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2006-10-08 14:34:46 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
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2006-10-08 14:42:43 · update #1
The education system in Scotland is distinct from the rest of the United Kingdom and was the first country since Sparta in classical Greece to implement a system of general public education. The early roots were in the Education Act of 1496 which first introduced compulsory education for the eldest sons of nobles. Then, in 1561, the principle of general public education was set with the Reformation establishment of the national Kirk which set out a national programme for spiritual reform, including a school in every parish. Education finally came under the control of the state rather than the Church and became compulsory for all children from the implementation of the Education Act of 1872 onwards. As a result, for over two hundred years Scotland had a higher percentage of its population educated at primary, secondary and tertiary levels than any other country in Europe. The differences in education have manifested themselves in different ways, but most noticeably in the number of Scots who went on to become leaders in their fields and at the forefront of innovation and discovery leading to many Scottish inventions during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Since before the Industrial Revolution, Scots have been at the forefront of innovation and discovery across a wide range of spheres: the steam engine, the bicycle, tarmacadam roads, the telephone, television, the transistor, the motion picture, penicillin, electromagnetics, radar, insulin and calculus are only a few of the most significant products of Scottish ingenuity.
The following is a list of inventions or discoveries often held to be in some way Scottish:
Road Transport Innovations
* A steam car (steam engine): William Murdoch (1754-1839) [1]
* Macadam roads: John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836)[citation needed]
* Driving on the left: Determined by a Scottish-inspired Act of Parliament in 1772[citation needed]
* The pedal bicycle: Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813-1878)[citation needed]
* The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson (1822-1873) and John Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921)[citation needed]
* The overhead valve engine: David Dunbar Buick (1854-1929)[citation needed]
* The speedometer: Sir Keith Elphinstone (1864-1944)[citation needed]
* The motor lorry: John Yule in 1870[citation needed]
* The steam tricycle: Andrew Lawson in 1895[citation needed]
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Civil Engineering Innovations
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Bridges
* Bridge design: Sir William Arrol (1838-1913), Thomas Telford (1757-1834) & John Rennie (1761-1821)[citation needed]
* Suspension bridge improvements: Sir Samuel Brown (1776-1852)[citation needed]
* Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)[citation needed]
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Canals & Docks
* Falkirk Wheel: ??? (Opened 2002)[citation needed]
* Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757-1834)[citation needed]
* Dock design: John Rennie (1761-1821)[citation needed]
* The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781-1832)[citation needed]
* Crane design: James Bremner (1784-1856)[citation needed]
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Lighthouses
* Lighthouse design: Robert Stevenson (1772-1850)[citation needed]
* The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797-1840)[citation needed]
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Power Innovations
* Steam engine improvements: James Watt (1736-1819)[citation needed]
* Coal-gas lighting: William Murdock (1754-1839)[citation needed]
* The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790-1878)[citation needed]
* Electro-magnetic innovations: James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79)[citation needed]
* Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849-1936)[citation needed]
* The Clark cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clark (1854-1932)[citation needed]
* Wireless transformer improvements: Sir James Swinburne (1858-1958)[citation needed]
* Cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles T. R. Wilson (1869-1959)[citation needed]
* Wave-powered electricity generator: Stephen Salter in 1977[citation needed]
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Shipbuilding Innovations
* The steamship paddle wheel: Patrick Miller (1731-1815)[citation needed]
* The steam boat: William Symington (1763-1831)[citation needed]
* Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767-1830)[citation needed]
* The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)[citation needed]
* The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803-1882)[citation needed]
* Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832-1913)[citation needed]
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Other Scottish shipbuilding firsts:
* The first all-steel ship[citation needed]
* The first steel ship to cross the Atlantic[citation needed]
* The first paddle steamer to cross the Atlantic[citation needed]
* The first ship to cross the Atlantic in less than a week[citation needed]
* The first all-welded ship[citation needed]
* The first merchant ship to run on oil[citation needed]
* The first set of triple-expansion engines for a twin-screw steamer[citation needed]
* The first ship to be fitted with two engines[citation needed]
* The first steam whaler[citation needed]
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Heavy Industry Innovations
* The carronade cannon: Robert Melville (1723-1809)[citation needed]
* Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772-1847)[citation needed]
* Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783-1865)[citation needed]
* The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792-1865)[citation needed]
* The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808-1890)[citation needed]
* Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812-1889)[citation needed]
* Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831-1881)[citation needed]
* The Fairlie, a Narrow gauge, double-bogey railway engine: Robert Francis Fairlie (1831-1885)[citation needed]
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Agricultural Innovations
* Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719-1811)[citation needed]
* Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hugh Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700-1753)[citation needed]
* The Scotch Plough: James Anderson of Hermiston (1739-1808)[citation needed]
* Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789-1850)[citation needed]
* The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799-1869)[citation needed]
* The Fresno Scraper: James Porteous (1848-1922) [citation needed]
* The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979[citation needed]
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Communication Innovations
* Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690-1749)[citation needed]
* The balloon post: John Anderson (1726-1796)[citation needed]
* The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782-1853)[citation needed]
* The post office[citation needed]
* The mail-van service[citation needed]
* Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915)[citation needed]
* Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831-1899)[citation needed]
* The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)[citation needed]
* The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871-1957)[citation needed]
* The television: John Logie Baird (1888-1946)[citation needed]
* Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973)[citation needed]
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Some Scottish publishing firsts:
* The first book translated from English into a foreign language[citation needed]
* The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1768-81)[citation needed]
* The first English textbook on surgery (1597)[citation needed]
* The first modern pharmacopaedia, the Materia Medica Catalogue (1776)[citation needed]
* The first textbook on Newtonian science[citation needed]
* The first colour newspaper advertisement[citation needed]
* The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK[citation needed]
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Scientific innovations
* Logarithms: John Napier (1550-1617)[citation needed]
* Popularising the decimal point: John Napier (1550-1617)[citation needed]
* The Gregorian telescope: James Gregory (1638-1675)[citation needed]
* The concept of latent heat: Joseph Black (1728-1799)[citation needed]
* The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766-1832)[citation needed]
* Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Browen (1773-1858)[citation needed]
* Hypnosis: James Braid (1795-1860)[citation needed]
* Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805-1869)[citation needed]
* The kelvin SI unit of temperature: William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)[citation needed]
* Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838-1922)[citation needed]
* Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843-1930)[citation needed]
* The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916)[citation needed]
* Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880-1971)[citation needed]
* The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910-1987)[citation needed]
* Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955[citation needed]
* The MRI body scanner: John Mallard in 1980[citation needed]
* The first cloned mammal (Dolly the Sheep): The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996[citation needed]
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Medical Innovations
* Devising the cure for scurvy: James Lind (1716-1794)[citation needed]
* Discovering quinine as the cure for malaria: George Cleghorn (1716-1794)[citation needed]
* Pioneering the use of surgical anaesthesia: Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870)[citation needed]
* The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817-1884)[citation needed]
* Pioneering the use of antiseptics: Joseph Lister (1827-1912)[citation needed]
* Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932)[citation needed]
* Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855-1931)[citation needed]
* Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865-1926)[citation needed]
* Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876-1935) with others[citation needed]
* Penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)[citation needed]
* Discovering an effective tuberculosis treatment: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s[citation needed]
* Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964[citation needed]
* Glasgow Coma Scale: Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett (1974)[citation needed]
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Household Innovations
* The Dewar Flask: Sir James Dewar (1847-1932)[citation needed]
* The piano with footpedals: John Broadwood (1732-1812)[citation needed]
* The waterproof macintosh: Charles Macintosh (1766-1843)[citation needed]
* Marmalade: James Keiller (1775-1839)[citation needed]
* The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781-1868)[citation needed]
* The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801-1845)[citation needed]
* The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaac Holden (1807-1897)[citation needed]
* Paraffin: James Young (1811-1883)[citation needed]
* The fountain pen: Robert Thomson (1822-1873)[citation needed]
* Cotton-reel thread: J & J Clark of Paisley[citation needed]
* Marmalade with peel: James Robertson in 1850[citation needed]
* Lime Cordial: Lachlan Rose in 1867[citation needed]
* Bovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874[citation needed]
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Weapons Innovations
* The Ferguson rifle: Patrick Ferguson in 1770 or 1776[citation needed]
* The Lee bolt system as used in the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield series rifles: James Paris Lee[citation needed]
2006-10-08 14:59:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
What would the world be like without the Scots? Obviously a very backward place.
2006-10-09 04:22:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
mmmm let me think about this......
Gordon Brown, Tony Bliar , Alistair Campbell............ clearly with superheroes like this you must be Masters of the Universe. After He man and Skeletor that is you sweaty sock ****.
2006-10-10 10:36:04 · answer #3 · answered by J B 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, we don't. We simultaneously suffer from an inferiority and superiority complex.
2006-10-11 18:23:11 · answer #4 · answered by bored with yahoo answers 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They can rule me any day of the week, especially Glaswegians, but perhaps not Gordon Brown
2006-10-08 21:38:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Arriba Mexico!!!!!:)
2006-10-09 16:52:44 · answer #6 · answered by sugar.bunny 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
rule the world?...no just England...Blair, Brown, Reid... :)
Do you want them back?
PS Nice shortbreads though…
...& you beat the French in the Euro 2008 qualifier...but still NO..
2006-10-08 21:37:59 · answer #7 · answered by Mr Crusty 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Hey, you invented single malts. What can you do to top that?
2006-10-08 21:37:02 · answer #8 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
WELL I THINK FOO HAS SAID IT ALL
GOD I'M SO PROUD TO BE SCOTTISH.
2006-10-09 15:33:54 · answer #9 · answered by ruthiebeth 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
you might try to invent a smaller ego
2006-10-08 21:52:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
No, Americans do.
2006-10-08 21:36:25 · answer #11 · answered by quarterback 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋