Americans REACT & MIND BLOWN by what the BRITISH gave the world...it's basically everything

[@Trippingthroughadventures]

So far after doing a little research, Americans invented the nuke and cheese wiz…. You’re welcome…. Or I’m sorry. Idk. Here’s a video of us at the British museum kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4eac3yjnLl_o6c

[@robk5159]

Sorry, but you did not invent the nuclear weapon, America financed and administered it but...British, French, German (Einstein) created nuclear fission to create the bomb yes there were also a few other European physicists also contributed. Your mistake was thinking Oppenheimer created the weapon because America put him in charge, but he was the accountant, administrator and quartermaster for the project.

[@rdouthwaite]

@@Trippingthroughadventures 😂

[@natelo952]

If it wasn't for british scientists, the u.s wouldn't have sped up the research to produce the atom bomb. The birth place for nuclear physics was manchester england. British scientists went over to the states with materials and their research called the tube alloys project from 1941 which then massively helped the manhattan project in 1942.

[@janebeard3411]

​@@natelo952came to say that.

[@weirdscix]

​@@natelo952 It was German scientists who split Uranium, then Einstein contacted Roosevelt with his concerns that the Germans could use it as a weapon.

[@Millennial_Manc]

My favourite British invention is the weekend. We didn’t have two days off until the trade union movement (mainly in Manchester at first) got Saturday afternoon off. Men didn’t know what to do with themselves in that free time so they had a Saturday afternoon kick around after work with colleagues before going home and football was born. Then the unions got Saturday morning off too (Manchester did the heavy lifting on that given that it was the industrial powerhouse) and so the 5 day working week was born.

[@janolaful]

Manchester did alot if things emily pankhurst suffragettes and the Lancashire Cotton Famine who refused to touch cotton picked by slaves, an estimated poeple died 24,000.

[@darrellpowell6042]

Correct

[@iamcarbonandotherbits.8039]

@@janolaful Emily Pankhurst, only allowed ladies of independent means, into her little club. No working-class women thank you very much.

[@DW.Strangeman]

@@Millennial_Manc as a Londoner with no real historic knowledge of Manchester I can't really add anything more poignant to what has already been mentioned but I can say from a personal point... Hacienda and the whole music scene there has been a massive influence the world over.🥳

[@ianbarker9616]

@@DW.Strangeman I miss them Hacienda days

[@necessaryevil3428]

Barely scratched the surface 🇬🇧

[@ch3rrikiss]

@@necessaryevil3428 Yep. When you factor in creative innovation including literature, music and fine art, the mind is truly blown ❤️🇬🇧

[@JohanGutierrez-p6j]

Bengal famine wasn’t Britain’s fault as much as Indians say. It’s because the rice imports they were over reliant on were stopped when Japan invaded Burma and stopped them. In fact Britain safeguarded those shipments and imports for decades stopping multiple famines and the famine wasn’t only noticed because Britain had annual censuses which documented all famines which India didn’t have before they only documented it if they happened to come across it most went undocumented. People love to blame those in power

[@theriddick2735]

​@@JohanGutierrez-p6jit's India's job to feed their own native people, not ours. That's everyone's problem, they expect white people to provide for them. No, Europe is for Europeans ONLY.

[@PaulK-ve1pu]

And we're still at it. 60% of global work on AI/machine learning is in the UK. We are also world leaders in synthetic biology, genome mapping, the development of new materials like graphene and RNA vaccinations. I'm not taking the credit for any of this of course, but it seems to me that the natural inclination of the British is genius. Being an island nation with a strong sense of identity helps.

[@margcraven2976]

Also ended slavery did not finish paying for it untiill2015

[@weirdscix]

One of the best things Britain did, their crusade against slavery, they fought multiple countries, spend a fortune that wasn't paid off until this century to purchase slaves freedom, costing many lives while crusading against slavers.

[@JJ-of1ir]

Yes, that's true. All the people, rich and poor, in the UK agreed in the 1850's to pay higher taxes to keep the Crusade against Slavery going. The Government announced that all Loans were finally paid off in 2015. So EVERYONE who worked and paid their taxes up to that date, in the UK, can be proud to know they were part of that Crusade and they changed the world.

[@lewistaylor1965]

@@JJ-of1ir The other thing is that every year we paid it was rarely mentioned if at all in the media...It was taken as a given...I don't believe many Brits know these things even today...even among the 50+ age group...I know you must have seen the 'Sargon of Akkad' vid before it disappeared...There's a good lecture by a USAF Lt.Col called 'The British Royal Navy and the Collapse of the Atlantic Slave Trade' which goes into the details of how to collapse a trade...no mean feat...and it would take an American to blow the trumpet for the Brits...cos generally we don't tend to blow our own...

[@lewistaylor1965]

Yep...and if you paid taxes up to 2006 then you paid for US Sherman tanks to fight the baddies from Germany during a particular disagreement between 1939 and 1945...

[@DomRivers67]

@@weirdscix yeah, it's not entirely that simple, as you don't get too many points for stopping what you largely started in the New World....and bear in mind even after that point, tobacco and cotton still came from the Americas A lot of wealth (lloyds in particular) was generated on shipping insurance, and we continued that just fine....also our holdings in the West Indies seemed largely exempt. Remember that during the period that we had the unilateral embargo on slaving, we were "clearing" ranches in Australia by shooting the local animals, and we defined the aborigines as animals too, to kill one wasn't a crime, and to slaughter a family group to clear a watering hole for sheep was just a Tuesday mornings work.

[@BoringTaff]

@@DomRivers67 I think you'll find that the Spanish and Portuguese started the slave trade.

[@oldman1734]

The British even invented the postage stamp. That’s why the country of the origin of the postage stamp does not show the name of the nation, unlike every other nation in the world.

[@stirlingmoss4621]

good point

[@quantum-entanglement1568]

The Scottish invented the Postage Stamp... Lol.

[@wiretom]

@@quantum-entanglement1568 Scotland is Britain

[@williamjohnson5229]

@quantum-entanglement1568 do you not know that Scotland is in Britain and the Scots are British? Same as England and Wales.

[@peterwilliamson5953]

@@wiretom let me just ' Scotland is ' in ' Britain ' you,re welcome .

[@nigelthomas3648]

There is a difference between the internet and the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web is an application that runs on the internet, and it was invented by a Brit who gave it free to mankind.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

The Brit who gave the WWW to the world for free, was / is Tim Berners Lee.

[@missusgumby]

@@brigidsingleton1596 *Sir* Tim Berners-Lee! 😃

[@jonmac3995]

The Welsh scientist Donald Davies, invented packet switching and the Router, which are the building blocks of the Internet, and gave it to the Americans.

[@kenvoysey8222]

What a muppet ! Showing your true colours now showing your stupity about microwaves etc. Not our fault you’re not bright enough to have a good power network. Won’t be watching anymore of this rubbish with people who visited once then still think America is great.

[@kenvoysey8222]

What a muppet ! Showing your true colours now showing your stupity about microwaves etc. Not our fault you’re not bright enough to have a good power network. Won’t be watching anymore of this rubbish with people who visited once then still think America is great.

[@stevebartley8902]

As a Brit I'm ever critical of my nation but ever amazed and proud of what we achieved.

[@kevanbodsworth9868]

A lot of the ethical sticks used to beat Britain were developed to a large extent by Britain .. The nation which did a lot to end slavery, which had been worldwide since even befor civilisations , is the nation which gets the most stick about slavery. Wierd world ,, You have to wonder at the morivation behind that ,The Islamic civilsation which drove slavery at a high level does not get any critic ,Wierd ,

[@Makethemostofit1]

The harrier jump jet was an amazing brit invention. Enabling the jet to take off vertically and hover.

[@Titus9508]

@@Makethemostofit1 Same chap that designed the Hurricane.

[@pcka12]

Frenchman had the idea of the Harrier engine. Just like the Brunels, father & son.

[@PianoDentist]

Not to forget the Hovercraft too - invented by Sir Christopher Cockerell.

[@peterwilliamson5953]

this is the reason Britain became the inventors of the future , it is quite simple , we became a safe haven for the intellectual , Europe was always infighting with religious differences while we were creating the Enlightenment with our ideas of education for the masses , philosophers teaching philosophers and growing in their knowledge through the ' freedoms ' that they had , expanding human thoughts to the max , it was a great enlightenment a great evolution

[@SusanFord-bu4bv]

Brits also developed IVF - Patrick Steptoe & Robert Edwards. Louise Brown was the first baby born in 1978 with this method.

[@worldofameiso5491]

And don't forget cloning, invented by Ian Wilmut.

[@darrellpowell6042]

Sports.. golf, football,rugby, table tennis, darts, tennis, badminton, netball, snooker, cricket. All british games passed on worldwide

[@Winning1]

Japanese researchers calculated that at least 40% of inventions in the World were British. So if you looked at every British person in the world today, 0.85% made 40% of everything. The question should be why British people are so good at inventing or discovering things. That should be the question we need answering.

[@hoonaticbloggs5402]

Something about our culture. It’s still happening today.

[@ura9390]

inquisitive minds, common sense to analyse and attempt to solve problems. Its why Britain also has had political stability for 400 years which is unheard of anywhere, else: no revolutions, civil wars, fascism, communism, religious radicalism, militarism, as social problems were though not solved were always mitigated to enough of a degree to keep the country cohesive, stable and progressive. No major country has had this stability

[@chrisspere4836]

​@@ura9390no revolutions? We're getting there.

[@ChemiiOneLegacy]

@@ura9390 Unfortunately that will probably be going down the pan in the next 100 years.

[@ura9390]

@@ChemiiOneLegacy i dont think so, that’s just doomsdayers on social media banging that drum. Britain still is a vibrant centre of creativity, innovation and academic excellence, still making great contributions to advancements in diverse fields, with for example Brits being amongst the Nobel prize winners for Physics and Chemistry in 2024

[@mattjosh69]

It’s funny he didn’t mention copper wire, invented by two Scottish men fighting over a copper penny 😂😂😂😂🇬🇧🙏🏻

[@andrewwilliamson5121]

Nay lad, it was invented here, God's own country, Yorkshire!!

[@susanmalcolm3434]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@BeanyBeanyBeanster]

​@@andrewwilliamson5121 Two Yorkshire man fighting over a copper penny? That makes even more sense! :D

[@stewartmackay]

@@andrewwilliamson5121 I'd say thats likely, as I thought it was us Scots that were meant to be tight, until I went to Yorkshire....

[@lewistaylor1965]

and the Grand Canyon was also created by a Scotsman who dropped a penny down a rabbit hole!

[@johnp8131]

Modern coffee makers do work on a timer as you said, however the "Teasmade" with an alarm, is far older. I bought one for my parents in 1975 for Christmas and I believe the first successful model goes back to the 1930's?

[@artemisfowl66]

And you can still buy them today in the UK

[@Trebor74]

We invented the toaster,as well. Before pre-sliced bread was invented

[@sbjchef]

The teasmaid was used in the bedroom, the idea being it replaced the maid bringing you your morning tea in bed. It is a Victorian invention and my nan loved hers

[@lindathomas5500]

Yeah my uncle brought my aunt one in the 60s 😂😂

[@JpP-b1q]

We were given one As soon as it started to boil it would wake you up. Then the boilinh hot water would pour irself into tea pot primed with tea. It was noisy, inconvenient, quite scary as a fairly high pressure pressure vessel full of boiling water and steam was discharging a couple of feet from your head. Gsve it. Far too scary and annoying

[@ebbonfly]

Londons Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway which opened in 1863

[@RevStickleback]

And the method of building tunnels, invented by Brunel's father, and still used to this day,

[@RobertLund-d7d]

The Victorian British were probaly the most consequential group of people ever. In science, medecine, technology, transport, media ( TV and Radio), communication, etc .

[@karadan100]

It's interesting that the advancements they created allowed them the time to think more deeply about things which led to further improvements to the quality of life for everyone. They used it for altruism and didn't hoard it.

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

We owe the world nothing- they all owe us 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@naycnay]

One that often gets Americans is the Manhattan project was basically lifted from the British project handing over their research to the US and largely because the US shown a commitment to pursuing it and it was more protected over there. When the British passed it on, they were surprised how small and underdeveloped the US program was.

[@frankgibson1335]

You say theBritish version of what the Americans call the Manhattan Project was more protected over there yet they allowed the Russians to steal it otherwise they would have been years behind. The Russians may copy virtually everything from the West but they have a fabulous spy ring otherwise they'd still be living in the dark ages.

[@paulmollett5330]

And then they broke the agreement to share the results, consficated the British scientists research and sent them home citing security concerns (we had one Soviet spy called Fuchs) which was a bit rich considering the Americans had five

[@Roz-y2d]

Considering the shocking practices of countries and peoples in the rest of the world, too bloody right the wrongs of the British are a drop in the ocean. We’re targeted for criticism because we became powerful, whilst others are sweeping their atrocities under the carpet in the hope that they’ll be forgotten. Well, think again!🤣👍🏻❤️🇬🇧

[@stuartfitch7093]

The amount varies, but it is widely estimated that we British have created as much as 40% of the world's inventions, which is more than any other nation in the world.

[@johnleonard9090]

I think there was a Japanese study that put it as high as 60%

[@dennisfraser6896]

Never mind British what did they do for you.Look up what Scotland did for the world.

[@niknax25]

@@dennisfraser6896 Aye we invented a lot of important stuff.

[@valeriedavidson2785]

I think it was more than 40%. More like 60%.

[@CassiusFA]

Britain invented childhood. You might think that's hyperbole but it isn't if you think about it, before our child labor laws children of poor backgrounds where forced to work and at most had a sunday school they could attend after church. The whole structure of your childhood is something that is informed by British culture and the attitude the Victorians had towards children of all economic backgrounds.

[@JJ-of1ir]

@CassiusFA. You are right. I had forgotten this. Thank you.

[@lewistaylor1965]

'Children went up chimneys...there was no fruit!' - Count Arthur Strong

[@ura9390]

Common law (judge jury, innocent until proven guilty), Magna Carta 1215 (basically the first bill of rights), the majority of modern sports (football, tennis, golf, rugby, cricket, badminton, snooker), Adam Smith's economics, major communications advances (printing press, telephone, internet) and just HUGE contributions to science, technology, medicine, art, music, global politics and endless other things.

[@panchomcsporran2083]

Butterscotch was invented in Yorkshire.

[@Rodgerslicker]

Simpkins traditional sweet products Sheffield buy direct cover those sweets mentioned..

[@LaPOLEA]

He wasnt joking about the alarm clock making tea, my parents had one in the late seventies and early eighties, i was amazed by it , the same way i loved the soda stream .

[@pritch999]

It was called a teasmaid

[@robertgrant4987]

Yep, my parents had a teasmade back in the seventies. They didn't really use it much because when you first wake up, you normally need to get up for the loo anyway, and once your up, you're up, so you'd might as well go and make one in the kitchen lol they used it once I think 🤔

[@Spiklething]

@@pritch999 It was actually a teasmade. I never realised it was spelt that way myself until recently

[@philhallbrook7008]

@@Spiklething presumably because, hey presto, the teas made!

[@VectorRipper]

Goblin Teasmade, had one for years it was great waking up to a hot cuppa, chill in bed for 10 mins drinking my Tea before i got ready for work.

[@alananderson5731]

The tea marker is not a joke we did invent it.😊

[@MariaFletcher-bf5pk]

@@alananderson5731 I had exactly the same one that was shown

[@christinehoughton8591]

Me too it was a wedding gift.

[@Rodgerslicker]

Tea maker not marker?..

[@chrisspere4836]

@@Rodgerslicker or is it market?

[@Rodgerslicker]

​@chrisspere4836 somebody trying to maker a joke,not market maybe a racket.might even be called a teas maid!?..

[@traceyg6458]

My favourite invention was the Hovercraft invented by Sir Christopher Cockeral in 1955

[@daveofyorkshire301]

Look at the Royal Society it's recorded invention and innovation since 1600.

[@DenUitvreter]

No, it is from much later in the scientific revolution and actually an attempt of the British to get some science going themselves too. Not a bad idea, but the British were a bit behind.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@DenUitvreter What are you talking about?

[@DenUitvreter]

@@daveofyorkshire301 The Royal Society, from 1660 so quite late in the scientific revolution.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@DenUitvreter Late? Explain? Are you aware how many could read or write?

[@DenUitvreter]

@@daveofyorkshire301 The highly classist nature of British society didn't help British science indeed. Britain was behind on the scientific revolution in the 1st half of the 17th century, the Royal Society was a very sensible attempt to get more science going in Britain, but that was only in 1660. They were looking with envy at Italy, Germany, Dutch Republic, Scandinavia.

[@buidseach]

The British did invent the Jet Engine, invented by Frank Whittle.

[@JJ-of1ir]

Yes he did, but the 'powers that be' were slow to recognise the potential of his genius. The German who made a study of Whittle's jet engine blue prints was gracious. He placed on record an acknowledgement to Frank Whittle as the inventor of the jet engine.

[@lk-music]

​@@JJ-of1ir Weeeelll, Hans von Ohain may have subsequently acknowledged Whittle to be the inventor, but they didn't invent quite the same thing, Ohain's jet engine was simpler and easier to manufacture, it powered aircraft a couple of years before Whittle's engine despite his head start. However, it was Whittle's design that should stand as the winner, not necessarily because it was still technically the first jet engine, but because it mostly resembles what we still use today, von Ohain's design was not further developed because it was inefficient at high speed or altitude. If you look at today's jet engine and ask "Who invented that?" then no question it was Whittle.

[@Who.Knew-The.Salt.MustFlow]

Not to mention contribution to literature, music, art.....

[@Aesop059]

Talking over the soundtrack?....definitely an American invention.

[@davidwatts-hw2dh]

Above all, is the language you are using. My old Anglo-Saxon-Viking-French, creation. We can talk to each other.🙂

[@davidmarsden9800]

The first aircraft factory is Short Brothers formed in London in 1908 and produced its first aircraft in Belfast in March 1909 beating the Wright Brothers who formed their company in November 1909. Also in 1909 at Walthamstow Marshes, London in a railway arch A V Roe built the first British aircraft to achieve powered flight. The following year 1910 AVRO opened an aircraft factory in Manchester until taken over in 1963.

[@graceygrumble]

Someone mentioned 'the weekend'. Two days off a week freed people to work in their sheds. There was some really good stuff worked on in those sheds! Those of us who merely 'chop wood and carry water' started taking 'day trips' to the beach, or to the countryside. The travel and leisure industries became huge money spinners. "Work hard, play hard and don't let the b'stards grind you down!"

[@AlanCarr-cx2ku]

Brits invented mostly all sport played today also

[@DenUitvreter]

No, it's the final set of rules that is often British.

[@chrism6764]

And we are generally terrible at all of them. 😂 (I'm a brit)

[@adriangoodrich4306]

"Tarmac" is a MacAdamised road covered with a layer of asphalt to seal it. The really clever part was what McAdam did, which was invent the graded road - layers of crushed, frost-resistant stone, smaller on top (narrower than wheels), laid and heavily rolled in an only modest convex cross-section to create a robust, relatively level and smooth and still water-shedding surface. This method negated the earlier need for much more massive road foundations - you could just lay on subsoil - and, as the surface smallest rocks became crushed by traffic it made for an even denser, locked surface. Another Brit patented the original sealing with a mixture of tar and slag and other binders.

[@TerenceDixon-l6b]

Invented By a Nottingham planning officer, I believe, and developed and perfected near the Spring Vale steelworks near Coseley, where I was born. The company used crushed furnace slag and tar and was called Tarmac, now an international Company.

[@markhorton8578]

That just some inventions, then of course there is an Independent Law system, trial by jury, the modern police force, modern human rights, and Parliamentary democracy, etc.

[@georgedyson9754]

And the General Post office for delivering letters with a stamp on the envelope to pay for it..

[@DenUitvreter]

Parlementary democracy is not a British invention. Their current constitutional parliamentary monarchy is actually the product of the Dutch Republic's invasion of 1688 and they are still not very democratic. That got them their Bill of Rights of too.

[@JJ-of1ir]

@@DenUitvreter Yes the Americans did study the Dutch Parliamentary System but, for several reasons, they did not adopt it in the end.

[@DenUitvreter]

@@JJ-of1ir Good reasons too, they didn't adopt the British system, introduced by the Dutch either. The Americans did copy the DOI from the Dutch one from 1581 though. But there were parliaments all over Scandinavia too, also in back and forths with the king but more forth and less back than in England. The Brits were often behind in democracy and civil rights. The Magna Charta was about noble's rights, not civil rights.

[@markhorton8578]

@@DenUitvreter Parliament existed LONG before 1688 and INVITED William of Orange as he was known here, to become King. Parliament had pretty much run the country for centuries, with Kings taking an ever smaller role, but Charles the first decided he wanted to run things French style as an absolute monarch. So we had a long war between King and Parliament (which you claim didn't exist). The king was executed and it was in the turbulent years which followed which resulted in King William.

[@johnnybeer3770]

Had a Goblin teasmaid as a wedding present in 1974 . Two things not mentioned was the Harrier jump jet which was able it to vector the engine thrust allowing it to stop and hover, and the touch screen television invented by the Post Office 🇬🇧

[@BillBlogs-t2i]

Actually, you people who seem to know it all, lol. Germany did not invent the car. The British invented the car. You seem to be only thinking petrol. In fact the first car was a steam car. But was not very good due to the fact they had to use water and coal/wood to power it.

[@ZuulGatekeeper]

True cars had been around for about 80 years before Benz was even born. Steam, Petrol even Electric versions however these early cars were often one off creations & far out the price range of normal people. While Benz did't invent the car he did make the first affordable car people could actually buy just a simple carriage with a tiny engine.

[@TerenceDixon-l6b]

Invented and built by Richard Newcomen, the steam engine inventor, in 1802. It was a quirky one off, but proved the concept of a powered passenger vehicle. He and his passengers were so pleased with the performance that they stopped off at a licenced hostelry for a bite to eat, but two pints of beer being too many but three not enough, they so celebrated. Unfortunately the fire of the engine had to be left burning to keep up the head of steam, but the boiler ran dry and the celebrations were interrupted by a loud bang as the boiler gave up and exploded - end of experiment, unfortunately.

[@NeOWaR2024]

I LOVE that you put the fools and horses bit in the middle, almost made me spit out my drink lmao!

[@brigidsingleton1596]

"No income tax, no vat..." 'Trotters Independent Traders' ... Those initials make for a great idea Delboy?!! Lol!!

[@AlBarzUK]

@@brigidsingleton1596… no money back, no guarantee… 😂

[@abigailjohnson4270]

I properly LOL’d…

[@NeOWaR2024]

My friends, I just bought this keyboard and dribbled most of my drink over it 😆

[@FlbcImp]

Credit to America for continuing with the Victorian work practices,long hours,low pay and no workers rights.

[@John-jw8rx]

😂😂😂😂

[@markfranklin387]

Add to that educashun

[@ianphillips9455]

You mention history of Britain and mention the bad things ( you have to judge that in the time it happened ) the first Empires in the world where in Africa and Middle East and Britain was itself invaded many times ( Celts, Romans, Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Vikings, Normans and many others that tried and failed) so Britain came very late to the Empire game and in the end forced countries to give up slavery the only reason that was possible was because Britain had the strongest and largest Empire at the time, all history should be looked at through eyes of that time in history not through the eyes of today and the advances that have been made by many countries.

[@MrBannystar]

Hear hear. Sadly in the UK these days, we love to put ourselves down at any given opportunity. The cynics that want to destroy our history also want to destroy the system.

[@EnochsDream]

Thank you. It's my 44th today and I needed this. A weary Brit, who loves her home and is deeply troubled by the slow suicide that her country seems to be going through ❤🎉❤ 🇺🇸 🇬🇧

[@AJ-hi9fd]

Once our backs are against the wall the lion wakes up and roars. Look at our history, the dissolution of the monasteries, the peasants revolt, many wars etc and we’ve survived.

[@rohnnyjotten3985]

A few more to consider : The Telescope, The Syringe, The Submarine, Logarithms, Modern Economics, Percussion Ignition (Guns), The Machine-gun, The Electromagnet, The Light bulb, The Telegraph, The Postal System and Stamps, Electric Clock, Fax Machine, Traffic lights, Method for classifying Fingerprints, The Tractor, Electroluminescence the principle behind LEDs, The Aircraft Carrier, Carbon-Fibre, The Touchscreen, The ATM cash-machine and PIN number, Lithium-ion battery, Laptop Computer, The Text Message, The Pencil, Print stereotyping, Typewriter, Teleprinter, Roller printing, The World's first Oil -Refinery, The Supercharger for Engines, Vaccum-Cleaner (and Dyson, The 1st bagless Vaccum-Cleaner), Fire extinguisher, Gas Mask, Lawn-Mower, The Toaster, Magnifying glass, Toothbrush, Fridge, Sunglasses, Waterproof clothing, Wellington Boots, The tin-can and can opener, Discovery of Vitamins, Insulin, IVF, Electrocardiography, the use of Surgical Anaesthesia, X-Rays, Photography, The Projector, Football, Rugby, Cricket, Golf, Boxing, Tennis, Snooker, Baseball, The Police Force, The U.S Navy, The Chocolate bar, Carbonated soft drink....... and Apple Pie !

[@R3ED3R]

as a american as apple pie... brits are like 'hold my beer'

[@madcyclist58]

I think this video just scratches the surface.

[@R3ED3R]

@madcyclist58 the videos would be hours long if he tried to list everything. I make you right though. I love watching Americans react to this as they do generally think they are responsible for every advancement in the world lol. Even though there are buildings here in the uk that are 700+ years older than their entire country

[@andypandy9013]

You are going out on a limb with a lot of those. For example the Submarine. Britain was pretty late to the party with that one! 🙂

[@R3ED3R]

@andypandy9013 the inventor was dutch but lived in the UK so kinda riding the line there lol

[@John-jw8rx]

And then there's the music........

[@johnroberthines7811]

Lets face it the British more or less invented everything 😂

[@-GrumpyOldMan]

Yet we still haven't formulated the ultimate question to life the universe and everything.

[@markfranklin387]

​​​@@-GrumpyOldManmay not have the question, but all British people know that the answer is: . . . . . . . . . XY

[@affalaffaa]

@@-GrumpyOldManIt's 42. Mums the word...

[@-GrumpyOldMan]

@@affalaffaa That's the answer, not the question.

[@MC24DB]

42

[@fredshred5194]

Pennsylvania, named after /founded by a Brit William Penn. So maybe that's why.

[@davidmarsden9800]

William Penn's father, a Royal Navy Admiral watched the Great Fire of London 1666, with Samuel Pepys, the diarist and at the time Secretary of the Royal Navy, from the church tower of All Hallows Church which is right next to the Tower of London. William himself was baptised in that church. John Quincy Adams, 6th US President was married in that church.

[@AlBarzUK]

But he didn’t invent the pennsyl.

[@davidware9549]

We also invented the electric washing machine and dish washer and the modern day crane and the apple pie and doughnuts and light bulb and the submarine

[@mickieg1994]

One massive one thats often overlooked Rope, boy o boy could we make some rope In order to make a long straight rope, you need a longer building, the longer and stronger the rope, the bigger the sail can be, the bigger the sail, the more weight it can pull, the more weight you can pull, the bigger the ship you can build. Bigger ship, more cargo, longer trade routes, just one invention that played its part in changing the world was the way we manufactured rope.

[@worldofameiso5491]

Indeed, I used to work for a rope maker (Hawkins and Tipson) and we had the remnants of an old ropewalk on the factory site - no longer used for making rope in the 80s, but a very useful storage building...for ropes.

[@jeanlongsden1696]

now I am not saying that Britain invented it, but the oldest recipe for Apple Pie was written in 1381 by Geoffrey Chaucer in England. so much for the say "as American as Apple Pie" which hadn't even been discovered by that point in time.

[@abigailjohnson4270]

Actually we did invent the apple pie! Lol… sorry America… when you say ‘as American as apple pie’ you may wish to re-think that one. ;-)

[@surfaceten510n]

Apples did not exist in America until Europeans took them there.

[@DenUitvreter]

If you look for the recipe written in English and you'll find an old one does not mean it's the oldest. The apple pie might be as British as the sandwich, not.

[@jeanlongsden1696]

@@DenUitvreter what did the first line of my post say? did you just feel the need to type something?

[@DenUitvreter]

@@jeanlongsden1696 Yes, I felt the need to type something on the flawed logic of both claims. If you look in Britain for the oldest recipie you will find no more than the oldest British recipe. Which might happen to be the oldest in the world by coincidence, but that's all.

[@frank9446]

I'm surprised the video didn't mention the ARM (Advanced RISC Machine) processor. This was originally developed in the early 1980s by Acorn Computers, a British company, as part of their work on the Acorn RISC Machine project. Today, ARM processors are ubiquitous in modern technology. Their low power consumption and efficiency make them ideal for: Mobile Devices: Found in almost all smartphones and tablets, ARM processors power operating systems like Android and iOS. Embedded Systems: Used in IoT devices, sensors, and appliances due to their compact size and energy efficiency. Computing: ARM-based chips are increasingly used in laptops and servers, with companies like Apple adopting ARM for their M1 and M2 series chips. Automotive: Found in in-car entertainment systems, navigation, and driver-assist technologies. Wearables: Essential for fitness trackers, smartwatches, and medical devices.

[@grahamtravers4522]

The basis for modern computr security was also invented in the UK. It could not be patented because it was a state secret. When a couple of Americans discovered the same thing many years later, they patented it and made a fortune.

[@Yandarval]

Video's can only be so long. The research time would be immense just to create such a vid. It would be easier to do a vid on what the US invented. A minute or two long, for this.

[@JJ-of1ir]

@frank9446. Now you mention it, I'm surprised too.

[@SeeDaRipper...]

Right on about ARM technology and Acorn electronics, co designed by a transwoman Sophie Wilson (nee Roger Wilson) and Steve Furber (both Brits) you'd be hard pressed to find _any_ electronic device in the world that didn't have an ARM chip.

[@abigailjohnson4270]

Oh and we have the first underground metro too - the London Underground. First line, the Metropolitan line, opened in 1863…

[@gromit9322]

Sir Ernest Rutherford was from New Zealand though to be fair most NZ’s at that time still felt they were British.

[@John-jw8rx]

Many New Zealanders, Australians and Americans ARE British. They just live elsewhere 😁

[@Rodgerslicker]

.Did you know the best invention in the world was the venetian blinds,because if it wasn't for that it would have been curtains for everybody.

[@JJ-of1ir]

LOL!

[@patthehorse]

Boom Boom!

[@darrellpowell6042]

Basically Britain invented the modern world and shaped world developments for 300 years.

[@geoffreypyne5809]

As an Aussie of British/Irish descent I think we have to include you Yanks (and Rebs) into this wonderful cycle of invention and improvement. After all, like it or not, you are part of the 'Anglosphere'. of Churchill's "English-speaking Peoples". And his mother was a New Yorker.

[@hoonaticbloggs5402]

I’m a Londoner and I agree. After the war we basically had to mortgage the empire to the USA and luckily the USA has kept development of the new world going.

[@BazColne]

"Gravity was invented by the Brits" just in time to stop everything drifting off into space.

[@johnleonard9090]

There was a program first shown on the BBC called “Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here”, had a quick look and it does seem to be on here

[@davidmotoole]

Having watched this programme on the BBC, one point stood out above all others. Science was not censored by church or state, as it was in Europe. A lesson we need to remember. Religious dogma and doctrine, which also controlled European states, stifles humanity. Take heed USA!

[@jebsjobs]

Gotta laugh! 🙂 4:02 - Lovely shot of Grimsby Docks with a liner. Looks like the fish finger factory is going to have to move to Goole LOL!

[@ClassicRiki]

13:36 That’s not a joke

[@MichaelLamming]

First powered flight was in 1848 and was achieved by a British gentleman. John Stringfellow of Chard, over 50 years before the Wright brothers. The Wright brothers were the first to have controlled powered flight with a human on board.

[@JJ-of1ir]

Yes, I read somewhere that the Wright Brothers followed John Stringfellow's progress and even came over here to meet him.

[@philipcochran1972]

Bad news sells, good news doesn't.

[@jonnyfrench19]

Don't forget Edward Jenner and his smallpox vaccine. Millions of lives saved.

[@paulj5080]

Only 45 roundabouts? Amateurs, Milton Keynes has over 130 of them; there's a few places in the UK that have 5 or more roundabouts combined into a single intersection too.

[@abigailjohnson4270]

And here’s one that’s more of a social change that created a monster industry - the white wedding dress. Thank you Queen Victoria for that one. She wore a white wedding dress which was so unusual then. Look at the massive industry that has now become..

[@deeeeeeeench1209]

The most interesting fact is that most of the inventors are Scottish still British but it's still to be noted even as an English man myself.

[@bermondsey548428]

A thankyou to that man our Australian cousins.👏👏👏

[@GazGaryGazza]

He’s not joking about the te making - a Teasmaid, they were very popular in the 70’s - 80’s, my Mum had one 👍🏻

[@BusstterNutt]

Nothing a cargo of tea and 250 years back taxes wouldn't make good.

[@surfaceten510n]

No taxation without representation a bloody war and 250 years and you still haven't fixed it your government still rob you and tell you to F off.

[@vaudevillian7]

A lot of the earliest locomotives in the US were built in Britain

[@JJ-of1ir]

Americans came over to England and bought one of our railway engines/track in 1825

[@WelshguyinLondon]

The United Kingdom basically invented everything you realise the British Empire was the largest Empire in history and bringing the Industrial revolution which made the new world we owe everything to the British they were the creators of you think about it 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Titus9508]

Mass production of Steel, the material that changed the planet.

[@wackyswanderings3627]

Nice one guys, loving the channel. Guess us Brits ain't done too bad, whiskey, moonshine, scotch, beer, traffic lights, tail lights, head lights, lighters, printing presses, and of course our unique sense of humour and who cares anyway attitude 😂

[@Trippingthroughadventures]

Thank youA new video coming out tomorrow morning 10 am a video talking about the bravery of Brit’s ☺️

[@johnwaldron7490]

It would be far easier to remember the things the British didn’t invent than the things we did, plus we gave the world things that never existed, laws, education, the ability to travel by sea/air or rail, medicines and medical equipment,free speech, equality, yes some peoples lives are more equal than others are, learn how to be civilised, sadly that hasn’t caught on in many countries even the modern ones, plus we don’t feel the need to live our lives being armed to the teeth with the fear of being shot if we’re not. All in all perfection, that’s why I can shout British ( English ) and be proud of it🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧.

[@jonathanocallaghan9202]

The alarm clock that makes tea wasn't a joke, they are a real thing, they were called a Teasmade.

[@LaPOLEA]

Yes , my parents had one , loved it, I would realy like to have one today.

[@PerryCJamesUK]

I miss my Goblin. Not for the awful tea it made but it had a lovely lamp and a clock with glow in the dark hands.

[@undergroundbass946fm]

Teasmaid* Seriously thinking of getting one now!

[@pjmoss30]

TEASMAID ffs

[@Ross-df6ge]

​@@pjmoss30Actually it's not, all across the internet and in Argos catalogues from the 1970's it is teasmade, I didn't know either until I checked

[@derekwhite2929]

Don't forget William Bragg, who came up with the vaguely useful Radar that helps avoiding terrible accidents as well as keeping track of the weather!

[@lat1419]

The hovercraft?

[@trytellingthetruth.2068]

The Internet, and the World Wide Web aren't the same thing. America came up with the idea of connecting computers, globally, the Web enabled people to interact with each other. That's it in its simplest terms.

[@Jason_L10]

Actually it wasnt just America that created the internet, it also involved UK and French academic institutions, and was known as ARPANET. Also Packet switching which is the fundamental building block of the Internet was conceived and designed by a Welsh Computer Scientists called Donald Davies, when he worked at the National Physical Lab in the UK.

[@jamie3093]

That roundabout is in Letchworth - about 7 miles from my house

[@matj8819]

When the french first flew a plane from france to the uk, we decided to invent the Anti Aircraft gun!!

[@HankD13]

Would personally chuck in Magna Carta - the basic building block of most modern democracies. The long, excessively expensive, in blood and treasure, crusade against slavery around the world as a couple of positives. English Common Law seems worth a mention too - since from it has evolved the legal systems found in the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries. And don't talk about the Bengal famine of 1942.... it is a great deal more complex than most internet channels ever address!

[@ruth1231]

I think there is a lot of Welsh in Pennsylvania. They went to be miners. A great uncle of mine moved there from the Welsh Valleys.

[@jeanneale9257]

Www is a different invention to the internet

[@Tj-ot4jp]

No, he's not joking about the teas made clock, unless of course the coffee machine you're talking about was around in the sixties.

[@PopsWhyte]

The first alarm clock that makes tea was called the Goblin Teasmaid. My grandparents had one.

[@stevodidge]

He's not joking about the alarm clock that makes tea. My grandma had one back in the 80's.

[@MC24DB]

The fact you just put an Only Fools and Horses clip in your video makes me like you guys even more

[@Trippingthroughadventures]

😂🤣😂 out everybody watching this you was the first one to mention it, I didn’t know how people would react but you know, “he who dares, wins “ 😄

[@nicholascarrington7912]

The TeasMaid alarm clock was, indeed, a thing. A company called Goblin was very famous for them - the Goblin Teasmade (it gave rise to a particular joke). The water was freshly boiled, so that you could wake up to a nice fresh cup of tea! They have their roots in an article in a magazine in 1891. By 1902 there were automatic tea/coffee makers being manufactured. These were gas powered. In 1932/33, the first electric tea/coffee making alarm clocks appeared and grew in popularity into the 1960s/70s. They've faded a bit now, but you can still get them new.

[@davidmarsden9800]

I've got a Teasmaid alarm clock, it's great, everything else is just nice to have.

[@rikaus9273]

Watching how you went from excitement to frustration learning us Brits gave you everything is fantastic 😂

[@badboyblacksheep69]

he wasn't joking about the teasmaid the alarm clock that makes tea

[@LilMonkeyFella87]

I have a playlist on my channel of 24 videos titled "I Never Knew That About Britain" . They are all interesting little videos about inventions and trivia about the UK. It includes several things on this list. I think you might like them and it'll learn you something. A few of my favourites I have up "I Never Knew That About Britain - Where is the centre of London?" "I Never Knew That About Britain - How a mill in England gave rise to the world's skyscrapers" "I Never Knew That About Britain - How the London Stock Exchange started in a coffee house" "I Never Knew That About Britain - How a group of Welsh women stopped Napoleon invading Britain" "I Never Knew That About Britain - How a bicycle lead to the world's first tractor" "I Never Knew That About Britain - How chloroform became an anesthetic"

[@odin741]

I don't think you can blame us for the roundabout (due to the fact it requires going around a curved road)- it's not our fault that all US streets are designed in a grid pattern so you only drive in straight lines lol. I think I see the problem though- you have 'traffic calming' roundabouts in a country where driving calmly is an issue hehe.

[@Trippingthroughadventures]

I got honked at yesterday because I slowed down when the light turned yellow, and the person behind didn’t want to slow down before going into the turning lane. So they honked at me, I guess I should have rammed the car in front of me so they could have transitioned into the turning lane while maintaining their preferred speed…. Idk what your talking about American drivers are perfectly rational 😂🤣😂

[@odin741]

@@Trippingthroughadventures The US invented Honking- we took care of the rest lmao.

[@stephenderbyshire7849]

​@@Trippingthroughadventures When you mentioned about the laying down of the railway from the East coast of America to the West, it reminded me of the song 'Driving the last spike', by the rock band 'Genesis'. That song is about the men, mostly, that left their families behind to create the railways in Britain and the struggles they went through, but I think this song and the images that were shown, fits both. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHicXmqNosqGmsUsi=OtUbBJ6qPw0sKohL

[@Loki1815]

​@@stephenderbyshire7849 I was researching my family tree and was surprised that my Great-G-Grandad got married in Brackley, West Northamptonshire, I say surprised because all the rest of the family were from South East London, from Westminster, all along the River to Greenwich, and out to the Oval and Penge (Peckham). It turns out he was a Brickie and worked on the Railway in the 1830's building Tunnels and Railway Stations from London, up the Spine of the country, he met a girl from King's Lynn who was working as a Servant in Brackley and married her in a church in Brackley. He must have made a fair bit of money because he built a small house in Blackheath, he probably "Found" the bricks...

[@adrianhughes8143]

Actually the jet engine was invented by Frank Whittle who was serving in the RAF during WW2. Hence there is the Whittle engine that he invented. The Germans were not the first to invent the jet engine, it was an English man that invented the jet engine. 💂‍♂️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪

[@georgedyson9754]

In fact the British government sent the design of Whittle's engine to Germany who then further developed it.

[@adrianhughes8143]

@georgedyson9754 The point is that the first Jet Engine was invented by a Brit, that is what the statement is about. What you said means absolutely nothing in the question WHO INVENTED THE JET ENGINE. 💂‍♂️ 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪

[@jockeyladjockeylad8492]

Additionally - after WWII the UK didn't have the money to further develop Frank Whittle's jet engine - most of his results/notes/drawings/prototype work ended up in the US whilst he moved on to more pressing projects. When he attempted to talk to the labs in the US who were basing all their work on his foundational work he was told that the information was classified & he was under no circumstances to attempt to contact these labs ever again.

[@monza1002000]

​@jockeyladjockeylad8492 Yet the US were using British jet engines and RR were creating the best jet engines under a different name. Check a few facts.

[@adrianhughes8143]

@@monza1002000 FFS the bloody question was WHO INVENTED THE JET ENGINE and the FU##ING ANSWER IS FRANK WHITTLE WHO WAS A FELLOW BRIT AND WAS IN THE RAF. I AM DONE WITH YOU BOY. 💂‍♂️💂‍♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇪🤨😡😡🤬🤬

[@anthonyking8290]

Alarm clock that makes tea,was called the teasmade and was invented in 1932 way before the digital clock versions you know of.Patented in 1934,and manufactured by the company Goblin in 1936.I can remember my parents owning one over 40 years ago,so the teasmade is a real thing and presedes the modern versions of today.

[@dmthandmade5674]

You're welcome, for the Trains, accurate timepieces enabling navigation, Penicillin and Radar. Sorry about the Television.

[@robertwhite952]

He is not joking about the clock thar makes tea. This guy should make a series. He barely touched the surfice. Modern things DNA profiling, the ATM, the world wide web which is different than the internet.Back in the day, fingerprinting, I could write a book longer than War and Peace.

[@garrywolfe1114]

The 'Invention' of penicillin is a fun story worth looking into - there is a big difference between invention, observation and discovery.

[@michaelisles4756]

Happy new year to you all hope we see you back on our little island soon 😂😂

[@The.Android]

You're welcome rest of the world.

[@Enhancedlies]

i loved your rant on roundabouts i wont lie, love from across the pond!