Americans React: What Did the British Ever Do for the World? | British Inventions & Discoveries

[@necessaryevil3428]

British cats eye reflectors actually have a little reservoir to hold rain water so when you pass over one it dips into the water and cleans itself.... genius 🇬🇧

[@bobcrockett6016]

With little brushes that clean the eyes when a car wheel compresses it.

[@222inverter]

Self cleaning!..👍

[@vallee3140]

really? didn't know that, how clever

[@kieranvarker57]

Came here to say the same thing brilliant idea

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@vallee3140 AREN'T WE ?

[@karenthomas5358]

This list doesn't scratch the surface off British inventions.

[@white-dragon4424]

Especially military inventions.

[@lloydcollins6337]

@@white-dragon4424 Bring forward the Stokes mortar, the Blacker Bombard, the tank, the dreadnought battleship, the PIAT and the Boyes anti-tank rifle, to name a few!

[@white-dragon4424]

@@lloydcollins6337 The aircraft carrier, the angled flight deck, the steam catapult, and what the Americans call the "meatball" to help pilots land on carriers, all originally invented for the RN. Oh, and the jet engine, invented by Frank Whittle.

[@mauk2861]

not QUITE everything!

[@derekhair2437]

The US Navy

[@torhockers1482]

Us Brits get so much grief, it’s really rather lovely to see something positive about us.

[@alexanderferguson2199]

Scotland is second only to the Ancient Greeks for their contribution to mankind.

[@uthikoloshe]

nah it's not, we suck. ;)

[@lynnwakefield9884]

here is one! I am a Yank and had an appointment with a patent attorney in Manchester England, trying to fit us in, we were put in a small back room being used for storage. The room had a plaque of the company's first patent. It was for the Dewey decimal system.

[@simond2031]

So proud, thanks for the recognition. truly humbled... Simon , UK British and proud !! Great channel guys.

[@Sir.T]

Another important one is that the British were the first to ban slavery and then forced every other country to ban the practice.

That's a lie.

[@peterjackson4763]

We weren't the first. The French banned slavery after their revolution, but Napoleon brought it back a few years later.

[@NataliePine]

Definitely not first

[@ej7714]

@@peterjackson4763 The French still refused to ban slavery in it's overseas territories (plantations, see Haiti), whilst the British had pushed countries to follow suit in banning it during the congress of Vienna. Slavery had been banned in Britain since the 11th Century and many cases of slaves brought to Britain were freed. Slavery was banned in it's overseas territories and a huge sum of money was borrowed to compensate 'losses' for land owners. This was still being paid off until 2015. The West Africa Squadron was also tasked at tax payer expense to intercept and free slaves on ships off west Africa participating in the slave trade. The UK is responsible for the abolishment of slavery in Europe and across many overseas territories of it's own and by the extension of other powers.

[@nikkijayne4451]

Africa are still selling their own. So it hasn't ended either.

[@grampstin9375]

Interesting fact about our cats eye markers, when they are run over they are designed so that the centre section (the eyes) go down on a spring & the rain water collected in the void washes the eyes so basically they’re self cleaning

[@TomGodson95]

he also never patented it amd gave most of his wealth to charity

[@Sophie.S..]

You would not be able to watch this video without Sir Tim Berners-Lee who invented the World Wide Web.

[@rohnnyjotten3985]

They, for some reason, have watched a cut version of the original video, he does mention the www and a few other things, I don't understand why someone would cut that out..

[@Sophie.S..]

@@rohnnyjotten3985 That's very interesting.. ......

[@MostlyPennyCat]

And Sophie Wilson, who invented the CPU in every smartphone and the chip in practically every broadband modem. So it wasn't just the software, we invented the hardware too.

@@MostlyPennyCat No.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Oh rly?

[@DrAllyGreen]

Sir Tim Berners-Lee not only invented the world wide web but gifted it to the world for free - absolutely incredible

[@JudahBenYisrael]

I'm proud to be British & what my Great Nation has given to the world. Rule Britannia 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@daviel6595]

As a scot I'm British 1st

[@JudahBenYisrael]

@@daviel6595 Same.

[@TheCornishCockney]

@@daviel6595 well I’m an Englishman and I…………concur. 🇬🇧

[@staticbuilds7613]

Proud to be English, British. Great History, art and innovations

[@space1999]

Brits also invented the communication satellite (arthur c clarke), the Internet, computers and even texting!

[@MaoZhu-j6q]

Don't forget, the Brits also brought you apple pie. Before the British came to America, there were no apple trees in America. Apples have been in Britain since Roman times and apple pie has been in Britain for at least 600 years.

[@Catherine.Dorian.]

I’m American and our history was a lot of British history because it’s really seen as still our history

[@gbulmer]

By that argument, didn't the Romans enable the USA to have apple pie? 😀 "What did the Romans ever do for us?" (Life of Brian) Best Wishes. ☮

[@white-dragon4424]

@@gbulmer The Romans also introduced rabbits into the British ecosystem. We then took them over to North America. If it wasn't for the Romans there wouldn't be a Bugs Bunny!

[@gbulmer]

@@white-dragon4424 😀Thank you for replying. Are you sure? I'm reasonably sure some rabbit and hare species are native to America. Nice idea, though. Also, Spain might have taken some before Brits; "Hispania" means "Land of the rabbits". Best Wishes. ☮

[@white-dragon4424]

@@gbulmer Maybe the Spanish did. I know that the Romans brought rabbits to Britain, and we undoubtedly took lots over to the 13 Colonies for food, and a lot of those probably escaped. I know the Spanish brought hares, but they're different to rabbits, hence the name.

[@jillosler9353]

Your Constitution and Bill of Rights was based on the Magna Carta written in England in the 13th Century!

[@glzgowlass]

They know. They covered it recently.

[@gbulmer]

There is a reasonable claim that the US constitution is much closer to the Dutch constitution than any other preceding document. I can imagine many English speakers don't know of that claim. However, there were enough Dutch settlers to create The New Netherlands and New York was previously called New Amsterdam. So the knowledge was present. I'm busy, but I'll try to remember to find a link and try to post a successful search (I think YT prevents links beyond its own content). Best Wishes. ☮

[@cyrus2728]

@@gbulmer sssh dont you know facts are problematic

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

​@@gbulmerare you an Anglophobe by any chance?

[@andrewcornwall9754]

​@@gbulmerThere is indeed. I wrote a comment on their response about US sovereign land at Runnymede a few days ago. The claim in that video was that the US Consitution is based on the 1628 Petition of Right. I rejected that & stated it's the 1689 Bill of Rights that the US Consitution is most closely based upon. Magna Carta is just 1 in a very long road of steps towards our Parliamentary democracy. A key step in reigning in monarchs, but the 1689 Bill of Rights, signed by William & Mary, marked the end of absolute monarchy forever in GB. Back to your point about The Netherlands. It's almost always forgotten that 35 of the 102 Plymouth Pilgrims were members of the English Separatist Church, radical Puritans, who had earlier fled to Leiden to escape persecution in England. They returned from Leiden and then joined the colonists on the Mayflower. Several of the Founding Fathers were scholars of history, and the English religious battles in particular. Jefferson & others would also have been familiar with continental European religious struggles. The wording and structure of the US Consitution has distinct similarities to the 1689 Bill of Rights, and I was told when reading history at Uni many years ago to the Consitution of The Netherlands. Used to have a bit of spoken Dutch due to having some Dutch friends when growing up, but I've never learnt to read it. Always makes me laugh when Americans treat their Consitution as if it's some magical holy relic that materialised out of nowhere. Have always taken American relatives & friends to Runnymede when they've come over to stay, and made sure that they realise their consitution is just a small step on a journey towards equal rights & liberties for all, that didn't start with Magna Carta In 1215. The journey goes back well over a 1,000 years. There's a good but very small display about Magna Carta at The British Library in London. Free entry to their galleries and well worth a visit. I go quite often as some displays change regularly. It's very close to King's Cross/St. Pancras, so if I have to change trains, I take a break & visit the library.

[@che71che]

We all stand on the shoulders of giants. British Giants

[@NataliePine]

The true giants are the Sumerians. By the time their empire fell, they'd given the world writing, the wheel, numbers, accounting, receipts, sewers, the use of copper, sailboats, chariots, literature, recipe books, law codes, monarchy, service stations, and countless other inventions. They handed us civilisation in very nearly its current state, and so much of what we've gone on to accomplish has been iterative improvements over what they did first.

[@Roz-y2d]

Absolutely 👍🏻❤️🇬🇧

[@MichaelLamming]

😂😂😂

[@TheCornishCockney]

Old Ted down the pub is 6ft 7”. He’s a giant and he invented whole loaf casseroles. Hollow an uncut,Chuck your chicken casserole in it and munch.

[@conradcoleby]

I'm a Brit. And it's because our weather is so rainy, we stay indoors tinkering with ideas and stuff, until we invent something. 😅

[@memoe6172]

😂😂😂 💯

[@zollykod2541]

Boredom is necessary for creativity to flourish!

[@kathleenleslie5527]

@@zollykod2541necessity is the Mother of invention, as the saying goes.

[@deanj1981]

I’m so proud to be British 🇬🇧 And thank you guys for this amazing video ❤

[@ElisaMcGowan-t2q]

THIS is why the Brits have EVERY reason to be proud of what they gave to the world.

[@chucky2316]

We are lions led by lambs sadly

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

​@@chucky2316fascists now

[@ItsAlsoAGun]

@@CarolWoosey-ck2rg lmao... No

[@chucky2316]

​@@CarolWoosey-ck2rg the govt and the lefties won't stop me being pro english and british.

[@WayneCrow85]

@@CarolWoosey-ck2rgStop being a bitter old dear

[@whitecompany18]

The SS Great Eastern laid the first cables from England to America , boat built by one of the greatest brits , Isambard kingdom Brunel 👍

[@jamieclarke321]

The cable was designed by maxwell and the idea came from lord kelvin. Absolute powerhouse team

[@sicr7373]

I'm not saying Britain is the best country in the world, but we're in the top one! (Rest in peace Mr Clough)

[@shaunrye7740]

Only Britain is Great

[@christopherjohnson7133]

Yes it is 😂

[@adamlancaster77]

Britain isn't a country it's a land of 4 countries

[@brigidsingleton1596]

​@@adamlancaster77 (Great) Britain is three countries, England, Wales and Scotland, though Wales is a principality...the UK consists of four countries, which include the above and also Northern Ireland. I know you know that, but this additional comment's info is for Steve and Lindsay of course. 👍🙂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💜🇬🇧🤭🖖

[@grrrrbabyverygrrr8165]

Too bad this country is now full of chav morons.

[@clmclmn21]

Not everything, but 51% of everything in the last 1000 years. As a Brit I am pretty happy with that.

[@themoderntemplar1567]

We're far too modest to make a song and dance about it but we've always punched well above our weight.🇬🇧

[@janewilson8676]

It’s fashionable to talk our country down but we have so much to be proud of. We consistently punch above our weight even now,despite the poor leadership we’ve had of late 🇬🇧

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

So right- annoys me when the wokes in this country are the worst offenders in putting their own country down

[@scottwest102]

It's we, the people, that punch above our weight. The politicians are shite.

[@caroleearnshaw32149]

I remember my grandparents having a Teasmaid by the side of the bed back in the 70’s. Good memories x

[@russcattell955i]

In the 70's I worked for a company that repaired them. Customers pleaded for quick repair as starting the day without a brew up waiting is hell.

[@susanpearson-creativefibro]

My parents had one in the 70s too.

[@chrislawley6801]

The ticking of the clock was horrendously annoying

[@johnross2924]

Luke warm tea 😂

[@AJ-hi9fd]

I had one of those too, bloody noisy!

[@tonym480]

Three items gifted to the USA by Britain in 1940, before the US entered the war, The Whittle Jet Engine, The Cavity Magnetron (Radar (and microwave ovens)) Penicillin.

[@paulbantick8266]

Britain also furnished them with the means to go supersonic and make the atom bomb viable.

[@FuriKitten]

Tube Alloys, The Maud research, differing forms of ASDIC, Geosurvey nav Chart, Geo Magnetic nav Charts, Various Explosives

[@572Btriode]

@@paulbantick8266 Is correct, the explosive containment, Cambridge University I think.

[@572Btriode]

Drs. Randall & Boot at Birmingham University, 1940, now every kitchen has a cavity magnetron.

[@janneroz-photographyonabudget]

Also, "Tube Alloys" project which advanced the Manhattan Project, bringing their research forwards. At that time, we were too busy fighting a war, all on our own. With the promise that they would supply the UK with details of "the bomb" too. The US reneged on this. Also too, they reneged on the reactor stuff later also. Giving us only the outdated research.

[@johnwright9562]

The one thing the guy didn't mention was what most of the world call the diesel engine. The heavy oil engine was, in fact, invented by a British inventor called Herbert Ackroyd Stewart. The first one was running in 1891 six years before Diesel brought out his engine that was based on Akroyed Stewerts with improvements to it

[@pennyaccleton6227]

I've seen this reacted to elsewhere. It is greatly abridged in this version, and I believe it was referred to then. Also jet planes and DNA, and other things I can't remember. Have a look at one of the other reactors.

[@BeckyPoleninja]

Coffee shops were in the UK from the 1600s, before tea

[@SteveOwen-e6s]

Customers in these coffee shops would give a little extra money to the proprietor to get a quicker service.. ( yep, this is reasonable to assume how the tipping culture started )

[@DukeDanseMacambre]

Just can’t argue we found a superior drink with tea, the numbers don’t lie. 😂

[@BeckyPoleninja]

@@DukeDanseMacambre born and lived in England my whole life, and cannot stand tea or coffee 😅..coffee breath is the worst

[@Keith-bq7dn]

British and Proud of our History We have contributed far more than We have taken unlike most other Empires

[@AbzScotland]

Arguably, 7/8th of the people complaining about the British Empire are only here today because of it. The Empire was central to stopping the ELE created by 1940s Germany.

[@Paul-yh8km]

Including climate change.

[@AbzScotland]

@@Paul-yh8km yeah, spreading that lie as well to benefit the elites. LOL

[@yedead1]

@@Paul-yh8km Climate change existed before humans existed...

[@Paul-yh8km]

@@AbzScotland It isn't a lie plonker. The flooding and wild fires every year now are one obvious piece of evidence. Combine that with species migration, Arctic temperatures that are warming at a faster rate than the rest of the planet and 1000s if other indicators all of which the science stated would happen decades ago.

[@torquaydogtraining1102]

I love watching you guys and your take on the British culture. I sometimes can be a bit complacent and take for granted being a Brit and watching you makes me appreciate where I am and my heritage. Keep up the fun videos ❤

[@ssrcbike]

They also invented what saves many lives in the car industry, the air bag. I'm proud to be British.

[@Martinpacker]

On the day of Alexander Graham Bell's funeral, the whole telephone network in North America fell silent for one minute.

[@reactingtomyroots]

That's pretty cool! Never knew that. :) Hope you're doing well, Martin.

[@Yesser-Thistle73]

And he was a Scot.

[@Lilly8Listens]

Just the other day, a British MP said that Britain was responsible for 51% of all the inventions in the last 1000 years, so that's Britain 51% the rest of the world 49%

[@cheryl71000]

Aye Lee Anderson MP great speech he made.

[@damiendye6623]

​@@cheryl71000yeah pitty he is completely useless

[@charlottehardy822]

@@damiendye6623which MP isn’t? 😏

[@tinkertoke]

That is a stat that a Japanese think tank came up with in the ‘90s. The MP was just quoting it

[@AbzScotland]

How do you know an MP is lying, their lips are moving.

[@stephensmith4480]

Apparently, Percy shaw got the idea for Cats eyes when he was walking home from the Pub one night and a Cat came walking towards him in the dark and he noticed how bright it's Eyes sparkled in the dark. If would have been walking away from him, he would have invented The Pencil Sharpener 😜😜

[@giddy9052]

😂

[@claregale9011]

😂😂😂

[@kathleenhyde771]

😂

[@paulmonette7550]

or tea towel holder

[@susanmalcolm3434]

Good one 😂😂

[@dee2251]

Abraham Darby was the father of the Industrial Revolution and he was born & bred in Dudley, just up the road from me. He moved to Telford and discovered a new method to cast iron & as a result the very first iron bridge in the world was built in a place now called Ironbridge, where the bridge still stands today. What he discovered was a game-changer. What had to be remembered is that everywhere we went, we took our laws, democracy and prosperity to these nations.

[@giddy9052]

What was it called before they renamed it?

[@FuriKitten]

@@giddy9052 Nobridge uptfromford,

[@dee2251]

@@giddy9052 It was called Coalbrookdale

[@giddy9052]

@@dee2251 👍 thanks

[@flybobbie1449]

I believe it was only built as an advert as well, although became a toll bridge. Also i believe Derby was credited with being able to increase iron production many fold. Iron was already being made. Invented the blast furnace. Also Coalbrookdale first mass produced items, China ware.

[@ejulian17]

The Brits gave the world, football and The Beatles. Thank you!

[@wackynz3260]

Really thought the Chinese invented it.

[@rogergibson5172]

And Led Zeppelin 😂

[@mehallica666]

Not that I contributed personally, but you're welcome.

[@AJ-hi9fd]

You forgot The Rolling Stones!

[@wendydonnelly1881]

And baseball (rounders - a game played by English schoolgirls). And rugby (started in Rugby boy's school, hence the sport's name).

[@kitobi10660]

Antibiotic resistance is also being driven by your food standards, its being addressed in this county and we have banned the importation of any meats that have had antibiotics to stimulate growth, its one reason we wont import American meats, also our doctors are educating patients on the correct use of antibiotics and stopping them from being prescribed unless absolutely needed.

[@reactingtomyroots]

Another good point as well!

[@caroleannbrunnock8793]

I am a long term USA resident from the UK originally and I still don’t go to the doctor for antibiotics for everything because eventually they won’t work the one time you need them.

[@kitobi10660]

@caroleannbrunnock8793 they will work under 2 conditions, 1st you need to stop getting a daily micro dose every time you eat or the same antibiotic will not work when you need it most, 2nd (where the uk fails) is people don't take them correctly, people stop taking the halfway through when they feel better, 50% of the time it's ok but 50% the infection gets a little bit stronger and a little bit more immune to the antibiotics as you need to restat them again a week later at a higher dose for longer, if thousands do this on the regular it dosent take long to develop a bacteria that's fully resistant to that antibiotic.

[@mjmaule]

Fun fact..., Coffee was around in Britain before Tea!

[@flybobbie1449]

We probably nicked it by raiding Spanish ships from S. America.

[@eileentaylor1691]

@@flybobbie1449 so was chocolate 14th centry elizabethan times

[@Steve235-ox7ky]

​@@flybobbie1449😂5

[@alsner73]

True fact UK Cat's eyes are self cleaning when you run over them with your wheel.

[@stewartmackay]

Just like real cats.

[@davetherave6192]

Great reaction! Proud to be British 🇬🇧

[@corringhamdepot4434]

Sir Joseph Whitworth, made the most important "invention" of the Industrial revolution. When he developed the British Standard Whitworth (BSW) screw thread standard. He standardised nuts and bolts etc. So that they were all interchangeable.

[@flybobbie1449]

Did he also manufacture big guns and first electric home.

[@gunshipzeroone3546]

The British invented the harrier jump jet, and the usa still use them today with a great amount of weaponry and the first ever Vtol. Jet.

[@AndrewAHayes]

It has been said that in the last 1000 years the British have been responsible for 51% of the world's inventions, considering it is a tiny island and once had a very small population that is some achievement! That is more or less the same cats eye as the original invention, ones on the highways and motorways are different, they are white and have reflectors on the side like the orange ones on cars, one of the great specifications of the cats eye is that wen you drive over them they dip into their recepticle and are cleaned. My tap water here in South Yorkshire comes from bore holes 900 feet underground from a natural spring that has one of the best quality mineral waters in the world, it tastes very very good.

[@matthewjenkins1161]

The biggest one I never heard mentioned is the World Wide Web, without which none of us would be here, watching you both.

[@kenallday3760]

It is mentioned in the original as well as tarmacadam

[@unofficiallymike]

Even bigger than that is the US Military invention of the Internet in the 60s. Without that powering the WWW Cern and Sir TBL wouldnt have invented that.

[@matthewjenkins1161]

@@unofficiallymike The internet is essentially the joining of millions of individual networks in to one massive one, with the ability to time share resources, I think,being what you suggest the Americans invented. And you are largely correct that this was done as a collaboration with US defense funding, but there was input from the UK and France on that too. Without the WWW/HTTP Tim Berners-Lee it would never have caught on with the masses.

[@TSM-908]

Initially we used an acoustic pipe between lands end and France, where a person shouted into a trumpet shaped unit and their voice was heard in France. The we used copper coaxial cable for telegraph and then voice. Eventually the ships that make the cable and roll them off the back of the cable laying ships now use fibre optic cables and they attach electronic repeaters at fixed distances to boost the signal output. Satellite systems are also used however the speed from ground stations to satellite and then back down to an earth ground station is much slower than undersea fibre optic cable.

[@anitapeludat256]

Personally, I'm forever in love and have serious respect for Scottish science for identifying Penicillin and later, with excellent timing , 2 additional Scottish scientists created mass quantities and invented a distribution method, with the help of a few in the states, needed to expedite pencillion for WWII. It saved the lives of numerous soldiers, including my American soldier father that would not have survived without it and the Scots.!❤❤❤

[@Yesser-Thistle73]

There are thousands of Scottish inventions and innovations which are generally classed under the GB label, or even "English". Even the ATM was invented by a Scotsman!

[@sleeplessinscotland9394]

I live in the same town Alexander Fleming is from - see his state every day just outside my house

[@janescott4574]

Hot milk in tea? Steve, you philistine!!

[@chucky2316]

Steve isint quite ready for tea and sandwiches on the lawn yet. We will educate them

[@brigidsingleton1596]

That thought turned my stomach too!!😮

[@reactingtomyroots]

No, not hot milk...cold milk in hot tea

[@johnleonard9090]

@@reactingtomyrootsso tea hot, milk and sugar?

[@andrearice2483]

I have what they call builders tea, very strong, milk no sugar. Considering you didn't use to drink tea your getting there Steve

[@markpodlesak7204]

Only watched a video yesterday where they said in America they can't really drink their tap water. I was surprised. In England most areas it's the norm the drink out of the tap as it tastes fine. Generally clean water.

[@reactingtomyroots]

I mean...most places in the US the tap water tastes "fine" but they add so much junk back into it that I'm not sure why you'd want to here. But there are some places over here that the tap water is actually unsafe to drink--Flint, MI comes to mind for their high levels of lead in their drinking water. It's a shame this day and age it's even an issue.

[@staticbuilds7613]

Same in a lot of European locations. There's a reason why plastic bottles are a environmental problem world wide

[@alisonlinnell8943]

Cats eye reflectors actually get cleaned automatically when passed over by a vehicle - much better than reflective strips.

[@UnknownUser-rb9pd]

He missed quite a few out. A few well known ones are Lord Kelvin (thermodynamics), Boyle (chemistry and pressure law), James Hutton (invented the science of Geology), Adam Smith (modern economics), Babbage (literally invented the concept of a digital computer), and Robert Hooke (physicist, created the microscope).

[@danielferguson3784]

@@UnknownUser-rb9pd Also missed were Sir George Cayley, the father of aerodynamics, worked out the principals of flight, & flew gliders in the early 19th century, & William 'Geology' Smith who worked on stratigraphy & made the first good geological maps.

[@philjones6054]

Hutton's unconformity!!! The birth of modern geology.

[@LukeSkinner84]

How about Issac Newton and gravity theory?

[@ZephyrCrypto]

I'm English and I've come here to receive your gratitude..... You may proceed!!

[@planekrazy1795]

The first merchandise Seed Drill (planter): Jethro Tull 1701. It made a small furrow, dropped in the seeds (Wheat, Barley, etc) then covered it again. This ment far less was taken by Birds or failed to germinate, the time spent on hand sewing was 3 or 4 times greater than with a drill. Modern Seed Drills work with the same principle.

[@peckelhaze6934]

I love being British. If I had a choice of where I could be born I would pick Britain.

[@martinwebb1681]

Me too. 🙂

[@DianaSheward]

And me !👍🏼🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

No argument

[@chucky2316]

I love my country and heritage I hate our politicians and Westminster with a passion

[@brigidsingleton1596]

With all due respect to Steve and Lindsay, if I had been able to choose a country to be born in, it wouldn't be the US, so I am glad I was born in England, thanks Mum (Mar 1917 - Oct 2015) R.I.P.

[@DECKER1982]

Our politicians need to watch this video about history of this country

[@tonybennett9964]

Trouble is most of our politicians are immigrants

[@davespratt1882]

Within 4 miles of where I live, I have the place of George Stephenson, who created the miners safety lamp (albeit at the same time as Sir Humphrey Davey), Hadrian's Wall is a 5 min walk away

[@Firestorm381]

I’d completely forgotten my grandmothers tea alarm clock from 50 years ago, that made me smile 😁

[@stuartfaulds1580]

That's an older style of Cat's Eye with a metal body and rubber portion containing the reflective eyes and is squishable when driven over to clean the eyes. They were invented by Percy Shaw after he encountered a cat while driving at night and it's eyes lit up when his headlights shone towards the cat.

[@sylviacruden394]

And invented the pencil sharpener when it walked the other way ;0)

[@brigidsingleton1596]

Who was it who said that if that cat Percy saw was facing away from him, it would have led to the invention of the mechanical pencil sharpener...?!

[@elemar5]

​@@brigidsingleton1596 The guy up there ^^^

[@brigidsingleton1596]

@elemar5 No; I meant the original joker!!

[@davidrobinson4400]

@@brigidsingleton1596 Ken Dodd

[@BrightonandHoveActually]

As well as inventing calculus, Isaac Newton invented the reflector telescope and what is undoubtedly the most important invention of all - the cat flap!

[@sapien82]

cat flap most important to allow for freedom to do more research whilst not wasting time letting the cat in and out all day , true genius

[@raystewart3648]

I live on Portland Isle, South Dorset, United Kingdom. People have farmed and had built settlements here for 8,190 years..........so old, but we walk locals walk past / drive past old ruins not taking any notice at all.

[@sarabazlinton9820]

One of the major health related British discoveries he didn’t mention was the discovery/invention of the IVF procedure by Sir Robert Edwards and Dr Patrick Steptoe. At least 8 million babies have been born worldwide using the IVF process since the first ‘test tube’ baby, Louise Brown, was born in the UK in 1978.

[@MichaelLamming]

The Brits invented the tank, electric light bulb 💡 Swan invented, Edison patented it, Television 📺, Radio 📻 to mention just a few

[@Ghhft33]

The Teasmaid was a must have in the 70s. I loved mine

[@chucky2316]

The 70s had some fantastic things I'm a big lover of onyx furniture I remeber my grandparents had onyx everything including ciggeratte lighters and lamp stands with faux gold lions feet. And their globe that opened up into a drinks cabinet

[@Keith-bq7dn]

👍 and You can also make Coffee in it 😁

[@Ghhft33]

@@chucky2316 I still have one of those, sits proud in the corner lol

[@chucky2316]

​@@Ghhft33I would love an authentic one I know they are oldy fash now but I love them. I did pick an onyx lighter up at a car boot sale a few years ago. And a complete cutlery set with patterns on nan used to call them her best 👌. Usually they came out on special occasions and set at the table. Soup spoons fish knives etc. The 70s were cool times

[@peterdawson7198]

All this and a ton more from, as you say, this little island. So,so proud to be British 🇬🇧 🙂

[@helenbarnett695]

I always say, focus on the positives even in a bad/sad situation, there are positives in a negative situations, always find the positives ❤❤❤

[@AbzScotland]

Good to have a follower of the Eric Idle school of thought in the comments section.

[@helenbarnett695]

@AbzScotland who? When ur life is negative all u can do is look for the positives or u just give up

[@AbzScotland]

@@helenbarnett695 International comedian and writer of "Always look on the bright side of life". Its on youtube.

[@livesimply.lovemore4870]

Loved this video. I’m British (Welsh and English mainly) and this opened my eyes up to all our achievements. I knew most of them but not all. Keep up the good work and I quite often find your videos astonishing! 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@carolatlga1407]

Excellent video!!! Born in London, raised outside of Atlanta 😊. Really enjoy your videos. Thank you and Carry On🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸.

[@martinwebb1681]

Just a walk around a British Graveyard makes you realise the changes since antibiotics and antiseptic products were invented, it's heart breaking seeing the grave stones from the 1700 and 1800 hundreds of children who died at such a young age, literally thousands upon thousands of families that lost 5 and 6 children usually to disease either before a year old or before they reached age 10.

[@chucky2316]

I would say one of our finest inventions. The rest our material but you cant put a price on human life I.m.o and youre right even adult graves they were young people who died

[@steveparker1466]

You don't have to go that far back. My Grandma was born in 1925 she had two sisters and one brother, only one of the sisters survived past 5 years old, the other 2 children died from illnesses that would have been treatable only about 10 years later.

[@ellenthibeault3940]

@@martinwebb1681 Thank you for mentioning our British Graveyards, Where I live we have a huge Graveyard, and we are allowed to walk our dogs there….clean up after of course!! I was there only the other day, and it’s sad to see the majority of graves are as you say from the 1700 and 1800 Dead at such young ages .

[@ellenthibeault3940]

@@steveparker1466 Thank you.for your comment ,it’s very sad all the lives lost!

[@mattsmith5421]

The first ship propeller was designed by Ismbard Kingdom Brunel. It was designed by hand and when analysed it is within 5% of maximum efficiency that any modern computer can design. Ps react to him he is probably the greatest Briton of all time.

[@chucky2316]

I live in south west England and this was brunels playground here. His railway survives to this day as does his retirement home in torquay which sadly never completed before his death the foundations were laid and it was built to brunels spec .it has new owners now I don't know how friendly they are about letting people walk around, when the Christian folk owned it it was open to the public magnificent house

[@heraklesnothercules.]

A Swede called John Ericsson invented the ship propeller in 1839 (source: The National Inventors Hall of Fame). Brunel saw an experimental screw-driven river launch and realised its greater potential to paddle wheels. He designed and tested various propellers before his final design for the SS Great Britain in 1843 (source: the Isambard Group). But you are correct about its efficiency, an amazing achievement before the age of computers.

[@jonathanbuzzard1376]

Nope both Issac Newton and James Clark Maxwell are more important, I would put Brunel third.

[@mattsmith5421]

@@jonathanbuzzard1376 They actually aren't more important, they came up with scientific theories, Brunel built the modern world. I would even put Nelson above newton and Maxwell.

[@jonathanbuzzard1376]

@@mattsmith5421 without Newton and Maxwell you could not build the modern world. No Maxwell, no radio, no TV, no wifi, no colour tv, no colour photos or film. Maxwell was way way more important than Nelson, only those ignorant of his greatness think that. Unfortunately if you are not a physicist you won't comprehend how important he was.

[@JonBushell]

Did he mention Frank Whittle and the jet engine?

[@Spiklething]

They skipped that part, and Charles Darwin and evolution too. Maybe more but that’s the bits I noticed

[@martinbingham-l5m]

He Missed some big ones. Brit Frank Whittle, invented the Jet Engine. Ada lovelace (The famous poet Byron's daughter) invented computer software, more than 100 years before the electronic computer in 1940s.

[@bwilson5401]

The original video did.Its been cut.

[@Keith-bq7dn]

Also Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web Frank Whittle was the first to patent the Jet Engine so is credited for its invetion.

[@andrewobrien6671]

Always amazes me that IVF is never mentioned.

[@matthewjenkins1161]

And many transplant surgeries were pioneered here too.

[@moodswinggaming2972]

You could sit here all day and say things like this about us though. Sports?.... you'd need hours and hours of a video to not leave anything out. :)

[@michellehardman50]

It was also protons neutron and electrons was also missing but I think they cut some of the video.

[@eh-i1841]

Actually,I was wondering,the other day,how Louise is doing.

[@matthewjenkins1161]

@@eh-i1841 Her younger sister was the first IVF baby, to conceive and give birth naturally. They are both now mothers.

[@FrancesThompson-e3m]

My home City of Sheffield famous for its Cutlery Manufacturing was also known for Steel Manufacturing. It’s where Stainless Steel was invented. Also Sir Henry Bessemer invented the Bessemer Steel production. It made steel much lighter and stronger than previously.

[@CuriousFocker]

7:34 When you drive over the Cats Eye reflector, it pushes the centre part down and it self-cleans.

[@Carol-hj4km]

Throwing waste from windows stopped about 300 years ago. Joseph Bazzelgette made the London Sewage system in about 1856 - and it’s still working nearly 200 years later!

[@Beautycomesoutofashes]

Alan Turring, (engliah- known as father of computers, cracked the enigma code with the help of other scientists and mathematicians, built worlds first computer that ended ww2 by 2 years) Alexander Flemming (Scottish, accidentally invented penicillin, help of two other Oxford researchers made available in 1940s to all Brits) William Wilberforce (white Christian minister who petitioned the ending of slavery until his death- and it was finally passed, then the US followed after) etc etc

[@DarranRobertson]

I’m British and I can tell you, my first drink of the day is Coffee. I wouldn’t be able to function without that drink. I also love tea throughout the day.

[@tomferrante8002]

Coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoon!

[@juliaforsyth8332]

Instant coffee was invented by a NZ'er.

[@BarbaraGrosvenor]

My mother and Father had an alarm clock that made tea it was branded a Teasmade and they loved it. It's still around these days Swan Vintage.

[@claregale9011]

My mum used one right up until she passed away 5 yrs ago .

[@ilookafterthewater601]

I remember that!!!😁 Good God, thank you so much for the reminder!

[@joywing-x2h]

I had one lol

[@jessgibson4790]

I remember that thing! The bloody kettle was noisier than the sodding alarm on the thing! You were awake before the alarm even though of going off

[@ilookafterthewater601]

@@jessgibson4790 Such sweet memories - I had forgotten that, too. And you're absolutely right - the thing mum and dad had used to sound like a steam train! Thanks for the trip down memory lane! 😀

[@alsner73]

For a small island in the Atlantic ocean we've done alright in the grand scheme of things.

[@george-ev1dq]

Islands

[@ethancantwell8549]

@@george-ev1dq Not really Britain is only the main island which holds the vast majority of the population.

[@george-ev1dq]

@@ethancantwell8549 The UK is not an Island

[@ethancantwell8549]

@@george-ev1dq But Britain is

[@george-ev1dq]

@@ethancantwell8549 and?

[@TSM-908]

Cats eye reflector for the lane separation and the motorway on and off ramps. They are normally green or orange or red ( if red you going the wrong way on the motorway on ramp. Anyway that’s a slightly older model but if a car wheel rolls over the centre of the cats eye it depresses the rubber eye housing unit which in turn cleans the lens, but like blinking your eyelids.

[@greygorthegoateedgeek5350]

And don't forget the theory of Communication Satellites from Arthur C Clarke (1945)

[@KernowWarrior]

My mum has a Teasmaid (The name of the alarmclock/tea maker). It also has a built in radio. She still has it, but only uses for it the clock now.

[@SeanHendy]

We, the British, invented gravity. You're welcome.

[@Millennial_Manc]

And sarcasm

[@christinehoughton8591]

😂😂😂😂

[@ThinkingOnTheRoad]

*mavity

[@Mark_Bickerton]

We had to, it was the only way to keep our feet on the ground!

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

Wouldn't it be great to have the power to turn off the gravity under certain people and watch them float off into oblivion! 😂😂

[@christinehoughton8591]

The tea maker. That was one of our wedding gifts, brilliant. We loved it.

[@emmafrench7219]

@christinehought... I got mine as a wedding gift too in 1985. Still have it and it still works. But when trying it the other day all the memories came flooding back. The "honk! honk!" of the alarm if the radio wasn't set. Then the sputtering and hissing and spraying of boiling water from the metal pipe!😂 Oh happy days.😊😂 ✌

[@christinehoughton8591]

Oh yes the spluttering and spraying 😂😂 Unfortunately ours got a leak, it we used for a long time.

[@CalCo-3924]

Hi Steve and Lindsay. I've just watched this episode......you made me cry! (in a lovely way, don't worry) The UK is going through a bit of an identity crisis at the moment, and everywhere we turn we're being told how bad we are, have been and will be unless we comply to change! Our national flag is not flown without the reminder of shame and attachment of racism. You both saw past the rubbish parts and gave our positives a bit of a wake up of pride. For that, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[@tracyfarnath2270]

Well said very true.

[@jonathanmccann1774]

the cats eye reflectors serve multiple purposes, they are built to be a bump thus using the bumps to help drivers know if they are close to the middle, they reflectors are directed so that they are not distracting, they have an inbuilt spring that allows them to lower so as not to take damage allowing for a longer life, rain water collects in it so when it lowers it washes itself .

[@vinnyganzano1930]

Shades of Monty Python's classic Life of Brian movie and it's fabulous "What did the Romans ever do for us"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh and remember the US Navy was a British Invention😉

[@lewistaylor1965]

Damn that John Paul Jones!...hehe

[@neddyseagoon9601]

Almost every navy until recently wore almost identical styled uniforms too... Especially the officers...

[@Gill-ur7rp]

We British where the first country to stop slavery

[@olliestevenson8068]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@WayneCrow85]

After realising our wrong doings 😅

[@martinwebb1681]

Yes, and then we forced the rest of the world to follow suit .... eventually.

[@paulbantick8266]

@@WayneCrow85 Everyone else was doing that ''wrong doing'' Especially the Africans and Arabs. They were far, far worse than any other county in 'known' history.

[@petersmith4423]

Denmark abolished participation in the slave trade in 1803, 30 years before the UK

[@jeanlongsden1696]

well you wouldn't be online if it wasn't for us Brits for a start. the telephone, TV, computer and world wide web was all invented in GB.

[@AlainnCorcaigh]

The Internet was created by 2 Americans so they are the ones responsible for us being online

[@matthewbishop9342]

@@jeanlongsden1696 and the microwave oven and LCD screens.

[@matthewbishop9342]

@@AlainnCorcaigh nope. An Englishman called Tim bernias- Lee is credited for inventing the interweb

[@Avfc-m4w]

​@@AlainnCorcaigh what are you going to do with the Internet without the British invention of the world wide Web.

[@jeanlongsden1696]

@@AlainnCorcaigh yes the internet was invented by America. but that is only a programme that got added to the WWW. the WWW was sending data around the world long before the internet was invented. it is like saying that the guy who put the hood ornament on a car invented the car.

[@MarkmanOTW]

I've seen the original many times (incl. other reactors) - and I noticed it's been edited. Don't forget the bitumen on the roads, the steel making furnace, Isaac Newton (gravity), Charles Darwin (evolution), Tim Berners Lee (worldwide web), etc 😊

[@AB-C1]

Yes I noticed that also! Internet, Diesel engine etc etc

[@DS-uy6jw]

The cat's eyes actually have a really clever design! When a vehicle goes over it, it gets pushed down and "blinks", which cleans its eyes, just like with a real cat! The blinking that is...driving over your cat won't improve its eyes.

[@wrd777]

It may be useful to think of the England's industrial heartland, the triangle of Birmingham-Manchester-Leeds, as the "Silicon Valley" of the Industrial Revolution. Not only lot's of clever, free-thinking people discussing their ideas but also a large number of people looking for investment opportunities. This point is vital. An idea is not a business until someone finances its realisation. On another line, your "Founding Fathers" thought of themselves as British until well into the Revolution.

[@Alan_Clark]

We also gave the world football, cricket, rugby, lawn tennis, table tennis, badminton, snooker, golf and curling.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

And baseball with it's origins in rounders?!

[@scouseaussie1638]

Croquet

[@jmillar71110]

As well as shinty, bobsleigh and bungee jumping 😂

[@joeschmo5181]

Queensbury rules boxing

[@Alan_Clark]

And Tiddlywinks.

[@paulh9]

You've actually just reacted to the cut version of this. In the original, he lists a lot more.

[@never2late_mtb349]

I spent 2 years working in submarine cable. Not on the ships, but commissioning landing stations around the world where the cables come ashore and are integrated into the terrestrial telecoms networks. It's a surprisingly small number of people working on these. The ships travel very slowly when they are laying only a couple of knots. It's not a hugely thick cable that is powered end to end, with repeaters along its length. It just lays on the bottom, only being entrenched for the last kilometer before landfall. As the North sea is so shallow trawlers regularly snag cables. Some of the very first cable that was laid between the US and UK was recovered a few years ago, it was still viable. Sattelites are fast and efficient, but the vast distances involved up to the satallite and back down using a radio wave (albeit at super high frequency) gives higher latency end to end. Whereas submarine optical fibres are literally passing traffic at the speed of light. The bandwidth passing through a subnarine cable is in the terrabit range. There are also multiple fibre cores in the cable. Generally 24 in the cables we were using.

[@paulcowell7588]

Not to mention the english language which has been adopted by all nations with international aviation..you cant pilot an international aircraft if you cant speak English. Worth mentioning that in 40-41 we stood alone in Europe against the horrific nazi threat and defeated the luftwaffe thus eventually leading to the destruction of nazi Germany. The brits dont boast about our achievements because we would consider it vulgar but without us the world would indeed be a lot harder place to live in.

[@UphillGardener-ly5sh]

How did he not mention Arthur Clarke inventing the communication satellite

[@christopherjohnson7133]

Coffee was big in the Uk (the towns and cities at least) in the 18th century, before tea took over.

[@chucky2316]

Rubbish the first human to ever step foot in britain was a Yorkshire man with a tea pot and a mug and a few Yorkshire gold tea bags I thought everyone knew that 😀

[@malarkey2217]

Cats Eyes reflect the light from vehicles headlights in the dark. The one pictured is a pretty old type that is mostly found on motorways or other major roads. They have a small chamber under the eyes that lets in rain water. When depressed by a vehicle tyre they expel the water, washing the eyes in the process. Today in the UK they are replaced with the plastic ones you mentioned whenever a road requires repair or resurfacing. The latest Cats Eyes are solar powered and actually emit light at night. They are mainly being used on dangerous stretches of roads and bends at the moment.

[@CMc-v7z]

Here is Scotland we have awesome tap water, direct from Highland springs etc.

[@TheresaReynolds-l7m]

Absolutely, wonderful fresh tap water 😋 I was down in Norfolk recently, beautiful area but the water is not good,had to filter,even boiled water does not make a good cup of tea.

[@chrisharris5497]

Wireless technology doesn’t come anywhere close to the speeds that cables provide. This video and other similar videos are one of the reasons I believe that we are respected greatly around the world. When you consider what we’ve contributed and then couple that with what other military forces say about British soldiers past and present we seriously punch well above our weight for such a geographically small country. I don’t think he even discussed people like sir Issac newton, Charles Darwin, even Steven hawking, our accomplishments are something to be proud of.

[@PLuMUK54]

The world owes a great deal to the suffering of the British working classes whose labours allowed so many of these to be invented by a small privileged group of inventors and thinkers (not all, admittedly, some inventors worked their way up from simple beginnings). The Industrial Revolution is often the first thing that people think of, but it mustn't be forgotten that the British played a huge role in the Agricultural Revolution, the Transport Revolution, the Communications Revolution, the Medical Revolution, and the Scientific Revolution. Not only were key ideas developed by the British, but they continue to do so today. In these woke times, there is a tendency to focus on the negative aspects of Britain's role in the world, yet, as it said in the video, without the positive contributions of our small island nation, the world would be a different place. Life, for so many people would not be as good. No doubt someone else would eventually have come up with the same ideas, but Britain has catapulted the world into much that is good in our lives. If I was still teaching, I would be using the original video in my lessons to counter the current "Britain is bad" attitude.

[@chucky2316]

Well said

[@FuriKitten]

We also gave the world, Boffins, there is nothing that 3 blokes in a potting shed on their allotment can't thrash out, on some home brew, a bit of lining paper after looking after their marrows, whilst lurking from rain that even makes us think to take shelter. Boffins, Boff it's what they do.