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kendo1

Coinneach Odhar Fiosaiche
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steam car
pedal bicycle
pneumatic tyre
overhead valve engine
coal gas lighting
stirling heat engine
carbon brushes for dynamos
Clark cycle gas engine
cloud chamber
steamship paddle wheel
first passenger steamboat
first iron-huled ship
screw propeller
cast steel
hot blast oven
steam hammer
wire rope
cordite
print stereotyping
balloon post!
roller printing
postage stamp
universal standard time
telephone
teleprinter
television
radar
fax
Encyclopædia Britannica
first textbook on surgery
logarithms
theory of electromagnetism
gregorian telescope
concept of latent heat
hypnosis
colloid chemistry
Kelvin unit
finger printing
ultrasound scanner
ferrocene
first cloned animal
seismometer
anaesthesia using chloroform
hypodermic syringe
antiseptics
typhoid vaccine
penicillin
beta blocker drugs
refrigerator
flush toilet
piano footpedal
waterproof macintosh
kaleidoscope
lawnmower
lucifer friction match
self filling pen
cotton reel thread
lime cordial
bovril
life ring
electric clock
digestive biscuit
Bank of England!
Royal bank of Scotland
Bank of France!
golf
iron bridges
breech loading rifles
marmalade
thermos flask
 
I think that's a list of inventions originating in Scotland.

Og
 
I think that's a list of inventions originating in Scotland.

Og
That's why I added bananaphone. The first commersial novety telephone was made by an Edingburgh company. Or so I've been told.

It never caught on though, since contrary to common belief, scots actually have a refined sense of humor, and know that WTF-funny and HAHA-funny are two different things.

/Why yes, I know some totally useless things.
 
Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring....

Liar and Og get a prize.

Haggis.:D
 
Hey, I thought the phone was invented by Bell in the United States. I thought all inventions came from the United States. Isn't that why we have a patent office? I also want to know how to screw a propeller?
 
*trots in, does Happy Llama dance*

Someone called?


*curls up on the ground*



*chews grass*
 
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