What Have The Scottish Ever Done For Us?
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
- Sir Alexander Fleming - Discovered Penicillin.John Boyd Dunlop - Invented the Pneumatic Tyre.Alexander Graham Bell - Invented the Telephone.James Watt - Pioneer of the Steam Engine.Alexander Bain - Invented the first Fax Machine.John Logie Baird - Invented Television.James Young Simpson - Discovered Chloroform.Charles MacIntosh - Invented Waterproof Cloth.John Loudon McAdam - Invented Tarmacadam for roads.(Tar)John Napier - Added the point to the Decimal Fraction.Archibald Barr - Invented the Optical Range Finder.James Chalmers - Invented the adhesive postage stamp.George Cleghorn - Discovered that quinine bark acted as a cure for malaria.Sir James Dewar - Inventor of the vacuum flask.John Paul Jones - Established the US Navy.Sir Thomas Lipton - Started the soccer World Cup in 1910.David Livingstone - Discovered the Victoria Falls.Sir John Alexander MacDonald - First Prime Minister of Canada, central figure in the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway.Kirkpatrick Macmillan - Invented the bicycle but never patented it. John Muir - Founder of the US national Park system and regarded as the father of the modern environmental movement. William Paterson - Founded the Bank of England.James Pillans - Invented the blackboard and coloured chalks.Allan Pinkerton - Formed the first detective agency in Chicago.Sir William Ramsay - Responsible for the discovery of rare gases, Helium, Argon, Neon, Krypton, Xenon. Set up the Indian Institute for Science at Bangalore.John Rennie - Engineer built Southwark, Waterloo and London (now in Arizona) bridges.James Small - Inventor of the iron plough.Adam Smith - Economist, developed the concept of political economy. Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt - Invented Radar.John Witherspoon - Framed the American Declaration of Independence and was one of the signatories.James Young - Developed the process of refining oil and created the world's first oil industry.Sean Connery - James Bond, turned ageing males into possible sex symbols.
