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Military innovations[edit]

Special forces: Founded by Sir David Stirling, the SAS was created in World War II in the North Africa campaign to go behind enemy lines to destroy and disrupt the enemy. Since then it has been regarded as the most famous and influential special forces that has inspired other countries to form their own special forces too.

IntelligenceAllan Pinkerton developed the still relevant intelligence techniques of "shadowing" (surveillance) and "assuming a role" (undercover work) in his time as head of the Union Intelligence Service.

Heavy industry innovations[edit]

Wrought iron sash bars for glass housesJohn C. Loudon (1783–1865)[37]

The hot blast ovenJames Beaumont Neilson (1792–1865)[38]

The steam hammerJames Nasmyth (1808–1890)[39]

Wire ropeRobert Stirling Newall (1812–1889)[40]

Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831–1881)[41]

The Fairlie, a narrow gauge, double-bogie railway engineRobert Francis Fairlie (1831–1885)[42]

Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel (1889)[43]

Agricultural innovations[edit]

The Scotch ploughJames Anderson of Hermiston (1739–1808)[46]

Deanstonisation soil-drainage systemJames Smith (1789–1850)[47]

The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799–1869)[48]

The Fresno scraperJames Porteous (1848–1922)[49]

The Tuley tree shelterGraham Tuley in 1979[50]

Communication innovations[edit]

The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: claimed by James Chalmers (1782–1853)[53]

The Waverley pen nib innovations thereof: Duncan Cameron (1825–1901) The popular "Waverley" was unique in design with a narrow waist and an upturned tip designed to make the ink flow more smoothly on the paper.[54]

Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827–1915)[55]

Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831–1899)[56]

The underlying principles of Radio - James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)[57]

The Kinetoscope, a motion picture camera: devised in 1889 by William Kennedy Dickson (1860-1935)[58]

The teleprinterFrederick G. Creed (1871–1957)[59]

The British Broadcasting Corporation BBC: John Reith, 1st Baron Reith (1922) its founder, first general manager and Director-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation[60]

Radar: A significant contribution made by Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973) alongside Englishman Henry Tizard (1885-1959) and others[61]

The automated teller machine and Personal Identification Number system - James Goodfellow (born 1937)[62]

Publishing firsts[edit]

The first modern pharmacopaediaWilliam Cullen (1776). The book became 'Europe's principal text on the classification and treatment of disease'. His ideas survive in the terms nervous energy and neuroses (a word that Cullen coined).[65]

The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK[66]

The first eBook from a UK administration (March 2012). Scottish Government publishes 'Your Scotland, Your Referendum'.[67][citation needed]

The educational foundation of Ophthalmology: Stewart Duke-Elder in his ground breaking work including ‘Textbook of Ophthalmology and fifteen volumes of System of Ophthalmology’[68]

Culture and the arts[edit]

Fictional characters[edit]

Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie, born in Kirriemuir, Angus

Long John Silver and Jekyll and Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson

John Bull: by John Arbuthnot although seen as a national personification of the United Kingdom in general, and England in particular,[70] the character of John Bull was invented by Arbuthnot in 1712[71]

James Bond was given a Scottish background by Ian Fleming, himself of Scottish descent, after he was impressed by Sean Connery's performance.

Scientific innovations[edit]

Modern Sociology: Adam Ferguson (1767) ‘The Father of Modern Sociology’ with his work An Essay on the History of Civil Society[76]

HypnotismJames Braid (1795–1860) the Father of Hypnotherapy[77]

Tropical medicineSir Patrick Manson known as the father of Tropical Medicine[78]

Modern GeologyJames Hutton ‘The Founder of Modern Geology’[79][80][81]

The theory of Uniformitarianism: James Hutton (1788): a fundamental principle of Geology the features of the geologic time takes millions of years.[82]

The theory of electromagnetismJames Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)[83]

The discovery of the Composition of Saturn's Rings James Clerk Maxwell (1859): determined the rings of Saturn were composed of numerous small particles, all independently orbiting the planet. At the time it was generally thought the rings were solid. The Maxwell Ringlet and Maxwell Gap were named in his honor.[84]

The Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution by James Clerk Maxwell (1860): the basis of the kinetic theory of gases, that speeds of molecules in a gas will change at different temperatures. The original theory first hypothesised by Maxwell and confirmed later in conjunction with Ludwig Boltzmann.[85]

Popularising the decimal pointJohn Napier (1550–1617)[86]

The first theory of the Higgs boson by English born [87] Peter Higgs particle-physics theorist at the University of Edinburgh (1964)[88]

The Gregorian telescopeJames Gregory (1638–1675)[89]

The discovery of Proxima Centauri, the closest known star to the Sun, by Robert Innes (1861–1933)[90]

One of the earliest measurements of distance to the Alpha Centauri star system, the closest such system outside of the Solar System, by Thomas Henderson (1798–1844)[91]

The discovery of Centaurus A, a well-known starburst galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus, by James Dunlop (1793–1848)[92]

The discovery of the Horsehead Nebula in the constellation of Orion, by Williamina Fleming (1857–1911)[93]

The world's first oil refinery and a process of extracting paraffin from coal laying the foundations for the modern oil industry: James Young (1811–1883)[94]

The identification of the minerals yttrialite, thorogummite, aguilarite and nivenite: by William Niven (1889)[95]

The concept of latent heat by French-born Joseph Black (1728–1799)[96]

Discovering the properties of Carbon dioxide by French-born Joseph Black (1728–1799)

The concept of Heat capacity by French-born Joseph Black (1728–1799)

The pyroscopeatmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766–1832)[97]

Identifying the nucleus in living cellsRobert Brown (1773–1858)[98]

An early form of the Incandescent light bulbJames Bowman Lindsay (1799-1862)[99]

Colloid chemistryThomas Graham (1805–1869)[100]

The kelvin SI unit of temperature by Irishman William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824–1907)[101]

Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bondsAlexander Crum Brown (1838–1922)[102]

Criminal fingerprintingHenry Faulds (1843–1930)[103]

The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852–1916)[104]

The cloud chamber recording of atomsCharles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869–1959)[105][106]

The discovery of the Wave of Translation, leading to the modern general theory of solitons by John Scott Russell (1808-1882)[107]

Statistical graphicsWilliam Playfair founder of the first statistical line chartsbar charts, and pie charts in (1786) and (1801) known as a scientific ‘milestone’ in statistical graphs and data visualization[108][109]

The Arithmetic mean density of the Earth: Nevil Maskelyne conducted the Schiehallion experiment conducted at the Scottish mountain of SchiehallionPerthshire 1774[110]

The first isolation of methylated sugars, trimethyl and tetramethyl glucose: James Irvine[111][112]

Discovery of the Japp–Klingemann reaction: to synthesize hydrazones from β-keto-acids (or β-keto-esters) and aryl diazonium salts 1887[113]

Pioneering work on nutrition and povertyJohn Boyd Orr (1880–1971)[114]

Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955[115]

The first cloned mammal (Dolly the Sheep): Was conducted in The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996 by English scientists Ian Wilmut (born 1944) and Keith Campbell (1954–2012).[116]

The seismometer innovations thereof: James David Forbes[117]

Metaflex fabric innovations thereof: University of St. Andrews (2010) application of the first manufacturing fabrics that manipulate light in bending it around a subject. Before this such light manipulating atoms were fixed on flat hard surfaces. The team at St Andrews are the first to develop the concept to fabric.[118]

Tractor beam innovations thereof: St. Andrews University (2013) the world's first to succeed in creating a functioning Tractor beam that pulls objects on a microscopic level[119][120]

Macaulayite: Dr. Jeff Wilson of the Macaulay InstituteAberdeen.[121]

Discovery of Catacol whitebeam by Scottish Natural Heritage and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh(1990s): a rare tree endemic and unique to the Isle of Arran in south west Scotland. The trees were confirmed as a distinct species by DNA testing.[122]

The first positive displacement liquid flowmeter, the reciprocating piston meter by Thomas Kennedy Snr.[123]

 

Sports innovations[edit]

Main article: Sport in Scotland

Scots have been instrumental in the invention and early development of several sports:

Curling[130]

Gaelic handball The modern game of handball is first recorded in Scotland in 1427, when King James I an ardent handball player had his men block up a cellar window in his palace courtyard that was interfering with his game.[131]

Cycling, invention of the pedal-cycle[132]

Golf (see Golf in Scotland)

Ice Hockey, invented by the Scots regiments in Atlantic Canada by playing Shinty on frozen lakes.

Shinty The history of Shinty as a non-standardised sport pre-dates Scotland the Nation. The rules were standardised in the 19th century by Archibald Chisholm[133]

Rugby sevens: Ned Haig and David Sanderson (1883)[134]

The Dugout was invented by Aberdeen FC Coach Donald Colmanin the 1920s

The world's first Robot Olympics which took place in Glasgow in 1990.

Medical innovations[edit]

The hypodermic syringeAlexander Wood (1817–1884)[136]

Transplant rejection: Professor Thomas Gibson (1940s) the first medical doctor to understand the relationship between donor graft tissue and host tissue rejection and tissue transplantation by his work on aviation burns victims during World War II.[137]

First diagnostic applications of an ultrasound scannerIan Donald (1910–1987)[138]

Discovery of hypnotism (November 1841): James Braid (1795–1860)[139]

Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Ronald Ross (1857–1932)[140]

Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855–1931)[141]

Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865–1926)[142]

Discovery of Staphylococcus: Sir Alexander Ogston (1880)[143]

Discovering the Human papillomavirus vaccine Ian Frazer (2006): the second cancer preventing vaccine, and the world's first vaccine designed to prevent a cancer[144]

Discovering insulinJohn J R Macleod (1876–1935) with others[8] The discovery led him to be awarded the 1923 Nobel prize in Medicine.[145]

Penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955)[7]

General anaesthetic - Pioneered by Scotsman James Young Simpson and Englishman John Snow[146]

The establishment of standardized Ophthalmology University College LondonStewart Duke-Elder a pioneering Ophthalmologist[68]

The first hospital Radiation therapy unit John Macintyre (1902): to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of injuries and illness at Glasgow Royal Infirmary[147]

Pioneering of X-ray cinematography by John Macintyre (1896): the first moving real time X-ray image and the first KUB X-ray diagnostic image of a kidney stone in situ[147][148][149]

The Haldane effect a property of hemoglobin first described by John Scott Haldane (1907)[150]

Oxygen Therapy John Scott Haldane (1922): with the publication of ‘The Theraputic Administration of Oxygen Therapy’ beginning the modern era of Oxygen therapy[151]

Ambulight PDT: light-emitting sticking plaster used in photodynamic therapy (PDT) for treating non-melanoma skin cancer. Developed by Ambicare Dundee's Ninewells Hospital and St Andrews University. (2010)[152]

Discovering an effective tuberculosis treatment: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s[153]

Primary creator of the artificial kidney (Professor Kenneth Lowe - Later Queen's physician in Scotland)[154]

Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964[155] The discovery revolutionized the medical management of angina[156] and is considered to be one of the most important contributions to clinical medicine and pharmacology of the 20th century.[157] In 1988 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Developing modern asthma therapy based both on bronchodilation (salbutamol) and anti-inflammatory steroids (beclomethasone dipropionate) : Sir David Jack in 1972

Glasgow coma scaleGraham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett (1974)[158]

Glasgow Outcome Scale Bryan J. Jennett & Sir Michael Bond (1975): is a scale so that patients with brain injuries, such as cerebral traumas[159]

Glasgow Anxiety Scale J.Mindham and C.A Espie (2003)[160]

Glasgow Depression Scale Fiona Cuthill (2003): the first accurate self-report scale to measure the levels of depression in people with learning disabilities[161]

ECG [Electrocardiography]: Alexander Muirhead. First recording of a human ECG (1869)[162][163]

The first Decompression tables John Scott Haldane (1908): to calculate the safe return of deep-sea divers to surface atmospheric pressure[164]

Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS): Strathclyde University (2014) A laser and nanoparticle test to detect Meningitis or multiple pathogenic agents at the same time.[165]

Household innovations[edit]

The refrigeratorWilliam Cullen (1748)[166]

The first electric bread toasterAlan MacMasters (1893)

The flush toiletAlexander Cumming (1775)[167]

The vacuum flask: Sir James Dewar (1847–1932)[168]

The first distiller to triple distill Irish whiskey:[169]John Jameson (Whisky distiller)

The piano footpedal: John Broadwood (1732–1812)[170]

The first automated can-filling machine John West (1809–1888)[171]

The waterproof macintoshCharles Macintosh (1766–1843)[172]

The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781–1868)[173]

Keiller's marmalade Janet Keiller (1797) - The first recipe of rind suspended marmalade or Dundee marmalade produced in Dundee.

The modern lawnmowerAlexander Shanks (1801–1845)[174]

The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaac Holden (1807–1897)[175]

The self filling penRobert Thomson (1822–1873)[176]

Cotton-reel threadJ & J Clark of Paisley[177]

Lime cordialLauchlan Rose in 1867

Bovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874[178]

The electric clockAlexander Bain (1840)[179]

Chemical Telegraph (Automatic Telegraphy) Alexander Bain (1846) In England Bain's telegraph was used on the wires of the Electric Telegraph Company to a limited extent, and in 1850 it was used in America.[180]

Barr's Irn Bru, soft drink produced by Barr's in Cumbernauld Scotland and exported all around the world. The drink is so widely popular in Scotland that it outsells both American colas Coca-Cola and Pepsi and ranks 3rd most popular drink in the UK with Coca-Cola and Pepsi taking the first two spots.[181]

Weapons innovations[edit]

The Lee bolt system as used in the Lee–Metford and Lee–Enfield series rifles: James Paris Lee[184]

The Ghillie suit[185]

The percussion cap: invented by Scottish Presbyterian clergyman Alexander Forsyth[186]

Miscellaneous innovations[edit]

Bank of France devised by John Law

The industrialisation and modernisation of Japan by Thomas Blake Glover[188]

Colour photography: the first known permanent colour photograph was taken by James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)[189]

Buick Motor Company by David Dunbar Buick[190]

New York Herald newspaper by James Gordon Bennett, Sr.[190]

Pinkerton National Detective Agency by Allan Pinkerton[190]

Forbes magazine by B. C. Forbes[190]

The establishment of a standardized botanical institute: Isaac Bayley Balfour major reform, development of botanical science, the concept of garden infrastructure therein improving scientific facilities[191]

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: founded by Sir Patrick Manson in 1899[78]

SERIES-B by JAC Vapour - first UK designed and engineered electronic cigarette[192]

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Military innovations[edit]

Special forces: Founded by Sir David Stirling, the SAS was created in World War II in the North Africa campaign to go behind enemy lines to destroy and disrupt the enemy. Since then it has been regarded as the most famous and influential special forces that has inspired other countries to form their own special forces too.

IntelligenceAllan Pinkerton developed the still relevant intelligence techniques of "shadowing" (surveillance) and "assuming a role" (undercover work) in his time as head of the Union Intelligence Service.

Heavy industry innovations[edit]

Wrought iron sash bars for glass housesJohn C. Loudon (1783–1865)[37]

The hot blast ovenJames Beaumont Neilson (1792–1865)[38]

The steam hammerJames Nasmyth (1808–1890)[39]

Wire ropeRobert Stirling Newall (1812–1889)[40]

Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831–1881)[41]

The Fairlie, a narrow gauge, double-bogie railway engineRobert Francis Fairlie (1831–1885)[42]

Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel (1889)[43]

Agricultural innovations[edit]

The Scotch ploughJames Anderson of Hermiston (1739–1808)[46]

Deanstonisation soil-drainage systemJames Smith (1789–1850)[47]

The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799–1869)[48]

The Fresno scraperJames Porteous (1848–1922)[49]

The Tuley tree shelterGraham Tuley in 1979[50]

Communication innovations[edit]

The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: claimed by James Chalmers (1782–1853)[53]

The Waverley pen nib innovations thereof: Duncan Cameron (1825–1901) The popular "Waverley" was unique in design with a narrow waist and an upturned tip designed to make the ink flow more smoothly on the paper.[54]

Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827–1915)[55]

Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831–1899)[56]

The underlying principles of Radio - James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)[57]

The Kinetoscope, a motion picture camera: devised in 1889 by William Kennedy Dickson (1860-1935)[58]

The teleprinterFrederick G. Creed (1871–1957)[59]

The British Broadcasting Corporation BBC: John Reith, 1st Baron Reith (1922) its founder, first general manager and Director-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation[60]

Radar: A significant contribution made by Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973) alongside Englishman Henry Tizard (1885-1959) and others[61]

The automated teller machine and Personal Identification Number system - James Goodfellow (born 1937)[62]

Publishing firsts[edit]

The first modern pharmacopaediaWilliam Cullen (1776). The book became 'Europe's principal text on the classification and treatment of disease'. His ideas survive in the terms nervous energy and neuroses (a word that Cullen coined).[65]

The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK[66]

The first eBook from a UK administration (March 2012). Scottish Government publishes 'Your Scotland, Your Referendum'.[67][citation needed]

The educational foundation of Ophthalmology: Stewart Duke-Elder in his ground breaking work including ‘Textbook of Ophthalmology and fifteen volumes of System of Ophthalmology’[68]

Culture and the arts[edit]

Fictional characters[edit]

Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie, born in Kirriemuir, Angus

Long John Silver and Jekyll and Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson

John Bull: by John Arbuthnot although seen as a national personification of the United Kingdom in general, and England in particular,[70] the character of John Bull was invented by Arbuthnot in 1712[71]

James Bond was given a Scottish background by Ian Fleming, himself of Scottish descent, after he was impressed by Sean Connery's performance.

Scientific innovations[edit]

Modern Sociology: Adam Ferguson (1767) ‘The Father of Modern Sociology’ with his work An Essay on the History of Civil Society[76]

HypnotismJames Braid (1795–1860) the Father of Hypnotherapy[77]

Tropical medicineSir Patrick Manson known as the father of Tropical Medicine[78]

Modern GeologyJames Hutton ‘The Founder of Modern Geology’[79][80][81]

The theory of Uniformitarianism: James Hutton (1788): a fundamental principle of Geology the features of the geologic time takes millions of years.[82]

The theory of electromagnetismJames Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)[83]

The discovery of the Composition of Saturn's Rings James Clerk Maxwell (1859): determined the rings of Saturn were composed of numerous small particles, all independently orbiting the planet. At the time it was generally thought the rings were solid. The Maxwell Ringlet and Maxwell Gap were named in his honor.[84]

The Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution by James Clerk Maxwell (1860): the basis of the kinetic theory of gases, that speeds of molecules in a gas will change at different temperatures. The original theory first hypothesised by Maxwell and confirmed later in conjunction with Ludwig Boltzmann.[85]

Popularising the decimal pointJohn Napier (1550–1617)[86]

The first theory of the Higgs boson by English born [87] Peter Higgs particle-physics theorist at the University of Edinburgh (1964)[88]

The Gregorian telescopeJames Gregory (1638–1675)[89]

The discovery of Proxima Centauri, the closest known star to the Sun, by Robert Innes (1861–1933)[90]

One of the earliest measurements of distance to the Alpha Centauri star system, the closest such system outside of the Solar System, by Thomas Henderson (1798–1844)[91]

The discovery of Centaurus A, a well-known starburst galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus, by James Dunlop (1793–1848)[92]

The discovery of the Horsehead Nebula in the constellation of Orion, by Williamina Fleming (1857–1911)[93]

The world's first oil refinery and a process of extracting paraffin from coal laying the foundations for the modern oil industry: James Young (1811–1883)[94]

The identification of the minerals yttrialite, thorogummite, aguilarite and nivenite: by William Niven (1889)[95]

The concept of latent heat by French-born Joseph Black (1728–1799)[96]

Discovering the properties of Carbon dioxide by French-born Joseph Black (1728–1799)

The concept of Heat capacity by French-born Joseph Black (1728–1799)

The pyroscopeatmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766–1832)[97]

Identifying the nucleus in living cellsRobert Brown (1773–1858)[98]

An early form of the Incandescent light bulbJames Bowman Lindsay (1799-1862)[99]

Colloid chemistryThomas Graham (1805–1869)[100]

The kelvin SI unit of temperature by Irishman William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824–1907)[101]

Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bondsAlexander Crum Brown (1838–1922)[102]

Criminal fingerprintingHenry Faulds (1843–1930)[103]

The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852–1916)[104]

The cloud chamber recording of atomsCharles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869–1959)[105][106]

The discovery of the Wave of Translation, leading to the modern general theory of solitons by John Scott Russell (1808-1882)[107]

Statistical graphicsWilliam Playfair founder of the first statistical line chartsbar charts, and pie charts in (1786) and (1801) known as a scientific ‘milestone’ in statistical graphs and data visualization[108][109]

The Arithmetic mean density of the Earth: Nevil Maskelyne conducted the Schiehallion experiment conducted at the Scottish mountain of SchiehallionPerthshire 1774[110]

The first isolation of methylated sugars, trimethyl and tetramethyl glucose: James Irvine[111][112]

Discovery of the Japp–Klingemann reaction: to synthesize hydrazones from β-keto-acids (or β-keto-esters) and aryl diazonium salts 1887[113]

Pioneering work on nutrition and povertyJohn Boyd Orr (1880–1971)[114]

Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955[115]

The first cloned mammal (Dolly the Sheep): Was conducted in The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996 by English scientists Ian Wilmut (born 1944) and Keith Campbell (1954–2012).[116]

The seismometer innovations thereof: James David Forbes[117]

Metaflex fabric innovations thereof: University of St. Andrews (2010) application of the first manufacturing fabrics that manipulate light in bending it around a subject. Before this such light manipulating atoms were fixed on flat hard surfaces. The team at St Andrews are the first to develop the concept to fabric.[118]

Tractor beam innovations thereof: St. Andrews University (2013) the world's first to succeed in creating a functioning Tractor beam that pulls objects on a microscopic level[119][120]

Macaulayite: Dr. Jeff Wilson of the Macaulay InstituteAberdeen.[121]

Discovery of Catacol whitebeam by Scottish Natural Heritage and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh(1990s): a rare tree endemic and unique to the Isle of Arran in south west Scotland. The trees were confirmed as a distinct species by DNA testing.[122]

The first positive displacement liquid flowmeter, the reciprocating piston meter by Thomas Kennedy Snr.[123]

 

Sports innovations[edit]

Main article: Sport in Scotland

Scots have been instrumental in the invention and early development of several sports:

Curling[130]

Gaelic handball The modern game of handball is first recorded in Scotland in 1427, when King James I an ardent handball player had his men block up a cellar window in his palace courtyard that was interfering with his game.[131]

Cycling, invention of the pedal-cycle[132]

Golf (see Golf in Scotland)

Ice Hockey, invented by the Scots regiments in Atlantic Canada by playing Shinty on frozen lakes.

Shinty The history of Shinty as a non-standardised sport pre-dates Scotland the Nation. The rules were standardised in the 19th century by Archibald Chisholm[133]

Rugby sevens: Ned Haig and David Sanderson (1883)[134]

The Dugout was invented by Aberdeen FC Coach Donald Colmanin the 1920s

The world's first Robot Olympics which took place in Glasgow in 1990.

Medical innovations[edit]

The hypodermic syringeAlexander Wood (1817–1884)[136]

Transplant rejection: Professor Thomas Gibson (1940s) the first medical doctor to understand the relationship between donor graft tissue and host tissue rejection and tissue transplantation by his work on aviation burns victims during World War II.[137]

First diagnostic applications of an ultrasound scannerIan Donald (1910–1987)[138]

Discovery of hypnotism (November 1841): James Braid (1795–1860)[139]

Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Ronald Ross (1857–1932)[140]

Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855–1931)[141]

Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865–1926)[142]

Discovery of Staphylococcus: Sir Alexander Ogston (1880)[143]

Discovering the Human papillomavirus vaccine Ian Frazer (2006): the second cancer preventing vaccine, and the world's first vaccine designed to prevent a cancer[144]

Discovering insulinJohn J R Macleod (1876–1935) with others[8] The discovery led him to be awarded the 1923 Nobel prize in Medicine.[145]

Penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955)[7]

General anaesthetic - Pioneered by Scotsman James Young Simpson and Englishman John Snow[146]

The establishment of standardized Ophthalmology University College LondonStewart Duke-Elder a pioneering Ophthalmologist[68]

The first hospital Radiation therapy unit John Macintyre (1902): to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of injuries and illness at Glasgow Royal Infirmary[147]

Pioneering of X-ray cinematography by John Macintyre (1896): the first moving real time X-ray image and the first KUB X-ray diagnostic image of a kidney stone in situ[147][148][149]

The Haldane effect a property of hemoglobin first described by John Scott Haldane (1907)[150]

Oxygen Therapy John Scott Haldane (1922): with the publication of ‘The Theraputic Administration of Oxygen Therapy’ beginning the modern era of Oxygen therapy[151]

Ambulight PDT: light-emitting sticking plaster used in photodynamic therapy (PDT) for treating non-melanoma skin cancer. Developed by Ambicare Dundee's Ninewells Hospital and St Andrews University. (2010)[152]

Discovering an effective tuberculosis treatment: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s[153]

Primary creator of the artificial kidney (Professor Kenneth Lowe - Later Queen's physician in Scotland)[154]

Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964[155] The discovery revolutionized the medical management of angina[156] and is considered to be one of the most important contributions to clinical medicine and pharmacology of the 20th century.[157] In 1988 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Developing modern asthma therapy based both on bronchodilation (salbutamol) and anti-inflammatory steroids (beclomethasone dipropionate) : Sir David Jack in 1972

Glasgow coma scaleGraham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett (1974)[158]

Glasgow Outcome Scale Bryan J. Jennett & Sir Michael Bond (1975): is a scale so that patients with brain injuries, such as cerebral traumas[159]

Glasgow Anxiety Scale J.Mindham and C.A Espie (2003)[160]

Glasgow Depression Scale Fiona Cuthill (2003): the first accurate self-report scale to measure the levels of depression in people with learning disabilities[161]

ECG [Electrocardiography]: Alexander Muirhead. First recording of a human ECG (1869)[162][163]

The first Decompression tables John Scott Haldane (1908): to calculate the safe return of deep-sea divers to surface atmospheric pressure[164]

Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS): Strathclyde University (2014) A laser and nanoparticle test to detect Meningitis or multiple pathogenic agents at the same time.[165]

Household innovations[edit]

The refrigeratorWilliam Cullen (1748)[166]

The first electric bread toasterAlan MacMasters (1893)

The flush toiletAlexander Cumming (1775)[167]

The vacuum flask: Sir James Dewar (1847–1932)[168]

The first distiller to triple distill Irish whiskey:[169]John Jameson (Whisky distiller)

The piano footpedal: John Broadwood (1732–1812)[170]

The first automated can-filling machine John West (1809–1888)[171]

The waterproof macintoshCharles Macintosh (1766–1843)[172]

The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781–1868)[173]

Keiller's marmalade Janet Keiller (1797) - The first recipe of rind suspended marmalade or Dundee marmalade produced in Dundee.

The modern lawnmowerAlexander Shanks (1801–1845)[174]

The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaac Holden (1807–1897)[175]

The self filling penRobert Thomson (1822–1873)[176]

Cotton-reel threadJ & J Clark of Paisley[177]

Lime cordialLauchlan Rose in 1867

Bovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874[178]

The electric clockAlexander Bain (1840)[179]

Chemical Telegraph (Automatic Telegraphy) Alexander Bain (1846) In England Bain's telegraph was used on the wires of the Electric Telegraph Company to a limited extent, and in 1850 it was used in America.[180]

Barr's Irn Bru, soft drink produced by Barr's in Cumbernauld Scotland and exported all around the world. The drink is so widely popular in Scotland that it outsells both American colas Coca-Cola and Pepsi and ranks 3rd most popular drink in the UK with Coca-Cola and Pepsi taking the first two spots.[181]

Weapons innovations[edit]

The Lee bolt system as used in the Lee–Metford and Lee–Enfield series rifles: James Paris Lee[184]

The Ghillie suit[185]

The percussion cap: invented by Scottish Presbyterian clergyman Alexander Forsyth[186]

Miscellaneous innovations[edit]

Bank of France devised by John Law

The industrialisation and modernisation of Japan by Thomas Blake Glover[188]

Colour photography: the first known permanent colour photograph was taken by James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)[189]

Buick Motor Company by David Dunbar Buick[190]

New York Herald newspaper by James Gordon Bennett, Sr.[190]

Pinkerton National Detective Agency by Allan Pinkerton[190]

Forbes magazine by B. C. Forbes[190]

The establishment of a standardized botanical institute: Isaac Bayley Balfour major reform, development of botanical science, the concept of garden infrastructure therein improving scientific facilities[191]

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: founded by Sir Patrick Manson in 1899[78]

SERIES-B by JAC Vapour - first UK designed and engineered electronic cigarette[192]

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Well, all those inventions were well after western civilisation became enlightened and emerged from the dark ages.

 

Arabs, chinese and indians were inventing things long long ago but just no patents and all rights go to the ruling kings, emperors and caliphs [laugh]

All gone except 1 and 3 but 1 will soon go.

 

:D

 

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Only general kelly remains? And 1 will get removed by the military ? [laugh]
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The Celtic race is proven to be Aryan alright!

So are the Vikings and Norseman Aryans too.

 

No way.

 

The term Aryan originates from the Proto-Indo-Iranian language root *arya which was the ethnonym the Indo-Iranians used for themselves. Its cognate in Sanskrit is the word ārya (Devanāgarīआर्य), in origin an ethnic self-designation, in Classical Sanskrit meaning "honourable, respectable, noble".[4][5]

 

Aryan are Indians and Iranians.

 

The Celts (/ˈkɛlts/ or /ˈsɛlts/, see pronunciation of Celtfor different usages) were an Indo-European people in Iron Age and Medieval Europe who spoke Celtic languages and had cultural similarities.

 

Celtic culture was supposed to have expanded by trans-cultural diffusion or migration to the British Isles(Insular Celts), France and the Low Countries (Gauls), Bohemia, Poland and much of Central Europe, the Iberian Peninsula(CeltiberiansCelticiLusitanians and Gallaeci) and northern Italy(Golasecca culture and Cisalpine Gauls)[7] and, following the Celtic settlement of Eastern Europe beginning in 279 BC, as far east as central Anatolia (Galatians) in modern-day Turkey.[8]

 

Aryan

 

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No, you need to go further back in time.

Both Celts (including Saxon, Viking, Druid, Norman etc.) and all latter European sub-races share the same "Indo" root as the Aryans - the latter manifesting themselves in greater Europe, Persia and Northern India / xxxxx-stans.

 

You need to go back to when the Homo Sapien-Sapiens root specie started (was created), when Enki gene-spliced our DNA (before we usurped Gaia's throne from the Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon species). Well documented (but in a more metaphorical way) in various ancient texts that pre-date the Thorak, Bible, or Koran.

 

When we are free-er, I invite you to lim kopi together to discuss Anthropology ... my fave topic ... about the cradle of creation (non-religious) concepts and all

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No, you need to go further back in time.

Both Celts (including Saxon, Viking, Druid, Norman etc.) and all latter European sub-races share the same "Indo" root as the Aryans - the latter manifesting themselves in greater Europe, Persia and Northern India / xxxxx-stans.

 

You need to go back to when the Homo Sapien-Sapiens root specie started (was created), when Enki gene-spliced our DNA (before we usurped Gaia's throne from the Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon species). Well documented (but in a more metaphorical way) in various ancient texts that pre-date the Thorak, Bible, or Koran.

 

When we are free-er, I invite you to lim kopi together to discuss Anthropology ... my fave topic ... about the cradle of creation (non-religious) concepts and all

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You must be a wise man if you read up on Sumeria and Mesopotamia and the cradle 

 

of civilization.

 

As for Tilllerson it was be a Rexit and I am looking forward to it.

 

He is a Russian agent.

 

:D

 

tillerson seems to be doing a decent job, but he teamed up with a orange hair peabrain  [:p]

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People say White House is a circus.

 

:D

 

Cause they have a clown as president.

 

this can be moved to the Joke for everyone thread.  :D

 

Walt Disney is running US of A because we have Mickey and Donald in charge wor.  :secret-laugh:

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Not strictly about Trump. But shows how some things about USA political system is absolutely f up.

 

The person being nominated to take charge of the FDA is accused of creating legislation aiding the drug companies in hindering FDA efforts to reduce wanton opioid abuse in USA.

 

Trump drug czar nominee accused of hindering opioid crackdown - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41643080

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