Thanks, I never knew that, handy for pub quizzes

Since when was the UK a country? xD

@@ajaxlewis7664 1707, with the most recent borders established 1922.

The UK comprises of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The Royal Mail has sway over all those countries and you never see a stamp emblazoned with the name England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland. That was the point I was trying to make in a brief text. Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man not being a part of the UK do have to put their names on their postage stamps as does every other country in the world.

@@dcarbs2979 I'm from the country England. I think it would sound a bit silly if I said "I'm from the country, United Kingdom" xD

Tim Berners-Lee wasn't working alone in CERN when he developed the HTTP protocol

This is a list of things you didn't know. Surely everyone knows he invented the WWW.

@@asicdathens True, but it was his idea to begin with and he did a lot of the heavy lifting, so it's fair to say that without him it wouldn't have happened, or at least not in the way it did.

@@asicdathens but he had the copyright.. he decided to gave it AWAY for free. Shame he didn't charge a penny an hour.. could of paid off the UK national debt

@@hughcalder6156 He worked on it with some other while being employed at CERN . The patents , if any, belong to CERN . Http protocol was published as open standard from IETF

Eddison didn't invent anything, he was an entrepreneur taking others inventions and making them into a profitable business venture same as gold rushes the company's selling them the equipment made the big money.

Edison was a marketing genius, not an inventor.

@@dave_h_8742 Yep. Basically Edison was the Steve Jobs of his day

@@zahrans and probably made more money than him too, for the time.

Eddison in my mind will always be known as the man who ripped off Tesla.

I guess it was the sign of the Times, I mean equals, as long as, it doesn't devide us.

A tea drinking song?

@@ultrademigod not without all that tax that was evaded :P nope, it was a pub song!

The internet yes we did The USA invented the precursor the intranet

H. G. Wells first came up with the concept of the internet in his book 'When the Sleeper Wakes' - first written as a serial for The Graphic between 1898 and 1903, before revising the story in 1910 as 'The Sleeper Awakes'. His idea of what we know as the internet, was called ' The World Brain'.

@@robanderson473 Tesla wrote about the concept in 1860 ish

@@madyottoyotto3055 Yeah? Cool 👍 Tesla was a man ahead of his time, that's for sure. A damn shame he never had a mind for business, as we'd likely be living in a different world and for the better!? Sadly we'll never know.

The postage stamp has nothing to do n with the tax just the name stamp

That's because unlike our colonial cousins we don't spend all our money on the military industrial complex and blowing the shit out of everyone else and put the money towards technologies that are beneficial to everyone.

@@StubbornBullet No we just manufacture the munitions and flog them to our colonial cousins to blow the shit out of each other….

@@fredflintstone4416 Pure capitalism haha

@@StubbornBullet dear oh dear …..

@@fredflintstone4416 🤣🤣🤣

The BBC inaugated the first proper public high definition television service in the world in 1936. By proper I mean that it set out to be an ongoing public service showing a huge range of scheduled pre published programmes, plays, talks, variety, music, sports, cartoons, outside broadcasts etc, that were intended to be viewed by people in their own homes on tv sets they had bought themselves. Before then any television that did exist was experimental and in Germany for example could only be viewed in public viewing rooms and not in the home.

The National Science and Media museum in Bradford has Baird original experiment in their collection stores. When I saw it, it almost made me jump. The dummy’s head and the rotating wheels were very distinctive!

@@marcuswardle3180 Baird's chief engineer, Mr. Ben Clapp, used to live in Coulsdon, then in Surrey now in London, a cupla miles from me. I stand to be corrected but I understand the local Farthing Downs, a high point, was used by Baird to send the first live tv pictures to the USA using aerials attached to kites. This was in the 1920's long before satellites.

My grandad was an apprentice with John Logie Baird at Edinburgh college of engineering, my grandad went on to design engines for ships.

@@trevordance5181 I don’t think this could have occurred as Baird was only transmitting simple pictures in 1924. You can bounce low frequency radio waves off of the ionosphere though.

Sorry, you are not quite accurate on the computer. Early forms of programmable computer had been available long before, but they were programmed externally using things like punched cards and cables. Manchester did have the first computer to run a program stored in its own memory and the first company to sell computers commercially - Ferrantis. I believe they managed to sell two. There are lots of firsts in the development of computers, depending on exactly what definition you use.

@@peterjackson4763 Yep. I've heard it most commonly described as the first "stored program computer", which is also a little ambiguous. I was having a bit of a senior moment when I commented - should have checked I remembered correctly. I lived near the Ferranti building on Hollinwood Avenue as a child, but didn't know exactly what they did at the time.

Yep!

Thanks for that 🙂

That's my "Learn something new everyday" for today.

You are correct

Grantham? Was Lincoln. I do believe that some engine parts came from Gtown but the first tanks are from stamp end lincoln :)

www.visitlincoln.com/about-lincoln/history-heritage/birthplace-of-the-tank/

Even now, whether you like em or not, ed sheeran and Adele are two of the biggest currently. Coldplay too. Not too long ago there was oasis.

Not so. You are only speaking of late 20th and 21st century pop music. Even then, a few very popular artists doesn't outweigh the enormous number of composers and musicians over centuries.

@@laurieharper1526 ok, popular music is what i was getting at

@@laurieharper1526 henry purcell, charles avison, thomas arne, ivor atkins, john blow.. to name but a tiny few of many historic composers from the uk.

@@robc1014 You are making my point for me. A "tiny few" indeed. The world is a very big place and we are just a small part of it, artistically and in every other way.

Yes. I know this. There were parts were it said English, which is why I said England at these spots. I know the UK is made up of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Where it said an Englishman invented it or invented in England, I said England.

Stop being pedantic.

And while the man was out at work. And the lady was normally at home, he never knew about most of the post and letters that arrived each day.

Slags ! Sorry I'm drunk. Hic.

Yeah but the post person could come up to 12 times a day

@@Oddballkane but how many times would he deliver mail? ;-)

@@dcarbs2979 😅😅😅😅😅😅

Those road grinding machines were also a British invention but as per always, the City didn't back him so he sold the idea abroad. Now we rent them back at massive costs !

@@0utcastAussie the city does seem to be the myopic controlling influence. It is responsible for selling off many good high tech UK companies. The British government is never prepared to invest to the point where the industry grows to make money. In my view the sale of Arm Holdings was a disaster for the UK computer industry. The uk is very good at being in at the beginning of a new technology. A technology that often originates in university research departments, but sometimes in our high tech industries research labs. But as soon as the idea gains world interest, we promptly sell it off for a quick profit, then years later the country spends millions or billions, buying foreign made products based on the idea. It is often argued that the UK simply does not have the funds to exploit high tech developments to maturity, but the reason we increasingly lack the money, is because of previous failures to do so. One only needs to look at the mobile phone industry to see how the UK gave away its lead. We do not make televisions, or personal computers. We buy them from the far east at great cost to the country. There is no reason why we could have not been a world leading manufacture in this technology. The UK has just sold to foreign interests, a silicon semiconductor fabrication plant in Wales. There seem not a month goes by without news of yet another sale of one of our high tech industries. The reason is usually greedy, avaricious, myopic management and shareholders. Its time the government stopped such sales, in the national interest.

In other words, the UK should seek the exploitation model of the Capitalist U.S. of A?

@@AgendaFiles yes!

I'm not going to check (because this is the internet) but I hope that's true, as it's so funny.

@@alanmumford8806 I've fact checked myself... it was valentines cards not birthday cards and they were known as Vinegar Valentines and emerged in the 1830's. The Royal Mail wiki page states that the sender paying was not introduced until the 1840's so there was a good 10 years where this was the case. I think I saw it on QI once which makes it true! 🤣

I'm from Oldham, the clinic where Louise was conceived has a blue plaque on it now.

Saving the last for best.

The yanks got plans of the bellx 1 off the Germans. They found it to hard to get the tail to work they taken it off are plane the UK one tail design that was very much a head of the yanks just are gov stop it flying because of penny pinching few years after they droped the plane from a other plane and it worked 😔 if was not for UK gov we would of got mk 1st

No My uncle invented the Red Amber Green sequence of the Traffic light, the first one was displayed here in my hometown in I think late 50s.

frank whittle jet engine shed was at baginton just outside coventry.

And we're the only country that still uses it as a commercial form of transport (between Portsmouth and IOW), since the cross-channel service ended in the 90s.

@@dcarbs2979 I worked on a refit of 2 that were used somewhere in Scandinavia but I don't know if they were used as ferries. and when the wind is in the right direction I can hear the hovercraft on Ryde beach. those twin 12 cylinder engines are loud but it's a beautiful sound

Also metal rivets, cats eyes, splitting the atom.

No the yanks invented rock and PUnk..........but the BRITISH PERFECTED IT and simply outclassed the americans in it forever

Well may be not created RnR but they did 🤔 errrrrrh "encourage" alot of Africans to errrrrrh "resettle/move" to the US and as a result of the infusion of Afro beats into traditional US music RnR bloomed.

Is it still in use?

@@dcarbs2979 😆 ... it should be!

As someone who lives here I can confirm there's no shortage of people we could use it on.

It was in Easton,Bristol

@@The_Prophet... 😂🤦‍♂️

@@The_Prophet... 😄 Scotland is just England's sidecar, along for the ride.

@@The_Prophet... so what did scotland invent that made the world modern? And don't say the telephone....that was actually Italian

@@The_Prophet... it always amuses me when Scots blame England for the empire. Proportionally it was a Scots and Irish empire. Most soldiers Scots and Irish. Most settlers Scots and Irish. Most slave owners Scots and Irish. Doesn’t suit your bullshit narrative though does it?

@@madisntit6547 Ye I should have added plane type or something, I will do that now before I get an onslaught :). It was in fact a glider but he had plans for an engine till the dozy sod decided to die a couple of years later. A Tyke too by the way :).

@@madisntit6547 Saved my bacon 😃.

To be fair the Wright brothers gave Cayley due credit in their research. Whilst better known for his founding of the science of aeronautics Cayley's other inventions also made the modern world; tension wire spoked wheel (bicycle), Universal railway (catapillar track).

@@alastairmellor966Oh yes it is just a pity he did not get as much credit here in the UK as many others fail to do. I know the Wright brothers laid the foundations at Carey's door without any hesitation and great credit to them for that.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the web and http protocol. ARPA, the defence research agency in the USA, funded development of computer networking. NSF funded use of networks in the research community. But it was Berners-Lee who (indirectly) made the network available to the wider public by making it easy to access information stored on networks.

Started reading but got bored half way through. Thanks though

@Cobalt Jester tell that garbage to a academic on British history and they will s**t themselves laughing. Over simplified it? It's so ill informed it's made me angry. To think you could even begin to explain the origins of Britain's industrialisation and breakthroughs in science here is ridiculous. You actually gave rain as a genuine reason?!!? That alone is beyond comtept. Keep your made up "throries" to yourself

Jesus, lighten up people

No your right. But I think the greatest gift we gave to the world was the Industrial revolution.

@@woowee4452 So sorry to hear you have ADHD.

Ha,ha!

Previous efforts at 'curing' female hysteria were, how to put this politely, at the actual hands of the doctor. So women fainting at posh do's was a lady's way of getting a HJ from a Doctor. In those times probably the only way to have an orgasm for the woman! They had to get something out of life considering the chainsaw was originally invented for assisting with difficult births. I kid you not.

I've been taking Viagra eye drops, they make me look 'ard.

Be careful where you drop that joke, it’s an antique.

Actually the red rose symbolizes the House of Lancaster and the white rose the House of York. The war of the roses was between these two Houses and the winner (Lancaster) combined the two roses to form the Tudor Rose.

It's because it was easier then undressing the women....🙄

also the reason why Scotland invented scotch

Saunders Roe?

@@davidwallin7518 For the float jet? Yeah

my grandad worked with frank whittle after ww2.

Widely spoken perhaps because of the Empire.

@@harrybarrow6222 Spain,France,Portugal and Italy weren't part of our Empire.Every time I have been n holiday to one of the country's I am amazed that even in a tiny cafe or bar,the waiter will be able to speak English.

@@michaelscales5996 or more likely to have originaly come from England many yeats ago and looking for somewhere to hide

@@ronrichardson3103 :)

Even spoken in space as star trek has shown

Definitely

James Clerk Maxwell, the greatest scientist of all time, known as the father of science and was Albert Einstiens inspiration. Maxwell was the scientist that created the colour spectrum, he calculated the speed of light, he created the worlds first colour photograph....he was 30 years ahead of every other scientist in the world, he was so far ahead of his time that nobody had any idea what he was talking about....when they finally understood what he was trying to tell them the modern world was born. Oh and he was Scottish.

@@garymcatear822 Geology was born in Scotland. The first ever kidney transplant was in Edinburgh. Winston Churchill was a cunt to the Scots though, no matter how congratulatory he sounds in this quote. He set troops against the public in Glasgow.

@@garymcatear822 Without of course the many others that have made the modern world, that gave us information of which, this world would not be the same! Darwin & Newton are two of those! 🇬🇧

@@jonnylumberjack6223 I read he had a tank division on standby in Glasgow as well as the troops.