As an Englishman, I have always respected the input of Scottish scientists in the science fields. My claim to fame is that I invented the word 'Spuncture' way back in 1966 when my very first condom developed a leak. Mind you, I had been using it for 3 years.
What are you waffling about you 🤡. Not a single English, Scottish or Welsh guy invented anything without working with a mixture of all these people in universities to begin with. Smh
The one that is always miscredited is nuclear energy / weaponry Oppenheimer and the manhattan project came after a British project called Tube Alloys Britain doesn’t have deserts to test nukes so shared our research with the US, who subsequently shut us out and took the credit
They also took credit for the invention of computers as they were classified here and we sold them the rights to computing technology. Though I wouldn't say Colossus was the first computer maybe first electronic computer since I'd argue that Charles Babbage's Difference Engine was the first computer.
The wright brother's had the first manned propelled flight, but didn't invent propellor engines. A British inventor made the first powered aircraft and first unmanned flight.
@@JJLAReacts The person is correct about the Wright brothers, who also, were NOT the first in powered flight, it was German Gustav Whitehead in 1901. check things out before leaving comments.
Peter doesn't go back far enoughfor the start of the industrial revolution. It's starting point was in 1709 in the Shropshire village of Coalbrookdale. In the surrounding hills were iron ore, coal and limestone. The coal was of suitable quality to be made into coke. A Quaker by the name of Abraham Darby learnt to smelt iron ore with coke using the limestone as flux. The bridge that Peter describes as the first steel bridge is actually the first iron bridge built in 1779 and still in use today. The village that grew up around it is still known as Ironbridge. One of the reasons that industry took off in England at that time was because Quakers were excluded from much of public life and so invested their money in new industries. many of the chocolate companies, Cadbury's, Fry's etc, were created by Quaker families.
The Wright brothers flew a copy of an Italian design that had been flying for a couple of years. The Wright brothers filmed it and claimed they were first. A bit like Thomas Edison, never invented anything but patented other people's inventions
Cat's Eyes are so much more than just reflectors. They're usually pairs of circular retroreflectors located in a spring loaded housing, so when you drive over them they are pushed down into their casing which has a fixed rubber wiper that cleans them.
Trevithick's great gift was the tubular boiler, which enabled the use of high pressure steam. His Camborne road locomotive, the Puffing Devil, ran on Christmas Eve 1801. The first official run of one of his railway locos was in 1804. In 1807 he installed a locomotive at Wylam colliery, where one of the engineers was George Stephenson.
The Wright brothers didn't fly a jet or Turbine. The engine they used was a piston reciprocating engine, thus you can thank the British for piston and piston ring.
The Penny-farthing bicycle had two different sized wheels because they hadn't come up with gearing yet. It had to be that big so that the motion of your legs pedalling it would translate into a decent speed for the vehicle, as you wanted a bike to be able to travel further distances faster. Otherwise, you might as well just walk there instead. If you think about it, the motion of your legs pedalling once - doing 360 degrees - translates to the circumference of the wheel, because the pedals were directly attached to the wheel on the penny-farthing. So the bigger the wheel, the bigger the circumference, so the greater the distance travelled as you pedalled. (The smaller wheel is just there for stabilisation. Otherwise, it's just a massive unicycle and remaining balanced would be a nightmare.) Indeed, if it weren't impractical, then make the wheel even bigger and now you've got an even faster bike! But, obviously, that would get silly fast, as if the wheel's too big, then your legs won't reach the pedals and how the hell do you get on the thing in the first place? Therefore, you can see the Penny-farthing as being the maximum practical extent that you could take this idea of making the wheel bigger to move faster. But then Rover came up with the "safety bicycle" - gotta love how they included the word "safety" because the penny-farthing was so bloody dangerous, that "our bicycle is not going to injure, maim or kill you" was the primary salespitch for it - which solves the problem with a chain and gears. So the wheels can be more reasonably sized - and both wheels the same size - because it's the gearing that's translating your pedalling into faster motion of the wheel instead.
The first Test Tube, IVF Baby was born in my home town hospital, called The Royal Oldham Hospital. Doctors Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards and the nurse Jean Purdy, for developing in Vitro Fertilisation. A healthy baby girl wa born called, Louise Joy Brown. Louise is still alive to this day. She was born 25th July 1978. She is 46 years old.
4:57 The Wright Brothers' aeroplane used a conventional piston engine. The turboprop is essentially a jet engine where the exhaust turbine drives a propellor. Turboprops are very efficient for smaller airliners used for regional services.
How about Magna Carta, English Common Law - as a foundation, copied and expanded upon by most stable democracies around the world, and the long, incredibly expensive crusade to end slavery around the world? Not too bad to have in the plus column either.
@@ffotograffydd But point is that Magna Carta lays out the basis of a fair democracy over autocratic rule, and those ideals were adopted around the world.
@@ffotograffydd you mean like Americas Second Amendment? Them mf'ers are fixated with that, yet it has nothing to do with 'muh right to own a dozen AR-15s'
He didn't say that famines are a thing of the past. He said that famines are _effectively_ a thing of the past. You jumped in too quickly with your objection. Famines still happen, but not because we don't know how to prevent them. Any political or financial greed that leads to famine is irrelevant to the point he was making. If we could eliminate that greed, famines would most _certainly_ be a thing of the past.
We have already proven that if it wasn't for waste from all nations on earth including greed, we could feed the world just shy up 2x over The maximum population we theoretically could feed is around 14 billion
@@Layla-kd4ui The saying "the sun never set" is very often misunderstood. It simply means the Empire was so vast that when one part where the sun was setting, other parts the sun would be rising. So in effect many parts were dark at different times. This could apply to a modern day huge country.
Britain, like pretty much every country, has a past that is both good and bad. What I find funny, as a British man, is that people only seem to remember quite a small period of time in our history which coincided with the empires of France, Portugal, Spain and The Netherlands (among others) The French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch Empires are seemingly ignored for the most part. Even the Belgian Empire, in which the Congo in particular had some absolutely awful atrocities. Go further back, you’ve got the Greeks, Ottomans, Romans, Egyptians, Arab & Persian Empires etc. and nobody in 2024 is giving them shit 🤷🏻♂️😂
My grandad invented the cats eye, he has the first ever one gold plated and it was passed down to me which I have now! Very proud of our brittish inventions😁
@@charliegarnett2061 It's a joke. "It is said that the man who invented Cat's Eyes did so after seeing light reflect in the eyes of a cat coming towards him during the night; it is speculated that had the cat been walking away from him, he would have invented the pencil sharpener."
Omg i forgot all about the teasmade! 😆 I need one, I'll just replace the teabag in the mug with coffee. The uk also invented the hat umbrella in the 19th century. Testament that the weather has always been unpredictable 😆
@@Probeionic well hot damn if everyone knows that means my research was all for nothing and I had planned on testing the theory again this Friday, screw it, I will carry on my painstaking research anyway. It's a thankless task but if someone has to down loads of beer and eat a crappy kebab on the way home it might as well be me.
He moved on from transport without mentioning the Hovercraft, it's a bit niche, but you can take one to the Isle of Wight, and it will get you there in 10 minutes, instead of 45 on the ship ferry.
He meant non artifically manufactured famines I believe. For example Holodomor in Ukraine in 1933 was due to Stalin taking the entirety of Ukraine's grain supply to feed Russia, this did not happen due to any natural situation. While there are nations who still have higher populations than they can supply food (apparently Britain can only grow around 70% of the food it needs to feed the population, although it has been argued that this could be 100% if people adapted their eating habits to not want foreign grown fruits etc) the global supply chain should in theory mean that no human need go hungry due to food being unavailable.
I think you misunderstood the Mini Minor part. In 1959 Sir Alec Issigonis designed the Mini minor due in part because of the 1956 suez crisis which threatened most of Europe with oil and fuel starvation, so he designed a sub compact economical car capable of carrying up to four adults and their luggage in the smallest space possible. The BMC ( British Motor Corporation) Mini Minor was the first car to produce a TRANSVERSE engine and gearbox layout driving the front wheels. This was the design pattern that all other manufacturers around the world eventually copied. You open the hood on just about any FWD car these days and it'll be a transverse layout.
@@Thurgosh_OG Exactly, that's what I think I was pointing out. The first example as he puts it wasn't a single invention but a series of inventions put together for the first time. San Panopoulos didn't invent the pizza but he was the first to add ham and pineapple.
It’s highly dubious to undertake a moral balancing act by weighing the bad against the good. You might call it science-and-technology washing. Great Britain is truly great. The British are the prime beneficiaries of Britain’s past and current glories. They could have benefited even more without the burden of empire, which eventually broke the bank. The empire was unnecessary - but let’s not blame the sons for the sins of the fathers and just get on with sharing British inventiveness where it can improve the lives of others.
Empire was a survival strategy against the more populous and powerful European powers, mainly Spain and France. As colonial Empires go - it stands up extremely well to all the others that existed. If not British, all those nations would have been French, Spanish, Belgium, Dutch, Portuguese, German, Italian or even Ottoman. And the post empire experience of all colonised nations, not many fair as well as the British ones. The long, incredibly expensive and bloody fight against slavery around the world, is not a bad epithet for Empire either.
To be fair Alexander Graham Bell stole the idea from an Hungarian inventer whilst working at the patent office. The Hungarian inventer died before it got through the court system.
CPUs are also dominated by the British, 250 billion cpus have been made using the ARM architecture. They hold a 98% market share for mobile and a severe chunk of everything else! Further to that, almost the entire internet is powered by British DSPs called Firepath And finally, they were both invented, ARM and Firepath, by one Sophie Wilson The internet hardware and all smartphone hardware. You're welcome world! 😉
Between them Faraday & Clerk Maxwell are responsible for most studio mics - em induction for dynamics & ribbons, capacitance for condensors & PZMs! Also the Penny Farthing bike with the huge wheel strikes me as a bike in high gear without having any gears, one revolution of the pedals makes a much larger circumference than normal revolve at the same rate, like the way the inside and outside of the same record are moving at different speeds & why tape machines have those tension rollers since one reel gets slower as the other gets faster. As I'm sure you know, there's audio everywhere dude :)
Standardisation in manufacturing… started by Pepys who was in charge of the naval supplies …starting standardising pulleys etc on ships. Before the universally used joints and bits and bobs were made for ships. Before everything was made as a one-off per ship …
_The Great Barrier Reef’s size has remained relatively consistent over the past 100 years. According to the World Heritage listing, the reef’s area is approximately 34,870,000 hectares (86,200,000 acres). There is no evidence to suggest a significant change in its size over the past century_ Why not look into things before dismissing people just because they've been labelled.
Many inventions can be argued having been made by different people/countries. Eg the first zipper was made in Finland, but was perfected in Sweden. The propeller existed for many years, designed by different people, but the first one really working was made by a Swede.
there are a few inventions that arnt mentioned a lot that were british inventions as well the submarine (although the first won was built by a dutchman) was designed by a brit, the reflecting telescope,the tin can phone, the hollow pipe drainage system,percussion ignition which is the basis for firearms(maybe not the best invention),the light switch and the lava lamp for a few
Oh hell yeah! A strat through an AC30 is so satisfying! Some say it sounds boxy but I disagree. In a mix you need those low mid frequencies to stand out. You have fine taste, sir.
The big wheel on a so-called penny-farthing (or high ordinary) was to get the gearing right - with the pedals attached directly to the wheel the bigger the wheel, the higher the gear. To this day gears on pedal cycles are measured in inches by some of us - the value being the equivalent diameter wheel. They we quite dangerous (going over the bars was always likely) until Starley introduced the Rover safety bicycle (which eventually became the Rover car company. He also invented a differential to make tricycles easier to turn round corners (difficult with a 'live' back axle that drives both rear wheels). I have a 1956 trike with differentially driven rear wheels.
The big wheel on the Penny Farthing was an actually smart design for the time, only superseded when GEARING became a thing. If you had had two wheels the size of modern bicycles, but with no gearing, it would have been a nightmare to move faster than a smart walk.
Zillion is kind of slang and means a very large - but not specific numerically - amount. A gazillion is even more! Don't you use those words in the US? I'm really surprised by that.
Video starts discussing all the great countries that came about because of the Brits. Many of these regions were full of fractured tribes constantly warring against each other. We came along and gave them a common foe to hate, thus uniting them. So we were helping BY being bastards. Our subtle manipulation can be astounding! 🙂
Bengal famine, that he mentions at the end was not a thing that should be blamed on the British. It was not the British fault. A lot of misinformation about this and Churchill out there and is quite popular.
I think Brunel invented the first propeller, for his ships. He drew the design on the back of an envelope. These days they are computer designed and 4% more efficient
I think the professor meant Britain and UN helped create Israel after WW2, so Jews would have a safe country. It was one of the worst decisions we made, and the worst place to put them.
The thing is, we still have brilliant people born in the UK every year, but the career path open to them, after a lifetime of education is still either reality TV star, influencer or finance. Nobody WANTS to be anything else. We even have some of the most popular YT stars in the world. They could have been scientists. We could have gotten better.
I know literally EVERY reaction channel's done it + it's the only thing I'm not sick of seeing - but you should check out a) Isembard Kingdom Brunel for some stunning industrial age innovations and b) the legendary Fred Dibnah MBE - he's an excellent story teller and (still) a joy to watch.
speaking of british inventions, i highly suggest watching “the imitation game” its about alan turing inventing the computer to crack the n azi enigma machine (spoiler sad ending)
Turing didn't invent the computer, though his probability in cryptanalysis contributed to its design. It was Tommy Flowers, an electrical engineer, designed and led the team that built the Colossus computer.
Check out "aerial steam carriage" and/or "John Stringfellow Chard". Which I only found out about many, many years after living only a few miles from Chard. 🤔
@@robertlonsdale5326Have a look into/search for "John Stringfellow Chard". It's interesting. I'd lived only a few miles from Chard for about a decade before I even heard of the guy. 😳
Yeah, antimatter is a real thing that we've actually created. But it is CRAZY expensive to make. I remember reading that if we had to make a gram of it, it would cost more than the world economy. But we've definitely made lots of antimatter atoms. Bit of a pain to store though because it can't touch...well, literally anything.
6:12 - It's crazy, Iron Bridge looks the same still! His facts were right, but some of his earlier "ideas" were questionable. Yes, there should b thanks for all, Brit and Proud, but he's going on like if we hadn't of created them, no other person/country would ever have either! Yeah we might not have some of the stuff, but someone would make it eventually!
Sir Frank Whittle …. Jet engine … we gave the copyright for that and radar to Americans as they were ‘ allies …. Major Ivan Hirst re-launched a German factory as .Volkswagen … post ww2
I have a playlist on my channel of 24 videos titled "I Never Knew That About Britain" . They are all interesting videos about inventions and trivia about the UK. A bunch of the things mentioned in this video I have videos for. I think you might like them and it'll learn you something. A few of my favourites I have up "I Never Knew That About Britain - How a mill in England gave rise to the world's skyscrapers" "I Never Knew That About Britain - How the London Stock Exchange started in a coffee house" "I Never Knew That About Britain - How a group of Welsh women stopped Napoleon invading Britain" "I Never Knew That About Britain - How a bicycle lead to the world's first tractor"
Having lived and worked in the Middle East in security for an Arab Royal family,Israel is the most free,fairest and most tolerant country by far in the region. The Great Barrier Reef has grown. You may want to check out a former adviser to the UN and Danish government on climate change,Bjorn Lomberg.
Israel ration electricity into Palestine to a few hours a week. There is no clean water due bombing of sewers and water aquifers. It's illegal for Palestinians to harvest rain water. Hundreds of Palestinians and children are kept in prisons as 'terrorists' with no trial, by IDF. Israel has recently given licences to oil companies, like BP, to drill for oil and gas underneath Gaza and Palestine. Who does the oil and gas belong to. Journalists are banned from Gaza. Palestinians are encouraged to leave or be bombed, so it reverts to Israeli control, including oil and gas.
I was surprised that the UK "created" India, but it does actually seem to be true? Also, the "dumb" bicycle with the huge wheel, is actually a genius design. There were no rubber tires back then, so the bigger the wheel, the smoother the ride!
The inventor of the radar was pulled over for speeding in Canada he told the police he didn't like what they did with his invention I think that is true 🤔🤔
@@darkpitcher5242 I think you mean Paul Dirac. Einstein noted Dirac’s genius and that it verged on madness (that sounds like a compliment to me). Was Dirac smarter than Einstein? Interesting question. Many scientists, physicists, mathematicians etc contributed to the acceptance / proof of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. Perhaps that’s why Einstein is more famous than the likes of Dirac. Einstein lived quite modestly. He didn’t seek fame - it was thrust on him
Tim Berners-Lee decided to share the www to promote the sharing of scientific papers. He would have been the world’s richest man if he had charged for a copyright.
Without fertilizers much of the "third world" wouldn't be able to feed itself. Fertilizers good. There's also that guy who went hard on bio-engineering crops, which sounds bad but has kept millions alive. Almost all human food has been bio-engineered through selective development.
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As an Englishman, I have always respected the input of Scottish scientists in the science fields. My claim to fame is that I invented the word 'Spuncture' way back in 1966 when my very first condom developed a leak. Mind you, I had been using it for 3 years.
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What a wank thing to say .😂
What are you waffling about you 🤡. Not a single English, Scottish or Welsh guy invented anything without working with a mixture of all these people in universities to begin with. Smh
The one that is always miscredited is nuclear energy / weaponry
Oppenheimer and the manhattan project came after a British project called Tube Alloys
Britain doesn’t have deserts to test nukes so shared our research with the US, who subsequently shut us out and took the credit
We did a lot of testing in our Australian deserts. But yes, USA claimed supersonic flight after the war, too
Not for the first time either.
Why am I not surprised?
They also took credit for the invention of computers as they were classified here and we sold them the rights to computing technology. Though I wouldn't say Colossus was the first computer maybe first electronic computer since I'd argue that Charles Babbage's Difference Engine was the first computer.
@@neuralwarpThe tests down under were during the 50's & early 60's.
The wright brother's had the first manned propelled flight, but didn't invent propellor engines. A British inventor made the first powered aircraft and first unmanned flight.
Oh I see! Thanks for pointing that out!
And the first heavier than air unpowered flight - Sir George Cayley.
The first powered flight ( unmanned ) was by John Stringfellow in 1848 , this was with a steam powered engine in the town of Chard Somerset .
@@JJLAReacts The person is correct about the Wright brothers, who also, were NOT the first in powered flight, it was German Gustav Whitehead in 1901. check things out before leaving comments.
Peter doesn't go back far enoughfor the start of the industrial revolution. It's starting point was in 1709 in the Shropshire village of Coalbrookdale. In the surrounding hills were iron ore, coal and limestone. The coal was of suitable quality to be made into coke. A Quaker by the name of Abraham Darby learnt to smelt iron ore with coke using the limestone as flux.
The bridge that Peter describes as the first steel bridge is actually the first iron bridge built in 1779 and still in use today. The village that grew up around it is still known as Ironbridge.
One of the reasons that industry took off in England at that time was because Quakers were excluded from much of public life and so invested their money in new industries. many of the chocolate companies, Cadbury's, Fry's etc, were created by Quaker families.
The Wright brothers flew a copy of an Italian design that had been flying for a couple of years. The Wright brothers filmed it and claimed they were first. A bit like Thomas Edison, never invented anything but patented other people's inventions
Cat's Eyes are so much more than just reflectors. They're usually pairs of circular retroreflectors located in a spring loaded housing, so when you drive over them they are pushed down into their casing which has a fixed rubber wiper that cleans them.
As a Brit from Cornwall, Richard Trevithick the Cornish inventor of the worlds first steam powered railway locomotive is a source of pride.
Trevithick's great gift was the tubular boiler, which enabled the use of high pressure steam. His Camborne road locomotive, the Puffing Devil, ran on Christmas Eve 1801. The first official run of one of his railway locos was in 1804. In 1807 he installed a locomotive at Wylam colliery, where one of the engineers was George Stephenson.
@@pzpete "Goin' up Camborne Hill, Coming down"
The Wright brothers didn't fly a jet or Turbine. The engine they used was a piston reciprocating engine, thus you can thank the British for piston and piston ring.
The Penny-farthing bicycle had two different sized wheels because they hadn't come up with gearing yet.
It had to be that big so that the motion of your legs pedalling it would translate into a decent speed for the vehicle, as you wanted a bike to be able to travel further distances faster. Otherwise, you might as well just walk there instead.
If you think about it, the motion of your legs pedalling once - doing 360 degrees - translates to the circumference of the wheel, because the pedals were directly attached to the wheel on the penny-farthing.
So the bigger the wheel, the bigger the circumference, so the greater the distance travelled as you pedalled.
(The smaller wheel is just there for stabilisation. Otherwise, it's just a massive unicycle and remaining balanced would be a nightmare.)
Indeed, if it weren't impractical, then make the wheel even bigger and now you've got an even faster bike! But, obviously, that would get silly fast, as if the wheel's too big, then your legs won't reach the pedals and how the hell do you get on the thing in the first place?
Therefore, you can see the Penny-farthing as being the maximum practical extent that you could take this idea of making the wheel bigger to move faster.
But then Rover came up with the "safety bicycle" - gotta love how they included the word "safety" because the penny-farthing was so bloody dangerous, that "our bicycle is not going to injure, maim or kill you" was the primary salespitch for it - which solves the problem with a chain and gears.
So the wheels can be more reasonably sized - and both wheels the same size - because it's the gearing that's translating your pedalling into faster motion of the wheel instead.
must have been a nightmare trying to go up any sort of incline when your perma stuck in 8th gear XD
Britain is probably the single most important collection of nations in history.
Yeah. You collect all the cards and trade away the bad ones.
Gotta catch em all
I live in a city twinned with the German city of Heidenheim
@@Jimmy_Joneswell that’s not true cause Canada and Australia ain’t bad but we gave then back
The first Test Tube, IVF Baby was born in my home town hospital, called The Royal Oldham Hospital.
Doctors Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards and the nurse Jean Purdy, for developing in Vitro Fertilisation.
A healthy baby girl wa born called, Louise Joy Brown. Louise is still alive to this day.
She was born 25th July 1978. She is 46 years old.
I " accidentally walked into a strip club"
Nobody believes you! 😂
4:57 The Wright Brothers' aeroplane used a conventional piston engine. The turboprop is essentially a jet engine where the exhaust turbine drives a propellor. Turboprops are very efficient for smaller airliners used for regional services.
How about Magna Carta, English Common Law - as a foundation, copied and expanded upon by most stable democracies around the world, and the long, incredibly expensive crusade to end slavery around the world? Not too bad to have in the plus column either.
Only four of the 63 clauses in Magna Carta are still valid… people are just fixated on it despite it never actually doing what it was intended to do.
@@ffotograffydd But point is that Magna Carta lays out the basis of a fair democracy over autocratic rule, and those ideals were adopted around the world.
It laid out itself?
@@ffotograffydd you mean like Americas Second Amendment? Them mf'ers are fixated with that, yet it has nothing to do with 'muh right to own a dozen AR-15s'
He didn't say that famines are a thing of the past. He said that famines are _effectively_ a thing of the past. You jumped in too quickly with your objection. Famines still happen, but not because we don't know how to prevent them. Any political or financial greed that leads to famine is irrelevant to the point he was making. If we could eliminate that greed, famines would most _certainly_ be a thing of the past.
Well said.👍🏻
He always objects too fast.
He does come across as a bit of a tw*t
We have already proven that if it wasn't for waste from all nations on earth including greed, we could feed the world just shy up 2x over
The maximum population we theoretically could feed is around 14 billion
The British Empire... God's gift to an ungrateful world.
There's that joke: Why does the Sun never set on the British Empire? - Because God doesn't trust an Englishman in the dark. (boom, boom).
@@Layla-kd4ui The saying "the sun never set" is very often misunderstood. It simply means the Empire was so vast that when one part where the sun was setting, other parts the sun would be rising. So in effect many parts were dark at different times. This could apply to a modern day huge country.
@@georgeamery yes, I know.
JJ Spearmint Rhino called, you owe them a shift‼️😅😅😅😅
Britain, like pretty much every country, has a past that is both good and bad.
What I find funny, as a British man, is that people only seem to remember quite a small period of time in our history which coincided with the empires of France, Portugal, Spain and The Netherlands (among others)
The French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch Empires are seemingly ignored for the most part. Even the Belgian Empire, in which the Congo in particular had some absolutely awful atrocities.
Go further back, you’ve got the Greeks, Ottomans, Romans, Egyptians, Arab & Persian Empires etc. and nobody in 2024 is giving them shit 🤷🏻♂️😂
My grandad invented the cats eye, he has the first ever one gold plated and it was passed down to me which I have now! Very proud of our brittish inventions😁
Is it true that he almost invented the pencil sharpener?
@@eddhardy1054 the pencil sharpener was invented before he was alive in the 1890s I believe
@@charliegarnett2061 It's a joke. "It is said that the man who invented Cat's Eyes did so after seeing light reflect in the eyes of a cat coming towards him during the night; it is speculated that had the cat been walking away from him, he would have invented the pencil sharpener."
The first programmable automation was in textiles long before computerisation.
16:10 you _accidentally_ walked in there. Sure, I believe you
Omg i forgot all about the teasmade! 😆
I need one, I'll just replace the teabag in the mug with coffee.
The uk also invented the hat umbrella in the 19th century.
Testament that the weather has always been unpredictable 😆
As a Brit i feel ashamed that my only discovery is that 9 pints might be one too many when one has work the next day. You are welcome world.
Lightweight. 😉
its a travesty that your hard work will go largely unnoticed
@@happyapple4269 😆 thank you it really is.
Everyone knows that 7 is enough on a 'school-day'.
@@Probeionic well hot damn if everyone knows that means my research was all for nothing and I had planned on testing the theory again this Friday, screw it, I will carry on my painstaking research anyway. It's a thankless task but if someone has to down loads of beer and eat a crappy kebab on the way home it might as well be me.
Not only have we discovered antimatter but now actually make it at CERN.
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@@wizzerdsuntzu yes, as he was referring to humans being clever.
Yeah the mini was the first front engined, front wheel drive car. The article you read was talking just about front engine and rear wheel drive.
Designer of the Mini, Sir Alec Issigoniss, from Derbyshire (where I live), just like Sir Frank Whittle
He moved on from transport without mentioning the Hovercraft, it's a bit niche, but you can take one to the Isle of Wight, and it will get you there in 10 minutes, instead of 45 on the ship ferry.
I'll raise you Sir Frank Whittle
The British also invented the Jaffa Cake which is a type of cake.
He meant non artifically manufactured famines I believe. For example Holodomor in Ukraine in 1933 was due to Stalin taking the entirety of Ukraine's grain supply to feed Russia, this did not happen due to any natural situation.
While there are nations who still have higher populations than they can supply food (apparently Britain can only grow around 70% of the food it needs to feed the population, although it has been argued that this could be 100% if people adapted their eating habits to not want foreign grown fruits etc) the global supply chain should in theory mean that no human need go hungry due to food being unavailable.
Sandwiches, chicken tikka masala, cricket, football...
and penguins.
We invited gravity according to Al Murray 😂
The very people who invented it!
And time zones, since we 'invented' Greenwich Mean Time.....which means the Germans don't sit down for lunch until we day so! 🤣
The first operational VTOL aircraft. The Harrier.
That was the 4th. But we invented the 2nd (autogyros) and 3rd (helicopters) too.
Iron Bridge isn't made of steel. The clue is in the name.
I think you misunderstood the Mini Minor part.
In 1959 Sir Alec Issigonis designed the Mini minor due in part because of the 1956 suez crisis which threatened most of Europe with oil and fuel starvation, so he designed a sub compact economical car capable of carrying up to four adults and their luggage in the smallest space possible.
The BMC ( British Motor Corporation) Mini Minor was the first car to produce a TRANSVERSE engine and gearbox layout driving the front wheels.
This was the design pattern that all other manufacturers around the world eventually copied.
You open the hood on just about any FWD car these days and it'll be a transverse layout.
Let's face it mate, he misunderstands most things
Hi JJ..if you look at where the pedals are on a penny farthing bicycle and the fact there are no gears/chain, it makes more sense.
When a Aussie calls us bastards it mean he loves us ,but he wouldn’t amid it but we are not that bothered
i find it very endearing , im Scottish so i know a few sweary endearing words myself
Daimler was the first transverse engine but the way he tells it was wrapped up with a load of other parts together which may have been Mini.
Daimlers were rear wheel drives though, the Mini was the first production front wheel drive.
@@Thurgosh_OG Exactly, that's what I think I was pointing out. The first example as he puts it wasn't a single invention but a series of inventions put together for the first time. San Panopoulos didn't invent the pizza but he was the first to add ham and pineapple.
We were smart mother f******,then 😊best wishes from Wales 🏴
It’s highly dubious to undertake a moral balancing act by weighing the bad against the good. You might call it science-and-technology washing. Great Britain is truly great. The British are the prime beneficiaries of Britain’s past and current glories. They could have benefited even more without the burden of empire, which eventually broke the bank. The empire was unnecessary - but let’s not blame the sons for the sins of the fathers and just get on with sharing British inventiveness where it can improve the lives of others.
Empire was a survival strategy against the more populous and powerful European powers, mainly Spain and France. As colonial Empires go - it stands up extremely well to all the others that existed. If not British, all those nations would have been French, Spanish, Belgium, Dutch, Portuguese, German, Italian or even Ottoman. And the post empire experience of all colonised nations, not many fair as well as the British ones. The long, incredibly expensive and bloody fight against slavery around the world, is not a bad epithet for Empire either.
I wish i could take some credit but I'm not a smart M*********** 😂
Always love the little anecdotes about your music background 👍
Me too 😊
To be fair Alexander Graham Bell stole the idea from an Hungarian inventer whilst working at the patent office. The Hungarian inventer died before it got through the court system.
CPUs are also dominated by the British, 250 billion cpus have been made using the ARM architecture.
They hold a 98% market share for mobile and a severe chunk of everything else!
Further to that, almost the entire internet is powered by British DSPs called Firepath
And finally, they were both invented, ARM and Firepath, by one Sophie Wilson
The internet hardware and all smartphone hardware.
You're welcome world! 😉
Between them Faraday & Clerk Maxwell are responsible for most studio mics - em induction for dynamics & ribbons, capacitance for condensors & PZMs! Also the Penny Farthing bike with the huge wheel strikes me as a bike in high gear without having any gears, one revolution of the pedals makes a much larger circumference than normal revolve at the same rate, like the way the inside and outside of the same record are moving at different speeds & why tape machines have those tension rollers since one reel gets slower as the other gets faster. As I'm sure you know, there's audio everywhere dude :)
Also, I appreciate the quarter inch screw (ad infinitum) comment. You get it. A lot of people wouldn't.
Standardisation in manufacturing… started by Pepys who was in charge of the naval supplies …starting standardising pulleys etc on ships. Before the universally used joints and bits and bobs were made for ships. Before everything was made as a one-off per ship …
_The Great Barrier Reef’s size has remained relatively consistent over the past 100 years. According to the World Heritage listing, the reef’s area is approximately 34,870,000 hectares (86,200,000 acres). There is no evidence to suggest a significant change in its size over the past century_
Why not look into things before dismissing people just because they've been labelled.
Hey thanks for interesting facts about Steve Ray Vaughan.....great Brits ruled the world.
The first stored-program computer too . . .
And the first programmable computer too.
Many inventions can be argued having been made by different people/countries. Eg the first zipper was made in Finland, but was perfected in Sweden.
The propeller existed for many years, designed by different people, but the first one really working was made by a Swede.
The Penny Farthing bike was that shspe to do with gearing, or lack thereof.
"accidentally walked in there" 😂
there are a few inventions that arnt mentioned a lot that were british inventions as well the submarine (although the first won was built by a dutchman) was designed by a brit, the reflecting telescope,the tin can phone, the hollow pipe drainage system,percussion ignition which is the basis for firearms(maybe not the best invention),the light switch and the lava lamp for a few
My mother always wanted a Teasmade. She got her wish eventually and was never without one.
JJ, how can you not remember the Map Men video's "It was the beginning of the internet." 🤭🤭
Also Rory Gallagher's tone, AC 30+ Tone booster. I'm a Strat guy with Fishman and Lace sensors on my Strats nowadays.
Oh hell yeah! A strat through an AC30 is so satisfying! Some say it sounds boxy but I disagree. In a mix you need those low mid frequencies to stand out. You have fine taste, sir.
@@JJLAReacts Yeah, makes the Les Paul guys eat their notes, Strats don't have to sound thin.
The big wheel on a so-called penny-farthing (or high ordinary) was to get the gearing right - with the pedals attached directly to the wheel the bigger the wheel, the higher the gear. To this day gears on pedal cycles are measured in inches by some of us - the value being the equivalent diameter wheel. They we quite dangerous (going over the bars was always likely) until Starley introduced the Rover safety bicycle (which eventually became the Rover car company. He also invented a differential to make tricycles easier to turn round corners (difficult with a 'live' back axle that drives both rear wheels). I have a 1956 trike with differentially driven rear wheels.
The big wheel on the Penny Farthing was an actually smart design for the time, only superseded when GEARING became a thing. If you had had two wheels the size of modern bicycles, but with no gearing, it would have been a nightmare to move faster than a smart walk.
Zillion is kind of slang and means a very large - but not specific numerically - amount. A gazillion is even more! Don't you use those words in the US? I'm really surprised by that.
Video starts discussing all the great countries that came about because of the Brits. Many of these regions were full of fractured tribes constantly warring against each other. We came along and gave them a common foe to hate, thus uniting them. So we were helping BY being bastards. Our subtle manipulation can be astounding! 🙂
Cause and effect …The British laid the foundations for the modern world..
Never has a truth more truthful been truthed.
Thanks for the SRV info! that was great, single coil pickups are noisy, and he was a Strat fiend.
Yeah, I love his tone!
Thanks mate... Very entertaining.
'Accidently' walked onto the strip club stage 😆 trying to earn some extra cash
Basically nearly everyone on earth lives their lives using something Britain invented or discovered at some point.
Bengal famine, that he mentions at the end was not a thing that should be blamed on the British. It was not the British fault. A lot of misinformation about this and Churchill out there and is quite popular.
The famines in Bengal were quite a regular occurance and were ended by the British.
Yes, Bengali famines regularly happened roughly every 2 - 3 years for centuries before the British rule of India.
Penny Farthing bikes (Brit coins.) not quite so daft, One rotation of the pedal bakes the wheel cover a larger distance. (circumference)
I think Brunel invented the first propeller, for his ships. He drew the design on the back of an envelope. These days they are computer designed and 4% more efficient
I think the professor meant Britain and UN helped
create Israel after WW2, so Jews would have a safe country.
It was one of the worst decisions we made, and the worst place to put them.
The thing is, we still have brilliant people born in the UK every year, but the career path open to them, after a lifetime of education is still either reality TV star, influencer or finance. Nobody WANTS to be anything else. We even have some of the most popular YT stars in the world. They could have been scientists. We could have gotten better.
No modern cement, no modern concrete.
I know literally EVERY reaction channel's done it + it's the only thing I'm not sick of seeing - but you should check out a) Isembard Kingdom Brunel for some stunning industrial age innovations and b) the legendary Fred Dibnah MBE - he's an excellent story teller and (still) a joy to watch.
Also, keep up the swearing, ya rebel. Love it :)
English is the international language of the world
america does not know english.😂🤣🤣
@@thedisabledwelshman9266 Americanese.
Bicycles … the penny farthing was always an oddity …
speaking of british inventions, i highly suggest watching “the imitation game” its about alan turing inventing the computer to crack the n azi enigma machine (spoiler sad ending)
Turing didn't invent the computer, though his probability in cryptanalysis contributed to its design. It was Tommy Flowers, an electrical engineer, designed and led the team that built the Colossus computer.
I believe that in France, unless it's specifically signed otherwise, it's still "priorate a droit" at a roundabout.
Wrong.
World, you're welcome 🇬🇧
Rolex originated in UK
For anyone who's interested in a list of uk inventions : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_innovations_and_discoveries
A distant relative of mine in Biggleswade invented the tractor, tandem and bicycles for women.
Only a child of the American educational system would not know a zillion is a slang number
The Wright Brothers used a piston engine, Turboprops use a gas turbine with a propellor.
They might not have been the first either.
@@PHDarren And, as covered in the video, the Brits invented the piston engine.
Check out "aerial steam carriage" and/or "John Stringfellow Chard".
Which I only found out about many, many years after living only a few miles from Chard. 🤔
We invented aerodynamic wings. Cayley, UK. Checkmate.
@@robertlonsdale5326Have a look into/search for "John Stringfellow Chard".
It's interesting.
I'd lived only a few miles from Chard for about a decade before I even heard of the guy. 😳
“Is this guy Australian…?”
Lemme think……… 🦘 😂😂😂
Yeah, antimatter is a real thing that we've actually created. But it is CRAZY expensive to make. I remember reading that if we had to make a gram of it, it would cost more than the world economy. But we've definitely made lots of antimatter atoms. Bit of a pain to store though because it can't touch...well, literally anything.
He said turbo prop not propeller
6:12 - It's crazy, Iron Bridge looks the same still!
His facts were right, but some of his earlier "ideas" were questionable.
Yes, there should b thanks for all, Brit and Proud, but he's going on like if we hadn't of created them, no other person/country would ever have either! Yeah we might not have some of the stuff, but someone would make it eventually!
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Sir Frank Whittle …. Jet engine … we gave the copyright for that and radar to Americans as they were ‘ allies …. Major Ivan Hirst re-launched a German factory as .Volkswagen … post ww2
I have a playlist on my channel of 24 videos titled "I Never Knew That About Britain" . They are all interesting videos about inventions and trivia about the UK. A bunch of the things mentioned in this video I have videos for. I think you might like them and it'll learn you something. A few of my favourites I have up
"I Never Knew That About Britain - How a mill in England gave rise to the world's skyscrapers"
"I Never Knew That About Britain - How the London Stock Exchange started in a coffee house"
"I Never Knew That About Britain - How a group of Welsh women stopped Napoleon invading Britain"
"I Never Knew That About Britain - How a bicycle lead to the world's first tractor"
I found it, thanks! I'll check these out!
Having lived and worked in the Middle East in security for an Arab Royal family,Israel is the most free,fairest and most tolerant country by far in the region.
The Great Barrier Reef has grown.
You may want to check out a former adviser to the UN and Danish government on climate change,Bjorn Lomberg.
Israel ration electricity into Palestine to a few hours a week. There is no clean water due bombing of sewers and water aquifers.
It's illegal for Palestinians to harvest rain water.
Hundreds of Palestinians and children are kept in prisons as 'terrorists' with no trial, by IDF.
Israel has recently given licences to oil companies, like BP, to drill for oil and gas underneath Gaza and Palestine.
Who does the oil and gas belong to.
Journalists are banned from Gaza.
Palestinians are encouraged to leave or be bombed, so it reverts to Israeli control, including oil and gas.
Oh no... Rolf Harris has reincarnated!!
I was surprised that the UK "created" India, but it does actually seem to be true?
Also, the "dumb" bicycle with the huge wheel, is actually a genius design. There were no rubber tires back then, so the bigger the wheel, the smoother the ride!
Also no gears at that time
The inventor of the radar was pulled over for speeding in Canada he told the police he didn't like what they did with his invention
I think that is true 🤔🤔
He obviously forgot to mention Mathus
Paul Durack was smarter than Albert Einstein just not as keen on publicity
@@darkpitcher5242 I think you mean Paul Dirac. Einstein noted Dirac’s genius and that it verged on madness (that sounds like a compliment to me). Was Dirac smarter than Einstein? Interesting question. Many scientists, physicists, mathematicians etc contributed to the acceptance / proof of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. Perhaps that’s why Einstein is more famous than the likes of Dirac. Einstein lived quite modestly. He didn’t seek fame - it was thrust on him
he was proven right at the reef. it has grown/flourished
Tim Berners-Lee decided to share the www to promote the sharing of scientific papers. He would have been the world’s richest man if he had charged for a copyright.
It's ironic what companies like Virgin. Sky, and others are charging for a free commodity.
a teas,maid my mom had a few over the years
Without fertilizers much of the "third world" wouldn't be able to feed itself. Fertilizers good. There's also that guy who went hard on bio-engineering crops, which sounds bad but has kept millions alive. Almost all human food has been bio-engineered through selective development.
Look, I know it hurts, but sometimes it is the truth. We sometimes came first. Does it hurt?....