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