same time as IBM produced their first electronic computer e.g. University of Manchester, Univac, Ferranti, Joe Lyons.
Cadbury is far inferior to Mars/Galaxy chocolate in the UK. Just saying.
One thing he didn’t mention is the huge number of British companies that have been regularly snapped up by American hedge funds. And the NHS is heading the same way bit by bit. We are just a colony these days
As for fruit and nut it’s the best!.
Most British people find baseball and American football , the televised version at least utterly slow and boring and that’s before you add in the annoyance of adverts every ten minutes. They even stop the play for the ad breaks
Not forgetting British TV quizzes also have a multitude of questions on US facts and figures. For Baseball questions answering Babe Ruth, whoever he may be, seems to get the mark. We also have extensive in depth coverage of US elections from the media with few people over here understanding or caring what it is all about.
The first plastic surgery patients were mainly RAF pilots who went down in flaming planes. They were found to have survived the burns better when they were in salt water (sea) so he used salt water baths. They called themselves the Guinea Pig Club. Another 'invention' from this time from the wounded soldiers and flyers was the Paralympics
The defence of Fort McHenry was the name of the drinking song that the American anthem borrowed from also have you tried the custard doughnuts from Sainsbury's they're awesome😋.
It was called Anacreon in Heaven.
love u 2 bits just sending a msg to say that English twang you have started 2 get makes me smile love it.x
Lol thank you 😊
Missed the obvious, English Language 😀 Good video, keep them coming.
Lol 🤣🤣
Thanks 😊
Hehe
Divided by a common language...
nukes, X plane, jet engine, pressure suite, ejector seat. The Spirit of St lois was in fact the 90th transatlantic flight, Brits did the first non stop. Heavy Metal.
So glad you Americans did steal baseball. You guys turned it into something special. Aussie baseball fan here. Was at Opening Round Season 2014 at the Sydney Cricket Ground for Dodgers @ D-Backs and it only served to turn me into an addict. Well done guys.
America stole James Corden, please, please, please, keep him
Lol
Well i'm certainly glad of something us Brits have nicked from the US,.....root beer. Our supermarkets sell it and i always keep a few bottles in the fridge,...especially for those summer days. Errrm,....when we have them that is !! But hey,..we Brits like to share so as we say,.....fill yer boots !! xo.
Boylan is the best brand of root beer I have found here in the UK but it's getting tricky to find these days.
@@Thurgosh_OG I shall keep an eye out for it my friend,..thank you.
God Save the Queen.
This might sound interesting for some, but I think one thing America stole from British was the Aston Martin design. Remember the newly designed Ford Mondeo/Fusion, people were saying it's grille looked like an Aston Martin grille 🤔! After all, Ford is American and many cars they owned at the time like Jaguar had similar design's. It was on Donut Media RUclips channel Amanda. It's only my thoughts though, but what do you think Amanda?
Ford used to own Aston Martin, and I *think* the same guy that designed DB7 also did design work for Ford at the time.
@@RichardM-kv4uu maybe
@@josephmarsh8235 Ian Callum is the guy, worked at Ford and Aston Martin during his career. Ford still own 8% of AM too.
Where do I start? Well... basically everything!
Btw, the tune to the National Anthem was taken from the song “To Anacreon in Heaven,” which was a song written in 1766 as an anthem for the Anacreontic Society which was an amateur mens’ music club in London.
Norway use it too for their royal anthem
Yeah the US anthem was a English pub song. I've always known that.
And for some reason Americans play the English anthem (Land of hope and glory) at graduation.
With the YMCA he was talking about the organisation and not the song.
Land of Hope and Glory is an anthem, for sure.
@@owenshebbeare2999 OK?
America is to a very large extent just a transfer of European(Much British) technowledgy. Enormous transfers took place in the last war to maintain raw material supplies from the USA. Stolen designs and inventions litter the list from The Ford Motor company to aero engines. Look up the Court case over the hydraulic tractor for farming invented by MR FERGUSON (English) and the production of the Fordson tractor in America. The USA is not alone in stealing British designs and inventions which are so numerous. Britain invented the modern world without a shadow of doubt.
It isn't really surprising that a lot of things that have been around for a long time originated in the UK rather than the USA, as the UK has been round for millennia longer and the Mayflower passengers then took those ideas and items "across the pond".
To find things that are truly American rather than imported from elsewhere (and have any age to them), look to your indigenous people's customs, ideas and creations.
I knew about the old English drinking song, The Anacreontic Song, sometimes known as To Anacreon In Heaven, as I have an interest in old music. It surprised me too when I first found out.
I agree with the message you are presenting....we are after all multi-cultural so I tend to be less concerned about who devised what....if it's fun, tasty or enjoyable who cares where it started.
The Jet engine as designed by Frank Whittle who was an RAF officer.
Hi Amanda I'm glad we stole you from america because your video's are very interesting 💛💛🤗🤗
Lol I’m glad! Thank you 😊
Loopy.........but. neat.........a boring fact..........England invented baseball..........
Tell your husband, he is lucky guy.,........or simply show him this............never mention your Cure, fanbase.
What did America steal from the British? As mention in an earlier comment AMERICA, with a lot of help from the old English enemy, the French.
Given that the US is still a very new country that was made up mostly of European settlers, everything over 200 years old came from somewhere else!
Nothing is "stolen" it is just adopted or copied.
Europe for its part, adopted the use of Potatoes, Tobacco (thanks for that) coffee and tea for example, from around the world.
Correction: The USA is no longer a young nation.
stolen!! fact
@@bobtudbury8505 Try looking up the definition of the word. You cannot "steal" anything that others do not own.
Of course settlers to a new land will keep habits from their home. Did they "steal" English?
@@grolfe3210 copyright etc is stealing, what has english got to do with it? it is obvious this was passed one, why am i replying? there are some thickos one here
@@bobtudbury8505 Copyright and patent infringement is stealing, yes. However you cannot get a patent or copyright something that already exists.
If someone gets a patent on a light bulb then you can still file 100 patents on developments of the light bulb in some way. Perhaps you know less than you think.
Mac and Cheese is an English dish, American Football is a combination of Football and Rugby, The American Constitution is based on the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights so is the Right to bear Arms also is from the English Bill of Rights and even American English the way it is spelled is taken from Old English where we use the more modern form and in1767, the first drinkable, man made glass of carbonated water was created by Englishmen, Dr. Joseph Priestley
My other half is from canada. Can't wait to back there. She made fantastic apple pie. But she put cheese on her's. Yuck fu*king yuck !!!! .... But your lovely as always xxx
That sounds awful lol
Cream cheese would work.
@@LADYRAEUK hot cheese on apple pie STINKS. Im with you and 99% of the western world. Icecream. Hope you and family have a lovely xxx
Lovely week i mean't. Sorry.
@@mattmulleary1302 Are you sure she's from Canada and not Green Bay, Wisconsin because they put cheese on everything, even their heads?
A lot of old American patriotic songs take melodies from British songs and just change the words.
I’m English and ever since I was little I’ve always had a fascination with the US and hopefully one day I’ll get there. 🏴 🇺🇸 ✌🏼.
Great channel btw 🙂.
I hope so! 😊
Thank you!
I have a friend Elizabeth who moved to palisade colorado in 2002 from my neck of the woods she loves it
Deffo give it a go....remember to tip....great country...nice people..
Jet engine was one that america stole and patented from a British inventor.....also Donald Trump who is from Scottish descent....but you can keep him!!!
It's not a problem the US stealing those things off us ... Britain gained more by getting you over here Amanda 😆😍
Wow...really....get a hold of yourself
Love this girl… lovely voice
Do you think that your popularity has much less to do with the quality of your content and a lot more to do with you just being quite pretty?
What a sleazeball, are you a stalker in your spare time?
@@kevins2961 It's just a question. Do you think she'd get as many views if she was ugly? Answer honestly now?
What did America steal from Britain?
Why, AMERICA, of course.
But they couldn't do it alone, they had to get the French to help them.