American Reacts to British Inventions that Changed the World
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- čas přidán 23. 02. 2023
- As an American I have absolutely no idea about what kinds of things were actually invented in Britain that I probably use on a daily basis. That is exactly why I am very excited today to learn all about British inventions that changes the world. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
According to Japanese research, Britain invented 40% of the world's inventions. When you think how small this country is, that is amazing.
Damn straight!
Josie what's size to do with anything doesn't mean y are not a great country
@@tenniskinsella7768 I know we are a great country. I was referring to the fact that as we are such a small country, we have a smaller population = less inventors.
I`d take that info with a rather large dose of salt. I`ve no proof to the contrary. But how likely is it ? Ours is not a particulalry old civilization.
In short I`d need the paper ( not invented by us ) to be convinced.
You can keep coffee in it as well. Hot chocolate. Etc.
I think it would be no understatement to say that the UK created the modern world.
But it would be a massive overstatement
@@gabrielcoventry4586 The accurate statement would be we built the foundations of the modern world.
Ow yeah 🇬🇧
Much of it. Not all of it.
And built it on the foundation of Greek logic and Roman regimentation and Islamic maths and engineering and and and....
@@AdeboFunkyVoodooexactly. As a Canadian, I've always seen the British self congratulatory world view as very amusing. Not as bombastic as the American world view, but no shortage of national hubris for sure.
I have to admire the willingness and courage for an American to admit to his own ignorance of 'anything outside the USA'. I take my hat off to you, mate
Yes, America takes credit for a lot of things they didn't invent or create
Yep, the USA had better funding to develop and market other nations' inventions.
Let's keep it mellow guys
Throwing shade too much will only make Americans even less likely to show us respect
Tyler Rumple here is a rare breed.
@@samuel.j.barker Yep, he's one of the best. 🤗🇬🇧
Like AMERICA 😂😂😂
They also deny any involvement in all the crap War/Conflicts colour revolutions assassinations black ops around the world.
We also invented the steam engine which led to the invention of the train, Telegraph, computers ,waterproof raincoats, jet engine, telescopes, the tin can, pneumatic tyres or [tires], and electric motors and many more
locomotive is the proper word ,yes we use the word train or trains but the locomotive is the proper noun lol.
@@XENONEOMORPH1979and pedant is the preferred pronoun. Lol
There were horse-drawn trains before steam powered trains. We invented those too. We also invented the electric train.
The fax machine was invented in Hayes, Kent in the 🛀
Firstly, there's a difference between a locomotive and a steam engine. A Locomotive uses a steam engage to pull trains yes, but the steam engine itself existed long before someone thought to put it in a train! And secondly, the first crude steam engine was invented by the Ancient Greeks in Alexandria, though they obviously had no idea what to do with it after! 😁😁
RADAR was also invented in the UK. During WW2 we gave the details to the USA as some part of a deal to encourage them to enter into the war.
Along with and by accident during RADAR's development, the Microwave Oven.
Sorry guys thats a german invention
More of a joint effort, really.
@@rolfdurrer6650the first practical radar system was produced in 1935 by the Scottish physicist sir Robert Watson-Watt
@@panchomcsporran2083 No the first practical radar was patented in Germany in IIRC 1905. It was a shipbourne system for detecting other ships and most importantly icebergs. Shame it didn't catch on, as it might have made a big difference on the 15th April 1912. Watson-Watt's radar system wasn't even the most technically advanced air search radar system available at the time it was invented, again the Germans were working on more advanced systems than his. What was so groundbreaking with the UK was that it was part of a fully integrated air defence command and control system. This the Dowding system is what enabled the RAF to eventually win the Battle of Britain. Yes we did move to the forefront of radar development with the invention of the cavity magnetron during the early 40's. I spent nine years in the RAF as an Air Defence radar technician, working on large scale air surveillance radars in the mid/late 80's and early 90's.
We seem to have forgotten Arthur C Clarke, who was the first to propose using three geostationary satellites for world-wide satellite telecommunications back in 1945
As an Arthur C Clarke fan I have to correct you. The 1st know person to propose geosynchronous orbit was Herman Potočnik. Clarke was the 1st person with a wide global audience to write about it I.e. he popularised it.
@@johnpublicprofile6261 Correction. In 1945 Clarke did not have a wide global audience; he was basically just one of the many unknown engineers and scientists who had worked in the UK on wireless and primitive radar systems during the second world war. If I remember right, his first article on this subject was in a UK amateur radio magazine (Wireless World ?).
WWWeb v the wheel?
having read the replies I thought that I would throw this in. Arthur. C. Clarke co wrote the Star Wars original story book
@@keithgrant7950 I was curious, but I can not find any mention of Arthur C Clarke being involved in any script writing, book-of-the-film writing or any other writing connection.
Of course, famously Stanley Kubrick's "Space Odessy" films were based on Arthur C Clarke's short story "The Sentinel" and Clarke was involved in the scripts as well.
My Uncle who was Proffessor of Engineering at Nottingham University, was the main contributer of the Prototype MRI scanner, in the 1960's and 70's.
Then give him credit: Professor Sir Peter Mansfield, Nobel prize winner.
Just one thing. The MRI scanner was not invented until 1972. I worked at EMI Electronics from 1973, developing the first CAT Scanner.
@@BritishBeachcomberMansfield established the basis for the MRI scanner working at Nottingham University
CT scanner surely? 🙂
Britain invented the touch screen on your tablet and phone . Invented by British Telecom .It also invented the vertical take off jet ( Harrier ) 🇬🇧
The Harrier was a developed product, but a lot of the early work was done by the Short aircraft company.
I love the Harrier, amazing piece of work
and the tank, and the jet engine
It was actually a French design, but the French (and Italians) were unable to make it work and the idea was scrapped. Then the British got hold of the designs, and made it work. And apparently had to change it by only a tiny amount, it was mostly the engineering know-how the original designers lacked, not that the designs were flawed.
@@sameebah The US tried it and failed, it had to allow Britain on F35 production, because it couldn't do it.
Britain also invented the computer. Charles Babbage created the Analytical Engine in the mid 1830. It was then developed more at Bletchley Park during WWII. Which is noted as the birthplace of the modern computer. Great video as always Tyler. Have a great weekend. John 🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸
And then colossus, unfortunately we then lost out to the US because the British government classified it and had colossus disassembled.
And then the Manchester Baby was made in England too - the first computer that could load its programs into electronic memory.
@@markc2847 They _said_ they disassembled them. Then they used them for the next thirty-odd years to read Soviet cyphers. Hence it was kept top secret, or the Soviets would have stopped using codes as they did.
@@wessexdruid7598 They disassembled 8 Colossus machines and kept the remaining two. The parts were sent back to the GPO who had donated them at the outset.
I don't think they claimed they had been disassembled because the existence of Colossus was never divulged. Colossus remained a secret for long after the event until the 1970s, by which time the remaining two Colossus machines were long gone.
Luckily, the plans on paper for Colossus are lodged in the Library of Congress in Washington DC: Britain shared the technology with the Americans in WWII but they never used them because they were working on a code-breaking machine of their own (which never materialised). So, ironically, the USA have documentation to prove that the British machine preceded their own ENIAC post-war machine.
@@markc2847 Britain did not lose out in computers until the 1970s and it was nothing to do with the secrecy around Colossus.
The first business computer in the world emerged in 1951 and was more or less a tie between two British-made machines, the Ferranti Mark I and the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO), and an American one, the UNIVAC I. LEO was made for the catering and food manufacturing company, Lyons. Both the British machines were based on technology developed at the University of Manchester after WWII. IBM did not produce their first electronic business computer until 1952.
Britain's last major mainframe computer manufacturer was ICL (International Computers Ltd) which came into being in 1968 through an initiative of the Minister of Technology, Tony Benn. It was the final merger of the numerous major British computer manufacturers (e.g. International Computers and Tabulators, Elliot, English Electric, LEO, Marconi, Ferranti) into a single company. This company had a virtual monopoly in providing computers to central government until the late 1970s. Poor management during that period resulted in a financial collapse in 1981, after which time the company was gradually restructured and taken over by Fujitsu and not really a British company anymore: a familiar story and nothing to do with Colossus.
Tim Lee has often visited our home as my eldest son is a good friend of his nephew and went to school with him. He really is a sound guy. I've asked him why he didn't cash in on the world wide web. His answer was ' I wanted to give the world knowledge, sit back and see it get better.
"I wanted to give the world knowledge"
Bloody good for him! Imagine if it had been Bill Gates...😞
John Harrison was an English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer in the 1720's, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea and it definitely played an enormous role in changing the world.
Interestingly, Harrison was a noted Church clock maker and many of the parts were made of hardwood.
and it done del and rodders ok
The vacuum in the thermos flask is what keeps it warm. Who remembers the old glass thermos that always used to smash. Now they’re all steel so no more replacing the glass 😊
I do, I accidentally kicked one over and the inside glass shattered, but outside of the flask was indestructible 😂
I remember that sound when you shook it to check if it was broken! Liquid and broken glass swishing around 😩
heh, while I remember an old childhood friend who t-boned my bicycle on his bicycle and summersaulted over my head with a backpack containing a thermos landing on his back, the thermos survived intact, his bike was scragged.
I was getting liquid nitrogen delivered into my cattle semen flask on the farm , when the guy dropped the large transport flask . I was temporarily deafened by the bang and the store room filled with fog. Fortunately neither of us got suffocated by the nitrogen gas.
The old glass ones were crazy fragile 🤣
The postal system, the subway, bicycles and photos were all British inventions that changed the world too.
I hate to break it to you, but the bicycle was invented by a German. And I'm not sure if you are referring to something that was revolutionary about Royal Mail, but the Egyptians, Persians, and Chinese all had a postal service before us.
At least you got the underground right, though. That was definitely one of ours.
@@tamiya_adventures Kirkpatrick MacMillan is generally credited with inventing the treadle bicycle
@@tamiya_adventures Plastic model kits, it will mean something to tamiya..., are a British invention.
@tamiya_adventures What the British invented was the pre-paid post, prior to the Penny Black the person receiving the letter paid for the cost. If the receiver didn't want it or couldn't pay then they didn't get the letter. There are several cases of important letters not being delivered.
I'm 53 yo new Zealander so was taught alot of this because we British colony. And we flew a month or so before the wright brothers
The ‘Cats eye’ road safety device used all over the world. The first commercial jet airliner,the first Vertical take-off aircraft,penicillin, the first iron bridge ,the first underground railway…..the list is endless…!
I thought she was going to say penicilin! for me that was the best invention to come out of Britain!
Vacines are British too.
However I'd argue Jethro Tull's seed drill was probably the most important. This freed up most of the population from backbreaking agricultural toil to do other stuff instead and sparked the industrial revolution.
Then there are improvements to communications like railways, the telegraph, radio, telephones and the World Wide Web. Not to mention the electric motor.
Penicillin was discovered not invented by Britain
Technically she might be thinking of penicillin as a discovery rather than an invention.
@Fidd88 Well done - an excellent idea, and glad to see it caught on!
Not for me it isn't lol I'm highly allergic to the stuff 🤣
Cats Eyes another simple but wonderful invention by a Brit .
Funnily enough he didn't actually invent cats eyes as such, they had been around for a while but proved to be inneffective due to road dirt build up on the lens. What he did was embed them in rubber, so when you drive over them they depress into the rubber that has a ''wiper'' as part of the mould and '' self clean''. Thats the part that was patented and made the money. Useless piece of info 🙂
@@owenoneill5955 That wasn't useless. I appreciate the information. Thanks for posting. 👍🏼
And that old chestnut 'The bloke coming the other way invented the pencil sharpener'
@@redroostermcmlxxlwasn't that a joke from jasper carrot?
my grandad
John Loudon McAdam (23 September 1756[1] - 26 November 1836) was a Scottish civil engineer and road-builder. He invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads with a smooth hard surface, using controlled materials of mixed particle size and predetermined structure, that would be more durable and less muddy than soil-based tracks.
It's funny how when English invent something we say British invention, but if a scotsman invents something they have to make themselves more relevant and say scotsman invented that🤦♀️one thing you can take credit for is inventing the lochness monster 😁🤦♀️
@@frankypolglish hi you will find that it is the other way round
He was working in Bristol when he invented it
The flask wasn't called the thermo flask but in actual fact a Thermos Flask and it can be used to keep soup or hot drinks hot for around 12 hours, but also can keep cold drinks cold too!
There are many significant inventions from the UK, but I’d certainly say the Jet engine should be on a list somewhere
Passenger railway should have been on this list. Massive miss.
Yes, god bless Sir Frank Whittle.
Yes, Frank Whittle did independently invent and develop the jet engine in Britain very early. However the Germans were pursuing their own jet engine programme simultaneously but because of confidentiality restrictions (war or threat of war) neither side knew of the other’s progress. The Germans claim they got there first 🤔
@@stephenhall9251 There are a few very good doncumentaries on this subject. It's widely understood that the Germans basically copied Franks homework in the last 1920's / early 1930's. The whittle engine was on an airframe and kept under wraps in Scotland during the war for fear one would fall into the German hands and advance their program. Meanwhile the Germans out of desparation rushed the experimental Jumo engine and mounted it on the Me262. It had massive issues and was prone to melting itself midflight, performance which wouldn't be accepted by anyone as "production ready".
@@triggerhippy2826 - thanks for that. Interesting 👍.
A couple of British inventions she missed: the jet engine (Sir Frank Whittle) and moving picture camera (of the type most widely used for the 20th century) - (William Friese Greene). There are many others.
Photography.
Passenger railway 1825 too.
I walk past the newly built housing estate everday, where frank whittle made the jet engine in Rugby.
Micrometer screw gauge. Invented by William Gascoigne in the 17th century, perfected by Henry Maudslay and Joseph Whitworth in the first half of the 19th century, the workshop micrometer enabled interchangeability of parts (by ensuring everything was produced to exacting standards) and, by extension, enabled mass production.
(Jean Palmer of Paris made the first handheld micrometer screw calipers a few years after Whitworth built his workshop micrometer)
Sir Alexander Fleming, FRS, FRSE, FRCS[1] (6 August 1881 - 11 March 1955), was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin. His discovery in 1928 of what was later named benzylpenicillin (or penicillin G) from the mould Penicillium rubens is described as the "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease".[3][4] For this discovery, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.
He also discovered the enzyme lysozyme from his nasal discharge in 1922, and along with it a bacterium he named Micrococcus Lysodeikticus, later renamed Micrococcus luteus.
The pneumatic (inflatable) rubber tires that are featured on millions of cars across the world are the result of multiple inventors working across several decades. And those inventors have names that should be recognizable to anyone who's ever bought tires for their car: Michelin, Goodyear, and Dunlop. Of these, none had so great an impact on the invention of the tire as John Dunlop and Charles Goodyear.
The Quaker families of Fry, Rowntree and Cadbury were the chocolate makers of Britain.
Also created whole communities where alcohol was prohibited. The area of New Earswick was built to house the workers and was along the lines of Saltaire, Bournville and Port Sunlight.
Fry’ Chocolate Cream invented 1866
If you are ever in Birmingham then Cadbury World is a good place to visit. The snacks are great
There is an American journalist called Bill Bryson, who lived for a long time in the uk, who wrote a book called " At Home" among his many. It's about the every day world and the inventions that shapes our lives. They're mostly British inventions.
I met him at a book signing in London
@@jamiescowen4216 You lucky thing.
I have all his books. Notes FromA Small Island is my favourite.
I love Bill Bryson’s books
I adore Bill Bryson
I think she meant John Logie Baird who was credited with inventing the TV.
Although the inventor of the system which we used up to the modern LED screens system using a beam scanner was American. We never ever used the Baird system post WW2.
@@petergaskin1811 You are referring to Farnsworth. He did indeed create a scanning system which was more stable.
Hey Tyler, your reaction to soda water not changing the world had me howling with laughter.
Soda water or carbonated water is literally the base for every fizzy soft drink. Without that invention there would be no Coca cola or Pepsi or any fizzy pop at all. I love your channel by the way. It's nice to see your reactions and genuine interest in things from my little corner of the world. Don't stop making these videos they are highly entertaining.
That's carbonated water. It is not the same thing. Soda water contains sodium bicarbonate.
@user-oy3yo7qe6o It's literally what it's called in the UK, as opposed to non-fizzy pop (dilute, cordial, squash, any still soft drink). I've even seen it written on some bottles.
@@user-oy3yo7qe6o that's what it's called in my part of the UK. Pop.
@@SimonNemeth Carbonated water (also known as club soda or soda water) gets its carbonation artificially from the process of adding carbon dioxide gases to produce carbonic acid.The sodium bicarbonate adds some flavour to the water. The bubbles are created by adding carbon dioxide...
My step granddad, Ronald Green from Croydon in Greater London was one of the engineers who helped make sure ATM’s could not be broken into.
He also served in Burma during WWII re-establishing communication lines after Japan had ruined their infrastructure.
Ron was an incredible kind & gentle man with such intelligence, I’m proud that he was my Granddad.
I read somewhere that the reason the ATM PIN is only four digits long is that the inventor's wife could only remember numbers up to four digits long.
..you have the right to be proud of your Ancestor. be sure to tell your decendants.
ATMs get broken into and dragged away all the time!!
MANY THANKS TO YOUR GRANDAD
I would add to the list the computer - invented by Charles Babbage, and computer programming - invented by Ada Lovelace. Babbage thought he had just invented a calculator, Ada Lovelace realised it was capable of a lot more than that.
Ada Lovelace was the daughter of the poet Byron.
There was a programming language named ADA in her honour. Quite obscure, it was mainly used for defense systems
If you're going to go to the root of mechanical computers it's actually the Jacquard Loom, invented in 1801. Charles Babbage got the idea for the Difference engine from that. The first Electronic computer (Colossus) was invented and built by Alan Turing to break the Enigma code.
The computer was invented by Alan Turin during World War 2 enabling Britain to break the German enigma codes, which shortened the war by several years.
mackintosh, waterproof outercoat or raincoat, named after a Scottish chemist, Charles Macintosh (1766-1843), who invented the waterproof material that bears his name. The fabric used for a mackintosh was made waterproof by cementing two thicknesses of it together with rubber dissolved in a coal-tar naphtha solution.
Loved this ! Much of which I didn't know . Being a Canadian we have a close affiliation with Britain but I didn't know any one of those things. As for the Thermos it is very common and not just for tea. I think her calling it a flask made it a wee bit less recognizable but we often fill up our thermoses when a storm is brewing and power may go off. Also, the thermal coffee pot is very common
Electric motor-Michael Faraday. Jet Engine-Frank Whittle. But I think arguably the most important two are vaccinations-Edward Jenner in particular the vaccination for small-pox, which led to vaccinations in general, and Penicillin- Alexander Fleming, The amount of lives saved by these two alone are incalculable. Add in Viagra and In vitro fertilization. The list just goes on and on.
I always get a bit cross that it isn't common knowledge that the smallpox vaccination was NOT "invented" by Jenner. The procedure was brought over to England by Lady Mary Montague Worsely whose husband had been stationed in Turkey. While there, she accompanies the old women who went about innoculating children against this dreaded illness. She inoculated her own children when she got back - which led to the Queen herself taking the giant step of accepting the procedure for her own children.
Lady Mary herself performed the procedure on Jenner when he was a small boy.
cats eyes in the road Percy shaw, and Listers clean surgery. Just because it's so British the Umbrella as well
Possibly penicillin was the real winner of WW2.
Arguably the most important? vaccinations failed and all 22 test animal test subjects were killed. You need to do a deep dive on the real cause of the 'Spanish Flu'. Will change your perception on the whole of virology and vaccines for that matter.
@@JeanDeaux-uj5cgcats eyes must have saved millions of lives .
"Soda water did nothing to change the world"
Coca-Cola and Pepsi want a word with you!
Without soda water those drinks be a ingredient down so it wouldn’t taste the same
@@spokee Flat Coke... ugh!
It wasn't soda water that changed the world, it was Tonic Water, as in Gin and Tonic. It's purpose was to get people to take quinine, which helped protect them from malaria.
Now that's just silly. What the hell would coke or pepsi be without carbonates, some gooey flat tincture
I know I'm late to this but the fact about Fry's inventing the chocolate bar i wanted to add to. Fry's created the chocolate bar in 1847, the first fondant filled chocolate bar in 1853 (the cream stick) which became Fry's chocolate cream which is still in production making it the oldest chocolate bar in the world.
Hey Tyler
John Logie Baird (not Bard), another Scot, invented the television. Not only that, but he demonstrated 3D colour High Definition television (1,000 lines) in the 1930's.
She missed out some of the most important.
The steam engine powered the industrial revolution and created the modern factory and mass production.
The traction engine, powered by a steam engine was the first motorised transport and revolutionised transport and farming.
The steam powered ship did the same for the international transportation of goods.
And finally the steam train, invented by The Stephensons. I regularly cycle past their family home just outside Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The train revolutionised the movement of people and goods overland.
These are the absolute foundation stones of the modern, mechanised and industrial world we live in today. They freed most of us from a life of manual labour.
Yep, big miss. The Darlington-Stockton railway 1825 ran behind my house. That should have been there.
Oh but its really not on a par with the invention of soda water.. don't forget soda water. 🤨😒
@@drewbewho soda I can live without, but tonic is a different matter all together.
Actually, the steam train was invented by Cornishman Richard Trevithick, long before the Stephensons. They just figured they could use one to transport goods and people to different locations rather than just in and out of a mine.
@@drewbewho yeah but America invented FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY !
A Brit also invented the Intraocular Lens, which is used in cataract replacement surgery. Ophthalmologist Harold Ridley first implanted one in 1949 at St Thomas Hospital in London. An operation which has been life changing for millions of people around the world.
I have two of these! (One per eye) Certainly changed my life for the better.
Never knew that! I've got one in one eye.
Joseph Priestley, an English scientist, is credited with inventing carbonated water independently and by accident in 1767. Here’s how it happened:
Priestley lived next to a brewery in Leeds, Yorkshire, which emitted plenty of vapors. He became intrigued by these “airs,” particularly the one responsible for the bubbles in beer.
He realized that this “fixed air” was the same gas found in naturally occurring spring waters, making them effervescent.
Inspired by this, Priestley wondered if he could artificially add fizz to water. He combined sulfuric acid and chalk to produce carbon dioxide (though he didn’t recognize it as such).
Collecting the gas in a pig’s bladder, he found a way to carbonate water. This fizzy water, known as soda water, gained popularity and was even taken on ocean voyages due to its better taste compared to stagnant stored water.
Later, Scottish physician John Nooth improved the process by developing a glass apparatus for carbonating water, leading to the soda
The modern bicycle, with a diamond frame, wheels of the same size and chain drive was invented by John Kemp Starley in Coventry UK. Think how many bikes there are in the world, and how many of us have ridden or used one, even as a child. The bike lead to the motorcycle, and the Wright Brothers were actually originally cycle manufactures. Also, the fictional idea of time travel and time machines were first thought up my British writer HG Wells. No Wells no Back To The Future, Terminator, Bill and Ted, or Dr Who.
I'm definitely proud to be a Brit when I see things like this.
THERE SHOULD BE MORE TAUGHT ABOUT THIS AND NOT ALL THE NEGATIVE RUBBISH OUT THERE AT THE MOMENT
After Brexit and Prince “pedophile” Andrew I would beg to differ 😂
@@elainearchbold259id you know britain is the sole country that got rid of commercial slave trade? A petiton was made that went to court to argue their case in which they won and then it became known that if any man woman or child steps foot on the land of god and king they shall be free as the air is too fine for any slave to breathe. Or that slavery as a whole was banned in england since the 11th century.
Yes, I agree.
Southport, a town in the North West of England is home to the "British Lawnmower Museum" ... it's a cut above the rest .
I think the British are so inventive is because the weather often makes tinkering in a shed attractive.
The lawn mower was invented in Stroud in Gloucestershire.
@@valeriedavidson2785 I thought it was invented in France and called the coup de grâce.
Lee Mac (British comedian) donated a "dibber" to the museum.
A cut above … love it 😂😂😂
Very Interesting But Not Long Enough, Missed Lots Of Them, But Two You Could Have Given A Lot More Time, Two Of The Worlds Most Common And Made A Defference To The World , And They Were Both Scottish, ALEXSANDER GRAYHAM BELL, TELEPHONE, 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 JAMES LOGIE BAIRD, TELEVISION 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻, Think Of The Imfluence They Had On The WORLD,👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
In the early 1900s, both Russian physicist Boris Rosing and Scottish engineer Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton worked independently to improve on Nipkow’s system by replacing the spinning discs with cathode ray tubes, a technology developed earlier by German physicist Karl Braun. Swinton’s system, which placed cathode ray tubes inside the camera that sent a picture, as well as inside the receiver, was essentially the earliest all-electronic television system.
John Logie Baird is credited with the invention of the television, but it was the culmination of several advancements by various scientists before him. When the telegraph and telephone became viable, the search was on to see if images could also be transferred along wires. Gradually various methods (spinning discs, cathode ray tubes) managed to do this. Baird was the first to demonstrate a true working television, but its development was due mainly to the ones before who made major contributions. In Australia, there are annual awards for television in Australia. These awards are named after Baird and called The Logie Awards.
Many inventions were really the culmination of the work of earlier inventors. The light bulb is another example of this. Thomas Edison may not have invented the light bulb, but he was able to create one that was much more effective and efficient than any previous ones.
True story behind the "thermos" flask: The original flask was invented by James Dewar, who happened at the time to be a science teacher at Dollar Academy in central Scotland. I went to that school, which is why you're getting the real background here.
Dewar called his invention a vacuum flask. As the story goes, he got the idea for the vacuum flask from a very prosaic situation. He was a lodger at a house in the village. He used to work on his scientific papers in his room in the evenings where his landlady brought him his meals on a tray. Quite often he would forget to eat and the food got cold. One evening when he finally got around to eating, the meal happened to include a bowl of pea soup which had already formed a skin. He dug the spoon in deep, and promptly burnt his mouth because the soup was still very hot under the skin. This gave him the idea that heat was retained as the gas molecules in the air found it difficult to penetrate the skin. He then started experimenting in the school lab with double walled bowls with a vacuum between the walls. The original flask used to be kept in the library of the school, but was unfortunately lost in a fire in 1960 which destroyed the library. I remember that fire. I was 4yo at the time and it was both frightening and impressive.
The science building where he worked at the school is called the Dewar Building. The school was the first in Scotland (and possibly the UK) to have an actual dedicated building for teaching sciences.
Dewar's vacuum flask idea was taken up later by someone in Germany who patented the design and registered it under the brand name "Thermos", which is why people sometimes think that this is a German invention.
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Alexander Graham Bell: If you look up recordings you can actually find one where you can hear his Edinburgh accent quite distinctly.
The ATM was also invented by a Scotsman: James Goodfellow. He invented the PIN number and automated the machine.
TV: The inventor was John Logie Baird (not Jonathan Bard ! ). Another Scotsman.
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The lady should have done her research into names a little better.😁
I'm from Alloa. I do a lot of voluntary work in and around Dollar Glen, and I always think of James Dewar when I filling my flask before I head to the glen. I believe he came from Kincardine, so he's very much a local lad. Flasks are invaluable when you're working outside, cycling or hiking or even just on a long journey in a cold, wet climate - I think the Australian lass in the video hasn't experienced that yet, or she wouldn't have been slightly dismissive😅
@@evelynwilson1566 How nice to meet you here, Evelyn 🙂. And thanks for volunteering in Dollar Glen. I really appreciate the work that's done there every time I visit home. The glen is such a special place.
Dewar certainly was a local lad, and if I remember correctly, he collaborated with the Alloa Glassworks to make the double-walled containers for his vacuum flask experiments.
Flasks are great, not just for the outdoors where they can be a lifesaver but also for keeping electricity bills down in the home, especially in regions where the water is hard.
I learnt to my cost in France, Spain and Germany that hard water not only tastes chalky but furrs up kettles with scale. The scale acts as an insulant and it takes longer to heat the water in a furry kettle or pan. Filtering the water before boiling means the kettle doesn't furr up as quickly and the water boils faster. And keeping the boiled water hot in a flask means it takes less time to boil when you pour it back into the kettle or pan.
Maybe my experiences can help people who are currently going through the cost of living crisis...
She is Australian and incapable of decent pronunciation or IQ. Do not mock the (non-English) afflicted!
As the old gag goes, "A flask keeps hot drinks hot and cold drinks cold. How does it know?" 😆
Technically not the internet but the World Wide Web (i.e. the website component of the internet). The inventor was honoured during a segment of the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics
Tim Berners Lee, I think and I believe He has a SIR attached to his name now. g'day from Oz
I remember some American commentators saying " who the hell is that ? "
Sir Tim also did it for free, so that everyone would have free internet but we've seen what capitalism did to that part.
The US Navy invented the internet during the Cold War as a way to communicate if they had a nuclear strike, over the decades it eventually had university’s and research enters join so the could share research, in the nineties Tim Berners Lee invented a way to build web pages and links which is what we know as the World Wide Web. I’ve been on the internet since the 80’s when you had to use an ip address to log into a server.
Yep. The Internet was made in America, it linked up many academic and military sites and had email and several other applications but the WWW - websites and browsers was invented by Tim Berners Lee and team at Cern.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist. He was born in London, and his parents were early computer scientists, working on one of the earliest computers.
As a Brit the fact somebody has never heard of a thermo flask had me weak. Granted you don't drink much tea but a tip for Americans when doing outdoor things in cold weather. Put hot dogs in a flask of hot water and throw some bread rolls and ketchup in a back pack.
Arthur C Clarke... English writer came up with the idea of Satellites and proposed in the future everyone could be connected by a device worn like a wrist watch that would mean a villager in Africa could talk with a teacher in New York... creating a Global Village (where we might all care about each other and end things like poverty, disease etc). George Orwell English writer (born in India) famously wrote 1984 predicting a world where Big Brother could watch everyone through a network of CCTVs and people would be enslaved by governments that ruled through propaganda and fear.
Guess which one is the most prominent? 🙂
Who'd have thought that that book would come close to the truth when read at school in the 60's. The UK has more CCTV cameras per head of population than any other country. Luckily not an authoritarian government - yet!
"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture." ~Neil Postman
I guess both were right after all 🙂
@@catbevis1644 they was both right
As you said, a bit random. The vacuum flask and soda water ahead of tarmac? Or the computer? The jet engine? The steam engine? The electric motor? Railways? Postage stamps? Or even football? Arguably also the bicycle and motorcycle. And much of the machinery of the industrial revolution! (As a kid brought up on TV show "The Tomorrow People", it would have been great if the internet was called Tim!)
I AGREE WITH YOU TIM WOULD HAVE BEEN A RECOGNITION OF THIS GIVEN TO THE WORLD
I think you mean 'Tomorrow's World'. The Tomorrow People was a children's drama series
@@hatjodelka nope - the all-powerful computer in The Tomorrow People was called Tim.
@@jamesdignanmusic2765 I stand corrected. I think it must be a generational thing. I grew up watching Tomorrow's World and my children grew up with The Tomorrow People which I was aware of but never watched.
@@hatjodelka S'alright :) I grew up with both, during the great Baxter/Burke/Rodd era of TW.
British scientists also invented penicillin. Modern Computers, based on Alan Turing’s enigma code braking machine during WW2. The Hadron Collider was also invented by a British scientist from Newcastle.
Charles Darwin on the theory of evolution and more recently Stephen Hawking’s work on Cosmology. There’s definitely a lot more British inventions that are worthy of the changing the world title.
We also had the first computer ,it was created in the second world war to decode German military transmissions ,a movie was filmed called The Imitation game based on the true story of it's creater .
Well we gave Tim Berners-Lee the world wide Web inventer a spot at the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony
And a knighthood I think!
Which was a fantastic ceremony.
To be fair, the US get's credit for the internet, but this was mainly used by government agencies and academic institutions. The British invention was the World Wide Web which basically was what made it usable for everyone else.
No. The US, or more specifically DARPA, network ARPANET was one of several contemporaneous government networks. The UK was the first to identify the need for higher level protocols for interconnected networking, and presented it’s case to a meeting of the ISO in Australia in 1977. The French software engineer Hubert Zimmerman defined the raw form of the OSI model used for the internet in Washington DC in 1980 which was published by the ISO in 1980, refined and then finalized in 1984. The “internet” itself was an industry effort that cannot be attributed to a single country. The TCP/IP stack was used by DARPA, and is now the underlying technology used in the internet, but it was one of several competing models. The World Wide Web, however, was designed as the presentation and application layers of the stack and is the basis for most of the internet content today. Of course the internet is wider in scope than the World Wide Web, but most people say “the internet” when actually referring to the web. Eg. I looked up that fact on the internet.
These two messages should be top rated. As pointed out, there is a clear difference. The internet itself is one thing, but as pointed out, making it widely useful and accessible to everyone is another thing. I'm glad she actually clearly said we Brits (okay, one Brit) created "The World Wide Web"
Btw a lot of people confuse the internet with the world wide web, the "internet" could technically be an american invention with arpanet. But the modern protocols, up until recently (are a foundation / collective of people and companies from arount the world) are UK born.
The thermos flask is a bottle type cylinder that has an inner and outer shell. The gap in between helped to keep the liquid warm. When I was younger in the 60's and 70's the inner used to be made of glass. I think now the inner is made of metal.
The biggest contribution? The railway. The first PUBLIC railway was the Stockton and Darlington Railway of 1825. It was also the first one to use steam propulsion for goods/freight. It was not a passenger railway initially, although it allowed the use of horse drawn coaches (like a stagecoach). The first steam locomotives in Canada and the USA were built ar Shildon - in the S&DR's workshops.
Yeah it linked farms to the towns and cities, which lowered food costs and enabled spending money and free time to drive the industrial revolution.
The Thermos Flask (not "thermo") was actually invented to keep cold things cold. It was later discovered that it kept hot things hot as well. It's great for such things as black coffee.
Yep, i used it back in the day for Hot Chocolate on night shifts. lol, and they used to have glass in them that always broke, today they don't know that struggle, having to buy a new flask nearly every week because you was a little handy with your work bag. lmao. Tea, Coffee and as you said cold drinks to.
Yes - the old joke is "You sold me this saying it would keep my cold things cold and hot things hot. I put my soup and my ice cream in it and IT DIDN'T WORK" :D
That was great. Thanks for useful information & big shock.
If you had paid attention when we held the 2012 Olympics, Tim Bernes Lee was featured in the opening ceremony!
It's kind of funny that an American is reacting to an Australian talking about British facts...... Seriously ffs I'm sure there's a Brit that can tell you more info
...and be a little more clued up on both the facts and pronunciations than her, too!
@@jamesdignanmusic2765"that her"? Wretched autocarrot.
@@davidgould9431 corrected. Autocorrect can be a real bar-stool at times :)
Right near the top of the list: the naval chronometer (thank you Mr Harrison), which made long distance travel by sea much safer by enabling accurate navigation when out of sight of land, opening the way for efficient, predictable, cheap naval shipping and commerce
Yes! Yes! Yes! John Harrison and his portable timepiece (H4) that could survive working on a ship changed *everything*. We could finally navigate the seas and know our longitude - that helped our Navy become the world power at sea. I was lucky enough to see H1, H2, H3 and H4 at the Greenwich museum in London. The early version (H1 to H3) are beautiful (Google image them). There is a great book called "Longitude" that tells the story. John Harrison, in my mind, was the greatest Brit who ever lived.
The aircraft carrier, the steam catapult, the angled flight deck, arrest wire, hovercraft etc, almost everything associated with naval aviation. The Brits taught Americans carrier landings as their accident rate was so high.
Tyler, that video of hers was so much rubbish especially when it came to her inability to pronounce the inventors' names correctly despite her having their names written down and her referring to them.
Two of which are her calling the inventor of the television Jonathan Bard instead of John Logie Baird and her also calling the inventor of the hovercraft Christopher Cockwell instead of Christopher Cockerell. A couple of notable omissions from her list are Sir Charles Babbage who was considered by some to be " the father of the computer " which is astonishing when you also consider that he lived between 1791 and 1871. The other one was Alan Turing who invented a test for Artificial Intelligence in 1950 as well as his cracking of he Enigma codes during World War II which cut that war short by about two years and saved millions of lives in the process.
On a more sarcastic note the only thing that Americans have managed to invent over the years is how to successfully steal patents from different inventors and then capitalise and profit from those same inventions, isn't it? That's not a very good reputation for any of you Americans to have, is it?
On your last and sarcastic point. The Americans are being beaten at this game by China in recent times and the Chinese don't care about copywrites.
Of course they don't care about copywrites, @@Thurgosh_OG, that's because they're known as copyrights around the rest of the world. Most of those copyrights have been obtained from U.S. companies outsourcing all of their jobs to Chinese sweatshops to cut down on labour costs and to obtain the maximum amount of profits when it comes to selling their products around the rest of the world. Apple anyone?
Yep, 5706, really daft errors there. If ya gonna come on here, pronounciation is the first job.
Soda water change the world because Coca-Cola Pepsi and all other carbonated drinks use you guessed it carbonated water soda water
and don't forget Champaign
Another invention: John Boyd Dunlop's inflatable tyres. (Canvas impregnated in rubber. They didn't last long. Got better when rubber vulcanisation was invented.)
And of course George Stephenson's steam locomotive the Rocket. Other contenders at the time included the Puffing Billy. There were stationary steam engines before that, used in pumping water out of mines etc, but Stephenson put one on rails. Basically a boiler with wheels.
And Lord Armstrong's Turbinia, the first steam-turbine-driven ship, which the Royal Navy rejected, until he demonstrated it by outrunning all the navy ships, causing much embarrassment. Armstrong's house was the first in Britain (and maybe the world) to be lit by electric light.
Some other interesting toothbrush facts:
The first mass-produced toothbrush was made by William Addis of Clerkenwald, England, around 1780.
The first American to patent a toothbrush was H. N. Wadsworth, (patent number 18,653,) on Nov. 7, 1857.
Mass production of toothbrushes began in America around 1885.
One of the first electric toothbrushes to hit the American market was in 1960. It was marketed by the Squibb company under the name Broxodent.
Published: 11/19/2019. Author: Science Reference Section, Library of Congress
The man who invented the TV was a Scotsman, John Logie Baird, not Bard. There is a statue of him in Helensburgh, Scotland.
As was the inventor of the facsimile machine (Fax)
my father, as a young boy saw Baird doing a demonstration of a television from the back of a lorry in Glasgow.
I want to know who invented the "jock" ? just musing dear about this dross.
I’m an Australian and I knew Scotsman John Logie Baird invented the TV. Here in Australia we have our TV shows awards which are called ‘The Logies’ after Mr John Logie Baird.
Didn't put on the list but Britain invented the programmable computer, and it's a rearly sad story as well
Mr Turing, i presume, millud ?
@@blackbob3358 The actual computer that Turing used was created and built by Tommy Flowers. A telecoms engineer. He is rarely mentioned. Which is a shame. As Turing was in essence a programmer.
Loved your reactions! The light bulb invention is one you should make bets with your friends and you could haul in a huge load of cash ; )
The gadget for keeping things hot or cold is known as the thermos flask. They had a thin steel outer with a double-skinned inner silver glass inner bottle with a sealed vacuum.
The Scottish inventor of the TV, John Logie Baird (pronounced ‘Low Gay’ ‘Bear d’ and NOT pronounced ‘Bard’); invented a tv camera and display that used a mechanical process. This was eventually superseded by the electronic systems we have today. I recommend watching the Doctor Who 60th anniversary episode ‘The Giggle’ which shows this system in the plot of the story.
So she omitted the steam engine , leading to railway travel. Penicillin ( Alexander Fleming - a Scot) , the pneumatic tyre ( a vet called Dunlop) , tarmacadam roads ( McAdam - a Scot ) , gaslighting ( Murdoch , another Scot) , and I think the earliest fax machine ( a Highlander ).
She was deliberately being random.
Prototype FAX machine, 1843, Alexander Bain - a Scot.
Penicillin was a discovery not an invention
If you didn't have soda water, then there would be no fizzy pop drinks because they are all soda water with flavourings added - thinks of the soda stream machine, you start with water, add flavour then carbonate to make it fizzy soda.
Try doing it the other way round - carbonate the water, then add the flavour (just as all soft drinks are made, industrially). It will be fizzier and stay fizzier longer.
Brit here,When people say you are to modest you now know why ,I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't invented that as well.
And don’t forget the Jet Engine, invented by Sir Frank Whittle in 1941. He actually conceptualised the idea of the turbo jet engine in 1929.
AS USUAL OTHER COUNTRIES TOOK IT ON BOARD AND WE GOT LEFT BEHIND
@@elainearchbold259 Germany implemented however when Frank whittle went to his superiors they didnt trust his designs so it wasn’t implemented
At the time he thought about the idea Whittle had not even attended university. He just thought that jets would be better than noisy and limited petrol engines. He was a genius and it is a shame that Britain was so lacking in supporting him - giving it to the Americans pretty much to develop and become the world leader.
@@1414141xAmericans aren't the world leader, Royles Royce is still the world leader for jet engines.
@@coolharley12able when he presented it to the British Military they turned it down because they said the planes would be to fast compared to propellor planes and thus useless as a fighter would have already passed the enemy before you could pull the trigger.
The Thermoflask or vacuum flask consists of two flasks, one placed within the other, with a small space between the two flasks, and joined at the neck - the inner flask storing the liquid. The gap between the two flasks is partially evacuated of air, creating a near-vacuum which significantly reduces heat transfer by conduction or convection. It is used to keep hot liquids hot and cold liquids cold.
American: we invented everything period (then shouts) U S A
Britain: except the following old chap:
Steam engines, railroads, steel ships, jet engines, penicillin, worldwide web, telescopes, computers, submarines, cryptology, the industrial revolution, tarmac, concrete, the electromagnet, the electric telegraph, the bicycle, the postage stamp, the electric clock, the diving bell, chemical fertilizer, the photocopier, steel alloy, traffic lights, PV solar panels, the telephone, the hovercraft, incandescent light bulbs, lifeboats, screw propellers, earthmoving machinery, the light switch, forensic fingerprinting, the tractor, radar, electroluminescence, the principles of aircraft design, the photographic negative, the first motion picture, inflatable boats, battle tanks, caterpillar tracks, sunglasses, the first air force, the hydrofoil, the blast furnace, television, road cats eyes, sonar, computer programming, the first commercial jet airliner, the atomic clock, the quad bike, the transistor computer, the back hoe loader, the electronic calculator, the cavity magnetron, the electron scope, carbon fibre, the ultrasound scanner, the chocolate bar, fizzy soft drinks, touch screens, the ATM, the gas turbine, the hydraulic crane, the PIN number, lithium ion batteries, IVF, laptop computers, touchpads, iris recognition technology, text messages, pneumatic tyres, wide angle lenses, the typewriter, graphene, the fire extinguisher, the lawnmower, the world's first handheld computer, the tin can, the petroleum internal combustion engine, can openers, the hydrogen fuel cell, the oil refinery, the wind tunnel, fibre optics, the supercharger, the corkscrew, rubber bands, disc brakes, the digital audio player, the electric toaster, the flushing toilet, electric kettles, the magnifying glass, aluminium, the toothbrush, the thermos flask, the pencil, the radio, the sniper rifle, the rain mac, the SLR camera, the kaleidoscope, the tele printer, the wellington boot, the sandwich, stainless steel, torpedos, the hydraulic press, float glass, extrusion, the seismograph, antiseptic, smallpox vaccine, aspirin, the first blood transfusion, tunnel boring machines, stem cell transplants, the CT scanner, Viagra, hip replacements, beta blockers, weather mapping, EKG, the movie projector, the barometer, the electric generator, the micrometer, the mass spectrometer, periodic table plus loads of elements, DNA sequencing, silicone, VTOL aircraft, seat belts, supersonic passenger aircraft, the aircraft carrier and the steam catapult...
There is more, but I can't remember them all.
Used any of the above today and everyday?
Our pleasure. 🇬🇧
Did Canada invent the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell - The Historical Society of Ottawa
According to Bell himself, the telephone was conceived in Brantford but developed at his workshop in Boston. Moreover, three countries can consider Bell to be one of their own as he was born in Scotland, moved to Canada in 1870, but subsequently became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
She forgot to mention the steam engine, railways, the steam turbine and the jet engine.
Hoover used to make a rounded vacuum cleaner that hovered off the ground, this made it easy to pull around when using it. Christopher Cockerell fastened one to a chair and the idea for the Hovercraft was born. He built the first Hovercraft in 1955. They were quite popular for cross Channel travel to France at one time, the Channel Tunnel eventually took over that traffic. The coastguards in both the U.K. and Europe still use them. The military in the U.K. and US and other nations still use versions as landing craft.
Years ago I made the trip from the UK to France in a huge hovercraft. It was very noisy and a bit bumpy, but it was an exciting experience.
The jet engine was invented by a German
Yeah, the Hoover Constellation, my mum had one, I used to love playing with it as a kid, without the hose attached, you could just nudge it and it would glide along the carpet.
An English man invented the PIN (personal identification number) which lets you withdraw cash from an ATM in the wall outside the bank.
But his wife made the PIN 4 numbers as she couldn't remember the original 6 number PIN
And ATMs were invented by two Scotsmen.
The original one and its improved version.
Britain had the largest empire the world had ever known during the time most of these were invented so it shouldn't be a surprise when you think of it that way. After WW2 the empire started to collapse as we had held out against the Germans before the US came in to assist. After the war the UK was largely destroyed (along with most of Europe) and had massive debts that were only paid off recently (2006 i think), mainly to the US and Canada.
This allowed the US to overtake the UK as the largest world power as their country was untouched, also alot of the debt was owed to US companies. This led to the US becoming a manufacturing and business hub for the world.
We have continued to be innovative in so many industries. The Brits tend to come up with an idea but don't have the funding or production capacity, so the patent or licensing gets bought by a rich company (usually a US company) and they produce it and then the product is seen as from that country. A great example is ARM processors, they run almost everything, they used to be in almost all smart phones (95-98%). The modern age we live in is powered by them. Now owned by a Japanese multinational.
A group of guys were sitting around and talking random stuff (beer may have been involved) and one of them asked "what is the greatest invention ever?" They all thought for a moment and then the suggestions started coming out. "Fire" was an early contender, then they came up with "the aeroplane", and all the suggestions poured in.
But one of them sat in slience, wrinkling his brow and wringing his hands and finally, as all the other guys were running out of ideas, he lifted his head and said "the Thermos flask".
Silence fell and all the others stared at him, until one of them said "why would you say that?"
"Well", he said, "it keeps cold things cold and hot things hot."
More silence, then someone said "and?"
"Well, how does it know?"
'I never would have imagined like - lawnmower British invention [...] maybe because it's like kind of aggressive thing [...] and its very machiney'
The Industrial Revolution and the largest Empire in human history have left the chat'
He's funny, danic, but the best bit is, he's not aware of it.
Don't forget Richard Trevithick's steam locomotive, Frank Wittle's jet engine, and Alan Turing's digital computer. 😃
The first steam locomotive was built as a working model by an American, John Fitch, in the 1780s, but he never got round to building a full-size one. The lateral horizontal boiler would have been difficult to fire.
Sir George Cayley, the glider pioneer, sketched a crude jet/turbine engine for aircraft in the mid-19th century, but metallurgy was not yet advanced enough to make such a thing workable.
Alan Turing gets the credit for the first electronic computer but it was actually Tommy Flowers that built it independently of the Turing team at Bletchly Park. Flowers was a GPO switching engineer working in telephone exchanges who has been completely looked over. At the end of WW2 the government gave him £1000 for all his efforts, this barely covered his own money he used to invent Colossus. He was well and truly stitched up in the highest order. Turing was a maths genius not and electronics engineer as Flowers was.
Came here to post this but you beat me to it. I live about a mile from the birthplace of Richard Trevithick and we still celebrate his inventions every year on Trevithick day in Camborne :)
There are several minor British inventions she missed. 1). The electric motor (Michael Faraday showed the principle) and 2 the Steam engine which powered the industrial revolution (Savery, Newcomen and James Watt). And number 3). The Steam locomotive and the modern railway (Various inventors, but the most famous was Robert Stevenson). Of course, there are other minor inventions such as the flush toilet and sewerage systems which may have saved a few lives and the jet engine (Frank Whittle). There are many others
For a very long time, most Brits called ATMs, "the hole in the wall", and never used those three initials, only since going abroad did I know the correct terminology.
I remember calling it the hole in the wall still do actually but I did know it was called the atm just never used it.
Or 'cash machine'
Or cashpoint
I still don't say ATM, always say "cash point machine"!
In Liverpool we say just popping the cashie, well we used to use cash lol
Andrew Carnegie was Scottish, who emigrated to America when he was a penniless child. He became one of the richest men in the World. He said, 'The man who dies rich dies disgraced'.
He gave away much of his money to charities, especially his idea of trying to put a public library in every large town in the world. Many cities and town had "Carnegie Libraries", including the city in New Zealand where I live.
no he said any man who dies with a penny in his pocket is a fool
And so, so much more! Huge inventions that changed the world over the last few hundred years. Tim Berners-Lee was honoured for creating the WWW in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics, which much of the world saw.
The first mechanical computer and electronic computer were also invented in GB.
Charles Babage invented the "difference engine mechanical computer" and Tommy Flowers invented the first electrical computer, known as Colossus, often said that Alan Turin invented it at Bletchly Park, but it was actually Tommy Flowers that did, running on valves as a code breaking computer!
John Muir was originally Scottish. He was a pioneer conservationist of the 19th century (I don't know his dates) who emigrated to America, founded the Sierra Club and encouraged the development of National Parks.
Btw, the name of the TV person is JOHN LOGIE BAIRD.
In 1762, John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich®, invented the meal that changed dining forever. As the story goes, he was playing cards and did not want to leave the gaming table to eat. He asked for a serving of roast beef to be placed between two slices of bread so he could eat with his hands. another british person
I live in the town of Sandwich in Kent and you’d be surprised how many visitors to our lovely home think the town was named after the convenience food 👍🤣
@@stephenhall9251 well you are next door to Ham! 😂
@@GrumpyDragon_aka_LjL Yes. The ‘Ham Sandwich’ road sign is famous 🤣👍
I was an apprentice electro mechanical engineer in 1978. Our Tutor at college taught us all about Joseph Swann and the Light Bulb. He got quite worked up about Edison taking credit for it.
British achievements given to the world.
England was the first modern democracy, the creator of the industrial revolution, mass-production, the first (manu)factories, discovered how to mass-produce iron, (Abraham Derby, at Ironbridge Gorge), then went on to mass-produce steel (and invent stainless steel) and then invent Portland cement, on which the modern world is built.
Although slavery hadn’t really existed in England for centuries, England was the first country to formalise that slavery was impossible in England. In 1772, England carried out the greatest act of genuine altruism in the history of the world, with the fight against the slave trade, which cost billions in today’s money, but from which the British gained nothing.
Most of the great nations of the world, including the USA, use English law, including common law, and English values, including free speech (from the 1690s), banning of torture (from the 1640s), no one above the law (1215), jury trials (1100s), innocent until proven guilty. England pioneered the introduction of mechanical machines into farming, the first understanding of electricity, reliable navigation at sea (John Harrison, who invented the first practical marine chronometer), time zones (prime meridian runs through London for a reason), discovery of anti-biotics, the first understanding and common use of vaccines, first use of statistics to discover cause of disease, plus England was the country that first used metal framed building (for skyscrapers).
Railways: (Thomas Newcomen, Richard Trevithick, James Watt, and George Stephenson "Father of the Railways"), the electric motor (Michael Faraday), the telephone (Alexander Graham Bell), the steam turbine (Charles Parsons), and industrial hydraulics (Joseph Bramah and William George Armstrong).
Television: John Logie Baird.
Modern radar: (the cavity magnetron, invented by Sir John Randall and Harry Boot.) In 1940 Winston Churchill offered the magnetron to the Americans in exchange for their financial and industrial help for the war effort.
The jet engine (Sir Frank Whittle), then the first commercial jet airliner, the Comet, and the first supersonic airliner, the Concorde.
England taught America about nuclear chain reaction, and thus the atomic bomb. (Sir James Chadwick was a British physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the U.S. government to begin serious atomic bomb research efforts. He was the head of the British team that worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He was knighted in Britain in 1945 for his achievements in physics.)
Some of the great British names that have had a positive influence on the world:
Sir Isaac Newton, William Shakespeare, Charles Darwin, Charles Babbage (“father of the computer”) and Alan Turing, Professor Stephen Hawking, Alexander Fleming, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Sir Winston Churchill, Robert Baden-Powell, Charles Dickens, Florence Nightingale, T. E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”), Edward Jenner (inventor of the smallpox vaccine), Sir Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web), James Clerk Maxwell (Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory, and the resulting equations, were recognised as the greatest advance in scientific knowledge since Newton’s Principia), Joseph Lister (founder of antiseptic medicine).
To think that a tiny nation did so much. Then again we also had a massive empire so yeah.
Two points Tyler. For thermos flask read vacuum flask, it keeps hot things hot and cold things cold. Internet and World Wide Web have become interchangeable for most people, WWW is the browser interface that works over the Internet (the actual physical connections). I believe the internet was America but WWW was British. Hope this helps.
Spot on, military was using Internet and Tim developed the world wide Web or HTTP communication
@@scottirvine121 or just look up Thermos. He misheard her or she mispronounced it.
Chris, yes, the internet came about due to an American military invention called the 'Arpanet'.
@@scottirvine121 this. ARPA net being the high level "concept" of the internet, or atleast packet switching/sharing of information between computers back in the 60s/early 70s? iirc.
your point about the internet / www is correct. The internet was created by DARPA. see my comment above...
“ lawn mower is incredibly random” - only a non Brit could say this. When Google maps first appeared I checked my parent’s house - there they were, seen easily from space, neat lines on my dad’s lawn. 😂
Britain's most important contribution would be figuring out how to change steam to power which propelled first industrial revolution.
And then they invented steam trains which allowed mass transport of materials and people
One of the great inventions that has almost never changed, but made life so much easier. Such a simple one..The match...or matchstick.
@9:10 Remember, Coca Cola has soda water as a base.... it's basically inventing fizzy drinks.
One of my favourite British inventions include the steel furnace (Henry Bessemer). Also the steam engine by James Watt, which drove the Industrial Revolution, development of trains/railways, and subsequent coal fired (power plants) and oil engine development (vehicles).
Bessemer changed my family to this day, 9th generation cutler
2:35 pronounced "theremoss", is basically a sealed double-walled glass bottle, with a vacuum in the middle, also where the vacuum is the glass in silver paint coated,, the whole thing is made into a "plastic protective case" (not so if you drop it), it has 3 rubber stoppers between the bottom of the glass (you can see these if you look inside the neck) and insider of the outer case (triangular to absorm jolts (any drops and the whole thins smahses) and an air-filled stopper for the neck to keep it from leaking and the air is also an insulator, heat is transmitted in 3 ways conduction (like to top of a stove), convection (like inside an oven) and radiation (like under the grill), conduction needs things to touch, hence the vacuum, convection needs air, vacuum again, the last one radiation can travel trough a vacuum (it would be cold on earth otherwise), hence the silver reflective coating, the only way heat can escape is through the rubber stoppers in the base (without them the flask would break from the slightest jolt or through the stopper