What did the British ever do for us? (scientifically)

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Reef Rebels

Reef Rebels

Ай бұрын

It has famously been asked "What did the Romans ever do for us." But what about the British? It is fashionable to malign Britain and its old empire - but their scientific achievements alone saved billions of lives. This video is a far-too-short summary of some of the major British advances in science and technology
Dr Peter Ridd is a physicist who has written over 100 scientific publications in international journal.
Since being fired by James Cook University for raising concerns about science quality assurance issues, Peter Ridd works receives no payment for any of the work he does.
Also see / projectforrealsciencer...

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@classicalmusic1175
@classicalmusic1175 Ай бұрын
To all British haters out there You're welcome...
@JosephB-tv7gf
@JosephB-tv7gf Ай бұрын
The haters out there exist due to the Brits. In passing, only the other week I found out the Brits invented the first blood transfusion service. And are far the largest per capita donors of all demographics in Britain today.
@BritishBeachcomber
@BritishBeachcomber Ай бұрын
What do you mean by that.
@johnbell-yn5xe
@johnbell-yn5xe Ай бұрын
He means who gets the most criticism from people the man who builds a successful company or the man who picks up the litter in his carpark Thats us the Brits
@prophetsnake
@prophetsnake Ай бұрын
That's pretty much everyone.
@user-xd9rn8vu1z
@user-xd9rn8vu1z Ай бұрын
Interesting that you would recognise that there would be many haters.
@leearnold2832
@leearnold2832 24 күн бұрын
and don't forget the Brits sacrificed their empire to stop hitler
@mrsuperger5429
@mrsuperger5429 27 күн бұрын
Britain civilised the world, for which they will never be forgiven.
@tokenspirit6140
@tokenspirit6140 25 күн бұрын
Now, that's a bit like saying we are the best in the world. Uncivilized at the moment.
@Liquid278
@Liquid278 23 күн бұрын
Because of the way we did it, just like everyone else mind you but we were the best at it so everyone hates us
@timobrien2813
@timobrien2813 22 күн бұрын
And never forgiven!
@tempejkl
@tempejkl 22 күн бұрын
You know, telling people that suffered under colonialism that they should be grateful is probably the worst thing you can do when you want them to like you.
@ChristineRead-ck1uq
@ChristineRead-ck1uq 22 күн бұрын
@@tokenspirit6140 Ah but that isn't the British, is it?
@waynesmith4589
@waynesmith4589 29 күн бұрын
Most of the British haters are simply jealous.
@khankrum1
@khankrum1 3 күн бұрын
Or Morons!
@Ubique2927
@Ubique2927 3 күн бұрын
Or just I G N O R A N T.
@morgand8727
@morgand8727 Күн бұрын
Obviously! that's a given!
@DS-fk7ed
@DS-fk7ed Ай бұрын
Well, I'm proud of being British. Rule Britannia.
@benhodkinson6467
@benhodkinson6467 Ай бұрын
Indeed! God save the King!
@stevesilk51
@stevesilk51 Ай бұрын
Me too. No country should call themselves the greatest (USA try to) but Britain , (inc. England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland) are way up there.
@lostintranslation1957
@lostintranslation1957 Ай бұрын
I'm proud of being old British, I'm not proud of being that new invention that the Tories have pushed. This anti-constitutional perversity they call multicultural.
@user-rb3zh6sz1b
@user-rb3zh6sz1b Ай бұрын
​@@benhodkinson6467 God save the King 🇬🇧
@youme1414
@youme1414 29 күн бұрын
You are proud of being a colonialist. Jeez!
@leet3207
@leet3207 Ай бұрын
Its just a pity we Brits are not allowed to celebrate any of our achievements in this strange modern world.
@sarahjones7239
@sarahjones7239 29 күн бұрын
We are allowed there is just a minority of anti western anti British who try to destabilise us…..don’t let them x🇬🇧
@johnnunn8688
@johnnunn8688 29 күн бұрын
Yes, yes I am.
@benjamincjholmes
@benjamincjholmes 28 күн бұрын
We are allowed. And it's high time we speak them proudly.
@--novus-ordo-secrolum-un--8820
@--novus-ordo-secrolum-un--8820 27 күн бұрын
Stand up for your culture or we will be Erased!
@BillDavies-ej6ye
@BillDavies-ej6ye 27 күн бұрын
Speak for yourself. As an engineer in three distinct technologies, I am proud of the foundations created by my forebears. And, for our failings, who did more to iradicate slavery in the world? Or, through colonisation, created a new lingua franca that many are keen to learn and profit from today?
@hafmaint7557
@hafmaint7557 28 күн бұрын
As a 83 year old Welsh Brit we oldies remember the history of WW2 its thanks to the Canadian Australian New Zealand India and many other Commonwealth country's who helped us. I have visited Normandy many times in my life and seen the graves of the young men lying there thank you to all those countries for being with us in our darkest days.
@peterjohnston377
@peterjohnston377 22 күн бұрын
Well said.
@resnonverba137
@resnonverba137 20 күн бұрын
Countries...
@BoxTunnel
@BoxTunnel 18 күн бұрын
Indeed we do, also non-commonwealth countries such as Poland, France, South Africa and others.
@farmerned6
@farmerned6 14 күн бұрын
Debts of blood that can never be repaid especially (for me) the young men from other countries that fought and died in the Battle of Britain
@YusiAnimated-
@YusiAnimated- 11 күн бұрын
it's all thanks to the Queensland and her dominions that we have a free world today
@petereames3041
@petereames3041 28 күн бұрын
Not to mention the magna carta and the british common law tradition which is the foundation of all Western democracies.
@Mad-Cowpat
@Mad-Cowpat 21 күн бұрын
British Common Law dates further back than Magna Carta: The Molmutine Laws of the ancient Britons. They are given in the form of triads and include: There are three tests of civil liberty: equality of rights, equality of taxation, freedom to come and go. Three things are indispensable to a true union of nations: sameness of laws, rights, and language. There are three things free to all Britons: the forest, the unworked mine, the right of hunting. There are three property birthrights of every Briton: five British acres of land for a home, the right of suffrage in the enacting of the laws, the male at twenty-one, the female on her marriage. There are three things which every Briton may legally be compelled to attend: the worship of God, military service, the courts of law. There are three things free to every man, Briton or foreigner, the refusal of which no law will justify: water from spring, river, or well; firing from a decayed tree; a block of stone not in use. There are three classes which are exempt from bearing arms: bards, judges, graduates in law or religion. These represent God and His peace, and no weapon must ever be found in their hands. There are three persons who have a right of public maintenance: the old, the babe, the foreigner who can not speak the British tongue. There are three things free to a country and its borders: the roads, the rivers, and the places of worship. These are under the protection of God and His peace.[7]
@user-xn4gf9ll3y
@user-xn4gf9ll3y Ай бұрын
As a professional life long British person, I'd like to thank all my ancestors for being really, really good at inventing stuff.
@richardhockey8442
@richardhockey8442 Ай бұрын
standing on the shoulders of giants
@itwoznotme
@itwoznotme Ай бұрын
and building it! its just a shame about the current generation who just want to tell everyone what they are doing on facebook or whatever twatter is called these days.
@SvenTviking
@SvenTviking Ай бұрын
And war! We were great at that.
@alandyer1646
@alandyer1646 Ай бұрын
South Africa, former British colony, that performed the first heart transplant and invented the CAT scan.
@prophetsnake
@prophetsnake Ай бұрын
Like the concentration camp, for example?
@andyf4292
@andyf4292 Ай бұрын
we basically invented the 20th century. and probably the 19th- and we ended slavery.
@ToothbrushMan
@ToothbrushMan Ай бұрын
Er. First, we didn't end slavery. Slavery never stopped. Second, prohibiting slavery after 9 million were enslaved is too little, too late.
@stevewilcox6375
@stevewilcox6375 Ай бұрын
There are more slaves now than ever!!
@mouthstick-gaming
@mouthstick-gaming Ай бұрын
We may have been amongst the first to end slavery, but by God we profited from it immensely before that time. It's also a little-known fact that when did finally abolish slavery, we gave out the equivalent of millions of pounds of compensation...to the slave OWNERS, not the slaves themselves.
@mpetersen6
@mpetersen6 Ай бұрын
Well, Britian did not end slavery. I will admit that they pretty much shut down the Atlantic Slave Trade in the early 19th Century. The Anti Slave Trade Squadron also had ships from the US Navy assigned to it. But the Brits carried the load. Still slaves were flowing North and East to other cultural areas. And in the 1830s Britain officially ended slavery in the Empire. But I'd be willing to bet it was still going on quietly in places. The other two major European derived countries with slavery abolished the practice in the 1860s. In one it took a Traumatic Civil War. In the other, Brazil, it was done fairly peacefully. Unfortunately the practice still exists in parts of the world. Even in so calledcivilized parts.
@DerekLangdon
@DerekLangdon Ай бұрын
Slavery is alive and well bud. Even in Britain!
@chrisbingham3289
@chrisbingham3289 Ай бұрын
It's time us Brits stop being modest , polite and humble and declare “we gave you the best life you could have and ask for nothing in return but respect”.
@tempejkl
@tempejkl 22 күн бұрын
Nothing in return except 47 trillion from India, trillions from Ireland and Africa 😂😂😂 We gave you all that and we ask for nothing but yous to fǔck 0ff and mind your own business
@traceys8065
@traceys8065 29 күн бұрын
As a Scot i say thank you for this video 🙏 What we achieved as a small nation is incredible. And as a collective, us Brits were genuineness
@Ionabrodie69
@Ionabrodie69 29 күн бұрын
Well said and quite agree , as an Englishwoman from the North it’s great to have such clever neighbours 👍😊
@michaelrowsell1160
@michaelrowsell1160 Ай бұрын
Don't tell the Guardian about this as it will ruin their day
@faithpearlgenied-a5517
@faithpearlgenied-a5517 Ай бұрын
Idiotic comment.
@margaretflounders8510
@margaretflounders8510 Ай бұрын
LOL...Good!
@user-wn1dl3kk6r
@user-wn1dl3kk6r Ай бұрын
Oh Guardian????????? 👍😁
@Zakalwe123
@Zakalwe123 Ай бұрын
I'm a guardian reader. This is great.
@harry2.01
@harry2.01 Ай бұрын
Great comment Michael, don't forget "The Independent" as well.
@_bav
@_bav Ай бұрын
As an Englishman, I have to doff my cap to our Scottish brethren - whilst the Brits as a whole have punched well above their weight in the invention of modernity, the Scots have made a massive contribution that belies their relatively small population. 👋👋👋👋
@benhodkinson6467
@benhodkinson6467 Ай бұрын
Hear hear!
@YARROWS9
@YARROWS9 Ай бұрын
Yeah. England and Scotland are like Lennon/McCartney. Creative geniuses.
@Rexkramer68
@Rexkramer68 Ай бұрын
Scottish are British
@McConnachy
@McConnachy Ай бұрын
And we fought the wars. But we have a harsh history, and it got worse in the union. Cultural & linguistic genocide and the clearances, which is a polite term for ethnic cleansing.
@richrobson220
@richrobson220 Ай бұрын
@@Rexkramer68no they’re Scottish, numpty
@MegaJambo22
@MegaJambo22 Ай бұрын
I've always attributed our inventiveness down to the British weather. " I was planning a nice walk, but the weather is crap so I'll stay in and invent something important".
@susanpowell6449
@susanpowell6449 26 күн бұрын
Yes indeed, The Optical Time Domain Reflectometer was invented during a light shower over Grimsby (at the on the same day as Marmite) But not by the same bloke...though coincidently they were both called Jim and wore knitted top hats.
@TheShiner46
@TheShiner46 17 күн бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@EmperorsNewWardrobe
@EmperorsNewWardrobe 26 күн бұрын
Just imagine ending slavery and then getting guilt tripped for it heavily today while the Arab slave trade was longer, bigger, crueller, and yet Arab guilt isn’t even a concept, let alone a match in guilt. Hell, the main Arab idol utterly worshipped today was a slave trader himself…
@mmcc5846
@mmcc5846 9 күн бұрын
Emperor the British never ended slavery that is a lie
@g6otu
@g6otu Ай бұрын
British are by far the best of all nations that have existed bar none.
@Imagineering100
@Imagineering100 Ай бұрын
No way
@DerekLangdon
@DerekLangdon Ай бұрын
The best of all nations? The British are fond of mutual masturbation. It makes them feel so good about themselves.
@frogandspanner
@frogandspanner Ай бұрын
But you have to admit that Ozzie's have taken our humour and cursing, and improved them beyond recognition.
@Angelcynn001
@Angelcynn001 Ай бұрын
and that is why every parasitically leeching third world retard wants to come here.
@davidtuer5825
@davidtuer5825 Ай бұрын
But, The English, the English, the English are best. We couldn't give tuppence for all of the rest.
@andrewdoubtfire4700
@andrewdoubtfire4700 Ай бұрын
And ended slavery, virtually bankrupting themselves in the process.Not because they had to, but because it was the right thing to do.
@user-it7lf7kk8m
@user-it7lf7kk8m Ай бұрын
And virtually bankrupted ourselves saving europe from themselves yet again (with the commonwealth and US of course)
@kennethrollo7891
@kennethrollo7891 Ай бұрын
No, they didn't bankrupt themselves. They handed out government money to themselves.
@elkpaz560
@elkpaz560 Ай бұрын
@@kennethrollo7891 In other words they taxed the British people to ensure that the freedom of the slaves was not challenged. In doing so, they avoided a civil war. British pragmatism supporting British morality.
@andylewis7360
@andylewis7360 Ай бұрын
@@kennethrollo7891In fact, the British government BORROWED that money in 1833 and every British citizen who paid tax up until 2014 contributed to paying off that debt. And that doesn’t include the Billions, by modern day standards that Britain and the USA spent to eradicate The Barbary Pirate slavers. You’re welcome.
@nealerennie9912
@nealerennie9912 Ай бұрын
The White British ended slavery between the black Africans and white Europeans.But slavery is still happening today in Africa and has been between African tribes forever.And don’t start me on other non European countries it’s only white people who are very naught isn’t it everyone 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@joa8227
@joa8227 26 күн бұрын
This made me cry. My daughter and step-kids were not taught any of this. They believe anyone can choose their gender. They don't cope at all with debate or scientific questions. They are brainwashed by the internet, by the media, by the government. They know nothing. The only historical fact my daughter was taught in school in history (in the USA where we lived for a few years) was 'in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue'. When we moved back to the UK, she was overwhelmed. Thank you for this video.
@RandomerFellow
@RandomerFellow Ай бұрын
You discovered the most substances in the periodic table with us (Swedes) in second place. Science has always been close to our hearts.
@RJW998
@RJW998 Ай бұрын
British inventions = The modern world.
@dogsand77
@dogsand77 Ай бұрын
correction china is shaping the world in the 21st century, overpassing all the former british colonies and current commonwealth countries
@MarquisVincentBissetdeGramont
@MarquisVincentBissetdeGramont 29 күн бұрын
*European inventions/ideas
@sprinter1832
@sprinter1832 26 күн бұрын
Industrial Revolution, BRITISH! who else would have built cast iron ships, when the whole world was pissing about in wooden ships and canoes!🤣😂😅
@Steelninja77
@Steelninja77 23 күн бұрын
@@MarquisVincentBissetdeGramont What are?
@bucklr11
@bucklr11 23 күн бұрын
The only European ideas were from the Romans
@MrMegan1962
@MrMegan1962 Ай бұрын
We virtually invented everything, now we need to invent a way of getting rid of people that hate us.
@dancarter482
@dancarter482 29 күн бұрын
_Volcanoes_ Are somewhat undervalued for their exceptional waste disposal capabilities!
@Jamie_Pritchard
@Jamie_Pritchard 29 күн бұрын
I think we already came up with concentration camps... lol
@leighstreet8298
@leighstreet8298 28 күн бұрын
Very true, I had a volume argument with an invader today, as to why we need them, as we the British are lazy, stupid and incompetent at running the the country...
@jacksprat9172
@jacksprat9172 28 күн бұрын
They can start by arresting anyone supporting terrorist organisations like hamas or waving a swastika on British streets. Then make it a jailable offence for any news organisation to purposely mislead or lie to the public, that takes care of much of the mainstream media, from the guardian to the bbc. Then withdraw funding from universities who are spreading marxist philosophy and had half the country on its knees on behalf of blm which is run by a bunch of thieving, racist swindlers. And to all the net zero climate change cult members, who want to close our farms down (which would cause instant starvation across Europe)..........piss off! If a cow farts in Holland the sun will not set the Earth on fire, however much you may want it to, not going to happen, sorry doom-mongers. No Western Democracy is inherently racist though you may come across the odd one here and there, I encountered one once, about twenty years ago and told him what he could go do to himself, problem solved. Scrap DEI, its enforced racism and deport anyone from any hr department.....................anywhere, maybe a lost island. Stop promoting folk because they're the right colour or sex because that is racist and sexist. Anyone mentioning micro aggressions or practising cancel culture(especially those who deny it exists) gets sent to live with the hr department, as do all illegal immigrants and those who are not identifying as one of two, and only two, genders. Any politician with links to WEF can go rule over the hr departments island utopia. While I'm at it, anyone using terms like 'un-alived' can go there too.
@wingcommanderdaltonwalton67
@wingcommanderdaltonwalton67 28 күн бұрын
He never even touched on Common Law or Democracy,which without that those nobheads wouldn’t have a voice to hate us with!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧💪🏻
@mikespike007
@mikespike007 12 күн бұрын
I’m a very proud Brit and I will not apologise for our mistakes until the rest of the world says thankyou for our contributions
@ShanePalmer-yo4og
@ShanePalmer-yo4og Ай бұрын
Even as a Brit I don't think I'd ever thought about just how much this country has been responsible for inventing. It does make you proud to be British. Yes, there are also some things we from history that we cannot be proud of. But when you consider just how much influence we have had in getting society to the level it is today, well, I doff my cap to Brits of the past. I do think young Brits should watch this as I believe all too often we are made to feel ashamed of our own country. We seem the be the "whipping boy" of modern society, but where would modern society be without the British inventions of the last few hundred years? Well, probably still in the dark ages. Thank you for presenting this video, I'll now have a look at other things you have done. Kind Regards,
@thegeneralist7527
@thegeneralist7527 Ай бұрын
I admire Great Britain so much I married a pommie. One side of my family is Scottish, and the other side English. I've always considered myself a proud colonial Canadian. One should not forget the contributions of English literature and of course the legendary English wit. What have the British ever done for me? Well, everything.
@reefrebels
@reefrebels Ай бұрын
Beautifully expressed 👏
@H4CK61
@H4CK61 Ай бұрын
Very well said mate.
@markpitts5194
@markpitts5194 Ай бұрын
English bloody literature????? You should have read some of the shit we had to do for O level exams!
@johnbell-yn5xe
@johnbell-yn5xe Ай бұрын
Thanks 👍
@andylewis7360
@andylewis7360 Ай бұрын
@@markpitts5194Such as?
@davidbarlow350
@davidbarlow350 Ай бұрын
The British Empire was so disliked by all those it occupied,that every one of them joined The Commonwealth. I don't see any other colonising power achieving that.
@stephenburgess5109
@stephenburgess5109 Ай бұрын
So true didn't see Indonesia join a Dutch Commonwealth when they became independent and for the Pacific South Seas territories they are still ruled over by a European power the French in 2024
@dogsand77
@dogsand77 Ай бұрын
correction china is shaping the world in the 21st century, overpassing all the former british colonies and current commonwealth countries
@dogsand77
@dogsand77 Ай бұрын
compare china's rise with the british empire's rise, The brits used their empire to conquer others that resulted in over 100 million of deaths, plundering india's wealth, stealing of native lands. While china's rise doesn't involve wars of conquest, stealing of lands, genocide of natives etc, they have a far superior economic system. When comparing the 2 countries china dwarfs britain in terms of accomplishments and gdp and growth and scientific advancements etc
@HieronymousCheese
@HieronymousCheese Ай бұрын
Like the USA?
@user-rb3zh6sz1b
@user-rb3zh6sz1b Ай бұрын
You're 💯% correct!
@stevenvater8720
@stevenvater8720 29 күн бұрын
This should be compulsory education
@johnjamesflashman6856
@johnjamesflashman6856 Күн бұрын
The problem is we are too modest.
@LW1Tok
@LW1Tok 25 күн бұрын
As a 24 year old Pacific Islander I thank the Brits for thier ancestors who made invaluable contributions to humanity's advancement. I am grateful to be born in a time far better then any other as a result of Western Civilization Project. I wish more of the young Brits today would be taught to appreciate their heritage.
@AJGeeTV
@AJGeeTV Ай бұрын
As a Brit I have to say a big 'Thank You' for making this video. So many young Brits today are made to feel ashamed for being British. They should all sit down, watch this, and be proud and thankful.
@ewencameron1548
@ewencameron1548 Ай бұрын
Jolly good show
@edgeofeternity744
@edgeofeternity744 Ай бұрын
Here here!
@malpreece5008
@malpreece5008 29 күн бұрын
Well said. I’m doing my best to counter the anti-British nonsense taught at my children’s school, but it’s relentless. Still, if we can remind younger generations of the great achievements of their forebears I’m sure it will inspire them in the future. 🇬🇧👍🏻
@lordhoot1
@lordhoot1 29 күн бұрын
Nobody has to feel ashamed of where they're from. But if you're going to choose to be proud you'd better at least be honest with yourself about the good and the bad. Or else it's just another kind of narcissism.
@ryu_san_
@ryu_san_ 29 күн бұрын
Thank you, well said!
@TioDeive
@TioDeive Ай бұрын
It's just jaw dropping when you realise how much one nation contributed to humanity when it comes to science. Mad respect for the British, past and present. Cheers from Brazil.
@TheCornish123456
@TheCornish123456 Ай бұрын
In reality if he was to list everything the video would have been hours long.
@sedekiman824
@sedekiman824 Ай бұрын
Perhaps parliamentary proceedure?
@SirAntoniousBlock
@SirAntoniousBlock Ай бұрын
Err thats because they were already an empire (and so had the wealth and power) when the industrial age happened, they also sat upon easily accessible coal deposits which powered it.
@love-conquers-all
@love-conquers-all Ай бұрын
Ty for your kind words with love from britain
@neil8675
@neil8675 Ай бұрын
Thank you, You have a positive open mind!
@danielanthony8373
@danielanthony8373 Ай бұрын
As an Aussie very very grateful to the Brits you gave us this great country down under although the labor party here is trying hard to destroy it Ledger Brits 98% Good 2% Bad
@razzle1964
@razzle1964 Ай бұрын
As a Brit we, too, are grateful you gave us the likes of the Waugh brothers, AC/DC, Jimmy Barnes, Kylie & Skippy. Cheers & “g’day, y’bastard”. 😉😅✌️🤘
@covertcounsellor6797
@covertcounsellor6797 Ай бұрын
Dead right, Daniel! To all those whingers complaining about the British Empire… especially the “Vote Yes” brigade, I always say, imagine what would have happened if the French, Belgians or Imperial Germans had settled Australia. For your answer, I suggest you Google “Lothar von Trotha” or Leopold II of Belgium.
@LittleBallOfPurr
@LittleBallOfPurr Ай бұрын
A lot of us think of you Aussies as close of a member of the family as England, Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland. Aussie humour is my favourite in the world.
@tempejkl
@tempejkl 22 күн бұрын
Of course you Aussies liked it, yous were the ones benefitting, not the ones being starved to death and put into the world's first concentration camps and human zoos.
@tempejkl
@tempejkl 22 күн бұрын
⁠@@LittleBallOfPurrWe are not part of your 'family'. We've had enough of your "past"
@douglasstrother6584
@douglasstrother6584 28 күн бұрын
The collaboration between Faraday and Maxwell is sorely under-appreciated.
@douglasstrother6584
@douglasstrother6584 28 күн бұрын
... and Oliver Heaviside's subsequent contributions.
@benhodkinson6467
@benhodkinson6467 Ай бұрын
Music….. MUSIC!!!! The British contribution to modern music is extraordinary
@user-rb3zh6sz1b
@user-rb3zh6sz1b Ай бұрын
Innit tho'? 😂
@traceys8065
@traceys8065 29 күн бұрын
Yes!
@paulmay396
@paulmay396 28 күн бұрын
Absolutely, hard rock and heavy metal were nurtured here and turned into global stadium-filling events known wolrdwide.
@paulmay396
@paulmay396 28 күн бұрын
and punk rock!
@robertmac9057
@robertmac9057 27 күн бұрын
Oh yes, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Queen, Elton John, David Bowie and loads more.
@thetruthhurts7675
@thetruthhurts7675 Ай бұрын
You missed the biggest of all The COMPUTER was invented by Charles Babbage, in 1837, he named it the computer, and Ada countess of Lovelace invented computer programming for said computer. So this video would NOT be possible without two English people.
@geoffnichols3831
@geoffnichols3831 27 күн бұрын
I think that is the reason we are hated so much around the world, because no other country comes anywhere near us, ask the Americans about inventions n they truely believe they invented everything that the Brits actually did, a small island actually ruled most of the world because of it's inventions.
@mrsentencename7334
@mrsentencename7334 26 күн бұрын
the America revolutionary war was a British civil war no matter how you cut it. We shouldn't compete with the Americans we should combine our tally
@MrJohnL21
@MrJohnL21 Ай бұрын
I think we've forgotten that the Brits also gave the world an international language which is spoken by over half of global humanity as a first, second or third language.
@wolfthequarrelsome504
@wolfthequarrelsome504 Ай бұрын
Substantially correct.
@MrDaiseymay
@MrDaiseymay Ай бұрын
WE GAVE THE WORLD , DEMOCRACY, INTERNATIONAL LAW, POSTAL SERVICE. , CANALS, TELEPHONE SYSTEM. GOVERNMENT CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM, IYER HEDUKATSHUN
@alanbarsteward7630
@alanbarsteward7630 Ай бұрын
And in space😊
@brianmitchell8904
@brianmitchell8904 Ай бұрын
And English is also spoken in Space as any Star Trek fan has to accept And all the Superheroes Supervillains have to also accept that the first word they speak is English so they must of come from England even Krypton - Superman's home came from England originally all the heroes and villans originated from England.
@Opendjr
@Opendjr Ай бұрын
And further refined by us Aussie’s
@chigeryelam4061
@chigeryelam4061 Ай бұрын
Just wait until the Guardian readers find this video. They'll have a melt down.
@user-it7lf7kk8m
@user-it7lf7kk8m Ай бұрын
The guardian that profitted from slaving
@cuznerdexter
@cuznerdexter Ай бұрын
Haha, truth hurts the lefty, especially historic truth. (Sticks work quite well also tho) 😂😂
@baldieman64
@baldieman64 Ай бұрын
@@user-it7lf7kk8m The Guardian also ran puff pieces praising Britain's very own wannabe fascist dictator - Oswald Moseley.
@martinwalker7202
@martinwalker7202 Ай бұрын
Oh, yes, Guardian readers wouldn’t be able to have a meltdown without the invention of newspapers!
@MrDaiseymay
@MrDaiseymay Ай бұрын
good
@paulallaker8450
@paulallaker8450 27 күн бұрын
Makes me proud to be British.......you're welcome World..😉👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@prodavnicayugo
@prodavnicayugo 29 күн бұрын
Sadly I think your approach, based on truth and logic, is of no interest to those driven by resentment, and ironically in the short term may even fuel those opportunists who exploit the insecurities of “their people(s)”. However, you are absolutely right to stand up for the many British contributions, well done and thank you. More countries and societies should do the same, especially but not exclusively in the west.
@shaonian
@shaonian Ай бұрын
We live in a utopia created by a relatively small number of scientists and engineers. People don't understand how much our ancestors suffered before all this happened. The cultural change that is happening at present represents a return to a more primitive, backward world.
@GreatSageSunWukong
@GreatSageSunWukong Ай бұрын
this is a good point and I can't help but think religion plays a part in holding societies back, we had a big window in the UK and Europe as a whole where religion became fairly toothless allowing for hypothesis, debate, experiments and inventions to flourish without interference from the state/groups.
@user-it7lf7kk8m
@user-it7lf7kk8m Ай бұрын
Net zero is going to send us back there
@cuznerdexter
@cuznerdexter Ай бұрын
Religion, homogeneity, pride and belonging was what kept Brit society stable. It created the thirst for knowledge and experimentation. No modern genuis is coming from a culture of Single Mothers, Gangsta Rap, Islam or Transgenders!! We are racing through the 'Mouse Utopia Experiment' societal collapse is imminent! (Tldr, the mice turn gay due to lack of female for sex, have civil wars, eat each other, starve and all die)
@excession3076
@excession3076 Ай бұрын
On the surface it may seem like a small elite of scientists and engineers are solely responsible. But that elite can't exist without tacit support for them running throughout society. What's often overlooked is the respect everybody has, or used to have, for education, learning, invention and ideas. There's a reason we have centuries old universities, there's a reason literature is held in such high regard, the thirst for knowledge in Britain ran throughout society. As an example, Various Lords spent years digging up their estates discovering what they could about Romans, the Stone Age and investigating the relics they had left behind. A working class local woman in Dorset collected fossils, and with little formal education is considered one of the most important pioneers in the study of fossils. See the contrast? Do you see what connects them? They were British and they were curious. No other country, without coercion, has replicated or supported that level of intellectual exploration and discovery.
@faramir
@faramir Ай бұрын
@@GreatSageSunWukong Huh? The deindustrialisation complained of here has occurred as British religious observance declined.
@albert21able
@albert21able Ай бұрын
The British are one of the greatest people that ever walked this planet.
@hlambourne3847
@hlambourne3847 Ай бұрын
Is that nigel planer you're on about?
@fredyellowsnow7492
@fredyellowsnow7492 Ай бұрын
@@hlambourne3847 Edgy.
@Rexkramer68
@Rexkramer68 Ай бұрын
I can't take this anymore , I love my old country, 😢
@dogsand77
@dogsand77 Ай бұрын
i beg to differ, they killed over 100 million to have their empire
@michaelportaloo1981
@michaelportaloo1981 Ай бұрын
Walked the plank?
@moz7777
@moz7777 28 күн бұрын
I live on the same street Samuel Crompton (inventor of the spinning mule) lived in Darwen, Lancashire. Proud of it.
@AndrewRoberts11
@AndrewRoberts11 28 күн бұрын
A namesake invented the Electric Kettle, a century later, the there's Frye' bone china tea cups and saucers, Brearley's Stainless Steel teaspoons, all to enable the British tea break 😊
@gaynor1721
@gaynor1721 24 күн бұрын
Not forgetting my great grandfather's invention, _Stocks and Dies_ patented on 7th August 1902. It cuts threads on iron rods etc. Where would most of the things we use today be without screws and bolts? His name was Douglas Andrew Billany (1865 - 1918), who was half Swedish, half English and a very clever man considering he never went to university. His second eldest son emigrated to the USA in 1915 and took the patent to his father's invention with him. It was first used by the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan where my great uncle later worked as an electrician.
@grantsapain
@grantsapain Ай бұрын
The British have been awarded the 2nd highest number of Nobel Prizes in history...
@silgen
@silgen Ай бұрын
And the most per head of population.
@burtlangoustine1
@burtlangoustine1 Ай бұрын
We men, it's said, think of the Romans at least once a day. When will it be the Brits I wonder? Is it already happening?
@crzxr
@crzxr Ай бұрын
And Anglo-Saxons?
@zenko247
@zenko247 Ай бұрын
And the 1st highest number has so many from immigrants, Who grew up and were Educated in other Countries😁
@gibson617ajg
@gibson617ajg Ай бұрын
An English Church Bell-Ringer enjoyed his job so much he carried on for hours at a time, day and night. The locals created an award for him - he was the first recipient of the 'No Peace Bell Prize' - which, of course, is still handed out occasionally.
@bazzingabomb
@bazzingabomb Ай бұрын
A while ago the Japanese did a study on inventions and found that the British a tiny island at the edge of Europe invented over 50% of everything, that's the reason they're called Great Britain. The greatest nation and empire that ever existed.
@lorddaver5729
@lorddaver5729 Ай бұрын
No. That's not the reason it was called Great Britain. The term "Great" is a geographic term, not a political one.
@tomnicholson2115
@tomnicholson2115 13 күн бұрын
I'm sorry to contradict you, but ​@@lorddaver5729is correct, the great in great Britain is only there to signify the largest of the British islands. Some great things did come from there for sure, but that is irrelevant to the title, Great Britain.
@teeteringonthebrink.305
@teeteringonthebrink.305 13 күн бұрын
@@lorddaver5729 Correct. You see this in villages up and down the country. Here in Cambridgeshire, I was born in Great Shelford - there is also a Little Shelford close by.
@kitmoore9969
@kitmoore9969 3 күн бұрын
Great Britain is an island of the coast of France, containing England, Scotland and Wales. The country (the United Kingdom) also includes Northern Ireland, which is on a separate island.
@kevincornwall2431
@kevincornwall2431 27 күн бұрын
Watched this on St Georges day April 23rd 2024....Massively proud to be a brit (English)
@Gisborne1990
@Gisborne1990 23 күн бұрын
Scottish, Welsh, Irish and British lol.....
@tempejkl
@tempejkl 22 күн бұрын
@@Gisborne1990We aren't British. We're Irish
@cketts8128
@cketts8128 28 күн бұрын
As a Brit, this video is so refreshing! I am so tired of being made to feel terrible about what our ancestors did to the rest of the world. We acknowledge the fact practically on a daily basis. However, the listing of these accomplishments is just amazing. Please Reef Rebels do another to explain everything else….literature, films etc….I’m sure we would appreciate that so much here in the U.K. 😌🇬🇧💚🧡
@bloggalot4718
@bloggalot4718 21 күн бұрын
Thank the BBC for this and their political masters.
@njm3211
@njm3211 Ай бұрын
Hats off to you Brits. Hands down the most prolific contributors to modernity.
@lizbignell7813
@lizbignell7813 Ай бұрын
Which, of course, is why Greta Thunberg blames us for climate change!!
@josephbuckley5961
@josephbuckley5961 29 күн бұрын
​@@lizbignell7813she's a just figure head for billionaires to make money off
@Madonnalitta1
@Madonnalitta1 Ай бұрын
Ending the Trans Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial revolution is plenty to be proud of. The modern world owes itself to Britain.
@tempejkl
@tempejkl 22 күн бұрын
We would've been a world power without Britain. Thanks to them, we are the only country to have a smaller population now than in the 19th century
@YusiAnimated-
@YusiAnimated- 11 күн бұрын
it owes more than that, they stripped us of our empire as thanks for all that and now we must deal with incompitent people in parliment doing NOTHING and i mean NOTHING to help our situation
@kevinrayner5812
@kevinrayner5812 9 күн бұрын
Just running down the list, Saudi Arabia did not abolish slavery until 1962.
@kevinrayner5812
@kevinrayner5812 9 күн бұрын
1996 The last Magdalene Laundry closes in Ireland.
@greyjamiesod4989
@greyjamiesod4989 6 күн бұрын
Yes, but we invented and ran the slave trade.
@zensweptandinteresting
@zensweptandinteresting Ай бұрын
It's a privilege to be born with a British passport, and it's an achievement to get one! Same goes for any nation with a Union Jack in their flag. Pity about Canada though. Even Hawaii kept theirs.
@nni9310
@nni9310 21 күн бұрын
I am not aware of anyone who has downplayed the achievements of British scientists.
@Musrusticus6890
@Musrusticus6890 Ай бұрын
The British have been a blessing to human kind and this wonderful Earth.
@W5nmwh50
@W5nmwh50 Ай бұрын
Every young person should be shown this!
@user-rb3zh6sz1b
@user-rb3zh6sz1b Ай бұрын
All the 'woke' should be shown this!
@tempejkl
@tempejkl 22 күн бұрын
@@user-rb3zh6sz1bWhat if we, the colonised peoples, showed the British what they did? The biggest genocides in history, the invention of concentration camps, etc. etc. The Nazis copied the British, you know.
@simonmoran16
@simonmoran16 Ай бұрын
As an Englishman, thank me later 😉Did you mention Brunel? Probably the greatest engineer that ever lived? The man invented modern transport.... I even named my Rottweiler after him
@philevans7740
@philevans7740 27 күн бұрын
You nailed it mate. Well said.
@telemachus53
@telemachus53 Ай бұрын
In brief, we Brits have an amazing heritage of invention and discovery. Now all we have to do is to hold on to this and not yield to those that wish to undermine this heritage. That includes arresting those that climbed the war memorial on Remembrance Day and draped it with flags - not of Britain.
@fenixfp40
@fenixfp40 Ай бұрын
Ooops, too late.
@nevillegrimshaw7758
@nevillegrimshaw7758 Ай бұрын
Beautifully put👍
@AndrewWilliams-ry6tb
@AndrewWilliams-ry6tb Ай бұрын
Deport. To our former colonies.
@dannypembroke2372
@dannypembroke2372 26 күн бұрын
Unfortunately, our government and its enablers (all UK police services) have emasculated and subjugated the British to the point of insignificance. Shame on them. I’ll be gone by then, but a leader will rise and drag these people to book. What a day that promises to be.
@bowiedoctor9156
@bowiedoctor9156 Ай бұрын
They definately weren't sitting around watching netflix in those days.
@willswomble7274
@willswomble7274 27 күн бұрын
Or mis-spelling everything, showing their total ignorance!
@hughbrissedits459
@hughbrissedits459 Ай бұрын
It's nice to listen to facts instead of politics.
@lilboy3102
@lilboy3102 25 күн бұрын
*"It is impossible to imagine Australia outside the British Empire. Throughout our history we have been sheltered by the majesty and might of the Royal Navy. Our prestige in the councils of the world is a reflection of the light of Britain"* -Stanley Bruce, Australian PM
@tempejkl
@tempejkl 22 күн бұрын
Australia was a benefactor of the British imperialism. They are just as evil
@wfjw
@wfjw 7 күн бұрын
thank you sir
@notanindividual6474
@notanindividual6474 Ай бұрын
India was plagued by famine, but agricultural and storage improvements by Britain led to fewer famines and a huge rise in the Indian population. You should also read the book "the case for colonialism". The introduction of English common law was a huge driver in the development of countries around the world and brought investment into all parts of the British Empire. Remember Britain did not take over working democracies, they treated people better than the previous rulers.
@vonryansexpress
@vonryansexpress Ай бұрын
Yes - famines and resulting mass deaths were common India but the British contribution to reducing this was multifold. . . The inyroduction of Railways and better roads enabled food relief to be transported, and communication by wire allowed the accurate assesment of where shortages were and areas of plenty existed to provide relief . . . The rapid growth of English speaking aided much better communication and the quelling of tribal conflicts greatly assisted food production and distribution . . . All of this aided population growth and health which improved the standard of living for many . . . India now talks of plunder and the inhibiting effect of British rule on Indian developement - Indias current developement however is based on all that the British bequeathed the world - if one wanted an accurate balance sheet I would say the debt India owes to Britain vastly outweighs that which we owe the Sub-Continent . . . Not only that but there are many millions of Indians alive today that would not be without the British Raj
@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey
@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey Ай бұрын
In India it should be remembered that there is the caste system at work too and no matter if anyone wanted to help there were those whom the native people themselves called the 'untouchables' and believed they should be left to themselves. It was next to impossible for in-comers even the British to help them.
@sedekiman824
@sedekiman824 Ай бұрын
@@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey The British also established hospitals, judiciary system, clean water, sent people to England to train as doctors, etc.
@user-kj8lq7mo2s
@user-kj8lq7mo2s Ай бұрын
But I reckon the invention and or legacy the indians loved the most that was bequeathed to em by the evil imperilists was none other than CRICKET.
@margaretflounders8510
@margaretflounders8510 Ай бұрын
Exactly!!
@user-yq4sp5ij6u
@user-yq4sp5ij6u Ай бұрын
This should be mandatory watching for every country, particularly the good ole US of A
@cuznerdexter
@cuznerdexter Ай бұрын
Agreed. Second that.
@All_Good_Things
@All_Good_Things Ай бұрын
I think this would shock a lot of USA citizens as they usually believe they invented everything
@Japan-in-N
@Japan-in-N Ай бұрын
Watched a documentary on the US invention of the Hovercraft. Mr Cockrell may have something to say about that.
@davidfrost779
@davidfrost779 Ай бұрын
@@Japan-in-N The things the yanks invented you could put on the back of a very small matchbox
@B-A-L
@B-A-L Ай бұрын
​@@All_Good_Things I can't think of anything that America invented entirely on its own!
@Karma1st
@Karma1st 26 күн бұрын
You can’t discredit a country for the bad without giving credit for the good and positives it brought upon humanity
@captainhadd0ck
@captainhadd0ck Ай бұрын
Not bad for a tiny island. And now we have Rishi Sunak (groan).
@JohnWilliams-iw6oq
@JohnWilliams-iw6oq Ай бұрын
The man who never made a mistake never made anything, I guess the same can be said of nations and empires.
@DerekLangdon
@DerekLangdon Ай бұрын
Yawn! Yes, very profound.
@andylewis7360
@andylewis7360 Ай бұрын
@@DerekLangdonSarcasm’s a British invention too. 😊
@elainehumphrey2307
@elainehumphrey2307 Ай бұрын
@@andylewis7360 Yes, and so is the Lowest form of wit. 😉
@Ionabrodie69
@Ionabrodie69 29 күн бұрын
@@elainehumphrey2307Actually sarcasm is a highly developed form of wit which only certain people can master..
@macflod
@macflod Ай бұрын
As a british citizen i can say that after hearing all this how shameful it is that almost all of British engineering and manufacturing is gone today. Apart from a few specialised low volume products there is only a tiny proportion of manufacturing left in comparison to what there once was. It was all left to fall apart, shit down and sold out. im not even sure there is a steel industry anymore. Sadly country has been ruined, sold off and totally bled dry by government corruption.
@A190xx
@A190xx Ай бұрын
The UK last week moved to the 4th largest exporter in the world. Much of our wholesale manufacturing is done abroad where either the resources are found or the labour is cheap, which is the price of globalisation. However, the UK still have a significant manufacturing industry, but mostly in highly skilled or specialised areas.
@Spiklething
@Spiklething Ай бұрын
Genuinely love what I am assuming to be a typo, I am pretty sure you meant ' It was all left to fall apart, *shut* down and sold out' but what you have written is so much better
@mpetersen6
@mpetersen6 Ай бұрын
I found it pretty sad when the two RN carriers wee built in France.
@DerekLangdon
@DerekLangdon Ай бұрын
Capitalism is about making profit! If Johnny Foreigner can make it cheaper than your own workforce, then this is what happens! Simple economics!!
@abrahamdraper1911
@abrahamdraper1911 Ай бұрын
UK manufacturing wasn't "all left to fall apart". Rather, it was systematically demolished by the Thatcher governments. Ostensibly with the aim of 'modernisation', but more accurately in order to smash workers' unions.
@realitycheckreally8412
@realitycheckreally8412 Ай бұрын
Don't forget Britain was the first and only empire to that point to abolish and fought to end slavery..
@A190xx
@A190xx Ай бұрын
Around 2% of GDP was devoted to this cause
@miltonlevant3203
@miltonlevant3203 Ай бұрын
No the slaves did
@DerekLangdon
@DerekLangdon Ай бұрын
Yes, the British have grabbed the moral high ground for themselves! And no bugger is gonna push them off!
@heronimousbrapson863
@heronimousbrapson863 Ай бұрын
Of course, Britain had to adopt slavery before they could abolish it...
@bushwhackeddos.2703
@bushwhackeddos.2703 Ай бұрын
Whilst its own working class were kept in abject poverty.
@kenricnarbrough8191
@kenricnarbrough8191 26 күн бұрын
Jeezuz, the list is utterly endless i thought it was incredible that the turbofan was British but this compilation is mind boggling. So inspiring
@artj2657
@artj2657 28 күн бұрын
Thank you. How refreshing from the constant BORING British bashing❗️ Can we have MORE? Also please share❗️🙏 🇬🇧
@nickbutler7935
@nickbutler7935 Ай бұрын
As a Brit I am damn proud of my Country, and it's History ( good and bad ). I still think our greatest invention was the Bacon Butty to compliment a good old cup of tea.
@DerekLangdon
@DerekLangdon Ай бұрын
The Bacon Butty? How amusing! It will never reach the dizzy heights of the Cheeseburger bud! It’s world renown, unlike your greasy piggy sandwhich.
@tinitus23
@tinitus23 Ай бұрын
The crunch question - with brown sauce or tomato sauce?
@melvinpackham7490
@melvinpackham7490 Ай бұрын
Tomato ketchup, or HP sauce though?
@keithalderson100
@keithalderson100 Ай бұрын
That and Victoris sponge cake, Eccles and Chorley cakes...
@Bobmudu35UK
@Bobmudu35UK Ай бұрын
@@tinitus23 Brown..
@brothermaynard3200
@brothermaynard3200 Ай бұрын
I think British humour has contributed greatly to my - and most of the civilised world's - psychological health.
@Si_Mondo
@Si_Mondo 29 күн бұрын
The Yanks do stand up better, in general I think..... they're an off shoot of us British though. 😅 Our sitcoms from the 70s through to the late 90s/very early 00s were mostly brilliant! Only Fools and Horses, Porridge, Open All Hours, Red Dwarf, Yes Minister/Prime Minister.... there's many, many more. All brilliant! Now, our comedy is mostly shit.
@Peergint67
@Peergint67 27 күн бұрын
At last someone who is prepared to build up rather than knock down my country. Mostly these days people like Thunberg knock this country without any real knowledge at all. It's so easy to knock this country, but as an Englishman, I am so proud of our ancestors who saw it as a challenge to do something to benefit not only our country, but the world. Yes we have done things I hate, and rightly so, every country has bad people who do bad things and I don't condone any of it, but the good people who did things to eradicate disease, for example is an outstanding achievement. So God bless my country. I'm proud to be English and proud to be British! Thank you for putting this together!
@TripsandFeasts1
@TripsandFeasts1 21 күн бұрын
4 of our planet’s top 10 major sports were coded in Britain. It still staggers me how worldwide football is.
@jameswebb4593
@jameswebb4593 Ай бұрын
Makes a change for the Brits to breast beat , we usually let the Yanks do that. But how could an Aussie ignore the contribution to the world of sport . its enormous. Soccer , Cricket . Rugby , Snooker . Darts . Badminton , Table Tennis , Lawn Tennis . Bowls , Skittles . The rules of Boxing and Horse racing .
@stephenbooth5929
@stephenbooth5929 Ай бұрын
I recently learned that our game of rounders (now mainly played by children) was the source of American baseball. Rounders has been played since Tudor times.
@reefrebels
@reefrebels Ай бұрын
Something for another video. PR
@axle.australian.patriot
@axle.australian.patriot Ай бұрын
Gaelic football :P Ay, drink mead, rumble in the dirt and get your differences out of the way and move on and enjoy life :)
@jontalbot1
@jontalbot1 Ай бұрын
Cos it’s a science channel
@frogandspanner
@frogandspanner Ай бұрын
And cards, according to Hoyle.
@fredericksaxton3991
@fredericksaxton3991 Ай бұрын
It is quite incredible the contribution to modern humanity that has come from a small insignificant island off the north coast of Europe. I am very proud to be British. I accept that the British Empire had it's faults, but where she stamped her boot, she took Enlightenement, Christianity, Technology, Health care, Modern transport systems, Telegraphy, Bureacracy and a Civil Service and of course, the English Language. She stamped out and abolished inhuman behaviours, such as Cannibalism, Human sacrifice, Slavery. But the British Empire was of it's day, and at the end of the day, Britain gave away her Empire.
@tempejkl
@tempejkl 22 күн бұрын
We had Christianity, a more pure version, and the English spent 500 years trying to change it to their blasphemous form of Christianity. Murders, killing half the population, banning freedoms, doesn't really sound very Christian, does it?
@philholyman9036
@philholyman9036 Ай бұрын
The reason that the industrial revolution started in Britain has two parts to it. The first reason was Abraham Darby, a quaker born towards the end of the 17th century in what is now modern day Dudley. An area of the Black Country in the English West Midlands, that would play a huge part in the subsequent evolution of the revolution. The second part is the unique geology and geography of the Severn Gorge in Shropshire, at a place called Coalbrookdale. Darby perfected two key stages of iron ore smelting, that were to lead to the birth of mass manufacturing. In the first stage he developed the method of smelting iron in a blast furnace using coke instead of charcoal. Up to this point in history the iron smelting industry was dependent on smelting with charcoal. Charcoal was both expensive and time consuming to produce, and had the further negative ecological impact of deforestation. As a result the iron industry was small and extremely difficult to sustain. The second stage of Darby's developement was the use of sand moulds instead of the traditional clay variety. Clay moulds were a one use option, as the mould was broken after use, and they also took time to produce. Sand moulds (using a sand and clay water mix) were easy to break down leaving the raw materials able to be used again and again in a much shorter time frame. Darby the Quaker was driven by a desire to mass produce cast iron cooking pots that were affordable to the poor, as opposed to the common brass pots that were beyond the reach of the majority. Darby the engineer identified the old iron furnace at Coalbrookdale as the perfect spot to push fotward with his new ideas, and this is where the unique features of the Severn Gorge came to the fore. The Severn Gorge is a steep, narrow gorge in Shropshire that carries the river Severn, the longest river in Great Britain. The Severn begins in the Welsh Cambrian mountains, flows through Shropshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire before disgorging into the Severn estuary. On its journey it flows through the old county towns of Shrewsbury, Worcester and Gloucester, and the Severn Estuary serves Bristol, Cardiff and Newport. The river is navigable by boat and barge from Coalbrookdale to all of the subsequent market hubs, so provides a ready and reliable transport network all year round. The Severn Gorge also has the geological properties of exposed layers of Ironstone, limestone, clay and a high quality coal seam. At this point in time, all industry was reliant on water power, not only is the Severn the most volumous of rivers in Britain, but as the gorge at Coalbrookdale is so steep and narrow, it was easy to dam in order to provide excellent water power all year round, instead of the more common "summer slump" when water courses would dry up and slow to the point where they were unreliable at best, or just downright useless at worst. The ironstone was a ready source of ore, the limestone and clay were ideal for building furnaces and other infrastucture, and the almost sulphur-free qualities of the Shropshire coal meant that the process of turning the coal into coke not only took less time, but ultimately produced an extremely high purity of carbon fuel for the blast furnaces. The company that Darby built went on to produce cookwear for the poor for around 200 years, but also produced two more generations of Abraham Darbys that not only fueled the industrial revolution, but also culminated in the worlds first and longest single span iron bridge, at the not so inventively named Ironbridge, just up the Severn from Coalbrookdale. Ironbridge is a UNESCO world heritage site, and is considered to be the greatest and most important monument of the Industrial Revolution that would reverberate around the planet. So, part man, part unique geology/geography coming together at a single point in time. Mildly interesting, I hope?
@davidmiller4078
@davidmiller4078 23 күн бұрын
Thanks well summerused
@robp9129
@robp9129 13 күн бұрын
Excellent info !!!!Thank you 👍
@andrewyorke3352
@andrewyorke3352 Ай бұрын
If I wasn't for the British empire most other empire's would have put the rest of the world into slavery. And we wouldn't be watching this programme with out the world web. Great show 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧
@OnlyAnOpinion20
@OnlyAnOpinion20 Ай бұрын
Michael Faraday is the scientist that inspires me more than any other, he didn't even finish school, yet he was able to light up the world through generated electricity, a true genius
@grahamfrear9270
@grahamfrear9270 26 күн бұрын
🇬🇧👍
@David-wf1hr
@David-wf1hr 25 күн бұрын
Dr. David Faraday - a descendant of the Victorian scientist Sir Micheal Faraday has invented a super way of distilling whisky which is in use at penderyn distillery near hirwaun
@laurencescales
@laurencescales 7 күн бұрын
Visit his home at the Royal Institution!
@onastick2411
@onastick2411 Ай бұрын
And while we were doing all that, we took time out to invent politeness, and showed the world how to behave with dignity and Christian charity.
@dulls8475
@dulls8475 Ай бұрын
The state is now actively anti Christian.
@sedekiman824
@sedekiman824 Ай бұрын
And break for tea.
@Enoo-Wynn
@Enoo-Wynn Ай бұрын
How to queue!
@Ghostdancer4444
@Ghostdancer4444 Ай бұрын
How to have a propa punch up at football? 😂
@sirkildalot8409
@sirkildalot8409 29 күн бұрын
Hear, hear. It’s just a shame that not more people are proud of that heritage and to see respect and manners going down the drain.
@bobomac8330
@bobomac8330 Ай бұрын
I remember some time ago a japanese professor listed what he thought were the top 100 inventions ever. More than 50 came out of the uk. Which has always fascinated me that a country could allow that much free thought. And now it depresses me as totalitarianism seems to be the norm now.
@dontbelievethehype9502
@dontbelievethehype9502 29 күн бұрын
First underground /subway network too!! Plus Concorde (along with the French); first heart transplants and many more medical procedures and of course GMT and longitude and latitude for navigation etc
@davidgifford8112
@davidgifford8112 28 күн бұрын
I think you find the first heart transplant was performed in 1967 by Dr Barnard in South Africa, based on work being carried out in Michigan USA. However Cyclosporine was first used to stop organ rejection by Roy Carne from Cambridge UK. I will give you UT (Universal time) by Astronomers Royal Biddle-Airy who as a party trick also invented astigmatic lens to correct that eye defect.
@jimbo-yv5jh
@jimbo-yv5jh Ай бұрын
Don't tell Black History Month.
@plashplash-fg6hd
@plashplash-fg6hd 26 күн бұрын
Don’t tell the liberals.
@jakechapman254
@jakechapman254 23 күн бұрын
Don’t tell King Charles…. He will start apologising for all of the work the British have done.
@Andymcnabbb869
@Andymcnabbb869 Ай бұрын
Never let anyone come in your home and tell you how to live, especially when they don’t know how to. Vote reform 🇬🇧
@LittleBallOfPurr
@LittleBallOfPurr Ай бұрын
I think it's time, even if not for the longterm, it's a good idea for people to vote Reform to remind the two main parties who they serve.
@tempejkl
@tempejkl 22 күн бұрын
Ah, is that why the 'superior' British didn't follow this when going to Ireland, telling them how to live, going to India, telling them how to live, Africa, etc etc.
@tempejkl
@tempejkl 22 күн бұрын
@@LittleBallOfPurrReform serves the billionaires 😂😂😂. (So does every party). The British people never fail to amuse me... you were joking, right?
@TheGreatCalsby
@TheGreatCalsby 13 күн бұрын
Absolutely braindead opinion. You do realise that for a large portion of British history, the Brits did exactly what you've just said - invade other countries and tell them how to live? I am a native Englishman. I am proud to be a modern Brit, but not a historic one. This idea of division and single-minded arrogance to the bigger picture of a complex culture needs to end - your mindset is exactly why people don't like the British.
@michaeljohn1978
@michaeljohn1978 27 күн бұрын
Not science, but in sport we also invented Association Football, Cricket, Rugby and Golf. In music, many, so let's just mention The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. In literature, many, so let's just mention Shakespeare and Tolkien
@Wolf-hh4rv
@Wolf-hh4rv Ай бұрын
African people are very willing to credit British colonialism as a massive plus for Africa. Still today schools, universities, railways and hospitals all founded by the colonists. I have lived in Africa all my life. Further one cannot underestimate the contribution of missionaries. Their schools are are alive and thriving today. The students are polite, respectful and well educated. These people do not have a negative opinion on the colonial era.
@paulgraham3901
@paulgraham3901 Ай бұрын
My girlfriend is Zambian, her uncles and grandfather fought for Zambia's independence but she says sometimes that the British left to quick
@drwhatson
@drwhatson 29 күн бұрын
As affirmed by the wonderful Thomas Sowell.
@johnnyf6617
@johnnyf6617 27 күн бұрын
@@paulgraham3901 "My girlfriend is Zambian, her uncles and grandfather fought for Zambia's independence but she says sometimes that the British left to quick" Well, leaving a country with no experience in governing itself was bound to end in disaster. It would probably have been better if the Brits had handed over power more gradually to the local populations, helping them to develop their own systems of governance in a genuine partnership.
@RichardMontgomeryYT
@RichardMontgomeryYT 26 күн бұрын
​@@paulgraham3901the British left any country that wanted independence with nothing as soon as they held no monetary value to them anymore.
@N1Moses
@N1Moses 24 күн бұрын
It makes me sad that there is such a huge disconnect between African people and Black British people, alot of the Black British population have the worst view of the UK imaginable and want to be a victim in every way possible, they don't see the opportunities that people from the motherland would wish to have and would appreciate greatly to be given.
@jimbo2629
@jimbo2629 Ай бұрын
This is a nice antidote to the BBC radio 4 programme this morning about how we were awful colonists in Africa and what wonderful countries the liberated have become. Unlike me they have never lived in Africa.
@tempejkl
@tempejkl 22 күн бұрын
Almost like there was some sort of 'unequal exchange' happening?
@lynnecromack4933
@lynnecromack4933 Ай бұрын
Don't think we've ever been accused of 'enslaving people'.
@GamerPlayzzz
@GamerPlayzzz 26 күн бұрын
That moment when an American tries to argue that America invented everything.. I'm showing them this.. 👍
@cthulhurising4860
@cthulhurising4860 Ай бұрын
The world has very short memories & when they do, only choose to remember selectively. Britain is without doubt the most remarkable country & by a considerable margin, been a net force for good on the rest of the world. Cheers from NZ
@DerekLangdon
@DerekLangdon Ай бұрын
Preach your subjective crap to the Māori people, and tell them how lucky they are to have you living among them!!!
@Climpus
@Climpus Ай бұрын
@@DerekLangdon if they would like to live in a primitive hunter-gather basic agricultural society - they're welcome. I wonder how many have turned their backs on NZ society and live in the woods....?
@Rocko130185
@Rocko130185 Ай бұрын
​@@DerekLangdonthe maori only turned up in NZ a couple of hundreds of years before the Europeans and they were fond of genocide themselves.
@user-it7lf7kk8m
@user-it7lf7kk8m Ай бұрын
Remember the maori weren't indigenous to NZ
@Climpus
@Climpus Ай бұрын
@@user-it7lf7kk8m They were the first humans to get there though.
@starsaber9631
@starsaber9631 Ай бұрын
15 minute video for this topic. Should be at least 15 hours
@JB9000x
@JB9000x Ай бұрын
In a few hundred years we'll get that TV programme! 😊
@stue2298
@stue2298 Ай бұрын
I did see a video of why the Industrial Revolution happens first in Britain. Is was theorised the location of coal and iron ore was very close to each other so the process of making steel was easier than in other equally advanced countries like France and Germany had to be transported long distances. Another major export was the rule of law.
@dontbelievethehype9502
@dontbelievethehype9502 29 күн бұрын
Water pump invented in Cornwall - hugely important and also hydraulics invented in GB with the subsequent inventions of earth moving machinery and mini diggers along with suspension bridges and so much more.
@johnjamesflashman6856
@johnjamesflashman6856 Күн бұрын
Without the pump there would have been a lot less coal, a major part of the industrial revolution.
@jay8656
@jay8656 Ай бұрын
I am a British Englishman and Your Welcome.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 I tell people who slag off my Country and Culture. Name me a Empire that’s done no wrong.😎
@Si_Mondo
@Si_Mondo 29 күн бұрын
I'd live to know what those Roman emperors would say, if they could see what those blue painted savages that kept rebelling against them ended up doing! 😂😂
@jboydayz
@jboydayz 26 күн бұрын
@@Si_Mondoexactly, as a Brit, I am so proud of our history, from savages being invaded by civilised peoples to civilised peoples invading savages. Truly a national turn around
@gaynor1721
@gaynor1721 24 күн бұрын
*You're. As a "British Englishman", I would expect you to have a better grasp of the language.
@tempejkl
@tempejkl 22 күн бұрын
The Soviet Union from 1922-1953 the People's Republic of China from 1950-now
@tempejkl
@tempejkl 22 күн бұрын
@@gaynor1721what do you expect, hes british
@bryanmills5346
@bryanmills5346 Ай бұрын
To all the British haters out there, whoever you are, wherever you live, whatever you do, your life has been hugely improved by Britain. Here's some other things the Brits invented (a few of them may have been mentioned here but I've left a LOT out. Electronic Programmable Computer, Touch Screens, World Wide Web, Television, Telephone, Time Zones, ATM, Photography, Thermos Flask, Lawnmower, Float Glass, Light Bulb, Chocolate Bar, Electric Telegraph, Modern Fire Extinguisher, Carbon Fibre, Cats eye, Soda Water, Hypodermic Syringe, Reflecting Telescope, Collapsible Baby Buggy, Marine Chronometer, Synthetic Dye, Hip Replacement, Passenger Railway, Toothbrush, Linoleum, Electric Kettle, Modern Torpedo, Glider, Jet Engine, Wind Up Radio, Safety Bicycle, Modern Cement, Tension Spoked Wheel, Seed Drill, Stainless Steel, Spinning Frame, Bessemer Process, Electric Motor, Hydraulic Press, Modern Sewage System, Hovercraft, Tin Can, Steri-Spray, Waterproof Material, Electric Vacuum Cleaner, Disk Brakes.
@johnnybeer3770
@johnnybeer3770 Ай бұрын
Not to mention the Harrier jump jet .
@maureenm8462
@maureenm8462 Ай бұрын
Not to mention the concentration camp, wasn't the Germans
@SirAntoniousBlock
@SirAntoniousBlock Ай бұрын
Don't forget liberating the aborigines from having to wander all about their continent and helping all those Irish with their weight loss program.
@aking-plums6985
@aking-plums6985 Ай бұрын
@@maureenm8462 The concentration camps were first used by the Spanish in Cuba.
@RaveyDavey
@RaveyDavey Ай бұрын
@@maureenm8462that’s a myth actually.
@MarkCW
@MarkCW 28 күн бұрын
Thankyou, I feel proud to be British. Thanks also to the Aussies for inventing the Black Box Flight Recorder (1958), Cochlear Implant (1978), Plastic Banknotes (1988), Wi-Fi (1992), Electric Drill (1889), Surfboard Fins (1915), Sunscreen (1930s), and Plastic spectacle lenses (1960) to name a few!
@Gandim45
@Gandim45 17 күн бұрын
Thank you. My heart is swelling with pride!
@maevedeburgh8554
@maevedeburgh8554 Ай бұрын
Thank you for this!!! As a nation we need to stop being silenced and dumbed down and stand up for a fantastic heritage.. Nobody's heritage is without a flaw!
@phubblewubbphubblewubb
@phubblewubbphubblewubb Ай бұрын
We have the World Wide Web thanks to a British man....Britain has some of the greatest brains on the planet, I'm surprised you could cram all the achievements into a 15 min video!
@DerekLangdon
@DerekLangdon Ай бұрын
Britain claims to have invented many things, which in fact they hadn’t.. one example the telephone! They claim the ‘phone because A.G Bell was Scottish born.
@chrislewis4830
@chrislewis4830 Ай бұрын
he didnt he shortened the list thats what he said at the begining or we would be here all night lol
@davidtuer5825
@davidtuer5825 Ай бұрын
I wonder what's happened to them?
@martinrye712
@martinrye712 Ай бұрын
​@DerekLangdon well let me see if you are born in Scotland doesn't that make them British !!!!
@user-it7lf7kk8m
@user-it7lf7kk8m Ай бұрын
The telegraph was invented in britain by wheatstone, even if you wont acee;t bell was Scottish
@MikeRees
@MikeRees 28 күн бұрын
From what I gather the reason we were the first to have the industrial revolution was we just happened to be the right sort of sized island to support both a decent enough population to have the money/economy for it, as well as the ease of access to large scale resources across the entire population via ship and canal barge.
@reefrebels
@reefrebels 27 күн бұрын
I think you can add that there was an attitude that you were entitled to the fruits of your invention/work. IN many societies these are confiscated by the king/ruler thus making innovation pointess. Britain had a decentralisation of power. PR
@K94Life
@K94Life 29 күн бұрын
Britain is and always was quite literally, something else. The dna and the atom however were apparently understood before this- in ancient India and is likely where we Brits discovered or propagated the knowledge. But it’s also likely the Indian that apparently had drawn and wrote of this discovery likely was born and came from somewhere like… York or Kent!? 😂 One tiny kingdom filled and brimming with great influence and with visionary prowess.
@georgebailey98
@georgebailey98 Ай бұрын
British culture has always produced the best characters: Most famous outlaw: Robin Hood Most famous detective: Sherlock Holmes Most famous spy: James Bond Most famous nanny: Mary Poppins Most famous orphan: Oliver Twist Most famous miser: Ebenezer Scrooge Most famous king: King Arthur Most famous wizard: Merlin, Gandalf and Harry Potter Most famous knight: Lancelot Most famous castaway: Robinson Crusoe Most famous bear: Paddington Most famous gentleman's gentleman: Jeeves Most famous poltroon: Harry Flashman and many more.
@stup1299
@stup1299 Ай бұрын
You forgot most famous serial killer : Jack the Ripper 🙂
@obi-ron
@obi-ron Ай бұрын
I have to beg to differ on the world's most famous bear. More people are probably aware of Winnie the Pooh than Paddington, though he is also the creation of a British author.
@terrystevens5261
@terrystevens5261 Ай бұрын
@@stup1299 Jack the ripper was real, the others were not.
@crzxr
@crzxr Ай бұрын
Alice in Wonderland...Beatrix Potter...Hercule Poirot...Miss Marple - for goodness sake, there's no end to a very distinguished list. Effortlessly out in front.
@zenko247
@zenko247 Ай бұрын
and Poo bear
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