Scottish inventions/things/people

[Confused]

Everything the English made:

Agriculture

* Seed drill - Jethro Tull

Communications

* Clockwork radio - Trevor Baylis

Computing

* Analytical engine - Sir Charles Babbage
* ACE and Pilot ACE - Alan Turing
* Bombe - Alan Turing
* Colossus computer - Tommy Flowers
* Difference engine - Sir Charles Babbage
* World Wide Web - Sir Tim Berners-Lee
* ZX Spectrum - Sir Clive Sinclair

Clock making

* Anchor escapement - Robert Hooke
* Balance spring - Robert Hooke (disputed - possibly invented by Christiaan Huygens of the Netherlands)
* Grasshopper escapement - John Harrison
* Gridiron pendulum - John Harrison

Clothing manufacturing

* Derby Rib (stocking manufacture) - Jedediah Strutt
* Flying shuttle - John Kay
* Mauveine, the first synthetic organic dye - William Perkin
* Power loom - Edmund Cartwright
* Spinning frame - John Kay
* Spinning jenny - James Hargreaves
* Spinning mule - Samuel Crompton

Cryptography

* Playfair cipher - Charles Wheatstone

Engineering

* Adjustable spanner - Edwin Beard Budding
* First coke-consuming blast furnace - Abraham Darby I
* First working universal joint - Robert Hooke
* Newcomen steam engine - Thomas Newcomen
o Modified version of the Newcomen steam engine (Pickard engine) - James Pickard
* Pendulum Governor - Frederick Lanchester
* The first *****-cutting lathe - Henry Maudslay

Food

* Bird's Custard - Alfred Bird
* Sandwich - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

Household appliances

* Ballbarrow - James Dyson
* Cat flap - Sir Isaac Newton (attributed)
* Collapsible baby buggy - Owen Maclaren
* Dyson DC01 - James Dyson
* Fire extinguisher - George William Manby
* Lawn mower - Edwin Beard Budding
* Rubber band - Stephen Perry

Industrial processes

* Bessemer process - Henry Bessemer
* Hydraulic press - Joseph Bramah
* Parkesine, the first man-made plastic - Alexander Parkes
* Portland cement - Joseph Aspdin
* Sheffield plate - Thomas Boulsover
* Water frame - Richard Arkwright

Medical

* Artificial intraocular lens transplant surgery for cataract patients - Harold Ridley

Military

* Congreve rocket - William Congreve
* High explosive squash head - Sir Charles Dennistoun Burney
* Puckle Gun - James Puckle
* Shrapnel shell - Henry Shrapnel

Mining

* Davy lamp - Humphry Davy
* Geordie lamp - George Stephenson

Musical instruments

* Concertina - Charles Wheatstone

Photography

* Ambrotype - Frederick Scott Archer
* Calotype - William Fox Talbot
* Collodion process - Frederick Scott Archer
* Stereoscope - Charles Wheatstone

Science

* Compound microscope with 30x magnification - Robert Hooke
* Electrical generator (dynamo) - Michael Faraday
* Galvanometer - William Sturgeon
* Marsh test for Arsenic - James Marsh
* Newtonian telescope - Sir Isaac Newton
* Micrometer - Sir William Gascoigne
o the first bench micrometer that was capable of measuring to one ten thousandth of an inch - Henry Maudslay
* Sinclair Executive, the world's first small electronic pocket calculator - Sir Clive Sinclair
* Slide rule - William Oughtred
* Synthesis of coumarin, one of the first synthetic perfumes, and cinnamic acid via the Perkin reaction- William Perkin

Transport
Railways
Locomotives

* Blucher - George Stephenson
* Puffing Billy -William Hedley
* Locomotion No 1 - Robert Stephenson
* Sans Pareil - Timothy Hackworth
* Stephenson's Rocket - George and Robert Stephenson

Other railway developments

* Displacement lubricator, Ramsbottom safety valve, the water trough, the split piston ring - John Ramsbottom

Roads

* Bowden cable - Frank Bowden
* Cat's eye - Percy Shaw
* Caterpillar track - Sir George Cayley
* Hansom cab - Joseph Hansom
* Seat belt - George Cayley
* Sinclair C5 - Sir Clive Sinclair
* Tarmac - E. Purnell Hooley

Sea

* Hovercraft - Christopher ****erell
* Lifeboat - Lionel Lukin
* Resurgam - George Garrett
* Turbinia, the first steam turbine powered steamship, designed by the Irish engineer Sir Charles Algernon Parsons and built in Newcastle upon Tyne

Air

* Jet engine - Sir Frank Whittle

Miscellaneous

* Daylight saving time - William Willett
* Meccano - Frank Hornby

[clazzles]

Yeah, it's gross.

lmao isn't it like sheeps lungs or something?

[Confused]

lmao isn't it like sheeps lungs or something?

Sheep's balls I think.

[Mr.Kylee]

Sheep's balls I think.

Omg, ow. poor freaking sheep

[Eoin]

Haggis is a steamed pudding made of finely minced sheep heart, lungs and liver. Wraped in a sheeps stomach.

YUMMY!

[Mr.Kylee]

Haggis is a steamed pudding made of finely minced sheep heart, lungs and liver. Wraped in a sheeps stomach.

YUMMY!

EW. How can you eat that :x

I adore sheeps and you eat them? BADD.

[Eoin]

So youve never had lamb before?

[clazzles]

Haggis is a steamed pudding made of finely minced sheep heart, lungs and liver. Wraped in a sheeps stomach.

YUMMY!

ew just ew.

[Mr.Kylee]

So youve never had lamb before?

COURSE NOT.

I only eat chicken meat and fish and even that is like once per two weeks.

[HellyBelly]

jordan sorry but we own, we invented TV.