List of Scottish inventions and discoveries
"the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics"Scottish inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques either partially or entirely invented, innovated, or discovered by a person born in or descended from Scotland.
In some cases, an invention's Scottishness is determined by the fact that it came into existence in Scotland (e.g., animal cloning), by non-Scots working in the country.
[2] Scottish inventions have been noted as "revolutionising" the world numerous times, made possible by the "boundless imagination and inspired creativity" of the inventors who created them.
Some of the most significant products of Scottish ingenuity include James Watt's steam engine, improving on that of Thomas Newcomen,[4] the bicycle,[5] macadamisation (not to be confused with tarmac or tarmacadam[6]), Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the first practical telephone,[7] John Logie Baird's invention of television,[8][9] Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin[10] and insulin.
The first positive displacement liquid flowmeter, the reciprocating piston meter by Thomas Kennedy Snr.
"the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell 's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics"