The Bizarre Victorian Obsession With Railways | How The Victorians Built Britain | Absolute History 

I'm waiting for the Bazar special.

Early days of the Internet, people using it and it itself was absolutely looked on as bizarre.

And it is the U.S. that gets credit for the internet. After all, Al Gore claims to have invented it.

​@@DrMerle-gw4wj If you like a bit of an eye-opener you should read the article "Al Gore and Information Technology" on wikipedia. Personally I was amazed at how much he actually DID help to sponsor and promote the creation of the internet. The real inventors give him a lot more credit than you'd think. Don't get me wrong, the man is still a dweep but there's really a lot of story hidden behind the words "Al Gore claims to have invented the internet".

@@exharkhun5605 Get serious. Al Gore's knowledge of anything technical is absolute zero. He was a phony well before he even became a senator because his father was a big phony as a senator and used little Al as part of it.

It's amazing how fast technology is changing the world. My great grandmother was born in 1878 and passed in 1977. Granted, she had a longer than average life but as a child she traveled all summer across the US in a wagon pulled by oxen. Before she died she could have made that same trip five miles in the sky at 500 miles per hour in safety and comfort.

Huh, I've never thought about that: the age of electronic signals thru wires (including everything that superceded telegraph) may be drawing to a close - it's turned out to have only been an early stage of the wireless, I.T. age. 'Course, devices of all types don't seem to be going anywhere; but even within them, soldered wires are now at an absolute minimum.

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this took me entirely too long to get!!!

Time to uncouple and go make some popcorn.

A+ pun lol

Agreed. The Host is awesome. Without him this series wouldn’t be as good as it is.

Plus the nature of steam power

And look at our times. I will bet people in a century will look back and think "those weird 20th and early 21th century people and their obsession with cars.

@@theexchipmunk except the obsession with cars IS bizarre, and harmful more so.

Especially since it was funded thanks to robbery and enslavement of about one third of the world.

@@quattrobajeena1689 Except it isn't.

Exactly, perfect for this rainy late summer afternoon 👌

I’ve got ice tea and chips. Let’s binge watch together next time!

Early autum afternoon, sunny, quite warm but I,m also sitting in the back yard

@Celto Loco “never on RU-vid” that’s my point.

Even today, large portion of internet optic cables are laid next to railways

The programme is partly simplifying the history about the post. Before the locomotives, the canals fulfilled the same functions of transporting industrial supplies, the post, finished products, produce, people, etc.

just click bait to get you to actually open the video. Once you're in, as you say, it's the opposite attitude

@mgenigma5 I guess we have to bring it up "lest we forget." If there's always been good AND bad, then any discussion of history should include both.

its a history of railways in England, not a history of the planet earth in the 19th century. Do stay on topic.

"wOw, I cAnNot BeLieVe ThEy sAid 'bIzZaRe' i'M iNtAntLy DiSliKing, cAn'T BeLieVe ThEy sAiD tHaT!"

I scanned everywhere for this comment! I had to rewind to check if it wasn’t his cousin or something!! Sounds just like him it’s eerie!

I too was looking for anyone who noticed this. It’s downright uncanny how similar they sound and look.

Yes and no in a sense. Coal is a source of Energy, but the much-needed Power (like horsepower i.e.) comes from the water being turned into steam (you wouldn't get anywhere if there was no steam actually) therefore the steam is the source of power and coal is the source of Energy needed to turn water into steam.

If you want to go that route, then what produces the coal? The sun. The sun is the ultimate source of the energy of the coal.

Smug smug smug, smug smug.... (After getting litteraly 1 like)

somewhere I read about Princess Margaret destroying some of the Queen Mother's letters and correspondence, even before the Queen Mother had died.

Lol whut? Mohamed is the most popular boys name in England today and has been for several years. England is over, the demographic trends are inescapable at this point.

@@lookoutforchris What's bad about that? History isn't static, it's about change. Always has been.

I think most of the energy supplies are transported via pipelines, trains, and commercial vehicles across the continent. Expedited post is usually flown to a large city, then delivered by vehicle. If you have a fetish for trains and ships, look no further than East Asia.

Yeah it was that creepy thing on kids tv, in black & white.

Kind of funny how the last couple generations who have largely espoused the mantras of things like "there are no absolutes", "'right and wrong are relative" and "who are you to force your values on me", certainly have no qualms about telling others what we can say and how we can act.

@@johnstudd4245 I think the point is that past presenters wouldn't go out of their way to become rude for no reason. I have never heard an overtly rude phrase made with the intention of belittling an actual target from James Burke's or Jacob Bronowski's programmes.

@@johnstudd4245 I’m not saying he can’t have his own opinions nor speech it’s a matter of I disagree with them. I disagree strongly enough I’d rather not watch any of his videos now matter how entertaining. I’m a veteran and have always believed in upholding a persons right to free speech within the boundaries of law.

Ohhh man. Now i can't unsee it. It hurts my eyes lol

okay that is good to know mr herrold, I can tell you are used to the typewriter because you use double spaces

A history channel's bizarre obsession with shows about history. Go figure.

@@dariusanderton3760 lol

As if that was not already the case throughout the world. The only "reign" unleashed was the reign of knowledge of how the British adjusted to local conditions.

its about trains in England, not the entire history of the world in the 19th century. Do stay on topic

Ok so not sure I understand your meaning, but “drawl” is a perceived feature of speech, not a type of speech. So for instance “southern drawl” is a characteristic feature of the Southern American English dialect. Drawl is not a feature or characteristic of speech in any of the accents or dialects used in this particular program. I also “illegible” distinctly means “unable to be read”. In this case you’re correct in that the automatic captioning is illegible. However, the issue you appear to have is that you find some of the accents spoken or dialects used to be “unintelligible”. Unintelligible meaning it can’t be clearly understood.

Just because your too stupid to understand a minor accent doesn’t mean the world has to bend its ass over to help you. Besides this is obviously a British Tv Show

Not familiar with the history of factory laborers and underpaid service help, are you?

You have the right to express your opinions on the internet, be grateful

So are the clothes youre wearing... probably. As long as the sun rises oppression will be with us

@@valor101arise triggered 😂😂😂

Cry us a river.

If the video was about the British Empire, or even about the railways in the British Empire, your comment might be applicable. But this video is about trains in the UK.

Well, good for you... good for you 🙄

I think you are trying to say the UK. More than half the inventions you are thinking of were Scottish, and the literature was frequently Irish or Welsh, e.g. the master of ghost stories was Welsh M.R. James.

lol. Yeah no. Listen, we're amazing. But the change from 1800 to 1900 is the most dramatic in human history. Utterly incomprehensible. And that's mostly the UK leading the way.

@@PaulfromChicago who invented the modern world? That was America.

@@TheNightshadePrince dude you gotta bring out evidence. Allow me. Democracy, personal transportation, internet, television, telephone, planes and cotton. Cotton especially. Britain’s wealth was fueled by cotton in the American Southeast.

@@thedaggonator I thought the cotton craze was after the revolution, Smoking tobacco was one of America's biggest exports along with wood, Hemp products and other natural goods during British enslavement.

@@TheNightshadePrince Cotton became popular because Tobacco was dying, in fact slavery was beginning to die out as well. But in 1793, Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin. This made it incredibly easy to make cotton into something that could be manufactured. Eli Whitney was an American. Tobacco was important in the Colombian Exchange, but by the turn of the century Tobacco was replaced by cotton. And before you say some bullshit, the Industrial Revolution was centered around the Textile Industry. Needless to say, textiles require cotton. The Victorian Era was happening in England while America was having there issues with slavery. In fact, even though Britain had abolitionist movements, they were still supporting slavery by buying there cotton and came really close to supporting the confederacy in the Civil War. However to give credit to the British they decided not to because they decided that abolishing the evils of slavery was more important than getting their cotton. In conclusion, yes America funded the Industrial Revolution, and it was Cotton. Not Tobacco.