Here is a few Scottish inventions
Adhesive Postage Stamps
Scot James Chalmers
Anaesthetics
James Simpson
Antisepsis
Joseph Lister
Artificial Diamonds
no name
Reaping Machine
Patrick Bell
Bank of England
Latent Heat
Joseph Black (1728-1799)
Brownian movement
Robert Brown
Buicks
David Dunbar Buick – (died 1929)
Cloud Chamber
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson(1869 -1959)
Chemical Bonds
Thomas Graham (1805 – 1869)
Penicillin (1928)
Sir Alexander Fleming
The Decimal Point
John Napier
Documentary Films
Economics
Adam Smith
Encyclopedia Britannica
Engineering Sciences
Fax Machines (early 19th Century)
A Blacksmith from Dumfries
First Cloned Mammal ‘Dolly’ The Sheep
(Edinburgh 1997)
Flailing Machines (1784)
Andrew Meikle
Geosciences (1785)
James Hutton
Golf (15th Century)
Edinburgh
Ivanhoe, Waverley, etc…
Sir Walter Scott
Hypodermic Syringes
Kelvin Scale
William Thompson
Percussion Powder (1809)
Alexander Forsyth
Logarithms (1615)
John Napier
Maxwell’s Equations
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
Marmalade
Dundee Businessman
Mackintosh Raincoats
Scottish Highlands
Macadamized Roads
(Tarmac)
John Loudon McAdam
Microwave Ovens (1940’s)
Colloid Chemistry
Thomas Graham (1805 – 1869)
Breech-Loading Rifle
Partrick Ferguson (1744-1780)
Tubular Steel
Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)
Quinine
George Cleghorn (1716-1794)
Pneumatic Tyres (1888)
John Boyd Dunlop
Hollow Pipe Drainage
Sir Henry Dalrymple (1700-1753)
Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie
Radar
Sir Robert Watson-Watt
Paleobiology (1815)
William Nicol
Polarization (1828)
William Nicol
Cure for Scurvy
anon Edinburgh Man
Halloween
Scottish Tradition on All Hallow’s Eve
Refrigerators (1876)
James Harrison
Discovery of the Planet Neptune (1846)
John Adams
Bakelite
Sir James Swinburne
Iron Bridges
Thomas Telford
Sociology
Adam Ferguson (1723-1816)
Steam Engine
James Watt
Telephones (1876)
Alexaner Graham Bell
Thermos Flasks
Sir James Dewar
The Telegraph
The Scots Magazine (1753)
Television
(1922) – John Logie Baird
Stereotype (1727)
William Ged
Sulphuric Acid
John Roebuck
Steam-Hammer (1839)
James Nasmyth
Cure for Insomnia (1998)
Dr.Christine Carmichael
Paraffin
James Young
Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Wind in The Willows
Kenneth Grahame
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jekyll and Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Auld Lang Syne
Robert Burns
King Arthur
Evidence of Scottish Links
Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling
Dandy, Beano, Children’s Comics etc..
D.C.Thompsons
Oor Wullie & the Broons
D.C.Thompsons
Whisky
US Navy
John Paul Jones
Chilean Navy
Lord Thomas Cochrane
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