other than the incomprehensible poetry of Robbie Burns, clan treachery, ginger hair, men in skirts, the head butt and not forgetting the lyrically rewarding song 'Donald where's your troosers'
2007-02-17 05:46:57 · 57 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
We have a lot of men from Scotland in our armed forces & the people are friendly.Why are you against them.
2007-02-17 05:51:51 · answer #1 · answered by Ollie 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Alexander Bain, fax machine
John Logie Baird, television
Alexander Graham Bell, telephone, National Geographic
Henry Bell, ran Europe's first commercially successful steamboat
James Braid, hypnosis
James Chalmers, adhesive postage stamp
Sir Dugald Clark,first two stroke cycle engine (the Clark cycle)
Robert Davidson, first electric locomotive
William Dickson, motion picture camera and the world's first film
John Boyd Dunlop, the modern rubber tyre
Sir Alexander Fleming, isolated Penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum
James Bowman Lindsay, inventor of the constant electric light bulb
Charles Macintosh, patented waterproofing
Kirkpatrick MacMillan, the bicycle
John Loudon McAdam, modern road construction
William Murdoch, pioneer of gas lighting
James Young Simpson, introduced chloroform into surgery
Do I have to mention whiskey and Scottish music,golf,snooker?
Do you want more? There hundreds of scientists,actors,philosophers, musicians,composers, artists,architects,writers,athletes,rulers,politicians,humorists,explores and inventors...!!!!
2007-02-17 06:53:50 · answer #2 · answered by Erina♣Liszt's Girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Television
Telephone
RADAR
Dolly The Sheep
Car Tyres
The Steam Engine
Penicillin
The Best Ever James Bond
And erm - The Proclaimers!!!
2007-02-17 05:54:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
* Golf
* Whisky
* scientist Lord Kelvin
* mathematician John Napier
* penicillin (Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955))
* telephone (Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922))
* TV (John Logie Baird (1888-1946))
* radar (Sir Robert Watson-Watt(1892-1973))
* steam engine (James Watt (1736-1819))
* Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930))
and more...
2007-02-17 05:59:46 · answer #4 · answered by M 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you took the trouble to look it up, instead of spouting racist remarks disguised as a 'reasonable' question - you'd find out that most of the worlds best inventions were developed by Scots.
Google - Scottish Inventions.
And no - I'm not a Scot.
2007-02-17 05:53:18 · answer #5 · answered by Froggy 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Ever heard of Alexander Fleming;He discovered penicillin which you've probably used before.
John Logie Baird gave you television.
Alexander Graham Bell. The telephone.
Where would the world be without any of these things
2007-02-17 05:54:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
As part of UK, probably about the same as the English, Welsh and N Irish.
I work with some Scottish, absolutely solid guys!
2007-02-17 06:56:32 · answer #7 · answered by Neill 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.firstfoot.com/Great%20Scot/simpson.htm List is endless. Which is why Scotland is always above England, Can't think of many famous english people Hmm 9 bob note Thatcher. Jack the ripper, fred west? Tony Blair haha. UK is in the shape of a dog. Guess what end has the a*se. regards
2007-02-17 05:58:01 · answer #8 · answered by naplusultra 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Bagpipes! The bagpipe music. Plus lots of history and a beautiful countryside.
(I'm half Scottish)
2007-02-17 05:49:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anna Lynn 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
To the wealth of southerners.
Remember North Sea Oil?
(And your stereotyping of the Scottish people is racist, by the way).
2007-02-17 06:07:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋