Reaction What Did The British Ever Do For The World? British Inventions! FIRST TIME!

[@danielferguson3784]

Don't forget the British were the first country in all of history to stop the slave trade & fight to end slavery across the world.

[@MichaelLamming]

Britain invented over 50% of the modern world. Britain still has the the best design engineers/inventors. The Scottish are particularly good at it.

[@darthwiizius]

Cambridge University is the highest contributing R&D centre in the World.

[@yiepie]

7 of the 10 most prosperous African countries today out of 54 countries are ex British colonies take from that what you will

[@Jill-mh2wn]

How did the British invent so much? Education, education, education . And not JUST book learning but learning how to think independently.

[@gchampi2]

Britain:- Invents the Modern World, Ends the Slave Trade. You're welcome.

[@gabbymcclymont3563]

A Japanis uni has worked out 70% of all inventionsare Brittish.

[@spacefanatic]

The British invented loads of other things not mentioned here. Not too bad for such a small country.

[@coot1925]

Some people are happy to accept the status quo. The Brits are not those kind of people. We are constantly thinking of ways to improve how we do things. While some people are still using ox to pull ploughs and only produce enough food to feed themselves, the Brits will be thinking of ways to feed an entire country. You also have to remember that while the British were occupying other countries there was law and order. Very few tribal wars and clean drinking water, hospitals, schools, medicines etc. The problems start when the country wants to govern itself and is handed back, and that's when they revert back to old tribal grudges and let the infrastructure fall apart. That's what has happened in most of the countries that the Brits handed back. Think of it like someone renovating your house so it's beautiful and has all the modern conveniences, then as soon as they leave you start smashing it up.

[@MichaelLamming]

The British ended slavery perhaps you could review

[@mangiagatti85]

The English language...developed over centuries...very adaptable to all subjects...& spoken all over the world. So many West Africans speak immaculate English lads! Don't just kick a ball about!!

[@DS-uy6jw]

English is extremely easy for foreigners to learn, even if they think otherwise. English is one of the only languages where you can jumble up the words and still understand what was meant. Most languages make it very difficult to do this (I know because I had to learn English) but you can speak "bad" English and still be understood, which is why it can spread so easily.

[@graceygrumble]

I am 58 years of age, and the inventions I have witnessed in my lifetime are so numerous it is staggering. There is more technology in your phone than that which was used sending men to the moon! If you were to have transported me from 1974 to 2024, I would be in absolute awe. I remember that doors opening as you walked towards them was the stuff of Star Trek! 😂 We had to walk over to the TV and press a button to change the channel... There were 3 channels. Inventiveness is still everywhere. You just don't notice it. You just say, "Oh, that's clever," and carry on. Then, one day, you look back and realise your life has been transformed.

[@HankD13]

I would add Magna Carta, English Common Law and the English bill of rights 1689 - fundamental foundations of personal freedoms copied all around the world. The Abolition of Slavery and the refusal to accept Nazi peace overtures after the Fall of France as pretty high up there. Britain, from Roman colonisation, the Saxon and Viking invasions, the Norman conquest, being a refuge for European Lombard's, Flemish, Huguenots, Jews to name a few really did give us the modern world we know. Not too shabby.

[@janice506]

Not copied in Scotland we have our own Declaration of Arbroath 6th April 1320 .

[@HankD13]

@@janice506 Declaration of Arbroath, is a great letter, asserting Scotland's right to defend itself and oppose the awful English. Unlike Magna Carta, nothing about individual rights, jury of your peers, leaders being subject to the law, no taxation without representation, only lawful convictions can punish crimes, women and children have inheritance rights etc. Pretty sure this things apply in Scotland too.

[@janice506]

@@HankD13 in Scotland we don’t have a divorcee as head of our church & king of England is that what your going on about.?

[@HankD13]

@@janice506 Nope. Don't think that gets any mention in Magna Carta.

[@dWFnZWVr]

Don’t forget the peelian principles; the metropolitan police were the first modern police force and the model of all western police forces, and many non-western police forces, today.

[@Stand663]

And don’t forget the English language, which is used as either a first or second language by the globe.

[@dWFnZWVr]

English is also the international language for business; for example, no matter where you are in the world, all air traffic controllers and pilots must speak English. All 32 NATO countries speak English during any and all exercises and round tables. The EU speaks English in Brussels to this day, despite the UK not being a member anymore. The reach of English as a language extends much further than just being a 1st or 2nd language in most countries, it IS the international language. The French are still bitter about that, of course.

[@DS-uy6jw]

Ironically, English is the Lingua Franka,

[@margcraven2976]

As for the bad what about frican leaders who were taking slaves f there own people and there were killed and died at there hands the British onley finished paying the debt of for ending slavery in the early 2000 ends And it was the African leaders who did not want it to end

[@frayserken]

Britain deserves a medal they never enslaved people. The "African leaders sold africans to European" but European enslaved them perpetually

[@nicksykes4575]

Railway signalling was also invented in Britain.

[@ianjardine7324]

In the early days of industrialization and research all the European countries had their own scientific research communities however many people were members of more than one and they tended to share their discoveries. While the British ones were the largest and most prestigious having royal support the French, German and Italian ones were never far behind.

[@samsonokoro5036]

They were behind, not saying they weren't instrumental but no other country has had the impact the British had to the modern world and civilisation from art, social sciences and sciences, sports and recreation. They impacted the world more than any other country in history

[@onastick2411]

The jet engine as we understand it today was invented by Frank Whittle. The German who devised the German jet engine, acknowledged this in his book after the war.

[@samsonokoro5036]

As we understand it today ? Do some more research on this topic

[@onastick2411]

@@samsonokoro5036 Vacuous, meaningless statement.

[@gaynorhead2325]

⁠@@samsonokoro5036Whittle patented the design for the Jet Engine in 1930. The Germans were the first to use one in an aircraft in 1937, Whittle not until 1941 BUT he had patented he design 11 years prior! Enough research for you?

[@samsonokoro5036]

@@onastick2411 u define the very epitome of such statements where u reside in limbo

[@samsonokoro5036]

@@gaynorhead2325 now if someone comes up with the design first what does that connote ?

[@rickybuhl3176]

10:00 - I know dude, sat here in Denmark thinking the same thing. The British colonization, beyond all of the countries that they 'acquired' by defeating the French or the Germans in some war or another (with like for like technology), was invariably possible elsewhere because of advances in technology that simply put them so far ahead of their potential enemies (outside Europe).

[@tick999]

Brit are very Danish. Have you ever googled 'The Danelaw'? Many of the place names in the North have Thrope, By, Thwaite, Toft in them Some of our most violent words come from Denmark. knife, skull, anger, slaughter

[@rickybuhl3176]

@@tick999 Indeed so. Was sent to England for some of my school years (autism meant in Denmark I'd go through special needs and Mother dearest thought otherwise - so just don't tell the English lol 'eh he's just a weird foreigner'). Primary in Lincolnshire (Thornton Curtis - not too far from Grimsby and Cleethorpes) and secondary in Essex, on Canvey Island - an island we have records of my ancient ancestors using as a mooring and entry point to the county. Sadly didn't get much time in Kent, where my ultimate ancestors (Jutes) made their home. As the blonde blue eyed foreigner, I needed to find all the defensive knowledge I could - albeit over a thousand years I had to go back to find it lol the Castle on the hill helped as a little reminder of the past. And yes, Canvey gave me a peasant accent that I still can't shift but it's better than the typical Danglish, I guess. Linguistically - it's interesting because both the Angles and Saxons were pushed off their land and "encouraged" to migrate by the Danes coming out of southern Sweden and into mainland Denmark (the idea of them filling a void left by migrating peoples is sweet but fantasy, 2,000 years ago we did not migrate thousands of miles for greener grass, we fought our neighbour for theirs, the land was also bloody good since they'd been supplying the Romans for centuries with cattle and dairy) - so the words the Anglo-Saxons in the British Isles were using for knife and skull etc., were just local variations of the language, with the modernised version of the Germanic Norse that the Danes eventually brought, was just like the English of the UK and America is today - same start but evolved and different over a few centuries, albeit with a little Latin and Celtic, probably some Gaelic words too, in terms of what the Norse would have met. As such it's a bit like going from using the word engine and changing to use the word motor - Steam engines to motor cars - so it's easier to adopt and use the word than if it was entirely foreign, even if it's different, if that makes sense. When you consider our word for [storage] trunk and coffins is Kiste and Church is Kirk - we can tell the Scots were just as keen to keep some of the lingo around. Ultimately, amusing that we were [back then] more kindred with the unrelated Scots and Irish than the related Anglo-Saxons. Though perhaps they recalled down South why they'd been forced across to the British Isles. We're kin, whether Icelandic or Swedish, Danish or Norwegian - Faroes too - akin to the Scots and Irish or Poles and Ukrainians. Britain was basically our America - restless natives and all that.

[@tick999]

@rickybuhl3176 thanks for such interesting information. I never knew about this perspective, of Danes coming From south Sweden and pushing the Anglo-Saxons out. We are also told of the perspective of the Romano Britons being left vulnerable after the collapse of the Roman Empire and being repeatedly raided by the Picts from modern-day Scotland and inviting the Anglo-Saxons to work as missionary soldiers helping to defend them. After time, more and more Anglo-Saxons settled, becoming more powerful and dominant and any fallings out and skirmishes would result in them gaining territory, more and more. I'm sharing a documentary below that I'm sure you will enjoy if you haven't already seen it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYaqZ6l-jaalos0si=A0ijFrFmHEmKvUUw

[@tick999]

@rickybuhl3176 Thank you for the really interesting information.That is a different perspective I have never heard before about the Danes coming from South Sweden and pushing out the Anglo-Saxons. Another perspective I have heard before is that the Romano Britons were left vulnerable after the collapse of the Roman empire and were repeatedly getting raided by the Pics of modern-day Scotland. So the Romano Britains invited some Anglo-Saxons to work as mercenary soldiers to help defend them. As more and more Anglo-Saxons settled, they may have started to realise they were stronger and dominant, so any disagreements or skimmishers would have resulted in them gaining territory. I am sharing a documentary that I think you will enjoy if you haven't already seen it before kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYaqZ6l-jaalos0si=Gj8D-4U0ClshajiJ

[@tick999]

@rickybuhl3176 2 more slightly different perspectives that I have heard about reasons for why The Vikings invaded. One way we are usually told is that they just came to rape and pillage and take over the land. But another one I have heard is that the Danes who had been travelling to Britain to trade for many years already, decided to start attacking the Christians before the Christians would attack them. Taken from Wiki: During the Saxon Wars, Charlemagne, King of the Franks, forcibly converted the Saxons from their native Germanic paganism by way of warfare, and law upon conquest. Examples are the Massacre of Verden in 782, when Charlemagne reportedly had 4,500 captive Saxons massacred for rebelling, and the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae, a law imposed on conquered Saxons in 785, after another rebellion and destruction of churches and killing of missionary priests and monks, that prescribed death to those who refused to convert to Christianity.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

Textiles is where programming and the earliest sign of computerisation came from, although code breaking was the big push for digital computerisation. Weaving looms were actually programmable for patterns.

[@michaelmccann-5958]

The mini car was like a skate board with an engine win lots of races

[@Fred-fl2fo]

Why should the British do anything for you. Cant you do something for your selves.

[@Sonotfrench]

What has your country done for the world, I’d love to see a video on that :)

[@frayserken]

Start by telling us what you personally and your father has done for the world.

[@Sonotfrench]

@@frayserken lol BIT of a weird response to my comment

[@frayserken]

@@Sonotfrench stop claiming others people achievements be proud of yours.

[@Sonotfrench]

@@frayserken when did I claim other peoples’ achievements??

[@jocko6065]

🇬🇧👍

[@SR-pr2xz]

They may have invented the toilet, but we aussies invented the double flush

[@strangelee4400]

To get rid of the spiders? 😁

[@mangiagatti85]

And the British 'invented' Australia too! I have generations of blood links with you guys. Advance Australia Fair!

[@andrewgoodenough1809]

Couple of newish inventions , just to show we are still inventing , 1 the arm processor, 2 raspberry pi Most of the inventions now are improving existing technology rather than new discoveries. Antimatter , Matter and antimatter cannot coexist at close range for more than a small fraction of a second because they collide with and annihilate each other, releasing large quantities of energy in the form of gamma rays or elementary particles. It is a lot more than thus but that would be an essay.

[@darthwiizius]

The ARM processor and the Pi aren't inventions, they're adaptations. RISC processors existed long before Acorn Electronics (The "A" in ARM stands for "Acorn"), Sun engine analysers were common in car mechanic workshops by the 80s and IBM had RISC products in the 70s too. If you can nail what ARM really did you could argue that it was them that invented what AMD call "chiplet" architecture, 2 ARM engineers were headhunted by AMD before the development of Zen Chiplet based X86 which were just CISC based versions of what were already ubiquitous in all other applications (ARM designed RISC chips make up the majority of all microprocessors ever manufactured, they are literally in everything).

[@andrewgoodenough1809]

@@darthwiizius yup that's why I continued the way I did

[@michaelmccann-5958]

I like the bacon sandwich but you can keep the Yorkshire tea,English breakfast or gunpowder tea for me

[@seanmc1351]

I get what you guys say, but i think you have to look at the big picture. dont forget we in the uk were colonised also, by the romans saxons and the vikings so we also know about that, but that was 2000 years ago, yes we went out and claimed the world, im guessing by your accent your nigerian, think about this in modern times please, we went through 2 world wars, this tiny little island, for the fight for freedom, after the second world war, nato was set up, with the UK, the US and france to stop this happning again, there are now 31 countries in nato, ukraine would not have happened, puten went in before we could get ukraine into europe, but we supporting them and nato is, but be got finland into nato, so putin has nowhere to go put that aside, and the past, why is the UK not a hated country, we are not hated, but respected, many nigerians come here to work, and have better life, and you guys are the hardest workers i know, i have alot of nigerian friends and to be honest, we are still the greatest country in the world, a country that is no bigger than texas or arizona but we support the world where needed, with our best ally, the US, without the US and the UK being ally's, the world would be at risk

[@ProfessorBernardFuck]

You missed the big one - The Normans

[@darthwiizius]

Texas is way way bigger than the UK mate. France is twice the size of the UK and that's about the size of California which is smaller than Texas. To give you a further context: England is 53% of the UK land mass, New York State is about 10% larger than England and NYS is tiny compared to Texas.

[@BogusDudeGW]

@@darthwiizius Bring Texas to Barnsley, we'll kick your ass!

[@darthwiizius]

@@BogusDudeGW Nah, Texas was bought out by Sainsbury's and renamed "Homebase" before being sold to some Australians... BTW, "arse", an ass is a half horse half donkey hybrid, and if I were from Texas it'd be quite a chore bringing one over, let alone putting it on a train to get it up north. 😉

[@FrankStaack-hr4wr]

Dont drive a Mini, all will say: Look, what he has a small one.😁

[@kopynd1]

where would we be without electricity, hydraulics, carbonated water fizzy pop, worst invention was work

[@CM-1723]

React to Every country England as ever invaded visualised

[@princesparklestv6809]

Ok Up next 👍🏽

[@QueeferSutherland1]

*Conquered

[@ianmuir3640]

Britain

[@QueeferSutherland1]

For such a small island Britain sure has kicked most of the world's arse.

[@davidware9549]

@@CM-1723 well we made these country’s better they be nothing without the British but they don’t wanna admit that lol

[@michaelmccann-5958]

In the country where i come from we have idiots too but i do not care about your colour race religion,just treat people fairly.we all bleed red pal

[@penningtonlfc]

he means the flushing toilet

[@CB-ck9dg]

There's almost no other Nation that did so much as the English in order to elevate the condition of man from brute to sentient being in the modern sense of the term. It's a joke that there must be a KZbin video to explain this in year 2024. It's just as plain as new ice over a pond. Germany is the only possible competitor, and then - at some distance - the rest of Europe, ancient Middle East and Greece, India a bit, also Japan quite recently (the role of Jews strewn across Europe and elsewhere is also difficult to overestimate). I'm a physicist by trade, and while learning my subject I came to appreciate that (I'm no Englishman, by the way, far from being one). Englishmen have a reputation of being snobbish and racist. As to snobbish, I think they would have good reasons to be so, given their disproportionate contribution to modern society. As to racists, wasn't the previous tenant of Downing Street 10 an ethnic Indian? We are talking about the highest Government Officer in the Country here. Was it not an Englishman (Professor Hardy of Cambridge) who recognized the genius of Ramanujan, hidden somewhere in the dephts of India, and made it known the world over? Their Universities are literally flooded with students from all over the world, which amounts to recognition of their superior status. As for me, I side with the English all the way: their attitude may look mercyless at times, but this is why they advanced so much in the world, while being liberal enough to share with everybody the knowledge and opportunities they had created. They were able to solve the problem of finding the longitude of a ship lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean by using certain watches they had succeeded in rendering precise enough for the purpose; but they feared not - before those watches could be constructed - to explore those very frightful, unknown, unchartered Oceans with the sole help of dead reckoning. On top of that, they have an unmatched proclivity to self-irony and humor.This mix of ingenuity, courage, humor, and yearn for exploration is difficult to find elsewhere, and it shows in every field of human activity. Tough, inquisitive, resourceful, stubborn people, able to coalesce into a single Nation when needed, never whimpy or pompous and very rarely looking for excuses when they happen to make mistakes. Though I'm not really able to follow in their footsteps, their example reminds me of what man should be in order to accomplish anything. We should all learn from the English.

[@michaelmccann-5958]

Im glad you are not talking with a yankee accent thank you from a scotsman in glasgow city

[@hadesdogs4366]

The British aren’t saints by any stretch of the imagination but in terms of life quality under the British was considered preferable than most countries at the time and for what many or most people would consider brutal or cruel, more often than not, what the British did even the worst parts of what we did was always either equaled or superseded by any other country before or even after, again take slavery as an example where yes the British contributed a lot towards slavery and the transport of slaves, but considering that every single country or civilization at that point in time were either actively engaged in the capture of slaves, selling of slaves or transportation of slaves was practically universal by that point in time and so wasn’t really considered evil the same way how people in the future might see zoos or other forms of captivity as bad if not worse than say slavery or by having a fossil fuel car makes you a nazi despite everyone using a nuclear fusion reactor engine instead to power their eco friendly vehicles

[@alexwallace5486]

Here's a few things to think about. TV TELEPHONE, PNUEMATIC TYRES, TARMACADAM, COMPUTER, discovered Penecillan, and just too many more to mention. Britain gave all of this to the world. What have you given?

[@michaelmccann-5958]

Can you tell me anything that the Americans have invented

[@BobbieRockyBuster1415]

Obesity and ignorance

[@michaelmccann-5958]

If you are wearing baseball ball caps wear them properly the skip is there for a reason,tome anyone wearing it back to front looks stupid

[@frayserken]

Industrial revolution was inspired by Indian techniques they got from india.e.g textile looms

[@Sgt.chickens]

They got the Textile loom they invented from india? right.......

[@frayserken]

@@Sgt.chickens name techniques and inventions made by Britain before they invaded Indian subcontinent

[@PeterJPickles]

@@frayserken How to invade India with no inventions or techniques, we just stumbled around ffs get clued up will you.

[@PeterJPickles]

@@frayserken Also India would still be using them age old methods "you think you invented" today if it wasn't for Britain.

[@Sgt.chickens]

@frayserken What does that matter when the technique they invented had Nothing to do with India?

[@randolf84]

the man talks about technology and the brittish? WiFi/Bluetooth etc is Dutch and helped us more.. America started with New Amsterdam (dutch) and the dutch gave it away to the neglish, 5 presidents of the USA are of dutch origine... one even did not speak english/american. and i can go on... this video is mosltly nonsense. just like south africa, ones called Kaapstad (capetown) started with the Dutch... common people know the history

[@jonsnow6741]

how do they work without power ?

[@randolf84]

@@jonsnow6741 what is power in youre mind?

[@grigorione7824]

pretty sure the tech that led to wifi was invented by the CSIRO and that is an Aussie group .

[@randolf84]

@@grigorione7824 do more research Cees Links

[@randolf84]

@@grigorione7824 WaveLAN and Wifi is was a idea and invented by Cees Links. with steve jobs apple...

[@michaelmccann-5958]

How does it feel not being well educated

[@michaelmccann-5958]

No pistons no v8 cars

[@michaelmccann-5958]

Tat glass makes the windows on every thing pal