I was just wondering if anybody had any thoughts about this. When you think about it, a lot of things we take for granted were invented/pioneered by Scots, and there are so many famous ones. For example...the television, telephone, penicillin, anaesthetic, logarhythms (if you are a mathmatician),
pneumatic tyres, adhesive stamps etc.
People like Carnegie, Bell, Baird, Dunlop, Fleming, Conan Doyle, Rabbie Burns, Walter Scott & Scottie from Star Trek are all well known names.
The Bank of England was even founded by a Scot.
A lot of people in England are of the view however that Scotland would crumble into dust without them.
My question is...do you think this level of inventiveness/ ingenuinity is unique for such a small country as Scotland, or do you have examples of another race of people as inventive as the Scots?
Thanks
(Xenophobic answers will not be appreciated).
2007-07-26
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