Didn't you scotts discover litmus paper as well? <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I don't see what this list has to do with anything. It's like that Onion article 'Man Proud Of 1/16th Irish Heritage' and it's got a guy running around telling his friends he can drink so much because of his 'Irish Blood'. So you could be 0.001% Scottish, invent something, and be put on that list? :/ When you come up with a REAL list of REAL inventions that were invented IN SCOTLAND by pureblooded SCOTS, then I'll be interested... I'm surprised you don't have "air" written on there.
<!--QuoteBegin-Geminosity+Feb 9 2004, 04:54 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Geminosity @ Feb 9 2004, 04:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> supposedly the reason the scottish are so inventive is to do with our climate... it's neither harsh enough to leave us in a constant struggle to survive, while not stable enough to let us be entirely comfortable. Thanks to that we're supposed to be more inclined to try and improve our lives to either allieviate or distract us from our 'discomfort' =o <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> There are better good feeling things to do then invent sulphiric acid <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-Geminosity+Feb 10 2004, 07:58 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Geminosity @ Feb 10 2004, 07:58 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I'm from the capital: Edinburgh!!! =D <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Me too! Where abouts do you stay?
oh and btw I would like to dispell the stereotype that the Scots are tight fisted due to recent studies indicating we spend and give to charity the most amount of money in the UK <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Go scotland <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
/me kicks inverness
altho i dont really like where i live <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> damn neds
I have two things to add to the initial list: Civil war Regicide
Take a look at history and you'll see what I mean. Did any regents actually die from natural causes? (Although being accidently stabbed repeatedly in the back or an unplanned change in altitude equal to the approximate height of battlement are two quite natural causes of death for a regent...)
<!--QuoteBegin-SuperTeflon+Feb 10 2004, 08:39 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SuperTeflon @ Feb 10 2004, 08:39 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I don't see what this list has to do with anything. It's like that Onion article 'Man Proud Of 1/16th Irish Heritage' and it's got a guy running around telling his friends he can drink so much because of his 'Irish Blood'. So you could be 0.001% Scottish, invent something, and be put on that list? :/ When you come up with a REAL list of REAL inventions that were invented IN SCOTLAND by pureblooded SCOTS, then I'll be interested... I'm surprised you don't have "air" written on there. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> You don't understand man these people weren 000000.9 Scottish they WERE Scottish. Yes some of them may have been immagrents but the were Scottish all the same. For example if Ben Franklin had discovered electricity in Italy it still would have been an American discovery. All those inventions/discoveries were made by 100% scots or were helped along by 100% scots and the majority of them were made in Scotland.
Inventions discoveries that took place in Scotland by "Pure blood" Scots -
Anaesthetics - James simpson Antisepsis - Joseph Lister Agricultural Reaping Machine - Patrick Bell Latent Heat - Joseph Black Brownian Movement - Robert Brown Colloid Chemistry - Thomas Graham Pneumatic Tyres - John Boyd Dunlop Chemical Bonds - Alexander Crum Brown Decimal Point - John Napier First cloned mammal - Research facility in the north of Scotland Geosciences - James Hutton Golf - Origin St Andrews Halloween - Yes this was created by the scots AND the northern English not you yanks Iron Bridges - Thomas Telford King Arthur - Despite claims to the contrary, there is a lot of evidence that King Arthur and most of the knights of the Round Table were Scottish. The Kelvin scale of temperature - Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) Percussion Powder - Alexander Forsyth Logarithms - John Napier Tarmac - John Loudon McAdam Penicillin - Sir Alexander Fleming. This drug has saved more lives than the number lost in all the wars of history. Paraffin - James Young Peter Pan - J.M.Barrie The Steam Engine - James Watt Sulphuric Acid - John Roebuck invented the lead chamber process for the distillation of sulphuric acid. Tubular steel - Sir William Fairbairn
There are so many others it's not even funny and all invented in Scotland.
Thats why us scottish get on good with the irish <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
It's kinda funny. My gran is from Ireland. My mum then got married to my dad who had an Irish name <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> But I'm totally Scottish <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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There are better good feeling things to do then invent sulphiric acid <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Me too! Where abouts do you stay?
oh and btw I would like to dispell the stereotype that the Scots are tight fisted due to recent studies indicating we spend and give to charity the most amount of money in the UK <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
/me kicks inverness
altho i dont really like where i live <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
damn neds
Civil war
Regicide
Take a look at history and you'll see what I mean. Did any regents actually die from natural causes?
(Although being accidently stabbed repeatedly in the back or an unplanned change in altitude equal to the approximate height of battlement are two quite natural causes of death for a regent...)
You don't understand man these people weren 000000.9 Scottish they WERE Scottish. Yes some of them may have been immagrents but the were Scottish all the same. For example if Ben Franklin had discovered electricity in Italy it still would have been an American discovery. All those inventions/discoveries were made by 100% scots or were helped along by 100% scots and the majority of them were made in Scotland.
Inventions discoveries that took place in Scotland by "Pure blood" Scots -
Anaesthetics - James simpson
Antisepsis - Joseph Lister
Agricultural Reaping Machine - Patrick Bell
Latent Heat - Joseph Black
Brownian Movement - Robert Brown
Colloid Chemistry - Thomas Graham
Pneumatic Tyres - John Boyd Dunlop
Chemical Bonds - Alexander Crum Brown
Decimal Point - John Napier
First cloned mammal - Research facility in the north of Scotland
Geosciences - James Hutton
Golf - Origin St Andrews
Halloween - Yes this was created by the scots AND the northern English not you yanks
Iron Bridges - Thomas Telford
King Arthur - Despite claims to the contrary, there is a lot of evidence that King Arthur and most of the knights of the Round Table were Scottish.
The Kelvin scale of temperature - Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)
Percussion Powder - Alexander Forsyth
Logarithms - John Napier
Tarmac - John Loudon McAdam
Penicillin - Sir Alexander Fleming. This drug has saved more lives than the number lost in all the wars of history.
Paraffin - James Young
Peter Pan - J.M.Barrie
The Steam Engine - James Watt
Sulphuric Acid - John Roebuck invented the lead chamber process for the distillation of sulphuric acid.
Tubular steel - Sir William Fairbairn
There are so many others it's not even funny and all invented in Scotland.
Go James Clerk Maxwell!
w00t Clan Bruce!
Interesting but little known fact.