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  • American Couple Reacts: What Did The British Ever Do For The World? British Inventions! FIRST TIME REACTION! 100K SUBSCRIBER EPISODE! Thank YOU SO much for getting our Show to 100K Subscribers! You are true CHAMPIONS! This episode is NUTS! SO many incredible scientific British inventions, it left us GOBSMACKED! The true question here should be, what did the British NOT invent? This was a great episode full of incredible British Scientists, British Inventors and we learned A LOT! Let us know if you learned anything too. We love you all and appreciate you so very much! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support! *More Links below.
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  • @TheNatashaDebbieShow
    @TheNatashaDebbieShow  4 месяца назад +256

    100K SUBSCRIBER EPISODE! Thank YOU SO much for getting our Show to 100K Subscribers! You are true CHAMPIONS! This episode is NUTS! SO many incredible scientific British inventions, it left us GOBSMACKED! The true question here should be, what did the British NOT invent? This was a great episode full of incredible British Scientists, British Inventors and we learned A LOT! Let us know if you learned anything too. We love you all and appreciate you so very much! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!

    • @Dan.Dawson
      @Dan.Dawson 4 месяца назад +9

      It's happened! Wow... Well done ladies!

    • @TheNatashaDebbieShow
      @TheNatashaDebbieShow  4 месяца назад +3

      @@Dan.Dawson Thank you!

    • @williambailey344
      @williambailey344 4 месяца назад +4

      Very well done ladies and I knew you would get it. 😊

    • @clivenewman4810
      @clivenewman4810 4 месяца назад +3

      Congratulations 🎉💕from🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

    • @busybee844
      @busybee844 4 месяца назад +3

      Congratulations 🎊🎉🎈🍹

  • @listerofsmegv987pevinaek5
    @listerofsmegv987pevinaek5 3 месяца назад +956

    A few years ago. Japanese scientists did some research into what the British invented. They came up with this conclusion. We invented around 70% of the modern world. Not bad for a small nation. Oh may I also add one that spent 150 years fighting slavery, controlled 25% of the world's land mass as well as its population, patrolled the seas fighting pirates, and keeping the sea lanes open and free for world shipping most of the maritime laws were our doing. This list goes on. And yes, we did some bad things, but overall, we did a lot of good. Well done Britain and the British people.

    • @markwebber4960
      @markwebber4960 3 месяца назад

      They started the transatlantic slave trade. And if it hadn't been for a few militant reformers, it would have continued. Then, having abolished it, they wanted the world to give them credit for that. Breathtaking hypocrisy!

    • @FrankHeuvelman
      @FrankHeuvelman 3 месяца назад

      And now you've lost it all and are swiftly turning into a Third World Nation.
      Just like America.
      Thanks, Tories!
      Thanks GOP!

    • @polychromide
      @polychromide 3 месяца назад +24

      I thought it was around 80% of the modern world

    • @FUJITRACK10
      @FUJITRACK10 3 месяца назад +10

      🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧❤❤

    • @christophercoles4594
      @christophercoles4594 3 месяца назад +71

      Don’t understand estimate the rule of law. Yes they ruled a large part of the world but they also educated them and brought legal frameworks along with railways. This allowed these nations to develop their own economies

  • @chriswilkins8584
    @chriswilkins8584 3 месяца назад +36

    Something else Americans absolutely hate when they find out "thanks giving" is British too started in Plymouth

    • @ryanmurphy7534
      @ryanmurphy7534 2 месяца назад

      How so?

    • @chriswilkins8584
      @chriswilkins8584 2 месяца назад

      @@ryanmurphy7534 Prayers of thanks and special thanksgiving ceremonies are common among most religions after harvests and at other times of the year.[1] The Thanksgiving holiday's history in North America is rooted in English traditions dating from the Protestant Reformation. It also has aspects of a harvest festival, even though the harvest in New England occurs well before the late-November date on which the modern Thanksgiving holiday is celebrated.[1][2]
      In the English tradition, days of thanksgiving and special thanksgiving religious services became important during the English Reformation in the reign of Henry VIII.[3] Before 1536 there were 95 Church holidays, plus 52 Sundays, when people were required to attend church and forego work. Though the 1536 reforms in the Church of England reduced the number of holidays in the liturgical calendar to 27, the Puritan party in the Anglican Church wished to eliminate all Church holidays apart from the weekly Lord's Day, including the evangelical feasts of Christmas and Easter (cf. Puritan Sabbatarianism).[3] The holidays were to be replaced by specially called Days of Fasting and Days of Thanksgiving, in response to events that the Puritans viewed as acts of special providence. Unexpected disasters or threats of judgement from on high called for Days of Fasting.[4][3]
      Special blessings, viewed as coming from God, called for Days of Thanksgiving, which were observed through Christian church services and other gatherings.[3] For example, Days of Thanksgiving were called following the victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588 and following the deliverance of Queen Anne in 1605.[4] An unusual annual Day of Thanksgiving began in 1606 following the failure of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 and developed into Guy Fawkes Day on November 5.[4] Days of Fasting were called on account of plagues in 1604 and 1622, drought in 1611, and floods in 1613. Annual Thanksgiving prayers were dictated by the charter of English settlers upon their safe landing in America in 1619 at Berkeley Hundred in Virginia.[5]

  • @grunions9648
    @grunions9648 3 месяца назад

    This video is making me feel unreasonable levels of pride, considering I've spent 40 years sitting around on my backside.

  • @seantaylor4095
    @seantaylor4095 3 месяца назад +1

    There's a much shorter video available out there called "what the Brits didn't invent" lol!

  • @10C45E
    @10C45E 3 месяца назад

    could you imagine what the world would be like if the brits hadn't colonised most of the world and brought their inventions with them?! They would be so far ahead of everyone else

  • @iangreenway5580
    @iangreenway5580 2 месяца назад

    You say RUclips and Netflix, I say the internet. 🤷‍♂️

  • @algie-t2w
    @algie-t2w 3 месяца назад +312

    Like the old gag. British person enquiring about emigrating to Australia.
    Official: "Do you have a criminal record?"
    Brit: "I didn't know you still had to have one!"

  • @djs98blue
    @djs98blue 4 месяца назад +223

    As someone who works in UK universities I wish everyone else would value their contemporary and historical contribution to global science more. They are often being put down by government and the media - as elitist, parochial etc - but they’ve contributed so much to the world too. So many inventions built on the contributions of academics like Newton, Fleming, Darwin etc.

    • @anitapeludat256
      @anitapeludat256 3 месяца назад +10

      American here. I've never understood why many Brits will quickly speak so harshly about their fellow citizens. It's quite a shocker to hear some of the most sharp edged criticism about one another.
      Our media can be brutal for sure, I'm just stunned how quickly the sharp incisors come out about your own fellow citizens. Plus, it's spoken on TV and RUclips with a ghoulish smile. Men and women.
      No one belongs on a pedestal because they have generational money or boarding school traditions, however, anyone that has created or invented something, especially if it betters society, should not be dismissed if they had a certain address, or education. I ignore class status, it's proven harmful to your country, in that people can think they have zero chance in improving their lives.

    • @kevinharry1714
      @kevinharry1714 3 месяца назад

      The problem is we invent loads of things but the government doesn’t back them, and rather than taking advantage of building and producing in the UK we have to sell our inventions off to foreign governments.

    • @DEMONIKMINION
      @DEMONIKMINION 3 месяца назад

      UK universities are now people trafficking filth peddling largely worthless degrees for profit sadly.

    • @Lynda-vq5yl
      @Lynda-vq5yl 3 месяца назад +8

      @@anitapeludat256 You can't tell me that America doesn't have a class system, just look at the different treatment the very rich get, it's just not called class---but it's there. Snobbery is rife in the USA too, I know I lived there for many years. I'm not being insulting or putting down your country--but that's what my experience was.

    • @Naesyria
      @Naesyria 3 месяца назад +2

      @@Lynda-vq5yl
      Because class and how much money you have in Britain tends to be a separate thing. You can be born dirt poor, work hard and earn millions, and still be treated like you are a single mum of ten kids from different baby daddies living off benefits in a council estate.
      Unless you change everything about what makes you, well, *you* , then you can never rise nor lower what class you are in. Because it's not just how much money you have, but a social construct as well. It depends on where you were born, how you were born, what your accent is like, and what area you live and where you went to school. Both snobbery and reverse-snobbery is rife in England - has been for hundreds of years.
      America doesn't have the same *mindset* about class. It doesn't matter where you were born or what you sound or look like, you can rise through the classes both monetarily *and* socially. Because it isn't as wormed into their mindsets that your accent or how you were born directly correlates to those things - it isn't an assumption that they make. The snobbery you seem to be on about is based on how much money that person has *in the moment* , not class snobbery as a whole.
      With hard work, the mindset of America is that you can be anything, while Britain is (as a large) pessimistic to a fault.
      For example, common phrases for British people are "don't count your eggs before they hatch" and "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong". While common phrases for Americans are "plenty of fish in the sea" and "Go for broke".
      It's the same way with class.
      There is class in every country, but how class is viewed largely differs.

  • @ChillToMusic87
    @ChillToMusic87 3 месяца назад +75

    We were and still are a very intelligent and innovative nation 🇬🇧

  • @Smudgie33
    @Smudgie33 4 месяца назад +1669

    The United Kingdom. We maybe be small but we are MIGHTY! Proud to be British 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

    • @garygalt4146
      @garygalt4146 4 месяца назад +156

      If you are proud to be British the please use the British flag or the Union Jack not the cross of St George it will only upset our friends and relatives who are from Northern Ireland, wales and Scotland and remember just Edinburgh alone produced so many inventions during the enlightenment as for England you could break that down to the north of the country during the Industrial Revolution,

    • @R3ED3R
      @R3ED3R 4 месяца назад +43

      people back in the day were made different. I am glad to be from England but the previous generations are hard acts to follow. I am also glad I am not in those peoples shoes dealing with world wars and stuff.

    • @PaganPunk
      @PaganPunk 4 месяца назад +48

      🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️🇬🇧

    • @R3ED3R
      @R3ED3R 4 месяца назад +25

      It's still acceptable to be proud of all the stuff we invented though... even if we had no input into that specific thing it still came from our country. Its just national pride I guess..

    • @thegroovetube3247
      @thegroovetube3247 4 месяца назад +60

      Amongst many other things, Britain invented the police and fire services and the postal service. It has produced the world's best-selling authors - Shakespeare and J K Rowling along with most of the world's best-selling and most influential bands - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Queen. It has also invented virtually every major sport - football/soccer, tennis, cricket, golf, rugby, baseball, table tennis, hockey, badminton and squash.

  • @Ubique2927
    @Ubique2927 4 месяца назад +868

    To all those people claiming that we owe reparations. OK. then you owe us for all the inventions, trade marks and royalties.

    • @bobbwc7011
      @bobbwc7011 4 месяца назад +17

      Nonsense. Germany had to pay, and today people still try to extract money out of Germany. Why would the world owe Germany monetary compensation for having invented 80% of the modern life? Germany made good money and good wealth monetarising its huge advantage in education, science and engineering.
      Don't be silly Brit.

    • @ange1098
      @ange1098 4 месяца назад +4

      🎯👍

    • @Ubique2927
      @Ubique2927 4 месяца назад +95

      @@bobbwc7011 .. You need a few history lessons.

    • @no-oneinparticular7264
      @no-oneinparticular7264 4 месяца назад +104

      If we take all the money we spent fighting slavery, especially by Arabs, then we are owed money 🇬🇧

    • @christinerussell113
      @christinerussell113 4 месяца назад

      ​@@bobbwc7011Pay for causing a world war leading to the deaths of millions, as well as the destruction of many nations. Further, while west Germany was showered with money by the Americans post 1945, (in order to shore up that part of Germany, keeping it out of the clutches of the Soviet Union), Britain was left with a huge war debt. One we only finished paying off fairly recently. So no, there is no connection between German compensation for causing the 2nd WW war and colonialism. But good try.

  • @jameslane955
    @jameslane955 4 месяца назад +122

    IVF was a british discovery. The first procedure was done at a place 10 mins from my house, and Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, was born in the same hospital as me.

    • @ravenmasters2467
      @ravenmasters2467 3 месяца назад +12

      My grandmother was a nurse at Boundary Park and was involved in the after-care of the first 'test-tube' baby, Louise Brown.

    • @spuderdogegamer3886
      @spuderdogegamer3886 3 месяца назад

      You must live near me,I went too north chadderton school,class of 89

    • @dev1346
      @dev1346 3 месяца назад

      Penicillin was discovered by a Scot

    • @bengibbs1318
      @bengibbs1318 2 месяца назад

      That’s cool. I didn’t know that. Thanks

    • @SusanFord-bu4bv
      @SusanFord-bu4bv 2 месяца назад +1

      Louise Brown was the first person born using ivf in 1978 in Bristol. This was thanks to Professors Steptoe & and Patrick, not Robert Winston, as another comment suggested.

  • @davenorth1265
    @davenorth1265 3 месяца назад +113

    That feeling when you just watched American ladies at minute 9 showing off that America invented RUclips and Netflix, then await the realisation that a Brit called Tim Berners-Lee invented the Internet.

    • @oastie3
      @oastie3 3 месяца назад

      Not the internet, exactly. That was a development of the American military DARPANET, a way of maintaining essential communications in the event of nuclear war. What Sir Tim Berners-Lee created was what became the World Wide Web, which rides on the internet. He worked at CERN and was frustrated that all the different countries’ scientists had their own network with no connection to each other. He brought them all into one, so they could share data much more easily. Credit must also go to Vint Cerf & Bob Kahn (Americans?) for the development of TCP/IP (the basis of the Internet) and Paul Baran (American) & Donald Davies (British) who each, independently, came up with the idea of Packet Switching (a way of breaking up data into small packets that find their own way across a network, to be reassembled at destination, after verification).

    • @willswomble7274
      @willswomble7274 3 месяца назад +16

      The WWW to be correct!

    • @potato-waffle7323
      @potato-waffle7323 3 месяца назад

      My brain was like “One word, America. British” as if they could here me😂😅

    • @drsiigabb9935
      @drsiigabb9935 3 месяца назад +1

      Don't forget that it was Australia that creates wi-fi.

    • @truckerfromreno
      @truckerfromreno 3 месяца назад +3

      And the computer.

  • @KGardner01010
    @KGardner01010 4 месяца назад +64

    Shame he missed out Plastic Surgery - began by Sir Harold Gillies in 1917 during WW1 - he began this as a result due to the amount of facial injuries he was seeing as a surgeon at the time . . . And I was so pleased to see someone finally adding "Cats Eyes" (Percy Shaw) to the inventions list on YT, too. As what an amazing sight it is on a motorway at night to see a line of lights on either side ahead of you to keep you in lane it when you are not able to see the usual white lines . . .

    • @margaretreid2153
      @margaretreid2153 3 месяца назад +2

      Gillies and MacIndoe both Surgeons,World War One and World War 2,were both New Zealanders 🇳🇿

    • @williammackenzie6115
      @williammackenzie6115 2 месяца назад +1

      @@margaretreid2153 From what i have read about Gilles and Macindoe both their fathers were born on the Isle of Bute in Scotland and were related to each other and yes they are born and raised New Zealanders.

  • @annemumby-qt9uo
    @annemumby-qt9uo 4 месяца назад +505

    For a small island nation we certainly punch above our weight

    • @TheNatashaDebbieShow
      @TheNatashaDebbieShow  4 месяца назад +31

      Absolutely

    • @AaronHowie-su1oe
      @AaronHowie-su1oe 4 месяца назад +7

      Ahem... New Zealand....

    • @brianjones9345
      @brianjones9345 4 месяца назад +11

      @@AaronHowie-su1oe ???

    • @AaronHowie-su1oe
      @AaronHowie-su1oe 4 месяца назад +4

      @brianjones9345 world's fastest Indian, splitting the atom, etc for a country under 200yo - a kiwi farmer and a piece of #8 fencing wire can do anything

    • @AaronHowie-su1oe
      @AaronHowie-su1oe 4 месяца назад +5

      And yeah, considering I'm descended from James Watt I do get it... but punching above our weight class is what kiwis do best

  • @Suprahampton
    @Suprahampton 4 месяца назад +131

    No mention of the Hovercraft

    • @markfranklin387
      @markfranklin387 4 месяца назад +2

      Graphene, was jointly invented with a Russian physicist named Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov in Manchester

    • @pholdway5801
      @pholdway5801 3 месяца назад

      hovercraft ..... the invention that no longer is used?

    • @nikfranczuk1134
      @nikfranczuk1134 3 месяца назад +5

      Or the aircraft carrier, and the steam catapult for launching aircraft 👍

    • @richardbrown9760
      @richardbrown9760 3 месяца назад +5

      And the jump jet.

    • @pholdway5801
      @pholdway5801 3 месяца назад

      @@richardbrown9760 Dismantled at a rate of knots by the defeatist liberals.Where is our Harrier you wreckers?

  • @Dathom1986
    @Dathom1986 3 месяца назад +63

    The British have made everybody's life easier, thank you!

  • @sarabazlinton9820
    @sarabazlinton9820 4 месяца назад +145

    Another scientific discovery here in Britain was IVF, the two scientists responsible for its development were called Edwards and Steptoe, and the first baby born using the process was born in July 1978. Apparently there have been 8 million babies born via IVF!

    • @paulwild3676
      @paulwild3676 4 месяца назад +18

      Louise Brown was born in Oldham in the same hospital as me. I was delivered by Steptoe. My one claim to fame.

    • @johnleonard9090
      @johnleonard9090 4 месяца назад +4

      @@paulwild3676, same, Steptoe was the doctor looking after my mum whilst pregnant with me but it was Bradford Royal

    • @paulwild3676
      @paulwild3676 4 месяца назад +6

      @@johnleonard9090 I was born in 1963, at Boundary Park hospital, now the Royal Oldham. I was a big baby and my Mother was 42. Steptoe specialised in older Mothers. There is a programme with Bill Nighy as Steptoe and James Norton as Edwards being filmed now. We both have a claim to fame.

    • @johnhayes2153
      @johnhayes2153 3 месяца назад +8

      @@paulwild3676 My nan worked with Steptoe and helped deliver Louise Brown

    • @ravenmasters2467
      @ravenmasters2467 3 месяца назад +2

      My grandmother was a nurse at Boundary Park and was involved in the after-care of the first 'test-tube' baby, Louise Brown.

  • @dave0n2wheels69
    @dave0n2wheels69 3 месяца назад +48

    Things aren't great in the UK at the moment, you guys just made me feel so much better! Thank you! 😀

    • @ozmaoz325
      @ozmaoz325 3 месяца назад +6

      We have each other! We are British ❤

  • @gabbymcclymont3563
    @gabbymcclymont3563 4 месяца назад +293

    A uni in Japan worked out 40% of all the inventions in the world, have been invented by people in the UK.

  • @lesleyburke7314
    @lesleyburke7314 3 месяца назад +70

    The fact that an Aussie is singing our praises, in itself, is a miracle! Thanks sir and to the world "You're welcome!".

    • @lesleyburke7314
      @lesleyburke7314 3 месяца назад +2

      @@lb659 You try telling an Australian they're really a Brit - see where it gets you!

    • @JohnnyForeigner-cs4jn
      @JohnnyForeigner-cs4jn 3 месяца назад

      England sent all the Chads that couldn't be tamed to Australia and many adventurous alpha stock went with them. They are descended from prime Chad DNA. Just look at them.

    • @triarb5790
      @triarb5790 3 месяца назад

      ​​@@lb659 A REAL Australian has ancestry going back at least 60,000 years on the land.
      Australians come from every part of the globe. We are the most multicultural place on Earth. My friends come from every continent except Antartica ( two of them have worked there though with most of Antartica under Australian protection not American or British) . The only ( EX) Pom I know is myself and I left miserable, whingey Blighty 36 years ago and would never ever live there again.
      Australia became an independent country in 1901 by the way so there is noone alive today who was born in Australia as a British citizen.

    • @sweatpatch123
      @sweatpatch123 3 месяца назад

      ​@@lb659d the rest of us were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time

  • @debbie8674
    @debbie8674 4 месяца назад +62

    Thank you!!! Thank you for ALL the inventions. This was mindblowing!!!

  • @earlofnythe
    @earlofnythe 4 месяца назад +110

    Wow, I knew we were awesome, but didn't realise we were THAT awesome! 🇬🇧

    • @jasonross2001
      @jasonross2001 3 месяца назад +1

      not british but part of the uk and still this side of the pond

    • @lloydwaycott8178
      @lloydwaycott8178 3 месяца назад +1

      Ha, I love the ''we''.

  • @ianburden2851
    @ianburden2851 3 месяца назад +25

    We halted slavery as well, created safe shipping routes so that all countries could trade without hindrance from pirates. Along with many other inventions, proud to be British

  • @DaveBartlett
    @DaveBartlett 4 месяца назад +286

    Scientific achievements aside, Don't forget that the world has Britain to thank for possibly the two most important concepts in social history...
    First: Democracy (and Human Rights,) with Magna Carta, drafted in 1215 - recognising and enforcing (In England at least, to begin with) the concept that everyone has rights, not just those who rule. Just about all democracies today have their basis in Magna Carta.
    Second: The decline of slavery. Britain stood almost alone in abolishing the slave trade in 1807, but rather than just leave it there, they then became the only power to enforce the abolition, treating all slave traders as pirates and enforcing then, what is now 'globally' accepted law.

    • @OnASeasideMission
      @OnASeasideMission 4 месяца назад +8

      Ooh, Magna Carta (Did she die in vain? 😢)
      Er, sorry.
      But it's worth a show of its own.
      The history is fascinating.
      And it's full of information on the society in its own right.
      And then there's
      40. To none shall we sell, delay or deny right or justice.
      And then there's 50 which confirms the sacking of a number of notoriously corrupt officers of the Crown.
      Including one Philip Marc (Mark) who was...
      Sherriff of Nottingham.
      Cool.

    • @jackmason4374
      @jackmason4374 4 месяца назад +27

      Democracy originates from Greece in. The fifth century bc

    • @drwhatson
      @drwhatson 4 месяца назад +10

      Tony Hancock - Another Great British institution. :-D

    • @allandavies9862
      @allandavies9862 4 месяца назад

      n 1080, William the Conqueror banned the sale of slaves to non-Christians. In 1102, the ecclesiastical Council of London banned the slave trade within England, decreeing “Let no one dare hereafter to engage in the infamous business … of selling men like animals.”

    • @colinturner4158
      @colinturner4158 4 месяца назад +12

      So why are we struggling to hold onto our history

  • @nickyjlyons
    @nickyjlyons 3 месяца назад +283

    As a Brit I get increasingly angry when people insult my country by bringing up our colonialist past and never once recognise all the incredible things that Britain has given the world. This list is mind blowing but what it doesn’t cover, are things like music, film and comedy - 3 other amazing gifts to the world from the UK!

    • @triarb5790
      @triarb5790 3 месяца назад +17

      Maybe you need to spend time actually listening to what you did to indigenous populations. Getting angry means you have chosen to close your ears. You cannot deny that part of your history, especially when you learn that much of the leisure to create great art music and architecture came off the back of that colonisation and raping of great lands.

    • @cameronlettice3061
      @cameronlettice3061 3 месяца назад +53

      ​@@triarb5790what about the Turkish Africans asians they did it too. No country is innocent. Stop being so naive

    • @BossTweed69
      @BossTweed69 3 месяца назад +32

      The name of the game back in the day was to colonise as many countries as possible, we were just very good at it 😅😅😅 ​@triarb5790

    • @anitapeludat256
      @anitapeludat256 3 месяца назад

      You'll not get much sympathy here. 😅You're not perfect, nor are 350 million people in the states you have been criticizing for ages, as all one, long before our current mess. It comes across as a national sickness from your country. 🙄
      Criticizing or judging the entire USA as one, because you want us to change to be British is an odd national hobby.
      Take a number when it comes to being criticized. Every country takes a hit. To think you're exceptional in that area, makes it difficult to take you seriously. Come down to reality.
      What is that saying you're fond of, "stiff upper lip". If you're going to dish it out, you better learn to take it. Whomever it's coming from.

    • @anitapeludat256
      @anitapeludat256 3 месяца назад +2

      @@BossTweed69
      Shagging your way about the planet, call it what it was. Colonization is just a fancy word to hide behind.

  • @LilMonkeyFella87
    @LilMonkeyFella87 4 месяца назад +104

    The worlds first first aeronautical engineer is also British, I got a video on him I'll putting up soon. He invented the glider 100 years before the Wright brothers did the plane
    UPDATE: Video is up
    "I Never Knew That About Britain - Sir George Cayley: The Father of Aeronautics"

    • @Crusty_Camper
      @Crusty_Camper 4 месяца назад +9

      And powered flight first happened in Chard Somerset

    • @arthuroldale-ki2ev
      @arthuroldale-ki2ev 4 месяца назад +2

      It was an Englishman that invented the tool box, can`t do anything without that.

    • @markstringfellow5145
      @markstringfellow5145 4 месяца назад +1

      Steam powered, talk about pushing the limits.

    • @the_once-and-future_king.
      @the_once-and-future_king. 4 месяца назад +3

      George Cayley?

    • @SeanSenior-f8b
      @SeanSenior-f8b 4 месяца назад +3

      Yep, from scarborough, his gardener was the first to fly. I think that he may have invented caterpillar tracks as well.

  • @PaulHeath-j2f
    @PaulHeath-j2f 3 месяца назад +19

    Always proud to be British . We are built different. 🇬🇧

  • @DaveBartlett
    @DaveBartlett 4 месяца назад +96

    The first pneumatic tyre was produced by John Boyd Dunlop in Belfast in 1888. Dunlop was Scottish born, but surprisingly didn't have a tartan associated with his family.
    These days though, it's accepted that anyone in the Dunlop family is entitled to wear the Mackintire tartan because, after all, the Dunlops have been Mackintires since 1888!! 😁😅🤣😂

  • @margaretnicol3423
    @margaretnicol3423 4 месяца назад +126

    Next time you hear that it's always raining in the UK be grateful for it. Instead of spending time at the beach and getting a tan - they were keeping out of the rain by pottering in their garden sheds. It was the weather that allowed everything to be invented. 😀😀

    • @blitzunddonna
      @blitzunddonna 4 месяца назад +8

      I always say that this is the german's reason as well

    • @ruth1231
      @ruth1231 4 месяца назад +15

      Haha, my dad always said if the UK was further south on the globe we'd have been having a siesta every afternoon due to the sun so I think there might be something in it. I also think the weather meant we had so many good authors and poets - they stayed indoors.

    • @snowflakemelter1172
      @snowflakemelter1172 4 месяца назад +15

      Water power was vital in the beginning of the industrial revolution and the wet climate for agriculture, we have a lot to thank rain for.

    • @margaretnicol3423
      @margaretnicol3423 4 месяца назад +13

      @@snowflakemelter1172 Including the Mackintosh coat and Wellington boots! 🙂

    • @tedthesailor172
      @tedthesailor172 4 месяца назад +5

      The weather makes work for idle hands...

  • @mikeblunt2055
    @mikeblunt2055 4 месяца назад +136

    Proud black country lad, the birthplace of the industrial revolution. We have a black country museum which is like going back in time. Lots of demonstrations by people who are dressed like back in the day. Recommend if you ever pop over to England 👍👍

    • @keithrudd8003
      @keithrudd8003 4 месяца назад +7

      Ow am ya ?

    • @The-Underbaker
      @The-Underbaker 4 месяца назад +9

      I visited the Black Country Musuem in Dudlaaay (lol) decades ago, fascinating stuff. 👍

    • @MrGremlin69
      @MrGremlin69 4 месяца назад +3

      Aer bin ya me mon

    • @keithwebster5161
      @keithwebster5161 4 месяца назад +8

      I think you'll find thats Manchester.

    • @mrgent112
      @mrgent112 3 месяца назад +2

      I was there a few months ago. A truly amazing place

  • @AxiomTheory
    @AxiomTheory 3 месяца назад +20

    I went to Disney World in Florida when I was young and cindarella said to my dad "I know some British, Bollox you wanker!" 😂😂😂

  • @mrsmaggiesmyth1906
    @mrsmaggiesmyth1906 4 месяца назад +136

    Woop woop, proud to be British. We may be small, but made a big impact in the world 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

    • @redf7209
      @redf7209 3 месяца назад +6

      The inventions and discoveries meant that we created a huge market economy for resources that our own Island could not satisfy. It fuelled the worldwide trade and protecting it created the empire. Much of the modern day world will fashionably say we stole those resources without appreciating we were the only buyer in town for much of it and paid for them in the same way that international trade does today with goods and investments in return but without internal tariffs.

    • @moneypennyx3327
      @moneypennyx3327 3 месяца назад +1

      Absolutely ❤

    • @richardday487
      @richardday487 2 месяца назад

      Too true

  • @davecroad6277
    @davecroad6277 4 месяца назад +289

    I don't want to blow my own trumpet but God us Brits are clever

    • @curlew-3592
      @curlew-3592 4 месяца назад +30

      Sadly, we WERE clever! 🇬🇧

    • @RO-vh8ln
      @RO-vh8ln 4 месяца назад +7

      Yep, and you lot created just about every ball sport and look where that got you.... 🤣😂🤣

    • @mariojakel5544
      @mariojakel5544 4 месяца назад +4

      @@curlew-3592 Brexit is very clever

    • @martinp8174
      @martinp8174 4 месяца назад +13

      curlew, have you seen the state of the EU at the moment !

    • @jackwhitbread4583
      @jackwhitbread4583 4 месяца назад

      ​@@martinp8174they're doing much better than the UK fknut

  • @jackiegould1569
    @jackiegould1569 3 месяца назад +70

    Britain always has this reputation for colonising every where but fun facts - British Isles have been invaded several times, including by the Romans, by the Germanic peoples, by the Vikings, by the Normans, by the French, and by the Dutch. We werent building an empire - we were just getting a bit of own back 😂😂😂

    • @asherandai1000
      @asherandai1000 3 месяца назад +3

      Those were just the big ones. Pretty much everyone has invaded the British isles before Britain became a power. Including the Africans, which is something almost no one seems to know.

    • @tersse
      @tersse 3 месяца назад +1

      we were just building a buffer zone :)

    • @jackiegould1569
      @jackiegould1569 3 месяца назад

      @@asherandai1000 I didnrt know that either and I was born and bred here!

    • @jackiegould1569
      @jackiegould1569 3 месяца назад +1

      @@tersse 😂😂😂 Love it!

    • @oliviagill5121
      @oliviagill5121 3 месяца назад +2

      ​@asherandai1000 no one knows because its untrue.

  • @divad2332
    @divad2332 3 месяца назад +14

    A sense of humour that wins wars

  • @lewilewis3944
    @lewilewis3944 3 месяца назад +62

    He missed out the best one...Roast dinners. There's a reason why the French call us 'Le Roast Beef'.

    • @lonalxaia
      @lonalxaia 3 месяца назад

      Dinner.....you know the rules.

    • @Coys319
      @Coys319 3 месяца назад +1

      You love them don’t lie

    • @alxgu198
      @alxgu198 3 месяца назад

      … and we call them ‘cheese eating surrender monkeys’ 😅(sorry)

    • @Skraeling1000
      @Skraeling1000 3 месяца назад +1

      "Rosbif" S'il vous plait!

    • @wodens-hitman1552
      @wodens-hitman1552 3 месяца назад

      Without the British they'd be calling us "sauerbraten"

  • @diogenesagogo
    @diogenesagogo 3 месяца назад +243

    I maintain that Britain is not a place, it's a state of mind. It means tolerance, courage, self-reliance, compassion, many other associated characteristics as well; it's the secret of our success.. That's why we're happy for anyone to come here - SO LONG as they have that outlook. Unfortunately we are currently being destroyed by people who do not share those values - & it's being promulgated by those in power. It's just so sad.

    • @jacquie2004
      @jacquie2004 3 месяца назад +4

      It used to.

    • @ASUTASTUD
      @ASUTASTUD 3 месяца назад

      The British people who hate Britain for our past are the worst though. They forget we learnt why our past did by those that invaded us 1st. Up until Ceaser invaded us we traded with Europe it was European's that informed Rome of our existence then they raided inslaved us made us fight in the coliseums then the Saxons & Vikings did similar things to us.

    • @stephenphillips8792
      @stephenphillips8792 3 месяца назад

      Yeah buddy, it's not magic dirt. It's the people that make the culture. You can't put a million Pakistanis or whatever into Britain and think they're going to change.
      Small amounts of immigration where the newcomers marry in, or assimilate completely is the only way to become British.
      This works for every ethnic group, everywhere.
      Yes, it is a "racist" truth.

    • @edstar7894
      @edstar7894 3 месяца назад +9

      @diogenesagogo
      Great comment. I am definitely a multiculturalist and love Britain for what it is, and the state of mind you refer to. You are correct, that what is happening now (the lack of tolerance of conservative ideas, emergence of fake liberals, and corruption of information) is a concerning thing but hopefully sense will prevail.
      We need to turn down the noise and start listening to each other more. We should all want the same thing. If you don’t and want to enjoy best of all worlds….not treat others as you would like to be treated then Britain is not the place for you.

    • @anitapeludat256
      @anitapeludat256 3 месяца назад

      Tolerance? When have the English been known for tolerance,?
      I'm referring to around 15 years ago and further into history. You're not even tolerant of your fellow citizens, or the
      monarchy, before razor sharp teeth with a tight lipped smile and a horse faced cackle from some women on the TV, aren't exactly signs of tolerance, some men just grunt.
      You folks are considered a nation of complainers, even by your own people. And around the globe. Perpetually Cranky.
      How do you not know this.? It can't possibly be everyone.

  • @grumpyone5963
    @grumpyone5963 4 месяца назад +57

    He forgot supersonic Concorde, a massive achievement done by virtually no one else. 100 passengers at over Mach 2! You guys will be remembered for going to the moon which is also a huge achievement.

    • @BillDavies-ej6ye
      @BillDavies-ej6ye 3 месяца назад +7

      We share that with the French, who added more than the (originally) contentious 'e' on the end of its name!

    • @LonzieSeal-lc4wm
      @LonzieSeal-lc4wm 3 месяца назад +8

      @@BillDavies-ej6yeBritish invention jet engine so we can take credit plus it was rolls Royce which is also British

    • @BillDavies-ej6ye
      @BillDavies-ej6ye 3 месяца назад +9

      @@LonzieSeal-lc4wm In fact, Frank Whittle invented the jet engine, and started the patent process in 1930. He had his own firm, Power Jets Ltd. In 1940, he approached Rolls-Royce to improve aspects of the engine, as they had experience in designing high performance superchargers.

    • @brianhume4743
      @brianhume4743 3 месяца назад +1

      To the moon ????

    • @andrewguttry6886
      @andrewguttry6886 3 месяца назад +3

      The USSR tried to copy Concorde with the Tupolev TU-144. Unfortunately it came apart in mid-air at the Paris air show, killing all on board.

  • @callum105
    @callum105 3 месяца назад +11

    Alan Turing better be mentioned here, a british hero and basically invented computers. without him we would probably be speaking german

    • @PS-iq9fb
      @PS-iq9fb Месяц назад

      The British hero you chemically castrated and drove him to suicide?

    • @davidneale7202
      @davidneale7202 15 дней назад +1

      Alan Turing didn’t invent the first computer, it was designed and built a by Tommy Flowers, a telephone engineer. He was never given proper credit for his work.

  • @willswomble7274
    @willswomble7274 4 месяца назад +198

    Soooo glad to be British. If anyone 'disses' us, which seems to be the latest trend, I humbly suggest get an education!

    • @anitapeludat256
      @anitapeludat256 3 месяца назад +7

      American here, We don't routinely bash Britain, the states have been bashed for generations, globally. It's not fun and so very predictable and isn't in anyway helpful. Of course, we're not perfect, by far for sure My apologies for the current C.F. however. Fighting the insanity I never voted for, all the way.
      There is no reason to bash you. I'm quite compassionate when a country is having problems. I hate that many small businesses, like fishermen, for example, are losing their businesses and were lied to by the govt. about Brexit. Now they say they won't vote again, which is sad, understandable, but sad. However, they must not give up on voting. That happens in the states and it's a big problem. ☮️💙🇺🇸🇬🇧

    • @mrbenn1489
      @mrbenn1489 3 месяца назад +9

      It's envy.

    • @apistodiscus
      @apistodiscus 3 месяца назад

      You voted for Brexit. I just leave it there.

    • @marial8415
      @marial8415 3 месяца назад +8

      @willswomble7274. I am not British but in the Commonwealth and I am extremely grateful for that and all that you have contributed to the world including English gardens and the reverence for dogs. Now you just need to fight to get your country back from you know which stone age religion from Arabia. Good luck!

    • @JavaAndroid
      @JavaAndroid 3 месяца назад

      ​@@apistodiscusAnd we'll be tearing the corrupt ECHR up and deporting millions of illegal immigrants soon. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @lynnedyer8714
    @lynnedyer8714 4 месяца назад +94

    This video should be shown to everyone from school children to adults, as I’m sure a lot of Brits don’t realise what trailblazers our ancestors were. Thanks girls for showing this, as we get a lot of negativity with people criticising this country, particularly at the moment. It’s the best country in the world.

    • @xanx1234
      @xanx1234 3 месяца назад +1

      I think it was ... and it could be!

    • @adamskyj69
      @adamskyj69 3 месяца назад

      " It’s the best country in the world." not anymore, it has enabled those it welcomed to move here to have an advantage over its indiginous citizens. Even the Police are biased with their two-tier political policing seeing the intollerant Islamic groups taking control and them getting away with protesting genocide waving their Jihadhi flags whilst a British citizen carrying a St Georges flag is immediately moved on or arrested. If it doesn't sort itself out, Islam will control the UK within around 30 years and then lets see how the minority becomes the majority and Sharia law rules.

  • @debbiebatten6088
    @debbiebatten6088 4 месяца назад +61

    Don't worry about the brits and aussies. We've always had a banter type of relationship. We always take the piss out of each other (especially with cricket)! And I believe we've always had a good relationship with Australia.

    • @davidberesford7009
      @davidberesford7009 3 месяца назад +3

      They are just far enough away from each other that they can get away with saying pretty much anything. Makes for interesting sporting encounters.

    • @williamgardner2739
      @williamgardner2739 3 месяца назад +13

      Australia an other British invention😄😄

    • @Lynda-vq5yl
      @Lynda-vq5yl 3 месяца назад +1

      I love Australia, Advance Australia Fair.

  • @Jackie-ji2sj
    @Jackie-ji2sj 3 месяца назад +9

    VIRTUALLY INVENTED EVERYTHING. UTTERLY AMAZING PLACE BRITAIN 🇬🇧

  • @AutoAlligator
    @AutoAlligator 3 месяца назад +105

    For such a small group of islands in the North Atlantic to have so much influence, creativity and intellect is simply staggering...

    • @jjc5407
      @jjc5407 3 месяца назад +19

      We also gave the world English, a language even our American friends can speak with a reasonable degree of skill. English is the international language. It's the one all pilots and air traffic controllers have to know.
      Then there's literature. Shakespeare, the Brontes, Austin, Dickens, Potter, Conan-Doyle, Christie, Tolkien, Fleming, Dahl, Rowling, the list goes on and on.
      And then there's popular music. The Americans may have invented Rock 'n Roll, but it was the British who gave the world The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Queen and Dire Straits. We did also give the world Ed Sheeran for which we can only apologise.

    • @derekstocker6661
      @derekstocker6661 3 месяца назад +4

      They also had the best justice system in the world, now sadly a shadow of it's former self with far too short sentences and triple killers released and many other killers released to kill again!

    • @mikebarrett5345
      @mikebarrett5345 3 месяца назад +4

      I'm not going to cover everything but here's a few more slightly quirky things:
      The Plimsoll line: stops ships from being overloaded, all modern tankers, warships, cruise liners ( which all 3 were British inventions) don't sink though overloading.
      The ARM chip, every mobile ( cell) phone in the world, has this chip. Without it, your smartphone wouldn't be so smart!
      The apple tree shaker, an adaptation of the tractor, a clamp surrounded by small buckets, meant fruit picking could be done on an industrial scale.
      The backhoe, a bucket attached to a tractor, gave rise to industry from farming, military, contruction and disaster relief. The family of John Anthony Bamford still own the company JCB and still use the same Yellow colour as the very first one!
      The Martin Baker ejection seat, every modern fighter jet in the world has a Martin Baker ( or copy of) ejector seat. Saving the lives thousands of aircrew.
      The retractable tape measure, we've all used one right, James Chesterman invented this very clever measuring device in 1829
      And let's not forget Christopher Cockerell and his wonderful invention the hovercraft, which also led to the invention of the hover mower, which fully circles back to the worlds first lawn mower another British invention by Edwin Buddings in 1830
      Also in 1830 Dr Peabody invented toothpaste!
      I hope this quirky little list helps with the 70% of things, we the British invented🇬🇧

    • @Habib12312
      @Habib12312 3 месяца назад +3

      @@jjc5407 To be fair, English is only the international language because we colonized so many countries.

    • @jjc5407
      @jjc5407 3 месяца назад +2

      @@mikebarrett5345 you can add the bag-less vacuum cleaner to the list too, courtesy of James Dyson.

  • @lat1419
    @lat1419 4 месяца назад +44

    The Arts too.. the UK have had written literature for centuries including Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, Tennyson, Dickens, etc etc

    • @janice506
      @janice506 4 месяца назад +3

      Famous Scottish writers:
      Robert Louis Stevenson
      Walter Scott
      Arthur Conan Doyle
      Ian Rankin
      Robert Burns .
      John Knox who was the founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.

    • @speleokeir
      @speleokeir 4 месяца назад +5

      Fun fact: Britain publishes more books per head than any other country. We're a nation of authors as well as inventors and scientists.
      The US and China publish slightly more books each year these days, but both have much bigger populations.

    • @lat1419
      @lat1419 3 месяца назад +2

      @@speleokeir my friend goes to the Hay festival every year. It is so accessible.

    • @dancarter482
      @dancarter482 3 месяца назад +2

      @@janice506 Funny how everything is _BRITISH_ unless it can be claimed by Scotland, Ireland or Wales!

    • @simoncarr5437
      @simoncarr5437 3 месяца назад +2

      @@dancarter482 Ireland ain't part of Britain, you do know that, don't you?

  • @jezchazania1336
    @jezchazania1336 4 месяца назад +59

    An alarm clock that makes tea, as a Brit it makes me so proud 😂

    • @stulop
      @stulop 4 месяца назад +4

      The teasmade, an aspirational purchase of the time.

    • @aussiewarriorwithbpd9380
      @aussiewarriorwithbpd9380 3 месяца назад +1

      I remember my grandparents having one that made coffee in the late 80's/early 90's...

    • @reggy_h
      @reggy_h 3 месяца назад +3

      My grand dad has something that wakes him up in the morning and makes him a cup of tea.
      What's it called?
      It's called grandma.
      Spike Milligan joke. 😁

    • @markburrows4158
      @markburrows4158 3 месяца назад +2

      "Wake up to a Goblin Teasmade"

    • @xanx1234
      @xanx1234 3 месяца назад +1

      @@markburrows4158 That's the one ........ always made me think of the Benny Hill type sketches!

  • @lesart3446
    @lesart3446 3 месяца назад +18

    the jet engine was invented in in the UK not in Germany.

    • @ahh980
      @ahh980 2 месяца назад +4

      Sir frank would turn in his grave 😮❤

    • @marioncharleston
      @marioncharleston 2 месяца назад

      Stolen by the germans.thought up by whittle

    • @FalkeEins
      @FalkeEins Месяц назад

      ...Heinkel He 178 flew first, although Frank Whittle had probably bench-tested his jet engine first..

    • @robzero1vr771
      @robzero1vr771 Месяц назад

      Developed in tandem. Mod would not take up the idea in 1931 when first presented
      Germany went with axial flow and frank was a centrifugal guy.

  • @TheAnthonycaruana
    @TheAnthonycaruana 4 месяца назад +70

    It's called a Teasmaid.

    • @nickwalters5380
      @nickwalters5380 4 месяца назад +13

      Famously the Goblin Teasmade, the source of many a smutty joke back in the day.

    • @speleokeir
      @speleokeir 4 месяца назад +1

      @@nickwalters5380 My parents had a Goblin teasmade.

    • @StechaReal
      @StechaReal 4 месяца назад +2

      A Goblin Teasmaid

    • @debbiebatten6088
      @debbiebatten6088 4 месяца назад +1

      My mum had one!

    • @Duchess_of_Cadishead
      @Duchess_of_Cadishead 4 месяца назад +1

      There wouldn’t be many around in use these days.

  • @smarsh7727
    @smarsh7727 4 месяца назад +53

    This was great right I'm off to the shed to invent something else 😂😂😂

    • @callycatus
      @callycatus 4 месяца назад +4

      😂😂

    • @jedcurry8560
      @jedcurry8560 4 месяца назад +7

      So who invented the shed in the first place ?? Got to have been us Brit's !!!!!!

    • @OnASeasideMission
      @OnASeasideMission 4 месяца назад +5

      Hail the Shed.

    • @johnleonard9090
      @johnleonard9090 4 месяца назад +2

      Well the clockwork radio was invented in a shed

    • @jedcurry8560
      @jedcurry8560 4 месяца назад +1

      @@johnleonard9090 I guess he had time to spare then !!

  • @davenunn7259
    @davenunn7259 3 месяца назад +31

    Cats eyes are reflective road ‘studs’ for showing lanes at night. Their real trick is that when a tyre runs over them the are pushed down and get cleaned!

  • @trainguy37
    @trainguy37 3 месяца назад +6

    Polythene was invented by the imperial chemical company (ICI) at Northwich, (my hometown), Cheshire. Both my Grandfather's were employed at the Winnington plant where were it was invented.

  • @angiebrain67
    @angiebrain67 3 месяца назад +21

    And the Davey lamp, which saved the lives of so many miners. Sir Humphrey Davey, thank you!

    • @robpk63
      @robpk63 3 месяца назад +1

      Davey built on the idea of the Davey lamp from studying it's precursor the Clanny lamp.

  • @gtaylor331
    @gtaylor331 4 месяца назад +235

    If countries were dogs, the UK would be a Jack Russell. Intelligent, full of character and so much power packed into something so small.

    • @cazadon
      @cazadon 4 месяца назад +11

      Yes it is it's a country of counties similar to the USA being a country of states

    • @garyskinner2422
      @garyskinner2422 4 месяца назад +15

      ​@@johnramage45
      The UK prime Minister's website has used the phrase "Countries within a country" to describe the United Kingdom

    • @thegroovetube3247
      @thegroovetube3247 4 месяца назад +9

      ​@@johnramage45the irony 😅

    • @uncoolmartin460
      @uncoolmartin460 4 месяца назад +1

      Woof !

    • @fabulousnewt770
      @fabulousnewt770 4 месяца назад +10

      ​@@johnramage45 ummmm.. of course it is.. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.😅

  • @smythharris2635
    @smythharris2635 4 месяца назад +67

    Jethro Tull invented the seed drill and went on to form a great rock band, amazing!

    • @Clive-z3u
      @Clive-z3u 4 месяца назад

      That's funny ❤

    • @smythharris2635
      @smythharris2635 3 месяца назад

      ​@@Clive-z3uLet's not forget about Nicholas Culpeper, the 17th century herbalist, he also had an excellent band, Culpeper's Orchard.

    • @dancarter482
      @dancarter482 3 месяца назад +1

      _From row-crops to BARD-ROCK!_

    • @thearmouredpenguin7148
      @thearmouredpenguin7148 3 месяца назад +3

      Not many people can stand on one leg whilst plying the flute and inventing the seed drill at the same time.

  • @MeettheFosters
    @MeettheFosters 3 месяца назад +6

    We invented the tank and the reason they are called tanks is because we disguised them on trains as water tanks to get them on to the battlefield 😂😂😂

  • @Whippy99
    @Whippy99 4 месяца назад +44

    100K subscribers! Congratulations my lovelies 🎊 🎉 For a tiny little Island, Great Britain hasn’t done too badly has it?! I’m so proud to be British, even though genetically I’m mostly Irish! 😊🇺🇸❤🇬🇧

    • @BillDavies-ej6ye
      @BillDavies-ej6ye 3 месяца назад +1

      Well, you are still from one of the British Isles, Britain referring to that other island.

    • @Whippy99
      @Whippy99 3 месяца назад +1

      @@BillDavies-ej6ye I know 😉

  • @jimspackman8527
    @jimspackman8527 4 месяца назад +162

    He didn't mention Independence Days. We've given more countries an Independence Day than anyone else.

  • @ThePalaeontologist
    @ThePalaeontologist 4 месяца назад +56

    British contributions to Natural History, Geoscience and Bioscience, the study of prehistoric life and times, is also astonishing.

    • @1984potionlover
      @1984potionlover 3 месяца назад

      Yes, but there's been genocide, slavery and taking over/away other' people's countries. The British have a poor track record when it comes to the care of anyone's lands, or the indigenous human, or the rest of the local biomes. So, that balances and tempers, sometimes rather harshly the invention, and the need for some of them. Don't get me wrong. I am a bit of an anglophile, as well as a citizen of The Commonwealth, and I adore the best, brightest, and funniest bit of the culture and some of my ancestors were from there. I'm just saying, in most things, there is a balance of bad, good, and for quite a few, a slow hope for a slightly better, maybe a little bit more equal tomorrow...that's if there's anything left by the time we find ourselves all really equal, and hopefully not because we've had a catastrophe that we caused that knocked us back to sticks and rocks, but more, because we finally become sapient wise humans we've claimed to be for just a bit now. Me thinks we could do a wee bit better, because if we don't, there won't be anyone, or anything to have worries about equality over. Humans, not just the Brits have had a habit of all through history and before, building up complicated grouping which in our case often leads to things like civilizations. We are very good at buiding them, but not terribly good at keeping them going indefinitely. Some last longer than others, but our human nature tends to want to take down, take apart, or conquer anything that belongs to "the other", etc. oh I do go on. Not too sure where this rant came from. "Sorry. Cheers, and How'se it goin',eh?" from your friendly neighbourhood Canadian ;) :)

    • @Dunk1970
      @Dunk1970 3 месяца назад

      @@1984potionlover The balance is way too much in the criticism column these days though. I would suggest "genocide" is a wild overstatement and confidently predict that the populations of all those countries you alude to have bigger populations now than they would have had if the British hadn't gone there. Sanitation, vaccines, distribution/trade networks (rail and sea), famine codes all in the plus column. India is often used as an example of the bad, but if you look at population growth in India, you see a small acceleration in population growth from 1800 and a more significant acceleration in population start from the 1920s, and there is no doubt that merely the invention of vaccines was a huge part of that growth as mortality rates significantly declined. The East India Company made losses whenever there was a famine, so it was a huge driver to try and keep them to a minimum, hence the creation of the India Famine Codes and constant measuring of climate conditions that the British introduced and maintained and India kept using into the 1970s. This doesn't mean the British were perfect, but people seem happy to ignore the fact that famines were common before the British were there.
      As a guide, under the Mughal empire the percentage population growth of India was 30% per century (0.26% growth per year). In 1820 (by which point most of India was under British rule), it started to tick upwards to 48% per century (0.39% growth per year) and from the 1920s, the growth per year was 1%. A very major uptick.

    • @Lynda-vq5yl
      @Lynda-vq5yl 3 месяца назад

      @@Dunk1970 Now it's overpopulated.

    • @Dunk1970
      @Dunk1970 3 месяца назад +2

      @@Lynda-vq5yl Indeed, but whatever you do, don't use the casual turn of phrase that Churchill did for the cause of that. LOL

  • @margaretrobertson-mi2iz
    @margaretrobertson-mi2iz 3 месяца назад +5

    God Bless Great Britain !! And we are nice too!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

    • @lindajones7219
      @lindajones7219 15 дней назад

      Yes we are kind Caring and Help our brothers along the way no matter where they are from.

  • @jeremiahdreaming2891
    @jeremiahdreaming2891 4 месяца назад +90

    It was said that the chap who invented 'cats eyes' was inspired by the reflective light of a moggie walking towards him, and that had it been walking away, he would have invented the pencil sharpener.

    • @moztheroz
      @moztheroz 3 месяца назад +2

      Lol

    • @MrHoneybee2121
      @MrHoneybee2121 3 месяца назад

      🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

    • @DenisHuaHin
      @DenisHuaHin 3 месяца назад +4

      Yes normal Brit, driving home from the pub one night he saw the light of a moggie's eyes. The clever thing was how to keep them clean, little brushes that cleaned them when you ran over them, they depressed. He also never had curtains or light shades, what is the point if you have a 70w bulb and then cover it up and make it 30w? . He never had curtains, why have a window and then cover it with curtains? He had a TV in every room so he never missed any news. Absolute Brit, mother of inventions.

    • @jeremiahdreaming2891
      @jeremiahdreaming2891 3 месяца назад +1

      @@CarolWoosey-ck2rg Ooh, thanks Carol. I wondered where I'd heard it. The wonderful Ken.. humour incarnate.

    • @SandraRustill
      @SandraRustill 3 месяца назад +3

      😂definitely British humour 😂😂

  • @elizabethwilliams5686
    @elizabethwilliams5686 4 месяца назад +30

    Well done on the 100k , and Thank you to all the Awesome Brits and inventions .

  • @anneharley5319
    @anneharley5319 3 месяца назад +30

    I would just like to add that apart from Matter and Antimatter we also invented it doesn’t matter

  • @planekrazy1795
    @planekrazy1795 4 месяца назад +37

    The Jet Engine was invented by Sir Frank Whittle (British RAF Officer) his first Patient was submitted in 1930 and was only done because of pressure on him from a friend to protect his invention. He started working on the idea in the late 20s extending his work on Ducted Fans (more efficient than Propellers).
    He found it hard to get support and funding for his ideas so he formed his own company Power Jets to develop it.
    I know the Germans made the first Jet powered flight but they used Whittle's research to do so.

    • @janice506
      @janice506 4 месяца назад

      Seems back then you had to be very secretive about your inventions as they were plenty frauds ready to steal your life’s work & claim it for themselves.

    • @bobbwc7011
      @bobbwc7011 4 месяца назад +2

      They did not. Hans von Ohain worked on it independently and came up with the far superior STILL USED axial compressor design. That is why the claim of the Germans to have invented the jet engine is actually quite justified.
      Btw i'm an engineering scientist and laymen like you underestimate the spread of information in academia before the 1940s.
      Many times, almost simultaneous inventions of the same thing did not know about the other party.
      In fact, in case of Ohain, the Germans discovered Whittle's patents just as they prepared filing their own. They were like "WTF, are we second?", then they studied Whittle's descriptions and designs and quickly found: "Nah, we're good, we're getting the patent. Our stuff is way different and better."

    • @memkiii
      @memkiii 4 месяца назад +8

      @@bobbwc7011 Hmm. An interesting interpretation of the facts there. I'm not going to argue whether Germans used any of Whittles research or that they should be proud of their achievements, even if the aircraft were produced using slave labour, but the Heinkel engine powering the first aircraft was a centrifugal design - VERY like Whittles earlier design, and AFTER seeing his patent, *not an axial flow.* Also, centrifugal compressors are very much still used in many applications, not just aircraft engines. Whittle was well aware of axial flow compressors, but rightly decided that the metallurgy of the time was insufficiently advanced to create them reliably (as the Germans found out very quickly) Their Me262 Jumo engines had life spans measured in no more than a dozen hours in service - even doubling that with careful use made it a pretty unreliable option. The contemporary Gloster Meteor was more reliable & faster.

    • @tomtd
      @tomtd 4 месяца назад +3

      @@bobbwc7011t hhe axial concept was included in Whittle’s patents and work. However the metallurgical problems with rpthe blades could not be overcome, as BMW found with the dire on wing time their engines gave,
      Whittle went to centrifugal compressor in the interests of flight safety THAT ENGINE,the first, STILL FLYS TO THIS DAY in a testament to his objectives of reliable power. The first reliable axial machine made possible by Wiggins’s alloys were produced by RR. in case Whittle failed RR did have a 4000hp piston engine under test for the next generation of aircraft which were never required.

    • @bobbwc7011
      @bobbwc7011 3 месяца назад +2

      @@memkiii It is not an interpretation, it is German patent law. The Germans discovered Whittle's work when the patent officer made them aware of it.
      The degree of butthurtness of Brits is always amazing. Just accept the engineering facts that someone else was as clever or more clever. The reason why the motors of the Messerschmitt 262 had a poor service life was the burdened German war economy, not the solution itself. And again, the axial compressor was the key that gave the German engineers the patent in the eyes of the strict patent officers.

  • @alanpowell2849
    @alanpowell2849 3 месяца назад +90

    On behalf of us Brits, you're welcome! 😁

  • @JohnMcmillan-e5c
    @JohnMcmillan-e5c 4 месяца назад +54

    There is only one reason you got 100,000, that's cause you're a great couple honest and funny keep going ladies love from Scotland ❤

    • @TheNatashaDebbieShow
      @TheNatashaDebbieShow  4 месяца назад +7

      ♥️ Thank you

    • @sylviab9628
      @sylviab9628 4 месяца назад +3

      @@TheNatashaDebbieShow I saw it popping up yesterday when I add you on my mobile as well :-) you deserve it :-)

  • @wjpshaw
    @wjpshaw 3 месяца назад +7

    21:15 Thank you for recognising our contribution of the word "wanker". A true British person is a master of swearing, considering it something of an art. Most Brits are thoughtful, intelligent people and are perfectly capable of using all of our beautiful swear words - harshly or poetically - in ways that enhance conversation rather than detract from it. They can also judge exactly when and where to throw in the perfect swear word during a conversation, taking into account flow, context, companions, timing, body language, facial expression, mutual relationships etc.
    As my kids have grown up I've gradually guided and nurtured their ability to swear the same way I've taught them how to use salt whilst they are cooking: sparingly and only when you really need it.

  • @catieburnside3751
    @catieburnside3751 4 месяца назад +18

    When John Logie Baird was work8ng on his prototype television in Helensburgh Scotland, my grandfather was a young boy. He was one of a number of kids who pedalled a bicycle to generate electricity to power the tv.

  • @jamesgreen3417
    @jamesgreen3417 3 месяца назад +35

    In 1983 I lost my Dad to heart failure, he was 55 I was 16, when he was t work on early shifts ( 5am ) he would make my Mum cup tea. Whilst i was waiting to join the military in 85 I took a part time job and bought my Mum a teas made so she could have cup of tea in the morning

  • @williambailey344
    @williambailey344 4 месяца назад +20

    Modern toilet called Thomas Crapper😅😊 absolutely true 😊

    • @Savagetechie
      @Savagetechie 3 месяца назад

      Except it's not true, it was John Harrington.

    • @RuthFreeman-b6p
      @RuthFreeman-b6p 3 месяца назад

      Crapper didn't invent the toilet.

  • @alanflint7732
    @alanflint7732 4 месяца назад +41

    The tea making alarm clock. Famously made by a company called Goblin. I remember my older brother getting a slap around the ear when he was coming up to his 17th birthday. Mum had asked him what he wanted for his birthday. He replied "A Goblin teasmade." Which is the name it was marketed as. Mum knew he was being rude. Hence the clump around the lughole.

    • @peterhamlin618
      @peterhamlin618 4 месяца назад +5

      To be born British is to win First Prize in the lottery of life.

    • @ravenmasters2467
      @ravenmasters2467 3 месяца назад

      the 'goblin teasmade' is just too funny for words. ready-made schoolboy humour, as well as the tea.

  • @oastie3
    @oastie3 4 месяца назад +34

    You did NOT invent the light bulb; you IMPROVED another BRITISH invention. 🇬🇧 Sir Humphrey Davy first demonstrated the principle in 1802. Many others contributed to the development, culminating in Thomas Edison’s creating the long-lasting filament. 😂

    • @DJKav
      @DJKav 4 месяца назад +21

      I believe a Brit called Joseph Swan created the first usable lightbulb. I believe that they were first used in a ballroom before Edison finished his bulb.

    • @oastie3
      @oastie3 4 месяца назад +4

      @@DJKav you’re right. He was one of my “Many others contributed…”

    • @mehallica666
      @mehallica666 4 месяца назад +3

      Americans are even taught that Ben Franklin 'invented' electricity!

    • @Leenufc
      @Leenufc 4 месяца назад +8

      Ermm Joseph Swan from Newcastle upon tyne invented the working light bulb actually

    • @Leenufc
      @Leenufc 4 месяца назад +8

      Newcastle upon Tyne had the first street in the world to be lite by electricity

  • @meaneyedcat2024
    @meaneyedcat2024 3 месяца назад +54

    We didn't invent everything, but we invented a great deal and a vast amount of great significance to the world.

    • @harbl99
      @harbl99 3 месяца назад +3

      Not bad for a misty little island in the northern seas, eh? We do alright.

    • @meaneyedcat2024
      @meaneyedcat2024 3 месяца назад

      @@harbl99 We do. We have two outstanding inventors: John Harrison, who invented the marine chronometer and Sir Tim Berners-Lee who gave us the world wide web. We gave a whole bunch of other people throughout our history encompassing science, literature, art, music, agriculture, architecture, seamanship, exploration. The Mother of all Parliaments. And we built an Empire. Like it or not we had an Empire. We should be proud of our country and its achievements.

  • @jimso771
    @jimso771 3 месяца назад +2

    Actually the Scottish invented most of the things we take for granted now, things like tv, telephone, penicillin, tarmac and radar to name just a few.

  • @matt7965
    @matt7965 3 месяца назад +28

    The Scots did invent the tunnock bar which no one can deny is one of the greatest things ever

    • @dentray
      @dentray 3 месяца назад

      I have to agree, Ganie's cake come a close second though!

    • @patmiddleton3947
      @patmiddleton3947 3 месяца назад

      Aye Jimmy,😁

    • @derekcouzens9483
      @derekcouzens9483 Месяц назад

      Deep fried Mars bar .... Your welcome

    • @markdavidson9743
      @markdavidson9743 26 дней назад

      With all the great inventions you come up with a crap example.

  • @TerenceDixon-l6b
    @TerenceDixon-l6b 4 месяца назад +34

    "Netflix - America", "Netflix - America" but World Wide Web - a British invention (Tim Berners-Lee). It is now recognised that the British Industrial Revolution had its roots in the 16th Century. The "alarm clock kettle" not just boils water but, actually brews tea ready for the early morning cuppa. It's called a 'teasmade'. Again in Lutterworth, the first crime solved with DNA profiling was the murder of two schoolgirls in my town, and solved in Leicestershire.

    • @lokibrux
      @lokibrux 3 месяца назад +2

      Yeah but you might watch RUclips or Netflix on your TV,.. oh wait...

    • @J2897Tutorials
      @J2897Tutorials 3 месяца назад +1

      Yes, that is true. The murder of two schoolgirls, Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, England, in 1983 was one of the first crimes to be solved using DNA profiling. The case was highly publicized and remained unsolved for several years. In 1987, a man named Colin Pitchfork was arrested and later convicted of the murders. The DNA evidence used to link Pitchfork to the crime was a significant innovation in forensic science and marked the beginning of the use of DNA profiling in criminal investigations. The case was significant, not only because of the use of DNA profiling, but also because it highlighted the importance of forensic science in solving crimes. It also led to the establishment of the Forensic Science Service in the UK, which was responsible for providing forensic science services to the police and other law enforcement agencies.

    • @grahamfrear9270
      @grahamfrear9270 3 месяца назад

      She was joking. Didn't you get it.

    • @TerenceDixon-l6b
      @TerenceDixon-l6b 3 месяца назад +2

      @@J2897Tutorials I know, at the time the two girls were both enrolled at the local secondary school in Lutterworth (for 14 to 18-year-old students then) called Lutterworth Grammar school (although, a grammar school in name only). My wife at the time taught at the school and combined her teaching duties with her role as head tutor of a 'pastoral division'. We lived less than 50 yards from the school at the time. Lynda and Dawn were both in my wife's 'division' for their pastoral care, and she knew both of them well. I was teaching in another large secondary school just a few miles away and one of the young male teachers from my department had to undergo DNA profiling, but Peter was fortunately cleared. The girls were abducted, raped and killed while returning home from school, walking from the school bus. Both in more or less the same place - at different times, in a local village. Pitchfork's excuse was that his wife was having a baby, and was refusing sexual intercourse. My wife attended both funerals on behalf of the school. It was a very tense, stressful and worrying time for all of us - would the killer strike again - until he was caught? That the crime made history was lost on us then, given the horror of the loss of two young lives. As you can understand, we rarely talk of the crime, as it is still painful even at this distance in time.

    • @alxgu198
      @alxgu198 3 месяца назад

      *Teasmaid. You’re welcome …no I don’t have one 😂

  • @Phil-Sands
    @Phil-Sands 3 месяца назад +3

    Most of those inventions were by Scottish people.

  • @robertallmark248
    @robertallmark248 4 месяца назад +32

    In 1829 a train built in Stourbridge called the lion was the first train in the states. Love and peace from Wolverhampton England

    • @lat1419
      @lat1419 4 месяца назад +2

      I had a summer job at a Compsny called Colchester Lathes that was still building steam engines to export around the world in the 70s.

  • @MousePotato
    @MousePotato 4 месяца назад +15

    Apart from the trains the railways, bicycle, steam engine, pistons, steam ships, propellers, gas turbines, pnuematic tyres, tarmac, roundabouts, tanks, the industrial revolution, cement, steel hammer, long distance underwater cables, telephone, television, CT Scanners, ultrasound, chloronated water, electronic computer, chronometer, atomic clock, World Wide Web, gas stove, tin cans and the teasmade, what have the British ever done for the world?

    • @tuppyglossop222
      @tuppyglossop222 3 месяца назад +1

      Logarithms. John Napier of Merchiston, Edinburgh. Died 1617.

  • @NotALot-xm6gz
    @NotALot-xm6gz 4 месяца назад +131

    Gotta give full credit to the Scots for inventing a whole bunch of British inventions. After the Brits, Northern Europeans invented just about everything that the Greeks and the Romans didn’t.

    • @mrechelon7051
      @mrechelon7051 3 месяца назад +24

      The Scots are great inventors and engineers. And I am English ...credit where credit is due...🙂

    • @TorrentUK
      @TorrentUK 3 месяца назад +18

      Yup, proud Englishman, but wholly accept the Scots played a huge role in inventions attributed to Britain. Hope they stick with us. We can be rivals, but great compatriots :)

    • @stumac869
      @stumac869 3 месяца назад +9

      One of the greatest Scotsman is James Clarke Maxwell.

    • @McConnachy
      @McConnachy 3 месяца назад +2

      @@mrechelon7051thank you for that 👍

    • @FlossieB
      @FlossieB 3 месяца назад +9

      The Scots are British like the Welsh, English and Northern Irish. We have all had a hand in inventing things.

  • @TheBoyHoey
    @TheBoyHoey 3 месяца назад +2

    People forget the British, specifically the English invented football, the largest and richest sport in the world

  • @paulwalker1793
    @paulwalker1793 4 месяца назад +23

    Definitely proud to be British 🇬🇧❤️, congratulations. To you both 💕

  • @vogonpoet5860
    @vogonpoet5860 4 месяца назад +26

    so no brits, no electric so no radio, no tv, no computers, no web, no you tube ! no electric no home apliances no safe lighting and no alarm clock or to use its trade name "teas maid/made" which from the 70s to date is a staple wedding gift. in the 2000s it was estimated 90% of british homes contained a teasmade even if not regularly used.

    • @LilMonkeyFella87
      @LilMonkeyFella87 4 месяца назад +2

      And a VERY common prize on 70-90s gameshows 😅

    • @catieburnside3751
      @catieburnside3751 4 месяца назад

      As we were a coffee drinking family we never owned one.

    • @langers8
      @langers8 4 месяца назад

      No electric chair

    • @keithhitchings8911
      @keithhitchings8911 19 дней назад

      Germany claim as inventers of computer. Also they claim tv.. Italy invented Radio. The bicycle was an German invention.

    • @lindajones7219
      @lindajones7219 15 дней назад

      Trade name Goblin Teasmade.

  • @stevieduggan1763
    @stevieduggan1763 4 месяца назад +60

    Fun fact regarding " cat's eyes " water gathers in the cavity below, and when you run over them they depress in to the water and little brushes clean them. This saves on maintenance. Genius!
    Love you girls, keep going. 🖖🇬🇧🇺🇸💜

    • @jonathanfinan722
      @jonathanfinan722 4 месяца назад +3

      The bloke who invented them, Percy Shaw, made them so when he was drunk driving home from getting pissed up in Halifax to get to Queensbury he wouldn't fall off the hill side. He was a notorious nutcase who had a tv for every channel in house.

    • @Tidybitz
      @Tidybitz 3 месяца назад +7

      ​@@jonathanfinan722 ... As he died in the mid 70s, he would have only needed three televisions as there were only three channels and prior to 1964 only two channels.

    • @timothyking2248
      @timothyking2248 3 месяца назад

      @@jonathanfinan722Yorkshireman

    • @liberatumplox625
      @liberatumplox625 3 месяца назад +1

      I think it's a rubber gasket, not brushes, but I could be wrong.

    • @BOXOFDEMONS666
      @BOXOFDEMONS666 3 месяца назад +1

      Percy shaws first cats eyes factory was just up road from me up boothtown Halifax there’s a Wetherspoons named after him down town

  • @TheScottcool
    @TheScottcool 3 месяца назад +13

    So the British gave us concrete , electricicity ,cars, flushing toilets, vaccines, ivf, and democracy but what else have the british ever done for us .
    (A monty python joke )

  • @Vasyla77
    @Vasyla77 3 месяца назад +17

    Makes me very proud to hail from this glorious island 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

  • @royhardy407
    @royhardy407 4 месяца назад +52

    One important invention he missed was the M R I scanner , which was invented here in Nottingham at Nottingham University.

    • @garygalt4146
      @garygalt4146 4 месяца назад

      The work was spread around to other institutions as well I new someone who had a small input and the one place he never lived in was Nottingham

    • @davestubbs7274
      @davestubbs7274 4 месяца назад +5

      Apparently dogs can't operate MRI machines, but catscan.

    • @timberry1135
      @timberry1135 3 месяца назад +1

      The principal was invented in Nottingham, the first full body scanner was invented in Aberdeen

    • @jujutrini8412
      @jujutrini8412 3 месяца назад

      I was surprised he didn’t say that.

    • @fredfunf3456
      @fredfunf3456 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@@davestubbs7274They found that interesting fact out during a lab test.

  • @markyboy7012
    @markyboy7012 4 месяца назад +55

    Congrats on 100k
    As a Brit I’m obviously proud that we basically invented the world (joke)
    But sadly nowadays we aren’t allowed to be proud to be English. We aren’t allowed to celebrate St. George’s Day as we’re accused of being racist.
    Maybe more people should appreciate our role in developing the modern world.

    • @UKJesterVids
      @UKJesterVids 4 месяца назад +4

      plenty of people celebrated England's Turkish saint this year

    • @OrganMusicYT
      @OrganMusicYT 4 месяца назад +4

      You do realise that England is not Britain?

    • @Dave.Thatcher1
      @Dave.Thatcher1 4 месяца назад +1

      @@UKJesterVids And most, if not all Irish celebrate e Welsh Saint.......Patrick!
      You were saying?!!

    • @privatechannel8462
      @privatechannel8462 4 месяца назад +3

      I spent the 70s watching the National Front wave that flag, it's so ingrained I just have to see that flag and think rasict, it's been 50 years, I Don't think that's going to change for me. I'm English. I hate the flag...

    • @markyboy7012
      @markyboy7012 4 месяца назад

      @@privatechannel8462 so you’re basically saying if you’re proud to be English you’re automatically a racist. Yet I bet you celebrate St Patrick’s day. Shame.

  • @anthonywilson4873
    @anthonywilson4873 4 месяца назад +24

    Sorry Brits invented TV and the Thermionic Valve allowing Radios amplifiers and Computers to be developed. They also invented the Worlds first Electronic computer during WWII at Bletchley park. There is a museum there. No Netflicks or anything else on a screen without that.

    • @bobbwc7011
      @bobbwc7011 4 месяца назад +1

      TV: Manfred von Ardenne based on Felix Braun's tubes. Widely accepted opinion in engineering.

    • @johnfisher9692
      @johnfisher9692 3 месяца назад +1

      @@bobbwc7011 You're as bad as Chekov on ST and about as accurate

    • @rogertaylor6386
      @rogertaylor6386 3 месяца назад

      One of the biggest breakthroughs in electronics was the transistor,that was invented by the Americans

    • @xanx1234
      @xanx1234 3 месяца назад

      @@rogertaylor6386 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld - Austro-Hungarian

    • @seancassidy674
      @seancassidy674 3 месяца назад +1

      TV was a largely iterative process - CRT origins in Germany, final step to modern TV in the US - with English and French in-between steps - a lot of complex devices didn't originate solely from one source.

  • @artistjoh
    @artistjoh 4 месяца назад +26

    Americans are usually most surprised that that thing they think of as so very American, the apple pie, was a British desert from long before there was a USA.

    • @lat1419
      @lat1419 4 месяца назад +1

      Macaroni cheese too.. First recipe from the kitchen of King John.

    • @artistjoh
      @artistjoh 4 месяца назад +1

      @@lat1419 You are mistaken about King John. Cheese and pasta casseroles, which later developed into macaroni cheese are a 14th century invention, probably in Italy, but quickly spreading to England. Cheese and pasta casseroles were first recorded in the 14th century in the Italian cookbook Liber de Coquina, which was made from Parmesan cheese and pasta. A cheese and pasta casserole known as makerouns, was next recorded in the 14th-century English cookbook the Forme of Cury. This was more than a century after King John. Both Italian and English versions predate Columbus's "discovery" of America.

    • @lat1419
      @lat1419 4 месяца назад +1

      @@artistjoh we can argue forever on this! The original recipe was for pasta "seethed with cheese".

    • @artistjoh
      @artistjoh 4 месяца назад +2

      @@lat1419 To quote from British Food: A History:
      The first mention of it my side of the Pond can be found in the 1769 classic cookbook The Experienced English Housekeeper by Elizabeth Raffauld. It says To Dress Macaroni with Parmesan Cheese:
      Boil four ounces of macaroni till it be quite tender and lay it on a sieve to drain. Then put it in a tossing pan with about a gill [a quarter of a pint] of good cream, a lump of butter rolled in flour, boil it five minutes. Pour it on a plate, lay all over it parmesan cheese toasted. Send it to the table on a water plate, for it soon gets cold.
      All the elements of a modern macaroni cheese: the appropriate pasta, a proto-béchamel sauce, plenty of cream and lots of cheese; perhaps surprisingly, parmesan cheese.
      But we can go back even further; back to the 1390s in fact, with Britain’s earliest cookbook Forme of Cury. Pasta made from breadcrumbs (I must try it sometime) cooked in a velouté sauce (like a béchamel but made with stock instead of milk), and something called chese ruayn which was a hard cheese similar in taste to brie, resulting in something half-way between macaroni cheese and a lasagne. I wonder if there’s an extant French cheese that could fit the bill if I tried to cook this dish?
      Take good broth and do in an earthen pot. Take flour of payndemayn [high quality white bread] and make thereof past[e] with water, and make therof thynne foyles as paper with a roller; drye it hard and seeth [simmer] it in broth. Take chese ruayn grated and lay it in dishes with powdour douce [a mix of warm spices such as cinnamon, cloves etc], and lay on the loseyns [the pasta sheets] isode as hole as thou myst, and above powdour and chese; and so twyce or thrice [i.e. layer it up], & serve it forth."
      The 1769 recipe was the earliest record of macaroni cheese as we would recognise it today. The recipe from the 14th century while similar in that it contained pasta and cheese was clearly different enough that it is correct to call that a casserole.
      What is your source for a recipe from King John? I can find no information that predates the 14th century. There is a book from Oxford University Press about the court of King John called Power and Pleasure: Court Life Under King John, 1199-1216 which has an entire chapter on food and feasting, but sadly I do not have access to that book.

    • @snowflakemelter1172
      @snowflakemelter1172 4 месяца назад +1

      The Sahara desert was invented before apple pie.

  • @clarelawton4653
    @clarelawton4653 4 месяца назад +13

    Cats eyes studs reflect the vehicles headlights, they are different colours to denote lanes, lay-bys, exits, etc

  • @beefy8269
    @beefy8269 4 месяца назад +26

    Not exactly EVERYTHING, just everything that matters. Alas you have us wrong, we don't need our egos stoked bragging really isn't in our make up, but there's a certain sense of pride and achievement in the contributions we've made to the world

    • @sophiabee8924
      @sophiabee8924 3 месяца назад

      Mmm.....not plumbing or central heating and running water though. So not everything that matters.

    • @Beefy5039
      @Beefy5039 3 месяца назад

      Mmmmm thats 3 things well done

    • @peterwilson7532
      @peterwilson7532 3 месяца назад

      ​@@sophiabee8924The flushing toilet, as mentioned, British. Otherwise a toilet is just a bucket or a holed box.

  • @Book-Mark
    @Book-Mark 3 месяца назад +17

    As a Brit. I can say, great video! Thanks for making me smile.

  • @MantisEnergy
    @MantisEnergy 3 месяца назад +8

    The British won the American war of independence, against the other British who were still in Britain 😄

    • @petegarnett7731
      @petegarnett7731 2 месяца назад

      If you have to blame the British for anything it should be the United States of America.

    • @lostcountry8411
      @lostcountry8411 Месяц назад

      100 per cent, it was basically British fighting British and the British won.

  • @gailbryan8520
    @gailbryan8520 3 месяца назад +10

    The British are amazing people who created lots of amazing things 💪💪💪👏👏👏👏🇬🇧🌹💖

  • @F11BAR84
    @F11BAR84 4 месяца назад +11

    Making me feel very proud to be a Brit this morning. Thank you :-) great video.

  • @applejack4225
    @applejack4225 3 месяца назад +57

    Britain civilised, educated and modernised the world. Yet we remain modest, quiet and humble.

    • @anitapeludat256
      @anitapeludat256 3 месяца назад

      😂

    • @kazles6706
      @kazles6706 3 месяца назад

      Very true !

    • @Hammerman48
      @Hammerman48 3 месяца назад +5

      Aborigines and Māoris might disagree about being “civilised and educated”. They managed pretty well before we invaded their lands. In fact they were much better off…..

    • @anitapeludat256
      @anitapeludat256 3 месяца назад

      ​@@Hammerman48
      Spot on!

    • @GrantMC100
      @GrantMC100 3 месяца назад

      And are being erased by our disgraceful politicians and the left who demand open borders to dilute us from existence. Theres only so much a tiny island can take. Bye bye world. 😞

  • @krognak
    @krognak 2 месяца назад +4

    As a Brit I take full credit and bragging rights for every single one of these inventions. You're welcome, planet Earth.

  • @GBManGentle
    @GBManGentle 4 месяца назад +37

    We Brits naturally have the inventor's minds deep in our cores

    • @markfranklin387
      @markfranklin387 4 месяца назад +9

      I'm a scouser and am the proud holder of two patents in nuclear engineering,....

    • @anitapeludat256
      @anitapeludat256 3 месяца назад

      It is great to know how many people worked hard to make life better . There was no snoozing or complaining about the
      weather then, there was a lot of determination, perseverance, brain power and burning the midnight oil, during some very difficult times.