He wasn't forgotten about in Camborne, Cornwall when I lived there as a kid about 60 years ago. There was a statue of him outside the library which you have pictured near the end of your video. We used to sing a song Camborne Hill, which was about Trevithick's engine going up and down Camborne Hill. There was also a commemorative plaque is inlaid in a wall to mark the occasion.

I'm 72 years old with a good head of hair so I like to show it off . Ha ha .

Died in poverty, buried in an unmarked grave; such a cruel ending for a remarkable man.

Most people I know and work with in the US wear hats. Maybe it's a regional thing?

We bald men support hats 😊😊😊. I guess 🤷 my New Era hats 👒 works

I believe that one of the possibilities was that after cars switched from “bench seat” to bucket seats with higher seat backs wide brim hats became cumbersome to wear hence drivers today mostly wear baseball type hats.

I enjoyed this a lot, thanks very much

Some hats are ok. Others, for example, baseball caps worn backward by men of any age, make the wearer look like an asshole. Women who wear them that way are, to be more polite about it, just pathetic in echoing the look of men. I’ve also always hated fedoras. It seems that every celebrity male eventually gets photographed wearing a fedora because some photographer or art director thinks it’ll look Kool. It doesn’t. Likewise on lawyers and Wall Street types who strut around in them in wintertime. Finally, anyone who isn’t an actual cowboy should be embarrassed to go out in public wearing a Stetson or facsimile.

Just low class people wear backwards ball caps these days.

Not true.Just look at all of the backwards baseball caps.

I wear a hat everyday and even sleep with my hat on. I am unsure if I can even physically remove it at this point? 😮

Never ever do I not wear a hat If I’m out of bed my hat is on as standard. Same as beards. Barefaced men are suspicious to me 😂

Too expensive and it messes the hair.

The way things was done is because 99% percent of human are right handed.

Because of hair product sales mostly, also, the reintroduction from medieval times of hooded tops and jackets hasn't helped the wearing (and sales) of hats other than the wearing of baseball caps (which I don't like wearing.)

Standard gauge is such a strange size to pick but here is a reason for this. The original wheels had the flange on the outside of the tracks, not inside as they are now. That meant the width between the flanges was 5 feet exactly, and the gauge to fit this was 4 feet 8 1/2 inches. Ta Da ! By the time they found that inside flanges worked much better, there was so much track already in use, they just adjusted the axle width of the new-fangled ones.

Great video. Just the perfect length and packed with information about a hero of the industrial revolution, about whom I knew virtually nothing. Thank you.

Norm Macdonald would have loved this

For me it cause acne around forehead

I ask this question before my grandfather always had a hat on walking out the door.

Funnily enough, the same things hold true in other industries too. Railways - Being a British invention - Adhered to the _Left hand traffic_ principle that we're well known for, and this was absorbed into the French network for the fact the first railways in France were built by British companies working under contract. To this day the French mainline network - Despite it's own _significant_ advancements in railway technology since those days - *Still* drives on the left, as does the Metro de Madrid. 😇 What would be nice though is to see a little bit of cultural exchange in this area. The British gave France railways with left-hand traffic...So can we *please* get ourselves past that pointless 125mph ceiling and _Get Britain a soddin' TGV system!!!_ 🚄🇫🇷❤‍🔥💨👍

I still wonder why people don't use umbrellas.

Because putting passenger-compatible doors on both sides would compromise the airframe. They chose left.

I blame the safety dance

Going to the barber shop has become so expensive that I've just been shaving my head and wearing baseball caps all the time for the past 10 years.

My old man always wore a hat . ✌️🇺🇲

It wasn't Kennedy that made wearing hats go out of fashion, it was Elvis Presley.

You're wrong on two points. First thing is the tricorn; it was called that because it has three corners. Not horns as you call them. Second, the most popular hat in the old west wasn't the bowler or derby. It was the slouch hat.

The cost is high. There is risk of it falling off and blowing away. Taxi driver caps are safer.

Nice. I wear a lot of straw and other wide rimmed hats in the summer. Totally functional but very few do in South Dakota. Most farm equipment has air conditioning now too so they wear the baseball styled variety almost exclusively.

When my Dad went car shopping in the 60's and 70's, he always wore his tallest hat on test drives "to make sure there is enough head room in it" to allow him to wear his hat while driving.

I still wear a hat!

I live in a sunny place. I wear a hat every day. I consider it essential. And I do remember my grandmother insisting I wear hat every time I left the house.

ha ha the adult idiots that wear baseball hats looking like adult babies, and the uber douchy ones that wear them backwards

Great video, thank you! Also a fantastic way to deal with lawyers! 😂

I never got into hats. When I was a kid, on most days I was either at home or at school, and wearing a hat sitting around in your room at home is just weird, and you were banned from wearing hats at school and they'd take them from you if you tried, so I just never developed a desire to wear them.

Hats off to you sir 😂

I stopped wearing hats other than wet or snowy weather because every tom dick and harry would think its funny to steal it. Either being playful or malicious.

5 Fedoras, 2 caps all of which I wear regularly plus some other assorted head wear. Would not be without them.

In the summer, I always wear my navy or MLB ballcap. In the winter, I always wear a stocking cap with a brim to keep my head warm. I even wear it in the house, so I can keep the thermostat lower.

Most dumb asses still wear them backwards.

I also heard that, since most people are right-handed, they carry their swords and pistols on their right sides. That being said, it's easier to mount a horse, on the left side, so that your right hand can be unencumbered, in case you have to defend yourself.

Aircraft are NOT symetrical, far from it.

seven minutes...hmm....lets see...oh yeah...something, called...tradition.....

JFK wouldn't wear a hat. When he gave his famous speech (ask not) he refused to wear one and when the people saw this they too took off their hats. Fashion changed that day.

Maybe because it is the PORT side of the plane .

That is the reason the intelligent people drive on the left side of the road, 🫡 as we have our right hand on the steering wheel and the right eye to judge the car/horse/aeroplane😜

Hat hair. It looks ridiculous. Hence, no more hats.

is it not called bib & brace in the rest of world?

All have to squeeze through one door, however as soon as you sit down they tell you they have about ten doors!!!!