Eddison didn't invent anything, he was an entrepreneur taking others inventions and making them into a profitable business venture same as gold rushes the company's selling them the equipment made the big money.
To this day the UK is the only country that doesn't have to put the nation's name on its postage stamps. A recognition of the fact that Britain was the first nation to issue postage stamps.
The UK comprises of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The Royal Mail has sway over all those countries and you never see a stamp emblazoned with the name England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland. That was the point I was trying to make in a brief text. Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man not being a part of the UK do have to put their names on their postage stamps as does every other country in the world.
The one which Americans always find most difficult to accept is that the Wright Brothers did not 'invent' the aeroplane; nor were they the first to fly. The very first heavier-than-air flight was by PERCY PILCHER in 1899. Tragically it was during a test-flight, and before the world's media got there to see it he was killed during the next test-flight. If you look objectively through the history of invention you will find that the British invented EVERYTHING bar the radio, which was invented by the Italian Marconi. I'm also glad that Joseph Swann was correctly credited on here with creating the first ever Light-bulb. Thomas Alva Edison was in reality nothing more than a patent thief and he invented NOTHING.
@@asicdathens True, but it was his idea to begin with and he did a lot of the heavy lifting, so it's fair to say that without him it wouldn't have happened, or at least not in the way it did.
@@asicdathens but he had the copyright.. he decided to gave it AWAY for free. Shame he didn't charge a penny an hour.. could of paid off the UK national debt
@@hughcalder6156 He worked on it with some other while being employed at CERN . The patents , if any, belong to CERN . Http protocol was published as open standard from IETF
This may sound nonsense (it did to me untill I looked into),but according to studies Britain has invented between a quarter to two thirds of (the fundamental elements) all technology, ever. Today this mind-blowing trend continues as though only having between 1to 2 percent of the world's scientist's the UK produces about 15 percent of all cutting edge and high-end research , development and theoretical work on the planet.
That's because unlike our colonial cousins we don't spend all our money on the military industrial complex and blowing the shit out of everyone else and put the money towards technologies that are beneficial to everyone.
Oh, and the deep sea diving helmet and suit. In fact my great grandfather was one of the pioneers and held the deep sea diving record for several years.
H. G. Wells first came up with the concept of the internet in his book 'When the Sleeper Wakes' - first written as a serial for The Graphic between 1898 and 1903, before revising the story in 1910 as 'The Sleeper Awakes'. His idea of what we know as the internet, was called ' The World Brain'.
@@madyottoyotto3055 Yeah? Cool 👍 Tesla was a man ahead of his time, that's for sure. A damn shame he never had a mind for business, as we'd likely be living in a different world and for the better!? Sadly we'll never know.
Also, the electronic programmable computer, Colossus designed and built by Tommy Flowers (and Alan Turing) for decryption of enemy communications in WWII.
I was delivered by Patrick Steptoe - one of the guys involved in the invention of IVF, or test tube babies as they were known then. My home town of Oldham is also where the tubular bandage was invented, and the nearby city of Manchester is where the programmable computer was developed.
Sorry, you are not quite accurate on the computer. Early forms of programmable computer had been available long before, but they were programmed externally using things like punched cards and cables. Manchester did have the first computer to run a program stored in its own memory and the first company to sell computers commercially - Ferrantis. I believe they managed to sell two. There are lots of firsts in the development of computers, depending on exactly what definition you use.
@@peterjackson4763 Yep. I've heard it most commonly described as the first "stored program computer", which is also a little ambiguous. I was having a bit of a senior moment when I commented - should have checked I remembered correctly. I lived near the Ferranti building on Hollinwood Avenue as a child, but didn't know exactly what they did at the time.
My paternal Grandfather worked for John Logie Baird. He drove the first television apparatus around London when Baird was demonstrating his new invention. I'm not sure if he delivered it to Alexander Palace, the first television studio.
The BBC inaugated the first proper public high definition television service in the world in 1936. By proper I mean that it set out to be an ongoing public service showing a huge range of scheduled pre published programmes, plays, talks, variety, music, sports, cartoons, outside broadcasts etc, that were intended to be viewed by people in their own homes on tv sets they had bought themselves. Before then any television that did exist was experimental and in Germany for example could only be viewed in public viewing rooms and not in the home.
The National Science and Media museum in Bradford has Baird original experiment in their collection stores. When I saw it, it almost made me jump. The dummy’s head and the rotating wheels were very distinctive!
@@marcuswardle3180 Baird's chief engineer, Mr. Ben Clapp, used to live in Coulsdon, then in Surrey now in London, a cupla miles from me. I stand to be corrected but I understand the local Farthing Downs, a high point, was used by Baird to send the first live tv pictures to the USA using aerials attached to kites. This was in the 1920's long before satellites.
@@trevordance5181 I don’t think this could have occurred as Baird was only transmitting simple pictures in 1924. You can bounce low frequency radio waves off of the ionosphere though.
Others inventions include the Worlds first electronic programmable Computer was Colossus at Bletchley Park in WW2, the first synthetic Dye made by a chemist called Henry Perkins and the Hovercraft by Christopher Cockrill.
The reason the "TANK" got its name is was the first prototypes were built in Grantham (Lincolnshire) and due to secrecy they were said to be armored water carriers or Tanks of water on a tractor to get fresh water to the troops in the trenches.
@Jonathan Drysdale Prototypes were built in Grantham, went to the site before it was demolished, there was an old plaque from the 60's there mounted on the old entrance pillars. The works employed 378 men in 1878 and 3,500 in 1914. In 1905 Richard Hornsby & Sons invented a caterpillar track for a machine using Hornsby's oil engines; these engines were developed by Yorkshireman Herbert Akroyd Stuart, from which compression-ignition principle the diesel engine evolved, being manufactured in Grantham from 8 July 1892. From that site they produced the first prototypes, first one was called "Little Willy" I believe
@Jonathan Drysdale Ahh so both sites are having the same story, hmmm I wonder if the Grantham site was making the Engine and track drives then as part of a sub contracting or something of that ilk, I know towns like to big up their history, but this was a Lincolnshire county council plaque from the 60's.
The reason he didn't lead with 'iPod' is that that is a brand name, whereas 'media player' and 'mp3 player' are generic terms. Primarily using a brand name unfairly favours that brand, at the expense of others - even in cases where those others are superior and deserve the exposure more! 😋 (I hate the fact that some people say 'iPhone' when they're talking about phones in general. The word is 'phone' or 'smartphone', people. Grr!)
My first house was built in the Edwardian era. It was a wreck. And I was by the time we’d finished doing it up. I found it had an outside loo. The toilet bowl was branded, “Farnley Furious” and the mahogany toilet seat and overhead flush was, “Ashley Brandon”.
The uk is very good at inventing revolutionary devices, but appears hopeless at exploiting tbem for commercial advantage. Things that come to mind are: penicillin, vaccination, radar, the cavity magnetron, the hovercraft, LCD screens, MRI, the Bessemer converter, the list is extremely long.
Those road grinding machines were also a British invention but as per always, the City didn't back him so he sold the idea abroad. Now we rent them back at massive costs !
@@0utcastAussie the city does seem to be the myopic controlling influence. It is responsible for selling off many good high tech UK companies. The British government is never prepared to invest to the point where the industry grows to make money. In my view the sale of Arm Holdings was a disaster for the UK computer industry. The uk is very good at being in at the beginning of a new technology. A technology that often originates in university research departments, but sometimes in our high tech industries research labs. But as soon as the idea gains world interest, we promptly sell it off for a quick profit, then years later the country spends millions or billions, buying foreign made products based on the idea. It is often argued that the UK simply does not have the funds to exploit high tech developments to maturity, but the reason we increasingly lack the money, is because of previous failures to do so. One only needs to look at the mobile phone industry to see how the UK gave away its lead. We do not make televisions, or personal computers. We buy them from the far east at great cost to the country. There is no reason why we could have not been a world leading manufacture in this technology. The UK has just sold to foreign interests, a silicon semiconductor fabrication plant in Wales. There seem not a month goes by without news of yet another sale of one of our high tech industries. The reason is usually greedy, avaricious, myopic management and shareholders. Its time the government stopped such sales, in the national interest.
Despite being a relatively small country, the UK has had arguably the biggest influence over music of any country. you could argue America, but consider a lot of the most popular artists of all time are British
Not so. You are only speaking of late 20th and 21st century pop music. Even then, a few very popular artists doesn't outweigh the enormous number of composers and musicians over centuries.
@@robc1014 You are making my point for me. A "tiny few" indeed. The world is a very big place and we are just a small part of it, artistically and in every other way.
The postage stamp caused a lot of trouble in some homes. The head of the house would have to put his own stamp on any outgoing post so he knew who was writing to whom. With the postage stamp stamp anyone could send a letter so the father's control was lost. Women absolutely loved it.
When the postal service was first introduced in England it was the recipient who had to pay not the sender. This led to a whole industry of insulting birthday cards which you would send to people that you didn't like. Not only did they receive a card with an insult in it but they would also be charged for receiving it.
@@alanmumford8806 I've fact checked myself... it was valentines cards not birthday cards and they were known as Vinegar Valentines and emerged in the 1830's. The Royal Mail wiki page states that the sender paying was not introduced until the 1840's so there was a good 10 years where this was the case. I think I saw it on QI once which makes it true! 🤣
We invented most cool things, given we were the imperial power at the right moment. Culture and imperialism, the book by Edward Said is useful in explaining the correlation.
@@The_Prophet... it always amuses me when Scots blame England for the empire. Proportionally it was a Scots and Irish empire. Most soldiers Scots and Irish. Most settlers Scots and Irish. Most slave owners Scots and Irish. Doesn’t suit your bullshit narrative though does it?
Ping Pong/Table Tennis was originally called Whiff-Whaff and played with the tops off of cigar boxes and a cork. EB "how do you go from toilets to the guillotine?". simple ... the guillotine chops human heads off, where as you go to the toilet to snap the turtles head off. lol I'm surprized that the computer and World Wide Web wasn't on this list.
A sport they failed to mention: curling. Canada may be perennial World Champions at it, but Scotland is the "spiritual home" of the game where it was invented. The stones used in the game today, are all hewn from the granite rock of Ailsa Craig in the Firth of Clyde. Other things they failed to mention: radar invented by Sir Robert Watson-Watt; the telephone invented by Sir Alexander Graham Bell. Where would be be without we be without the internet, invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee or Alan Turing who developed the first general purpose computer? What about James Watt and the steam engine? Kirkpatrick MacMillan, inventor of the pedal bicycle. John Loudon McAdam, inventor of tarmac, a durable road surfacing. The list of stuff invented in the UK is endless and I would never get to my bed if I tried to name them all.
1:11 When you remember that Charlie and the chocolate factory was set in England and written by an English writer (well, Roald Dahl's parents were both Norwegian and I think he was born in Wales but he was raised and educated in England because his father believed (and at the time I think this was true) that English school were superior to Norwegian and Welsh schools) author it somehow makes perfect sense that chocolate bars would've been invented in England.
Yes. I know this. There were parts were it said English, which is why I said England at these spots. I know the UK is made up of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Where it said an Englishman invented it or invented in England, I said England.
As a Brit, I am well aware of all of these. Louise Brown was born in 1977. The newspapers were all ready with the headline, 'Steptoe and Son', but were thwarted! (BBCtv's Steptoe and Son being a popular sit-com at the time, and precursor to the US's Samford and Son).
Lodge i think invented the modern Spark plug, caburettor, Train, tracks, signals, traffic lights, roundabouts, cats eyes, faster than sound passenger plane, sandwich, Climbing and walking in the mountains, Wellington boots, airplane cannards (and Some say the BellX-1 plans) that we gave to help USA fly faster than sound in the Bell X-1, Hovercraft, Tax and the Toffee Crisp 😂
The yanks got plans of the bellx 1 off the Germans. They found it to hard to get the tail to work they taken it off are plane the UK one tail design that was very much a head of the yanks just are gov stop it flying because of penny pinching few years after they droped the plane from a other plane and it worked 😔 if was not for UK gov we would of got mk 1st
Love your content, dude, and love even more the fact that you cut the beard back… makes me feel better about cutting mine right off - regretted it the moment I saw my face again!!😂 - anyone that mentions it is told ‘I’m between beards..!’
*Necessity is the mother of invention* A lot of people may decry wars. But the inventions that come out of such needs. Are groundbreaking in their civilian applications.
Here in the UK we got lucky. We have a small island that is abundant with resources and bad weather. It made us stay inside coming up with ideas and we had all the materials readily available to make those ideas come true. We had coal and iron in huge quantities. But most of it was in holes flooded with water. So we used what coal and iron we had to make a steam engine to pump out the water so we could get more coal and more iron. Then we needed a way to move these resources around. So we put the steam engine on wheels and a track. Railways were invented. Then everyone could have coal and iron, and mass production and factories were invented. Then when we made huge iron ships we could travel the globe. Give countries our knowledge of rail transport in exchange for exotic goods like silks and spices. And all because we got lucky with abundant resources and rain. Hahahaha... I've way over simplified it. So please don't comment. lol hahaha :)
@Cobalt Jester tell that garbage to a academic on British history and they will s**t themselves laughing. Over simplified it? It's so ill informed it's made me angry. To think you could even begin to explain the origins of Britain's industrialisation and breakthroughs in science here is ridiculous. You actually gave rain as a genuine reason?!!? That alone is beyond comtept. Keep your made up "throries" to yourself
In terms of aeronautics, Britain was the first allied nation to have a combat ready jet, and I believe the only one to use a jet in combat during WW2 (the Gloster Meteor). They where also the first nation to have a jet powered airliner, and the first along side France to make a supersonic airliner. As for aeronautics in general, it was a British inventor/engineer named George Cayley who designed plans for the first plane in 1799 to use what would be considered the modern standard configuration (eg. fixed wings for lift, separate propulsion). He built a glider based on the general principles nearly 100 years before the Wright brothers famous flight, and is credited with the first human wing based flight (I believe balloons came first), but never went on to build a powered version. They where also the first nation to have an aircraft carrier (HMS Argus), and later the first to build one with what now is considered the standard configuration with an offset conning tower above deck. They also made the first jet powered float plane (the SR.A1) and played a large part in the experimentation of taking off and landing planes at sea.
Well may be not created RnR but they did 🤔 errrrrrh "encourage" alot of Africans to errrrrrh "resettle/move" to the US and as a result of the infusion of Afro beats into traditional US music RnR bloomed.
You have the white rose of England, you now need the other to complete the set, a red rose exactly the same, but it contains and symbolises both sides after English civil war of the Roses adopted by Henry Vll as Englands emblem of peace, it's called the Tudor Rose, Red outer petals and White inner petals symbolising peace across the kingdom.
Actually the red rose symbolizes the House of Lancaster and the white rose the House of York. The war of the roses was between these two Houses and the winner (Lancaster) combined the two roses to form the Tudor Rose.
From what I've seen/heard, American schools don't teach the real facts (in some cases) about inventions/history. I can't remember the exact details, one channel I watched was a guy who looks like one of the Proclaimers, I forget his name
I have a particular connection as locally, my home town and nearby has 2 of the oldest cinemas in the world (1910 and 1911), the world's oldest continually operating airport (built 1908), invented moving pictures (the first film where the camera changed position, c. 1903) and was the test best of the world's first supersonic jet flights shortly after the war. Also the world's first freight flight took place locally which was a box of Osram light bulbs in an 8 mile flight.
This in leeds? I live there the first two films by the FRENCH inventor of FILM (Edison possibly had him murdered) was Louis LE prince and it was taken at Roundhay Park AND Leeds Bridge!
George Cayley a Yorkshire man who achieved the first manned plane type flight 1853, 50 years before the Wright Brothers, with plans for an engine to follow.
@@madisntit6547 Ye I should have added plane type or something, I will do that now before I get an onslaught :). It was in fact a glider but he had plans for an engine till the dozy sod decided to die a couple of years later. A Tyke too by the way :).
To be fair the Wright brothers gave Cayley due credit in their research. Whilst better known for his founding of the science of aeronautics Cayley's other inventions also made the modern world; tension wire spoked wheel (bicycle), Universal railway (catapillar track).
@@alastairmellor966Oh yes it is just a pity he did not get as much credit here in the UK as many others fail to do. I know the Wright brothers laid the foundations at Carey's door without any hesitation and great credit to them for that.
I have been watching your video for a while now and only just realised I hadn't subscribed, oops so just subscribed. Also, as a person from Leeds, loving the Yorkshire rose behind you.
Something interesting .... More than 10 different style of paper planes ( paper darts ) have been found in the roof beams of an Oxford College , the beams had been covered for over 800 years ..
I was glad to see a Scot get mentioned. I'm always proud by the ammount of things us Scots have invented. I know countries will each have many. But taking into account how small Scotland is with a small population that makes it all the more incredible to me. Forbes magazine started by a Scot as way the Buick motor company. Grand theft auto computer games. A Scottish company. And golden retriever dogs first bred here. So here's a list of a lot of the things Scots invented. I wont mention Speedos lol. Television Telephone Refrigerator MRI scanner Penicillin Tarmacadam Modern pedal bicycle Daily Disposable Contact Lens ATM Colour Photograph Kaleidoscope Flushing Toilet S Bend Hypodermic Syringe Fingerprinting Steam Engine Vacuum Flask Pneumatic Tyre Adhesive Postage Stamp Golf Chloroform Propofol anaesthetic The Toaster Radar Oh and the US Navy was founded by a Scot lol and and the famous Uncle Sam we all think of as depicted in those posters. His grandfather was born in the Scottish town of Greenock were I work. Phew did I miss anything that's a long list 😉
Some concepts are born long before they can be made practical. Beyond the CDs and lasers, digital audio was waiting for the technology required to make it small & portable, in a 100% electronic format. I vaguely recall reading a 1981 article, regarding the start of a ten year project to put music on memory chips. It failed to produce the results in 1991. With later compression techniques and increasing memory capacity, portable, solid state electronic music players (without micro hard drives) eventually arrived.
And we're the only country that still uses it as a commercial form of transport (between Portsmouth and IOW), since the cross-channel service ended in the 90s.
@@dcarbs2979 I worked on a refit of 2 that were used somewhere in Scandinavia but I don't know if they were used as ferries. and when the wind is in the right direction I can hear the hovercraft on Ryde beach. those twin 12 cylinder engines are loud but it's a beautiful sound
If memory serves the vibrator was the type that fit on your hand. And was usually used by a male doctor on the female patient. Something featured in the road to welville I do believe.
Great Britain is the only country not to have the country in writing on the stamp. In 1840 when it was invented, there was no need. We were first, nobody else used it and the idea of the post leaving the country wasn’t calculated.... I have both the 1840 1d and 2d on covers with some fancy rare post marks. To this day you’ll only find the Queen/King on our stamps
You do know that it was a Brit that produced the first incandescent light bulb right??? Famously your bloke Edison was a serial patent artist so apparently he patented a light first after he worked on the work of other people with the problem of sustainable filament and and a way to sell it to the masses after five or six previous engineer’s cumulative work in the 1800s. Swan in the UK was the first to demonstrate the filament lamp to light up a store there, then Edison got his hands on the idea and used his engineer farm to developer and patent it in the USA, HE WAS GOOD AT THAT!!!
The postage stamp and the stamp tax are totally different the stamp tax was a levy charged on any formal document like house deeds this was required to have a stamp on it to prove the levy had been paid postage stamps are quite different
And Thomas Crapper also invented the..... bathroom showroom! Yes, all those boring times trying to buy and get a new bath fitted are thanks to Thomas Crapper.
To me the English language has to be one of the greatest things we have given the world. Spoken almost everywhere and of course, used by every decent song writer on both sides of the Atlantic.
@@harrybarrow6222 Spain,France,Portugal and Italy weren't part of our Empire.Every time I have been n holiday to one of the country's I am amazed that even in a tiny cafe or bar,the waiter will be able to speak English.
I've read the sci fi tank story, which I think was set shortly after the American Civil War, but it is usually Leonardo Da Vinci who is credited with the original idea.
The invention of the jet engine is far more complicated than saying that Frank Whittle (later, Sir) invented it. There were many steps along the way over... wait for it... more than a hundred years that led to Whittle proposing what became the turbojet engine. Obviously, most of the later steps were within the last decade or so of that development process. Because of the lack of interest from the Air Ministry and industrialists, Whittle's designs, although the first to be patented, made slow progress. Meanwhile, the Germans used those same antecedent steps to create their own turbojets. This is why there appears to be two completely separate inventors (each unaware of the other's work) of the jet engine. Of course, the British didn't acknowledge the contemporary German competition, though they certainly encountered it in the air over Germany before they had anything to counter it - and I say this as someone who trained and worked at Rolls-Royce aero-engines. This is not in any way to denigrate Whittle, who, like many of his contemporary visionaries, had more insight than many of the people he spoke to about his ideas.
Film and Movies is a weird one. Because it's a combination of, at what point was it considered to be a 'movie'. Also if it's developed by one nation by someone from another nation funded by another nation it's hard to define who made it. It was a mix of the UK starting, Germany hhelping and France coming in with it's own formats. The US would later fund it and make it bigger too. Scotland are credited with the TV, people agree on that.
Simple inquiry, my US cousin...why do you fly the Yorkist Rose rather than the Lancaster Rose? You worked as a teacher in VA. My six years living in the US were spent living in VA, in Loudoun Co. Am I right to assume you were further south, around Bristol or Staunton?
Tim Berners-Lee invented the web and http protocol. ARPA, the defence research agency in the USA, funded development of computer networking. NSF funded use of networks in the research community. But it was Berners-Lee who (indirectly) made the network available to the wider public by making it easy to access information stored on networks.
One thing I'd like to say, he mentions a gibbet, which was originally where a person got hanged, or beheaded, but it's pronounced as jibbet. It's an unfamiliar word I guess so some don't know how to say it.
the motion picture was actually invented by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince who soon after disappeared (you know like inverters tend to do after they invent something with great potential that can be stolen, usually by the military)
Another game invented in England (or at least an ancestor of it) is baseball - it's just one version of a variety of cricket related games. Many people have heard of the reference to it in Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" (1797), quote: " It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball, riding on horseback, and running about the country ....". The common US history of baseball claims it was invented in 1839 in Cooperstown, New York. Not that I care, I'm not interested in baseball or cricket!
Friend of my parents was a maintenance engineer at Pizers in Sandwich where they made Viagra. One day there was a maintenance issue on the production line. Normally all people working in that room wore 'bunny suits' with positive air pressure so that they where not exposed to any dust from the production line. However this maintenance issue meant that wearing full protective gear was not possible, and dispirit wearing a industrial grade gas mask he ended up inhaling viagar dust. He said that after 4 hours, things became pain full..
Check out a program called Local hero's presented by a guy named Adam Hart Davies that'll give you tons of insight into inventions from the UK, in my opinion it could be replicated for many different countries.
A copyright lasts for 70 years, for music 70 years from when first published and for films and written dramatic and artistic work it’s 70 years from when the author or writers death.
Two other things invented by the British during or just before the war were radar and the first working computer. The former was shared with the US, the other was kept top secret for decades so as to protect the code breaking abilities it provided to use against the ussr who adopted one of the German encryption systems after the war (not enigma, I forgot the name).
You should listen to a song called ( Scotland's Fire ) by a band called The Haivers and it will let you know what Scotland have given the world like the American Navy by John Paul Jones
The light bulb, invented by Joseph Swan, always comes as a surprise to most Americans, no it wasn't Edison, Edison made it more efficient.
Eddison didn't invent anything, he was an entrepreneur taking others inventions and making them into a profitable business venture same as gold rushes the company's selling them the equipment made the big money.
Edison was a marketing genius, not an inventor.
@@dave_h_8742 Yep. Basically Edison was the Steve Jobs of his day
@@zahrans and probably made more money than him too, for the time.
Eddison in my mind will always be known as the man who ripped off Tesla.
To this day the UK is the only country that doesn't have to put the nation's name on its postage stamps. A recognition of the fact that Britain was the first nation to issue postage stamps.
Thanks, I never knew that, handy for pub quizzes
Since when was the UK a country? xD
@@ajaxlewis7664 1707, with the most recent borders established 1922.
The UK comprises of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The Royal Mail has sway over all those countries and you never see a stamp emblazoned with the name England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland. That was the point I was trying to make in a brief text. Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man not being a part of the UK do have to put their names on their postage stamps as does every other country in the world.
@@dcarbs2979 I'm from the country England. I think it would sound a bit silly if I said "I'm from the country, United Kingdom" xD
The one which Americans always find most difficult to accept is that the Wright Brothers did not 'invent' the aeroplane; nor were they the first to fly. The very first heavier-than-air flight was by PERCY PILCHER in 1899. Tragically it was during a test-flight, and before the world's media got there to see it he was killed during the next test-flight. If you look objectively through the history of invention you will find that the British invented EVERYTHING bar the radio, which was invented by the Italian Marconi. I'm also glad that Joseph Swann was correctly credited on here with creating the first ever Light-bulb. Thomas Alva Edison was in reality nothing more than a patent thief and he invented NOTHING.
Can't believe that montage didn't include Sir Tim Berners-Lee !! Greatest technical invention of modern times and not even a cursory mention 😂
Tim Berners-Lee wasn't working alone in CERN when he developed the HTTP protocol
This is a list of things you didn't know.
Surely everyone knows he invented the WWW.
@@asicdathens True, but it was his idea to begin with and he did a lot of the heavy lifting, so it's fair to say that without him it wouldn't have happened, or at least not in the way it did.
@@asicdathens but he had the copyright.. he decided to gave it AWAY for free. Shame he didn't charge a penny an hour.. could of paid off the UK national debt
@@hughcalder6156 He worked on it with some other while being employed at CERN . The patents , if any, belong to CERN . Http protocol was published as open standard from IETF
It’s funny yet amazing to think about how many inventions were made on a small island the size of one state off the coast of Europe
The equal symbol = invented in 1557 by Robert Recorde, a mathematician from Tenby in Wales
I guess it was the sign of the Times, I mean equals, as long as, it doesn't devide us.
The list is endless. We are a clever lot. 🇬🇧🤩🤗
The music for the American National Anthem… a British composed drinking song.
A tea drinking song?
@@ultrademigod not without all that tax that was evaded :P nope, it was a pub song!
This may sound nonsense (it did to me untill I looked into),but according to studies Britain has invented between a quarter to two thirds of (the fundamental elements) all technology, ever.
Today this mind-blowing trend continues as though only having between 1to 2 percent of the world's scientist's the UK produces about 15 percent of all cutting edge and high-end research , development and theoretical work on the planet.
That's because unlike our colonial cousins we don't spend all our money on the military industrial complex and blowing the shit out of everyone else and put the money towards technologies that are beneficial to everyone.
@@StubbornBullet
No we just manufacture the munitions and flog them to our colonial cousins to blow the shit out of each other….
@@fredflintstone4416 Pure capitalism haha
@@StubbornBullet dear oh dear …..
@@fredflintstone4416 🤣🤣🤣
Oh, and the deep sea diving helmet and suit.
In fact my great grandfather was one of the pioneers and held the deep sea diving record for several years.
Britain also invented the world wide web.
The internet yes we did
The USA invented the precursor the intranet
H. G. Wells first came up with the concept of the internet in his book 'When the Sleeper Wakes' - first written as a serial for The Graphic between 1898 and 1903, before revising the story in 1910 as 'The Sleeper Awakes'. His idea of what we know as the internet, was called ' The World Brain'.
@@robanderson473 Tesla wrote about the concept in 1860 ish
@@madyottoyotto3055 Yeah? Cool 👍 Tesla was a man ahead of his time, that's for sure. A damn shame he never had a mind for business, as we'd likely be living in a different world and for the better!? Sadly we'll never know.
The postage stamp has nothing to do n with the tax just the name stamp
Also, the electronic programmable computer, Colossus designed and built by Tommy Flowers (and Alan Turing) for decryption of enemy communications in WWII.
I was delivered by Patrick Steptoe - one of the guys involved in the invention of IVF, or test tube babies as they were known then. My home town of Oldham is also where the tubular bandage was invented, and the nearby city of Manchester is where the programmable computer was developed.
Sorry, you are not quite accurate on the computer. Early forms of programmable computer had been available long before, but they were programmed externally using things like punched cards and cables. Manchester did have the first computer to run a program stored in its own memory and the first company to sell computers commercially - Ferrantis. I believe they managed to sell two.
There are lots of firsts in the development of computers, depending on exactly what definition you use.
@@peterjackson4763 Yep. I've heard it most commonly described as the first "stored program computer", which is also a little ambiguous. I was having a bit of a senior moment when I commented - should have checked I remembered correctly. I lived near the Ferranti building on Hollinwood Avenue as a child, but didn't know exactly what they did at the time.
My paternal Grandfather worked for John Logie Baird. He drove the first television apparatus around London when Baird was demonstrating his new invention. I'm not sure if he delivered it to Alexander Palace, the first television studio.
The BBC inaugated the first proper public high definition television service in the world in 1936. By proper I mean that it set out to be an ongoing public service showing a huge range of scheduled pre published programmes, plays, talks, variety, music, sports, cartoons, outside broadcasts etc, that were intended to be viewed by people in their own homes on tv sets they had bought themselves. Before then any television that did exist was experimental and in Germany for example could only be viewed in public viewing rooms and not in the home.
The National Science and Media museum in Bradford has Baird original experiment in their collection stores. When I saw it, it almost made me jump. The dummy’s head and the rotating wheels were very distinctive!
@@marcuswardle3180 Baird's chief engineer, Mr. Ben Clapp, used to live in Coulsdon, then in Surrey now in London, a cupla miles from me. I stand to be corrected but I understand the local Farthing Downs, a high point, was used by Baird to send the first live tv pictures to the USA using aerials attached to kites. This was in the 1920's long before satellites.
My grandad was an apprentice with John Logie Baird at Edinburgh college of engineering, my grandad went on to design engines for ships.
@@trevordance5181 I don’t think this could have occurred as Baird was only transmitting simple pictures in 1924. You can bounce low frequency radio waves off of the ionosphere though.
Others inventions include the Worlds first electronic programmable Computer was Colossus at Bletchley Park in WW2, the first synthetic Dye made by a chemist called Henry Perkins and the Hovercraft by Christopher Cockrill.
The reason the "TANK" got its name is was the first prototypes were built in Grantham (Lincolnshire) and due to secrecy they were said to be armored water carriers or Tanks of water on a tractor to get fresh water to the troops in the trenches.
Thanks for that 🙂
That's my "Learn something new everyday" for today.
You are correct
@Jonathan Drysdale Prototypes were built in Grantham, went to the site before it was demolished, there was an old plaque from the 60's there mounted on the old entrance pillars.
The works employed 378 men in 1878 and 3,500 in 1914. In 1905 Richard Hornsby & Sons invented a caterpillar track for a machine using Hornsby's oil engines; these engines were developed by Yorkshireman Herbert Akroyd Stuart, from which compression-ignition principle the diesel engine evolved, being manufactured in Grantham from 8 July 1892. From that site they produced the first prototypes, first one was called "Little Willy" I believe
@Jonathan Drysdale Ahh so both sites are having the same story, hmmm I wonder if the Grantham site was making the Engine and track drives then as part of a sub contracting or something of that ilk, I know towns like to big up their history, but this was a Lincolnshire county council plaque from the 60's.
The reason he didn't lead with 'iPod' is that that is a brand name, whereas 'media player' and 'mp3 player' are generic terms. Primarily using a brand name unfairly favours that brand, at the expense of others - even in cases where those others are superior and deserve the exposure more! 😋
(I hate the fact that some people say 'iPhone' when they're talking about phones in general. The word is 'phone' or 'smartphone', people. Grr!)
My first house was built in the Edwardian era. It was a wreck. And I was by the time we’d finished doing it up. I found it had an outside loo. The toilet bowl was branded, “Farnley Furious” and the mahogany toilet seat and overhead flush was, “Ashley Brandon”.
Henry Cole, the first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, invented the Christmas card....must have had shares in Royal Mail😁
Nice to hear my home town of Oldham mentioned, I remember the news surrounding the birth of the first test-tube baby, when I was a kid in 1978.
The Industrial Revolution, which not many people seem to mention nowadays (unless from the UK). Single biggest change to a globalised quality of life.
Yep!
The uk is very good at inventing revolutionary devices, but appears hopeless at exploiting tbem for commercial advantage.
Things that come to mind are: penicillin, vaccination, radar, the cavity magnetron, the hovercraft, LCD screens, MRI, the Bessemer converter, the list is extremely long.
Those road grinding machines were also a British invention but as per always, the City didn't back him so he sold the idea abroad.
Now we rent them back at massive costs !
@@0utcastAussie the city does seem to be the myopic controlling influence. It is responsible for selling off many good high tech UK companies. The British government is never prepared to invest to the point where the industry grows to make money. In my view the sale of Arm Holdings was a disaster for the UK computer industry. The uk is very good at being in at the beginning of a new technology. A technology that often originates in university research departments, but sometimes in our high tech industries research labs. But as soon as the idea gains world interest, we promptly sell it off for a quick profit, then years later the country spends millions or billions, buying foreign made products based on the idea. It is often argued that the UK simply does not have the funds to exploit high tech developments to maturity, but the reason we increasingly lack the money, is because of previous failures to do so. One only needs to look at the mobile phone industry to see how the UK gave away its lead.
We do not make televisions, or personal computers. We buy them from the far east at great cost to the country. There is no reason why we could have not been a world leading manufacture in this technology. The UK has just sold to foreign interests, a silicon semiconductor fabrication plant in Wales. There seem not a month goes by without news of yet another sale of one of our high tech industries. The reason is usually greedy, avaricious, myopic management and shareholders. Its time the government stopped such sales, in the national interest.
In other words, the UK should seek the exploitation model of the Capitalist U.S. of A?
@@AgendaFiles yes!
Viagra was really stumbled upon while investigating the British ‘stiff upper lip…!’😉😂
Despite being a relatively small country, the UK has had arguably the biggest influence over music of any country. you could argue America, but consider a lot of the most popular artists of all time are British
Even now, whether you like em or not, ed sheeran and Adele are two of the biggest currently. Coldplay too. Not too long ago there was oasis.
Not so. You are only speaking of late 20th and 21st century pop music. Even then, a few very popular artists doesn't outweigh the enormous number of composers and musicians over centuries.
@@laurieharper1526 ok, popular music is what i was getting at
@@laurieharper1526 henry purcell, charles avison, thomas arne, ivor atkins, john blow.. to name but a tiny few of many historic composers from the uk.
@@robc1014 You are making my point for me. A "tiny few" indeed. The world is a very big place and we are just a small part of it, artistically and in every other way.
The postage stamp caused a lot of trouble in some homes. The head of the house would have to put his own stamp on any outgoing post so he knew who was writing to whom. With the postage stamp stamp anyone could send a letter so the father's control was lost. Women absolutely loved it.
And while the man was out at work. And the lady was normally at home, he never knew about most of the post and letters that arrived each day.
Slags ! Sorry I'm drunk. Hic.
Yeah but the post person could come up to 12 times a day
@@Oddballkane but how many times would he deliver mail? ;-)
@@dcarbs2979
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When the postal service was first introduced in England it was the recipient who had to pay not the sender. This led to a whole industry of insulting birthday cards which you would send to people that you didn't like. Not only did they receive a card with an insult in it but they would also be charged for receiving it.
I'm not going to check (because this is the internet) but I hope that's true, as it's so funny.
@@alanmumford8806 I've fact checked myself... it was valentines cards not birthday cards and they were known as Vinegar Valentines and emerged in the 1830's. The Royal Mail wiki page states that the sender paying was not introduced until the 1840's so there was a good 10 years where this was the case. I think I saw it on QI once which makes it true! 🤣
We invented most cool things, given we were the imperial power at the right moment. Culture and imperialism, the book by Edward Said is useful in explaining the correlation.
@@The_Prophet... 😂🤦♂️
@@The_Prophet... 😄 Scotland is just England's sidecar, along for the ride.
@@The_Prophet... so what did scotland invent that made the world modern? And don't say the telephone....that was actually Italian
@@The_Prophet... it always amuses me when Scots blame England for the empire. Proportionally it was a Scots and Irish empire. Most soldiers Scots and Irish. Most settlers Scots and Irish. Most slave owners Scots and Irish. Doesn’t suit your bullshit narrative though does it?
I remember little Lou being born and she wasn't test tube shaped. Amazing!
Ping Pong/Table Tennis was originally called Whiff-Whaff and played with the tops off of cigar boxes and a cork.
EB "how do you go from toilets to the guillotine?". simple ... the guillotine chops human heads off, where as you go to the toilet to snap the turtles head off. lol
I'm surprized that the computer and World Wide Web wasn't on this list.
Stamp tax and postal stamps are different things
A sport they failed to mention: curling. Canada may be perennial World Champions at it, but Scotland is the "spiritual home" of the game where it was invented. The stones used in the game today, are all hewn from the granite rock of Ailsa Craig in the Firth of Clyde. Other things they failed to mention: radar invented by Sir Robert Watson-Watt; the telephone invented by Sir Alexander Graham Bell. Where would be be without we be without the internet, invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee or Alan Turing who developed the first general purpose computer? What about James Watt and the steam engine? Kirkpatrick MacMillan, inventor of the pedal bicycle. John Loudon McAdam, inventor of tarmac, a durable road surfacing. The list of stuff invented in the UK is endless and I would never get to my bed if I tried to name them all.
1:11 When you remember that Charlie and the chocolate factory was set in England and written by an English writer (well, Roald Dahl's parents were both Norwegian and I think he was born in Wales but he was raised and educated in England because his father believed (and at the time I think this was true) that English school were superior to Norwegian and Welsh schools) author it somehow makes perfect sense that chocolate bars would've been invented in England.
Missed out The steam locomotive and railways, the World Wide Web and barely mentioned the invention of television.
Also metal rivets, cats eyes, splitting the atom.
You refer to the UK as England. The UK also includes Irish, Scottish and Welsh. The UK is not England.
Yes. I know this. There were parts were it said English, which is why I said England at these spots. I know the UK is made up of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Where it said an Englishman invented it or invented in England, I said England.
Stop being pedantic.
I love that you have a Yorkshire Rose and a Liverpool flag in the back ground 👏 you have another fan for life.
As a Brit, I am well aware of all of these.
Louise Brown was born in 1977.
The newspapers were all ready with the headline, 'Steptoe and Son', but were thwarted!
(BBCtv's Steptoe and Son being a popular sit-com at the time, and precursor to the US's Samford and Son).
I'm from Oldham, the clinic where Louise was conceived has a blue plaque on it now.
50% of global patents are directly or indirectly connected to UK research.
Lodge i think invented the modern Spark plug, caburettor, Train, tracks, signals, traffic lights, roundabouts, cats eyes, faster than sound passenger plane, sandwich, Climbing and walking in the mountains, Wellington boots, airplane cannards (and Some say the BellX-1 plans) that we gave to help USA fly faster than sound in the Bell X-1, Hovercraft, Tax and the Toffee Crisp 😂
Saving the last for best.
The yanks got plans of the bellx 1 off the Germans. They found it to hard to get the tail to work they taken it off are plane the UK one tail design that was very much a head of the yanks just are gov stop it flying because of penny pinching few years after they droped the plane from a other plane and it worked 😔 if was not for UK gov we would of got mk 1st
No My uncle invented the Red Amber Green sequence of the Traffic light, the first one was displayed here in my hometown in I think late 50s.
There was a bet on whether all a horses hooves left the ground a the same time
Heavier than air flight by George Caley, 50 years before the Wright Brothers.
Underground trains (or subway trains to Americans) are another one.
The "Halifax Gibbet" is still at Halifax, West Yorkshire. in Gibbet street.
Is it still in use?
@@dcarbs2979 😆 ... it should be!
As someone who lives here I can confirm there's no shortage of people we could use it on.
They forgot to add ‘the clip-on mug mat’ by Karl Pilkington!
The hovercraft and the jump jet too 😚 Loving the Yorkshire Rose behind your head sir, reminds me of my origins
I love his videos. His genuine laugh makes me smile
Tennis and the jet engine were both invented in Royal Leamington Spa, within a couple of hundred yards of each other as the crow flies
frank whittle jet engine shed was at baginton just outside coventry.
Haven’t been to the channel in a while and I’m sorry, but I’m glad to be back with the lovely content👍
"Two pence blue" ?
Gimme strength, someone: that's a "Tuppeny (Two-Penny) Blue". You'll be calling a Penny "One Pee" next !!!!!
Innit ?
There was a fry’s chocolate factory down road from my old house,smelt lush walking past
🙏🏻Bristol🇬🇧
It was in Easton,Bristol
8:40 because it wasn't "an iPod"? That's a very specific device. Like saying model T when referring to the " invention of the automobile".
Love your content, dude, and love even more the fact that you cut the beard back… makes me feel better about cutting mine right off - regretted it the moment I saw my face again!!😂 - anyone that mentions it is told ‘I’m between beards..!’
*Necessity is the mother of invention* A lot of people may decry wars. But the inventions that come out of such needs. Are groundbreaking in their civilian applications.
Another awesome thing we invented...the apple pie
Here in the UK we got lucky. We have a small island that is abundant with resources and bad weather. It made us stay inside coming up with ideas and we had all the materials readily available to make those ideas come true. We had coal and iron in huge quantities. But most of it was in holes flooded with water. So we used what coal and iron we had to make a steam engine to pump out the water so we could get more coal and more iron. Then we needed a way to move these resources around. So we put the steam engine on wheels and a track. Railways were invented. Then everyone could have coal and iron, and mass production and factories were invented. Then when we made huge iron ships we could travel the globe. Give countries our knowledge of rail transport in exchange for exotic goods like silks and spices. And all because we got lucky with abundant resources and rain. Hahahaha... I've way over simplified it. So please don't comment. lol hahaha :)
Started reading but got bored half way through. Thanks though
@Cobalt Jester tell that garbage to a academic on British history and they will s**t themselves laughing. Over simplified it? It's so ill informed it's made me angry. To think you could even begin to explain the origins of Britain's industrialisation and breakthroughs in science here is ridiculous. You actually gave rain as a genuine reason?!!? That alone is beyond comtept. Keep your made up "throries" to yourself
Jesus, lighten up people
No your right. But I think the greatest gift we gave to the world was the Industrial revolution.
@@woowee4452 So sorry to hear you have ADHD.
In terms of aeronautics, Britain was the first allied nation to have a combat ready jet, and I believe the only one to use a jet in combat during WW2 (the Gloster Meteor). They where also the first nation to have a jet powered airliner, and the first along side France to make a supersonic airliner.
As for aeronautics in general, it was a British inventor/engineer named George Cayley who designed plans for the first plane in 1799 to use what would be considered the modern standard configuration (eg. fixed wings for lift, separate propulsion). He built a glider based on the general principles nearly 100 years before the Wright brothers famous flight, and is credited with the first human wing based flight (I believe balloons came first), but never went on to build a powered version.
They where also the first nation to have an aircraft carrier (HMS Argus), and later the first to build one with what now is considered the standard configuration with an offset conning tower above deck. They also made the first jet powered float plane (the SR.A1) and played a large part in the experimentation of taking off and landing planes at sea.
Saunders Roe?
@@davidwallin7518 For the float jet? Yeah
Even though the Brits didn't invent Rock 'n' Roll they sure contributed a lot!
No the yanks invented rock and PUnk..........but the BRITISH PERFECTED IT and simply outclassed the americans in it forever
Well may be not created RnR but they did 🤔 errrrrrh "encourage" alot of Africans to errrrrrh "resettle/move" to the US and as a result of the infusion of Afro beats into traditional US music RnR bloomed.
The vibrator was thought of in the 1880s, that is a surprise. It would have to be mechanically powered then, interesting.
You have the white rose of England, you now need the other to complete the set, a red rose exactly the same, but it contains and symbolises both sides after English civil war of the Roses adopted by Henry Vll as Englands emblem of peace, it's called the Tudor Rose, Red outer petals and White inner petals symbolising peace across the kingdom.
Actually the red rose symbolizes the House of Lancaster and the white rose the House of York. The war of the roses was between these two Houses and the winner (Lancaster) combined the two roses to form the Tudor Rose.
'How do you go from Toilet to Guillotine' - well, you have to be having a pretty bad day, for starters.
From what I've seen/heard, American schools don't teach the real facts (in some cases) about inventions/history. I can't remember the exact details, one channel I watched was a guy who looks like one of the Proclaimers, I forget his name
I remember as a child I used to hate those Fry`s chocolate creams, they used to have a bitter taste about them, to me at least.
I have a particular connection as locally, my home town and nearby has 2 of the oldest cinemas in the world (1910 and 1911), the world's oldest continually operating airport (built 1908), invented moving pictures (the first film where the camera changed position, c. 1903) and was the test best of the world's first supersonic jet flights shortly after the war. Also the world's first freight flight took place locally which was a box of Osram light bulbs in an 8 mile flight.
This in leeds? I live there the first two films by the FRENCH inventor of FILM (Edison possibly had him murdered) was Louis LE prince and it was taken at Roundhay Park AND Leeds Bridge!
Ayy, not been on this channel for a few months and I'm glad to see my man looks like he's losing weight! Good for you dude :)
George Cayley a Yorkshire man who achieved the first manned plane type flight 1853, 50 years before the Wright Brothers, with plans for an engine to follow.
@@madisntit6547 Ye I should have added plane type or something, I will do that now before I get an onslaught :). It was in fact a glider but he had plans for an engine till the dozy sod decided to die a couple of years later. A Tyke too by the way :).
@@madisntit6547 Saved my bacon 😃.
To be fair the Wright brothers gave Cayley due credit in their research. Whilst better known for his founding of the science of aeronautics Cayley's other inventions also made the modern world; tension wire spoked wheel (bicycle), Universal railway (catapillar track).
@@alastairmellor966Oh yes it is just a pity he did not get as much credit here in the UK as many others fail to do. I know the Wright brothers laid the foundations at Carey's door without any hesitation and great credit to them for that.
I have been watching your video for a while now and only just realised I hadn't subscribed, oops so just subscribed.
Also, as a person from Leeds, loving the Yorkshire rose behind you.
Something interesting ....
More than 10 different style of paper planes ( paper darts ) have been found in the roof beams of an Oxford College , the beams had been covered for over 800 years ..
It’s usually the American sports that seem to catch people off guard as most where invented by Brits whilst in America
I was glad to see a Scot get mentioned. I'm always proud by the ammount of things us Scots have invented. I know countries will each have many. But taking into account how small Scotland is with a small population that makes it all the more incredible to me. Forbes magazine started by a Scot as way the Buick motor company. Grand theft auto computer games. A Scottish company. And golden retriever dogs first bred here. So here's a list of a lot of the things Scots invented. I wont mention Speedos lol.
Television
Telephone
Refrigerator
MRI scanner
Penicillin
Tarmacadam
Modern pedal bicycle
Daily Disposable Contact Lens
ATM
Colour Photograph
Kaleidoscope
Flushing Toilet S Bend
Hypodermic Syringe
Fingerprinting
Steam Engine
Vacuum Flask
Pneumatic Tyre
Adhesive Postage Stamp
Golf
Chloroform
Propofol anaesthetic
The Toaster
Radar
Oh and the US Navy was founded by a Scot lol and and the famous Uncle Sam we all think of as depicted in those posters. His grandfather was born in the Scottish town of Greenock were I work. Phew did I miss anything that's a long list 😉
You gotta make sure viagara doesn’t get caught in your throat.. Otherwise you’ll end up with a stiff neck
I've been taking Viagra eye drops, they make me look 'ard.
Be careful where you drop that joke, it’s an antique.
Some concepts are born long before they can be made practical. Beyond the CDs and lasers, digital audio was waiting for the technology required to make it small & portable, in a 100% electronic format. I vaguely recall reading a 1981 article, regarding the start of a ten year project to put music on memory chips. It failed to produce the results in 1991. With later compression techniques and increasing memory capacity, portable, solid state electronic music players (without micro hard drives) eventually arrived.
the hovercraft was another UK invention.
And we're the only country that still uses it as a commercial form of transport (between Portsmouth and IOW), since the cross-channel service ended in the 90s.
@@dcarbs2979 I worked on a refit of 2 that were used somewhere in Scandinavia but I don't know if they were used as ferries.
and when the wind is in the right direction I can hear the hovercraft on Ryde beach. those twin 12 cylinder engines are loud but it's a beautiful sound
Copywrite is there to protect authors and ensure that they get income from their original writing. A patent is the protection of an idea.
If memory serves the vibrator was the type that fit on your hand.
And was usually used by a male doctor on the female patient.
Something featured in the road to welville I do believe.
Great Britain is the only country not to have the country in writing on the stamp. In 1840 when it was invented, there was no need. We were first, nobody else used it and the idea of the post leaving the country wasn’t calculated.... I have both the 1840 1d and 2d on covers with some fancy rare post marks. To this day you’ll only find the Queen/King on our stamps
You do know that it was a Brit that produced the first incandescent light bulb right???
Famously your bloke Edison was a serial patent artist so apparently he patented a light first after he worked on the work of other people with the problem of sustainable filament and and a way to sell it to the masses after five or six previous engineer’s cumulative work in the 1800s. Swan in the UK was the first to demonstrate the filament lamp to light up a store there, then Edison got his hands on the idea and used his engineer farm to developer and patent it in the USA, HE WAS GOOD AT THAT!!!
The postage stamp and the stamp tax are totally different the stamp tax was a levy charged on any formal document like house deeds this was required to have a stamp on it to prove the levy had been paid postage stamps are quite different
Perhaps it would be quicker just to list the things that the UK didn’t invent!
8:06 shout out to Oldham 🙌🏽
And Thomas Crapper also invented the..... bathroom showroom! Yes, all those boring times trying to buy and get a new bath fitted are thanks to Thomas Crapper.
To me the English language has to be one of the greatest things we have given the world. Spoken almost everywhere and of course, used by every decent song writer on both sides of the Atlantic.
Widely spoken perhaps because of the Empire.
@@harrybarrow6222 Spain,France,Portugal and Italy weren't part of our Empire.Every time I have been n holiday to one of the country's I am amazed that even in a tiny cafe or bar,the waiter will be able to speak English.
@@michaelscales5996 or more likely to have originaly come from England many yeats ago and looking for somewhere to hide
@@ronrichardson3103 :)
Even spoken in space as star trek has shown
Look up Hilary Page, I believe he invented the plastic interlocking building blocks that LEGO took and ran with, Lizzie
I've read the sci fi tank story, which I think was set shortly after the American Civil War, but it is usually Leonardo Da Vinci who is credited with the original idea.
The invention of the jet engine is far more complicated than saying that Frank Whittle (later, Sir) invented it. There were many steps along the way over... wait for it... more than a hundred years that led to Whittle proposing what became the turbojet engine. Obviously, most of the later steps were within the last decade or so of that development process. Because of the lack of interest from the Air Ministry and industrialists, Whittle's designs, although the first to be patented, made slow progress. Meanwhile, the Germans used those same antecedent steps to create their own turbojets. This is why there appears to be two completely separate inventors (each unaware of the other's work) of the jet engine. Of course, the British didn't acknowledge the contemporary German competition, though they certainly encountered it in the air over Germany before they had anything to counter it - and I say this as someone who trained and worked at Rolls-Royce aero-engines. This is not in any way to denigrate Whittle, who, like many of his contemporary visionaries, had more insight than many of the people he spoke to about his ideas.
Film and Movies is a weird one. Because it's a combination of, at what point was it considered to be a 'movie'. Also if it's developed by one nation by someone from another nation funded by another nation it's hard to define who made it. It was a mix of the UK starting, Germany hhelping and France coming in with it's own formats. The US would later fund it and make it bigger too.
Scotland are credited with the TV, people agree on that.
Simple inquiry, my US cousin...why do you fly the Yorkist Rose rather than the Lancaster Rose? You worked as a teacher in VA. My six years living in the US were spent living in VA, in Loudoun Co. Am I right to assume you were further south, around Bristol or Staunton?
Henry the eighth invented fractions.
Or was it George the fifth😊
There is a really good film called Hysteria, which comically deals with the subject.
OK. Because of my initials, just got to say the WWW, greatest invention since the wheel! Now who invented that?
Tim Berners-Lee invented the web and http protocol.
ARPA, the defence research agency in the USA, funded development of computer networking.
NSF funded use of networks in the research community.
But it was Berners-Lee who (indirectly) made the network available to the wider public by making it easy to access information stored on networks.
One thing I'd like to say, he mentions a gibbet, which was originally where a person got hanged, or beheaded, but it's pronounced as jibbet. It's an unfamiliar word I guess so some don't know how to say it.
the motion picture was actually invented by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince who soon after disappeared (you know like inverters tend to do after they invent something with great potential that can be stolen, usually by the military)
Another game invented in England (or at least an ancestor of it) is baseball - it's just one version of a variety of cricket related games. Many people have heard of the reference to it in Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" (1797), quote: " It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball, riding on horseback, and running about the country ....". The common US history of baseball claims it was invented in 1839 in Cooperstown, New York. Not that I care, I'm not interested in baseball or cricket!
It is better known has rounders
Friend of my parents was a maintenance engineer at Pizers in Sandwich where they made Viagra. One day there was a maintenance issue on the production line. Normally all people working in that room wore 'bunny suits' with positive air pressure so that they where not exposed to any dust from the production line. However this maintenance issue meant that wearing full protective gear was not possible, and dispirit wearing a industrial grade gas mask he ended up inhaling viagar dust. He said that after 4 hours, things became pain full..
Tarmac, DNA (testing) WWW. List goes on 😎
Check out a program called Local hero's presented by a guy named Adam Hart Davies that'll give you tons of insight into inventions from the UK, in my opinion it could be replicated for many different countries.
The frame holding the gallows is pronounced "jibbet".
Love the Yorkshire rose flag my guy.
H G Wells and I went to the same school. Not at the same time though. I was there exactly 100 years after he was.
A copyright lasts for 70 years, for music 70 years from when first published and for films and written dramatic and artistic work it’s 70 years from when the author or writers death.
Two other things invented by the British during or just before the war were radar and the first working computer. The former was shared with the US, the other was kept top secret for decades so as to protect the code breaking abilities it provided to use against the ussr who adopted one of the German encryption systems after the war (not enigma, I forgot the name).
You should listen to a song called ( Scotland's Fire ) by a band called The Haivers and it will let you know what Scotland have given the world like the American Navy by John Paul Jones