Artur and molshy wrote:
Ok Nidge,
See when you got up this morning and used the toilet you can thank Alexander Cummings, a Scot.
Switch your TV on Nidge and pay homage to another Scot, John Logie Baird.
You might want to give a friend a phone? Well Alexander Graham Bell made that possible for you.
Fancy a cycle to let off some steam? Kirkpatrick Macmillan another Scot invented the bicycle.
The tyres on which were invented by John Boyd Dunlop, you guessed it! Another Scot.
Talking of steam.....the steam engine was invented by James Watt. Without this the industrial revolution might not have happened.
You enjoy commerce and free trade?? Well Adam Smiths book " The Wealth of Nations" was the basis for Economics.
After all that grab a beer from your refrigerator......you guessed it a Scot invented it! James Harrison.
Let's not forget a drug that has saved countless lives, Penicillin. Sir Alexander Fleming.
Robert Watson-Watt! Who developed the magnetron which allows us to heat meals in the microwave!
James Maxwell.... Colour Photography.
Fancy a game of Golf?? Well thank us Scots!
I could go on and on.....
But last and by no means least, the reason you get to have sex Nidge......
Chloroform by Sir James Y Simpson.
Very good, now tell me where the work was done? Scotland or outside?
Ill start you off
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Cumming was a mathematician and mechanic as well as a watchmaker. Little is known of his early life: he is believed to have been born in Edinburgh. In the 1750s he was employed by Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll at Inverary as an organ builder as well as a clockmaker. After his move to England he continued to work in both fields. Evidence for his organ building mainly relates to commissions from aristocratic patrons, particularly the Earl of Bute and his family.
By 1763 he had premises in Bond Street, London, and "had acquired a sufficient reputation to be appointed a member of the commission set up in that year to adjudicate on John Harrison's ‘timekeeper for discovering the longitude at sea’". He made a barometrical clock for King George III, who paid him an annual retainer for its maintenance. Other barometrical clocks by him are at the Science Museum and on the Isle of Bute. He wrote books about watch and clock work, about the effect on roads of carriage wheels with rims of various shapes, and on the influence of gravity.
John Logie Baird (TV)
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In early 1923, and in poor health, Baird moved to 21 Linton Crescent, Hastings, on the south coast of England and later rented a workshop in the Queen's Arcade in the town. Baird built what was to become the world's first working television
Telephone
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By 1874, Bell's initial work on the harmonic telegraph had entered a formative stage, with progress made both at his new Boston "laboratory" (a rented facility) and at his family home in Canada a big success. While working that summer in Brantford, Bell experimented with a "phonautograph", a pen-like machine that could draw shapes of sound waves on smoked glass by tracing their vibrations. Bell thought it might be possible to generate undulating electrical currents that corresponded to sound waves.[68] Bell also thought that multiple metal reeds tuned to different frequencies like a harp would be able to convert the undulating currents back into sound. But he had no working model to demonstrate the feasibility of these ideas.
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The laboratory at St Mary's Hospital where Fleming discovered penicillin is home to the Fleming Museum, a popular London attraction. His alma mater, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, merged with Imperial College London in 1988. The Sir Alexander Fleming Building on the South Kensington campus was opened in 1998 and is now one of the main preclinical teaching sites of the Imperial College School of Medicine.
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