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[@DeDaanste]

We, Europeans, even invented the USA 😁 but that failed a bit 😅😂🤣

[@101steel4]

Massively lol

[@AwakenedAvocado]

White people are so overrated sometimes

[@ravensfan777]

Ah yes, it failed so bad that it has surpassed every nation on Earth in economic power and military strength. As of 2023, the US has a GDP of about $26 trillion. Meanwhile, Europe has a collective GDP of about $18 trillion as of 2023. Imagine a country having more strength than an entire continent. I don't even want to imagine how lopsided the comparison would be if we chose any individual European country instead.

[@WesterwalderAdler]

😂😂😂

[@MoreThanaPint]

It's all Columbus and Vespucci fault... And free will, mostly free will

[@101steel4]

I'm shocked America isn't claiming the English language too.

[@sabrinahakem6602]

Some do

[@McKamikazeHighlander]

Well, on this list, they're claiming that Alexander Graham Bell (a Scot) and Michael Faraday (an Englishman) were Americans, aswell as the outright lie that an abolute charlatan like Edison invented the lightbulb

[@bblake5116]

@@brianbrotherston5940 what,, no way.

[@101steel4]

ASMR language videos. Americans use the US flag to represent English 🙄

[@Arltratlo]

but plenty of Americans are proud to speak American!

[@Wifitreker]

« Volta cool name for a battery inventor » I can’t stop laughing are they really this clueless in the us ?

[@AussieFossil]

Yes 😁

[@josipmoskatelo]

"wow im european and im smarter than every american look how open minded i am" 🤡

[@qalbi_ibn_lari]

Easy to do when your education system is shit, you're locked in your own country like a prison, and live isolated from the rest of the world.

[@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv]

​@@josipmoskatelo Willis carrier- air cooling 1902 Sergei brin, Larry page - Google 1998 Norman woodland - barcode Ray Tomlinson - email Thomas Jefferson - swiveling chair Adolf Rickenbacker - electric guitar Roger Easton - gps Christopher scholes - qwerty keyboard 🇺🇸

[@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv]

​@@josipmoskatelo Made in usa Willis carrier- air cooling 1902 Sergei brin, Larry page - Google 1998 Norman woodland - barcode Ray Tomlinson - email Thomas Jefferson - swiveling chair Adolf Rickenbacker - electric guitar Roger Easton - gps Benjamin Franklin - bifocals,lightning rod Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan - skyscrapers Christopher scholes - qwerty keyboard 🇺🇸 And Einstein, Vladimir zworikyn, Issac Asimov, Alexander Graham bell, sergei brin, Tesla made it huge in USA

[@stefanomartello3786]

Fermi was italian tho... They gave him the american citizenship soon after he moved to the US, when he was already 43.

[@anglosaxon5874]

Michael Faraday was English NOT American!

[@suit1337]

Enrico Fermi was italian

[@redceltnet]

If you checked his passport, you'd find that he was British. What with English not being a nationality since 1707.

[@anglosaxon5874]

@@redceltnet Ahh shut up you Baahaaa baahaa Edit: Passports didn't exist then einstein! Only Ambassadors/consulate officials had a sort of passport.

[@knottyeti]

And A.G. Bell was Scottish.

[@Shutup638ageufnfi]

Technically most Americans have British decent so the USA is British

[@johnmilk534]

"Alessandro Volta. Cool name for a battery inventor" gotta love the US education system

[@Autumn1608]

I know lol It killed me :D

[@suit1337]

wait until he finds out that most derived units in the metric system are named after invetors like Farad after Michael Faraday or the Watt after James Watt - both of them were mentioned in the video

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

To be fair, he did turn it around and wondered if the unit is named after him

[@monalisa3852]

😂

[@giosue5676]

@@suit1337 and volt like alessandro volta

[@davidbroadfoot1864]

The first telephone was demonstrated by Johann Philipp Reis, in Germany - on 26 October 1861. Bell's patent was issued in March 1876.

[@johnmaclagan2263]

Who did he call ?

[@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv]

Or Antonio meucci 🇮🇹

[@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv]

Helicopter is azboth Oscar and Igor Sikorsky 🇺🇦

[@johnmaclagan2263]

@@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv there is audio evidence of Alexander Graham Bells phone call - sure its in a museum in Nova Scotia I believe

[@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv]

@@johnmaclagan2263 yeah but Germany and Italy may have their own too

[@maximkretsch7134]

4:22 "Alessandro Volta - cool name for a battery inventor" is in itself the most American comment possible. 😂 (I really hope you meanwhile realised that the physical unit is named after the inventor to honour his invention.)

[@lbhh]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@axoram]

😂😂

[@user-wf3lr1gj7o]

Michael Faraday was born in England to British parents, lived his his life in UK and died there too. I can't see where he's American. I'm not a flag waver, but that's definitely a stolen one. 😮

[@Arltratlo]

hey, you both speak English, you are both entitled to steal from others!

[@artsed08]

You should be a flag waver 🇬🇧

[@PortugalZeroworldcup]

​@@Arltratlothen ts eliot can be Bri' ish ?? Tom Holland American?

[@LeafHuntress]

@@artsed08 NO. Unless you're really into vendelzwaaien,* nobody should excessively wave them, because hyperpatriotic bullshyte is just plain stupid & can cause wars. *en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_throwing

[@billtbodger]

Edison did not invent the electric light bulb, he did however improve it by using a vacuum drawn glass bulb to make it brighter and last longer. Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the Telephone but he was the first to patent it. In many parts of the World Air Conditioning is only used where temperature controlled envoirenments are needed to test electronics. The Principle for microwave ovens was discovered in the UK by Radar operators but never taken further.

[@manueltapia1859]

Yes the people from US take the credit for everything like they the only who invent things. Haha

[@Anson_AKB]

first public demonstration of a telephone in germany was by Phillipp Reis in 1861. Alexander Graham Bell got a patent for his version of the telephone in 1876. and the italian Antonio Meucci started patent registration in 1871 but couldn't afford it. thus (as is the case with many inventions) many people invent the same thing around the same time, and mostly build upon the work of others, but only one becomes famous, eg because he could afford registering a patent, or because he had better publicity, etc

[@richardjohnson2026]

1835, James Bowman Lindsay became the inventor of the world's first electric incandescent light bulb. He did not patent it and Edison took James's plans improved them slightly and patent it

[@Anson_AKB]

@@richardjohnson2026 Edison's patent was from 1879, which was an improvement on a lightbulb which Joseph Swan had patented 10 years earlier. Other precursors of lightbulbs were as early as 1802 (Humphry Davy), and also 1854 by the german Heinrich Göbel who put a bamboo filament in a glass bulb. And in 1875 Herman Sprengel invented the vacuum pumps to finally make lightbulbs practical. Thus it took most of a century and many inventors to invent it and improve on other older versions, and only one of them became famous as the "sole inventor" of the lightbulb, after all the components came together, including vacuum pumps and power generation and whatever else was necessary.

[@janolaful]

Alexandre Graham Bell was actually Scottish.

[@fredmidtgaard5487]

As a university professor, I was giving a course in East Africa on wildlife ecology for a class consisting of half Eastern African and half European students. During a break, I overheard a heated argument about who invented the most important stuff first. Suddenly a calm Tanzanian said, well we invented the use of fire for cooking and heating... And the discussion stopped. The Africans won!

[@muddyhotdog4103]

Lol

[@damianpritchard1456]

Marconi was Italian, but he set up his radio at Bush House London on the Strand. this was where the BBC headquarters was for a hundred years.

[@Skyl3t0n]

In my opinion the printing press (Johannes Gutenberg 1450, Germany) is on the same level as the internet, in terms of how far it has brought humanity. That allowed cheap widespread knowledge to educate everybody.

[@xCLiCH3E]

and propaganda, widespread propaganda x)

[@johnsmith-cw3wo]

@@xCLiCH3E lucky no propaganda is spread through the internet.

[@PortugalZeroworldcup]

​@@xCLiCH3Eprinting press 🇩🇪 China had an original version too but Germany more popular Same with football ⚽ 1863 English modern version of what they played But cricket 🏏 is 100% English

[@JimAtHome]

Educate everybody that could read and write

[@RubraLIber]

I agree, the press and Protestantism (for Protestants it was a duty to read the sacred scriptures independently, so more and more people learned to read, things went much worse in Catholic countries) were the indispensable bases on which a public opinion was slowly formed, always more freed from the narrative of power in force in those eras, it laid the foundations for future democracies. At the end of the 19th century in Italy 90-95% of the population was illiterate, while in Germany it was the exact opposite, around 90% of people were literate ​

[@lynnhamps7052]

So many of these attributed to the US are actually British! The guy who made that video didn't do his research but probably just went off what her always been told!...😤🇬🇧

[@Songfugel]

amen

[@kenvoysey8222]

Bell was Scottish dude ! So many errors in this video it clearly is done by a lazy fat American !

[@HUMBLE0BSERVER]

Motion camera given to the UK is a joke! Same for the steam engine, which was improved in the UK, but not invented there, but no need to argue, most inventions come about gradually in different nations, it's a collective endeavour, but that fact doesn't jive well with chauvinists.

[@jasmineteehee3612]

Lynn totally agree with you, Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish. The uk invented the web.

[@drcl7429]

@@HUMBLE0BSERVER You might argue Savery invented the first useful Steam Engine. The principles were demonstated centuries before.

[@costelbanasu6447]

Flush toilet - actually first was discovered in Crete Island , Knossos Palace , around 1800 BC. Same for the floor heating of rooms

[@barhat961]

It was invented in indus valley

[@davidberriman5903]

Alfred Nobel developed dynamite as a safer way of transporting nitro glycerine. Nitro was quite unstable and often didn't get delivered successfully because it exploded en route. Nobel soaked clay in nitro thereby stabilising it for transport.

[@euromaestro]

For Motion Picture Camera, they correctly say Louis Le Prince. However, he was from France, not the US nor Uk.

[@sebastiendoquin918]

French-Bashing....

[@clarissat867]

@@sebastiendoquin918 like clearly he was definlty french

[@PortugalZeroworldcup]

Edgard varese - electronic music Jacques costeau - scuba 🤿 Nicephore niepce - photography 🇨🇵

[@danielmachac4764]

99% of those "US" inventors are from Europe 😂

[@Usabby1776]

people who were born in america have american nationality making them american genius

[@theseeker3073]

@@Usabby1776So if a cat is born in a doghouse, it’s suddenly a dog? Edit: Before you come to argue back with “the two aren’t the same species so it doesn’t count”, feel free to switch up “cat” to husky and “dog” to german shepherd, as the species (lupus familiaris) is the same. My point remains.

[@lyt48]

99% of those foundations of knowledge, labour, finances, other resources called European are from Asia & Africa.

[@justnadaaa8434]

​​@@Usabby1776 how is Michael Faraday American please? Or Graham Bell?

[@Usabby1776]

@@theseeker3073 nope they’re still American 😂😂😂

[@luizmoura455]

Hahaha. The Wright brothers invented the catapulted glider. That thing wasn't able to take off and land by itself.

[@xuser48]

Wright brothers made the first powered flight.

[@joaovictorbarbosa49]

@@xuser48 That wasn't an airplane

[@xuser48]

@@joaovictorbarbosa49 - What?

[@vonKaiser1917]

always remember Santos Dumond

[@diezel74dan]

Spyker Broos from Nederlands taught Wright Broos make it 2 turn left and right...

[@cristianionica6853]

Michael Faraday {born September 22, 1791, Newington Butts⁠, United Kingdom - died August 25, 1867, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland} was an English physicist and chemist. He was Sir Humphry Davy's assistant.

[@wjdietrich]

Edison is known for buying others inventions then patenting and claiming them as his own.

[@javiervicedo4201]

Yes and yes

[@KevPack65]

Buying or stealing.

[@Athenswinslava]

He was workaholic too. Not just sitting at home and buying them. He was very intelligent too

[@ababbington1]

@@Athenswinslavayes. Intelligent enough to steal them. All he did was patent an idea that was already invented and nothing more.

[@andreschachel5863]

The real inventer was a german clockmaker. But he had no interest to make money with it. It was only to light his shop

[@rasputinorco]

13:35 Fermi was not American, he was Italian, he was not interested in politics, but like everyone else in those times he had to be a member of the fascist party to work, he emigrated to the USA not to escape repression but because the government stopped financing his projects as it should. In America he was integrated into the Manhattan project and was always controlled by the American secret police until the end of the war. He had dual citizenship, he was not American

[@Arltratlo]

Americans think different about nationality, if you are fortunate to have skills, they call you American, if not you are just a immigrant!

[@ruggerobelloni4743]

Fermi's wife was Jewish and so his relocation was a very smart and timely move.

[@PortugalZeroworldcup]

Einstein, Ralph Baer and Tesla also came to USA

[@mehere8038]

inventions credit goes to the country where they are invented though, not the individual. Penicillin was actually multiplied/made usable by an Aussie, but because he was part of Fleming's team. working there, Australia doesn't get credit for inventing antibiotics. Plenty of other examples like that available

[@PortugalZeroworldcup]

@@mehere8038 did penicillin improve the population in several countries in last century??

[@Judge_Dredd]

Bell was British, Joseph Swann (British) invented the Light Bulb, Edison only copyrighted it, John Logie Baird (British) invented the Television, Marconi created his invention in the UK, because the UK was more open to the concept, first unpowered aircraft was flown a lot further than the Wright Brothers managed, and it happened in 1849 when an un-named 10 year old flew a Glider and again in 1853 when the first adult pilot flew, reportedly an employee called John Appleby, in England. Colossus (UK 1943) was the first working Programable Computer, it was a wartime secret not released until the 1970s, it was built at Bletchley Park, all other Computing Development had paused Worldwide during WW2. The Manhattan Project had most of its research donated to the Allied War Effort by the UK via the Tizard Mission, the US was the only place that could afford & safely develop the technology as it wasn't being bombed by the Axis Powers, had WW2 not been raging Nuclear Power, and the First Atomic Bomb would have been created outside the US, most likely in the UK, or Europe. The Internet is credited to Tim Berners-Lee (British), who developed the WWW at CERN in Switzerland to share research with colleagues. Arguably, the most long lasting invention and export of the Chinese Communist Party is COVID-19, developed within a Socialist Five-Year Plan as a Military Weapon, everything else that they export is poorly copied, lasts 5 minutes, or is fake.

[@VanDiemensLander]

The Internet and the WWW are two different things. The internet was created by DARPA in the 70s. The WWW runs on the internet and uses a bunch of stuff made by DARPA, IP(internet protocol) for example.

[@yvonnethomsen3886]

It is generally accepted that television was invented by John Logie Baird, a Scottish scientist. In Australia our TV awards( like your Emmys) are called Logies .

[@lesleydickson7746]

According to Wikipedia Alexander Graham Bell was a British citizen in 1872 when he got the first patent for the telephone. He didn’t become an American citizen until 1882. 😊

[@jonathancauldwell9822]

Michael Faraday was British too.

[@stefanb4375]

Telefon, 1861 Philip Reis, in Frankfurt/Germany... He just has not patented it

[@nightcorelore5648]

Someone invented something, quick relocate them to the USA as soon as possible = this video in short

[@nightcorelore5648]

@@stefanb4375 as a german I’m not even mad how much stuff like this they left out about Germany, but instead I’m mad about how hard they try to credit USA for everything… this attitude is exactly why American schools are failing… well that and the pew pew

[@georgefuters7411]

Sandy Bell was a Scot who invented/patented the telephone while living in Canada before retiring to the US 🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@applecider7307]

Stopped watching half way through, so many mistakes, Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish for example.

[@lawomega1]

YOu mean british

[@applecider7307]

@@lawomega1 No I don't, I mean Scottish, he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, that makes him Scottish first and British second.

[@Mark-Haddow]

The pedal bicycle was also invented by a Scot. The invention Germany gave was the Swiftwalker, which needed the rider to propel the bike using their feet on the ground.

[@johnnorth4667]

{ stopped watching when Michael Faraday called from the U.S. rubbish video

[@johnmaclagan2263]

Just scottish We don't have to pretend to be British - some of us in Scotland want Britain to break up

[@davidbroadfoot1864]

Traffic lights were invented in London, and first installed there on 9 December 1868. Variants of that design was installed allover the USA in the first two decades of the 20th century. The first *electric* traffic light was developed in 1921 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

[@mehere8038]

that's interesting. I'm also curious, pre electricity, how on earth did they work?

[@andrejmulkovic5708]

The Genetic Fingerprinting actually became an idea because of one Croatian officer that for the first time used a criminals fingerprint on a sheet of paper.

[@kingvii7250]

I never cease to be amazed at America's ignorance of the outside world. And the complacency that one exhibits.

[@elainehumphrey2307]

I’m of the same opinion. History of their own country, is basically all they learn about.

[@marieross6231]

You mean about the flush toilet invented by John Harring ton? That's why lots of people call it the john.😮😅😊

[@mehere8038]

any wonder when even videos they see that are supposed to be about "the world" are like this one & totally skewed to their own country's inventions?

[@shaaravguha3760]

@@mehere8038 This video was clearly focused on more modern inventions (as well as significant ones around the time of the industrial revolution). It is true that most of the major technological breakthroughs were done by either the soviets or the Americans. The soviet breakthroughs were mainly done by their military and this video clearly wasn't showing off military inventions so obviously the US would dominate it. (the only reason they weren't the only ones here was because they went all the way back to the industrial revolution where europe dominated the technological breakthroughs. If you went back 100 years before then europe would almsot entirely be making up the list. If you went back 1000 years after that then it would most certainly be the arab states, china and some parts of india which dominate. Another 500 years would be the romans, han and mauryans.) You get the point, the US dominates because they focused on the period of time where the US was at the cutting edge of technology. (they still are, most of the worlds breakthroughs are happening either in the US or Europe due to their large research institutions. China is catching up aswell, but as of right now that's all they're doing. Catching up.)

[@mehere8038]

​@@shaaravguha3760 wtf are you on? Please tell me you don't actually belive that? Tell me who invented the working electric refrigerator wifi latex gloves goggle maps CPAP machines pacemakers iron lung ventilator cochlear ear black box flight recorders spray on skin medical ultrasound duel flush toilets polymer money gene silencing antiviral/flu meds radar system to detect stealth aircraft EXELGRAM (anti-counterfeiting tech) blast glass cervical cancer vacinne quantum bit quantum logic​ gate ATM machines Frazer lens (allows near & far objects to be simultaniously in focus in films) digital product activation multi-focal contact lenses Polilight forensic lamp (used to detect fingerprints at crime scenes & analyse paintings to see additional paintings under them & erased paint of writing) baby safety capsule for cars airplane emergency escape slide frozen embryo baby hovering rocket microwave landing system (what all planes/airports use to land planes when visibility is poor) wine cask plastic glasses lenses braces for teeth solar hot water systems sunscreen granny smith apple secret ballot voting ghost bat military figher jet/drone combo mass producable cardboard stealth attack drone (in use in Ukraine) got it yet? That's only a part list of course, but that entire list is from a single country that didn't get a SINGLE mention in this video. Do you honestly think not a single one of those inventions was more worthy of the list than the bandaid? Figured out what country that list is from yet? Here's an extra tip, they also invented the winged keel for sailing boats & used it in a certain yatch race the US had won eternally until that invention. I could list off a tonne more inventions from the same country or from other countries also not mentioned in this video. Tell me you honestly think the US is inventing more than the above in terms of revolutionary, life changing inventions in global use today & note that the population of the country that invented all the above is 13 times less than that of the US, with only 27 million people & only coming into existance in 1901 Lets see you come up with a list that long for US inventions of equal importance to the world as those above! Not possible, is it! The US is good at selling itself, NOT inventing stuff! It lags WAY below the world in the number of inovations!

[@johnnyuk3365]

As others have said lots of errors in this, and as you said Ryan very difficult to assign many of these inventions, particularly since the late 1800’s, to one person. A critical thing is who got the patent in first. Edison was notoriously good at this, e.g the lightbulb, but to his credit he was a greater improver of other people’s inventions. Alexander Graham Bell (born Scottish) was working on the telephone with many others, he applied for a patent for something that he knew didn’t work hoping he could get it to work. He did. He seemed to have a close relationship with the Patent Office which helped. His wife was deaf, so he bizarrely “invented” something which was totally useless to her. He wondered why she never answered the phone. The biggest horrendous error in this was to call Micheal Faraday an American. To us Scientists and Engineers (in the U.K. but I believe worldwide) , Micheal Faraday is a hero. He didn’t just invent the electric motor but established the fundamental principles of electromagnetism on which the modern world is founded. He is up there with Newton, Darwin and Einstein. I don’t believe he ever left the U.K, let alone become American.

[@Ali-ew3oe]

adding on that: Femi was Italian so nuclear reactors are not really a US invention (although Fermi was working in US). Internet hasn't been invented in the US as well but at the CERN (by a Belgian if I remember correctly)

[@tamibenz6626]

Didn’t Thomas Edison steal most of‘his’ ideas from Nikola Tesla??

[@johnnyuk3365]

@@tamibenz6626Now that is an interesting question. I don’t think Edison really stole anything from Tesla, but Tesla worked for Edison and they had a fundamental breakup over electricity. Edison thought the future was DC and Tesla was for AC, so Tesla went to Westinghouse to promote AC, and the past 100 years has proven Tesla right. Westinghouse didn’t appreciate him either and he died in a hotel room in poverty. I should be pleased that Elon Musk has resurrected his name, but I just don’t like Elon Musk. There is a movie about Tesla but can’t remember the name. I think it was on Netflix.

[@torstensteinert776]

@@Ali-ew3oe Actually the internet was invented by the american DARPA, what CERN invented was the world-wide-web (www) which is build as part (or maybe on top of) the internet.

[@mehallica666]

​@@torstensteinert776The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee; an Englishman.

[@Fr34k0fn4tvr3]

Wait till he finds out sydney, australia invented wifi lol

[@heatherwardell2501]

Ryan knows, he did Aussie inventions; they didn't invent it but made it useable

[@ExternalInputs]

@@heatherwardell2501 That really opens up the first aeroplane. The Wright brothers didn't invent it, they just made it usable, unlike all the previous inventions that didn't fly.

[@christinagane1352]

Getting "inventing" confused with "developing"

[@gymjunke1]

Michael Faraday Was born in England lived his entire life in England and died in England. He did invent the Electric motor, in England!

[@ooReiss]

It blows my mind how someone has the audacity to publish a video about national inventions and didn’t bother doing the necessary research into the inventors. So many of these are attributed to nations that the inventor was not even a citizen of.

[@FilaStary]

This is not educational video

[@gabrieleferraioli7767]

I think that the nation shown is the place that sponsored the invention. For example Fermi was italian but he was part of the Manhattan project and there he invented nuclear reactors. So the inventor is italian but the invention is american because they paid him and provided him with the equipment, if this makes sense. I'm italian and studing physics so on Fermi I'm quite sure, I don't know for the others

[@007EnglishAcademy]

WHOA! Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland and was educated at two different British universities. United Kingdom (1847-1922) British-subject in Canada (1870-1882) United States (1882-1922)

[@emmahowells8334]

Paper was invented by Egyptians as it was made from papyrus reed plant. Leonardo Davinci invented flight, the right brothers just perfected on his design.

[@Tyrisalthan]

What ancient egyptians had was papyrus, not paper. Paper is made from wood, not from the leaves of a plant. Also the manufactoring process is different.

[@emmahowells8334]

@@Tyrisalthan They used papyrus to make paper what part of that don't you get. It's in history books which I have many.

[@Tyrisalthan]

@@emmahowells8334 "Papyrus was tough and constituted (aside from wet clay) the world’s first mass-produced writing surface. Unlike true paper, however, papyrus was made from plant fibers that have not been broken down. It has rough edges and surface, and the underlying strips can begin to separate when used repeatedly." Even though they are similar, papyrus is not paper. Similarily beer is not wine, even though they are both alcoholic drinks. The difference is how they are made and what they are made off.

[@emmahowells8334]

@@Tyrisalthan What you said is irrelevant as it was used as paper doesn't matter how or what it was made from, so there for it was paper to the Egyptians.

[@1969JohnnyM]

I'm shocked how anyone ever thought that someone as consequential as Michael Faraday was anything but English. You learn about Faraday in late primary school and onwards. I don't think he even ever left England let alone travelling to America.

[@ianmarshall9144]

He traveled to France with Davy ,

[@ptnhs3114]

And John Loggy Baird who invented the telephone was Scottish, not American. Someone need to do their homework. Humphry Davy invented the first electric lightbulb in the UK in 1802

[@timetraveler43]

Johann Philip Reiss, a German invented the precursor of the telephone.

[@PortugalZeroworldcup]

​@@timetraveler43him and Graham bell and Antonio meucci TV is both Philo Farnsworth and John l Baird Bulb Edison and Joseph Wilson swan

[@bradleyedwards9244]

Aaaaahh noooò! James Harrison invented the first patented refrigeration "system". An Aussie ,1858 if a remember correctly

[@agniisourgod5690]

Bro hitting us with his annual quota US propaganda

[@javiervicedo4201]

Hahaha. Agree

[@alphaomega3499]

Gustave Whitehead, a German immigrant is said to have invented powered flight before the Wright brothers, and Santos Dumont from Brazil is also proposed as a pre-Wright brothers powered flight pioneer. John Logie-Baird of Scotland invented the television, and the German, Braun, perfected rocket flight.

[@lucapaolini2765]

Cool name for a battery inventor 😂 that comment killed me

[@xenotypos]

Saying the US "invented airplanes" is kinda ridiculous and a gross simplification. No country really did, it was the result of constant research and improvements from the 1880s to the 1900s. The Wright brothers were just a part of that process. Also, they missed some very important inventions (like the printing press or photography), and included some "meh" inventions.

[@Andi_de]

True. But the first person to fly was Otto von Lilienthal. Everything that came after was based on his findings. You “just” had to put these and the combustion engine together. What the Right brothers "invented" was the control system for the flight train.

[@suit1337]

and even then Otto Lilienthal built a functional glider almost 10 years before the wright brothers almost 100 years before that George Cayley built a functional glider (but with no human aboard)

[@jbird4478]

That's true for pretty much all inventions. All inventors are standing on the shoulders of giants, as they say.

[@iantellam9970]

Yes - 'inventions' rarely come out of nowhere. Mostly the claimed 'inventor' is just making one step of an ongoing process of technological evolution but for various reasons becomes the name associated with early developments in that technology. Quite often it's the person who was able to commercialise it best, meaning their variant is the one that becomes the standard - not that they were the one who made the key leap in engineering. Edison and Bell for instance.

[@xenotypos]

@@jbird4478 Some inventions are more like that than others, and some weren't even invented at precise moment, since they were just the result of continuous slight increments. To take a concrete example, it's hard not to credit Heron of Alexandria with the first steam machine, or not to credit the guy who invented canned food in the early 1800s. They did it almost from 0, even if nothing is never from 0 fondamentally speaking but by that I just mean they did most of the job. As opposed to that, inventions such as the car, photography, cinema, the computer or planes, had dozen of people making equally important breakthroughs, so it would be very unfair to just credit it to one guy. It's done regardless to make history simpler for the mob, and sometimes because there's an agenda ("that guy from my country did it blablabla"). I mean, regarding planes in particular, crediting the Wright brothers is very misleading, other planes did fly before them, and it was just a "race" for who would make the most practical plane first. Some say it's Santos-Dumont (his model didn't require a catapult) some say the wright brothers, some say it's others before them even if those versions weren't very fonctional. I think the Wright brothers made important advances, but not more than those before them and than those after them (just 2 years after they presented their plane, the Wright brothers' model was already obsolete and replaced by better concepts).

[@biancawichard4057]

it is clear that this video was made in the US and they got a lot wrong besides they left out very important inventions that were not invented in the US. in the Netherlands were more than 2 inventions as mentioned in this list, for example the fire hose, the microscope, the telescope, the audiotape, videotape, cd, blueray , wifi and bluetooth, the submarine, the Stock Exchange, the artificial heart and many more

[@rmyikzelf5604]

Not audiotape or video tape, but the compact cassette. And the CD. And as far as I am aware not the artificial heart, but the artificial kidney!

[@biancawichard4057]

all 3 vyou say its not but they are philips invented the audiotape and the videotape and than the cd and the artificial heart was infented by willwem kolff who also invented the artificial kidney@@rmyikzelf5604

[@solinvictus1234]

1. The Stock Exchange was invented by the Italians in medieval time, under the Medici family, that also inventing the Banking system. 2. The CD was invented by James Russel. An American. 3. The telescope was invented by an Italian Galileo Galilei, that showed publicly his first telescope prototype in Venice in 1603. 4. The first artificial heart was invented by a Russian, Vladimir Demichov in 1937.

[@peterbrown6458]

@@solinvictus1234 WIFI was invented and patented by the CSIRO in AUSTRALIA,

[@mickgrace2558]

Wifi, I think you will find, is an Australian C.S.I.R.O invention. As is the refrigerator.

[@careytitan9097]

George Cayley from Scarborough Yorkshire was an early aviation pioneer who experimented with gliders. In 1799 he set in place the concept of the modern aeroplane as a fixed-wing flying machine. He experiments led him to develop an efficient cambered airfoil and the first person to identify the four vector forces that influence an aircraft: thrust, lift, drag, and gravity.

[@pe1pqx321]

BlueTooth: a Dutch invention Microscope: Antony van Leeuwenhoek (a 17th century Dutch person) Compact Disc (partially) a Dutch invention

[@AprilJMoon]

The person who created this video must have come up with many of these inventors nationalities off the top of his head with no actual research as he changed some nationalities to American when almost everyone knows that they were not

[@JohanHultin]

Very clear the creator is american, notice how a majority of the inaccuracies make the USA look alot better.

[@dereknewbury163]

The word "paper" is derived from the Greek, "papyrus". Papyrus is a plant, common along waterways and was used by Egyptians as early as the 4th millennium BCE to write upon.

[@drsnova7313]

I guess it's not about having some flat, plant-based sheet to write on, but the particular manufacturing process: Unlike papyrus (and similar things from different fibers that existed in Asia), paper wasn't woven, but it was made from pulp - which allowed for easier and cheaper production of it.

[@paolocarpi4769]

Papyrus rolls were too costly, difficult to manufacture and fragile to become widely used. Paper instead was the reason people learned to write and read and knowledge become progressively accessible to common people.

[@TriloByte101]

​@@drsnova7313dude egyptians got chinese nuts handed over to them😂😂😂 😂 paper was never invented by chinese and nobody whose history dates back to 2000years or more don't recognise it... paper was not invented by them it's just that their process was different...😂😂😂

[@Astuga]

Also while paper made from rags, mullberry and other materials may have been invented in what is today China, modern paper made from wood pulp is a complete different technology and was invented in Europe during a long process step by step by French, British and Germans.

[@GamerWithAttitude1]

The video he's watching is full of errors. And he can't figure out, as a poor american 😭

[@b-chanhatysa3150]

"It's just a sticker with a pad on." Not realizing, how important that invention is? Protecting the wound so that it cannot easily rip open again. Preventing dirt and bacteria from getting in and thus causing infections. Moreover, making the wound heal faster. And at the same time it hardly hinders your movement. Would you like to have gauze wrapped around your finger for every little cut?

[@adrian5783]

Romania: The first fountain pen, insulin 1922, jet engine 1910, 3D movies, hyper cd- Rom

[@mehere8038]

wow, I didn't know those, facinating

[@Kari.F.]

DNA identification is called genetic fingerprinting. It doesn't have anything to do with physical fingerprints.

[@martijnspruit]

Exactly. The use of fingerprints is almost a century old.

[@marekvojta9648]

Oh now it does give a sence. Still don't understand why isn't it called simply DNA analysis well English is crazy😅

[@Kari.F.]

@@marekvojta9648 They used it to explain what DNA and genetic material was back when it was a very new science that most people didn't understand yet: It identifies an individual the same way fingerprints do. It was the easiest way to explain to a jury how reliable DNA was as evidence in criminal cases where the defendant had used gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints. It was easy to understand, so the word "fingerprint" stuck.

[@Arltratlo]

shsh, English speaking people geting confused easy...

[@marekvojta9648]

@@Arltratlo Well I'm having English as my second language that's why it confused me. We call it literally DNA analysis (well we also know that Europe is not in middle of Earth and apart form Americans😉😀so that's probably why we use more descriptive name)

[@squarecircle1473]

The original video I think was not very good because it did not mention the printing press. The printing press, invented by German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg in the year 1436, is arguable one of the most important inventions. It's right up there with the steam engine and the internet in terms of the revolutionary ripple effects it caused. It facilitated the mass-production of books and mass-spread of knowledge, and caused an information revolution. I'm not even German yet I feel frustrated lmao

[@brendamiller5785]

The Gutenberg Press

[@MrEvers]

printing was invented in China centuries earlier, though Gutenberg's version is more well known in the west cause it created a revolution.

[@BlueFlash215]

​@@MrEversNo. It was different. Gutenberg's version had interchangable letters whereras the early European and Chinese printing press only could copy a set of pre-made scripts.

[@PortugalZeroworldcup]

​@@BlueFlash215The QWERTY layout was devised and created in the early 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes

[@einflinkeswiesel2695]

@@PortugalZeroworldcup that's a completely different thing that has absolutely nothing to do with the printing press

[@Otacatapetl]

"Volta. Cool name for a battery inventor". That has to be the most American comment ever.

[@lucio2649]

"Watt" did you say?

[@einflinkeswiesel2695]

You know, in Europe we always wait for someone named like a scientific unit to be born so they can invent something that is related to that unit. Definitely not the other way around xD

[@andreasfischer9158]

I always wondered how Albert Einstein got his surname. He was born in 1879, and einsteinium wasn’t discovered until 1952.

[@IanDarley]

A point to note: The device that produces microwaves inside a microwave oven - the cavity magnetron is a British invention, without this we wouldn't have the oven. It was invented and intended for use in high power radars. A prototype was loaned to the US for experimentation and during these experiments a candy bar melted in the pocket of a scientist, this gave him the idea for the oven. A world-changing invention that wasn't mentioned was the escape wheel clock. Unlike pendulum clocks, these are not affected by movement, this allowed accurate time keeping aboard ships and made accurate longitude plotting and hence precise sea navigation possible. By knowing exactly what time it was at Greenwich (GMT) and checking for local high noon with a a sextant, you knew how many degrees West or East you were.

[@Julia-lk8jn]

Cool, I didn't even think about that, but of course it'd make a huge difference to have an accurate clock on ship. Thx

[@jimmyb640]

Magnetron is a Scottish invention.

[@IanDarley]

@@jimmyb640 Scotland is both inside Great Britain and part of the United Kingdom. What is your point? (apart from the fact that it was invented in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom).

[@BrokenCurtain]

1:48 Before pendulum clocks existed, people had to use things like sun dials, water clocks, candles, hourglasses and so on to measure time. Spring-driven clocks already existed, but they were really inaccurate before Huygens incorporated the pendulum, which provided a massive increase in precision. To help you understand the importance of this, consider being a businessman who is trying to schedule half a dozen meetings in an afternoon. Having a good clock means your grasp on time moves from using generic terms like "dawn", "noon" and "dusk" to something like "01:48 PM" - this makes everything much more efficient.

[@adrianboardman162]

The way I look at a pendulum, is like using a Metronome when I'm playing music. It keeps me in time. The pendulum does the same thing, but for the clocks hands.

[@BrokenCurtain]

@@adrianboardman162 Yeah, you're right. It's the same thing. Fun fact about Huygens: when he was a child, he received a liberal education which included studying music. So it's possible that he followed the same thought process as you.

[@JoachimTHIBAULT]

The pendulum accuracy also permit lots and lots of progress in science and shipping navigation (The time of the day is crucial in the position calcul with sun or stars). In those domains accuracy is crucial.

[@BrokenCurtain]

@@JoachimTHIBAULT Pendulum clocks don't work well on ships, though. The first really precise maritime watches made by John Harrison were spring-powered and used balance wheels.

[@adrianboardman162]

@@BrokenCurtain I'm Autistic, so I'm probably thinking a bit too outside the box, But it does make sense that a metronome set to 120 (2 beats, or Tick Tocks) a minute would equals 60 seconds, or a minute. I'd need to properly look into it.

[@andreasbippus5217]

The concept of aerodynamics you mentioned was actually first utilised by Otto Lilienthal a german.

[@awkwardcutie]

Not the inner small country mind in me wanting to name all inventions I can remember that my country made 😭☠️

[@johankaewberg8162]

Volt (the unit) is named after Volta, just as the Ampere is named after Ampere, the Coulumb after Coulumb and the Watt after Watt (and the Newton after Newton)

[@redceltnet]

The Wright brothers didn't "invent" aircraft. There was competition in several countries for people to produce a powered aircraft. The Wright brothers's design was the most successful as it stayed in the air for roughly the same distance as the wingspan of a modern jet.

[@mytwocents2817]

Well actually Gustav Weißkopf was earlier and flew over a higher distance several articles in newspapers document this his flight wasn´t filmed but stated.

[@tismeagen684]

On the US section of "electric Motor" where Michael Faraday is shown, it should be noted Michael Faraday was British, he was born in Surrey, England. The telephone was invented by Alexandra Graham Bell who was Scottish / Canadian not American.

[@LunaJo67WDHTMJ]

Submarine, Microscope, blue-tooth, Cassette tape, Wifi, CD-rom, the Stock Market!...all Dutch inventions too. :)

[@yberai]

The creation of an object does not equal its discovery. Audio cassettes, Bluetooth and the microscope are Dutch inventions. The first submarine is French by Denis Papin The first mechanical submarine is "le plongeur a French submarine. Charle dow, still a Dutchman and precursor of the stock market.

[@micade2518]

A/C in every American appartment/building: thanks guys for effing up the Planet!

[@m0t0b33]

no, no... it's the cows' fault.. they fart too much. 😆

[@micade2518]

@@m0t0b33 Hmmm ... It's not their farts that are methane-laden, but their burps. Cows technically only have one stomach, but it has four distinct compartments made up of Rumen, Reticulum, Omasum and Abomasum, and they feed of hyper-high fiber grass (in an ideal world as, nowadays! ...) that they take ages to digest. There is far too much cattle on this earth!

[@nox8730]

@@m0t0b33 No, in the USA they started to make meat in laboratories, using cell culture (actual fact). There is no cows anymore in their fields. Only burgers.

[@andreanecchi5930]

for the telephone Antonio Meucci an Italian had created the prototype , this is a translated article : The invention of the telephone was at the center of a long controversy between the Italian Antonio Meucci and the American Alexander Graham Bell. In 1834 Meucci began working on this project in Florence, and then perfected it in Cuba, where he arrived as a political refugee. Meucci built several prototype telephones that he submitted to the American company Western Union Telegraph Company asking for funding. The company not only gave him a negative response, but also told him that it had lost its prototypes. In 1876, however, a former Western Union employee, Alexander Graham Bell, who had examined Meucci's devices, patented the telephone! Only in 2002 did the United States Congress officially recognize, albeit very belatedly, that Meucci was the inventor of the telephone.

[@janolaful]

Alexandre Graham Bell wasn't american he was scottish born in Edinburgh

[@nomaam9077]

Johann Philipp Reis invented the telephone 10 years before Alexander Graham Bell!

[@nerd8968]

And i'm pretty sure that Enrico Fermi was from Italy, not from the USA.

[@cockneyse]

Alexander Graham Bell that Scottish inventor who first demonstrated it to Queen Victoria in her house on the Isle of Wight... that "American"???

[@BennoWitter]

Too me the inventor of the telephone will always be Philipp Reis. He even called his invention "Telephon"

[@johnr6292]

At 3pm on 2 November 1936 the BBC began the world's first regular hi-definition television service, from specially constructed studios at Alexandra Palace in North London.

[@gustavganter]

The machine with the ear at the top, which worked with upper and lower threads, was invented by Josef Madersberger in 1807 from Kufstein, Tyrol. Precursors could only perform the chain stitch, which resulted in unstable seams. In 1851 J.M. Singer put the developments together and constructed a type of sewing machine that corresponded to today's ones.

[@TerryD15]

The first light bulb wss not by Edison but invented by Joseph Swan an English inventor who also installed the first domestic lighting systems in the World- to quote from Wikipedia: "His house, Underhill, Low Fell, Gateshead, was the world's first to have working light bulbs installed. The Lit & Phil Library in Westgate Road, Newcastle, was the first public room lit by electric light during a lecture by Swan on 20 October 1880. In 1881 he founded his own company, The Swan Electric Light Company, and started commercial production."

[@Stolzer_Sachse87]

first lightbulb was a german invention also the telephone... there are so many wrong things in this video...

[@TenBuckCanuck]

In reality Edison was a fake and contributed next to nothing. He merely worked in a patent office and stole others ideas, hiding the original patent firms and claiming he invented them.

[@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv]

Made in usa Willis carrier- air cooling 1902 Sergei brin, Larry page - Google 1998 Norman woodland - barcode Ray Tomlinson - email Thomas Jefferson - swiveling chair Adolf Rickenbacker - electric guitar Roger Easton - gps Benjamin Franklin - bifocals,lightning rod Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan - skyscrapers Christopher scholes - qwerty keyboard 🇺🇸

[@user-yk1cf8qb7q]

@@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv Tim Berners-Lee (UK; CERN) HTTP + WWW Foundation (No WWW = no Google); Lewis Essen, Jack Perry (NPL UK) - cesium Atomic clock (no Atomic clock = no GPS); Michael Faraday (UK)- electromagnetic coil = pickup = electric guitar; The tower of Nevyansk had a lightning rod in 1745 and Prokop Diviš built one on Monrovia in 1754 (Franklin invented it for the US); QWERTY keyboard is not useful on modern keyboards, only on mechanical typewriters to prevent mechanical key interlock, Alphabetic keyboards are of more use now, but in early computing it was thought that they would be used by trained typists forever so we're stuck with them; Eugene Emanuel Viollet-le-Duc Suggested the first Skyscraper type building; in his lectures in the early 19th C; UK experimental engineers Gordon, Faraday and Henry - early electric motor later developed elsewhere - (no motors = no Aircon); Swivel chair -Wow. John Shepherd-Barron - 1967 invented and installed first ATM at Barclays Bank, London (copied by US engineer Don Wetzel in 1968). Every inventor stands on the shoulders of earlier pioneers back to the Stone Age.

[@ryanellis9325]

Edison invented next to nothing worth mentioning, any of 'his' big ones we're stolen or the patent was bought. He was a nasty wee shit Edison.

[@dikkiedik9463]

Generations of children in the United States were raised to revere Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone. They learned about how his work with the deaf led to interest about the artificial transmission of sound, and how he filed the first patent for the telephone in 1876. But while Bell may have been the first to patent the telephone, he was not the first to have invented it. That honor goes to a little-known Italian immigrant named Antonio Meucci. After moving from Italy to Staten Island in 1850, Meucci began to experiment with the electromagnetic transmission of sound. In 1856, he succeeded in building a functioning telephone which he described in his notes: It consists of a vibrating diaphragm and an electrified magnet with a spiral wire that wraps around it. The vibrating diaphragm alters the current of the magnet. These alterations of current, transmitted to the other end of the wire, create analogous vibrations of the receiving diaphragm and reproduce the word. (translated) Meucci developed over 30 different types of telephones, but began running into financial problems. Unable to secure funding for his invention, it was not until 1871 that he finally applied for protection of his idea. In one of history's most bitter lessons, his caveat omitted any mention that the variable electrical conduction in the transmission wires was to be converted to sound-- the key point of the telephone. Meucci's poor command of English may have been the prime factor in his inability to secure a patent with his poorly-written caveat. To make matters worse, the Western Union affiliate laboratory he had been working with lost the functioning models of his invention. Five years later, Alexander Graham Bell successfully filed his patent for the telephone, and has been credited with its invention ever since. Meucci tried to challenge Bell's claim, but failed in court. He died nearly penniless and unknown to history until 2002, when the US Congress officially recognized him as the true inventor of the telephone.

[@davidbrown5185]

Swan ( British ) invented the light bulb before Edison patented it.

[@scragar]

Hemodialysis is the name of the procedure using the machine to separate salts and water soluble waste from the blood. Dialysis is often used to refer to it, but the term is also a suffix for different forms of removing excess salt and urea from the blood such as peritoneal dialysis(where a permeable membrane is installed in the gut so the salts can diffuse out into a distilled water bag that can then be replaced regularly without the need for a machine). So yes, it's probably what you think of as dialysis, but it's really just one way to solve the same problem(trading an up front surgery for the usage of a machine at regular intervals).

[@sklag1]

Sorry but 3 of the inventions claimed by the US are wrong. Michael Faraday inventor of the electric motor was English. Alexander Graham Bell inventor of the telephone was Scottish. There were several light bulbs before Edison made a successful commercial light bulb

[@mongrgic]

Not to mention that Edison stole some of the inventions of other inventors.

[@amerigovespucci4807]

The thelephone is Italian, Marcucci. Only in American is Bell😂😂😂😂

[@sklag1]

@@amerigovespucci4807 Interesting, I have just read up on Meucci Thanks for that.

[@lundypete]

Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish. However most of his work on the telephone was actually in Canada. The lightbulb was invented by Swan in Newcastle, UK. Fair to say Edison made it commercially viable. Regarding AC, its one of the most environmentally damaging inventions. Not only in its electrical consumption but also its direct impact on global warming. Arguably, the first mechanical computer was invented by Babbage in the UK in the 1820s.

[@johnp5990]

Henry Woodward was a Canadian med student who invented the lightbulb based on Swan's work and others. He was too poor to see it through himself. He patented his lightbulb in Canada in 1874, and later in the US in 1876. When the US patent was filed, Edison was told about it. Edison and five colleagues spent the next 2 years trying to invent a lightbulb to beat Woodward to market. They couldn't figure it out so in 1878 Edison went to Woodward and bought the exclusive rights to Woodward's US patent, promising that Woodward would get the credit and make enough money to sell his lightbulb in Canada and Europe. Edison then took the patent and studied Woodward's design, and also made several small changes which Woodward mentioned he wanted to make. Edison took the new design and filed a patent in 1879. The US Patent Office decided there were just enough changes that it qualified as a separate invention. Edison manufactured and sold his (stolen) design, allowing him to keep all the credit and money for himself.

[@GGysar]

Inventions never happen in a vacuum, but as a person who knows a thing or 2 about computer science, I would still say, that Konrad Zuse invented the computer because his computer works pretty much exactly the same way modern computers today do, something the previous inventions just didn't.

[@Youtube_Stole_My_Handle_Too]

Bell didn't invent the telephone, but an Italian.

[@blackkohi]

​@@KZbin_Stole_My_Handle_TooMeucci did

[@manueltapia1859]

The same goes to the airplane before the Wright brothers one brazilian man already did the same thing!!!

[@Benman2785]

it misses the most valued invention of modern times: the printing with moveable letter - by Johannes Gutenberg. Without it everything we read whould have been copied by hand or needed to be printed very slowly.

[@davidbroadfoot1864]

Charles Babbage (England) originated the concept of a programmable computer. Considered the "father of the computer", he conceptualized and invented the first mechanical computer in the early 19th century. The first modern analog computer was invented by Sir William Thomson (later to become Lord Kelvin) in 1872 (England). Zuse (Germany) was responsible for numerous milestones, including the world's first commercial computer.

[@davidbroadfoot1864]

As for Alan Turing, he is considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. He helped design one of the first stored-program computers (but not the first).

[@brianbradley6744]

The excessive use of AC in North America is astounding. When in motels in both Canada and the US (from the UK) we were kept awake by the AC in adjacent rooms thrumming all night when it absolutely was not needed. It was neither too hot or too cold. I think it is a case of habitual use.

[@gerardflynn7382]

The original Air conditioning was invented in Greece 3,200BC.

[@vogel2280]

@@gerardflynn7382 A cooling fan is not the same an AC, since it lacks the concept of a heat-pump.

[@ruggerobelloni4743]

I lived in San Diego and every Summer I had to take a wool sweater with me to wear on the Trolley or in a supermarket. At the movies the chill, .loud sound track and buckets of pop corn took some getting used to (in Raiders the darts coming at you were very cool) On a lighter mood, girls come to bed with cold feet all over the world.

[@Rachel_M_]

Michael Faraday, inventor of the motor, was British, not American. Marco i was in Britain when he developed the radio, the first transmission was In Somerset, UK.

[@williebauld1007]

as was Alexander Graham Bell who invented the telephone, he was Scottish

[@elunedlaine8661]

My mother met Marconi when she was 4 years old

[@Rachel_M_]

​@@elunedlaine8661awesome 😁

[@Rachel_M_]

​@@williebauld1007i thought he was but wasn't 100%. Thanks buddy 👍

[@williebauld1007]

@@Rachel_M_ no problem mate 👌🏻

[@herrbonk3635]

2:00 Yes, it's something about the pendulum clock that is special. It keeps time much better and more precise than earlier attempts of clocks.

[@corresandberg]

Pacemaker, zipper and Wrench is not even mentioned 😂😂😂

[@GazEndo68]

Alexander Graham Bell (telephone) was a British inventor. John Logie Baird was the Brit who invented the television. Lightbulb wasn’t invented by Edison but he patoned it.

[@stephenkorky1014]

Also Michael Faraday was British. "The electric Motor"

[@albinjohnsson2511]

Yeah, there's a lot of these. Faraday was also British, and Fermi was Italian (although he became American later in life).

[@nomaam9077]

Paul Nipkow / Ferdinand Braun / Manfred von Ardenne invented television. All three were German.

[@Cau_No]

*patented Philipp Reis is another inventor connected to the phone, from Germany.

[@sharonmartin4036]

Humphry Davy demonstrated the first incandescent light to the Royal Institute in Great Britain, using a bank of batteries and two charcoal rods. The INVENTOR was therefore British, and yes, Edison tweaked the design and patented it.

[@alchristie5112]

Yes, Volta is the reason the unit of electrical energy is called the “Volt”. And also James Watt is the reason we use “Watt” for power.

[@daanvandermeulen5944]

Bro doesn’t even know the pendulum clock was the first ever clock aside from the sun itself

[@astifeux5787]

My guy does not know how clocks used to work 😭. Bro got braindamage 😭😭😭😭😭

[@mehere8038]

lol yeh, I did find it entertaining that he didn't know the importance of a pendulum clock, wtf?

[@catherinewilkins2760]

John Logie Bared credited with invention of TV, a Scottish man, so British. Michael Faraday also British.

[@williebauld1007]

As was Alexander Graham Bell who invented the TV

[@rickconstant6106]

@@williebauld1007 telephone

[@Liam-2345]

@@williebauld1007Telephone you mean.

[@williebauld1007]

@@Liam-2345 aye! Why on earth I said tv is beyond me

[@Jeni10]

“Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/; 23 June 1912 - 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist.[6] Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer.[7][8][9] He is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.” More on Wikipedia.

[@zoedundas8423]

Not to mention Tommy Flowers who built the first programmable computer at Bletchley Park

[@Arltratlo]

Zuse computer got an keyboard, no need to use a paper card or to rewire the computer... modern computer!

[@sergevereecke680]

TV's some inventors are John Logie Baird , Philo Farnsworth , Paul Nipkow . Motorized aircraft was the Wright Brothers , gliders Otto Liliiënthal.

[@jasper7015]

The comments from this guy, is exactly what europeans would expect. That is not a complement..

[@gregmccallum3124]

Not a single mention of Australia: Wi-Fi. In 1992 a determined Australian man by the name of John O' Sullivan and his colleagues at CSIRO group stubbled across Wi-Fi. ... Cochlear Implants. ... Ultrasound scanner. ... Electric drill. ... Google Maps. ... Spray-on skin. And so much more.

[@SerenitySoonish]

I was salty about that too, especially WiFi 😂

[@leohickey4953]

Somebody will be along soon to tell you the actress Hedy Lamarr invented Wi-Fi, but she didn't (despite being a very clever woman, some of whose work was eventually incorporated into Bluetooth).

[@clementg2437]

It’s just random « inventions », full of mistakes and clearly missing some context

[@drcl7429]

I don't think you can stumble across wifi. It was an adaptation of existing technology in to a protocol. It took the ideas of wired ethernet hubs and adapted them to a different media. That was mostly developed by NCR and Bell. O'Sullivan and his team did invent Orthogonal Mutiplexing though (and has the court judgements and settlements to prove it) which comes in much more useful nowadays when trying to make wifi faster.

[@jannekelind1220]

WiFi is invented by Cees Links and not Australia

[@gregmccallum3124]

6:07 I challenge this fact as being wrong. I Googled it and it says it was Fred W Wolfe in 1913. Also, Australia invented the Coolgardie Safe in the late 1890's which is the premise of how a fridge works.

[@manueltapia1859]

What you can expect with a country who things invented everything and take credits??? They don't know that in México was invented the birth control pill!!! Hoorray to Australia

[@scragar]

Pendulum made clocks more accurate. Previous clocks had an issue where the speed the hands moved was tied to the force the spring had, as the windings ran low the clock would move the hands slower, while an overwound clock would run fast. The observation on pendulums stated by knowing the length and weight you could calculate the exact time it'd take to swing regardless of how far it swings. This means even as it slowly loses energy swinging it'd still swing with a very precise timing which could make accurate clocks regardless of how much energy is left in the clock.

[@green_fox94]

The dynamite is still used nowadays in Scandinavia to construct tunnels :) Some even use it to blow up rocks in their yards to build basements, wastewater collectors, etc. If you live in the mountains or fjords on rock, you'll need dynamite at some point

[@iantellam9970]

1:46 The pendulum keeps the clock running at a constant speed. Without a pendulum mechanical clocks were wildly inaccurate. It's a vital invention because it heralded the beginning of true mechanical time-keeping which changed the world drastically.

[@Jeni10]

Before refrigerators, we used ice boxes. They were metal lined wooden boxes with a purchased block of ice inside. Before we knew how to freeze water into blocks, we cut them from frozen lakes and stored them underground in natural caves.

[@Arltratlo]

in 1895, a German froze air to make it liquid!

[@leglessinoz]

An Australian made the first machine to create ice for refrigeration

[@PortugalZeroworldcup]

​@@ArltratloWilliam Cullen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 refrigerator Though I don't know condensation

[@italico3222]

Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor and entrepreneur, famous for the development of a remote vocal communication device, which he called "teleprophone" and that several sources accredito as the first phone ...The real inventor of the phone

[@bifrostbeberast3246]

Baghdad battery, you are right. Though it couldn't be proven without a doubt that it was used as battery, it was a clay container with two metal rods and corrosion inside from likely acid, which would resemble a crude battery.

[@stephanthomas9531]

It is an American dream and a cherished and oft-told tale that the Wright Brothers were the first to fly powered. But it was a German named Gustav Weisskopf

[@MsEngelby]

My great grandmother on the invention of the radio.. "suddenly the furniture started talking"

[@Tortuex_]

also *vaccination* was invented by the UK but *vaccines* by Mr. Pasteur, in France

[@Cepterman]

Earle Dickson invented the “Band Aid” (as in the product), however that was not the first plaster made to take care of small wounds. The origins of the concept go way back to ancient Egypt where they used fabric soaked in honey and oils to aid their wounds. The first modern plaster (band aid) was invented in 1882 in Germany by Paul C. Beiersdorf. That’s nearly 40 years earlier than Dicksons Band Aid.

[@rubenolaussen6227]

I hate how Nikola Tesla isnt even on here once. Allthough he played the biggest role in inventing multiple things on this list.

[@mchess6141]

one of the greatest genius of all times ! Merci.

[@matthewoertel2454]

I think you need to find a better video to watch....Edison didn't invent the light bulb, the French invented cinema, a Scot invented the phone, and a Brit invented the electric motor. Very badly researched.

[@CatGrindle]

Hear hear.

[@einflinkeswiesel2695]

If things like eyeglasses or a special clock are most important, I feel like the printing press should definitely be mentioned as well

[@DomainRider]

Charles Babbage invented the first digital programmable computer, the Analytical Engine, back in the 18th century, but it was necessarily mechanical, and the precision engineering of the time wasn't really up to the job (and the money ran out), so only parts of it were built. In 1991 the Science Museum in London used his plans to build the simpler Difference Engine, which worked OK.