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  • @necessaryevil3428
    @necessaryevil3428 Місяць тому +989

    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
      @bobcrockett6016 Місяць тому +86

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

    • @222inverter
      @222inverter Місяць тому +29

      Self cleaning!..👍

    • @vallee3140
      @vallee3140 Місяць тому +24

      really? didn't know that, how clever

    • @kieranvarker57
      @kieranvarker57 Місяць тому +26

      Came here to say the same thing brilliant idea

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay Місяць тому +17

      @@vallee3140 AREN'T WE ?

  • @Sir.T
    @Sir.T Місяць тому +545

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

    •  Місяць тому +4

      That's a lie.

    • @peterjackson4763
      @peterjackson4763 Місяць тому +12

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

    • @NataliePine
      @NataliePine Місяць тому +3

      Definitely not first

    • @ej7714
      @ej7714 Місяць тому +101

      @@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
      @nikkijayne4451 Місяць тому +35

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

  • @torhockers1482
    @torhockers1482 Місяць тому +224

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

    • @alexanderferguson2199
      @alexanderferguson2199 Місяць тому

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

    • @uthikoloshe
      @uthikoloshe Місяць тому +1

      nah it's not, we suck. ;)

    • @SpeedfreakUK
      @SpeedfreakUK Місяць тому +12

      @@uthikoloshe very British-sounding name.

    • @markS2503
      @markS2503 Місяць тому +6

      ​​@@SpeedfreakUK yeah that guy is a nob

    • @MarkHarvey-uh8oc
      @MarkHarvey-uh8oc Місяць тому +5

      🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 My Pride Flags.

  • @karenthomas5358
    @karenthomas5358 Місяць тому +450

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

    • @white-dragon4424
      @white-dragon4424 Місяць тому +15

      Especially military inventions.

    • @lloydcollins6337
      @lloydcollins6337 Місяць тому +10

      @@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
      @white-dragon4424 Місяць тому +17

      @@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
      @mauk2861 Місяць тому +1

      not QUITE everything!

    • @derekhair2437
      @derekhair2437 Місяць тому +2

      The US Navy

  • @jillosler9353
    @jillosler9353 Місяць тому +342

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

    • @glzgowlass
      @glzgowlass Місяць тому +10

      They know. They covered it recently.

    • @gbulmer
      @gbulmer Місяць тому +2

      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
      @cyrus2728 Місяць тому +2

      @@gbulmer sssh dont you know facts are problematic

    • @CarolWoosey-ck2rg
      @CarolWoosey-ck2rg Місяць тому +4

      ​@@gbulmerare you an Anglophobe by any chance?

    • @andrewcornwall9754
      @andrewcornwall9754 Місяць тому +9

      ​@@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.

  • @conradcoleby
    @conradcoleby Місяць тому +120

    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
      @memoe6172 Місяць тому +5

      😂😂😂 💯

    • @zollykod2541
      @zollykod2541 Місяць тому +7

      Boredom is necessary for creativity to flourish!

    • @kathleenleslie5527
      @kathleenleslie5527 Місяць тому +4

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

    • @boaeoq9404
      @boaeoq9404 Місяць тому +2

      The weather is so unpredictable that we have to be adaptable and invent other options quickly when we have to change plans because of rain ! 🤣

    • @DarrenThompson
      @DarrenThompson 14 днів тому

      It's not just the British, all the colder nations if you look back progressed faster... Hotter countries not so much - check it out! )))

  • @Sophie.S..
    @Sophie.S.. Місяць тому +231

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

    • @rohnnyjotten3985
      @rohnnyjotten3985 Місяць тому +15

      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..
      @Sophie.S.. Місяць тому +5

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

    • @MostlyPennyCat
      @MostlyPennyCat Місяць тому +17

      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.

    •  Місяць тому

      @@MostlyPennyCat No.

    • @MostlyPennyCat
      @MostlyPennyCat Місяць тому

      Oh rly?

  • @MaoZhu-j6q
    @MaoZhu-j6q Місяць тому +332

    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.
      @Catherine.Dorian. Місяць тому +25

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

    • @gbulmer
      @gbulmer Місяць тому +31

      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
      @white-dragon4424 Місяць тому +19

      @@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
      @gbulmer Місяць тому +2

      @@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
      @white-dragon4424 Місяць тому +5

      @@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.

  • @themoderntemplar1567
    @themoderntemplar1567 Місяць тому +100

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

  • @sicr7373
    @sicr7373 Місяць тому +434

    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
      @shaunrye7740 Місяць тому

      Only Britain is Great

    • @christopherjohnson7133
      @christopherjohnson7133 Місяць тому +13

      Yes it is 😂

    • @adamlancaster77
      @adamlancaster77 Місяць тому +16

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

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 Місяць тому +21

      ​@@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
      @grrrrbabyverygrrr8165 Місяць тому

      Too bad this country is now full of chav morons.

  • @DrAllyGreen
    @DrAllyGreen Місяць тому +141

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

    • @thadiusthudpucker
      @thadiusthudpucker Місяць тому +2

      There was a dumbass presidential candidate who claimed he dun that.

    • @KatherineScharansky
      @KatherineScharansky 17 днів тому +6

      Don't forget Flemming and penicillin. Crick and Watson etc. etc. And Dr. McCauley's work on insulin production for diabetics....

    • @davidglow3
      @davidglow3 16 днів тому +1

      He invented the browser,not the internet,which was developed in the late 1960s by the American army.

    • @drcl7429
      @drcl7429 15 днів тому +1

      @@davidglow3 He didn't invent the internet. The internet wasn't invented as such, it developed by a combination of American, French and British Technology. Berners-Lee did create the HTTP protocol which the majority of internet traffic uses today. He did create the first browser too but a lot of HTTP traffic today is not using a browser for humans. So much data is transferred between machines using HTTP because there isn't anything better.

    • @MK-ry3lg
      @MK-ry3lg 2 дні тому

      @@drcl7429 you have HTTP and HTTP/S the S representing SSL encryption. You say there is not anything better? How did you come to this conclusion? HTTPs is the world standard, there is nothing else that needs to be in its place.

  • @deanj1981
    @deanj1981 Місяць тому +45

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

  • @grampstin9375
    @grampstin9375 Місяць тому +223

    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
      @TomGodson95 Місяць тому +6

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

  • @Scott-bb5nj
    @Scott-bb5nj 28 днів тому +34

    Proud to be Scottish and proud to be British. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇬🇧

    • @CarlBrowitt-ye8uo
      @CarlBrowitt-ye8uo 19 днів тому +1

      We are all brothers together

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 4 дні тому +1

      ​@@CarlBrowitt-ye8uo
      ...and sisters too!!

    • @johnnunn8688
      @johnnunn8688 20 годин тому +1

      A proud Brit from England, who had a grandmother from Auld Reekie.

  • @carolsmith1859
    @carolsmith1859 Місяць тому +47

    Scotland invented so much.....for one of the wee countries in the world. Check that out. Hugs from Dundee, Scotland x Love watching you both ❤

    • @Yesser-Thistle73
      @Yesser-Thistle73 29 днів тому +5

      Absolutely correct! (I was a student in Dundee, long ago!)

    • @EvenMadderMax
      @EvenMadderMax 24 дні тому +1

      Pretty sure that Scotland is part of Great Britain 🤔

    • @carolsmith1859
      @carolsmith1859 23 дні тому +3

      @@EvenMadderMax when it suits yeah

    • @haveyoursaythearsenalway9500
      @haveyoursaythearsenalway9500 19 днів тому +2

      ​@@carolsmith1859Well as an Englishman I can honestly say I love Scotland & the Scots. Wouldn't be without them & yes they definitely punched above their weight when it comes to inventing things 👍

    • @bernadettelanders7306
      @bernadettelanders7306 13 днів тому +3

      Aussie here. I know that John Logie Baird, Scottish Inventor (13 August 1888 - 14 June 1946)
      an electrical engineer invented the television.
      Our Australian TV awards are called The Logies 😊

  • @simond2031
    @simond2031 Місяць тому +61

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

  • @ElisaMcGowan-t2q
    @ElisaMcGowan-t2q Місяць тому +372

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

    • @chucky2316
      @chucky2316 Місяць тому +40

      We are lions led by lambs sadly

    • @CarolWoosey-ck2rg
      @CarolWoosey-ck2rg Місяць тому +7

      ​@@chucky2316fascists now

    • @ItsAlsoAGun
      @ItsAlsoAGun Місяць тому +15

      @@CarolWoosey-ck2rg lmao... No

    • @chucky2316
      @chucky2316 Місяць тому +41

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

    • @WayneCrow85
      @WayneCrow85 Місяць тому +10

      @@CarolWoosey-ck2rgStop being a bitter old dear

  • @lynnwakefield9884
    @lynnwakefield9884 Місяць тому +111

    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.

    • @drcl7429
      @drcl7429 15 днів тому +1

      I don't understand. Dewey was American.

    • @bernadettelanders7306
      @bernadettelanders7306 13 днів тому

      @@drcl7429
      Aussie here. American wins this one lol
      * Melvil Dewey (born December 10, 1851, Adams Center, New York, U.S.-died December 26, 1931, Lake Placid, Florida) was an American librarian who devised the Dewey Decimal Classification for library. cataloging and, probably more than any other individual, was responsible for the development of library science.
      *The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system was conceived by Melvil Dewey in 1873 and first published in 1876.

  • @JudahBenYisrael
    @JudahBenYisrael Місяць тому +243

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

    • @daviel6595
      @daviel6595 Місяць тому +25

      As a scot I'm British 1st

    • @JudahBenYisrael
      @JudahBenYisrael Місяць тому +9

      @@daviel6595 Same.

    • @TheCornishCockney
      @TheCornishCockney Місяць тому +11

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

    • @staticbuilds7613
      @staticbuilds7613 Місяць тому +8

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

    • @space1999
      @space1999 Місяць тому +6

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

  • @tonym480
    @tonym480 Місяць тому +113

    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
      @paulbantick8266 Місяць тому +26

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

    • @FuriKitten
      @FuriKitten Місяць тому +10

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

    • @572Btriode
      @572Btriode Місяць тому +2

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

    • @572Btriode
      @572Btriode Місяць тому +10

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

    • @janneroz-photographyonabudget
      @janneroz-photographyonabudget Місяць тому +11

      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.

  • @ssrcbike
    @ssrcbike Місяць тому +30

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

  • @whitecompany18
    @whitecompany18 Місяць тому +88

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

    • @jamieclarke321
      @jamieclarke321 Місяць тому +2

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

  • @stephensmith4480
    @stephensmith4480 Місяць тому +129

    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 😜😜

  • @Beautycomesoutofashes
    @Beautycomesoutofashes Місяць тому +21

    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

  • @janewilson8676
    @janewilson8676 Місяць тому +151

    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
      @CarolWoosey-ck2rg Місяць тому

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

    • @scottwest102
      @scottwest102 Місяць тому +15

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

    • @DSmith468
      @DSmith468 23 дні тому

      The political left confuse bring successful with being ‘bad’. If the left are criticising you then you know you’re succeeding at something. Britain was very successful so is hated by the left

    • @Yesser-Thistle73
      @Yesser-Thistle73 21 день тому

      The country actually contains three countries and a Province.

  • @che71che
    @che71che Місяць тому +129

    We all stand on the shoulders of giants. British Giants

    • @NataliePine
      @NataliePine Місяць тому

      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
      @Roz-y2d Місяць тому +9

      Absolutely 👍🏻❤️🇬🇧

    • @MichaelLamming
      @MichaelLamming Місяць тому +1

      😂😂😂

    • @TheCornishCockney
      @TheCornishCockney Місяць тому

      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.

    • @kevinshears377
      @kevinshears377 Місяць тому

      In fact that is an Isaac Newton quote, it is inscribed on the edge of a British £2 coin which is minted at the Royal mint which Newton was a governor of

  • @beckyross3210
    @beckyross3210 Місяць тому +26

    It’s crazy how many things the Scottish invented for such a small country

    • @DSmith468
      @DSmith468 23 дні тому

      Scotland for hundreds of years had a world leading and truly excellent education system. Destroyed by Labour and then the SNP

    • @timrobinson9192
      @timrobinson9192 17 днів тому

      As an Englander, I totally agree :)

    • @Somerville87
      @Somerville87 9 днів тому +1

      English here, fully agree. The Irish maybe need to catch up? 😂

    • @Deano-Dron81
      @Deano-Dron81 5 днів тому

      Stop complaining. We all know it. England gives praise to native English people who did the job in America. Stop crying.

    • @beckyross3210
      @beckyross3210 5 днів тому +1

      @@Deano-Dron81 what are you talking about?

  • @torquaydogtraining1102
    @torquaydogtraining1102 Місяць тому +41

    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 ❤

  • @gunshipzeroone3546
    @gunshipzeroone3546 Місяць тому +41

    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.

  • @sharonneal585
    @sharonneal585 27 днів тому +8

    Makes me so proud to be British watching this, but I love watching your reactions more thank you from the UK 🇬🇧 lots of live to you both ❤❤❤

  • @kitobi10660
    @kitobi10660 Місяць тому +62

    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
      @reactingtomyroots  Місяць тому +5

      Another good point as well!

    • @caroleannbrunnock8793
      @caroleannbrunnock8793 Місяць тому

      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
      @kitobi10660 Місяць тому +1

      @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.

  • @BeckyPoleninja
    @BeckyPoleninja Місяць тому +83

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

    • @SteveOwen-e6s
      @SteveOwen-e6s Місяць тому +1

      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
      @DukeDanseMacambre Місяць тому +1

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

    • @BeckyPoleninja
      @BeckyPoleninja Місяць тому +1

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

  • @livesimply.lovemore4870
    @livesimply.lovemore4870 Місяць тому +6

    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! 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @sarabazlinton9820
    @sarabazlinton9820 Місяць тому +28

    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.

    • @michaelaogborne8126
      @michaelaogborne8126 8 днів тому

      She was 2 years above me in school 😊 never realised the significance of IVF back then lol she was just grown in a test tube they told us 😂

  • @AndrewAHayes
    @AndrewAHayes Місяць тому +38

    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.

  • @davetherave6192
    @davetherave6192 Місяць тому +18

    Great reaction! Proud to be British 🇬🇧

  • @caroleearnshaw32149
    @caroleearnshaw32149 Місяць тому +97

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

    • @russcattell955i
      @russcattell955i Місяць тому +5

      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
      @susanpearson-creativefibro Місяць тому +4

      My parents had one in the 70s too.

    • @chrislawley6801
      @chrislawley6801 Місяць тому

      The ticking of the clock was horrendously annoying

    • @johnross2924
      @johnross2924 Місяць тому

      Luke warm tea 😂

    • @AJ-hi9fd
      @AJ-hi9fd Місяць тому +1

      I had one of those too, bloody noisy!

  • @Lilly8Listens
    @Lilly8Listens Місяць тому +165

    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
      @cheryl71000 Місяць тому +25

      Aye Lee Anderson MP great speech he made.

    • @damiendye6623
      @damiendye6623 Місяць тому +15

      ​@@cheryl71000yeah pitty he is completely useless

    • @charlottehardy822
      @charlottehardy822 Місяць тому +8

      @@damiendye6623which MP isn’t? 😏

    • @tinkertoke
      @tinkertoke Місяць тому +17

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

    • @AbzScotland
      @AbzScotland Місяць тому +7

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

  • @Carol-hj4km
    @Carol-hj4km Місяць тому +9

    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!

  • @Keith-bq7dn
    @Keith-bq7dn Місяць тому +130

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

    • @AbzScotland
      @AbzScotland Місяць тому +13

      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
      @Paul-yh8km Місяць тому +2

      Including climate change.

    • @AbzScotland
      @AbzScotland Місяць тому +8

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

    • @yedead1
      @yedead1 Місяць тому

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

    • @Paul-yh8km
      @Paul-yh8km Місяць тому

      @@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.

  • @dee2251
    @dee2251 Місяць тому +61

    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
      @giddy9052 Місяць тому

      What was it called before they renamed it?

    • @FuriKitten
      @FuriKitten Місяць тому +5

      @@giddy9052 Nobridge uptfromford,

    • @dee2251
      @dee2251 Місяць тому +3

      @@giddy9052 It was called Coalbrookdale

    • @giddy9052
      @giddy9052 Місяць тому +1

      @@dee2251 👍 thanks

    • @flybobbie1449
      @flybobbie1449 Місяць тому +1

      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.

  • @clmclmn21
    @clmclmn21 Місяць тому +32

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

    • @willvangaal8412
      @willvangaal8412 Місяць тому

      🥱🥱🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @creepingdread88
      @creepingdread88 24 дні тому

      It's really impossible to know just how influential those 51% of invented were to the other 49%. I imagine, most of the world's other inventions wouldn't have come to be, without the earlier ones.

  • @markpodlesak7204
    @markpodlesak7204 Місяць тому +35

    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
      @reactingtomyroots  Місяць тому +8

      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
      @staticbuilds7613 Місяць тому +3

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

  • @ejulian17
    @ejulian17 Місяць тому +49

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

    • @wackynz3260
      @wackynz3260 Місяць тому

      Really thought the Chinese invented it.

    • @rogergibson5172
      @rogergibson5172 Місяць тому +3

      And Led Zeppelin 😂

    • @mehallica666
      @mehallica666 Місяць тому +1

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

    • @AJ-hi9fd
      @AJ-hi9fd Місяць тому +2

      You forgot The Rolling Stones!

    • @wendydonnelly1881
      @wendydonnelly1881 Місяць тому

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

  • @58stoddart
    @58stoddart Місяць тому +33

    This video should be shown to kids at school here in Britain. Kids nowadays in the uk are taught to hate this place because colonialism and slavery are the main topics. Truly brainwashed

    • @JonHall-t6c
      @JonHall-t6c Місяць тому +1

      How is it brainwashing to teach children about colonialism and slavery? It happened. They do learn other things in history lessons you know. I have two kids in school at the moment and I know what they're being taught.

  • @janescott4574
    @janescott4574 Місяць тому +96

    Hot milk in tea? Steve, you philistine!!

    • @chucky2316
      @chucky2316 Місяць тому +14

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

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 Місяць тому +7

      That thought turned my stomach too!!😮

    • @reactingtomyroots
      @reactingtomyroots  Місяць тому +19

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

    • @johnleonard9090
      @johnleonard9090 Місяць тому +1

      @@reactingtomyrootsso tea hot, milk and sugar?

    • @andrearice2483
      @andrearice2483 Місяць тому +3

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

  • @anitapeludat256
    @anitapeludat256 Місяць тому +19

    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
      @Yesser-Thistle73 Місяць тому +6

      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
      @sleeplessinscotland9394 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @johnwright9562
    @johnwright9562 Місяць тому +31

    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
      @pennyaccleton6227 Місяць тому +3

      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.

  • @mjmaule
    @mjmaule Місяць тому +47

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

    • @flybobbie1449
      @flybobbie1449 Місяць тому +3

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

    • @eileentaylor1691
      @eileentaylor1691 Місяць тому +2

      @@flybobbie1449 so was chocolate 14th centry elizabethan times

    • @Steve235-ox7ky
      @Steve235-ox7ky Місяць тому

      ​@@flybobbie1449😂5

  • @antoniosann
    @antoniosann 7 днів тому +1

    What a great video. Thank you for enlightening us all.

  • @alsner73
    @alsner73 Місяць тому +53

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

  • @peterdawson7198
    @peterdawson7198 Місяць тому +22

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

  • @THEPRIDEOFLONDON1905
    @THEPRIDEOFLONDON1905 Місяць тому +14

    Let's not forget some of the sports that the Brits invented too.
    Football (soccer).
    Tennis.
    Cricket.
    Rugby.
    Boxing.
    Golf.
    Baseball (stems from Rounders).
    Darts
    Snooker.
    Hockey.
    And so on and so on & so on etc etc etc.
    All these sports now played on a massive scale worldwide.

    • @Yesser-Thistle73
      @Yesser-Thistle73 29 днів тому +2

      Golf originated in Scotland.

    • @THEPRIDEOFLONDON1905
      @THEPRIDEOFLONDON1905 29 днів тому +4

      @@Yesser-Thistle73 last time I looked, Scotland was part of Britain! 🤔 😂😂 Hence me saying Brits!!!

    • @creepingdread88
      @creepingdread88 24 дні тому

      One of the big reasons for the boom in sport, was another simple, yet Great British invention, called the lawnmower.

    • @vernongoodey5096
      @vernongoodey5096 20 днів тому

      Only sports we didn’t invent Lacrosse & Polo

  • @matthewjenkins1161
    @matthewjenkins1161 Місяць тому +43

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

    • @kenallday3760
      @kenallday3760 Місяць тому +9

      It is mentioned in the original as well as tarmacadam

    • @unofficiallymike
      @unofficiallymike Місяць тому

      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
      @matthewjenkins1161 Місяць тому +2

      @@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.

    • @lonestar6709
      @lonestar6709 6 днів тому

      @@unofficiallymike The British invented the powerlines, that the Internet uses though.
      So, we did invent the Internet really.

  • @vinnyganzano1930
    @vinnyganzano1930 Місяць тому +37

    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
      @lewistaylor1965 Місяць тому +2

      Damn that John Paul Jones!...hehe

    • @neddyseagoon9601
      @neddyseagoon9601 Місяць тому +2

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

  • @thepinkmimosa
    @thepinkmimosa Місяць тому +4

    I've been watching you guys for awhile now, great channel. I lived in S.C until I was 11 when we came to Scotland (37 now), really enjoy watching your reactions,, this little piece used be in my granny's kitchen , on a tea towel on the wall. Always loved it- Enjoy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
    Wha's Like Us ?
    The average Englishman in the home he calls his castle, slips into his national costume ---- a shabby raincoat...patented by....
    ...Chemist Charles Macintosh from Glasgow, Scotland.
    En route to his office he strides along the English lane, surfaced by....
    ...John Macadam from Ayr, Scotland.
    He drives an English car fitted with tyres invented by....
    ...John Boyd Dunlop, Veterinary Surgeon of Dreghorn, Scotland.
    At the office he receives the mail bearing adhesive stamps invented by....
    ...John Chalmers, Bookseller and Printer of Dundee, Scotland.
    During the day he uses the telephone invented by....
    ...Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
    At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicycle invented by....
    ...Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Blacksmith of Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
    He watches the news on T.V. an invention of....
    ...John Logie Baird of Helensburgh, Scotland.
    And hears an item about the U.S. Navy founded by....
    ...John Paul Jones of Kirkbean, Scotland.
    Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots.
    He has now been reminded too much of Scotland and in desperation he picks up the Bible, only to find that the first man mentioned in the good book is a Scot..
    ...King James VI...who authorised its translation.
    He could take to drink but the Scots make the best in the world.
    He could take a rifle and end it all but that breech-loading rifle was invented by..
    ...Captain Patrick Ferguson of Pitfours, Scotland.
    If he escaped death, he would find himself on an operating table injected with Penicillin, discovered by....
    ...Sir Alexander Fleming of Darvel, Scotland.
    And given Chloroform, an anaesthetic discovered by....
    ..Sir James Young Simpson, Obstetrician & Gynaecologist of Bathgate, Scotland.
    Out of the anaesthetic he would find no comfort in learning he was as safe as the Bank of England founded by....
    ...William Paterson of Dumfries, Scotland.
    Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a transfusion of guid Scottish blood which would entitle him to ask-----
    "Wha's Like Us"
    💙🤍💙

    • @Yesser-Thistle73
      @Yesser-Thistle73 29 днів тому +2

      Beautifully done! Thank you! Scotland loses out as it just gets lumped into "Britain", which many equate with England.

  • @alisonlinnell8943
    @alisonlinnell8943 Місяць тому +30

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

    • @anthonyeaton5153
      @anthonyeaton5153 16 днів тому

      We are supposed to drive to the left of cats eyes.

  • @DECKER1982
    @DECKER1982 Місяць тому +25

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

    • @tonybennett9964
      @tonybennett9964 Місяць тому

      Trouble is most of our politicians are immigrants

  • @thegreatshamalamadingdong9788
    @thegreatshamalamadingdong9788 Місяць тому +4

    This actually makes me really sad.
    How great Britain was and now we cant even give our elders heating 😢

  • @bmused55
    @bmused55 Місяць тому +12

    People don't give the UK enough credit. As the guy said at the start, they all mostly start maligning the UK due to the empire, forgetting that EVERYONE was at it at the time.
    But as you now know, the world would be incredibly different without the UK

  • @peckelhaze6934
    @peckelhaze6934 Місяць тому +114

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

    • @martinwebb1681
      @martinwebb1681 Місяць тому +14

      Me too. 🙂

    • @DianaSheward
      @DianaSheward Місяць тому +12

      And me !👍🏼🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️

    • @CarolWoosey-ck2rg
      @CarolWoosey-ck2rg Місяць тому +10

      No argument

    • @chucky2316
      @chucky2316 Місяць тому +23

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

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 Місяць тому +9

      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.

  • @bjt6012
    @bjt6012 27 днів тому +4

    0:13 right off the top of my head I’d say we discovered the land mass you now call home 😂

    • @David-nz6ox
      @David-nz6ox 13 днів тому

      Well if you don't count chinese anscestors,vikings,spanish

    • @bjt6012
      @bjt6012 13 днів тому

      @ and Portuguese but hey go

  • @raystewart3648
    @raystewart3648 Місяць тому +18

    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.

  • @BrightonandHoveActually
    @BrightonandHoveActually Місяць тому +23

    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
      @sapien82 Місяць тому +2

      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

  • @mattsmith5421
    @mattsmith5421 Місяць тому +36

    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
      @chucky2316 Місяць тому +7

      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.
      @heraklesnothercules. Місяць тому +1

      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
      @jonathanbuzzard1376 Місяць тому

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

    • @mattsmith5421
      @mattsmith5421 Місяць тому

      @@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
      @jonathanbuzzard1376 Місяць тому

      @@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.

  • @MichaelLamming
    @MichaelLamming Місяць тому +16

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

  • @themunter4488
    @themunter4488 Місяць тому +2

    The Teamaid with a radio alarm clock - awesome - wake up to your favourite morning radio and its brewing you a cuppa at the same time 😊😊

  • @Gill-ur7rp
    @Gill-ur7rp Місяць тому +106

    We British where the first country to stop slavery

    • @olliestevenson8068
      @olliestevenson8068 Місяць тому +3

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @WayneCrow85
      @WayneCrow85 Місяць тому +6

      After realising our wrong doings 😅

    • @martinwebb1681
      @martinwebb1681 Місяць тому +19

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

    • @paulbantick8266
      @paulbantick8266 Місяць тому

      @@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
      @petersmith4423 Місяць тому +10

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

  • @JonBushell
    @JonBushell Місяць тому +31

    Did he mention Frank Whittle and the jet engine?

    • @Spiklething
      @Spiklething Місяць тому +12

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

  • @58jennypenny
    @58jennypenny Місяць тому +20

    That's why people hate us, because we're awesome.

  • @stuartfaulds1580
    @stuartfaulds1580 Місяць тому +34

    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
      @sylviacruden394 Місяць тому +3

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

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 Місяць тому

      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
      @elemar5 Місяць тому

      ​@@brigidsingleton1596 The guy up there ^^^

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 Місяць тому

      @elemar5
      No; I meant the original joker!!

    • @davidrobinson4400
      @davidrobinson4400 Місяць тому +1

      @@brigidsingleton1596 Ken Dodd

  • @planekrazy1795
    @planekrazy1795 Місяць тому +16

    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.

  • @carolatlga1407
    @carolatlga1407 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @Martinpacker
    @Martinpacker Місяць тому +22

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

  • @UnknownUser-rb9pd
    @UnknownUser-rb9pd Місяць тому +17

    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
      @danielferguson3784 Місяць тому +4

      @@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
      @philjones6054 Місяць тому +1

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

    • @LukeSkinner84
      @LukeSkinner84 Місяць тому

      How about Issac Newton and gravity theory?

    • @johnholmes4494
      @johnholmes4494 9 днів тому

      And d and a

  • @joannelaurie
    @joannelaurie 2 дні тому

    It just shows you what a difference to the world that one person can make, possibilities are endless.

  • @andrewobrien6671
    @andrewobrien6671 Місяць тому +75

    Always amazes me that IVF is never mentioned.

    • @matthewjenkins1161
      @matthewjenkins1161 Місяць тому +18

      And many transplant surgeries were pioneered here too.

    • @moodswinggaming2972
      @moodswinggaming2972 Місяць тому +12

      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
      @michellehardman50 Місяць тому

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

    • @eh-i1841
      @eh-i1841 Місяць тому +2

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

    • @matthewjenkins1161
      @matthewjenkins1161 Місяць тому +5

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

  • @DarranRobertson
    @DarranRobertson Місяць тому +15

    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
      @tomferrante8002 Місяць тому +3

      Coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoon!

    • @juliaforsyth8332
      @juliaforsyth8332 Місяць тому +1

      Instant coffee was invented by a NZ'er.

  • @sapien82
    @sapien82 Місяць тому +2

    i think probably the most significant to the modern world was James Clerk Maxwell theory of electromagnetism , and Alexander Fleming discovery of penicillin. As a Scot i am proud of the contributions from oor wee country

  • @martinbingham-l5m
    @martinbingham-l5m Місяць тому +11

    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.

    • @johngardiner6800
      @johngardiner6800 19 днів тому

      He didn't miss anything as they stopped the video before he was finished.

  • @IronBorn71
    @IronBorn71 Місяць тому +24

    Americans will say that they live in the Greatest country in the World.. They Don't!!.. they live in the most powerful Country.
    Britain is the Greatest.

    • @Fifury161
      @Fifury161 Місяць тому +5

      Yeah - the clue is even in the name! lol

    • @stevehayward1854
      @stevehayward1854 Місяць тому +5

      As Al Murray said, "The clue is in the name for f**k sake, Great Britain"

    • @occamraiser
      @occamraiser Місяць тому +2

      the clue is in the names. 'The (sort of) United states of America' and 'Great Britain'. Al Murray's comment is the best..... we don't have earthquakes.....because we don't deserve them.

  • @TSM-908
    @TSM-908 Місяць тому +2

    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.

  • @helenbarnett695
    @helenbarnett695 Місяць тому +15

    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
      @AbzScotland Місяць тому

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

    • @helenbarnett695
      @helenbarnett695 Місяць тому +2

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

    • @AbzScotland
      @AbzScotland Місяць тому

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

  • @Ghhft33
    @Ghhft33 Місяць тому +19

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

    • @chucky2316
      @chucky2316 Місяць тому +2

      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
      @Keith-bq7dn Місяць тому +5

      👍 and You can also make Coffee in it 😁

    • @Ghhft33
      @Ghhft33 Місяць тому +1

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

    • @chucky2316
      @chucky2316 Місяць тому +2

      ​@@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

  • @Firestorm381
    @Firestorm381 Місяць тому +5

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

  • @martinwebb1681
    @martinwebb1681 Місяць тому +17

    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
      @chucky2316 Місяць тому +4

      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
      @steveparker1466 Місяць тому +4

      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
      @ellenthibeault3940 Місяць тому +3

      @@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
      @ellenthibeault3940 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @dh88comet
    @dh88comet Місяць тому +2

    I've always been proud to be British.

  • @FrancesThompson-e3m
    @FrancesThompson-e3m Місяць тому +7

    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.

  • @PLuMUK54
    @PLuMUK54 Місяць тому +16

    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.

  • @Sidistic_Atheist
    @Sidistic_Atheist Місяць тому +4

    This is why I hated History classes at school. Especially English History. There was so much to learn compared to American History.
    Makes you realise how young your country really is, in the grand scheme of things.

  • @jeanlongsden1696
    @jeanlongsden1696 Місяць тому +27

    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
      @AlainnCorcaigh Місяць тому +3

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

    • @matthewbishop9342
      @matthewbishop9342 Місяць тому +2

      @@jeanlongsden1696 and the microwave oven and LCD screens.

    • @matthewbishop9342
      @matthewbishop9342 Місяць тому +12

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

    • @Avfc-m4w
      @Avfc-m4w Місяць тому +8

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

    • @jeanlongsden1696
      @jeanlongsden1696 Місяць тому

      @@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.

  • @paulh9
    @paulh9 Місяць тому +12

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

  • @lizgallucci8894
    @lizgallucci8894 19 днів тому +1

    Actually feeling quite proud to be British after watching this.

  • @SeanHendy
    @SeanHendy Місяць тому +173

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

    • @Millennial_Manc
      @Millennial_Manc Місяць тому +64

      And sarcasm

    • @christinehoughton8591
      @christinehoughton8591 Місяць тому +17

      😂😂😂😂

    • @ThinkingOnTheRoad
      @ThinkingOnTheRoad Місяць тому +13

      *mavity

    • @Mark_Bickerton
      @Mark_Bickerton Місяць тому +27

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

    • @CarolWoosey-ck2rg
      @CarolWoosey-ck2rg Місяць тому +21

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

  • @maval4537
    @maval4537 Місяць тому +2

    I'm no Brit, folks, but...The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Delia Derbyshire, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Queen, 007........... any questions?

  • @KernowWarrior
    @KernowWarrior Місяць тому +9

    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.

  • @CuriousFocker
    @CuriousFocker Місяць тому +4

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

  • @corringhamdepot4434
    @corringhamdepot4434 Місяць тому +9

    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
      @flybobbie1449 Місяць тому

      Did he also manufacture big guns and first electric home.

  • @TSM-908
    @TSM-908 Місяць тому +1

    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.

  • @alsner73
    @alsner73 Місяць тому +59

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

    • @george-ev1dq
      @george-ev1dq Місяць тому +4

      Islands

    • @ethancantwell8549
      @ethancantwell8549 Місяць тому +2

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

    • @george-ev1dq
      @george-ev1dq Місяць тому +1

      @@ethancantwell8549 The UK is not an Island

    • @ethancantwell8549
      @ethancantwell8549 Місяць тому +4

      @@george-ev1dq But Britain is

    • @george-ev1dq
      @george-ev1dq Місяць тому +1

      @@ethancantwell8549 and?