Comments on: Musical Bagpipe Whiskey Pourer: Scottish Tech at It’s Finest http://nerdapproved.com/bizarre-gadgets/musical-bagpipe-whiskey-pourer-scottish-tech-at-its-finest/ Fri, 25 May 2012 12:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: mark http://nerdapproved.com/bizarre-gadgets/musical-bagpipe-whiskey-pourer-scottish-tech-at-its-finest/comment-page-1/#comment-76168 mark Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:17:59 +0000 http://nerdapproved.com/bizarre-gadgets/musical-bagpipe-whiskey-pourer-scottish-tech-at-its-finest/#comment-76168 "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? “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?

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