Originally posted by beatspete
Amongst other things, Penicillin, The Steam Engine, The telephone, the first cloned mammal, and the all imporant item - marmalade - was invented by a Dundee man, legend has it.
Er.... not by the same Dundee man.
Don't forget TV, coathangers (well, patented by a Scottish company at least), a
banknote sniffer, paraffin, vacuum flask, fountain pen, bovril, hypodermic syringe, insulin, logarithms, the decimal point, kelvin scale, fingerprinting, noble gases, ultrasound scanner, MRI scanner, postage stamp (and postmark), mail-van service, teleprinter, radar, the steam hammer (no idea what the **** it is - but hey, it sounds cool
), steamship paddle wheel, screw propellor, first all-steel & all-welded ship, wave-powered electical generator, lighthouses (design), tarmac roads, driving on the left, pedal bicycle, pneumatic tyre, speedometer....etc.
Originally posted by beatspete
Edit: and they should all be Ginger.
Dear God, no. The horror!
