What have the Scots contributed to the world??

[Rusape]

When I was growing up in SA, my paternal grandmother, a bonny lass from Aberdeen, constantly reminded her brood of grandchildren, that the world was a better place, for the Scottish nation had contributed more to modern society than any other!!

Ja, Ja we thought, shortbread, skirts and bag pipes!

So what have the Scots done for me and my kin?

 

[cunning fox]

bollocks, cant even see this post, but its bound to be shite

 

[Dickieboy]

Deep fried mars bars

 

[Blackal]

Wikipedia says..............

Road transport innovations
The first British working model of a steam car (steam engine): William Murdoch (1754–1839)[11] (First steam car invented by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot in 1769)[citation needed]
Macadamised roads (the basis for, but not specifically, Tarmac): John Loudon MacAdam (1756–1836)[3] [1]
The pedal bicycle: Attributed to both Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813–1878)[2] and Thomas McCall (1834–1904)[citation needed]
The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson and John Boyd Dunlop (1822–1873) [2]
The overhead valve engine: David Dunbar Buick (1854–1929)[citation needed]
[edit] Civil engineering innovations
[edit] Bridges
Bridge design: Sir William Arrol (1838–1913), Thomas Telford (1757–1834) & John Rennie (1761–1821)[citation needed]
Suspension bridge improvements: Sir Samuel Brown (1776–1852)[citation needed]
Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874)[citation needed]
[edit] Canals and docks
Falkirk Wheel: ??? (Opened 2002)[citation needed]
Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757–1834)[citation needed]
Dock design: John Rennie (1761–1821)[citation needed]
The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781–1832)[citation needed]
Crane design: James Bremner (1784–1856)[citation needed]
[edit] Lighthouses
Lighthouse design: Robert Stevenson (1772–1850)[citation needed]
The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797–1840)[citation needed]
[edit] Power innovations
Condensing steam engine improvements: James Watt (1736–1819)[1]
Coal-gas lighting: William Murdoch (1754–1839)[citation needed]
The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790–1878)[citation needed]
Electro-magnetic innovations: James Clerk Maxwell (1831–79)[citation needed]
Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849–1936)[citation needed]
The Clark cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clark (1854–1932)[citation needed]
Wireless transformer improvements: Sir James Swinburne (1858–1958)[citation needed]
Cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles T. R. Wilson (1869–1959)[citation needed]
Wave-powered electricity generator:By South African Engineer Stephen Salter in 1977[citation needed]
[edit] Shipbuilding innovations
The steamship paddle wheel: Patrick Miller (1731–1815)[citation needed]
Improvements in The steam boat: William Symington (1763–1831)[citation needed]
Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767–1830)[citation needed]
The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874)[citation needed]
The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803–1882)[citation needed]
Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832–1913)[citation needed]
[edit] Heavy industry innovations
The carronade cannon: Robert Melville (1723–1809)[citation needed]
Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772–1847)[citation needed]
Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783–1865)[citation needed]
The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792–1865)[citation needed]
The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808–1890)[citation needed]
Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812–1889)[citation needed]
Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831–1881)[citation needed]
The Fairlie, a narrow gauge, double-bogie railway engine: Robert Francis Fairlie (1831–1885)[citation needed]
Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel[citation needed]
[edit] Agricultural innovations
Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719–1811)[citation needed]
Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hew Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700–1753)[citation needed]
The Scotch Plough: James Anderson of Hermiston (1739–1808)[citation needed]
Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789–1850)[citation needed]
The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799–1869)[citation needed]
The Fresno Scraper: James Porteous (1848–1922)[citation needed]
The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979[citation needed]
[edit] Communication innovations
Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690–1749)[citation needed]
The balloon post: John Anderson (1726–1796)[citation needed]
Roller printing: Thomas Bell (patented 1783)[citation needed]
The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782–1853)[citation needed]
The mail-van service[citation needed]
Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827–1915)[citation needed]
Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831–1899)[citation needed]
The telephonedisputed) Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922)[4]
The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871–1957)[citation needed]
The first working television, and colour television; John Logie Baird (1888–1946)[5][6]
Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973)[9]
Fax Machine - Alexander Bain[citation needed]
The underlying principles of Radio - James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)[citation needed]
[edit] Publishing firsts
The first book translated from English into a foreign language[citation needed]
The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1768–81)[citation needed]
The first English textbook on surgery (1597) (although Englishman Thomas Gale (surgeon) (1507 - 1586) had already published "Certaine workes of chirurgie" in 1563)[citation needed]
The first modern pharmacopaedia, the Materia Medica Catalogue (1776)[citation needed] - but see [12] for much earlier English pharmacopoeias.
The first textbook on Newtonian science[citation needed]
The first colour newspaper advertisement[citation needed]
The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK and the light houe was tomis telford[citation needed]
[edit] Scientific innovations
Logarithms: John Napier (1550–1617)[13]
The theory of electromagnetism: James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)[citation needed]
Popularising the decimal point: John Napier (1550–1617)[citation needed]
The Gregorian telescope: James Gregory (1638–1675)[citation needed]
The concept of latent heat: Joseph Black (1728–1799)[citation needed]
The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766–1832)[citation needed]
Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Brown (1773–1858)[citation needed]
Hypnotism: James Braid (1795–1860)[citation needed]
Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805–1869)[citation needed]
The kelvin SI unit of temperature: William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824–1907)[citation needed]
Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838–1922)[citation needed]
Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843–1930)[citation needed]
The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852–1916)[citation needed]
The Cloud chamber: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869–1959)[citation needed]
Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880–1971)[citation needed]
The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910–1987) (although English born\educated John J. Wild is described by British Medical Journal as the "father of diagnostic ultrasound"[14])
Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955[citation needed]
The MRI body scanner: John Mallard in 1980[citation needed]
The first cloned mammal (Dolly the Sheep): Was conducted in The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996 although by two Englishmen, Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell.[citation needed]
Seismometer innovations thereof: James David Forbes[citation needed]
Macaulayite: Dr. Jeff Wilson of the Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen.[citation needed]
[edit] Sports innovations
Main article: Sport in Scotland
Scots have been instrumental in the invention and early development of several sports:

several modern athletics events, i.e. shot put and the hammer throw, possibly derive from Highland Games events[citation needed]
Curling[citation needed]
Cycling, invention of the pedal-cycle[citation needed]
Golf (see Golf in Scotland)
Shinty The history of Shinty pre-dates Scotland the Nation. It is thought to have originated in Ireland.[citation needed]
Rugby sevens[citation needed]
[edit] Medical innovations
Pioneering the use of surgical anaesthesia with Chloroform: Sir James Young Simpson (1811–1870)[citation needed]
The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817–1884)[citation needed]
Discovery of hypnotism (November 1841): James Braid (1795-180)[citation needed]
Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Ronald Ross (1857–1932)[citation needed]
Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855–1931)[citation needed]
Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865–1926)[citation needed]
Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876–1935) with others[citation needed]
Penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955)[citation needed]
Discovering an effective tuberculosis treatment: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s[citation needed]
Primary creator of the artificial kidney (Professor Kenneth Lowe - Later Queen's physician in Scotland)[citation needed]
Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964[citation needed]
Glasgow Coma Scale: Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett (1974)[citation needed]
EKG [Electrocardiography]: Alexander Muirhead (1911)[citation needed]
[edit] Household innovations
The Refrigerator: William Cullen (1748)[citation needed]
The Flush toilet: Alexander Cummings (1775)[citation needed]
The Dewar Flask: Sir James Dewar (1847–1932)[citation needed]
The first distiller to triple distill Irish whiskey[15]:John Jameson (Whisky distiller)
The piano footpedal: John Broadwood (1732–1812)[citation needed]
The waterproof macintosh: Charles Macintosh (1766–1843)[citation needed]
The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781–1868)[citation needed]
The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801–1845)[citation needed]
The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaac Holden (1807–1897)[citation needed]
The self filling pen: Robert Thomson (1822–1873)[citation needed]
Cotton-reel thread: J & J Clark of Paisley[citation needed]
Lime Cordial: Peter Burnett in 1867[citation needed]
Bovril beef extract: Jamie Nelson in 1874[citation needed]
The life ring, or personal flotation device: Captain Ward in 1854[citation needed]
Electric clock - Alexander Bain (1840)[citation needed]
[edit] Weapons innovations
The Ferguson rifle: Patrick Ferguson in 1770 or 1776[citation needed]
The Lee bolt system as used in the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield series rifles: James Paris Lee[citation needed]
The Ghillie suit[citation needed]
The Concentration Camp: The Covenanters prison in Edinburgh used to exterminate 1200 Covenanters taken as prisoners after the Battle of Bothwell Brig in 1679.[citation needed]
[edit] Economics innovations
Adam Smith; Smith was born in 1723, hailing from Kirkcaldy, a Scottish town north of Edinburgh; the 18th century Scot considered to be the father of modern economics; Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which argued that minimal government interference in commerce would promote human welfare and alleviate poverty, was published in 1776. He is the first Scotsman to appear on the central bank's currency in England, replacing Elgar's image in the next few years on as many as 1 billion notes.[citation needed]

[edit] Miscellaneous innovations
The digestive biscuit, invented by McVitie's in Edinburgh in 1892 by Alexander Grant.[citation needed]
Boys' Brigade[citation needed]
Bank of England[citation needed]
Bank of Scotland[citation needed]
Bank of France[citation needed]
Colour photography: the first known permanent colour photograph was taken by James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)[citation needed]
The comb - Aberdeen[citation needed]
The keyring - Aberdeen[citation needed]
Robinson Crusoe - influenced by the real-life Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway[citation needed]

 

[Tartan Terror]

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, Irish scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the Irish, in the weeks that followed, an English archaeologist dug to a depth... of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story published in the Sassenach Morning Herald read:

"English archaeologists, finding traces of 130-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech telecommunications network 30 years earlier than the Irish".

One week later, the Banffshire Advertiser in Buckie, Scotland, reported the following:

"After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Enzie Braes, Banffshire, Jock Broon, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely **** all. Jock has therefore concluded that 130 years ago, Scotland had already gone wireless."

Makes a man proud to be a Scot!

 

[cunning fox]

The first distiller to triple distill Irish whiskey[15]:John Jameson (Whisky distiller)

see, we even invented oirish whuskey




fuxake there's a lot o' moths oot the night

 

[Deleted account rno]

Nae mention o' Fran and Anna in Blackal's post

 

[Deleted acc oony]

So what have the Scots done for me and my kin?

We invented an inherent hatred of febs which has taken off on a global scale

 

[Big Si]

Wikipedia says..............

Road transport innovations
The first British working model of a steam car (steam engine): William Murdoch (1754–1839)[11] (First steam car invented by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot in 1769)[citation needed]
Macadamised roads (the basis for, but not specifically, Tarmac): John Loudon MacAdam (1756–1836)[3] [1]
The pedal bicycle: Attributed to both Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813–1878)[2] and Thomas McCall (1834–1904)[citation needed]
The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson and John Boyd Dunlop (1822–1873) [2]
The overhead valve engine: David Dunbar Buick (1854–1929)[citation needed]
[edit] Civil engineering innovations
[edit] Bridges
Bridge design: Sir William Arrol (1838–1913), Thomas Telford (1757–1834) & John Rennie (1761–1821)[citation needed]
Suspension bridge improvements: Sir Samuel Brown (1776–1852)[citation needed]
Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874)[citation needed]
[edit] Canals and docks
Falkirk Wheel: ??? (Opened 2002)[citation needed]
Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757–1834)[citation needed]
Dock design: John Rennie (1761–1821)[citation needed]
The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781–1832)[citation needed]
Crane design: James Bremner (1784–1856)[citation needed]
[edit] Lighthouses
Lighthouse design: Robert Stevenson (1772–1850)[citation needed]
The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797–1840)[citation needed]
[edit] Power innovations
Condensing steam engine improvements: James Watt (1736–1819)[1]
Coal-gas lighting: William Murdoch (1754–1839)[citation needed]
The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790–1878)[citation needed]
Electro-magnetic innovations: James Clerk Maxwell (1831–79)[citation needed]
Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849–1936)[citation needed]
The Clark cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clark (1854–1932)[citation needed]
Wireless transformer improvements: Sir James Swinburne (1858–1958)[citation needed]
Cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles T. R. Wilson (1869–1959)[citation needed]
Wave-powered electricity generator:By South African Engineer Stephen Salter in 1977[citation needed]
[edit] Shipbuilding innovations
The steamship paddle wheel: Patrick Miller (1731–1815)[citation needed]
Improvements in The steam boat: William Symington (1763–1831)[citation needed]
Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767–1830)[citation needed]
The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874)[citation needed]
The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803–1882)[citation needed]
Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832–1913)[citation needed]
[edit] Heavy industry innovations
The carronade cannon: Robert Melville (1723–1809)[citation needed]
Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772–1847)[citation needed]
Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783–1865)[citation needed]
The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792–1865)[citation needed]
The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808–1890)[citation needed]
Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812–1889)[citation needed]
Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831–1881)[citation needed]
The Fairlie, a narrow gauge, double-bogie railway engine: Robert Francis Fairlie (1831–1885)[citation needed]
Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel[citation needed]
[edit] Agricultural innovations
Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719–1811)[citation needed]
Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hew Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700–1753)[citation needed]
The Scotch Plough: James Anderson of Hermiston (1739–1808)[citation needed]
Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789–1850)[citation needed]
The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799–1869)[citation needed]
The Fresno Scraper: James Porteous (1848–1922)[citation needed]
The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979[citation needed]
[edit] Communication innovations
Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690–1749)[citation needed]
The balloon post: John Anderson (1726–1796)[citation needed]
Roller printing: Thomas Bell (patented 1783)[citation needed]
The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782–1853)[citation needed]
The mail-van service[citation needed]
Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827–1915)[citation needed]
Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831–1899)[citation needed]
The telephonedisputed) Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922)[4]
The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871–1957)[citation needed]
The first working television, and colour television; John Logie Baird (1888–1946)[5][6]
Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973)[9]
Fax Machine - Alexander Bain[citation needed]
The underlying principles of Radio - James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)[citation needed]
[edit] Publishing firsts
The first book translated from English into a foreign language[citation needed]
The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1768–81)[citation needed]
The first English textbook on surgery (1597) (although Englishman Thomas Gale (surgeon) (1507 - 1586) had already published "Certaine workes of chirurgie" in 1563)[citation needed]
The first modern pharmacopaedia, the Materia Medica Catalogue (1776)[citation needed] - but see [12] for much earlier English pharmacopoeias.
The first textbook on Newtonian science[citation needed]
The first colour newspaper advertisement[citation needed]
The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK and the light houe was tomis telford[citation needed]
[edit] Scientific innovations
Logarithms: John Napier (1550–1617)[13]
The theory of electromagnetism: James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)[citation needed]
Popularising the decimal point: John Napier (1550–1617)[citation needed]
The Gregorian telescope: James Gregory (1638–1675)[citation needed]
The concept of latent heat: Joseph Black (1728–1799)[citation needed]
The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766–1832)[citation needed]
Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Brown (1773–1858)[citation needed]
Hypnotism: James Braid (1795–1860)[citation needed]
Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805–1869)[citation needed]
The kelvin SI unit of temperature: William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824–1907)[citation needed]
Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838–1922)[citation needed]
Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843–1930)[citation needed]
The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852–1916)[citation needed]
The Cloud chamber: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869–1959)[citation needed]
Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880–1971)[citation needed]
The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910–1987) (although English born\educated John J. Wild is described by British Medical Journal as the "father of diagnostic ultrasound"[14])
Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955[citation needed]
The MRI body scanner: John Mallard in 1980[citation needed]
The first cloned mammal (Dolly the Sheep): Was conducted in The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996 although by two Englishmen, Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell.[citation needed]
Seismometer innovations thereof: James David Forbes[citation needed]
Macaulayite: Dr. Jeff Wilson of the Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen.[citation needed]
[edit] Sports innovations
Main article: Sport in Scotland
Scots have been instrumental in the invention and early development of several sports:

several modern athletics events, i.e. shot put and the hammer throw, possibly derive from Highland Games events[citation needed]
Curling[citation needed]
Cycling, invention of the pedal-cycle[citation needed]
Golf (see Golf in Scotland)
Shinty The history of Shinty pre-dates Scotland the Nation. It is thought to have originated in Ireland.[citation needed]
Rugby sevens[citation needed]
[edit] Medical innovations
Pioneering the use of surgical anaesthesia with Chloroform: Sir James Young Simpson (1811–1870)[citation needed]
The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817–1884)[citation needed]
Discovery of hypnotism (November 1841): James Braid (1795-180)[citation needed]
Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Ronald Ross (1857–1932)[citation needed]
Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855–1931)[citation needed]
Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865–1926)[citation needed]
Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876–1935) with others[citation needed]
Penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955)[citation needed]
Discovering an effective tuberculosis treatment: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s[citation needed]
Primary creator of the artificial kidney (Professor Kenneth Lowe - Later Queen's physician in Scotland)[citation needed]
Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964[citation needed]
Glasgow Coma Scale: Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett (1974)[citation needed]
EKG [Electrocardiography]: Alexander Muirhead (1911)[citation needed]
[edit] Household innovations
The Refrigerator: William Cullen (1748)[citation needed]
The Flush toilet: Alexander Cummings (1775)[citation needed]
The Dewar Flask: Sir James Dewar (1847–1932)[citation needed]
The first distiller to triple distill Irish whiskey[15]:John Jameson (Whisky distiller)
The piano footpedal: John Broadwood (1732–1812)[citation needed]
The waterproof macintosh: Charles Macintosh (1766–1843)[citation needed]
The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781–1868)[citation needed]
The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801–1845)[citation needed]
The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaac Holden (1807–1897)[citation needed]
The self filling pen: Robert Thomson (1822–1873)[citation needed]
Cotton-reel thread: J & J Clark of Paisley[citation needed]
Lime Cordial: Peter Burnett in 1867[citation needed]
Bovril beef extract: Jamie Nelson in 1874[citation needed]
The life ring, or personal flotation device: Captain Ward in 1854[citation needed]
Electric clock - Alexander Bain (1840)[citation needed]
[edit] Weapons innovations
The Ferguson rifle: Patrick Ferguson in 1770 or 1776[citation needed]
The Lee bolt system as used in the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield series rifles: James Paris Lee[citation needed]
The Ghillie suit[citation needed]
The Concentration Camp: The Covenanters prison in Edinburgh used to exterminate 1200 Covenanters taken as prisoners after the Battle of Bothwell Brig in 1679.[citation needed]
[edit] Economics innovations
Adam Smith; Smith was born in 1723, hailing from Kirkcaldy, a Scottish town north of Edinburgh; the 18th century Scot considered to be the father of modern economics; Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which argued that minimal government interference in commerce would promote human welfare and alleviate poverty, was published in 1776. He is the first Scotsman to appear on the central bank's currency in England, replacing Elgar's image in the next few years on as many as 1 billion notes.[citation needed]

[edit] Miscellaneous innovations
The digestive biscuit, invented by McVitie's in Edinburgh in 1892 by Alexander Grant.[citation needed]
Boys' Brigade[citation needed]
Bank of England[citation needed]
Bank of Scotland[citation needed]
Bank of France[citation needed]
Colour photography: the first known permanent colour photograph was taken by James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)[citation needed]
The comb - Aberdeen[citation needed]
The keyring - Aberdeen[citation needed]
Robinson Crusoe - influenced by the real-life Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway[citation needed]

Ok, so apart from all that lot, WOT HAVE THE SCOTS EVER DONE FOR US???!!!

 

[cunning fox]

We invented an inherent hatred of febs which has taken off on a global scale

to be fair the mair northern ones arnae so bad, it's like the further south you go ,the mair arrogant they become
but if you go south o' there, your intae france, an folk get nice again

PS no keepin you up ur we

pps we even scared the romans away for the southerner poofs

 

[Big Jets]

First British Team tae win the European Cup, wi a squad who were all born within a 30 mile radius of Glasgow.As Ronno says Fran And Anna ,Wee Jimmy Krankie,Hogmanay,Dolly the Sheep the Bay City Rollers

 

[Panzer]

Hmmmm!

Wikipedia says..............

Road transport innovations
The first British working model of a steam car (steam engine): William Murdoch (1754–1839)[11] (First steam car invented by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot in 1769)[citation needed]
Macadamised roads (the basis for, but not specifically, Tarmac): John Loudon MacAdam (1756–1836)[3] [1]
The pedal bicycle: Attributed to both Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813–1878)[2] and Thomas McCall (1834–1904)[citation needed]
The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson and John Boyd Dunlop (1822–1873) [2]
The overhead valve engine: David Dunbar Buick (1854–1929)[citation needed]
[edit] Civil engineering innovations
[edit] Bridges
Bridge design: Sir William Arrol (1838–1913), Thomas Telford (1757–1834) & John Rennie (1761–1821)[citation needed]
Suspension bridge improvements: Sir Samuel Brown (1776–1852)[citation needed]
Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874)[citation needed]
[edit] Canals and docks
Falkirk Wheel: ??? (Opened 2002)[citation needed]
Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757–1834)[citation needed]
Dock design: John Rennie (1761–1821)[citation needed]
The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781–1832)[citation needed]
Crane design: James Bremner (1784–1856)[citation needed]
[edit] Lighthouses
Lighthouse design: Robert Stevenson (1772–1850)[citation needed]
The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797–1840)[citation needed]
[edit] Power innovations
Condensing steam engine improvements: James Watt (1736–1819)[1]
Coal-gas lighting: William Murdoch (1754–1839)[citation needed]
The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790–1878)[citation needed]
Electro-magnetic innovations: James Clerk Maxwell (1831–79)[citation needed]
Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849–1936)[citation needed]
The Clark cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clark (1854–1932)[citation needed]
Wireless transformer improvements: Sir James Swinburne (1858–1958)[citation needed]
Cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles T. R. Wilson (1869–1959)[citation needed]
Wave-powered electricity generator:By South African Engineer Stephen Salter in 1977[citation needed]
[edit] Shipbuilding innovations
The steamship paddle wheel: Patrick Miller (1731–1815)[citation needed]
Improvements in The steam boat: William Symington (1763–1831)[citation needed]
Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767–1830)[citation needed]
The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874)[citation needed]
The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803–1882)[citation needed]
Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832–1913)[citation needed]
[edit] Heavy industry innovations
The carronade cannon: Robert Melville (1723–1809)[citation needed]
Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772–1847)[citation needed]
Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783–1865)[citation needed]
The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792–1865)[citation needed]
The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808–1890)[citation needed]
Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812–1889)[citation needed]
Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831–1881)[citation needed]
The Fairlie, a narrow gauge, double-bogie railway engine: Robert Francis Fairlie (1831–1885)[citation needed]
Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel[citation needed]
[edit] Agricultural innovations
Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719–1811)[citation needed]
Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hew Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700–1753)[citation needed]
The Scotch Plough: James Anderson of Hermiston (1739–1808)[citation needed]
Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789–1850)[citation needed]
The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799–1869)[citation needed]
The Fresno Scraper: James Porteous (1848–1922)[citation needed]
The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979[citation needed]
[edit] Communication innovations
Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690–1749)[citation needed]
The balloon post: John Anderson (1726–1796)[citation needed]
Roller printing: Thomas Bell (patented 1783)[citation needed]
The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782–1853)[citation needed]
The mail-van service[citation needed]
Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827–1915)[citation needed]
Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831–1899)[citation needed]
The telephonedisputed) Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922)[4]
The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871–1957)[citation needed]
The first working television, and colour television; John Logie Baird (1888–1946)[5][6]
Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973)[9]
Fax Machine - Alexander Bain[citation needed]
The underlying principles of Radio - James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)[citation needed]
[edit] Publishing firsts
The first book translated from English into a foreign language[citation needed]
The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1768–81)[citation needed]
The first English textbook on surgery (1597) (although Englishman Thomas Gale (surgeon) (1507 - 1586) had already published "Certaine workes of chirurgie" in 1563)[citation needed]
The first modern pharmacopaedia, the Materia Medica Catalogue (1776)[citation needed] - but see [12] for much earlier English pharmacopoeias.
The first textbook on Newtonian science[citation needed]
The first colour newspaper advertisement[citation needed]
The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK and the light houe was tomis telford[citation needed]
[edit] Scientific innovations
Logarithms: John Napier (1550–1617)[13]
The theory of electromagnetism: James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)[citation needed]
Popularising the decimal point: John Napier (1550–1617)[citation needed]
The Gregorian telescope: James Gregory (1638–1675)[citation needed]
The concept of latent heat: Joseph Black (1728–1799)[citation needed]
The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766–1832)[citation needed]
Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Brown (1773–1858)[citation needed]
Hypnotism: James Braid (1795–1860)[citation needed]
Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805–1869)[citation needed]
The kelvin SI unit of temperature: William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824–1907)[citation needed]
Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838–1922)[citation needed]
Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843–1930)[citation needed]
The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852–1916)[citation needed]
The Cloud chamber: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869–1959)[citation needed]
Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880–1971)[citation needed]
The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910–1987) (although English born\educated John J. Wild is described by British Medical Journal as the "father of diagnostic ultrasound"[14])
Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955[citation needed]
The MRI body scanner: John Mallard in 1980[citation needed]
The first cloned mammal (Dolly the Sheep): Was conducted in The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996 although by two Englishmen, Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell.[citation needed]
Seismometer innovations thereof: James David Forbes[citation needed]
Macaulayite: Dr. Jeff Wilson of the Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen.[citation needed]
[edit] Sports innovations
Main article: Sport in Scotland
Scots have been instrumental in the invention and early development of several sports:

several modern athletics events, i.e. shot put and the hammer throw, possibly derive from Highland Games events[citation needed]
Curling[citation needed]
Cycling, invention of the pedal-cycle[citation needed]
Golf (see Golf in Scotland)
Shinty The history of Shinty pre-dates Scotland the Nation. It is thought to have originated in Ireland.[citation needed]
Rugby sevens[citation needed]
[edit] Medical innovations
Pioneering the use of surgical anaesthesia with Chloroform: Sir James Young Simpson (1811–1870)[citation needed]
The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817–1884)[citation needed]
Discovery of hypnotism (November 1841): James Braid (1795-180)[citation needed]
Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Ronald Ross (1857–1932)[citation needed]
Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855–1931)[citation needed]
Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865–1926)[citation needed]
Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876–1935) with others[citation needed]
Penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955)[citation needed]
Discovering an effective tuberculosis treatment: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s[citation needed]
Primary creator of the artificial kidney (Professor Kenneth Lowe - Later Queen's physician in Scotland)[citation needed]
Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964[citation needed]
Glasgow Coma Scale: Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett (1974)[citation needed]
EKG [Electrocardiography]: Alexander Muirhead (1911)[citation needed]
[edit] Household innovations
The Refrigerator: William Cullen (1748)[citation needed]
The Flush toilet: Alexander Cummings (1775)[citation needed]
The Dewar Flask: Sir James Dewar (1847–1932)[citation needed]
The first distiller to triple distill Irish whiskey[15]:John Jameson (Whisky distiller)
The piano footpedal: John Broadwood (1732–1812)[citation needed]
The waterproof macintosh: Charles Macintosh (1766–1843)[citation needed]
The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781–1868)[citation needed]
The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801–1845)[citation needed]
The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaac Holden (1807–1897)[citation needed]
The self filling pen: Robert Thomson (1822–1873)[citation needed]
Cotton-reel thread: J & J Clark of Paisley[citation needed]
Lime Cordial: Peter Burnett in 1867[citation needed]
Bovril beef extract: Jamie Nelson in 1874[citation needed]
The life ring, or personal flotation device: Captain Ward in 1854[citation needed]
Electric clock - Alexander Bain (1840)[citation needed]
[edit] Weapons innovations
The Ferguson rifle: Patrick Ferguson in 1770 or 1776[citation needed]
The Lee bolt system as used in the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield series rifles: James Paris Lee[citation needed]
The Ghillie suit[citation needed]
The Concentration Camp: The Covenanters prison in Edinburgh used to exterminate 1200 Covenanters taken as prisoners after the Battle of Bothwell Brig in 1679.[citation needed]
[edit] Economics innovations
Adam Smith; Smith was born in 1723, hailing from Kirkcaldy, a Scottish town north of Edinburgh; the 18th century Scot considered to be the father of modern economics; Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which argued that minimal government interference in commerce would promote human welfare and alleviate poverty, was published in 1776. He is the first Scotsman to appear on the central bank's currency in England, replacing Elgar's image in the next few years on as many as 1 billion notes.[citation needed]

[edit] Miscellaneous innovations
The digestive biscuit, invented by McVitie's in Edinburgh in 1892 by Alexander Grant.[citation needed]
Boys' Brigade[citation needed]
Bank of England[citation needed]
Bank of Scotland[citation needed]
Bank of France[citation needed]
Colour photography: the first known permanent colour photograph was taken by James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)[citation needed]
The comb - Aberdeen[citation needed]
The keyring - Aberdeen[citation needed]
Robinson Crusoe - influenced by the real-life Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway[citation needed]

You will probably find we founded it all.. But cheers anyway!

 

[kirky1298]

Ok, so apart from all that lot, WOT HAVE THE SCOTS EVER DONE FOR US???!!!

the aquaduct
under floor heating
sanitation
the brittish empire

 

[Deleted acc oony]

You will probably find we founded it all.. But cheers anyway!

If you mean funded was that not by invading other countries like Africa India America China Middle East Australia Canada Jamaica and stealing everything of worth and getting the Scots to fight yir battles and slaves to do your work

I'm aff back tae bed

 

[kirky1298]

bollocks, cant even see this post, but its bound to be shite

are you at the fuckin turps again andy ??? and on a schoolnight too ...

 

[neil 23]

People seem to rave on about Scotland, cant see the attraction of the place myself !

 

[wully]

People seem to rave on about Scotland, cant see the attraction of the place myself !

Aye yer rite, it's shyte, best stay down in englanshire.

 

[boatman]

and we hiv midgies!!!!!!!!

 

[neil 23]

Aye yer rite, it's shyte, best stay down in englanshire.

Might give it a few more tries this year though !

 

[wully]

Might give it a few more tries this year though !

Aye, ye need to be sure