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FAX — 2023-10-09 23:52:19
…entor" Image="Alexander_Bain.jpg" Who="Alexander Bain" width="" birth_date="12/10/1810" birth_place="Watten, Caithness, Scotland" death_date="2/1/1877" death_place="Scotland" }} === Alexander Bain 1843 === ~-[[Technology]]: [[Communication]]: [[180…
Vacuum Flask — 2023-10-09 23:46:28
…h physicist James Dewar (1842-1923) was also a brilliant experimental physicist. He was born at Kincardine-on-Forth [[Scotland]] on September 20, 1842 and was educated at Edinburgh University. {{{toc}}} In 1875 he became professor of experimenta…
Steam Engine — 2023-10-08 00:19:36
… August 1819" Pioneer="Steam Engines" }}>> James Watt (1736 – 1819) was born on 19th of January, 1736 in Greenock, [[Scotland]], a seaport on the Firth of Clyde. His father was a shipwright, ship owner and contractor. His mother, Agnes Muirhead,…
Radar — 2023-10-08 00:18:51
…jpg" Who="Robert Watson-Watt" width="" birth_date="13/4/1892" birth_place="Brechin" death_date="5/12/1973" death_place="Scotland" }} === Robert Watson-Watt 1935 === ~-[[CategoryInventions]]: [[CategoryScience]]: [[1900s]] Watson-Watt invented **RA…
…DAR** for the detection of enemy aircraft in 1935. Born April 13, 1892 in Brechin in Angus, [[Scotland]], he was a descendant of James Watt, the famous engineer and inventor of the practical steam engine. {{{toc}}} == Air …
…He established a practice as a consulting engineer, in the 1950s moved to Canada, and later to the USA. He returned to Scotland in the 1960s. …
Anaesthetic — 2023-10-04 16:27:18
…tor" Image="SimpsonJamesYoung.jpg" Who="Simpson James Young" width="200" birth_date="7/6/1811" birth_place="Bathgate, [[Scotland]]" death_date="6/5/1870" death_place="Edinburgh" }} Chloroform was first synthesized around 1830. In 1842 Robert Mortim…
Telephone — 2023-09-23 15:57:07
…]] Alexander Graham Bell (1847 -1922) was born {{Datediff from="3/3/1847"}} years ago on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, [[Scotland]]. {{toc}} Alexanders invention of the **telephone** was very much influenced by his parents. His mother, who was d…
PIN — 2023-09-23 15:56:10
…ology]] {{Databox Image="JamesGoodfellow.jpg" title="James Goodfellow" width="350" Born="1937" Birth_place="Paisley [[Scotland ]]" death_date="now" }} The Personal Identification Number was invented by Goodfellow in 1966 to secure cash ATM machi…
…es. Referred to as the 'Chip & PIN' system. === James Goodfellow 1966 === James Goodfellow OBE was born in Paisley, [[Scotland]] in 1937. During the 1960’s saw the trend of employers to pay wages directly into the employees bank. Weekend clos…
LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09
…on="Inventor" Image="george_gray.jpg" title="George Gray" width="260" birth_date="4 September 1926" birth_place="Denny Scotland" death_date="12 May 2013" death_place="" }} == Liquid Crystal Display == ~-[[CategoryIndustry]]:[[Technology]]:[[1900…
…s]] {{toc}} === George Gray 1972 === **George William Gray** was born in Denny, [[Scotland]] 4 September 1926. In 1972 a team led by George Gray at the Royal Radar Establishment developed a new type of **cyanob…
ATM — 2023-09-23 12:02:41
…n" width="400" birth_date="23 June 1925" birth_place="Shillong, India" death_date="15 May 2010" death_place="Inverness, Scotland" }} === John Shepherd-Barron 1967 === ~-[[Technology]] The first **Automated Teller Machine** was installed at a bran…
Police — 2022-05-20 08:52:50
…sed police force for London, with 17 divisions, each with 4 inspectors and 144 constables. It was to be controlled from Scotland Yard, and answerable to the Home Secretary. Sir Robert Peel had already established the Royal Irish Constabulary in 181…
Rotating Boat Lift — 2022-05-03 17:19:08
…heel 2002 === {{Image url="FalkirkWheel.jpg" class="right" title="Falkirk Wheel" width="700" }} The Falkirk Wheel in [[Scotland]] is the World’s Only Rotating Boat Lift. The Falkirk Wheel is an exceptional feat of modern engineering. It was ina…
Loch Ness Monster — 2022-05-03 17:06:34
…ss-monster.jpg" title="Loch Ness monster" }} [[Society]] == Cryptozoology == Stories of an //aquatic beast// living in Scotland’s Loch Ness date back 1,500 years, the modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster was boosted when a sighting made the lo…
…ng on the surface.^^ /* event_date="May 2, 1933" First sighting of Nessie */ Loch Ness, located in the Highlands of [[Scotland]], has the largest volume of fresh water in Great Britain. The body of water reaches a depth of nearly 800 feet and a l…
…a monster in Loch Ness is a 7th-century biography of Saint Columba, the Irish missionary who introduced Christianity to Scotland. In **565**, according to the biographer, Columba was on his way to visit the king of the northern Picts near Inverness…
Pneumatic Tyre — 2022-05-03 16:45:33
…[CategoryTransport]]:[[1800s]] === John Boyd Dunlop 1888 === {{toc}} Dunlop (1840 to 1921) was born in [[Ayrshire]], [[Scotland]] and qualified as a veterinary surgeon before moving to Belfast in 1867. His practice was at 50 Gloucester Street, Bel…
Television — 2021-11-06 16:35:18
…to demonstrate a working television. John Logie Baird was born on 14 August 1888 in Helensburgh on the west coast of [[Scotland]], the son of a clergyman. Dogged by ill health for most of his life, he nonetheless showed early signs of ingenuity, r…
Antibiotics — 2021-08-20 10:41:08
…g discovers antibiotics */ {{toc}} Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield farm near Darvel, in [[Ayrshire]], [[Scotland]]. The term antibiotics literally means “against life” but the life in this case is harmful microbes. Although so…
Bovril — 2021-08-14 20:09:04
…on cans of beef to feed his troops. The person best positioned to fulfill this task of providing all this beef was a [[Scotland | Scotsman]] living in Canada named **John Lawson Johnston.** The transportation and storage of such vast amounts of …
Fingerprints — 2021-08-14 20:06:49
…dward Richard Henry), was accepted in England and Wales when the first United Kingdom Fingerprint Bureau was founded in Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan Police headquarters, London, in 1901.…
Saline Drip — 2021-08-12 20:46:29
…itle="Saline drip elevated above the patient" width="300" }} == Cholera Killer == Thomas Latta was born in Edinburgh [[Scotland]]. He correctly ascertained that a salt solution could substitute for blood. His experiments were undertaken on five p…
Hypodermic Syringe — 2021-08-12 20:33:54
…syringe" image="Alexander_Wood.jpg" Width="350" Who="Alexander Wood" birth_date="10 December 1817" birth_place="Fife, Scotland" death_date="26 February 1884" }} In 1853, Wood (1817 – 1884) born in [[Scotland]] invented the first hypodermic ne…
Kaleidoscope — 2021-08-09 22:20:04
…ge="David-Brewster.jpg" Who="David Brewster" width="360" birth_date="11/12/1781" birth_place=" Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland " death_date="10/2/1868" death_place=" Allerby, Melrose, Roxburghshire " }} === Sir David Brewster 1816 === ~-[[1800s]…
Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27
…strips of platinum. - 1835, James Bowman Lindsay demonstrated a constant electric light at a public meeting in Dundee, Scotland. - 1840, Warren de la Rue used a platinum coil in an evacuated tube. - 1841 Frederick de Moleyens had first patent fo…
Tarmac — 2021-08-09 21:38:37
… was relaunched by Alfred Hickman in 1905. == Beginnings of Macadam == **John Loudon ""McAdam""** was born in Ayr, Scotland in 1756. He moved to Bristol, England in 1802 and became a Commissioner for Paving in 1806. In 1816 he was elected Surv…
Chicken Tikka Masala — 2021-08-09 21:27:48
…ass="right" title="Ali Ahmed Aslam" width="" }} Ali Ahmed Aslam first concocted the curry dish Tikka Masala in 1970 in Scotland. A British gentleman sometime around 1970 in the **Shish Mahal** restaurant in Glasgow [[Scotland]], found his Chicken…
Jigsaw Puzzle — 2021-08-09 21:24:39
…**’. These //educational tools// became highly popular and he went on to create dissected maps of England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. It became a highly successful business venture. John Spilsbury died …
Pub — 2021-08-09 21:19:14
…s. The most common name for a pub today is **‘The Red Lion’**. The name originates from the time of **James VI** of Scotland when he ascended the English throne in 1603. He ordered that the heraldic red lion of Scotland be displayed on all buil…
Refrigeration — 2021-08-08 18:50:45
…e]]:[[1700s]] The first **artificial refrigeration** was demonstrated by William Cullen at the University of Glasgow, [[Scotland]] in **1748**. In his demonstration, Cullen used a pump to create a small vacuum over a container of diethyl ether. …
Marmalade — 2021-08-08 18:49:30
… {{toc}} === James & Janet Keiller ~1780 === The style of marmalade that we are familiar with today started in Dundee [[Scotland]]. **James Keiller** and his wife **Janet** ran a small sweet and preserves shop in Seagate, **Dundee**. In **1797**, …
… 19th century the English followed. James Boswell remarks that he and Samuel Johnson were offered it at breakfast in Scotland in 1773. When American writer Louisa May Alcott visited Britain in the 1800s, she described "a choice pot of marmalade …
Petroleum — 2020-12-03 01:07:44
…= ~-[[CategoryIndustry]]:[[CategoryTransport]]:[[1800s]] {{Toc}} James Young (1811-1883) was a chemist from Glasgow, [[Scotland]]. In 1847 he noticed a natural petroleum seepage in the Riddings colliery at Alfreton, [[Derbyshire]] from which he di…
Electric Toaster — 2020-12-01 01:05:39
…English electrical engineer Crompton & Co. with an idea. Alan Alexander MacMasters was a scientist and inventor from [[Scotland]], and had created a prototype electric toaster for bread. {{{toc}}} == First Toaster == {{Image url="Toaster.jpg" tit…
Golf — 2020-11-30 16:29:33
…e url="Golf-Course.jpg" class="right" title="Golf Course " width="400" }} Golf was first played officially throughout [[Scotland]] from 1502, when the ban was lifted. === Edinburgh Scotland 1502 === Most of the early references to golf in Scottish…
…ned ‘ye golf’, in an attempt to encourage archery practice, which was being neglected. Golf in its early days in [[Scotland]] may well have had two distinct forms. One was a ‘short’ game similar to ‘kolf’ played in the Netherlands. Fro…
Curling — 2020-11-30 16:26:54
…Curling :: [[CategorySport]] === Scotland 1541 === [[Scotland]] [[1500s]] {{redirect page="Sport"}}…
Railway — 2020-11-30 12:55:52
…itive steam engines employed in mines, and worked in a number of different coalmines in the northeast of England and in Scotland. In 1814 Stephenson constructed his first locomotive, 'Blucher', for hauling coal at Killingworth Colliery near Newcas…
Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
…51**, when an old pond was drained at **Dunblane**, Scotland. The first written reference to a contest using stones on ice coming from the records of Paisley Abbey, Renfrew, in Feb…
…ruary **1541**. One of the national games of Scotland, it has spread to many countries. == Darts == {{Image url="Dart_board.jpg" class="right" width="120" }} Darts began in…
Cloning — 2020-08-06 15:26:49
…lace="Nottingham" }} == Birth of a Star == The cloning was done at the Roslin Institute, university of Edinburgh in [[Scotland]]. Dolly was born 5th July 1996. On the choice the sheep's name Wilmut said ^^"Dolly is derived from a mammary gland c…
Angus Cattle — 2019-08-31 10:40:52
… the world’s finest beef breed with world recognition for its quality meat and easy to care for cattle. === Aberdeen Scotland 1842 === Black hornless cattle are known to have existed in North Eastern [[Scotland]] since the mid 16th century. Thes…
English Language — 2018-01-26 21:45:55
…glisc ). It was an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what are now [[England]] and southern Scotland from around 450 to 1250 AD. It is a West Germanic language and is closely related to '''Old Frisian'''. In fact parts o…
Whisky — 2016-05-26 10:22:03
…skyGlass.jpg" class="left" type="icon" title="Whisky Glass" width="" }} === Celts 900 === Distillation in Ireland and Scotland began gathering steam between 11th and 13th century. But records show that Ancient Celts practiced distillation during…
…Enter the Thirsty Monks == {{Image url="WhiskyJohnCor.jpg" class="right" title="Friar John Cor" width="" }} James IV of Scotland (r. 1488–1513) had a great liking for Scotch whisky and in **1494 Friar John Cor** received permission to produce ‘…
Ayrshire — 2015-12-31 16:08:14
…Ayrshire :: [[Scotland]] {{Category}} Inventions made up in Ayrshire. …
Scotland — 2015-12-31 13:40:09
…Scotland :: [[CategoryInventions]] made up in Scotland. {{category}}…

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