"The leak in Churchills toilet needed to be plugged" referring to the secret telephone installed in his lavatory that was being listened to. Best line ever...

Clarkson in 2005: I'll never text anyone Clarkson in 2016: Fuck i love Twitter

@FAT8893

6 жыл бұрын

How time and technology flies. 😉

@doncarlin9081

5 жыл бұрын

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

@michelvanbriemen3459

Жыл бұрын

Clarkson in 2022: Fuck, my Hawkstone lager is good

@amojak

Жыл бұрын

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

@blaggercoyote

7 ай бұрын

@@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.

This episode was made before the before the smart phones and the explosive growth of social media. In the 14 years that passed, we can text, talk, and video on the numerous platforms on phones, we can have access to the total human knowledge in the palm of our hands. Thanks to inflight wifi, we can literally do all that from anywhere in the world, even over vast oceans. I find it amusing that for years now, I have used my phone for everything, except making actual phone calls. It makes me wonder what the next 10 years are going to hold.

@stevebagnall1553

Жыл бұрын

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

@JoeSmith-zv4ic

Жыл бұрын

The next Dark age..

@SasquachPL

Жыл бұрын

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...

@Atomy111

11 ай бұрын

Inflation, wars, brexit etc 😂

@Martin13m

8 ай бұрын

yeah but still no holograms ;-)

Jeremy is just too awesome.

@elirien4264

Жыл бұрын

His genius has its own zip code.

@robinelliott-ni2eh

10 ай бұрын

​@@elirien4264post code* 😂

a nine year old, batteries ,and a bath tube. ladies and gentlemen, THE TELEPHONE!

Jeremy smashed it when he had to guess who. The questions were perfect haha.

@johnmurray9526

11 ай бұрын

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

@chrisarkenston3340

9 ай бұрын

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

@Shawnchapp

4 ай бұрын

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

Gray's nephew invented the telephone by the looks of it.

@Bill-xx2yh

10 ай бұрын

It’s a shame they did not partner.

I will bet my entire life that Clarkson has sent a text since this program was aired...

I'd love to see SO MUCH MORE of this sort of doco. Histories of every and any thing tech/mechanical/science related etc. Jeremy Clarkson - you are so enjoyable to listen to. You clearly have a natural curiosity, as do I. I seem to have picked a copy with Russian subtitles...I lived in Russia for 2 and half years but can't keep up with even reading the subtitles...I'm making this point because I'm wondering where a cleaner-image video copy is - an original.

"How hard can it be?" Now I know where Clarkson got it from ;)

It's a shame Elisha Gray didn't get the recognition he deserved.

@KushTime420

8 жыл бұрын

+zodiac909 he is remembered at least

@CONNELL19511216

Жыл бұрын

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

@irfanwhittaker1100

10 ай бұрын

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

@Searly255

9 ай бұрын

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.

I find the apology line piece after 40:00 quite interesting. Where it is stated that due to the anonymity and lack of physical presence, people are more likely to say things they would not say in real life. This has a lot of parallels with social media nowadays as well.

@scottdodge6979

Жыл бұрын

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.

@plum_bit

Жыл бұрын

I know what you mean, you fucking cunt.

@NoContextRDH

Жыл бұрын

@@plum_bit 😂😂

"Picking Fleas off one another", Clarkson is inimitable

"I'll never use it but seems like this bizarre form of communication is here to stay" - talking about SMS 😂😂

An insight into the laying of the first transatlantic cable would be a documentary in itself.

@moogle68

2 ай бұрын

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 KZread, 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.

No mention of Philipp Reis, who inventing crucial parts of the telephone, long before Bell and/or Gray. And invented the name „telephone“.

It was amazing how a landline call could reach across the world 😮

49:23 TOP GEAR RINGTONE!!!

Anyone else notice his ringtone is Top Gear's theme, " Jessica " ?

@bimmingham

4 ай бұрын

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

@moogle68

2 ай бұрын

@@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.

The winner is the one who actually develops a working product people are willing to pay for. Almost every famous invention had multiple origins and the credited inventor usually worked with others. Whenever Antonio Meucci is discussed an of fashioned telephone is always shown, but in fact he created a speaker system for his house and not an actual working product. Likewise there were pervious versions of the telegraph but they weren't nearly as good as Samuel Morse's.

@pistonburner6448

22 күн бұрын

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

Watching this in 2020 thinking "Well, we still don't have holographic phone calls. Instead we have Zoom."

@mikebarton1725

Жыл бұрын

If you trust the CCP.

55:03 "How hard can it be?" 😁

This is the best documentary.... in the wurld

@glennspeirs512

5 жыл бұрын

Really? You need to watch more

@nick7928

Жыл бұрын

@@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

@bartholomewdan

9 ай бұрын

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

I wonder what he would say about smart phones and how they changed us into mindless zombies

Best Documentry Ever

That revealed stuff I never heard in History class or read in books!

In 1956, a major telephone cable was laid between North America and the British Isles. Its circuitry employed transistors to amplify the voice communications. Mr. Clarkson, you're documentary left this out.

@MastaSquidGT5

Жыл бұрын

I'll let him know

The BBC seems to have a very good taste in music :)

very well done and interesting

I enjoyed this episode without any analysis. Thanks .

In America we grew up hearing about how it was Alexander Graham Bell who invented the telephone, we never heard of Elisha Grey. wow! this was all news to me. of course Bell had the great fortune that his name happened to be Bell and that we associate a telephone call with the ringing bells from a phone. the US telephone company for over 120 years was even called the Bell telephone company.

the stock footage they use in this is priceless...

The first dish in Cornwall was not called Arthur at that time. It was Goonhilly 1. Arthur came about when the dish was opened to visitors.

I remember having to use an operator to place a domestic call as late as the 1970’s in Southern Africa.😂❤.

Boston to Cleveland = 581 miles, not "thousands" of miles as stated @ 11:33. Oh, and thank you for this marvelous series

@nativepangea

7 жыл бұрын

Rerouted through Atlanta apparently.

@jamesfalkener

Жыл бұрын

@@nativepangea with a pit stop in Denver

@joeg5414

Жыл бұрын

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

If Alexander Bell cheesed you off here, check out why it took so long for the Wright Flyer to end up in the Smithsonian. Real history!

ROFL, I really love to see a time jump to now. Him hateing texting when it first started.

I can see his reasoning behind it. He was the one who actually produced it and shipped it off to the masses and got the first patent.

Little did they know, touch screen would be the next big thing

The phone / face test is flawed because he didn't deduct strictly from voice, which I assume was the point. He asked questions indirectly describing the person on the other end. A more accurate test would be having each person tell him the same thing.

@mikebarton1725

Жыл бұрын

True but that would have been boring and I don't watch Clarkson for that.

@moogle68

2 ай бұрын

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.

Haha that’s low key wholesome. Some random fisherman cuts a cable thinking it’s a rare seaweed and is so excited to share it with his wife.

Shame Gray couldn’t have phoned Bell so they could have collaborated.

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he discovered he had missed three calls from Chuck Norris.

@robinelliott-ni2eh

10 ай бұрын

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

As an American, I’ll never forget the genius called Sam Morse. I’m sure most Americans don’t appreciate him but he truly changed the world

@letsrock72

Жыл бұрын

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

Best Docu

What a sneaky bastard that "Bell" was.

@svenlima

7 жыл бұрын

+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

@GeorgeBonez

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@GeorgeBonez

6 жыл бұрын

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!!

@bartholomewdan

9 ай бұрын

@@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.

@svenlima

9 ай бұрын

@@bartholomewdan nope

What is the song called at 47:07 ?

@castorv4199

9 жыл бұрын

darude - trollstorm

@trybal007

6 жыл бұрын

Sounds like Daft Punk

I don't know what year this was made, but all I can think is "My God, look at all those flip phones!"

@woodrow_mayes

6 жыл бұрын

2004

The man who didn't take on the beatles......that will be my dad's cousin 😂

I know! That blew my mind!

"i should be able to tell the men from the women". Wouldn't work as well today.

its funny how back in the day you were limited in how many characters you could put in a text message, now its only limited by your imagination.

@moogle68

2 ай бұрын

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

15:20 for a moment I thought my connection was lagging

Almost as if Bell and Grey were arranging the timing by phone.

"I have never sent a text message and have no intention of doing so". (53:11). Isn't it funny how things have changed @JeremyClarkson.

26:07 song name?

@adamlee3772

Жыл бұрын

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 😂

part 2?

Watching this amidst TikTok, Tinder, Instagram, etc bs in 2023. Jerome would have so much to complain if this was done today.

29:05 Cowboy Overture by John Williams, composer for Star Wars, Jaws, Indiana Jones, etc!

@TheMinerGaming321

7 жыл бұрын

Just that song in general

Can't think of a better time to be out and about is when I don't take my phone with me. Most of my outings from the home is now without a mobile or any electronic device.

@punchy207

9 ай бұрын

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

green hornet is a brilliant stealth name because all a search finds is comics

46:15 That's not a bad bit of work.

@xleprichaun6915

7 ай бұрын

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

49:22 the top gear ringtone! 😂😂😂😂

I killed Henry, he was a neighbor, he was a classmate of mine. It was partly his fault though because he picked on me ... holy shit. You don't kill someone because they made fun of your ears. Bullies are bullies, you write them out of your life, you don't kill them. It may be a new phenomenon (evolutionaly speaking) not to kill people that offend you, but it is kinda the whole structure that society is built on.

@moogle68

2 ай бұрын

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.

Bugger..... this is now 20 years old.

Imagine how our world would be today if world changing ideas weren't shut down. For example, in the ancient roman times a man was executed for producing a flexible glass aka plastic because he would be a threat to the glass industry.

Yes, cool, awesome Mr. Clarkson, world really belongs to Englishman/Scotsman well now at least intellectually, but it would be good to mention to the world also inventors like Tesla who we can thank for the invention of the wireless communication.

@krashd

8 жыл бұрын

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.

what about Meucci ???

55:02 That's a Top Gear line!!!!! Wonder if it was her that sparked it all off?

Ok Clarkson, I know you hate us (not our cars of course) but what about Johann Philipp Reis?

@multiio1424

Жыл бұрын

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

You started out with out the smoke signals from the natives of the Americas 🤔 or am I wrong ?

Small point, but it's, 'jumps' not 'jumped'.🤔

The unreliable homing pigeon idea is entertaining, but in a war zone I'd bet on the pigeon over the telephone, they are immune electronic jamming, water proof, never need charging and even if you get the address wrong they always return home. When future electronic warfare makes electronics useless, the genetically engineered sky-blue pigeons will rule.

@Chris-hx3om

Жыл бұрын

But pigeons were susceptible to falcons and shotguns. They also needed to be transported to the front line, and needed feeding, even when not being 'used'. There was also a lot of 'cleaning up' to be done.

@Blackadder75

Жыл бұрын

RIP speckled Jim

apart from that she is a very charming looking lady with a very relaxing voice :)

Considering how much people reveal about themselves on Social Media these days....Mr Apology must be turning in his grave

evil patents office ,cause more murders than drugs & guns ,amazing how many inventors die in mysterious circumstances,nice touch "The Usual Suspects " music used for the patent montage,if i was a member of elishas family id be in court daily for my cut

He should do a new one with modern day phones.

The part on mobile phones already looks so embarrassingly dated.

@doncarlin9081

5 жыл бұрын

They should do an update lol

WHAT IS THAT MUSIC I LOVE IT

Interesting fact I just realized...Bell's Mother had almost the exact same name as the guy he raced against to patent the phone...Eliza Grace vs. Elisha Gray.

@hut8_newzealand361

9 ай бұрын

Very insightful Todd. Love your Covid patio project.

@Veggamattic

9 ай бұрын

@@hut8_newzealand361 Thanks so much.

"me looking like clint eastwood"

8:23 - That's not actually true. The first message took over 17 hours to transmit and was only a few words if I remember rightly.

I can start my car with my phone.

Like you Jeremy I thoroughly dislike Texting and only use it on rare occasions. If you need a reply from me don't waste your time Texting as you probably won't get one. Keep up the good work. Your documentaries are a joy to watch.

@Skraeling1000

Жыл бұрын

But, Mike, would you say that commenting on a video is not too dissimilar to texting? Specially if you were using your phone to watch and comment? Unless you mean the "c u l8r at pub" type of text lol

@mikebarton1725

Жыл бұрын

@@Skraeling1000 Vastly different as you and I don't have each others phone number and we don't really know each other.

@downundanow5569

Жыл бұрын

I don't know how to text and I have no wish to learn and I've had mobiles for 15 years. 😏

46:26 Of Course We Love you!

Clarkson is so brilliant at communicating education that the school board should use him excellent

Very interesting & really enjoyed this but big question is, did he exchange phone numbers with that blonde woman.... He was well in, 😁 lol

i bet he nailed the blonde chick afterwards

@coshyno

5 жыл бұрын

You fucking looser, bitch lost the bet

...and then it all went horribly wrong.

How times change. Britain gave the world the telephone. Now they give it love island!

Darth vader at 41:50 Thumbs up if u saw him

Wait a minute, this doesn't make sense. When talking about Churchill's secret phone they said the germans could hear everything he said from a dutch listening station. They then said that the reason they were able to listen to his conversations was because all communication across the atlantic had to be done through radio. But they had just said that Churchill and the Americans were talking by phone. This doesn't make any sense. Was he speaking to the Americans by phone or by radio? If it were a phone, how could the Germans pick it up from radio signals? I'm probably just being thick but I found this whole part confusing.

@Quettesh

7 жыл бұрын

"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.

still no holograms ;-)

mobile phone meet the smartphone

So, according to Clarkson himself it was proved that Bell, stolen the ideas from the Elisha Gray and it was also proven that Antonio Meucci had one telephone working a lot of years later but who's the inventor? Bell ... of course ... maybe because he's Brit?! Come on Clarkson ...

@christhomas7905

6 ай бұрын

Bell was Scott actually, he then moved to America where of course all it took was a few quid to pay some corrupt lawyer to steal Gray's ideas, and it was the yanks that stated Bell was the inventor because he got the ball rolling and made it happen. So come on jorgeferreira2009, get the facts right, it's in the documentary lol.

2:25. It's the Klatch.

Luckily, a certain Albert Einstein was working in the Patent Office. He was looking for a way to make his fortune. The rest, as they say, is History!

...go to 27:22...he never used the word INVENTOR ...And also Meucci accidentally developed a way to transmit voices in 1850s...so he was the 1st amongst the three...and his wife sold his invention in 1871 and the patents by the other two gentlemen were filed in 1874.....now its for you decide who could have been inspired by whom...

I went to Beijing in 2004; we Americans were just starting to have cell phones. In Beijing it appeared Everyone did

@Blackadder75

Жыл бұрын

Rural America? I am sure they had them in NY and L.A. in 1998

The clacks were real!