Forum: Bryce


Subject: OT - While the Smith's Away......

TheBryster opened this issue on Jan 13, 2007 · 96 posts


donniemc0 posted Mon, 15 January 2007 at 5:26 AM

 Hmmm...... what can scots claim to have brought to the world?  well amongst other things -

Adhesive postage stamps
Anaesthetics
Antisepsis
Artificial Diamonds
Advertising films
Agricultural Reaping Machine
Bakelite/Damard
Bank of England
Latent Heat
Brownian Movement
Buicks
Colloid Chemistry
Pneumatic Tyres
Chemical Bonds
Cure for scurvy
Decimal Point
Encyclopedia Britannica
Fax Machines
First cloned mammal
Flailing machines
Geosciences
Golf
Halloween
The Historical Novel
hypodermic syringes
Iron Bridges
King Arthur
The Kelvin scale of temperature
Percussion Powder
Logarithms
Maxwell's Equations in Electromagnetism
Marmalade
Mackintosh Raincoats
Macadamised roads
Microwave Ovens
Penicillin
Postcards
Paraffin
Hollow-pipe drainage
Peter Pan
Radar Defense System
Refrigerators
 Planet Neptune
Quinine
The Steam Engine
Solitons
A cure for insomnia
The Steam-hammer
Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)
The Stereotype
Sulphuric Acid
The telephone
Thermos bottles (Dewars)
The telegraph
Television
Tubular steel
Sociology
Breech-loading rifle
 Sherlock Holmes
Toad of Toad Hall
Long John Silver
Jekyll and Hyde
Auld Lang Syne
Paleobiology
Polarization of Light
Whisky
US Navy 
Chilean navy
 Economics
The Cloud Chamber

with thanks to http://www.magicdragon.com/Wallace/thingscot.html#Mo
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