GREAT SCOTTISH INVENTORS - I will Start

wearytravellers



Joined: 27/04/2007
Posts: 250

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 03:21

Robert William Thomson - Pneumatic Tyre

Who else ?

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 05:02

John Lawson Johnston ............................................. Bovril





Chris

kavenkoy


Joined: 10/04/2008
Posts: 1787

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 06:37

thats it then ? 2of them lol



what about the kilt or the haggis ,or toshing the kyber ?



kav

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 07:07

Profiles : William Murdoch - 1754-1839

Little known Scottish inventor of gas lighting in 1792.



William also invented and tested a model locomotove in 1784, possibly the first vehicle in Britain to run under it's own power.

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 07:15

James "Paraffin" Young - Paraffin extraction from Oil Shale.

zookeeper


Joined: 17/03/2010
Posts: 168

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 07:16

Jock Strap - sportswear undergarments

Groucho



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Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 07:36

Stanley Baxter - Comedy

Navek



Joined: 01/06/2008
Posts: 2656

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 09:03

Sir Alexander Fleming - discovery of penicillin...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming

Navek

Navek



Joined: 01/06/2008
Posts: 2656

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 09:06

John Logie Baird - Inventor of the world's first working television system...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird

Navek

MaggieAndBernie



Joined: 26/07/2008
Posts: 2012

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 09:13

Alexander Graham Bell - invented the telephone



http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/bell.htm



Maggie

matula


Joined: 07/07/2008
Posts: 647

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 09:35

Charles Macintosh, Rubberised fabric for raincoats etc.

mozgor



Joined: 16/06/2010
Posts: 256

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 10:33

Adam Smith - Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economics

Navek



Joined: 01/06/2008
Posts: 2656

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 10:39

John Loudon McAdam - He invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads with a smooth hard surface that would be more durable and less muddy than soil-based tracks....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Loudon_McAdam

Navek

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 10:46

Bairds claim to fame is in dispute



This isnae; Robert Watson Watt, inventor of radar frae Brechin.

mikeyCBBR


Joined: 05/01/2009
Posts: 168

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 10:49

Fried mars bar

Fish supper

See you jimmy

Crankies

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 10:57

So is Alexander Graham Bell's... he patented the telephone but Antonio Meucci is now thought to have really invented it...

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 10:58

Actually we are a really smart race the only thing we seem bad at is football!



Chris

wattys


Joined: 07/10/2008
Posts: 278

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 11:09

Ben Doon & Phil McCrevise



Founders of Gay clubs every where.

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 11:18

It was Phil McCafferty I do believe...

matula


Joined: 07/07/2008
Posts: 647

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 11:55

Surprised no one has mentioned James Watt inventor of the steam engine.

Goonerboy


Joined: 01/04/2009
Posts: 723

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 12:48

Alan Rough the Art of Goalkeeping



The bubble-permed Rough had been suspect when Scotland crashed 3-1 to Peru in the 1978 World Cup.



Four years later in Spain, his hair was straight but he was still suffering brushes with disaster. After going 1-0 up against Brazil, Scotland conceded a free-kick on the edge of the area.



Rough, bizarrely, stood behind the middle of his wall. He’d still not moved by the time Zico’s effort crashed into the net. “They had four people running towards the ball,” said Rough. “I was looking at the wrong one.”

ang1706


Joined: 28/01/2009
Posts: 570

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 12:59

Hercules Clinton of Inverbervie- Designer of the fastest Tea Clipper

David Dunbar Buick of Arbroath - Invented the method of bonding enamel to Iron, later he established the Buick Car Company in America!

Kirkpatrick Mcmillan of Keir Mill Dumfries -Invented the first pedal powered bicycle in 1839

Robert Foulis of Glasgow- inventor of the Foghorn and accreditted with the patent for Gas Lighting

James Dewar of Kincardine - inventor of the Vacuum Flask

catalkoykid


Joined: 15/02/2009
Posts: 1190

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 13:03

and playing the dead sheep, with pipes hanging out of it lol

keithcaley



Joined: 13/06/2008
Posts: 2521

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 13:04

Google says: -

* Alexander Adie

* John Aitken (scientist)

* Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine

* Alexander Allan (locomotive engineer)

* James Anderson of Hermiston

* John H. D. Anderson

* Robert Anderson (inventor)

* Arthur James Arnot

* Alexander Bain (inventor)

* John Logie Baird

* Alexander Graham Bell

* Alexander Graham Bell honors and tributes

* Patrick Bell

* James W. Black

* James Blyth (engineer)

* David Brewster

* George Brown (inventor)

* David Bruce (microbiologist)

* George Bruce of Carnock

* George Bruce (Design patent)

* David Dunbar Buick

* Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton

* James Chalmers (inventor)

* Dugald Clerk

* Philip Howard Colomb

* Thomas Coughtrie

* Robert Davidson

* James Dewar

* William Kennedy Dickson

* Ian Donald

* Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald

* John Boyd Dunlop

* Robert Franc

keithcaley



Joined: 13/06/2008
Posts: 2521

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 13:05

OOps!

* Robert Francis Fairlie

* Patrick Ferguson

* Sir William Fergusson, 1st Baronet

* James David Forbes



G



* William Ged

* Barbara Gilmour

* James Goodfellow

* James Gregory (mathematician)



H



* John Scott Haldane

* James Harrison (engineer)

* James Howden



J



* Fleeming Jenkin

* George Johnston (engineer)



K



* James Keir

* William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin



L



* James Paris Lee

* John Lee (inventor)

* William Boog Leishman

* James Bowman Lindsay

* Henry Liston

* Robert Liston

* John Claudius Loudon



M



* John Loudon McAdam

* Thomas McCall

* John MacGregor (sportsman)

* Hamish MacInnes

* Charles Macintosh

* Kirkpatrick Macmillan

keithcaley



Joined: 13/06/2008
Posts: 2521

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 13:06

* James Clerk Maxwell

* Andrew Meikle

* Patrick Miller of Dalswinton

* William Murdoch

* David Mushet



N



* John Napier

* James Nasmyth

* James Beaumont Neilson

* Robert Stirling Newall

* William Nicol (inventor)



P



* Mungo Ponton

* James Porteous



R



* William John Macquorn Rankine

* John Robison (physicist)

* Sir Charles Ross, 9th Baronet



S



* John Shepherd-Barron

* James Young Simpson

* James Small (inventor)

* James Smith (inventor)

* Thomas Stevenson

* Robert Stirling

* Archibald Sturrock

* William Symington



T



* Charles Tennant

* Robert William Thomson

* George Tosh



W



* Robert Watson-Watt

* James Watt

* Robert Wauchope (Royal Navy officer)



Y



* James Young (Scottish chemist)

deputydawg


Joined: 30/03/2010
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 13:51

As Keith has nominated every Scot ever born I nominate Percy Shaw as surpassing anything invented by anyone of any nationality. We all of course know he was an Englishman who invented Cats Eyes to aid night driving. Imagine the number of drink driving Scots who over the years would never have driven home safely had it not been for this Englishman. However, the real magnitude of his invention, can only be fully appreciated, when you consider, that he took his inspiration from seeing a domestic cat, at night, on a road. Had the cat been facing the other way around he would of invented a rotary pencil sharpener too ! Try and Scotch that then !

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 13:55

Ha ha But we invented the Scotch Whisky so without that your man would have wasted his time as no drunks on the road.



Chris

mozgor



Joined: 16/06/2010
Posts: 256

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 15:12

Francie and Josie - comedians AKA Ricky Fulton & Jack Milroy

jock1



Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 15:19

God is Scottish...

we also invented oxygen..so put that in yer pipe and smoke it.....











msg 21, yea roughie was not out best, but i do recall a certain arsenal keeper in the last couple of minutes in a final making what can only be described as a Howler to lose a certain match.

P.S. the ball boy was scottish

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 19:15

James Gregory (mathematician)



Glad you mentioned him Keith... he was one of my ancestors. One of the 'Academic Gregories' who changed their name from McGregor when the clan was proscribed for supporting Rob Roy and other revolutionaries...

gottheyips


Joined: 28/12/2007
Posts: 444

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 21:30

The greatest of them all ,



Sir Alex Ferguson who re-invented Manchester United, 1986- 2010. with more to come.

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
30/06/2010 23:40

The Krankies!



Andrew Carnegie (Dunfermline) He invented nowt but endowed oodles of libraries around America and the UK.



Didn't I read that whiskey was an Irish concoction?



Jock Stein; brought football to the Glaswegian masses.

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
01/07/2010 00:29

and the priests done the rest msg33 ? lmao

wynyardman



Joined: 15/12/2007
Posts: 4580

Message Posted:
01/07/2010 09:01

Royal Raymond Rife (of Scottish Ancestry) but born................. Elkhorn Nebraska



1868 to 1971



Now here is one helluva guy that The Scots can claim was one of theirs (dont they always?)



What a contributor and what a story! Look it up!



wynyardman

Tatlisu4me


Joined: 26/01/2008
Posts: 436

Message Posted:
01/07/2010 11:46

Angus McCoatup invented coat hangers

keithr


Joined: 20/08/2008
Posts: 720

Message Posted:
01/07/2010 17:24

Rab.C.Nesbitt,



Introducing English people to the Scottish language,the first shows on London channels had subtitles to help us out.