Top 20 Scottish inventions 21 items ranked
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12 points - posted 3 years ago by
kris in category
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1.
Television
Invented by John Logie Baird in 1922 - hard to imagine life without it!
47 points - added 3 years ago by kris - 3 comments
2.
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
35 points - added 3 years ago by kris -
3.
Whisky
35 points - added 3 years ago by kris - 2 comments
4.
Radar Defense System
Sir Robert Watson-Watt
27 points - added 3 years ago by kris -
5.
Penicillin
Discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928 - thinking about it, I’ve got my priorities wrong by putting this one second to television!
25 points - added 3 years ago by kris - 2 comments
6.
The Steam Engine
James Watt
20 points - added 3 years ago by kris - 1 comment
7.
Anaesthetics
First used by Edinburgh Physician James Simpson in the mid 19th Century
16 points - added 3 years ago by kris -
8.
Mackintosh Raincoats
13 points - added 3 years ago by kris -
9.
Refrigirators
Invented in 1851 by James Harrison, a Scot who emigrated to Australia
12 points - added 3 years ago by kris - 1 comment
10.
Quinine
George Cleghorn
12 points - added 3 years ago by kris -
11.
Microwave Oven
11 points - added 3 years ago by kris - 1 comment
12.
Tubular Steel
Sir William Fairbairn
9 points - added 3 years ago by kris -
13.
Breech-loading Rifle
Patrick Ferguson
9 points - added 3 years ago by kris -
14.
Golf
8 points - added 3 years ago by kris -
15.
Ranger football club
It is a very good football team and are good enough to pawn Man U.
7 points - added 2 years ago by guest - 1 comment
16.
Macadamised Roads
John Loudon McAdam
6 points - added 3 years ago by kris -
17.
Hollow-pipe Drainage
Sir Hugh Dalrymple
6 points - added 3 years ago by kris -
18.
Percussion Powder
Alexander Forsyth
6 points - added 3 years ago by kris -
19.
.Fax Machine
6 points - added 3 years ago by kris -
20.
Antisepsis
Joseph Lister
5 points - added 3 years ago by kris -
21.
Pneumatic Tyres
Invented in 1888 by John Boyd Dunlop
3 points - added 3 years ago by kris - 1 comment
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