According to Japanese research, Britain invented 40% of the world's inventions. When you think how small this country is, that is amazing.

I think it would be no understatement to say that the UK created the modern world.

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.

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

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 😊

Britain invented the touch screen on your tablet and phone . Invented by British Telecom .It also invented the vertical take off jet ( Harrier ) 🇬🇧

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

Yes, America takes credit for a lot of things they didn't invent or create

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.

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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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…!

There are many significant inventions from the UK, but I’d certainly say the Jet engine should be on a list somewhere

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 think she meant John Logie Baird who was credited with inventing the TV.

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 postal system, the subway, bicycles and photos were all British inventions that changed the world too.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

The Quaker families of Fry, Rowntree and Cadbury were the chocolate makers of Britain.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 thought she was going to say penicilin! for me that was the best invention to come out of Britain!

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.

If you had paid attention when we held the 2012 Olympics, Tim Bernes Lee was featured in the opening ceremony!

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

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.

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.

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.

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!)

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

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.

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.

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.

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. ------------- 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. ------------------- The lady should have done her research into names a little better.😁

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.

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 .

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.

Well we gave Tim Berners-Lee the world wide Web inventer a spot at the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony

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.

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

I'm definitely proud to be a Brit when I see things like this.

Cats Eyes another simple but wonderful invention by a Brit .

1121 - BAIRD NOT BARD - Scottish-born, inventor of the television set was John Logie Baird.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The telephone is a contentious invention. Alexander Graham Bell was a Scotsman who emigrated to Canada, but did a lot of his work in Boston, so all three countries claim to have invented the telephone.

"Soda water did nothing to change the world" Coca-Cola and Pepsi want a word with you!

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.

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.

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 ).

The man who invented the TV was a Scotsman, John Logie Baird, not Bard. There is a statue of him in Helensburgh, Scotland.

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.

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.

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.

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

Here's a list of British inventions and discoveries I got from another KZfaq vid - Seed drill, threshing machine, phosphate fertiliser, selective breeding (as with farm animals), Portland cement, lathe, stainless steel, polyethylene, steam hammer, Bessemer steel-making process, float glass production, long distance undersea cables, LCDs, railways, bicycles, steam engines, piston rings, steamships, ship's propeller, steam turbine, jet engine (patented by Briton Frank Whittle in 1930, which then gave the Germans a good start) gas turbine engine, pneumatic tire, tarmacadam road surface, steel bridges, highway roundabouts and the system of priority thereon, reflective cat's-eyes to illuminate the centre of the road in the dark, power-driven weaving loom, weaving loom flying shuttle, cavity magnetron (heart of radar and the microwave oven), ultrasound scanner, CAT scanner, chlorinated drinking water, programmable electronic computer, chronometer, atomic clock, gas stove, tin cans, discovery of the proton, neutron and electron, discovery of antimatter, the Higgs boson, the atom and DNA, Newton's laws of motion and gravitation, the theory of evolution, antiseptics, antibiotics, vaccines, Maxwell's laws of electromagnetic propagation and electro-magnetic induction, calculus and the flushing toilet!

I remember crossing the English Channel in the early nineties on the hover craft! From Ramsgate to Calais. Anyone else remember crossing the channel on the hovercraft? 😆

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?

An English man invented the PIN (personal identification number) which lets you withdraw cash from an ATM in the wall outside the bank.

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).

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.

Australian inventions - refrigeration, the black box flight recorder, Wi-Fi, the electric drill, the electronic pace maker, the cochlear implant, the medical application of penicillin, the ultrasound scanner, the inflatable escape shutes for passenger planes, the cervical cancer vaccine and vegemite. That is just some of them. You're welcome planet earth.

Um a British composer from Gloucestershire wrote the music to USA's Star spangled banner, and it was based on a British drinking song, the composer, John Stafford Smith.

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.

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.

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!

The World Wide Web was Tim Berners-Lee at CERN is Switzerland - but "the Internet" evolved from DARPAnet, which was a US military network designed to maintain communication between computer systems in the event of a war. It was later extended to universities around the world and eventually made public during the late 80s early 90s. I was using e-mail, chat and bulletin-boards etc. as a student when the WWW came along as "the new thing". So the technology is US in origin but the graphic interface which brought it to the masses was Sir Tim's idea.

Didn't put on the list but Britain invented the programmable computer, and it's a rearly sad story as well

Soda water change the world because Coca-Cola Pepsi and all other carbonated drinks use you guessed it carbonated water soda water

An American (Frank McNamara) invented the charge card (Dinners Club) from which we got credit & debit cards. Because Banking laws vary so much from state to state it’s impossible to have a country wide banking system in the US like other countries, so businessmen who travelled across multiple states needed charge or credit cards to buy goods & services and get cash from banks that they don’t bank with.

The first ATM in Australia was actually in Brisbane. The first one was installed in 1977 in the suburb of Fortitude Valley by the Queensland Teachers Credit Union outside their headquarters in St Paul terrace.. It was quite a big thing at the time and had a lot of fanfare. I remember it was followed soon after by three more at various points around Brisbane. David Jones departments stores installed them at Garden City, Toombul and I think one of their CBD stores. We were all very wary about this 'hole-in-the-wall' thing, and there were extensive ad campaigns to alleviate the fears people had with them. At the time, many banks closed at 3 pm, so this was a major change in the way people dealt with their bank.

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.

'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'

Americans started the Internet, that is the Arpanet, in 1969, but the WWW, which is the main PUBLIC part of the Internet was created as described by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Geneva ( the same people who gave us the Higgs Boson.

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.

Don't forget Richard Trevithick's steam locomotive, Frank Wittle's jet engine, and Alan Turing's digital computer. 😃

@9:10 Remember, Coca Cola has soda water as a base.... it's basically inventing fizzy drinks.

Tim Berners Lee didn't actually invent the Internet, he developed HTML, or the early derivation of it, which enabled the coding required for the GUI to create web sites (for example) and the embedded clickable link.

Lawn mowing (the act of cutting your lawn) was actually invented many years b4 the date given. It was started by rich landowners who would cut their grass in order to make other landoweners think they had large flocks of sheep on their land. It developed into the machine as time passed.

Also Hubert Cecil Both invented vacuum cleaners, Ferris wheels and Factories. İnteresting that although Americans have often taken inventions from the UK and made improvements. It was in fact James Dyson another inventor from the UK who finally reinvented the vacuum cleaner, as well as Hair Dryers and a growing amount of products.

Don't forget some other British inventions, penicillin, the steam engine, the electronic computer (kept secret for a long time as it was developed and used during WW2 for decyphering coded messages, so the US thought they invented it a few years later, including Bill Carter in his second inaugural address) and the cat flap (invented by Isaac Newton who also invented differential calculus and identified the existence of gravity among other things). There is still a hovercraft service to the Isle of Wight, and the US Navy and Marines also use some large hovercraft.

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