Scottish Inventions and Innovation

Here's a list of all the useful (and sometimes a bit odd!) things the Scots have been responsible for creating. What a clever lot we are!
James Chalmers (1782-1853) Invented the adhesive postage stamp, Sir Hugh Dalrymple (1700-1753) Invented the hollow-pipe drainage system, David Douglas (1798-1834) Botanist after whom the Douglas Fir is named. Patrick Ferguson (1744-1780) Invented the breech loading rifle. James Gregory (1638-1675) Invented the reflecting telescope John McAdam (1756-1836) Developed the process of covering roads with small broken stones (Tarmacadam) Charles MacIntosh (1766-1843) Added naptha to rubber to create the Macintosh raincoat Andrew Meikle (1719-1811) Invented the threshing machine John Napier (1550-1617) Developed the concept of logarithms and invented the decimal point! Richard Noble Holds the World land speed record William Paterson (1658-1719) Founded the Bank of England! Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870) Pioneered the use of chloroform in anaesthetics James Small (1730-1793) Invented the iron plough William Symmington (1763-1831) Developed the first steam powered marine engine Robert William Thomson (1822-1873) Invented the vulcanised rubber pneumatic tyre, patented the fountain pen and patented the steam traction engine Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt (1892-1973) Developed RADAR. John Logie Baird (1888-1946) Invented the television. Sir Alexander Flemming (1881-1955) Discovered penicillin. Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) Invented the telephone. James Young (1811-1883) Developed the process of refining oil. Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) Invented the kaleidoscope. Sir James Dewar (1842-1923) Invented the vacuum flask. John Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921) Further developed the vulcanised rubber pneumatic tyre (Dunlop Tyres) Thomas Telford (1757-1835) The "Colossus of Roads!" Built many of the first roads. Rev. Patrick Bell (1800-1869) Invented the reaping machine, which led to the combine harvester. Joseph Black (1728-1799) Developed the concept of latent heat and discovered Carbon Dioxide. James Braid (1795-1860) Pioneered hypnosis. Sir Dugald Clerk (1854-1932) Invented the two-stroke Clerk Cycle Gas Engine. Sir William Fairburn (1789-1874) Developed the use of tubular steel in construction Rev. Alexander Forsyth (1769-1848) Invented the percussion cap which later became the bullet William Murdock (1754-1839). Invented coal-gas lighting James Pillans (1778-1864) Invented the blackboard and coloured chalk John Shepherd-Barron (1925- ) Inventor of the ATM Sir Sandford Flemming (1827-1915) Created the World time zones Alexander Wood (1817-1884)
Invented the hypodermic needle John J R MacLeod (1876-1935)Helped to discover insulin. Henry Faulds (1843-1930) Created the process of criminal fingerprinting Ian Donald (1910-1987) Invented the ultrasound scanner John Anderson (1882-1958) Father of the Anderson Air Raid Shelter. Sir Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959) Created the Wilson Cloud Chamber and carried out extensive studies on particle physics.