Scotland or all of Scandinavia? Place your votes.
Scotland or all of Scandinavia? Place your votes.
Scoth brought us the whisky , that's all folks .
Scandos gave us back some species of early european population .
Is there a point to this poll?
These questions are so fucking stupid.
Scotland's contributions are enourmous. I ticked Scandinavia.
Well a scotsman called James Watt. He was one of the greatest reasons for the Industrial Revolution. We invented the modern world.
and.............
Adam Smith - Father of modern economics,
James Hutton - Father of modern geology
Adam Ferguson - father of modern sociology
David Livingstone - explorer of Africa
William Murdock- Gas lighting
David Brewster- kaleidoscope, Diffraction of light
James Harrison - refrigeration system
David Dunbar Buick - Buicks
James Blyth - electricity generating wind turbine
Andrew Carnegie - former richest man in the world
John Logie Baird - inventor of the world's first practical, television system, also the world's first fully electronic colour television tube.
Alexander Graham Bell - inventor of the first practical telephone
James Clerk Maxwell- electromagnetic theory, first permanent colour photograph.
Charles Macintosh - Inventor waterproof fabrics
James Watt - steam engine pioneer
Robert William Thomson,John Dunlop - inventor of the pneumatic tyre
John Loudon McAdam - road building technique of macadamisation, ‘tarmac’
James Young Simpson - Discovered chloroform
James Young - Discovered Paraffin Oil
Lord Kelvin -The Father of Thermodynamics, kelvin scale
Alexander Fleming - Discovered penicillin
Robert Watson-Watt - Developed radar
James Black - Beta Blocker
John Napier - Logarithms
James Chalmers - invented the adhesive postage stamp.
Alexander Bain - invent and patent the electric clock
James Dewar -process for producing liquid hydrogen and the Vacum flask
Thomas Sutherland - founder of HSBC
William Paterson - founder of the bank of England
Thomas Blake Glover -"Scottish Samurai" key figure in the industrialisation of Japan, founder of Mitsubishi
and.....
John Law - Banque Générale, Bankrupted France :p
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.