American Reacts to What Did the British Ever Do For Us?

[@tommills9024]

Brits also invented america, proof that not every invention is a good idea

[@CubanWarThunder]

America wasn’t invented, it was discovered. I am British myself and America is a very strong country defending and combating against Russia and their allies.

[@AndyB-kq7xv]

LMFAO You got that right, I';ll pay that 1. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@skibidat9808]

@@tommills9024 E en bad idea's can produce some good outcomes. If we hadn't invented America we wouldn't have Donald.

[@richardballinger784]

'A good idea, that's got out of hand'. The Pub Landlord.

[@VincitOmniaVeritas.]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍. Good one mate.

[@MichaelLamming]

"God is British, that's why we don't have earthquakes. You don't shit on your own doorstep". Al Murray

[@LindaOvenstone-hg3gl]

@@MichaelLamming Britain does have Earthquakes but usually just little ones and a lot of them in the last few years were down to Shale Gas Exploration Al Murray is a very funny man 😄😁

[@MostlyPennyCat]

If anything is evidence that earth is an alien experiment, the isles of Great Britain and Japan are our strongest evidence. Opposite sides of the globe. One with and one without fossil fuels and metal ores. One with and one without much arable land. Everyone trying to kill both islanders all the time. Both written histories start approximately 0 AD I mean, this is a joke comment but there's so many parallels it really does look like an experiment sometimes. Forgot one! Both are roughly 130,000 square miles in size.

[@FLANKCASTLE]

We do have earthquakes, we just haven’t had many thankfully, and the ones we have had where really small

[@lordsofafan372]

​@@LindaOvenstone-hg3glwe had one not so long ago in south Wales and it shook my house 😂. But in general we don't feel ours that's all lol. Al Murray is quality tho 😂

[@windyfarmer.6095]

Sorry but did you mean he's a Yorkshireman.

[@zahkgames5812]

We British also re-invented condoms. The Muslims used the first condoms, using sheep or goat intestines. We British refined this concept by removing the intestines from the animal first.

[@MichaelPickles]

Also great wit and sarcasm! Point and case.

[@geordiejaygaming2878]

😂

[@bremnersghost948]

ROFL, Sprayed my cuppa on my monitor reading this XD

[@Bellend361]

😂😂😂😂

[@markmorrid8144]

Just following the prophet 😂😂

[@UKFishingFinesse]

The fact you're surprised is baffling. It's not like we were the biggest empire in the world....

[@YourGeoGrApHY09]

We were lol 😂. (Ik ur sarcasm)

[@John-cq9jb]

Typical American think they invented anything that makes life normal

[@wf3644]

America is basically British Empire 2.0

[@WAMSMASHES]

American's call their National competition the world series. They don't tend to know much outside the borders and a lot of Americans can't even locate America on a map. But that's probably because most Americans don't have maps or the Iraq or something

[@gordonmarshall52]

We are the empire on which the sun NEVER sets!!

[@lorddante9048]

It’s common knowledge outside of the US because Americans don’t like being told that they didn’t invent it and that the US is the centre of everything. There is a world beyond the US and thank you for looking beyond your country’s borders and gaining knowledge of the world.

[@Cassxowary]

true hut you contradicted yourself there by saying americans… and also, not just the US didn’t invent most things but also it wasn’t the white men that are still getting fame for it long after they’re gone too… either stolen from other whites or from people that aren’t even white

[@shauntbarry]

The majority don't have a passport either... Also don't understand why English isn't the first language in Europe (That's actually a question I got asked on my first trip to the Caribbean in 1999)

[@dshelo01]

Europeans are self-loathing

[@teeeeeeennniieeeeboy]

US was colonised by the British they seem to forget that they ain’t exactly Americans when the whole of the population come from diff corners of the earth 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 they wiped out the real Americans when they slaughtered them majority of them …

[@yalnevatekofreedom5096]

It's called full of themselves, yet it's more the bloaks than the lasses. I'll give you an example. Me and me wife went Mexico for our honeymoon. Only 1 day left before we flew home there was an iron Man contest, all though I had no intention of doing it, the wife told all the brits that was there I was military and can swim like a fish. Everyone erupted encourage me to go take Part. The prize was vip tickets to Coco dongos (where the film mask was made) Long story short I beat the bloak and explained me an the wife flew back to the UK that following morning and offered the tickets to the couple from the US. The woman couldn't thank us enough, the bloak refused to shake me hand. Built like a brick shithouse with matchstick legs with socks up to his knees and flip flops lol Total tool.

[@rustyblade5845]

This will rock you Americans to the core, no pun intended. Apple Pie is British, we gave it you.

[@happyapple4269]

and Baseball, oh and a brit invented basketball too.

[@Wabbit_Hunta]

The Pilgrims took it over with them, along with a lot of other things that 'merkins' take for granted!

[@talonkarrde9904]

@@Wabbit_Hunta Well, then, thanks. It's delicious.

[@jayjay-71]

​@happyapple4269 basketball was played for a few years, before someone had the idea of cutting a big hole in the basket..

[@DJKav]

Ice hockey also is British.

[@mreazy9877]

As a Brit living in these dark times in England I really appreciate this thank you.

[@Octopusgivesyouahundo]

Who’d u vote for?

[@delinquentsplayground]

They are dark times indeed. It's a shame to see how downhill we are going. And no, I did not vote for Starlin.

[@thedave3880]

Vote dave for change 👍 I'll fight starmer at ufc 521 then farage at 522 those are my pledges

[@Pr0ject2]

It's sad seeing how great and innovative we once were. Absolute shell we are now.

[@longdongsilver9426]

Drama Queen

[@LizzieWhiz]

Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, who noticed that mold growing on a Petri dish of bacteria seemed to be preventing the bacteria from growing. During the 2nd World War the uniforms of soldiers were impregnated with Penicillin during the D-day landings. This meant that if they were ever wounded they could use their uniform as bandages.

[@grantarneil8142]

Another legendary Scot!

[@NSDeepDish]

Oh, America actually helped with this one! Fleming discovered penicillin but didn't do much with it. Two more (British) scientists, Florey and Chain (I think... idk I don't study history anymore) developed it into a drug, which was then mass-produced in US factories :3

[@iMANC1966]

Once you watch this video, it helps non Brits to understand how such a small Island nation had the biggest Empire in the world. Not just having a well trained military, but some of the best brains in the world too.

[@ayethein7681]

Have you commented on when Britain nuked America -trice?

[@eleanorrichards3879]

Just a reminder of how far we (brits) have fallen! 🤣

[@iMANC1966]

@@eleanorrichards3879 Indeed. 😔

[@JeanetteSitton]

Alas, we have come full circle. Britain is now on it’s arse, I’m very sorry to say, which is courtesy of our Far Left Woke bastards. Signed, a lamenting native Brit, London.

[@JeanetteSitton]

Alas, we have come full circle. Britain is now on it’s arse, I’m very sorry to say, which is courtesy of our Far Left Woke bastards. Signed, a lamenting native Brit, London.

[@skipper409]

The most fundamental invention that supports life - the Yorkshire Pudding is British

[@christinemarshall1366]

I thought that was Spotted Dick!

[@blocoes2757]

100% true, not an exaduration i just love em

[@UserNameInProduction]

It's so good in a roast that it's not a roast without it

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@UserNameInProduction YEP, IT WAS A YORKIE WHO INVENTED THOSE ''CATS-EYES'', IN THE ROAD, WHICH ARE SELF CLEANING WHEN A CAR RIDES OVER THEM.

[@johnmcgrail8781]

@@skipper409 and black pudding

[@colinbirks5403]

Flushing Loo? Loo is Brit slang for toilet. But, whilst I'm here. The lightbulb was invented by Brit Joseph Swan, not Edison.

[@DFMSelfprotection]

Swann sued Edison for patent theft... and won!

[@TheGingerburger]

Actually a Scottish bloke James Bowman Lindsay invented the lightbulb but didn't patent it because he believed that it was a gift to mankind not for profit

[@philhallbrook7008]

Edison, the self promoting gobshite typical robbing Amerikkkan 😂

[@tonys1636]

@@TheGingerburger Similarly the Cats Eye reflectors, not patented as he couldn't afford to, patents are expensive. His engineering company still did alright from it. There was a previous design by someone else but not self cleaning or retractable in a solid cast iron mount that did not catch on with road authorities as prone to damage and caused punctures.

[@paul39a]

the word loo is victorian, they didnt like to call it a toilet so they said i am goingto room 100....hence loo

[@grahammurphy2046]

It is really refreshing to see an American humbled by the British and our accomplishments.

[@Arfursmallpigeon]

Clearly an open minded and intelligent chap!....Splendid!

[@TheMagicMudkip_2]

"Next you’ll say the British invented life" ***Looks nervously at Dolly the sheep***

[@Tishanfas]

And Louise Brown

[@beng7845]

We discovered DNA so close..

[@DJKav]

@@beng7845 No, we also invented DNA cloning. Dolly the sheep was the world's first cloned live animal from the DNA of a donor egg.

[@johnmcgrail8781]

We did discover DNA 🧬

[@johnmcgrail8781]

Frank Wittal invented the jet 🛩️ engine at Farnborough Hampshire

[@paulusarnhelm704]

Magna Carta.The most important document ever written. English Common Law,

[@theriddick2735]

The first bill of rights, now made defunct by ethnic minorities and 'multiculturalism'.

[@freddibna4976]

Yup constitution based on it

[@eddhardy1054]

Only the Magna Carta isn't technically English Common Law

[@patrickporter1864]

What of brehon law before it. Well over 900 years old before magna carta. Suppressed by the statutes of kilkenny and finally overthrown in the 17th century. The first apartheid statutes. 😊

[@GeoffreyEvans-re8bp]

I think our laws are in the process of being rewritten at this moment 😢

[@notlyxu]

Learning that the brits invented the steam engine, and started the industrial revolution (among other things) *is* very common knowledge almost everyone (atleast in western europe) learns in school.

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

Steam power was Heron of Alexandria and he invented - among other things - opening doors driven by steam power and an early form of the modern dispensing machine for drinks [water if I remember correctly] which used tokens. But the modern steam engine was British.

[@philmarsden9594]

@@MayYourGodGoWithYou his steam engine was for sure the first. but it was weak, lacking the torque to do much at all other than be a party piece. george stevensons rocket was the first "modern" steam engine. it was built using the forges in my home town before winning the rainhil trials.

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

@@philmarsden9594 Stephenson's steam engine was something totally different [the mind boggles as to where we'd be if Heron or, better still Archimedes, had invented a steam engine of the same calibre. Especially Archimedes with his penchant for nasty weaponry, we can be glad they didn't] partly because of the more modern uses it was suitable for. The thought of a steam run train running around the old Roman empire would indeed be a sight to behold as would steam powered factories [they did have water powered ones interestingly enough, or at least one, same one where they found what appeared to be the first ever production line so they were advanced in ideas but held back by lack of ''modern'' technology which is probably fortunate in some respects] but I think it best it was Stephenson who made the leap between Archimedes/Heron and the then ''modern world''. The various British inventors put their discoveries to good use FOR EVERYONE, If Archimedes discovered it instead, once the Romans had quickly worked out what he built and they would have done we would likely still be living under the modern version of the old Roman civilisation/empire much as modern China is simply an extension of their 5000 year old civilisation brought up to date. In fact the mere thought of Archimedes with Stephenson's steam engine gives me the shivers, he had a very nasty mind when it came to what to do with things against people he didn't like and I'm very glad the world DID have to wait that long. The 'Rocket' under Archimedes especially really does not bear thinking about. Steam in those days was much safer used merely for Heron's party pieces.

[@Viper607706]

Europian world history is fairly Eurocentric. Which, to be fair, it's the same in the states although there it's america centric etc. That's honestly national pride and just cultural awareness 101. Though it's always funny to me how the US has only been relevant for the past 130 years or so, while for other countries that's a footnote worth of time historically.

[@lenroddis5933]

@@philmarsden9594 "george stevensons rocket was the first "modern" steam engine" Possibly the earliest steam locomotive, but certainly not the first 'modern steam' engine.

[@Sonof_DRN2004]

“Are you gods?” “Not gods, Englishmen. The next best thing!” Don’t attack me I’m welsh.

[@elliottLcurtis]

Tbf the Scot’s invented a crazy amount of things in Welsh to

[@charliewhite1132]

Another welsh choir boy

[@Sonof_DRN2004]

@@charliewhite1132 “very good baritone sir!”

[@noggin48]

Wales has lots of Castle's, we English had to build them, because the early Welsh, were such thieving moron's. Both the Welsh and Scots, needed the English Royal Navy, to protect them from outside invasion.

[@jamese4867]

😂😂😂😂

[@melanierhianna]

Henry Ford didn't invent the assembly line. He invented the modern form of the assembly line but there were assembly lines before then. For example gun manufacture in Birmingham UK.

[@penningtonlfc]

they built steam engines the same way too,also world first skyscraper 8 floors.somewhere up north cant remember where.

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

Actually you're going to hate who possibly came up with the first assembly line - if it was done earlier they haven't found any evidence. The old trope of ''what did the Roman's ever do for us'' ring a bell, and it was actually a factory but I can't remember what they were manufacturing now. :)

[@steveholmes11]

A very good candidate for the first automated production line is Marc Brunel's mechanisation of ship block manufacture. (Isembard Kingdom Brunel's father).

[@linky8899]

First production line And first to assemble steam engines to distribute so the beginning of powered manufacturing Matthew Boulton Birmingham England

[@davidcopson5800]

Yes, the city I was born in. Very proud. And all those canals too.

[@janetbrockbank323]

Very proud Brit here! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@gdok6088]

Here too! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@nicolajohnson1887]

But your told to be ashamed though

[@blocoes2757]

@@nicolajohnson1887 nah we proud

[@nicolajohnson1887]

@blocoes2757 we ended slavery too but we get shit for that too.

[@mrgamerguy9932]

​@@nicolajohnson1887not really I'm Brit we just hate our gov

[@simonman3042]

Yes Tyler, Britain also invented the Thermos flask/ water bottle too. Sir James Dewar was the inventor of the vacuum flask. 👍

[@Yesser-Thistle73]

"The list of Scottish figures during the Enlightenment in every field vastly out numbers England or any other country. From the television and penicillin, to tidal energy turbines" -"As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics--contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since." Oh, by the way, the US Navy owes its history to Commodore John Paul Jones, who was from Dumfries & Galloway. You're welcome!

[@Yesser-Thistle73]

Sir James Dewar Born on 20 Sep 1842; died on 27 Mar 1923 Scottish chemist and physicist who blurred the line between physics and chemistry. Inventor of the Vacuum flask.

[@stevenmclaren2730]

​@@Yesser-Thistle73yes, yes, aye.

[@simonman3042]

As an Irishman, I tip my hat to the Scots, English & Welch lads….

[@thegreatestdane8978]

​@@simonman3042 and I raise my mug to you my friend across the...what even is the body of water between GB and Ireland called? Honest question.

[@Iowcatalyst]

the cats eye thing goes in the middle of the road to reflect headlights so you can see where the whitelines are. You use similar things in the US but the British versions are on springs so they depress under the road so don't get broken so much, it also cleans them

[@LookHereMars]

This makes me proud, people may say what they will of the British, regardless of their own histories being just as checkered. But this little island has done some truly great and unique things. The British with their technology literally created a New Age that revolutionsed our entire existence and possibilities as a species. Truly remarkable among many other great and noble achievements.

[@cuznerdexter]

The world today hates on us British, but our ancestors invented and built the Modern World. Facts are facts! The entire world was elevated by the progress and I am very proud they did it. 🇬🇧

[@annedunne4526]

The phrase "hates on" is American to me. They either leave out prepositions or add unnecessarily extra ones.

[@ohdearism]

Who's hating on us? Could just be you, mate, cos I'm well loved and appreciated here.

[@paulearp9593]

I'm proud of our achievements too, but it's a shame we're rapidly turning into a shithole third world country

[@shinisaber]

@@paulearp9593 we're not even close to this world, get out of your house and actually go interact with your community and make a difference instead of sitting on your phone/Pc complaining how Britain is falling apart while everyone watches their phone instead of actually just being better and inspiring others to do the same

[@shinisaber]

@@ohdearism unfortunately a lot of the world see us as the big bad colonisers even if we were one of the better colonisers unlike the French or Dutch or Spanish or Japanese,l I'm not saying we were perfect or we didn't do some abhorrent things, but generally we get all the blame even though we brought education medicine and stability to a lot of those countries .

[@rohnnyjotten3985]

The average man wakes up, put on his clothes = UK Makes himself tea or coffee and gets the milk from the fridge = UK Puts some bread in the toaster = UK Leaves his house made of steel, concrete and glass = UK Puts on his waterproof jacket because its raining = UK Gets in the car driven by an engine and drives to work on tarmac roads and nice inflated tyres = UK Goes to the ATM to get some cash = UK Gets to work where he answers the phone = UK Gets to work on his computer = UK Connects to the WWW = UK Gets a drink of fresh safe water = UK Goes to the toilet = UK Finishes work and drives home safely = UK Relaxes at home watching TV = UK Mostly watching, Golf, Football, Rugby, Tennis, Cricket = UK he then goes to sleep.

[@stevenmclaren2730]

He is Scottish no?

[@DavidBrown-im4ph]

By bread I presume you mean sliced bread, and modern mass bread production. Bread goes way back to Mesopotamia and Egypt, about 5000 years ago, plus or minus a bit.

[@rohnnyjotten3985]

@@DavidBrown-im4ph No. I was meaning the toaster 🙂

[@blocoes2757]

@@DavidBrown-im4ph yeah, funny story to bread, a king was captured (forgot who) and to stop secret messages going to him, they cut the bread into slices

[@markgilmore2017]

@@stevenmclaren2730 Maybe, but then down that road..The English invented hagis :)

[@MrEsphoenix]

The benefit of having such a large empire was that the British Isles became a bit of a centre for knowledge from across the globe, which would then be spread back across the empire. You see the same leaps in technology with other large empires, such as the Roman Empire. Of course, such advantages would be minimal these days due to communication technology and international cooperation.

[@StevieTjelly]

Scotlands influence is nuts for its population

[@davidcopson5800]

Not the best piece of syntax I've come across, but I take your point.

[@BobsYirUncle]

@@davidcopson5800😂

[@BornIn68]

@@davidcopson5800 no syntax error present when parsed through Scottish language

[@strummy77]

A lot of myths about Scottish inventions Four famous ones: 1) Fleming had nothing to do with penicillin development. 2) Bell didn’t invent the telephone. 3) Watt didn’t invent the steam engine and 4) Baird didn’t invent the television.

[@gordonharkness2101]

I think watt invented the conversion of steam,he's from my town Greenock. ​@strummy77

[@brendanriley2908]

actually, in terms of clothes... it wasn't just the mechanisation of clothing production, but how we dress, the basic trousers-jacket-shirt-skirt-dress which is the standard form of dress throughout the world is completely British, in fact to be specific, is in the invention of one man, called Beau Brummell

[@gillianboakes9455]

He sounds French.

[@brendanriley2908]

@@gillianboakes9455 born in London, in Downing Street in fact

[@G1NZOU]

And the standard black tie ensemble for formal evening wear, a shortened dinner jacket as a slightly less formal version of the originally standard white tie attire, invented by us Brits.

[@351Landau]

Hence the line in Billy Joels song.

[@marktyler3381]

Also the complex pattern cards used were in a sense early computing

[@Sebastian-vi2jh]

The Americans were taught and made a movie of how they captured the first German enigma machine. Guess what it was actually HMS Bulldog a British naval ship.

[@Cassxowary]

don’t include all of america

[@lenroddis5933]

One of the most galling misrepresentations portrayed by Hollywood. Mind you, the USA has a record of distorting their unsavoury history.

[@nutkingaming2088]

Actually the Polish captured the first Enigma Machine and gave the Brits a head start by working on cracking the code.

[@Sebastian-vi2jh]

@ also gave us brilliant pilots to help win the Battle of Britain.

[@MargotDobbie]

​@@nutkingaming2088 no that was a much easier version. Everyone bleets on about the poles. Yes they helped. But the actual enigma. That's Brits

[@KeirMurphy]

Time. We invented Greenwich Mean Time that all other timezones are based off. Before this, time didn't exist. Nobody got old. People either slept forever, or never. Cooking food was impossible, so everyone ate raw food. The Germans were jealous of this invention, so they asked a Mr Hammer to improve upon it.

[@PatrickGarrington]

lol, thank you

[@mmcd8199]

"Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.” - Winston Churchill

[@joetheblu3]

dont ever try and compare scots to the people who invented democracy

[@adamwallace8769]

@@joetheblu3yeah were different class from those kebab men

[@twb_tringo9871]

he didn't - that was winston churchill

[@johnbhoy007]

The Scot’s invented more because our weather sucks. Joe the blue should go learn these inventions are SCOTTISH not BRITISH

[@thegarageluthier]

​@@joetheblu3why we both wore skirts 😅

[@ltrtg13]

We invented the apple pie. Something like 500 years before we invented America.

[@JoannDavi]

Then Americans kicked you out and surpassed you.

[@mikehamilton7487]

Yeah, you Brits still haven’t apologised to the world for that last bit…. 😆

[@DavidKnowles0]

@@mikehamilton7487 Look the bratty teenanger still might turn to be a descent adult.

[@DjPolo-f2d]

@@JoannDavi Surpassed how? Crime, being hated, racism, mass shootings, if you mean things like that then yes. If you mean actual contribution to the world then America does not even come close.

[@eddhardy1054]

​@@mikehamilton7487 Yeah sorry! 😳

[@artistjoh]

This is common knowledge all over the world. Only Americans think that everything is invented in the US. Britain is huge, but so much that we use every day is invented elsewhere. The car was invented by the German Karl Benz. The electric drill was invented in the 19th century in Australia. In fact Australians invented the aircraft cockpit voice recorder, aka black box, and the inflatable emergency slides used on every commercial airliner was Australian too. They even invented the technology that Wifi is based on, likewise the first commercial plastic "glasses" were Australian, and while the ultrasound scanner uses British technology, the Ultrasound itself is an Australian invention. But we are all in awe of the gigantic contribution of the British. Their greatest invention was the Industrial Revolution itself. And of course, as Al Murray is want to quip, tongue in cheek, - the British invented gravity.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

The Scientific Method. We invented the invention machine itself.

[@RichardHead23]

Australians are disenfranchised british people ,,,,, .

[@artistjoh]

@ I suppose we should also add the British Empire as one of the greatest achievements of Britain, exporting democracy and the rule of law across the globe. But it had other benefits, like claiming the New Zealander Rutherford and the Australian Howard Florey. Florey shared the discovery of penicillin with Fleming and Chain. While Fleming noticed the culture in the petrie dish, but wrongly deduced what the actual active component was, he abandoned the idea for ten years, and it was Florey (and Chain as a key figure in Florey's team,) who actually first isolated penicillin and then developed the penicillin as a product to be used in medicine. But because of the special relationship due to the British Empire, Britain still manages to claim Florey's team's work as British. Especially since they conducted their work at Oxford University. It is often said that Florey saved the lives of 80 million people, for while Fleming noticed what happened in the petrie dish, it was Florey's team that put the penicillin into human bodies to fight disease. Another sort-of invention was the Rhodes Scholarship. Florey was a Rhodes Scholar, and it was the scholarship that took him from Adelaide University to his supremely important role at Oxford.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

@@artistjoh Well, there were a few people who didn't like the Empire. But someone was going to do it anyway and better us than the French or Belgians or Dutch or Spanish or Portuguese or Russians. We are nice by comparison.

[@ChronicGoblinQueen]

​@@artistjoh you know colonialism wasn't a good thing right?!

[@panda-wk8mv]

god, I would love to take you to a pub for a night and just talk about british inventions! your enthusiasm for knowledge is fantastic

[@malpa2345]

Every American should watch this video like you Tyler so they understand it’s not all about America 😂

[@Silvermachine7]

Every Brit should watch it too. I am sure the vast majority have no clue what Britain contributed to the world.

[@CommodoreRayne.IMP.C-1824]

The Americans wonder why some really don't like them and its the ignorance and arrogance they have. Assuming they are the only powerful first world nation in the world when in reality they are a 300 year old clusterfuck of ex colonists.

[@judsdragon]

@@Silvermachine7 i agree, iv picked up a lot of stuff over the decades since i left school but a lot of this information wasnt taught back in the 70s and 80s from what i can remember, yes the basics of certain sciences and the big names but rarely with any background etc

[@raykeogh1972]

@@Silvermachine7 if tey wen tu scule tey did

[@buenosdingdong]

@@Silvermachine7Industrial Revolution is taught throughout schools in Britain. A lot will forget of course but we are taught from young what we’ve both given and taken away from the world

[@RBLR6]

A cool insight into why the world thinks America is uneducated. Because it is. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@alexfoster307]

We don't think the yanks are uneducated, we know they are.

[@nataliereeves3594]

On another note, the first time DNA was used to catch a criminal was by a British detective aided by the British scientists who first worked out how to read people's DNA and the first criminal to be arrested and convicted on this type of evidence was a brit.

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

I was listening to something earlier to day where someone was claiming they had submitted some paperwork correctly but that it didn't go through because the CHEQUE GOT LOST IN THE POST. This was in TWENTY TWENTY FOUR, who still uses cheques in 2024 to pay some government department somewhere [outside of the USA that is]. I haven't seen a cheque this century.

[@Wonderland2097]

it’s easy to mock Americans for being uneducated, yet we are also uneducated in many ways. We are not taught of the horrific atrocities our country has committed especially under the British empire nor are we even taught much about our neighbouring countries, Scotland, Ireland n wales. While UK has a lot of cool inventions, much like America we still have a lot to learn.

[@DavidEdwards-e6m]

​@@Wonderland2097Brits today are well aware of there history including stopping the slave trade.

[@sameebah]

. . . The standardisation of threads for nuts and bolts is a seemingly small development that changed engineering.

[@owenthorpe2435]

I'd go as far to say it enabled engineering in many ways.

[@hiscifi2986]

The British Standards Institute ( BSI.) held various absolute standards for length. Also Grenwich standardised the measurement of time.

[@owenthorpe2435]

@@hiscifi2986 until some astrobullshittery "experts" decided that silicon = 1kg and wavelengths = 1meter

[@simonbone]

@@owenthorpe2435 Even the metric system was a British idea - John Wilkins, First Secretary of the Royal Society proposed a universal system of rational, interrelated weights and measures in 1688 - but it took the French to implement it a century later.

[@owenthorpe2435]

@@simonbone If I remember correctly, didn't we almost revolt over which measurement system to use?

[@ThatNoobLad]

As an Englishman every time you was suprised and shocked by each invention, i sipped my tea while raising an eyebrow. I am not angry just disappointed.. Now bring me some crumpets.

[@TPRM1]

Steady on, old chap. No need to get emotional.

[@ryandimitri5783]

Oh bother..

[@big-g6]

Britain is a fundamental integral part of the world. From inventions, the British empire, global influence, economy, military, science and research, the monarchy and its rich history for such a small country is pretty amazing.

[@threetrees313]

And we got everyone speaking English. Crazy work from a small island.

[@marktyler3381]

Not anymore. We are a banana republic now.

[@harryluke119]

Sports

[@big-g6]

@marktyler3381 😂😂

[@typhoongamer4180]

The monarchy and colonialist history of Britain is not what should be celebrated and cherished this where people get it wrong. As a Scottish man, I say the people as a collective. not the monarchy. And the brilliant minds that’s shaped infrastructure as we know it. are what should be a celebrated. The monarchy and its greed and tyrant past should not be celebrated. We don’t need rulers in this world, we need a leaders. Any country that abolished monarchy has succeeded since. England are just too greedy to let go of their grasp on wales Ireland and Scotland. they constantly make dumb votes and fuck up our economy. Yet will not allow us independence, which they ruined for us now anyway because we were proudly part of the EU. all we wanted independence for really is so we could make good political decisions for our country that was colonialised by England brutally for decades.

[@bettyswallocks6411]

Not just the first electronic programmable computer, but also the inventions that enabled their invention - Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine and later Analytical Engine were the first programmable computers, but mechanical. Ada Lovelace worked with Babbage on the Analytical Engine and, essentially, invented computer programming.

[@TheOriginalSnial]

Also, Brits invented the world's most popular computer processor, ARM (Advanced RISC Machine), which is used in all mobile phones; iPads; android; most TVs; Apple computers since 2020 and zillions of other gadgets. It's 10x more popular than Intel!!

[@MrSmith_]

An addition George Boole which invented boolean algebra which heavily contributed to the invention of computers.

[@TheOriginalSnial]

@@MrSmith_ Interesting, I thought he was Irish, but he was actually English and merely worked in Ireland.

[@jumpstar9000]

Don't forget Alan Turing

[@whitecanegamer]

Antikythera mechanism I think was the first programable computer. Imagine how far along civilisation could have been if we didn't have to keep reinventing the wheel.

[@MichaelLamming]

Rutherford finished his education at Trinity College Cambridge. He also carried out all of his research in Britain. He was born of British parents in New Zealand and was later awarded the title Lord Rutherford in Britain. The people of New Zealand were British citizens at the time

[@DavidBrown-im4ph]

No they weren't, they had dual nationality with their first nationality being New Zealand, which was already an independent country.

[@MichaelLamming]

Rutherford moved to England in 1851, New Zealand got its independence in 1907. Although I except he was a duel citizen that was born British.

[@DavidBrown-im4ph]

@@MichaelLamming The 'Rutherford' atom was proposed by Rutherford in 1911. Most of his discoveries, and professional honours including a Nobel prize were following his return to Britain from Canada to become a professor at Manchester University in 1907. He received his title in 1931. My comment stands.

[@MichaelLamming]

He was British and a kiwi, who was born British in New Zealand from British parents. He may well have had duel citizenship, I certainly don't have a problem with that. He is officially British/New Zealander. He was basically a Brit, who was also a New Zealander as that is where he was born.

[@Lazmanarus]

@@MichaelLamming *accept

[@bradhollywood8305]

Thank you for such brilliant and eye opening content, being British I do think we are sometimes thought as boring and not contributing much! However as you have shown we have contributed so much to evolve us to the modern world we are in today.

[@MichaelLamming]

The Germans didn't independently invent the Jet. Frank Whittle patented it in 1930 and was successfully tested in 1937. The Germans got hold of the patent. The Germans did build the first jet powered aircraft.

[@phillswindells4523]

You saved me from writing a correction 🙂

[@trevdfield7520]

Me too especially living not that far from Derby. This little detail is so often overlooked. The German's pinched it.

[@penningtonlfc]

@@trevdfield7520 could be worse if fiat had stole the idea they probably have aircraft by 2050,note this is a joke

[@danallured5806]

Frank whittle had the first jet engine casting made in Leicester, UK, my home town, visited the foundry once, really cool.

[@penningtonlfc]

@@danallured5806 lol im in bedworth warwickshire lol

[@MarkmanOTW]

Shame you cut off the last part of the video - where he sums the major outcomes including eradication of disease, famines, and helped create countries, including the USA.

[@happyapple4269]

and slavery.

[@michaelcoldwell1386]

​@@happyapple4269Brits didn't invent slavery but they did end it.

[@anthonybartlett6924]

@@happyapple4269 slavery is as old as mankind. read the bible the jews were slaves in egypt thousands of years before england became a unified country. by the way slavery was outlawed in england in 1117 @ the synod of westminster so nobody born in or sets foot on english soil could be enslaved for over a thousand years

[@cazareetocaza433]

@@happyapple4269you really want to research history… 🤦‍♀️

[@GuardOfGaia]

@@happyapple4269 You can blame the African nations for that one - they were busy enslaving each other long before British, Dutch and Portuguese explorers got there.

[@danielferguson3784]

You missed his final point about how many lives have been saved & enhanced by these British inventions, especially in the field of medicine, transport, & power generation, making the modern world much better than that before the 18th century, which brutely hard & short.

[@JoannDavi]

In olden days, the UK was mighty & creative.. America has been the most powerful & biggest contributor in the past 100 years.

[@emmafrench7219]

😂. Hardly. Alas, now America is going backwards, (as trump said he wants) to 1800's.

[@CoopDawgSmoke]

​@@emmafrench7219 try and think for yourself abit more love hes not as bad as you think

[@thegreatestdane8978]

​@@CoopDawgSmoke ahem: -Trump and his party have established that they wish to deport 20 million 'illegals', don't remember if this is over his four years or every year so I'll leave this at that, with illegals being defined somewhere around grandfather laws level of xenophobia. -They have established that they want to reverse a lot of legislation giving equal rights to LGBTQ people suchas rights to gay marriage and equal treatment in ventures suchas job searching and buying products. -Trump has established the framework, bare boards more accurately, of an economic plan that would leave the US in an economic depression which would likely spiral into a full on recession whilst also alienating alot of their close allies. -Since his first term Trump has established that he doesn't view NATO as something beneficial to the US and its interests in spite of the fact that Europe is one of the US' largest trade partners by raw monetary value and secure countries are more likely to be open to cross ocean trade than those under threat. -And Finally, Trump has established on numerous occasions that he is friendly with the dictators of Russia and North Korea and is at least amicable with Emperor Xi Jing Ping of China whilst he has railed against leaders of other democratic nations in the same period. Overall, Trump and the Republicans WILL force the US back a ways in terms of how other countries view the US and how the US views other counties and I have very little evidence from his prior term to reassure me that any of it will be good.

[@Tony-c7z9t]

But we had to invent or discover cures for disease and illness, because our transport inventions also allowed for the more rapid spread of illness and disease, etc.

[@RoseHastie]

If you ever come to Britain then visiting Bletchley Park to see the code breaking equipment is a must in my mind.

[@jonathanboice]

I do think this is at the heart of some of the attitudes of the brits rightly or wrongly, they extremely proud country, and been investing and making world and life changing contributions for hundreds of years before the founding of many countries, helped abolish salivary, and all this tech. But they very reserved they don't shout about their success, they let them speak for themself, so when younger nations like the USA, speak loudly and puff their chest out. It conflicts with the british nature, and it's like a grand parent looking at a young buck.. thinking yes yes... we already done so much. and this comes across as looking down on others. very strange dynamic. and many other countries also have delivered so much. so its collaboration and sharing of ideas that made the world we live in.. not the keeping it to our selfs.

[@CoopDawgSmoke]

Why do you think it hurts so much our own government is trying to change our once proud culture

[@AngelEmfrbl]

Only thing we really are proud about is WW2, that we talk about a lot in history, etc. However, even then... America out guns us on bragging about WW2. They pretty much claim that their the reason we won the war, reality was that several British army and politicians were dragging it out on purpose. The Americans were tied up with debt and resources in Europe, and to fight Japan had to free things up. That meant entering the European war to end things so they could focus on Japan. In the process, they gained the knowledge of the first n-bombs and dropped two on Japan... Which was a bad thing. A lot of British people at the time and even now, do not support that movement. The war with Japan was end-able without that tech.

[@AngelEmfrbl]

@@CoopDawgSmoke I've seen plenty of anti-royalists who want the royals gone, the House of Lords as well. As I said to one of them; why will there be left to call "British" if you get rid of everything British in Britain?

[@sarahbrown7017]

You say about the abolition of slavery but we were one of the countries who began slavery (amongst others in Europe)

[@C24680]

​​@@AngelEmfrbl It is quite triggering for Brits when Americans say "we saved you Brits in WW2 The reality is we were fighting for two years and at one point on our own when Western Europe had fallen and France had surrendered. Only once Pearl harbour was hit did US join in and support us and that was after our equipment was deplated and lost many men fighting! Btw in regards to your comment about japan. The war was over yet the Japanese wouldn't stop fighting and so that is why they were bombed.

[@lloydevans2900]

Catseyes are an inspired piece of design - quite literally: The inventor (Percy Shaw, who lived in Yorkshire) would often have to drive home at night. Headlights were not brilliant at the time (mid-1930s), and would be further hampered during World War 2 by regulations which covered them over apart from a small slit, to minimize visibility from above. He would use the tramlines laid in the road as an indicator to see where the road was going - these would always be shiny due to the tram wheels repeatedly running on them. However, when the tramlines were removed from the road, it became much more difficult to see where the road was going at night. According to the legend surrounding this, one night when Percy was out driving, the light from his car headlights was reflected by the eyes of a cat which happened to be on the road that night. It might not have actually been a cat, since many animals have eyes which are similarly reflective, including foxes - which are common in the UK, so it might have been a fox. But anyway, he thought it was probably a cat, which is what the device he subsequently developed was named after. The "catseye" device is basically a pair of retroreflectors, angled to reflect light from vehicle headlights, mounted in a metal box and covered with hard rubber. This is bolted to a small metal tray, which is set into a depression in the road. It also has a flexible rubber wiper which moves over the surface of the retroreflectors whenever any vehicle wheel runs over the device. So they are self-cleaning and therefore need almost zero maintenance once in place. Plus they act like a "rumble strip" for lane boundaries or road centre-lines. The reflectors can be a variety of different colours: White reflectors are used to indicate the centre-line of a two-lane road which has one lane for either direction, and to indicate the lane separations on roads which have at least 2 lanes for either direction. Red or orange reflectors are used on motorways (what you call freeways in the USA), with red on the left boundary and orange on the right boundary. Green reflectors are used on motorways to indicate slip-roads - what you might call on-ramps or off-ramps.

[@jesscourt9068]

It is said that if the cat was facing the other way....he would have invented the pencil sharpner.

[@Resgerr]

​@@jesscourt9068Ken Dodd said that😂

[@rosemarieblack7063]

Very informative thank you, so it wasn't a man running under the road lighting candles then. 😊 ❤ 23:48

[@TransoceanicOutreach]

2:25 'Why is he saying this like it's common knowledge?' - er...because it's literally the most important event in modern human history (both the steam engine and the industrial revolution in general). Making fire and tools (500,000 BC) > Agriculture and farming (10,000 - 8,000 BC) > Industrial revolution 1700-1900 AD. The Big 3.

[@TheStreetad]

I think the railway is such a big part of the. USA's national mythology that they would very much assume they invented it if they didn't know.

[@henryhandfulhen]

Just shows how Americans are so arrogant. We paved the way for virtually everything. Lots of it years and years before America even existed as any kind of country.

[@johnlambert1395]

As a Brit myself I can tell you that we do learn all of this in school and that makes me feel very proud of all the accomplishments we've made over the years 😊

[@adamdalton3492]

My ancestor is in every encylopedia, he came up with Daltons law regarding pressure in gasses and also put forward atomic theory

[@DraftingandCrafting]

Are you colour blind?

[@steveholmes11]

Smart guy!

[@DraftingandCrafting]

Do you have normal colour vision? (apparently using the proper medical term got my previous comment removed)

[@adamdalton3492]

@DraftingandCrafting yes he also worked in the field of colour impairment in vision , crazy how we can not call it as it is

[@sacredgeometry]

@@adamdalton3492 Our next job is fixing the Internet. The Americans are fucking it up.

[@mrbrad4566]

Yorkshireman Thomas Crapper is often credited with inventing the flushing toilet. He didn't, but he massively improved it by adding the U-bend and ballcock. Crapper toilets became a must have in homes around the UK and the world, giving us the word crap.

[@DJRockford83]

Earliest recorded flushing toilet is Roman so that was probably thieved from somewhere else

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

@@DJRockford83 Ah yes, remind me again what the Romans did for the world :)

[@stephenfay4049]

The person who invented the u-bend was a Scots man called Alexander Cummings in 17-75 and he patent it so it was not Mr Thomas crapper

[@tspcrowther]

Unrelated news, but one of my favourite words, crapulent, is an old way of saying drunk.

[@alchristie5112]

It is common knowledge that the Industrial Revolution started in Britain!! It was then Brits that took it to America, along others, and built your railways

[@stevenmclaren2730]

@@alchristie5112 it's also common knowledge that English folk hate language shit, like double exclamation marks

[@escandolosoamargo]

Well they were physically built by the Irish and Chinese but otherwise yes.;-)

[@Kari.F.]

Yes, I hope it still is. I'm a 60 year old Norwegian who learned about the Industrial revolution; where it started, when it came to Norway, and how it changed just about every aspect of our lives - and our economy. Thanks Britain! ❤

[@Wonderland2097]

Brit’s did everything sure sounds great as long as you ignore the colonialism of it all. Colonialism & slavery went sorta hand n hand with our Industrial Revolution n railways British railways were funded by former slave owners & used materials that came from slavery like a lot of our Industrial Revolution did, that’s not even accounting for the railroads across the world that were built by slaves.

[@ggghhhbbnjjjbb2330]

Scotsman James Watt invented the first steam engine, which obviously was the precursor to the railways, and the industrial age generally. Before the railways, there were numerous industrial processes in Britain that used steam engines to drive them. The unit of power, the 'Watt' is named after him.

[@mildandbitter]

Industrial mass production is usually attributed to Henry Ford and that is true to an extent, but the mass production of ships' pulley blocks for the Royal Navy ( who needed 100,000 a year ) at Portsmouth Block Mills started in 1803. The designer was Marc Isambard Brunel a French refugee who became a British citizen and was the father of the UKs most famous engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

[@cindz4618]

So American and French in origin..

[@RichardASK]

@@cindz4618 Brunel senior couldn't progress in a backward Country like France was, so he came here.

[@thebolsta]

Adam Smith died in 1790. His study on the division of labour in pin production is the first record of a production line. Adam Smiths Division of Labour and the Wealth of Nations was where it all came from.

[@DavidKnowles0]

Mass production started with clothing in 18th century. Ford is credited for inventing the production line and mass production of cars, not mass production everything.

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

Mass production and a form of the mass production assembly line actually began IN ROME during the empire. Not as modern as it is today but run on much the same methods with one person doing the same thing over and over passing the item on to another person for the next part. I can't remember what they produced though I do remember they used water power rather than the steam power used later in the industrial revolution. And I can't remember the channel with the video which was originally made by and shown on the BBC last century some time. It was headline making because they found the actual factory - remains of - and worked out how it was done. Ford was very definitely a late comer to the production line by around 2000 years.

[@lewis1544]

I read that the Japanese had done a study and 95% of proper inventions were created by Europeans or populations from Europe and about 55% of inventions were from the UK. I've not even tried to check it but sounds right.

[@Whoami691]

university of tokyo.

[@kino6395]

That is interesting to be fair didnt know it was that much. I do know why though and it was a country built to enable easy patent filing, short patent lasting and the ability to enforce the ownership of those patents during that time thus allows people to make a fortune of a good invention.

[@garthkite]

​@@kino6395no its because the weather is always shite so we go to the shed and make stuff.

[@MichaelPickles]

At the rate we are being replaced in Europe. The world will slow down or even feels like it will go backwards

[@DYLT2000]

Fun fact it was a Brit that invented Karaoke and not the Japanese as most people think. The guy that invented it now lives in Rhos On Sea North Wales , He was the one that took it to Japan where it became huge. The guy is still alive and my ex mrs knows him as one of her customers in her shop. He told her about him inventing it and at first she did not believe him, but we checked it out and sure enough he did.

[@jenscee7679]

First commercial railway engine in the world was built in Newcastle Upon Tyne (the Rocket) about 4 miles from where I am now. Mr Parsons first turbine ship is in the Discovery museum in Newcastle. Joseph Swann from Newcastle invented the first commercial lightbulb and Cragside House was the first electrically lighted house in the world.

[@hendy643]

And Mosley Street was the first electrically lit street.

[@DJKav]

That's quite some horse drawn journey to the Rainhill Trials in 1829 (Rainhill which is a 5 min walk from me), where the Rocket won the on, what is now the world's first intercity railway line Liverpool to Manchester Victoria. Also, on that line is the world's first railway viaduct, the nine arches Sankey viaduct in Newton-Le-Willows, a 5 min drive from me. Designed and built by George Stephenson in 1830.

[@rwlynch3468]

For some reason this just gave me a flashback to reading about the Rocket when I was aged 7 in 1991. I can't remember what book, but I have a distinct image in my head that I haven't thought of until now. This is going to frustrate me trying to remember what book I would read and re read. Was fascinated by trains at that age.

[@freddibna4976]

Wie aye

[@andrewcoates6641]

No the first commercial railway engineer was built in Cornwall by the mine engineer Richard Treverick (excuse my spelling), which he invented purely to work hauling the ore and the spoil around the mine where he was in charge. What he didn’t do was invent the tracks that his engine ran upon, nor did he ever use his invention to pull carriages to carry passengers or wagons to safely move livestock or finished goods. His engine did have the advantage that it could disengage the drive system so it could be used as a stationary engine to power other equipment around his mine works but it could not be used down the pit because of the lack of sufficient ventilation and the lack of access because his pit was a more vertical hole than an inclined slope.

[@MichaelLamming]

A little country blessed with the Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish and English. All brothers and sisters that squabble, but deep down love each other.

[@lucrio4088]

Hi Tyler, just a regular old Brit here. I would love to see you react to an old wartime video called “Know your ally: Britain” or the 1943 short film “A Welcome to Britain” with Burgess Meredith! Much love from Blighty!

[@TylerRumple]

Thanks for the suggestions!

[@nicolasbeachy4862]

I second this!

[@callumregan4739]

This

[@lewisg7614]

Just to point out that little bottle you picked up as an example. Yes we invented that to..

[@JoannDavi]

but forgot to invent: "too"

[@zacharysleep7318]

@@JoannDavi The English language is British too lol

[@stevenmclaren2730]

@@zacharysleep7318 no it's not ya dafty, it's English

[@sarahbrown7017]

@@zacharysleep7318 The English language is not really a British invention but an amalgamation of all the other languages that we have come across over the years of empire!

[@MichaelLamming]

A Scottish gentleman invented the flask that your water bottle is based upon.

[@2lefThumbs]

Good point! James Dewar👍👍

[@MultiBurger1]

Im English. The Scots are great. Contributed an immense amount to Britain's success

[@BobsYirUncle]

@@MultiBurger1and still do oil/gas whisky etc etc

[@Logger_Crawler]

If you extrapolate this out, The Scottish contribution is mind blowing

[@DaveBoswell-n7g]

Bells palsy was Dr Bell a Scotsman who studied facial nerves.

[@bazzen6992]

Being born and bred from Preston, Lancashire and still here. Preston was one of the forerunners of the industrial revolution in the cotton industry and was famous for it's textile manufacturing as was Lancashire as a whole as the main global producer. Ghandi even visited Preston's mills and "Hard Times" by Dickens was written based on the labour conditions of Preston. The history of Preston itself was instrumental during the industrial revolution as unions first started here "Lune street riot". The temperance movement aka "tee total" started in Preston too.

[@DraftingandCrafting]

If you watch Queen's "I want to break free" you get to see that tea making alarm clock in the video.

[@davidcopson5800]

That video didn't do Queen much good in America.

[@helenbarnett695]

Flushing the loo, loo means toilet lol

[@sydneyrule]

Correctamundo

[@mariuscheek]

Loo - people used to empty their chamber pots by throwing the contents right out of their bedroom window (with apparently little regard that it was them who would have to be walking over it on the morning, but hey) They would shout the French phrase 'Gardez l'eau' (watch out for the water!) as they did, hence the word 'loo'

[@dandare2527]

@@mariuscheek Sorry sir, l'eau is pronounced "low" as in low down. Further, I read somewhere that the toilet bowl, also known as the water closet or Waterloo; "loo" for short (cos that's where you met your end), was invented by a british plumber/inventor with the unfortunate sounding name of Crapper. Thus giving the US one of their favourite words; crap!

[@mariuscheek]

@@dandare2527 And apologies to you in turn, sir, but I dare say that the average medieval English person may well not have had perfect 20th Century French pronunciation, and the phrase gardeloo as a corruption is known to predate the battle of Waterloo, being the only time that would have made the name Waterloo resonate to the extent of being included in English slang. The French themselves were known to shout 'Regardez l'eau' in similar circumstances, and it's probable that the phrase entered English after the Norman invasion - French was the language of the nobility, the courts, and of politics until the mid 14th century. As to pronunciation more specifically, it's just as unlikely that 12th century French sounded anything like modern French as it is that a modern English speaker would understand any English spoken even up to the 15th century or later. One of the fascinating things one learnt in the etymology of the French language as part of an A-Level in 1986... 😉 But, yes, there are various theories about the actual derivation of the word 'loo', including one that 'Waterloo' was written on the cisterns of flushing lavatories. This was probably a maker's name/model (like 'Armitage Shanks' on urinals), and likewise comes much after the known shouting of the phrase by both French and English centuries earlier. Such is the nature of language that we may never know for sure (at least until a mad scientist makes a time machine out of a Tesla!)

[@Alex-ik8pr]

There's actually a weird history with flushing toilets in Britain - there's one (kind of) in Clifford's tower in York which predates the "crapper" by a few hundred years

[@advanced_ict]

Age is a factor. When I visit my daughter at Manchester University, I'm impressed by all of the things that happened there - Alan Turing built a stored-program computer in 1948, Rutherford split the atom there, John Dalton discovered the atomic structure, Joule did his thing, etc. Lots more than seemed to happen at my own university, Warwick. Then I remember that Warwick only opened in the 1960s, and all of that stuff was discovered before then.

[@marktyler3381]

Tommy Flowers built the first computer, and gets no credit. He borrowed the money to do it as well and was never compensated for his contribution to the war effort.

[@99hank97]

Those cat’s eyes you were confused by are basically reflective road markers. They will sit between the painted lines dividing lanes on bigger roads so make them more visible at night.

[@MichaelLamming]

You should react to "the British crusade against slavery "

[@rustyblade5845]

Nobody wants to, it goes against their narrative. White man is bad .

[@christinemarshall1366]

The Royal Navy fought to stop the slave trade and William Wilberforce persuaded Parliament to abolish slavery. btw we never had segregation.

[@ricksavory8752]

Slavery was outlawed after the Norman Conquest. So we never had slavery on UK shores ​@christinemarshall1366

[@Lazmanarus]

@@christinemarshall1366 Or "Jim Crow Laws".

[@anthonyeaton5153]

...and America who was not a signatory to Slave Abolition had a war that killed c600,000 Americans to abolish slavery.

[@nolaj114]

"Britain created life". Well, yes.. the first cloned animal - Dolly the sheep in Scotland.

[@Paratus7]

Just think; people think Colonialism was all bad. They are stupid. The British Empire was the most benevolent empire in history.

[@rob9752]

not to the people of t he lands they colonized

[@joseph8208]

India's economy seems to be doing pretty well as a result and china. Though not all of china was conquered.​@@rob9752

[@ChampChamp2024]

@@rob9752keep spreading nonsense you melt.

[@Sonsaiyon]

You must be American... the irony of that comment if you come from todays modern day America 😂

[@etherealhawk]

Genuinely the Brits did really well as an empire, much better than the others. There's a reason the Commonwealth still exists.

[@SebCarver-dv7kr]

The American and French Revolution and the constitution was mainly based on a book by a Brit in a small town called Lewis

[@FlbcImp]

How can you tell Americans they live in the greatest country in the world if they didn't invent everything?

[@pathopewell1814]

Just watched a programme and it appears the composer.of the American national anthem came from Gloucester. It was originally a drinking song.

[@onionman2117]

The stars and stripes comes from the Washington family coat of arms. they are from Kirby in Leicestershire. The coat of arms appears above their door.

[@LethallyReptarded]

Coat of arms for an American family in a settlement called Leicestershire? Wonder where they must have come from.... 😏

[@onionman2117]

@@LethallyReptarded Sorry it is Northamptonshire. "Sulgrave Manor was built in 1539 for Tudor wool merchant Lawrence Washington, a direct ancestor of George Washington, the future first President of the United States."

[@danielosullivan7940]

@@LethallyReptardedit’s a mystery

[@pmkeith]

😮"what did the British ever do for us" - Well, speaking as a "Brit" I would suggest that "we" invented social politeness, and the punishment of unfettered sarcasm for those who fail to observe it. Americans frequently misunderstand this as "British wit" or "British humour" . Just as they misunderstand the phrase "I want", which in English mandates the additional word "please". Otherwise, it has no real meaning and will often be ignored. Failure to observe this "quaint tradition" frequently results in an expression of contempt. This is a common mistake for Americans often because they have been inappropriately educated.

[@theriddick2735]

Modern democracy and law and order too. Well, before ethnic immigration and 'multiculturalism' ruined the West!

[@PeterFairhurst-v3e]

I like it. A very British comment, if I might humbly suggest.

[@Whywhatwherehowwhen]

The second most important ship to sail from Britain to America after the mayflower was the ship that set sail when America joined ww2 which had all of our most up to date war related technology onboard including radar, turbo chargers so planes could fly at altitude, rocket technology etc, it’s a long list look it up if you’re interested.

[@mtburton909]

Cats eyes are those reflective dimplets on the street covered in metal to safely devide lanes at night. Just like the lane devider lines but for after dark.

[@ArferKipper]

Cats eyes reflectors, the original ones as pictured cast iron with rubber centre with reflective lenses were self cleaning when a vehicle ran over them by wiping dirt off the lenses. Clever yes.

[@DJRockford83]

​@@ArferKipperand still made by the same factory just up the road from me

[@ReiRengoku-d4m]

Okay, kinda on a binge of these, but I had to comment-- I love just how genuine your reactions are, and how humble you were in your video on the Blitz video-- I actually got pretty emotional watching you react to that and as a Brit, I just want to thank you for being so open minded and respectful. There's no 'yeah, the brits did that, BUT...' that we usually get cause we're seen as pretty small on the map. One thing I really do recommend is watching songs from an old kids show called 'Horrible Histories'. There's some on youtube I'm pretty sure. They're fun, catchy parodies that go into deep, dark and often times gruesome details of history, but in a way that makes it fun and safe for young kids to learn. There's even one about the R.A.F. and the Industrial Revolution, but my personal recommendation is 'The Monarch Song'-- a long rap listing each ruler and one fact or so relating to them!

[@stevehartley7504]

Despite being the grand old age of 163 years, The Long Shop in Leiston, East Anglia, has survived in near original condition Run by the Garrett family from 1778 to 1932, Leiston Works produced agricultural machinery and early portable steam engines which powered the agricultural and industrial revolution in rural Suffolk. The Long Shop Museum’s name reflects the length of its main building where a boiler on wheels would start at one end and have engine parts added as it moved from workstation to workstation. Way before Ford!!!!!

[@carlchapman4053]

Stamps - Every country in the world is required by Law to have their country of origin printed on them, EXCEPT England because when we first made stamps they ALL came from England and later the first Non-English countries to adopt them were British colonies so they followed our rules, after that every other country just fell into line.

[@stevenryall3186]

The irony of saying 'What did the Brits ever do for us?' in the English language is not lost on me ;)

[@DickusCopernicus]

The layout of the QWERTY keyboard for computers was invented by the Brits, to keep the commonly used letters in the English language lexicon apart, to avoid typos.

[@KuroiKitsune]

It was created by americans. And not for computers, but typewriters.

[@Ikaftl]

Also possibly to prevent jamming of the type bars in a typewriter

[@N17-o2r]

@@KuroiKitsunename them

[@joshuaminke6629]

@@N17-o2r im British but hes right. Christopher Latham Sholes, who was American invented the QWERTY layout for typewriters

[@Kraakesolv]

Norwegian here, most of this I was taught in school. The train, steam engine, industrial revolution, loom, tank, telephone, radar and lots more. Henry Ford too, for the record.

[@thomashart5081]

The Americans are only educated about America in school unlike the rest of us, often Americans know less about America than other from other countries as well as about the rest of the world.

[@Englishsea24]

Henry Ford was from America

[@terrypage358]

​@@Englishsea24but he was invented in Britain

[@akyhne]

What did Henry Ford invent?

[@N17-o2r]

@@akyhneSocks. And also the Rubix cube

[@mcjustice1975]

it's funny listening to a American because when i was at school all this we were taught and the industrial revolution was a big deal the British invented most so everything that keeps the world going round

[@AlOh-2]

The UK is still good at invention/ creations. During Covid the British was the first to develop a test for Covid 😊

[@RobertHogg-u8w]

The first ever corona virus was discovered by a Scottish nurse ( midwife ) in her free time

[@Squiddy-go1du]

@@RobertHogg-u8wok…. This is how this sort of thing works. If someone who is Scottish, Welsh or Northen Irish does something good, they automatically get claimed by the British, if they something bad… they remain Scottish, Irish or Welsh.

[@straightreject2947]

​@Squiddy-go1du when you say British are you talking about the English. Seeing as Britain isn't England. But just a part of a greater picture of Great Britain.

[@CoopDawgSmoke]

​@@Squiddy-go1du you must be english! Were all British only certain c**ts among us are english

[@TGNWR98UD]

@@straightreject2947 Don't confuse them. Bless.

[@ruk2023--]

Americans are generally taught that they invented the world, everything in it and everything about to be in it. That's the words of my American wife not me as a Brit.

[@cindz4618]

And the Brits -what do they say then ?

[@ruk2023--]

@ pretty much the same if they even think about it

[@tighabhinn]

They did invent the road !!! John Loudon McAdam (23 September 1756[1] - 26 November 1836) was a Scottish civil engineer and road-builder. He invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads with a smooth hard surface, using controlled materials of mixed particle size and predetermined structure, that would be more durable and less muddy than soil-based tracks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

[@longshanks7157]

The romans invented roads we just improved them

[@danielriley7380]

@@longshanks7157not really, Roman roads have last for over 2000 years, Tarmac roads need resurfacing every 50 years or so. We didn’t improve them, we made them easier to build.

[@DavidKnowles0]

@@danielriley7380 Roman roads couldn't withstand HGVs.

[@Lazmanarus]

It was a Welshman who thought of adding tar to make "tarmacadamised" or "tarmac" road surfaces.

[@N17-o2r]

@@danielriley73802000 years 😂😂😂

[@paullewis6612]

My ancestor, Thomas Newcomen, invented the steam engine in the 18th century. It was called the Atmospheric Steam Engine. He was a blacksmith by trade. James Watt improved the design. It was invented to pump water out of the tin mines in Cornwall. Fact. 😊

[@tooyoungtobeold8756]

Loo is a derivation of Garde a' Leau - French for 'watch out for water' - when toilet waste was thrown out of upstrairs windows into the street.

[@MichaelLamming]

I thought it was because of hotels having a room 100 as a toilet 🚻, you weren't embarrassed asking for room 100 or Loo, but you could be correct.

[@Li.Siyuan]

Are you sure it's not derived from "Gardez l'eau"?

[@angelahawman4263]

3:12 Your mind is about to explode, then with the rest of the list. Our knowledge of 1800 history doesn't focus on American Independence that much because we had to learn about all these inventors. From Yorkshire

[@MichaelLamming]

Not everyone in Britain are geniuses, we have quite a lot of Americans living here too! 😂

[@brigidsingleton1596]

We have Evan Edinger (from New Jersey) but American has Lawrence Brown (from Grimsby) ... (what goes around, comes around?!)

[@enemde3025]

@@brigidsingleton1596 Just a pity that they gave us back James Corden !!

[@MichaelLamming]

​@@enemde3025😂

[@brigidsingleton1596]

@enemde3025 Oh no, did they?! 😢😥😕

[@daboy12s]

yes there is one sat in my lounge right now

[@bluecollarbytes7267]

the 'professor' pretty much sums up that Britain's best days are history.

[@markharvey1630]

The equivalent of cats' eyes in the USA are Botts' dots or Stimsonsite reflective markers, but cats' eyes are mounted on springs, which makes them more resilient and also helps to wash them in the rain.

[@goatfarmmb]

The British also invented the Grain seed drill by Jethro Tull

[@Redbird4912]

You're just "Living in the past".

[@davidcopson5800]

@@Redbird4912 Music to my ears!

[@Redbird4912]

@@davidcopson5800 "Ring Out, Solstice Bells".

[@davidcopson5800]

@@Redbird4912 Oh dear. Now I'm bricking it!

[@Bensonbadger]

Im besides myself😂

[@littlescamps]

Necessity is the mother of invention

[@brigidsingleton1596]

Wasn't that Frank Zappa ??

[@johnwetton4971]

She also was British

[@SamuraiPipotchi]

8:53 Cat's eyes are small reflective panels, apparently inspired by a man avoiding an accident due to seeing a cat's reflective eyes shining through the fog. They're often embedded in road markings to help guide cars in poor lighting conditions. Their spacing and colour varies based on which type of road marking they're a part of.

[@dhdgghd]

The reason why he is saying things like they are common knowledege that americans dont understand is because you focus mostly on american history, while most others focus on world history

[@DavidPolley-ek9bh]

Ye and we just so happened to BE the world for a while

[@XxKINGatLIFExX]

I've always said it would be great if the British Empire came back. Most of the less developed world is trying to come to us, but instead we should go to them and develop their societies again.

[@smitz7847]

Trying?? 😂

[@geeman4041]

Yes , I agree - funny how we British were kicked out or left these countries but now their people want us to look after them again as they swarm over to the uk with their hands held out

[@jfla5700]

And bitching about reparations and how evil Britain is while they do it.

[@PeterFairhurst-v3e]

I've always advocated this. We should never have had such immigration but instead trained up scientists, doctors and engineers and sent them around the world to assist other countries (for free).

[@majordelays4909]

There was a time I could think this was mean spirited to say, but do you know - this would be win win. It would help keep the smartest and greatest minds from fleeing their countries and centralising in the west. It’s cheaper to provide for a world outside the Uk when paying reduced costs offfshore

[@jacobrumpelstilskin4534]

The first vertical takeoff aircraft was invented by the British and it was called “ Jump Jet Harrier”.

[@raykeogh1972]

That is what I answered to further up on comments , we where forced to share with American engineers who could not get theirs off the ground that's why their are two Harrier jets the massive American one and ours. Our own government stabbed us in the back saying the Americans where further along than us. Bull shit as usual.

[@davdave3470]

@@raykeogh1972 French couldn't get theirs to work either. The F35 is a Russian Yak in its basic design by the way

[@raykeogh1972]

@@davdave3470 I just remember years ago watching Panorama on BBC how the government knew the American Jet was rubbish and forced the company to shared their knowledge but when the American saw what we had they would not share because theirs was a joke. Our company said they where a year off the complete item. I think in the end once the Americans saw what we had they paid our government the money what was needed for our guys to finish it off

[@GuardOfGaia]

Don't forget the Aircraft Carrier to operate them from - oh and the angled deck the US uses for their versions of those carriers. And if you caused enough problems I'm sorry to say we invented concentration camps as well

[@BobsYirUncle]

Or harrier jump jet to be precise

[@captainbuggernut9565]

The British started the industrial revolution. Basically, modern life as you know it today. Just remember that next time someone tells you that all the British did was take.

[@WTU208]

9:16 The Battle of the Somme was the first time tanks were used by the British in warfare.

[@theriddick2735]

They were a disaster, but very true.

[@wiliamrossiter]

​​@@theriddick2735true the tanks were bad, but considering they were the first ever tanks and look at modern British tanks. Though I will admit that the general idea of a tank wasn't first invented by a British person but the country the guy belonged to was ignorant about the concept.

[@theriddick2735]

@wiliamrossiter I remember reading they scared the sh*t out of the enemy at first, but it soon changed. Still in use globally today so they can't be knocked, can they?

[@wiliamrossiter]

@@theriddick2735 yeah and while British tank development fell behind in WW2, after was a different story.

[@theriddick2735]

@@wiliamrossiter Very true brother.

[@mariuscheek]

One thing not mentioned properly was the chronometer - John Harrison was the first to engineer a watch/clock in the 18th century that was accurate enough for determining Longitude, which is absolutely vital for precise navigation. There's a TV series about him - called, unsurprisingly , 'Longitude'.

[@LindaOvenstone-hg3gl]

@@mariuscheek John Harrison's Chronometer makes me laugh😂 it's the pocket watch that Del boy and Rodney from Only Fools and Horses found when they were cleaning out the garage and made them Millionaires it's one of the funniest episodes 😆😁

[@Lazmanarus]

Yeah & apparently he had to fight the government of the time to claim the prize that was offered for succeeding.

[@Li.Siyuan]

@@Lazmanarus No surprises there, then...

[@davidcopson5800]

He alluded to it.

[@petegarnett7731]

@@LindaOvenstone-hg3gl His first successful one that reached the standard required was built of WOOD and occupied a small room.

[@ianmclaughlin7420]

Did you know that the American constitution was based on, amongst other things , British constitution( yes it does exist) and the Magna Carta ….😇 but perhaps the biggest gift we gave to the world is …..our language !!!!

[@davidberriman5903]

It is a shame that they put so much effort into murdering it.

[@steveholmes11]

@@davidberriman5903 it's alive and well. It's strengths are being simple enough, and able to adapt to absorb much new input.

[@davidcopson5800]

Speaking of language.........................

[@ianmclaughlin7420]

@ , I concede I was working from memory and used the incorrect term for Bill of rights , my main point was the language .

[@ianmclaughlin7420]

@ thanks , I’m glad you mentioned the dec of Arbroath , I’ve been trying to remember what it was called.👍

[@nigeldepledge3790]

Where that guy in the video mentions steel bridges, he shows a picture of Ironbridge, which was the world's first bridge to be made of iron. I don't know which bridge was the first steel bridge. But here's a fun fact about Ironbridge : the bridge is assembled using carpentry joints, because nuts and bolts were not yet in mass-production at the time Ironbridge was built. Making nuts and bolts by hand could be done, but it was slow, laborious and inconsistent.