Welcome To Scottish Ingenuity |
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| Since before the Industrial Revolution, Scots have been at the forefront of innovation and discovery across a wide range of spheres: the steam engine, the bicycle, tar macadam roads, the telephone, television, the transistor, the motion picture, penicillin, electromagnetic's, radar, insulin, calculus and Dolly the sheep, the world’s first cloned mammal, are only a few of the most significant products of Scottish ingenuity. What made Scotland such a hotbed of creativity? It's difficult to point to any single factor although the Scots have always placed a high value on education. A prodigious work ethic, a self-confidence and vision, and perhaps even the weather, may also have played a role. Yet even when they left their native country, Scots took that creative impetus with them and continued to distinguish themselves in their adopted countries. Read below just some of the significant contributions Scotland had made in our global economy. |
| The steam car Tarmac roads The pedal bicycle The pneumatic tire The speedometer The motor truck Buick Automobiles The Steam Engine Tubular Steel Coal-Gas Lighting Cloud chamber recording of atoms The Clerk cycle gas engine Wave-powered electricity generator The steamship paddle wheel The steam boat The first iron-hulled steamship The first practical screw propeller The first all-steel ship The first steel ship to cross the Atlantic The first paddle steamer to cross the Atlantic The first ship cross Atlantic in less than a week The first all-welded ship Making cast steel from wrought iron The hot blast oven The steam hammer Narrow gauge, double-bogey railway engine Flailing Machines The mechanical reaping machine The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark The post office Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming Light signaling between ships The telephone The teleprinter/fax machine The television Radar Logarithms The decimal point The reflecting telescope Identifying the nucleus in living cells Hypnosis The Kelvin scale of temperature Devising diagrammatic systems-chemical bonds Criminal fingerprinting The ultrasound scanner The MRI body scanner The first cloned mammal Devising the cure for scurvy Discovering quinine as the cure for malaria Pioneering the use of surgical anesthesia The hypodermic syringe Pioneering the use of antiseptics Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever Discovering insulin |
Penicillin Discovering effective treatment to eradicate TB Developing the first beta-blocker drugs The piano with foot pedals The waterproof Macintosh Raincoat Marmalade The kaleidoscope The modern lawnmower The friction match Paraffin The fountain pen The vacuum flask/Thermos Flask Corn flour Artificial Diamonds Bank of England (Central Banking Theory) Brownian movement Documentary Films Encyclopedia Britannica Golf Curling Tennis Courts The Bowling Green Basketball Microwave Ovens Breech-Loading Rifle Percussion Powder Refrigerators Neptune Bakelite Iron Bridges Whisky Economics/Capitalism The gravitating compass Street lighting The bus The locomotive The gas mask Color photographs The photocopier Electric light Gardenias Artificial ice Morphine Insulin The thermometer Blue lasers The traffic cone US Navy Chilean Navy Peter Pan Sherlock Holmes Long John Silver Jekyll and Hyde Ivanhoe |
