How time and technology flies. 😉

I'd love to see him do an update on this episode discussing all the developments.

Clarkson in 2022: Fuck, my Hawkstone lager is good

Clarkson in 2023 : as the social media tribal luddites cancel him..

@@doncarlin9081 Skype for example - completely free video communication, at least to others with Skype. But it can of course be used as an ordinary phone, though you do have to pay for that.

2004 it was made, hence the ancient history lesson on mobile connections.

The next Dark age..

Yeahhh..... starting to watch this, at some point I realised that this film is 20y.o. and that it's 2023 today and that that makes me (feel) flipping old...

Inflation, wars, brexit etc 😂

yeah but still no holograms ;-)

His genius has its own zip code.

​@@elirien4264post code* 😂

It’s a shame they did not partner.

Have you ever bought anything in Marks and Spencer? Yes? Well that's you 😂

I remember he applied this in Top Gear, guessing who's driving what type of car only by their shoes !

@@chrisarkenston3340 ya despite people thinking he's just an "ape" he quite intelligent and observant.

+zodiac909 he is remembered at least

Yes, it's a terrible shame. Makes me weep

Yh, I'm British and even I think he was robbed. He deserves the credit for the telephone ngl

I think the saddest part of that is that as a quaker, a devout one, he probably took it as god punishing him. rather god was on his side, its money that screwed him.

The entire last 3rd of the video definitely was just the same questions we ask today regarding the internet, especially the woman who made the "space age tech for stone age brains". I've often thought this about modern tech in general.

I know what you mean, you fucking cunt.

@@plum_bit 😂😂

IIRC, he actually does cover that subject partially in one of the other episodes of this series. I want to say it was either the "Television" episode or the "Computer" episode, but I'm not positive. Both of those episodes are also here on UKposts, probably even in the list of Suggested/Related Videos on the right side of your screen (assuming you're on a computer). If it isn't covered in either of those episodes, then it may actually be in an episode of a series James May did about the 20th century, but I'm almost positive that I remember hearing Jeremy's voice going over a short summary of the event.

i was scrolling through the comments trying to see if anyone else noticed this... i want a full version of that ringtone online 😂

@@bimmingham I mean... it's literally just the song... If you have an MP3 of the song you can just set the full song as your ringtone, or you can use any of the thousands of free audio editing apps available to trim it down to whatever parts you like in about 5 minutes. It's really not that hard.

Regarding Bell, his stealing the patent prevented others very effectively from competing against him.

Really? You need to watch more

@@glennspeirs512 yes i think the best would be something else from jeremy definitely or maybe one of hammond or mays docs those are pretty good too

The one he did on the computer in the same series was pretty good. Definitely better than this one.

I'll let him know

This is still primarily meant to be entertainment, despite being fairly educational, so while you are right about the test having a loophole that Clarkson abused, it was much quicker and more entertaining the way they did it.

You do not have to be from America to appreciate the genius of Samuel Morse.

Rerouted through Atlanta apparently.

@@nativepangea with a pit stop in Denver

@@jamesfalkener weed stop. Luckily, there are closer legal options today

darude - trollstorm

Sounds like Daft Punk

Just that song in general

Ano Nymous The documentary shows that the Scotsman stole his idea from the American before a Cuban ousted them both. Can people like you at least watch the fucking documentaries before you post crap attacking them.

@@SanctusPaulus-ic5gl so pretty much presenting the exact same dilemma that affected literally EVERYBODY about 30 years ago... just LIVE, man, LIVE

2004

A real man calls once and hangs up before the voicemail 😂

It’s called Rachel’s Flat bŷ Badly Drawn Boy. It’s from the film, About A Boy. It’s a very short piece. My ex wife loved it, it used to drive me up the wall 😂

+kilibecher Thomas Edison was far worse than Bell: Edison 'borrowed' plenty of unfinished inventions and made them working and claimed then that he had invented it. Same was with Darwins 'Evolution Theory' which he stole from Alfred Russel Wallace. etc etc. Nothing new

They were all shady back in the dog-eat-dog days. Edison fucked Tesla, Tesla fucked Marconi years after Marconi fucked Tesla and the list just goes on but make no mistake because it’s just as bad today. History always proves that in our forever changing world there is no changing human nature. There is only acceptance and understanding of it.

I agree that no matter who technically invented perfected the voice telephone it was Bell that had the knowhow and overall knowledge to bring it to the world. I also don’t blame Bell personally for his lawyers theft of Elisha Grays schematics although I do believe it likely happened. I really don’t put too much stock in the whole Antonio Meucci story as to much time had passed for this to be confirmed. That’s more trash history than anything else. These are just my opinions I entered the world of Telecom in 1991 and I’m now atheist Telecommunications Engineer for my local Government. I am mostly responsible for VOIP IPPBX communications now but I also provide integrated email and IM’ing. I have to say that verbal communication is without a doubt superior and should NEVER be abandoned for written text. I think that the reason that written text is so preferable these days is just another sign of moral breakdown and the lack of courage. I think that the internet, email and txt’ing has really hurt the world as it’s so impersonal. It’s really a cop-out way of communicating. Yeah sure “ will you grab some milk on your way home” is ok to say in a txt you should NEVER argue or attempt to have a serious conversation this way. People prefer to do it tho because they can be ten feet tall and bullet proof while txt’ing. Man-UP people! If you have something to say then just SAY IT!!

@@svenlima Darwin didn't steal anything. They both came up with similar ideas at the same time, Darwin just published his first. Wallace definitely deserves credit though.

@@bartholomewdan nope

The obvious and steady evolution of the rate at which we can transmit data is "funny"?

Think the woman on the phone thought he wanted to swap children lol

Very insightful Todd. Love your Covid patio project.

@@hut8_newzealand361 Thanks so much.

aaBeing socially shunned and isolated can lead to people developing some pretty intense emotions, but even disregarding that, it's not like the guy fully fleshed out the context of his actions/reasoning. Don't judge him for a situation you know next to nothing about. Also, the fact that he left that "apology" message is proof that he knows it wasn't an acceptable/normal reaction to whatever was being done to him. And he wasn't being "offended", he was being harassed/insulted/bullied (possibly even physically bullied as well). Sounds like what he did was just an excessive form of self-defense, which is a great example of why teasing people is just not acceptable behavior. You never know what the person on the other end is going through and, therefore, how hard they will take it.

"Raido" is only the way to carry the information modulated to analog radio signal. You can carry "phone" more ways than just by cable. GSM is basically radio, wifi too - just different frequencies. It makes sense if you have some basic knowledge.

Reis was a German who was not a Nazi, so he has no place in this show 😂

I still do. 😎

+Eric Taylor and an intercom contains all the fundamental technology for a phone

Jared Reabow True, everything except the switch board.