Scotland may not be known for its contributions to technology, but as far as drinking gadgets go, this Musical Bagpipe Whiskey Pourer is world class. When placed inside a bottle, the bagpipes will play ‘Scotland the Brave’ as you pour. They even threw in a shot glass as a bonus.
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“Scotland may not be known for its contributions to technology”
WTF? Scottish engineers were widely known around the world in the early part of the industrial revolution. Many of the things we think of as being invented in America (the steam boat, for example) were invented by Scots who had immigrated. <a href=”http://www.magicdragon.com/Wallace/thingscot.html”.Here is a list of Scottish inventions.
adhesive postage stamps
anaesthetics
artificial diamonds
reaping machine
Bank of England
penicillin
fax machines
first cloned mammal
flailing machines
golf
hypodermic syringes
Kelvin scale (Lord Kelvin, the founding father of modern physics, was Scottish)
percussion powder
marmalade
mackintosh raincoats
macadamized roads
microwave ovens
colloid chemistry
breech-loading rifle
tubular steel
quinine
pneumatic tyres
hollow pipe drainage
radar
cure for scurvy
refrigerators
bakelite
iron bridges
the steam engine
thermos flasks/dewars
the steam-hammer
paraffin
Sherlock Holmes
Long John Silver
Jekyll and Hyde
Whisky
Economics
Yes, my ancestors were from Scotland, why do you ask?