I'm British but I spend a lot of time in Thailand and I hate using roundabouts there as they have no idea how to use them. They pull out in front of you when you're going round or they stop as you slow down to join it.
Roundabouts are very common in Australia. They are more efficient & safer than a normal intersection. When they are large enough you do not even need to slow down to go through them.
@@kevincoulson755 it's called great because Brittany was called little Britain . They were two British Celtic areas. Just be aware the English school system will never tell you anything deeply British
The vast majority of people wouldn't know the difference between iron and steel but you are correct. I am lucky to live a 20min walk from Ironbridge awesome little area to visit and explore
I wonder if anybody ever got confused. 'Why are we in Ironbridge, Mary? I thought were were going to Goldbridge?' Maybe there could be a town called 'Modernroad'. What's it known for? ... The modern road. ;)
It's not ended and probably never will be. A century after the British tried to stop it it was still practiced freely. In fact some countries only made it illegal in the late 20th century. Arguably countries like North Korea implement it on a scale far bigger than it ever has been with a whole country serving one family and a few hangers on. Effectively it is still practiced worldwide even now, including Britain (which is why every big company has a clause regarding "modern slavery" on their website). It is just more hidden in Western countries.
Definitely put this on your watch list. This may be one of the most important youtube video to understand the importance of Britains involvement in helping to end slavery in its original form,worldwide.
Yes! The only American place names which are actually original are those derived from the natives. The rest are all imported, and dominated by British place names -- though Spanish place names are also very frequent, and a smattering of the rest like French and German brought over by those immigrant communities and colonisation by Britain, Spain and France.
Also, the Cavendish banana. Virtually every banana on supermarket shelves across most of the world since the late 1950s, is a clone of one first cultivated at Chatsworth House. Prior to that, the French Gros Michel was the most popular variety.
lol this made me laugh only cause I feel like the lawnmower in its early form was barely an improvement to an experienced scythe wielder. I suppose this is the modern equivalent of a bow to crossbow user (training) hahahaha
@@anonymousmaster1983 Incorrect. Roundabouts near me in the 1990s = Barely any crashes. Roundabouts near me replaced with complicated crossroads in the 2000s = Crashes every week/month. Every year on a small crossroads outside my house, there's at least 12 crashes every single year, always in the middle of the day. To try and prevent it, what did the useless council do early last year? They made the traffic lights change more often at night, spending roughly double the amount of time on Red, that they do on Green. It hasn't prevented a single crash, because like I said, all the crashes happen in the middle of the day. What they should have done, is install speedbumps. In November 2024 I must have seen at least 4 crashes, but weirdly they were all directly opposite my house, around 50 metres from the crossroads, in traffic which was barely moving.
@@jonenihThere is something like 11 countries who have never been involved in war and even those may have been before recorded history the commenter is pretty spot on
@@jonenihThis is the biggest load of BS I have ever heard. For one, most countries recorded histories is not that long and two, more importantly, there is not ONE person alive today whose ancestors did not engage in warfare and conquering. It is as old -- probably even older -- than our species. There is evidence of ancient hominid species and ape species also engaging in these behaviours.
@@francisedward8713 Agreed. For example, during the Raj Brits never made up more than 0.05% of the population of India. How did such a tiny number control a whole sub-continent? Because far all its faults, the great majority were better off and happy to accept British rule. The chronic warfare between petty kingdoms and warlords was suppressed and the nation of India was created. There was huge investment in railways, roads, water systems, schools, universities, urbanisation and industrialisation. The Brits got out relatively peacefully when the time came, and left behind a robust system of democracy, effective armed forces who have kept out of politics, an effective legal and policing system, an effective fiscal system... Some colonies were more like piratical ventures - such as Rhodesia. But in general ex British colonies were left in far better shape than French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Italian or US colonies.
Hi Mike, if you want to look at Britain's proudest achievement of the 19th Century, type in "The British Crusade Against Slavery" or "The Untold Truth Behind the End of Slavery." The Royal Navy began anti-slavery patrols in 1811, and the last one was in 1971. Plus, the dept incurred to end slavery was not paid off until 2015.
Britain is an island not a country. The very word Britain comes from the Welsh language and pertains to the painted people of the picts.... A pre romanised Celtic people
The English did not end slavery 😂 there are more slaves today than ever..... Secondly many slave plantations became extremely loss making ... And the English didn't want competition
Carmel, Indiana has the most roundabouts in a city. The mayor of Carmel studied in UK and was so impressed with the efficiency of roundabouts that years later when he became mayor, he made it his mission to transfer all traffuc lights in the city to roundabouts and it not only helps lical traffic in the town but unclogs jams from the hufe trucks that pass through.
Yup, plus it was an American that invented the roundabout to begin with. There's a video on this called something like "If roundabouts are safer: why does America have so few of them" Another American reactor family watched it and was blown away by the info.
@jpw6893 Just checked and yes you're right. A French man Eugene Henard apparently invented it for Paris in 1877. I really wish these video producers did better research.
@@Loulizabeth What do you mean? Do you mean that it was stated that the British 'invented' the roundabout? If you do, then I suggest you listen to the programme again. As stated in other posts, the French invented the roundabout. The British made them safe and efficient to use.
The Germans didn't independently invent the Jet engine, they got hold of the international patent and copied it. The jet engine was patented in 1930 and successfully tested in 1937.
Their WWII jet engines had a service life of 10 - 20 hours and were catastrophically unreliable. They were really only prototypes, and killed a hell of a lot of their pilots.
Yep, Whittle patented both the Centrifugal & Axial flow designs in 1932 & built the worlds first turbo-jet. This prompted other nations to start their own turbojet programs & they copied the designs from the publicly available patents filed by Whittle. Germany was however the first nation to put it's turbo-jet on a plane although as someone mentioned it was not very reliable, killed many of the pilots due to malfunctions & use in the end of the war was more out of desperation.
BTW ( If you didn't know) he mentions the Romans at the start because of the famous scene from Monty Pythons 'The life of Brian.' Where the leader of a rebellious Jewish sect makes the seemingly rhetorical statement 'What did the Romans ever do for us?!' to be followed by a litany of profoundly useful infrastructure, health, educational etc related items.
Jess, roundabouts improve the traffic flow because there’s no red lights, so UK and Australia have them everywhere possible. It does, however, require some co-operation with other road users, so you have to give way to traffic that’s already in the roundabout and signal as you’re about to exit. If you watch a video of how they work in real life, you’ll see just how efficient they are. They save t8me and money because you’re not wasting fuel by siting at red lights.
Hear, hear. And if in the rare event you do collide with another vehicle, you only ever meet them on the side. You never collide at a 90 degree or 180 degree angle, which is what you get an American-style intersection and is so much more deadly.
A word of the Bengal Famine, that was caused by weather and war, food trains were diverted to the front. When the B ritish found out about the problem they got the famine under control, the Brits did it, is never a full picture.
I lived in India for four years after spending a year travelling around the country, I met a wonderful old boy in Darjeeling who was a true anglophile, he loved anything British and was of the opinion that the British Raj did mostly good things for India, he was not as kind with his opinion of the East India Company though
@@AndrewAHayes In the Indian up rising an army of 30,000 was raised to defeat the British, they had an army of 60,000, the number of white people in that army was about 4,000, 56,000 where Indian troops, that says more than anything. Nobody claims there isn’t bad, but it's a lot more complex and a lot less bad than modern left wing people claim. At the height of the British empire, the standing army was 150,000, for a quarter of the globe, this also is very telling, you don't rule by violence with that small a army.
An alarm clock that makes tea for you in the morning is called a 'Teasmade', so you can wake up to a cuppa, no house should be without one, easily the most important invention on this list.....
Brit here. Aussies should get a shout out for taking that humour and running with it. If you ever get into a banter fight with an Australian, just duck under the table. It isn't going to end well for you.
Hi Mike & Jess - we love the channel and the great mix of topics you guys cover. We are in our 70’s and remember when we first saw things like cassettes, transistor radios, CD’s, mobile phones, home computers, WiFi - the list goes on. Hopefully you will also witness some great innovations in your life time as well - fingers crossed. Terry & Sylvia UK
@@METALFREAK03 British. Look at how many me tinned were Scottish. As a whole, the British have been very involved in the development of things that make the modern world run & in rease our understanding of it.
@@shininglightphotos1044 are you confusing "British" with "English" England - English Scotland - Scottish Wales - Welsh All the above = Great Britain - British Therefore someone from any part of Great Britain can be classed as British.
@@davidbirch6893Think "English" in this sense is referring to the English language not the English people. The "whole" world communicates usjng English. It is THE LAMGAUGE OF INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY, TRADE, SCIENCE, ETC.
I feel exactly like you do, thankful for those geniuses that paved the way for me to look at a screen and watch some other people appreciating them. I really liked this video, the past isn’t always nice but we have to be thankful for the geniuses and the workforce that made it happen.
8:43 I have a 15 minute commute into work... i have to go through 7 roundabouts lol. Weve so many, but you get used to it, keeps the traffic flowing so no waiting in a traffic jam.
Roundabouts are so easy to use: look left, if there’s no one coming, then go…that’s it! Much safer than coming up to a crossroads and needing to look everywhere before you go! In fact they reduce accidents at junctions by 90%
@ not in the US, where they drive on the right side of the road. Because of that the roundabouts there would rotate anti clockwise, so you would look left.
@@pickmeasinner So, just to clarify. If you drive on the left, you look to the right. If you drive on the right, you look to the left. If you drive in Rome, you shut your eyes, accelerate and say a Hail Mary.
One thing he skipped. The first house lit by electricity was in Newcastle upon Tyne. The first street lit by electricity was in Newcastle upon Tyne. The incandescent light bulb was demonstrated first in Newcastle upon Tyne. Edison sued Swan and lost, because Swan go his patent in first. And the first house to be fully powered by hydro-electricity was in Northumberland, near Newcastle. Northumberland and Newcastle are now leading centres of renewable electricity development.
@@flying714vyes when brittany was under english rule. Another annoying thing that people get wrong is the difference between UK and great britain. We became the UK when ireland joined the union, before then we were just great britain
What amazes me is the paucity of all the different machinery available to help these new inventions back in the day...doubly amazing. We have SO much stuff to help us, in a second, now......are we better, happier, nicer, etc etc?
Essentially, Britain invented the modern world. Britain was the first country to draw together the modern scientific method, modern agriculture, modern finance and economics, modern physics, modern power generation, modern industry and materials, modern transport and navigation, modern medicine and nursing, modern communications and IT, modern geology and mining. And then they spread these advances around the world through the Empire, which for all its faults was relatively enlightened for its times - as evidenced by the many strong democracies we helped create in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore...
Don't forget our music/poetry/literature/stopping the slave trade/introducing the rule of law and parliament + democracy in most of the world etc. too.
I remember the transistor radio in the sixties , I was amazed how it worked without a plug and how I could walk around with it . I can’t imagine how astonished people were a couple of hundred years ago , with all the amazing inventions.
This is just one of the reasons why we are called Great Britain, my school technology teacher Mr Mayor invented the upright kettle, before that the handle was over the lid and you burned your hands on the handle, he made a fortune out of it, all the other teachers were really jealous as he drove a porsche 911 but carried on teaching, he was the best teacher I ever knew.
It’s great as in large. It’s the largest of the British isles. It doesn’t mean we are great. All archipelago’s have a largest island. The Cayman Islands has grand cayman because it’s the largest, not because it’s grand. We also didn’t name it Great either, that was the French and we adopted it from them in 1066 after the Norman conquests (when the French invaded, won and colonised the island. England is basically just the area of Britain the French defeated and colonised. Hate to break it to you but we’re basically French 😂
My engineering teacher apprenticed in Ford by the new M1 he was, with others, given the task of taking the Ford GT40 from where he was building it to the Ford factory down the M1. They were basically testing everything worked, but since there was no speed limit, they floored it to as fast as their bottle allowed. He said he never got it into top gear as the exit for the factory rapidly approaching at a speed of knots.
At 13:20 it was lovely to see the picture of the village of Aylesford which is a mile or so from where I live. I had no idea that Maidstone was the first place in the world to have chlorinated water.
Australian here .. roundabouts are a great idea!! They allow for the smooth flow of traffic without the need for lights and at a much lower cost. In Oz .. when entering the roundabout give way (yield) to vehicles on your right .. otherwise YOU have right of way whilst in the roundabout. Multiple vehicles can be in the roundabout at the same time.
I have a playlist on my channel of 24 videos titled "I Never Knew That About Britain" . They are all interesting little videos about inventions and trivia about the UK. It includes several things on this list. 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 - Where is the centre of London?" "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 Never Knew That About Britain - How chloroform became an anesthetic"
The biggest single safety feature of roundabouts is that they force traffic to slow down and head in (roughly) the same direction. The elimination of the head-on collisions, and high-speed T-bone collisions, makes roundabouts massively safer than traffic lights, particularly on major intersections where traffic is travelling at highway speeds. It doesn’t eliminate collisions, but it massively reduces the resultant injury and death.
Was going to mention that fact, so thanks, only going to add that the expression has now entered everyday usage and the majority of Brits will know where it originated
If people are not going abide by the rules of the road then it doesn't matter if you are on a roundabout or not, they allow more traffic to keep moving than a cross roads with lights. In some cities in the uk you will find lots and lots of roundabouts :-))
He could have also mentioned the invention of synthetic dyes (analine dyes) by Sir William Perkins, that allow everyone, not just the rich, to have brightly coloured clothes and houses.
One invention that was not covered in the automotive section of the video was the creation of the disc brake system using callipers and pads….by Frederick Lanchester patented in 1902 based in Birmingham UK. Disc brakes pretty much used exclusively on cars and motorcycles as they were found to be more efficient than drum brakes used up to that point. The materials used for various braking applications were further developed such as carbon and ceramic.
Something for you Americans to be proud of.joan Benoit winning the first ever Olympic marathon in1984 every time I watch her coming in the stadium for the final lap the crowd is epic it brings tears to my eyes and I’m british
When Scotland and England joined together in 1707,to form the "Kingdom of Great Britain" the entire 🌎World changed and English has became the no.1 Language of the 🌎World! You lot owe us a fortune!
My dad worked for Oxford Instruments developing high field magnets for body scanners ie ct. mri, heart monitors (I’ve used them due to my congenital heart condition!!!) in 1989 he/the company produced the most powerful magnet and so went to Buckingham palace and met the queen on behalf of the company 😃😃😃
I am a British Chartered Engineer, and as a young student at University I was always inspired by the Scientific, and Technological achievements by the British in the past. I personally have worked all around the world in the field of Engineering.
I could not be more proud of British History. Their contribution to science, medicine, technology, culture, sport, democratic freedoms, infrastructure, the rule of law, global trade, global prosperity etc is immense and unparalleled.
i think one reason the industrial revolution happened here was due to a geological happenstance with plentiful and easily accessible iron ore and coal in close proximity to each other. Oh, and the next time you have a "lightbulb moment" you have my great (great?) uncle Joseph Swan to thank for it.
It was the Scottish age of enlightenment that kickstarted it and the industrial revolution was born in glasgow...Birmingham seems to think it was them but they're wrong...they were just the largest industrial city...Glasgow isn't known as the second city of the empire for nothing.
@garymcatear822 Wrong and wrong again. The whole civilized world knows that the industrial revolution kicked off in the Iron Bridge Gorge.😉 No, wait, one of the most important inventions of that time was conceived by James Watt in 1765. You may be right. No, you are right.🫡
A random bit of trivia, I went to a party in about 2000 held in a house bearing a blue plaque, "Thomas Crapper" had lived there until his death in 1910, he held a number of plumbing related patents. The house fittingly is in a place in South London called Anerley.
Jess, Carmel, Indiana is known as the "Roundabout Capital of the United States" because it has more roundabouts than any other city in the world. In Carmel, there is a roundabout at every 17 intersections.
I always find it weird when they say if so and so didn't invent this, then we wouldn't have this today..... I'm pretty sure someone else would have invented or discovered it eventually.
We also invented other things like the light bulb which is always referred to as invented by Thomas Edison. Joseph Swan invented it and Thoas Edison patented it. Later on he had to rename his business as Swan/Edison. Not too bad for such a small country,.
I think for roundabouts once you get it you get it and it becomes second nature. I grew up in a town chock full of them so I took my driving test on routes that would have something like 15-30 roundabouts on. The part about people not following the rules when you do applies here too. I recall a roundabout in my hometown where the right lane (typically only for turning right) is also for going straight on this one. So people who do not look at the markings in the lanes assume the left lane goes straight and cut up everyone doing it correctly while thinking they must be correct... so that sucks when that happens. Just have to pay attention as you approach to the road markings is all
@@garymilne8900literally last year before Starmer got in power. Hows that for a start? Not that the Tories were much better, but you asked, I answered. Early 2000s was golden compared to now. Before that was even better. Apparently we are incapable of preventing rubber fking dinghies from invading our shores these days.
1/ The first ever tarmac road was in Nottingham about 5 miles from where I live. 2/ The first electronic calculator in Nottingham was bought by Raleigh bicycle company I think in the 60’s. My dad worked there at the time and it was big news back then!
I mean, simple American cross intersections vs. simple roundabouts are night and day difference. As I understand it, four cars get to an intersection, all cars have to show they've made an attempt to stop, then it becomes a turn basis, who got there first goes, everyone else has to be stationary. I can't imagine the amount of head turning and pondering who's turn to go it is. It just looks painfully slow, like twenty or so seconds. Roundabouts are a similar first come goes basis, but you don't have to show a complete stop, you can slow roll your approach so your get off is quicker, you only have to worry about the car to your right, you're only looking in one direction, worrying only about what one car is doing. If four cars arrive at the same time, this system allows for two cars to be moving at relatively the same time, heck, if the timing of approach is right all four cars can be across the junction very swiftly in a matter of five seconds. I think you Americans are put off by the swiftness of it all, add to that, inexperience.
Jess. There's nothing wrong with roundabouts. It's the drivers who are ignorant to use the correct rules of use. If everyone followed the regulations of how to use the roundabouts you'll find them safer and more efficient.🇬🇧
The jet engine developed by Germany was credited to Hans Ohain who started working on his plans in 1936 which resulted in successful bench tests in 1937. Frank whittle first proposed the jet engine in 1929 and patented his design in 1930. It is thought that Ohain had sight of whittles patent and had the backing to pursue the development, where Whittle struggled to get backing until the late 30's early 40's. So the Germans didn't co invent the jet engine, it was purely whittles design. Credit where credit is due.
I've witnessed in real life a chunk of steel that size being worked with a steel hammer and it amazes me how close those guys are to it, the heat given off is incredible and when I saw one I was about 15 feet away and it singed my eyebrows, the heat is genuinely scary if you've never witnessed it before as it feels difficult just to breath, incredible though, the one I witnessed was being made into a railway track and was passed though a series of rollers after being hammered, turning the 12 foot long block into a 60 foot long sections of track, the worst job I've ever seen was part of that process, men in fireproof suits worked under the rollers stretching out the metal scraping up all the slag falling off the metal as it was worked, so they were basically walking around with huge metal scrapers under a shower of steel rain which would be over 1000°F.
Made my Mrs and Daughter watch this today and they were absolutely creasing themselves with laughter. We watched four more of your uploads reacting to Kay and McIntyre and we're wetting our pants. So funny.
My small comment - I met Sir Alec Jeffreys a number of times, his parents lived in the same village where I grew up, a few streets away from my parents, and I went to school with his younger brother! 😊We in the UK also produced the first postage stamp, and the Postal service!
Roundabouts, lol. Friends took me to the ONE roundabout in Vermont, which is a really tiny thing no problem to use. You have to realise that in Britain we're a small island with millions of people, so with so many cars it would be simply impossible to just used cross-roads. So roundabouts are essential .... though one near me scares many people as five major roads converge there, and on that I admit it's scary to know when to enter or how to get off.
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Don't blame the roundabout blame the people that don't know how to use it.
I'm British but I spend a lot of time in Thailand and I hate using roundabouts there as they have no idea how to use them. They pull out in front of you when you're going round or they stop as you slow down to join it.
@kimamey yeah I wouldn't like to use a roundabout if it was just unorganised chaos
Why should a vehicle wait, at traffic lights, 'FOR NO REASON', just have a roundabout
@@jasonsmith902 I am British mate i am on the same page 😆
Roundabouts are very common in Australia. They are more efficient & safer than a normal intersection. When they are large enough you do not even need to slow down to go through them.
Barely scratched the surface 🇬🇧
'Tis but a scratch
are you a jew?.. let's tone the arrogance a bit mate. (I am a jew, it is a joke because we are the chosen people)
That's what Edward Jenner said
“We may be small, but we are mighty!”
Not fuckin anymore, we are a Island in decline my friend,
Hence Great Britain
@@kevincoulson755 it's called great because Brittany was called little Britain . They were two British Celtic areas.
Just be aware the English school system will never tell you anything deeply British
A lot of people who wrote this quote tend to have not have achieved anything in their own personal life
That bridge is not a steel bridge it’s an iron bridge - the first iron bridge, in the town of Ironbridge.
yeh i was thinking that was iron ridge
The vast majority of people wouldn't know the difference between iron and steel but you are correct. I am lucky to live a 20min walk from Ironbridge awesome little area to visit and explore
I wonder if anybody ever got confused. 'Why are we in Ironbridge, Mary? I thought were were going to Goldbridge?'
Maybe there could be a town called 'Modernroad'. What's it known for? ... The modern road. ;)
Ah yes, Ironbridge, formerly known as Nobridge.😆😆😆
Top quality banter is a British invention.
You must watch “The British crusade against slavery”. Even English people are unaware of how we ended it. 🇬🇧
It's "The British crusade against slavery educational " now
It's not ended and probably never will be. A century after the British tried to stop it it was still practiced freely. In fact some countries only made it illegal in the late 20th century. Arguably countries like North Korea implement it on a scale far bigger than it ever has been with a whole country serving one family and a few hangers on.
Effectively it is still practiced worldwide even now, including Britain (which is why every big company has a clause regarding "modern slavery" on their website). It is just more hidden in Western countries.
British people aren't all English... England is not Britain.
Definitely put this on your watch list. This may be one of the most important youtube video to understand the importance of Britains involvement in helping to end slavery in its original form,worldwide.
For the cement one it's the original Portland in Dorset, not the one named after it in Oregon.
Yes! The only American place names which are actually original are those derived from the natives. The rest are all imported, and dominated by British place names -- though Spanish place names are also very frequent, and a smattering of the rest like French and German brought over by those immigrant communities and colonisation by Britain, Spain and France.
You know why they say the sun never set on The British Empire?
It is because even God didn’t trust them
in the dark.
@@margaretmckay-os1sz They used to say that with the Spanish empire as well. Did God not trust them too?
To quote Al Murray (countries of the world)
"We invented work"
😂😂😂
Not forgetting his classic "We invented gravity" =)
DNA fingerprinting was mentioned, but Brits also invented actual fingerprinting. Crime-solving has been progressed heavily by Britain.
which is ironic, as for most of their history the english were busy robbing everyone else blind
We had the world's first police force.
@@polythenewrappedme6102 Yup. And look at them now...
@@polythenewrappedme6102 got to keep the poor workers in line
@@paradisekohchangstyle2150 but look who's running them. Not a Smith, Peel or Roberts I tell you
Don't forget, the Hovercraft, proving that Cholera was waterborne, electric light bulb, the lawnmower. to name but a few.
Inventions of a few people.....not millions.....yet we say the "British"..... A word itself stolen from the Welsh
Also, the Cavendish banana. Virtually every banana on supermarket shelves across most of the world since the late 1950s, is a clone of one first cultivated at Chatsworth House. Prior to that, the French Gros Michel was the most popular variety.
lol this made me laugh only cause I feel like the lawnmower in its early form was barely an improvement to an experienced scythe wielder. I suppose this is the modern equivalent of a bow to crossbow user (training) hahahaha
If people don't like roundabouts and think they are pointless. Without them you will be involved in more crashes etc .
1 lane roundabout is perfection
2 lane is great
3 and over goes downhill
Not really
@@anonymousmaster1983 Incorrect.
Roundabouts near me in the 1990s = Barely any crashes.
Roundabouts near me replaced with complicated crossroads in the 2000s = Crashes every week/month.
Every year on a small crossroads outside my house, there's at least 12 crashes every single year, always in the middle of the day.
To try and prevent it, what did the useless council do early last year?
They made the traffic lights change more often at night, spending roughly double the amount of time on Red, that they do on Green.
It hasn't prevented a single crash, because like I said, all the crashes happen in the middle of the day.
What they should have done, is install speedbumps.
In November 2024 I must have seen at least 4 crashes, but weirdly they were all directly opposite my house, around 50 metres from the crossroads, in traffic which was barely moving.
I see what you did there....... pointless 😂
@@danielgardecki1046 I was saying roundabouts are good, but the more lanes you add the worse they get.
No country on this planet has a clean sheet but unlike us British no other country has done so much for so many and yet still get vilified - 🇬🇧🏴
False many countries have clean sheets and minded their business until the Brits started meddling.
@@jonenihThere is something like 11 countries who have never been involved in war and even those may have been before recorded history the commenter is pretty spot on
@@jonenihThis is the biggest load of BS I have ever heard. For one, most countries recorded histories is not that long and two, more importantly, there is not ONE person alive today whose ancestors did not engage in warfare and conquering. It is as old -- probably even older -- than our species. There is evidence of ancient hominid species and ape species also engaging in these behaviours.
@@francisedward8713keep it light 😅😅
@@francisedward8713 Agreed. For example, during the Raj Brits never made up more than 0.05% of the population of India. How did such a tiny number control a whole sub-continent? Because far all its faults, the great majority were better off and happy to accept British rule. The chronic warfare between petty kingdoms and warlords was suppressed and the nation of India was created. There was huge investment in railways, roads, water systems, schools, universities, urbanisation and industrialisation. The Brits got out relatively peacefully when the time came, and left behind a robust system of democracy, effective armed forces who have kept out of politics, an effective legal and policing system, an effective fiscal system...
Some colonies were more like piratical ventures - such as Rhodesia. But in general ex British colonies were left in far better shape than French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Italian or US colonies.
Hi Mike, if you want to look at Britain's proudest achievement of the 19th Century, type in "The British Crusade Against Slavery" or "The Untold Truth Behind the End of Slavery." The Royal Navy began anti-slavery patrols in 1811, and the last one was in 1971. Plus, the dept incurred to end slavery was not paid off until 2015.
I thought same but yousaid it way better then me lol. Nice one dude 🙂
Britain is an island not a country.
The very word Britain comes from the Welsh language and pertains to the painted people of the picts.... A pre romanised Celtic people
The English did not end slavery 😂 there are more slaves today than ever..... Secondly many slave plantations became extremely loss making ... And the English didn't want competition
It should be taught in schools!
@DWbo-r7v Stop crying you jealous little no mark.
Carmel, Indiana has the most roundabouts in a city. The mayor of Carmel studied in UK and was so impressed with the efficiency of roundabouts that years later when he became mayor, he made it his mission to transfer all traffuc lights in the city to roundabouts and it not only helps lical traffic in the town but unclogs jams from the hufe trucks that pass through.
Yup, plus it was an American that invented the roundabout to begin with. There's a video on this called something like "If roundabouts are safer: why does America have so few of them" Another American reactor family watched it and was blown away by the info.
@@LoulizabethI believe it was the French
@jpw6893 Just checked and yes you're right. A French man Eugene Henard apparently invented it for Paris in 1877. I really wish these video producers did better research.
Wow , I didn’t know that. Cheers
@@Loulizabeth What do you mean? Do you mean that it was stated that the British 'invented' the roundabout? If you do, then I suggest you listen to the programme again. As stated in other posts, the French invented the roundabout. The British made them safe and efficient to use.
The Germans didn't independently invent the Jet engine, they got hold of the international patent and copied it. The jet engine was patented in 1930 and successfully tested in 1937.
Their WWII jet engines had a service life of 10 - 20 hours and were catastrophically unreliable. They were really only prototypes, and killed a hell of a lot of their pilots.
Yep, Whittle patented both the Centrifugal & Axial flow designs in 1932 & built the worlds first turbo-jet. This prompted other nations to start their own turbojet programs & they copied the designs from the publicly available patents filed by Whittle. Germany was however the first nation to put it's turbo-jet on a plane although as someone mentioned it was not very reliable, killed many of the pilots due to malfunctions & use in the end of the war was more out of desperation.
BTW ( If you didn't know) he mentions the Romans at the start because of the famous scene from Monty Pythons 'The life of Brian.' Where the leader of a rebellious Jewish sect makes the seemingly rhetorical statement 'What did the Romans ever do for us?!' to be followed by a litany of profoundly useful infrastructure, health, educational etc related items.
Absolutely. If you didn't know the film and/or Monty Python, you wouldn't get the pun!
The suicide squad were insanely suicidal "hilarious
"But what else?" Silence. "Exactly"
@@theborderer1302 😆
I know the film and still didn’t get it 🤦🏼♀️😂
Jess, roundabouts improve the traffic flow because there’s no red lights, so UK and Australia have them everywhere possible. It does, however, require some co-operation with other road users, so you have to give way to traffic that’s already in the roundabout and signal as you’re about to exit. If you watch a video of how they work in real life, you’ll see just how efficient they are. They save t8me and money because you’re not wasting fuel by siting at red lights.
Hear, hear. And if in the rare event you do collide with another vehicle, you only ever meet them on the side. You never collide at a 90 degree or 180 degree angle, which is what you get an American-style intersection and is so much more deadly.
Or non eco powering light signals 23/7! If you have any electricity!
You can have traffic lights on roundabouts i live 3 minutes from one
The trouble is in Canada and I assume the US they change the rules which makes if more confusing and dangerous
vehicles had solid rubber on the wheels until the pneumatic tyre was created by Scottish inventor John Boyd Dunlop.
A word of the Bengal Famine, that was caused by weather and war, food trains were diverted to the front. When the B ritish found out about the problem they got the famine under control, the Brits did it, is never a full picture.
Also it happened in 1943 when us Brits were fighting a world war.
I lived in India for four years after spending a year travelling around the country, I met a wonderful old boy in Darjeeling who was a true anglophile, he loved anything British and was of the opinion that the British Raj did mostly good things for India, he was not as kind with his opinion of the East India Company though
@@AndrewAHayes In the Indian up rising an army of 30,000 was raised to defeat the British, they had an army of 60,000, the number of white people in that army was about 4,000, 56,000 where Indian troops, that says more than anything.
Nobody claims there isn’t bad, but it's a lot more complex and a lot less bad than modern left wing people claim.
At the height of the British empire, the standing army was 150,000, for a quarter of the globe, this also is very telling, you don't rule by violence with that small a army.
India had on average a famine every 40 years 100's of years before Britain's rule .
Thank you sir❤
I don't think people realise quite what a monumental world changing achievement the industrial revolution was.
And what a goddamn mess the information age has made of our world.
We also invented the sandwich, thermos flask (to keep our tea hot!) and Rifled barreled guns!❤
An alarm clock that makes tea for you in the morning is called a 'Teasmade', so you can wake up to a cuppa, no house should be without one, easily the most important invention on this list.....
Britis are great and incredibly funny too. British humour is the best in the world.
Brit here. Aussies should get a shout out for taking that humour and running with it. If you ever get into a banter fight with an Australian, just duck under the table. It isn't going to end well for you.
@@davebox588 Australians are like cream teas. Impossible to dislike.
Pretty much was jess describing how it happened! What's even more mad... Britain 🇬🇧 is only a tiny island yet CHANGED the world.
Hence Great Britain
@@kevincoulson755actually Great Britain is the main island, and Lesser Britain is the area of Brittany
Hi Mike & Jess - we love the channel and the great mix of topics you guys cover. We are in our 70’s and remember when we first saw things like cassettes, transistor radios, CD’s, mobile phones, home computers, WiFi - the list goes on. Hopefully you will also witness some great innovations in your life time as well - fingers crossed. Terry & Sylvia UK
You two are so reasoned and nice. We're the same, or try to be. We admire your character.
Peace love from England ❤
Stop giving it away, we need it ourselves 😂
❤ from Northeast England ❤️
Sadly idiots gave it away decades ago to immigrants
"The only decent country in the middle east" caught me off guard. especially since weve taken so much from so many middl eastern countries.
If a space ship came down and asked which race had the most influence on the world it would be the British just for language and sport
English...though. English.
@@METALFREAK03 British. Look at how many me tinned were Scottish. As a whole, the British have been very involved in the development of things that make the modern world run & in rease our understanding of it.
@@shininglightphotos1044 are you confusing "British" with "English"
England - English
Scotland - Scottish
Wales - Welsh
All the above = Great Britain - British
Therefore someone from any part of Great Britain can be classed as British.
@@davidbirch6893Think "English" in this sense is referring to the English language not the English people. The "whole" world communicates usjng English. It is THE LAMGAUGE OF INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY, TRADE, SCIENCE, ETC.
I feel exactly like you do, thankful for those geniuses that paved the way for me to look at a screen and watch some other people appreciating them. I really liked this video, the past isn’t always nice but we have to be thankful for the geniuses and the workforce that made it happen.
And so much more. Cheddar, pork pie, Sunday roast, full English breakfast. Most of the biggest sports in the world. To name just a few.
8:43 I have a 15 minute commute into work... i have to go through 7 roundabouts lol. Weve so many, but you get used to it, keeps the traffic flowing so no waiting in a traffic jam.
Roundabouts are so easy to use: look left, if there’s no one coming, then go…that’s it!
Much safer than coming up to a crossroads and needing to look everywhere before you go! In fact they reduce accidents at junctions by 90%
It's look right, not left! You give way to traffic approaching from the right!
@ not in the US, where they drive on the right side of the road. Because of that the roundabouts there would rotate anti clockwise, so you would look left.
@@darkmatter6714 Thanks for pointing that out. I'm in the UK.
I knew this comment would cause a controversy!!! 😂
@@pickmeasinner So, just to clarify. If you drive on the left, you look to the right. If you drive on the right, you look to the left. If you drive in Rome, you shut your eyes, accelerate and say a Hail Mary.
Mike’s subtle sense of humour is brilliant, if you ever come here guys i’m buying Mike a pint 🇬🇧🍻
'People who don't follow the rules' are just as dangerous at traffic lights.
One thing he skipped. The first house lit by electricity was in Newcastle upon Tyne. The first street lit by electricity was in Newcastle upon Tyne. The incandescent light bulb was demonstrated first in Newcastle upon Tyne. Edison sued Swan and lost, because Swan go his patent in first.
And the first house to be fully powered by hydro-electricity was in Northumberland, near Newcastle.
Northumberland and Newcastle are now leading centres of renewable electricity development.
As Al Murray would say, Great Britain, the clues in the name for f@@k sake.
Britain is great because of it's size, Great Britain as opposed to little Britain which is Brittany, northern France.
@@flying714vyes when brittany was under english rule.
Another annoying thing that people get wrong is the difference between UK and great britain. We became the UK when ireland joined the union, before then we were just great britain
The first roundabout is just up the road from me in a town called Letchworth in Hertfordshire
It’s got to be said , if it were not for us Brits the rest of the world would be still living in the dark ages , pissing into the wind .
What amazes me is the paucity of all the different machinery available to help these new inventions back in the day...doubly amazing. We have SO much stuff to help us, in a second, now......are we better, happier, nicer, etc etc?
Essentially, Britain invented the modern world. Britain was the first country to draw together the modern scientific method, modern agriculture, modern finance and economics, modern physics, modern power generation, modern industry and materials, modern transport and navigation, modern medicine and nursing, modern communications and IT, modern geology and mining. And then they spread these advances around the world through the Empire, which for all its faults was relatively enlightened for its times - as evidenced by the many strong democracies we helped create in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore...
That's why God is British - Al Murray
And speaking as an English man, that includes many Scots such as James Clerk Maxwell - the giant upon whose shoulders Einstein stood
And unbridled capitalism killed the goose...
Don't forget the language ,as Al Murray also said " A language universaly spoken in space as all fans of Star Trek will tell you." 😀
Don't forget our music/poetry/literature/stopping the slave trade/introducing the rule of law and parliament + democracy in most of the world etc. too.
I remember the transistor radio in the sixties , I was amazed how it worked without a plug and how I could walk around with it . I can’t imagine how astonished people were a couple of hundred years ago , with all the amazing inventions.
This is just one of the reasons why we are called Great Britain, my school technology teacher Mr Mayor invented the upright kettle, before that the handle was over the lid and you burned your hands on the handle, he made a fortune out of it, all the other teachers were really jealous as he drove a porsche 911 but carried on teaching, he was the best teacher I ever knew.
It's called Great Britain because it's not Brittany.
It’s great as in large. It’s the largest of the British isles. It doesn’t mean we are great. All archipelago’s have a largest island. The Cayman Islands has grand cayman because it’s the largest, not because it’s grand. We also didn’t name it Great either, that was the French and we adopted it from them in 1066 after the Norman conquests (when the French invaded, won and colonised the island. England is basically just the area of Britain the French defeated and colonised. Hate to break it to you but we’re basically French 😂
It's Great Britain Cos the clues in the name ffs
Al Murray 😁
@@OneTrueScotsman It's called "Great" Britain because it's the largest island in the British Isles.
My engineering teacher apprenticed in Ford by the new M1 he was, with others, given the task of taking the Ford GT40 from where he was building it to the Ford factory down the M1. They were basically testing everything worked, but since there was no speed limit, they floored it to as fast as their bottle allowed. He said he never got it into top gear as the exit for the factory rapidly approaching at a speed of knots.
At 13:20 it was lovely to see the picture of the village of Aylesford which is a mile or so from where I live. I had no idea that Maidstone was the first place in the world to have chlorinated water.
Dear old Blighty, we may be only a small island, but never underestimate GB .
Australian here .. roundabouts are a great idea!!
They allow for the smooth flow of traffic without the need for lights and at a much lower cost. In Oz .. when entering the roundabout give way (yield) to vehicles on your right .. otherwise YOU have right of way whilst in the roundabout. Multiple vehicles can be in the roundabout at the same time.
I have a playlist on my channel of 24 videos titled "I Never Knew That About Britain" . They are all interesting little videos about inventions and trivia about the UK. It includes several things on this list. 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 - Where is the centre of London?"
"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 Never Knew That About Britain - How chloroform became an anesthetic"
If everyone uses the roundabout correctly they are great and save time. Traffic lights stop traffic but roundabouts keep it flowing.
The clock that made tea was, believe it or not, called a Goblin Teasmade.
🤣🤣Goblin
Maid...
Still avaiable today via OnlyFans ........ 😏
@@jasonritchie8475 Teasmade
@@jasonritchie8475 no you can still aquire a genuine Goblin Teasmade but it will cost you round about £300+ second hand
The biggest single safety feature of roundabouts is that they force traffic to slow down and head in (roughly) the same direction. The elimination of the head-on collisions, and high-speed T-bone collisions, makes roundabouts massively safer than traffic lights, particularly on major intersections where traffic is travelling at highway speeds. It doesn’t eliminate collisions, but it massively reduces the resultant injury and death.
It's based on a monty python film the life of Brian. "what did the Romans ever do for us?"
Was going to mention that fact, so thanks, only going to add that the expression has now entered everyday usage and the majority of Brits will know where it originated
Or the 40yr old reliving his glory days as a quarterback on the high-school football team.
Tony Robinson also did a series of what did the... do for us.
Romans, Victorians, etc...
Roundabouts are the best thing ever made . And the made to be safer . Better than traffic lights . Just have to learn how to use them
"Steel wheel without a rubber tyre - that would be like..."
...my RS5 Vorsprung coupe in dynamic suspension setting!
Don’t it just make you feel proud to be British. 🇬🇧.
No, because we pi$$ed it all away voting for scumbags.
Doesn’t
so negative, are you okay do you need a hug.
@@leeandrews6084 Don’t feel proud to be British, if you can’t get the basics right.
The best things come from a small British island. Love from a Brit.
Hence “Great Britain” - we are responsible as a nation for nearly every major innovation and products that we use today. The best country in the world
lol
Good joke :-) Britain has had its fair share of innovations but you're talking about Germany...
@@solidsteel3634 Did you not watch the video? Germany invented world wars, but they didn't win those either.
@@Troub1e And there you wrong.. again.. Stop watching YT, learn more about history 😉
@solidsteel3634 I know my history just fine thanks 👍
Hi guys, happy new year. I really enjoy your channel. You could probably make a whole video on the evolution of each of the things discussed here.
If people are not going abide by the rules of the road then it doesn't matter if you are on a roundabout or not, they allow more traffic to keep moving than a cross roads with lights. In some cities in the uk you will find lots and lots of roundabouts :-))
He could have also mentioned the invention of synthetic dyes (analine dyes) by Sir William Perkins, that allow everyone, not just the rich, to have brightly coloured clothes and houses.
Of course we invented an alarm clock that makes tea.
I found a mint condition tea's maid from the 70's at a car boot sale one day it'll be on The Antiques road show lol
And the "Goblin Teasmade" provided decades of gutter humour ever since.
It’s even in our tanks 💥
That bridge was my home town.ironbridge world heritage.
Dear World,
You're welcome.
Regards,
A Brit.
You did f all mate.
@@davebrown9707 It's like young Brits taking credit for winning WW2! 🤣
He only scratched the surface. Seeing as were only a little country, we have given the most to society in my opinion. Great reaction as always.
happy new year mike an jess from this uk fan
One invention that was not covered in the automotive section of the video was the creation of the disc brake system using callipers and pads….by Frederick Lanchester patented in 1902 based in Birmingham UK. Disc brakes pretty much used exclusively on cars and motorcycles as they were found to be more efficient than drum brakes used up to that point. The materials used for various braking applications were further developed such as carbon and ceramic.
Atomic Clocks are responsible for accurate sat-nav, space exploration + a whole host of other engineering/ scientific feats
Something for you Americans to be proud of.joan Benoit winning the first ever Olympic marathon in1984 every time I watch her coming in the stadium for the final lap the crowd is epic it brings tears to my eyes and I’m british
By the way, a lot of those 'invasions' were part of world wars or nepoleonic wars, that is, fighting dictators.
8:50. We travel through them whenever we are on the road..... I have to go through 3 to get out of my are and onto the main roads.
When Scotland and England joined together in 1707,to form the "Kingdom of Great Britain" the entire 🌎World changed and English has became the no.1 Language of the 🌎World!
You lot owe us a fortune!
My dad worked for Oxford Instruments developing high field magnets for body scanners ie ct. mri, heart monitors (I’ve used them due to my congenital heart condition!!!) in 1989 he/the company produced the most powerful magnet and so went to Buckingham palace and met the queen on behalf of the company 😃😃😃
you are welcome - regards A Brit :)
I am a British Chartered Engineer, and as a young student at University I was always inspired by the Scientific, and Technological achievements by the British in the past. I personally have worked all around the world in the field of Engineering.
Have i got mad deja vu? Could have sworn i saw this reaction yesterday 😂
I was thinking exactly the same thing. I am sure they posted this the other day. I might be wrong though.
I could not be more proud of British History.
Their contribution to science, medicine, technology, culture, sport, democratic freedoms, infrastructure, the rule of law, global trade, global prosperity etc is immense and unparalleled.
i think one reason the industrial revolution happened here was due to a geological happenstance with plentiful and easily accessible iron ore and coal in close proximity to each other.
Oh, and the next time you have a "lightbulb moment" you have my great (great?) uncle Joseph Swan to thank for it.
Nice man
It was the Scottish age of enlightenment that kickstarted it and the industrial revolution was born in glasgow...Birmingham seems to think it was them but they're wrong...they were just the largest industrial city...Glasgow isn't known as the second city of the empire for nothing.
@garymcatear822
Wrong and wrong again. The whole civilized world knows that the industrial revolution kicked off in the Iron Bridge Gorge.😉
No, wait, one of the most important inventions of that time was conceived by James Watt in 1765.
You may be right. No, you are right.🫡
@@crackpot148 The whole world doesn't know that because it is not true.
A random bit of trivia, I went to a party in about 2000 held in a house bearing a blue plaque, "Thomas Crapper" had lived there until his death in 1910, he held a number of plumbing related patents. The house fittingly is in a place in South London called Anerley.
He deserves more credit than he gets for his contribution to public health
@@myriaddsystems I suspect you are right, something we all take for granted now.
Jess, Carmel, Indiana is known as the "Roundabout Capital of the United States" because it has more roundabouts than any other city in the world. In Carmel, there is a roundabout at every 17 intersections.
I'm sure whoever first made that claim has never been to Milton Keynes.
@@hilarymiseroy Milton Keynes has 130 roundabouts. Carmel Indiana 150.
As a Brit, I knew we invented a lot of things but even this video there is always something new you learn everyday. Great reaction guys as usual.
I always find it weird when they say if so and so didn't invent this, then we wouldn't have this today..... I'm pretty sure someone else would have invented or discovered it eventually.
We also invented other things like the light bulb which is always referred to as invented by Thomas Edison. Joseph Swan invented it and Thoas Edison patented it. Later on he had to rename his business as Swan/Edison. Not too bad for such a small country,.
I think for roundabouts once you get it you get it and it becomes second nature. I grew up in a town chock full of them so I took my driving test on routes that would have something like 15-30 roundabouts on. The part about people not following the rules when you do applies here too. I recall a roundabout in my hometown where the right lane (typically only for turning right) is also for going straight on this one. So people who do not look at the markings in the lanes assume the left lane goes straight and cut up everyone doing it correctly while thinking they must be correct... so that sucks when that happens. Just have to pay attention as you approach to the road markings is all
This great nation has ALWAYS punched way way above its weight.
Very sadly though,I think our country has turned to shit and we are run by traitors.
When was it better,
@@garymilne8900 right up to Blair.Went horribly wrong when that shithouse got in.
@@garymilne8900literally last year before Starmer got in power. Hows that for a start? Not that the Tories were much better, but you asked, I answered.
Early 2000s was golden compared to now. Before that was even better. Apparently we are incapable of preventing rubber fking dinghies from invading our shores these days.
@@garymilne8900 I remember it being better, for about 10 minutes, in the mid 90s....once.... maybe...
You are the traitor
1/ The first ever tarmac road was in Nottingham about 5 miles from where I live. 2/ The first electronic calculator in Nottingham was bought by Raleigh bicycle company I think in the 60’s. My dad worked there at the time and it was big news back then!
I had a Raleigh Carlton racer many many moons ago, wish I still had it.
Britain truly was Great. And to see the state of it nowadays. What the hell happened?
Reform anyone?
I mean, simple American cross intersections vs. simple roundabouts are night and day difference.
As I understand it, four cars get to an intersection, all cars have to show they've made an attempt to stop, then it becomes a turn basis, who got there first goes, everyone else has to be stationary. I can't imagine the amount of head turning and pondering who's turn to go it is. It just looks painfully slow, like twenty or so seconds.
Roundabouts are a similar first come goes basis, but you don't have to show a complete stop, you can slow roll your approach so your get off is quicker, you only have to worry about the car to your right, you're only looking in one direction, worrying only about what one car is doing. If four cars arrive at the same time, this system allows for two cars to be moving at relatively the same time, heck, if the timing of approach is right all four cars can be across the junction very swiftly in a matter of five seconds.
I think you Americans are put off by the swiftness of it all, add to that, inexperience.
Jess. There's nothing wrong with roundabouts. It's the drivers who are ignorant to use the correct rules of use. If everyone followed the regulations of how to use the roundabouts you'll find them safer and more efficient.🇬🇧
I think roundabouts require just a small amount of team spirit; not something Americans are famous for.
@@digidol52 A nation of "rugged individualists" - or should that be ragged?
The jet engine developed by Germany was credited to Hans Ohain who started working on his plans in 1936 which resulted in successful bench tests in 1937. Frank whittle first proposed the jet engine in 1929 and patented his design in 1930. It is thought that Ohain had sight of whittles patent and had the backing to pursue the development, where Whittle struggled to get backing until the late 30's early 40's. So the Germans didn't co invent the jet engine, it was purely whittles design. Credit where credit is due.
" God is British, that's why we don't have earthquakes, you don't shit on your own doorstep" - Al Murray
I think Colorado Springs was used as a practice run for a couple of brand new roundabouts....chaos (but very very funny!!)
I've witnessed in real life a chunk of steel that size being worked with a steel hammer and it amazes me how close those guys are to it, the heat given off is incredible and when I saw one I was about 15 feet away and it singed my eyebrows, the heat is genuinely scary if you've never witnessed it before as it feels difficult just to breath, incredible though, the one I witnessed was being made into a railway track and was passed though a series of rollers after being hammered, turning the 12 foot long block into a 60 foot long sections of track, the worst job I've ever seen was part of that process, men in fireproof suits worked under the rollers stretching out the metal scraping up all the slag falling off the metal as it was worked, so they were basically walking around with huge metal scrapers under a shower of steel rain which would be over 1000°F.
I bet you’re fun to go out for a drink with 😂
@@lordcharfield I do have the reputation of being a party animal to be fair, that's why my nickname is Jungle.
Made my Mrs and Daughter watch this today and they were absolutely creasing themselves with laughter.
We watched four more of your uploads reacting to Kay and McIntyre and we're wetting our pants. So funny.
You'd love Alan Partridge.
the cars didnt run on steel wheels. they had same wooden wheels as horse drawn carriages at first except for a solid rubber tyre on.
You’re welcome
My small comment - I met Sir Alec Jeffreys a number of times, his parents lived in the same village where I grew up, a few streets away from my parents, and I went to school with his younger brother! 😊We in the UK also produced the first postage stamp, and the Postal service!
Wooden wheels steel rims horse carriage or
Solid rubber tyres
Roundabouts, lol. Friends took me to the ONE roundabout in Vermont, which is a really tiny thing no problem to use. You have to realise that in Britain we're a small island with millions of people, so with so many cars it would be simply impossible to just used cross-roads. So roundabouts are essential .... though one near me scares many people as five major roads converge there, and on that I admit it's scary to know when to enter or how to get off.