American Reacts to Shocking Things America STOLE from Britain
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As an American one of the most interesting things to learn about is how other countries have influenced American, in particular Britain. British culture has had such a profound impact on American that is not surprising to me that we have "stolen" this list of things from Britain over the years. culture If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
'As American as apple pie.' This is a very good phrase to explain how America works as there is nothing more American than taking ownership of something you didn't come up with and taking credit for it.
As English as a doner kebab..
@@griswald7156 its called Döner with an Ö
@@evilmessiah81 Griswald is spelt with an A not an O…ahhso
@@griswald7156 and we didn't claim to invent it, we know it's not British lol
Yes like Syrians oil !!
Eddison was a notorious thief of inventions kinda surprised you weren't aware of that
I am shocked.
I was sure everyone knew that Thomas Alva Edison was half a fraud, still a smart person, but a fraud.
He patented other people's ideas before they could didn’t he?
Eddison was like Steve Jobs. He took other people ideas and populised them, but did little of the original research themselves.
@@briwood6328 Yeah, he started off directly stealing inventions. Then when he was rich enough he hired people to invent things for him and registered them all under this own name.
@@jca111 neither of them did no such thing! I don’t know where you get these crazy theories
Not hard to believe when you consider that MORE THAN 50% of the entire WORLDS most important inventions are actually British!!
And when you consider that Great Britain is such a tiny little country, that statistic is very VERY impressive!!
When a lot of these things were invented the UK wasn't just a tiny country but rather the worlds biggest Empire.
@@TheZebbga At the height of its empire, the UK was far FAR SMALLER than it is now! But even today the UK is still making break through inventions like DNA testing (just 30 years ago) that has changed the world. and even more recently was the first country in the world to administer the Covid19 vaccine! for what ever that rubbish is worth!!
Mostly Scottish inventions.
@@wrutherfordx3x They did invent a lot.
@@wrutherfordx3x LOL! Unlikely!!🤣
For a relatively small country, Scotland has invented some of the most influential things. Telephone, television, penicillin, steam engine, contact lenses, atm cash machines, fingerprinting, refrigerator … I could go on. We kick ass.
arse
pneumatic tyre....
Yes we do.
@@nevillebloodybartosYou lot fucked up by giving Tories.
Tarmac?!
Just after WWII the Brits and the US were both trying to break the sound barrier. The Yanks were having a serious problem with the controls locking up at trans sonic speeds, which put the aircraft into an unrecoverable dive. The US approached the Brits to see about pooling research, as the Brits had managed to cure the problem by developing the all-moving tail. The Brits said "yeah, OK, let's share" and sent all of their data over to the US - and then the US said "Actually, on second thoughts, let's not share" - put the all-moving tail on the Bell X-1, broke the sound barrier and then crowed about how advanced US aeronautics were...
They did exactly the same thing with the atomic bomb. They wouldn't have done it without vital UK research, but just after the war said, " Yeah, we're not giving you our half of the research"
Remember watching a program a few year's ago back in 1940 the RAF Approached a small plane maker to design a plane/fighter to break the sound barrier. After the war they were encouraged to share their work and findings with the Americans. Seemed funny how they were denied access to the American project, and that the X1 that broke the sound barrier was exactly like there design
Curious droid does e very good video on it
@@listerofsmegv987pevinaek5 you would think once bitten twice shy but no [atomic knowledge collaboration]
Similarly the Americans asked for some help from the Brits for the Manhattan project (atomic bomb). The agreement was that all the information and technology resulting from this would be shared. The Brits sent over their nuclear experts. Once the bomb was developed, the Americans passed a law saying that the information could not be shared with other countries - including Britain.
When the British discovered penicillin, they didn't have the manufacturing capacity to manufacture it in quantity. They went to the Americans who took this discovery and (with a different strain of Penicillin ) developed a method of making it in bulk. And for a long time afterwards kept it all for themselves and their military.
Don't forget the most obvious thing America stole from Britain: AMERICA!!! 🤣
Yeah now we know give it back...
I think the native Americans had a prior claim.🙂
@@speleokeir Thank god we live in the 21st century where invading countries and claiming them to be theirs is a thing of the past! 🤣
You mean the native Americans?
@@speleokeir The native American had its land stolen from the self appointed US government & army not to mention wiping pretty much the various tribes out !!! 🏹 📯 🙄!!!
"Is there proof that Apple Pie is British?" - Yeah, the proof is in the pudding.
I'll see myself out
I think you’ll find the phrase is ‘the proof is in the eating’. Have a nice day.
@@user-lm2vs1sl3v That is not a thing. The saying "the proof is in the pudding" means the evidence is clear when you have direct experience with it.
@@ilikelampshades6Lucky for you, some people got the joke. 😂
When I was at school in the 60s, the most popular sport for the summer (for girls, anyway) was rounders. It's all a bit hazy now, but you stand there with a wooden club-type thing, the bowler throws the ball, you hit it and run in a circle to a series of bases. If you're not caught out before you get to a base, you can stop safely at that base until the next ball is bowled. The object of the game is get round the whole circle, and if you can do it in one, I think you get extra points or something. Sound familiar? Another very popular girls' game was netball, where the object of the game was to throw a ball up and through a cylindrical net that was hanging from a pole. Need I say more?!!
An American firm took over our beloved Cadbury's chocolate and changed the recipe. It's now horrible as they have added palm oil, it tastes nothing like the lovely chocolate I remember from my young days.
You are quite right, though Cadbury chocolate has always been second grade, now it's even worse. Nestle is far superior, and the Swiss and German chocolate makers leave them all behind.
Of course it's easier to pour shit into a product to make it taste like shit. The Brits used better and more refined products to make their best chocolates ever but now the Cadbury brand is as bland as their corporate takeover ensuring that Americans aren't allowed to eat real food. Despoilers of all they were given.
😂😂😂😂 I guess your British with a British point of view?
British chocolate is just a horrible as other British based production chocolate.
I think that you are not really used to real chocolate from other countries where making chocolate is really an art...
😉 Just saying.. 🙂
@@paulwallace4332 exactly it’s sad, Never buying it again
It was the makers of American plastic cheese (Kraft) who bought Cadbury's, but fairly quickly sold it. What worried me at the time was that Cadbury had previously bought Green & Black's independent chocolate Company. However, whoever now owns Cadbury's, Green & Black's chocolate has remained unscathed. I would not wish to be without it.
06:40 A good quote to remember - "An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time” ― Diana Gabaldon
Meaning?
@@ajaxlewis7664 Americans are spread out, but have comparatively no History
@@ajaxlewis7664 we have different forms of knowledge. Americans can think big, Englishman can think long. Americans have lots of knowledge of lots of things. Englishman have in depth knowledge of more specific things. Americans have less concept of history, Englishman have less concept of distance.
@@JMNL07 As we have spent a thousand years covering distance to get to places other than England I cannot go along with that.
@@scaleyback217 An interesting point! However did you not say a thousand years? We don't do this now (much) but we have a long memory of when we did.
Besides, this is not meant to be a be-all-to-end-all statement, but a theory regarding the above quote.
It's crazy because hamburgers, are originally German from the port town of hamburg, the steak meat (which would become known as the burger patty) was too hot for sailors to hold, as they had just docked and were obviously hungry, so a German patty salesman decided to put the patty in between 2 slices of bread so it could be held without burning the hands, and that's where the hamburger was invented
So the sailors could burn their lips, tongue and mouths instead of their fingers! Cool idea!
A recipe for hamburgers can be found in ancient Roman cook books.
Romans also invented the bikini.
sweet cool bit of trivia.
Or not-so-cool as the case may be.@@kc5402
Britain has invented so much it’s unbelievable!! Engineering, science, medicine, poetry, writing, the American Navy was started by a Scotsman, it goes on& on, we really made a big mark on the world for such a small island
We did NOT invent poetry or writing! The earliest record of the written word is in Asia, and the Persians (Iranians) and Iraqis were reciting poetry in beautiful, fragrant gardens when we were still dragging each other in and out of caves by our hair!
@@bilbobaggins706 Oh STFU....poetry has been around since people leant to speak ignoramus,,,
We did invent the internet though. (No, Al Gore was not its inventor, nor did he claim to have been.)
Its a big island.... look on the map
@@bigverybadtom No we didn't invent the Internet. Sir Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web, but the WWW is just one of many applications that runs *on* the Internet, which was born from ARPANET - an American research network.
Had a debate with an American the other week funnily enough who tried explaining that the word 'woke' origin was African American community even though the word along with its meaning was used in old English for centuries especially regionally within Britain - I pointed out that the US had a habit of laying claim to British words and inventions as their own and used the Edison stealing the lightbulb as an example of this... He totally denied that Edison did indeed steal the lightbulb and called me a racist for pointing out the word "woke" was used in old English...
I've found Americans are often utter buffoons when it comes to anything outside of their own nation, they believe the world revolves around them culturally and technologically.
That's called a generalization.. since basically we speak the same language and are deeply related/founded by Great Britain... a good portion of us have genetic roots directly to the English/Scottish or Irish bloodlines.. straight from the Isles.
@@TheTripledz
I know what it's called but it certainly is a demonstrable observation.
@@B-26354 True however you have to take into account we are the "offspring" of Great Britain and therefore we are basically a creation of a time when Great Britain was having "growing pains"
Funny, I was wondering about this when I woke up this morning
Remember Yanks have trouble knowing the difference between England & Great Britain. What a shame it was us British who set up a colony in that La La Land
Joseph Swann invented a light bulb filament that lasted. It was this that Edison stole. Swann sued Edison in BOTH a British law court AND an American court. Edison lost both cases.
There are loads of examples of UK Sitcoms remade for the US - there's a wiki page devoted to TV shows transferred over but sitcoms include Red Dwarf, Fawlty Towers, Men Behaving Badly, The IT Crowd, Birds of a Feather, One Foot in the Grave, Gavin & Stacey, Whose Line is it Anyway (not a sitcom but bloody funny), Absolutely Fabulous, The Vicar of Dibley, Little Britain, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Porridge, Shameless, Steptoe and Son, Til Death Us Do Part, The Young Ones.
Some didn't do so well stateside, which isn't a huge surprise.
The funny thing about sandwich in kent is that there is a small village just a couple of miles away called ham so when your traveling along the road there is a road sign that says
HAM
SANDWICH
Omg I love it! Hahahahah
My biggest gripe in this regard is actually a film. U571 is considered by some people as being based on real life events during the war and shows how the Americans captured Germany's top secret enigma machine. It's actually completely fictional as long before America was dragged into the war the allies had captured and decoded the machine yet, as mentioned, because of this film some people are unaware of that.
The team was (apparent) a Naval lieutenant and a seaman who’s name was Grazier, a distant great great great cousin of mine apparently after the scuttling mechanism had been triggered under the survivors noses hence the German high command had no idea we had the machine.
I know it's fiction, but based on a true story.The enemy ship in the film Master and Commander was American in the novel by Patric O'Brian and the date was 1812 during the British, USA war. The film makers made it French as you can't have America as the enemy. According to Hollywood.
In the UK, our biggest shame is the treatment of Alan Turing, the genius who played a significant part in decoding the Enigma machine. Since Alan Turing was gay and homophobia was still rife in the 1940s, systematically so, Alan Turing was basically publicly shamed in court, chemically castrated and led into a depression cycle that ended in his suicide.
I believe the actual ship was the H.M.S. Bulldog that captured the Krieggsmarina "Shark" enigma machine as its code books
That's true and the movie is 100% fiction, inspired by several real events involving the Royal Navy before the US even entered the war, and The Guardian's article is cheekily titled "U-571: You give historical films a bad name", which is a riff on the fact Jon Bon Jovi is one of the actors in this piece of Hollywood hokum. The UK Government lodged a formal protest with the US after the film was mentioned in Parliament as an affront to the real sailors who risked their lives to secure the Enigma machines and code books at sea during the war.
The response of the filmmakers was to add a list of the real incidents in which Enigma machines were captured in the final credits after the end of the film - just when audiences are getting out of their seats and leaving the theatre - thanks guys! Even then, they couldn't bring themselves to admit the Royal Navy got there first, so first credit goes to the Polish slave workers who risked their lives to smuggle the rotor parts from the machine to British Intelligence, which were the first clues we received about how the machine operated.
It was Scots who invented Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, Television by John Logie Baird, Tarmac by McAdam.
Greetings from Scotland 😄🏴
At least partly incorrect, Bell stole the invention of the telephone. Again, history is written by those who had more money.
Edit: it was Antonio Meucci in 1871, while Bell was in 1876. Meucci didn't manage to get enough money for the patent and his prototypes "went missing" at the patent office. To this day, the invention is still disputed.
with English money, cough cough
@@annekekramer3835 Check the real history. He was working on the project. Another inventor claimed it had been stolen after the patent had been registered by Bell. The other man was a rival of bell's and there were numerous suits brought against Bell. The US Supreme Court ruled that Bell had invented and patented it honestly. It was the longest patent battle in US history, apparently. Bell had a driving need to invent it as both his wife and mother were hearing impaired, which was why he was working on accoustice-and listening devices.
Baird invented optical scanning television. Sadly. It was an American who invented television in the way we view it today (Electronic scanning).
@@Armadacon I quote, "John Logie Baird FRSE was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube." Check Encyclopaedia Britannica for reference. The Encyclopaedia was also a Scottish innovation with its first printing in 1768 in Edinburgh.
The computer is the main one as far as I am concerned. Britain developed Colossus computers during WWII and were the main part of cracking the German code machine "Lorenz". Everyone thinks of the Enigma code machine but the Germans knew that the British had captured an Enigma so knew that it was not safe but the British never captured a Lorenz so the Germans trusted codes sent by Lorenz as being safe. The Colossus computer was developed at Bletchley Park and was able to read messages sent by Lorenz. This was and important part of winning WWII but remained top secret until fairly recently so the US was able to develop and take credit for this technology by giving jobs to the British scientists who had already done the work.
Actually the original "computer" was the programmable automatic loom, which could use punched cards to weave different patterns. Not certain who originated it though.
Bletchley park is in my hometown. Been there loads. What happened to Turing after ww2 is absolutely disgusting.
@@bigverybadtomJacquard... The looms with sewn together paper plates with holes in repeated patterns were named after him.
Wasn't the first Engima military encryption machine the UK got its hands on sent over by Polish resistance agents?
Yes it was.
And no one has mentioned Babbage in this thread (except me just now).@@jasondickson8712
Always amazed at how people from colonised countries are so surprised to discover that a lot of things came from Britain or other European countries. They brought the things, recipes, songs, knowledge etc. with them. BIG surprise!
The game 'rounders' which we in the UK play at school (it's great fun - millions of uk children play it) involves hitting a ball and running round 4 'bases'. It had been played since Tudor times ie at least 500 years ago. In 1744 it was referred to as base-ball, but later known as 'rounders'. It became popular in Ireland (with slightly different rules) and perhaps Irish and/or English immigrants brought a form of the game to the states, which evolved to be baseball.
It always amuses me that their national sport is basically a game played mostly by little girls in the UK.
Baseball is rounders, basketball is netball and American football is a less physical version of rugby.
@@johnboylan3591 basketball and netball were invented by the same person and are 2 inventions that were invented entirely in the USA...byJames Naismith a Canadian which at the time of his birth makes him a British Citizen!
@@LynneHutchable Ditto Basketball....AKA Netball in the UK......Mostly played by young ladies.
@@johnboylan3591 A very sh*t form of Rugby for girls who need armour...
Reminds me somewhat of the apocryphal tale, of when the USA tried to buy the land on which the old US Embassy stood in Grosvenor Square. Officials aproached the land owner, the late Duke of Westminster and asked if it could be bought. He alledgedly said that he would exchange it for his old family lands back in America. They asked what the name of this place was? Virginia was his answer.
How did they talk to the LATE Duke of Westminster, did they use a Psychic Medium?
@@Oi.... I presume they meant the previous, now late, Duke of Westminster.
@@Oi.... He could have been late for an appointment. LOL
@@Oi.... are you American 😀
Haha love it.
for a country that declared independence from the UK around 250 years ago, why would anyone think they invited anything in that video? and I am sure its many more things that America is taking credit for not only from the UK but from other countries
During WW2 the Brits invented the part at the heart of every microwave producing machine. They realised it's importance and were worried the Germans would get it if they invaded England, so they put it in the 'safe hands' of their friends, the Americans, who never gave it back.
We do that with alot of things, especially militarily.
Without America how would Britain look today? Probably a little more German.
And their Mustang was a piece of junk until they produced RR Merlin engines under license to make it a competitor to the Zero....
I remember being on a tour around Salem, the tour guides bus pulled up outside a university and started to praise the Americans for discovering and producing antibiotics 😂. Being my usual forthright self I said, I always thought Alexander Fleming was Scottish 🤔!
Thereafter the tour guide purposely ignored me!
Where's Salam? Do you mean Salem, Massachusetts?
But where did he do the discovery?
@@bigverybadtomLondon
Yes, he was.
I hope you didn't give him a tip.
Not only is the Star Spangled Banner written to an English tune, the flag itself is a direct copy of the British East India company flag. The 13 red/white stripes represent the 13 original English (later British) colonies & the red/white & blue is also original to the British Union flag. The British East India company was the company that brought trade (including tea) to the new world. When in Boston in 1773 they emptied the tea into the bay, the vessel that tea was taken from was a British East India company vessel. That vessel was complete with the company flag, which later was slightly altered into the American Stars & Stripes flag. The Liberty bell was also cast in Britain. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
The Liberty Bell was Cast at the famous Whitechapel foundry in East London England, and still exists to this day.
@@johnbancroft5242 Yeah surrounded by immigrants from the Indian sub continent.
And a family coat of arms in Maidstone, Kent
@@Iwasthemilkman Very true. Washington family, Washington, England.
@@johnbancroft5242 And the Statue of Liberty is a gift from France :D
Edison, who patented his bulb in 1879, merely improved on a design that British inventor Joseph Swan had patented 10 years earlier. In fact, apple trees weren't even native to North America until the Europeans arrived.
Loving these videos. It amazes me how little most Americans know about other countries, especially a country that helped form the USA. Pure indoctrination. 😬🙈
they don't even know about their country how do you want them to know about others
This has nothing to do with your question, but I heard something very funny once. An American asked a Brit if they celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK (Happy Thanksgiving everyone)! and the answer was "yes we do as a matter of fact, on July 4!".
Hahahaha good one
Thay is gold I will remember that one
Regretfully I have only one 'like' to give.
They probably said 4th July (not July 4), oddly a lot of Americans change the syntax of dates for the 4th of July to the "UK" system; i.e. date then month.
Edison, himself, acknowledged that he didn’t invent the incandescent lightbulb and that Joseph Swan in the UK had done it first. They eventually entered into a business partnership.
The principle of the light bulb, heating a filament with electric current in a vacuum, for it to glow, was known for about 100 years.
What Edison invented and got a patent for, was a way to produce lightbulbs economically and reliably.
Others attempted the same long before him. Some even succeeded (Joseph Swann being one of them)
The one problem the predecessors faced, was the absence of a way to create electricity on the scale needed to market them.
When Edison "invented" the lightbulb, Paris already had a public electric illumination system.
What Edison did is simply what he ever did, unfair competition. In 1879 Edison patented a light bulb with a duration of 14 hours, meanwhile Alessandro Cruto patented a light bulb that lasted 500 hours.
Of course he'd want to 'go into partnership' with and inventor. Fifty percent of the plaudits will then be his. Ha ha!
The patent was sold to Edison. Only because they couldn't perfection it and couldn't commercialise it. Edison could. But beside of that. Many worked on light bulbs and therefore contributed to creating a bulb....
@@fredschepers5149 'perfect it'...
The light bulb was a sort of gradual invention - people managed to get wires to glow back in the 1700s. Swan is an oft-cited pioneer (he'd already started a light bulb company and lit an entire city street by the time Edison took out a patent), but there were quite a few before him who did important work. Edison's first light bulb patent was for "Improvements to Electric Lights" - if the first thing you do is improve something that already exists, you don't really get to be called its creator!
He did make it commercial though - the improved filaments for longer life, the power generation systems, the marketing - he convinced people that the entire setup of electric lighting was the way to go (regardless of how much of 'his' work may actually have been somebody else's).
Whose Line Is It Anyway? was originally filmed in Britain and hosted by Clive Anderson in '88.
I remember seeing skits where a young Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie complain at the British producers/floor staff about interrupting them all the time.
The guy who 'invented' m&m's was serving in London during WWII, & ate some Smarties sweets, which had been around since the early 1930's.
He was impressed by how the candy shell round the chocolate centre prevented the chocolate from melting all over your hands.
He took the idea home with him, and changed it very slightly, by printing an 'm' on every sweet, thereby avoiding any copyright theft charges!! (By then, it was the late 1940's, 10 years after Smarties became a thing!)
We all know they're just Smarties with an 'm' though!! 🤣
Grew up eating Smarties back in England :)
Smarties are still the superior M&M. Though I do like the peanut kind.
Smarties with inferior chocolate inside.
In New Zealand a local biscuit manufacturer had / has their version called Pebbles. I'm sure that during my life I've eaten Smarties and Pebbles but I've never eaten an M&M.
As a kiwi, I've always preferred Smarties. But then I'd choose anything from damn near anywhere over anything from America. America's claims to "greatness" are the greatest things they've achieved.
its why british and americans are so intertwinned with each other and always be allies
Baseball is an easier game of Rounders, same as American Football is an easier game of Rugby.
Americans also use Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 (by Sir Edward Elgar) for the song used at graduations. (you might know it as "Land of Hope and Glory")
The UK has thousands of years of history, while the US has only a couple hundred years or so. Puts a lot of things into perspective
A lot of it was dark ages.
@@RojaJaneman only about 500 years
@@SEFSQklOR0VS and before that Europe had nothing of substance.
@@RojaJaneman actually, we had millions of years of history before that. You forget, but Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome were both part of Europe and are still two of the most influential time periods for art, history, religion, philosophy and mathematics
@@SEFSQklOR0VS No it wasn’t. There was no such thing as Greece. Those people were pagans. Never attached themselves as Europeans. Europeans just decided to claim them as their people. Completely different cultures. Ask them what they called themselves. Just like Egyptian pagans, never called themselves as Egyptians. But Europeans branded that despicable labor like they branded their slaves or cattle. Just like how Native Americans r still called Indians, even though everyone knows that it wasn’t india. It’s NOT india. Y call them Indians?? Did anyone ask them how they feel about being called that name?? 🤨 Europeans keep stealing people, lands, ideas, inventions and claimed as own. Even today.
I remember a stand-up quote "We have newspapers in our dentist's office older than the US." - Whilst not true, it's pretty funny.
My Grandfather was one of those soldiers who had early plastic surgery in 1941 (the then experimental walking stalk treatment) to replace damaged skin on his neck.
You missed the Marine Corps favourite toy, the AV8B Harrier. Based on research at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in the 1960s with the famous "flying bedstead", and developed by Hawkers, based around an engine by Bristol Siddeley. Sure, McDonnell Douglas improved it, but the basic aircraft was British. Some years ago I looked around a display of the aircraft at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, and was disgusted to see that there was NO mention of UK involvement.
The Harrier "jump jet" was built & used by the RAF in the late '60's. The Americans adopted the AV8B 20 years later. The flying bedstead was a prototype 10 years or so before the jump jet.
A friend of mine dated a US Marine and we took him out on the town around her home town of Elgin.
He couldn't get his head around the fact that parts of the local public house we were drinking in 'The Thunderton' pre-dated The Mayflower. The rest was older than the USA. Same's true of many UK pubs. So many historic pubs are closing down now though, getting demolished or converted to flats, sadly.
Pubs serve food and alcohol. They are not subject to technology.
That marine might be interested to know that the US navy was invented by a Scot John Paul Jones born in southwest Scotland and and one of America's first navel war heroes
One of my favourite comments to throw at Americans is that my kid’s school is older than the USA. The building is relatively new by British standards (only Victorian with more recent additions) but the institution was founded in 1525!
@@cantbarsedatall And I could imagine the students joking about how their teachers date from the same year!
While working in Saudi in the 80s for ARAMCO my line manager came back from his leave with pictures of a celebration they had for his church in his home town. Proudly showing us pictures of this old wooden church with a twisted spier where the timber had warped.
I asked how old was this church to be told it was 130 years old.
I chuckled and then told him the house I loved in in the UK was 300 years old and my garden shed was possibly 200 years old.
He was shocked, I then showed him a picture of my house complete with a thatched roof. That finally blew his mind. Lol 😅
To be fair, Thomas Alvar Edison also probably outstrips Robin Hood for the "Best known thief" title as well.
That made me smile. To paraphrase Baldrick, "He was half way to becoming the next Robin Hood. He stole from the rich but....."
I love seeing you so shocked about 90% of the items on this list... :)
How could a country barely +200 years old claim to have invented apple pie?
The first metal (iron) framed building was British. Which was also the first multi floored metal beamed building. The first iron bridge was also in Britain. Also the British invented true stainless steel. Plate glass (for windows) was also a British invention. So basically, you can thank the British for skyscrapers! lol 🇬🇧🇺🇸
True! hahahahahaha Brits are very humble doesn't say anything, americans just like to discover things and they dont like wht they know lol
Yep, the yanks love inventing or "re-inventing" things that have already been invented.
The Hawker-Siddly Jump Jet and the hovercraft being just two, when infact they just made them bigger, and forgetting about the SR N4 cross channel hovercraft, the biggest ever built.
I've actually been on the first Iron bridge, pretty impressive considering it's age
@@neovo903
Thomas Telford i believe?
@@neovo903 Iron bridge (built 1779) at Ironbridge, Telford. 👍🇬🇧
Potato chips also are NOT American. As shown recently in a UK documentary called Inside the Factory, recipes for thinly cut potato slices fried in oil until crisp appeared in Victorian cookbooks long before America claimed their invention.
They were used as counters in card games, which is why we called them Game Chips.
Actually in Britain chips are what in the US are called French Fries, and after the early 2000s, known as Liberty Fries.
In the UK the name for thin sliced potatoes deep fried is crisps.
@@Braun30 my comment was for American viewers, hence my use of the word. I meant Crisps, of course.
@@timaustin2000 😎👍
@@Braun30 your a lil off there buddy. Iver here in u.k we have chips (thicker slices cut in to length) we have fries (thinner slices cut into lengths) and crisps (real thin slices) all of which are backed of fried.
The Spanish made chocolate chip cookies far before the British made their first chocolate. The British made donuts in England 50 years before the Dutch brought it to America, but the Dutch made it over 150 years before that. By the way, the American Santaclaus comes from the Dutch Sinterklaas. About apple pie - it is true that the first recipe is English (1381), but apple pie was made all over Western Europe (France, Germany and the Netherlands) for many, many centuries and the Dutch brought it to New Amsterdam (now New York) before the British did.
Hi Tyler if finding out these things were disturbing to you I think you will be even more disturbed to findout that Canada invented basketball and modern supposedly American football was first played at McGill University in Canada.
When visiting the US, I went to Harper's Ferry. They have an arsenal there. A tour guide was standing in front of a copy lathe. This machine would have been set up with others of the same type. They would all turn out rifle stocked simultaneously. Thus enabling faster production. The guide then said that because of this machine, the industrial revolution started there in 1861. However on closer inspection, there was a brass plaque on the front with Royal Enfield Arsenal London England 1856 on it. Actually the industrial revolution started at least 100 years before that in England. The guides mistake was so obvious, but clearly deliberate as the plaque was at least 8 inches across and very nicely polished.
Not only did the good ole USA RENAGE on airodinamics …what about the a-bomb …if it wasn’t for the Brits sending all it had discovered about the secrets of the atom ..Oppenheimer and his crew wouldn’t have had the time to get their act together…Germany and it’s allies would have won the war ..the agreement was ..we give you what we have and help you develop it ..and you share what you have with us ….did they do that …did they F….K Typical yanks and their promises
I hope you told the guide that what he was on about was total bollocks. The yanks there's more intelligent life living on their backs at the bottom of ponds. they think they invented everything. Yes the industrial revolution started in Britain we've given more too the world then any other country. And what have the yanks given us? Answer. The Hot Dog
correct the first industrial revolution was in Victorian time and in Brittan so steam trains machinery and some guns thought they were first created in France. also apparently the god damn Americans said that the beef wellington got created in Washington USA in 1754 when there is proof that it was created in Britain
Arsenal ftw. 🤭
Edison's team made some important developments in the production of light bulbs but when he tried to patent in the UK - it was refused as they had already been in mass-production for 40 years. Edison instead offered to buy Joseph Swan's light bulb company and purchased a 50% share. They formed the Edison & Swan Electric Company which still exists to this day in the UK.
The flag of the East India Company is considered to have inspired the 1775 Grand Union Flag, the first flag of the United States, as the two flags were of the same design.This connection is attributed to numerous sources. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania once gave a speech endorsing the adoption of the Company's flag by the United States as their national flag. He said to George Washington of Virginia, "While the field of your flag must be new in the details of its design, it need not be entirely new in its elements. There is already in use a flag, I refer to the flag of the East India Company."
Scotland has invented a few things too,
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone,
John Logie Baird invented the television,
John Loudon McAdam invented the tar for the roads,
William Cullen is responsible for creating modern refrigeration,
John Boyd Dunlop developed the first inflatable tyre for bikes,
Kirkpatrick Macmillan is the inventor of the pedal driven bicycle,
Charles Macintosh invented waterproof fabric for raincoats,
James Dewar invented the vacuum flask,
And the list goes on, in fact Scottish inventors are responsible for a heck of a lot of daily used items
It was also a Scotsman who abolished slavery in the UK making us the first or one of the first Nations to do so.
Bell actually did an Edison with the telephone. Bell worked for the US patent office and found the invention of Antonio Meucci and stole it.
@@hikaru9624A Scotsman created the Bank of England.
And the world's first mass un-reinforced concrete structure, the Glenfinnan viaduct, was built by "Concrete Bob" McAlpine. I've been over it a couple of times, transported by another British invention, the steam locomotive.
A list of only 10? That's just scratching the surface.
Isn't it just....the biggest thing I've noticed here is there is so much history supporting evidence that the US didn't actually invent many of the things we have come to know so well. The USA has very little (non really) actual history....many things were initially brought to us from Ancient Civilizations such as the Chinese, Greeks, Egyptians and of course the Romans 🧐
British shows remade in the US 'House of Cards', 'Love Island, 'Man about the house' (Three's Company), Pop Idol (American Idol), 'Queer as folk' 'Shameless', 'Steptoe and son' (Sanford and son), 'Strictly come Dancing', (Dancing with the stars), 'Till death us do part' (All in the Family), 'Who do you think you are', 'Antiques Roadshow', 'Whose line is it anyway', And a few more.
Not that shocking when you consider the size of the empire we had.
Yeah 🇬🇧
Was listening to a documentary about the Manhatten Project. Apparently, hundreds of British scientists and engineers were brought in to help with the project, under the promise that the research on the atom bomb would be shared with the UK. Once the war was over though, America was all, "Share? I don't know what you're talking about. That doesn't sound like something we'd agree to."
Us Brits do like to spread our influence 😁 No need to thank us, happy to help out 👍
but you have never said thanks for half your launguade
@@weybye91 our what?
Rule Britannia! lol
@@weybye91 rephrase that friend.:)
@@weybye91 I'm sorry are you trying to tell me. That, We the people of England, the very place where the English Language was born. Way back before American history began owe our thanks to you for our own language. You never thanked us for the language that you speak a bastardised version of, and to add insult to injury had the cheek to call it American English.
We can Thank you for being the second-best Whiskey Creators, I say that only because the Scotts have you beat on that. A Single Malt Scotch made by the Scotts UK wins again
I mean the only thing that I can think of off of the top of my head that we can thank America for is... the growing level of obesity thanks to barely edible fast food outlets. Literally, no one does extremely unhealthy Fast Food that puts your cholesterol through the roof knocking a year or two off of life expectancy, better than America.
Brits also invented the programmable computer, the integrated circuit, the telephone, the jet engine and the world-wide web.
They also pioneered supersonic research and they had the world's first nuclear weapons program.
Yeah - The Brits pretty much invented everything. There's nothing novel in the US patent office!
Don't forget...there is only one way to speak English... the correct way... in English !
Even the American National Anthem tune is an old English drinking song !...And the Star spangled banner flag is the flag of the East India Trading Company !
@@chrischarlton6542 Funny - even the American Declaration of Independence was written by British subjects - don't forget to take credit for that!
Uhh? Alexander Graham Bell ,born in Scotland, raised in Brantford, Ontario, Canada with his family(hobby farmer and linguistics expert father and deaf mother) and where the Alexander Graham Bell museum now is. He worked on communication devices as a teenager to aide his mother (with the beginnings of the telephone starting here) and completed in the USA. His wife was American Mabel G Hubbard (also deaf).
People love to hate on Britain, the same way a spoilt child resents their parents 😂.
Harvard university is an offshoot of Cambridge University in England, where John Harvard was a graduate of Emmanuel College. In the chapel of Emmanual College there is astained glass window with Dr Harvard represented in it. American culture is largely an adpative "pick n Mix"job on European staples - "hot dogs", franfurters; hamburgers; Scottish & Irish folk songs; pizzas; chow mein, chop suey - Americanised Chinese food etc. etc.
Every kid in Britain plays rounders at school. You normally have 4 poles instead of bases, and the scoring for runs is a bit different so if you make it half way you get a half point and a full run if you make it all the way around the poles. Iconic British summer game.
We just had small crappy cones on the floor for bases 😂
Indoor rounders was fun most of us was competing on who can get the most balls stuck in the roof 😂
All the street games have almost vanished. You don’t see groups of kids playing outside anymore. They are all glued to screens!
There's no debate about it really - baseball is simply based (no pun) on the old village game of rounders. Like US Football is rugby league. And millions were saved from death and disease in NY over the centuries by a British designed sewerage system.
@@CragusMaximus19 Same. By time I was playing rounders as a kid in school we were using cones for the bases. As a left-hander, it was always amusing seeing the fielders frantically running from their positions near third base to positions near first base just for me. :D
Chocolate had been around before Fry invented the chocolate bar, but it was always consumed in liquid form as drinking chocolate or hot cocoa - the way the natives in South America consumed it. Fry developed a way to mould chocolate using factory processes and produced the first chocolate bar which, yes, was filled because chocolate - at least the cacao matter part of chocolate - was pretty expensive (and still is comparative to other ingredients). That's why so many chocolate bars have fillings today, to save money on production and maximise profits. It's also why KitKat, for example, has the name stamped into the chocolate (thus reducing the total amount of chocolate) rather than embossed on the chocolate (which would require extra chocolate).
Fry also made the first chocolate Easter egg.
Chocolates and chocolates with fillings were around as individual items before Fry produced a chocolate bar. Not just liquid form.
And they are still going. I have several of their peppermint cream bars in my drawer. Gorgeous.
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@@rickb.4168 "The history of chocolate began in Mesoamerica. Fermented beverages made from chocolate date back to at least 1900 BC to 1500 BC." If it is to be believed its damn long ass time
@@rosierrosier9926 yes, what’s your point?
We invented "a" internet, packet switched, routed and heterogeneous, in the mid-60s and then a hyperlinked "web" of documents (called Scrapbook) and a mail system et al. in 1971. It connected education establishments across Europe.
Packet Switching was a key invention that enabled ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
Oh there's a page called "NPL network" on Wikipedia too
the 13 red and white stripes are from the British East India Company Flag Americans removed the Union Flag canton and replaced it with the Stars
The top stripes were ‘ broken by a canton containing the red cross of St George on a white field’, replaced, probably between 1707 and 1801, by the then Union flag. When, in the American Revolution, the thirteen states adopted what was known as ‘the Grand Union Flag’, it was identical to East India Company’s flag of the time, with thirteen red stripes and the Union flag in the canton. The Americans used this flag from, probably, 3 December 1775 until 14 June 1777. when the canton was changed to the stars
Rounders (baseball) was played by the girls at school whilst the boys played cricket. Once home it depended on who was set up first on the road (it was a long time ago when there were fewer cars) and the boys in the street would join in or girls if the cricket was set up first.
Baseball is mentioned in Jane Austen's book Northanger Abbey, written at the end of the 18th century, so the name is over 200 years old.
Oină is a traditional Romanian sport which is similar in many ways to baseball and lapta. The word "oină" is obtained from the Cuman word oyn which means "game". Oină was first introduced during the rule of Vlaicu Vodă in the year 1364, when it expanded all across Wallachia.
Baseball and Rounders are pretty different
Boys played rounds too and what came back from the states a hundred years or so later - softball. One of the schools I went to in the fifties had boys rounders team and a joint softball team.
@@scaleyback217 - Basketball was "invented" in Canada.
Mate, you've earned a subscriber ;)
I'm from Grimsby, Lincolnshire, UK (Yes, the very town the movie Brothers Grimsby was based off! 😂 only the pub scene was in Grimsby, and the seaside scene was in our neighbouring town, Cleethorpes)
Cleethorpes is the seaside/coastal town, I just jokingly call it "the seaside bit of Grimsby" :P
at school here in England the Boys played cricket & the Girls played Rounders (baseball type game) great channel mate.
I love your open mindedness. Sir Humphry Davy was a very famous Cornish scientist from Penzance, who who invented the miner’s safety lamp, the Davy lamp and an early form of incandescent light in 1802 and later an arc lamp. There is a huge statue of him in the town. Us Cornish are very proud of Humphrey Davy as well as Richard Trevithick who invented the first steam powered locomotive in 1804.
Sir Humphrey Davey was amazing; my late father and one of my brothers were coal miners in the NorthWest of England. Thanks Sir Humphrey.
@@enkisdaughter4795 My great grandfather was a Cornish tin miner, ironically, they weren’t at risk from methane like the coal miners.
@@ladygwarth Only rust
There's also the " Humpty Dumpty " pub as a monument in the town !
Not trying to be too much of a pedant, but here goes anyway. Neither Humphry or Davy has the letter 'e' in it. I went to Humphry Davy Grammar back in the day and many a time heard a teacher shout at some poor unfortunate "Humphry Davy NO E's'!!
The only thing that Americans claim as their own that really bothers me is the English language. There is a clue in its name but the amount of Americans that claim ownership of English is obscene and it really annoys me. Extra annoyance is directed at Americans that call English 'the American language'.
Well, if you do a bit of research, you're in for a bit of a shock.
Brit here, BTW.
@@Kyrelel care to elaborate?
@@Kyrelel Although the English language has changed over the centuries, from old English to modern. And although English stems from other languages, It still belongs to the English, to England. Hence the name 'English language'. 🏴
kind of makes me laugh that when im in America, and as a English person I get complimented by Americans on my English
I’ve seen in the media but I thought it was played up for effect… (Im a brit). They really think ‘English’ is american?? Wouldn’t it be called ‘Americanese’ or something?
The look on your face when you realised just how many things you loved in US were invented by Britain was amazing 🤣
The first light bulb ever made was over 200 years ago at cragside in England . And it is still lit today.
Cragside even appeared in a question in a paper for a History Degree exam years ago. Yes, it was a groundbreaker!
It was the german Heinrich Göbel he was the first to design a working electric incandescent lamp at the year 1854.
then the British 1886. After this Eddison then had it patented. The same applies to the telephone, an invention by Phillip Rice long before bell.
Personally I love how many of these hint at a Dutch origin before saying they were invented by the English. We like playing the same game with them, including how Old English was basically Dutch. ;p
We sold you New York tho, it was a swamp then too👌🏻
(Ofc a lot of the food and some of the language technically go back to the Germans, but don't tell them ;))
Some of it was Dutch - the Frisians, but a lot of it was a mixture of the Germanic tribes from around Denmark (Angles, Jutes, Saxons)
It's because of the Dutch that carrots are orange.
America was able to break the sound barrier in 1947 thanks to British technological research. Britan had a supersonic research project - a prototype jet plane called the Miles M.52 but in 1946 the project was cancelled, and the research was given to the United States.
Eric "Winkle" Brown (RIP) has never forgiven the Americans for this. The Bell X1 used the same horizontal stabiliser design from the Miles M52, which Miles had come up with themselves.
At the time America didn't have the bugs out of there jet engine technology so they cut corners by putting rockets on there supersonic plane project and Chuck Yeager was first to brake the sound barrier. Many years later the British made a scaled down remote controlled version of the Miles M52 and it broke the sound barrier at first attempt.
@@Jon.Cullen but on first flights they had it fixed, and the effect was horrific. Afterwards they took it back to movable as in the original Miles design
They didn’t just give it the Americans, Britain and America agreed to swap research in the war. We have them jet and research info. They gave us f@ck all!
Given, again.
The reason Britain invented most sports is because we invented the lawn mower, if it's played outside it uses the open recreational spaces it created (on the popular landscape gardens prior wealthy landowners had using sheep etc to keep the grass short was where they started, but once public spaces like parks opened up by a lawnmower for the working classes in the 1800's they took off)
On a trip to New york some years ago , iwas stopped in Grand Central Station by a young guy when he heard my english accent. He said how come such a ity bity country as Britain ended up ruling a third of the world???? I could have explained it was all down to naval power ,however i simply said "because were very good at it" end of story!!!! You Americans do have a lot to learn!
I'd never heard of it until I moved down here but Stoolball is still played competitively in Sussex in the south east of the UK, from where it originates. It's sort of half way between cricket and rounders/baseball, with a pair of square targets at head height and paddle-shaped bats
The Quakers in Britain had a great influence on foodstuffs because people trusted them to use good clean ingredients. Many chocolate products and sauces were originally made by the Quakers in factories.
porridge oats even had their name on it ;)
@@judsdragon The best porridge brand still does
The English language will probably be thought of as American soon. I live in Manila and when I tell people I'm half Filipino and half English, they say: American? I say no, English..... Yeah what??? American??? I say no, English, from England. And then I looked at like I've just made up a country
Yeah it's because of the UK if you tell half British they will understand you
Americans don't really speak English though...
@@kobusvanstaden3747 The American language is British just a few changes...
Rounders is a children's game played very similar to baseball. You have a batter, a pitcher, a backstop (behind the batter), a marker on each post and fielders. You hit the ball and try to get to get round the area marked by the 4 posts without getting caught out. This is called a rounder. Rules to swap sides vary on whether the team is all out or there is a time limit so each child gets a certain amount of goes at batting. It can be played in the street with fewer children and is played in some schools. You can also adapt it to kick rounders where you kick a ball instead of using a bat which is great for very young children.
Bless 'em. Most also seem to think they invented the English language. Americans are like little children with big guns. But we British still love 'em.
Don't feel downhearted Tyler, it could have been worse - we might never have left! Apparently it was only because Britain, admittedly mistakenly, didn't see the colonies in the New World as particularly valuable that the British Army didn't fight too hard to keep America as a British outpost. At the time Brits thought India and the Far East were far more valuable and important because of their spices ... and you guessed it ... their tea too!
too many irons in the fire, the Army didn't have the resources to fight several wars of conquest at the same time, and like you say the US colonies were costing more to run than they returned, despite US claims they paid less tax per person than anyone else in the Empire!
Let’s not forget it wasn’t the colonies that beat England, it was the Colonies, the French, the Spanish and the Dutch which collectively beat Britain. Something the Americans like to forget. FREEDUM!
Poor George III. He's remembered for losing America. Nobody ever remembers that he gained Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Southern Africa, and the Planet Uranus.
Britain also decided the West Indies and their sugar plantations were more valuable than the 13 American colonies, so more ships and soldiers were stationed there.
You couldn't be more right about Britain not considering America worth the trouble of keeping it. Especially since you look at the way America is now a cesspit of moral degradation and racism. I couldn't live in America rent free. I prefer my sanity too much.
Edison initially marketed his version of the light bulb under the "Edison-Swann" label to avoid further legal action. Edison was renowned for employing gifted people to develop new ideas, under tight contracts of course and then patenting these as his own. His battle to attempt to crush Westinghouse who had developed alternating current which we use today in competition with his direct current which was much less effecient was well recorded.
trying to prove how dangerous AC was by electrocuting an circus elephant that had killed the trainer who had tortured it, sadly enough the DC system Edison used would of killed it faster and the poor animal suffered as a result of them using AC
He hired Tesla
@@andreww2098 AC was developed by Westinghouse. Because it was more effective when being used on the electric chair Edison, trying to discredit AC, called the electric chair Westinghousing.
It wasn't Westinghouse. It was Nikola Telsa. Westinghouse took his ideas.
@@leglessinoz Ah. I think I should have said that Westinghouse was a strong supporter of AC power transmission. I didn't mean to suggest that somehow that Westinghouse had invented the idea. Edison's idea of supplying a power grid with DC was never going to work but he refused to accept it. I stand by my comments about Westinghousing though. I don't think Nikola Telsa never got the respect he deserved in his day. Revered now of course.
I live in Kent, and there is a signpost near Sandwich (famous for it's golf course) that points both to Sandwich and another nearby village called Ham. It's quite a popular signpost to photograph, and occasionally steal.
Even the hooligan was probably manifested in China thousands of years before the Brits had their infamous 'football hooligans'. LOL
Britain also gave (literally), America their first jet engine, the 'Whittle'. A variant of the engine was used in the first US jet, the Bell P-59 Airacomet.
But the first jet fighter was invented and used in Nazi Germany.
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle.
Well Tyler, considering you had the rug pulled from under your feet on so many occasions here I commend your open-mindedness. You took it on the chin like a true champ with good grace. Thoroughly enjoyed your reactions and mental calculations as the (harsh) historical realties hit home. Now go and console yourself by tucking into some good old English cuisine such as donuts and apple pie !!🤣
Donuts are Dutch pannekoeken with a hole in it.
Edison, who patented his bulb in 1879, merely improved on a design that British inventor Joseph Swan had patented 10 years earlier.
I have seen a number of these Videos now and your reactions have been good to watch. Would be the next stage to visit the Britain?
Just to add to the list, your language, your land, your form of government, American football, the Telephone, traffic lights, and many more I could mention, oh, and the famous marching tune for the 7th cavalry was in fact taken from a Welsh regiment.
Wasn't the telephone invented by Scotsman " Alexander graham bell ", in his lab in Canada. The Canadians claim it as their invention.
The phrase "American as apple pie." has always made us giggle. Because, knowing apple pie is an English thing, anything as "American" as apple pie" is thus English! Mind you, some people were a bit cheesed off when Reagan decided the rose would be the flower of America. Because for hundreds of years - long before the USA was a gleam in anyone's eye - it's been representative of the UK. Pretty girls are often described as an English Rose (eg Princess Di.) The rose appears in our iconography, art, customs etc. long before the first rose bush was ever shipped off to the USA. The native rose in the Americas was pretty puny & very unlike English roses, so the English varieties were sent over to the USA.
But, while people have mentioned particular American movies that have been badly made, no-one has mentioned that neither films nor picture theatres/movie houses originated in the US. Edison had a huge ethics failure and is renowned for being a "patent pincher". In 1903 the first colour movie (which I've seen for myself - Brighton & Hove, where I live, being where all this took place.) was excitedly sent over to Edison who promptly patented it...and the world only got colour film after WWII.
Daguerre and the Lumiere brothers from France were in the forefront of photography and moving pictures. Also early aviation via balloons.
@@susieq9801 Indeed they were. But the difference was that all the folk this side of the Pond were reading each other's work and sharing breakthroughs and even getting together to discuss their work. Once they sent info to the USA, however, things were done differently.🙃
@@cireenasimcox1081 - EVERY invention or advance in technology, music, architecture, government, you name it, has to start somewhere. You forgot to mention the US invented air, LOL.
Yup, everything in the US is done differently. What about the Curies? Xrays. Underwater exploration. SCUBA invented by Jacques Cousteau. Copernicus and Galileo, started the exploration of the cosmos. Ancient Egyptians and Arabs mapped the stars and even calculated the diameter of the earth. Einstein, Hawking, and others took the next steps (neither one born an American). Von Braun, German, rocketry. Tesla a Serbian. Nobody can build a house without a solid foundation. Most foundations were laid globally. The US is not the center of the universe. Galileo proved that hundreds of years ago.
Like All cultivated flowers and fruits, roses are hybrid flowers coming from the wild dog rose wich is a sad little thing but beautiful in its self, but tiny, plain white and striking in its natural environment the wild hedgerows of the countryside. i have a rosebush in my own back garden and over a time span of 15 to twenty years left to its own develpment has gone from a lush deep multi petaled red colour and is now at this time is just producing plain white four petaled yellow centred flowers the same as the dog roses in our amazing countryside hedge rows
I think William Frieze Green from Bristol UK invented the first colour cine film.
There are loads of American comedies and characters based on UK originals. Archive Bunker, Salford and Son, Veep, All In The Family, etc. Non comedy shows include House of Cards, Queen As Folk, Dancing With The Stars, to name but a few.
Virtually every ball game played around the world was invented by the British with the ONLY American exception being Basketball, and of course, the telephone (although the idea was probably pinched from an Italian), and the television were invented by Scots.
And basketball was created by a Canadian . . .
handball is inventet in Denmark!@@johnburt4404
If you hadn't said it - I was going too. I believe the inventer was named Naismith. @@johnburt4404
Yes. The solid chocolate bar came before the one with filling. Fry's also invented the first hollow chocolate Easter Egg such as we have today. Previously they had been solid.
I always considered that hollow Easter eggs were a rip-off. I wanted solid chocolate all the way through!
Not only is the music for the Star-Spangled Banner written by a Briton but of course the lyrics are actually about a British attack on fort Henry in 1812
Everything you stated is actually taught to American children. Maybe this guy was asleep in class?
@@lovesgucci1 I bet they don't teach kids that the U.S. lost in that war, though.
About the most famous example of a remake of a comedy character might be Archie Bunker, based on Alf Garnett from Till Death Us Do Part.
I also was told that the British national anthem is sung to tje tune of and old German drinking song? Is that right?
@@peterpiper482 No the British National anthem was probably written in the 17th century , possibly by Henry Purcell .
The lyrics were added in the 18th century first being performed in 1745 , possibly written by Henry Carey .
This included the verse , which is no longer sung , about punishing the rebellious Scots as this was of course the time of the Jacobite rebellion .
It did not however become the national anthem until the 19th century .
Henry Ford didn't invent the assembly line, again a British invention. Happy Thanksgiving Day!
Others have said it was American, prior to that and was a rifle production line. Springfield I think? However many Historians now believe it was earlier in places like Chatham, with the production of of rope for Ships Rigging.
Yeah he didn't invent it but did optimize it and make it unique in his factories if I recall correctly
Ford invented an assembly line for cars, where the Car is a German invention and the Assembly line British, it was still quiet an accomplishment in what he achieved.
@@DoomsdayR3sistance I agree there, I don't think the concept had been applied to that level of complexity and scale before that it was revolutionary for that alone.
The concept of an assembly line existed long ago: the Romans had book-copying and -binding workshops that used an assembly line, with each slave specialising in one stage so they could never leave their employment as they did not learn a trade or craft.
This was later applied by an Englishman to the manufacture of (originally) pins, which in the hands of a craftsman meant about twelve pins a day could be made, but when many cheap women were set up to do each stage, meant hundreds of pins a day were made on his assembly line.
They were replaced by machines doing each stage at a later date, of course, when their miner husbands dug coal for steam engines, rather than warming their homes.
Technically, all lidded pies were created by the Roman Empire and the idea shipped throughout their empire. So Apple Pie has travelled a lot... x)
A bit late but my grand father was part of an invasion into Afghanistan which at one point they ruled for 40 years. The invasion into Nepal was a raw but Nepalese were so impressed by British that they started being recruited and serving in the British Army known as Gurkhas. Both of these incursions were to prevent Russia gaining control. All this while it took months to get anywhere
We Brits gave the world a lot
Especially the Scots.
@@AV-fo5de Dream on!
@@michaelpalmer4013 Do yourself a favour and just look up Scottish Inventions, make a cup of tea and be comfortable for the long time it takes to read. Really, research is your best friend. I learned that at University. What we think we know, may not be accurate. Enjoy. At least I am not being rude to you. "Manners maketh man," they say.
@@AV-fo5de When you take scotlands population into account it becomes especially impressive on the amount of things scotland gave to the world. No one can deny that both scotland and england made the modern world either
if you want to know where the flag itself came from, look at an image of George Washingtons (English) ancestral family crest.
yep i see it.
Not '"crest". Coat of Arms. A crest is an amusing object added to your hat, such as a fish or a set of feathers.
And the yachting trophy started by Britain and named “The Queens Cup”, when won by the USA was renamed the America’s Cup. When the Aussies won it, the Americans were so upset that they changed the rules to make it harder for another country to win again.
Here's a few more: The WWW, Tanks, Aircraft carriers, World's first powered flight ( Chard, Somerset 1848 ), Hovercraft, M777 artillery. Programmable Computer ( Colossus 1943), The lyrics of "Danny Boy". But we have also got many things back in exchange !
How about Crisps (What USA calls chips). First appeared in best-selling cookbook published in 1813 in the UK. So along with sandwiches and chocolate, I'm all set for living in front of the TV for the next few weeks watching the World Cup.