We all know that Scots invented the television and telephone, right? But we explore the many surprising inventions that few people realise were also invented by Scots. Narrated by Lewis McKinlay, Surprising Things Scots Invented will reveal some very surprising inventions that have either been credited to someone else, or things which play a major part in modern life that were invented by a Scot hundreds of years ago! #history #Inventions #suprisingfacts #Scotland #Scots #modernworld #Science #ScottishHistory
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Do you mind if I have a rant? The title of the video upset me a bit. Why is it "surprising" that Scots invented these things? We seem to have we got to a situation where our history, culture and achievements have been marginalised and diminished and that as a result we need videos such as this to inform us all of our "surprising" accomplishments as a people and a nation. When I was at school, in Scotland, British history was essentially English history. When I went to Edinburgh University (mid 1970s) to study history, British history was still just English history. There I was, a Scot, studying history in a University in my nation's capital city and the curriculum contained almost nothing about the history of the country we were in. Generations of Scots fed a diet of English history and so much of it rammed home with the might is right conviction of a Westminster parliament and it's Governor General (SoSfS) in the Scottish Office. They knew that if they controlled the history being taught eventually they would reach a situation where our past would be subsumed into theirs as though ours had never existed. They say history is written by the winners; well they haven't won yet. Phew, I needed that. Sorry.
Kirkcudbrightshire is pronounced kir-KOO-bree-shu, not KIRK-oo-BREE-shu
The first flushing toilet was described by Sir John Harrington in 1596 – Queen Elizabeth I had one installed. Cumming just invented the S-trap.
Inventing the first telephone was completely pointless; until the invention of the second telephone.
The tarmac road is a tarred macadam road.
I was in Scotland in 2016 at the time the people was voting wether to remain or leave, as a English citizen you’d think I’d say remain but I think Scotland and Wales would fair better if they left and joined the EU, My heart remains in Scotland although I don’t but I fell in Love with Scotland and especially Oban where my Heart remains forever.
And James Paris Lee, born in Hawick in the Scottish Borders, invented the double row box magazine and the bolt that went with it. His name is immortalised in the famous Lee Enfield rifle.
The pneumatic tire was in fact invented by Robert Thomson born in 1822, at Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, it was developed by Dunlop.
Here's a quick list of things invented by The Scots,
Macadamised Roads, Pedal Bicycle, Pneumatic Tyre, The Overhead Valve Engine, The Buick Motor Company, Tubular Steel, The Falkirk Wheel Yhe Patent Slip, The Drummond Light Canal Design, The Crane, Trac Rail Transposer, Condensing Steam Engine, Thermodynamic Cycle, Coal Gas Lighting, The Stirling Heat Engine, Carbon Brushes, The Clerk Cycle Gas Engine, The Wave Powered Electricity Generator, The Pelamis Wave Energy Converter, Europe's First Passenger Steamboat, The First Iron Hulled Steamship, The Screw Propeller, The CIA, Cast Steel, Wrought Iron Dash Bars, The Hot Blast Oven, The Steam Hammer, Wire Rope, The Fairlie, Cordite, The Threshing Machine, Hollow Pipe Drainage, The Scotch Plough, The Mechanical Reaping Machine, The Fresno Scraper, The Tuley Tree Shelter, The Telephone, Print Stereotyping, Roller Printing, The Adhesive Postage Stamp, Universal Standard Time, Light Signaling Between Ships, The Underlying Principles of Radio, The Kinetoscope, The Teleprinter, The BBC, RADAR, The ATM, Gospel Music, Ethereal Wave, Logarithms, Modern Economics, Modern Sociology, Hypnotism, Tropical Medicine, Modern Geology, The Theory of Uniformitarianism, The Theory of ElectroMagnetism, The Maxwell Gap, Popularising the Decimal Point, The Gregorian Telescope, The Discovery of Proxima Centauri, The Horsehead Nebula, The Worlds first Oil Refinery, The Concept of Layent Heat The Concept of Heat Capacity , The early form of The Incandescent Light Bulb, Fingerprinting, The Noble Gases, The Cloud Chamber, The Boys Brigade, Bank of England, Bank of France, Grand Theft Auto, Colour Photography, New York Herald, Pinkerton Detective Agency, Forbes Magazine, Fried Chicken, The United States Navy , Just to name a few
Thank you very much for such a well produced and uplifting video.
We are more than capable of being independent.
The world would be a lesser place without Scotland, stand proud Scotland. Alba saor agus Alba gu bràth 🏴
Let's go independence is normal 🏴🏴🏴
Thanks again for another excellent programme 👍
My Uncle (married my Mother's Sister) was an engineer and worked on the MRI machine while at the university of Aberdeen.
The Scots invented Scottish shortbread cookies and produced James Clerk Maxwell. They are high on my list of esteemed characters.
Where was Alexander Bain, inventor of regulated time, the fax machine and others. He invented the electric clock for standardising railway timetables, before this, times around the country varied and scheduling trains was almost impossible. The invention was stolen by Wheatstone but eventually after a court case it was given back to Bain, he also invented chemical telegraph which printed messages in morse onto a chemically treated paper tape
Alba gu brath!!
If you’re going to put this sort content saying how wonderful people are, please get it right. All you’re doing is blah blah. Dunlop did not invent the pneumatic tyre. The pneumatic tyre was invented by Stonehaven born RW Thomson. The number of significant inventions developed by him is quite impressive.
But of course this is just a production to highlight the standard hedrum hodrum, whas like us,dam few and they’re aw’ deid!
Cum oan, we’re better than that! 😂😂😂😂😂
The Scot’s invented quite a lot of stuff.They are struggling as a country which is quite sad.
The also invented meanness.
As someone Ayr born and bred I had no idea that tarmac came from an Ayr inventor.
We made the world, yet the UK government have turned their backs on the whole of the UK. Let start by making fathers respected and stop the UK government stealing our children via kangaroo family courts. Men must unite to stop the down fall of this once great nations
A shame about the music. Music or talk, not both at once.
Fingerprints have largely been discredited as a forensic science.
Beith is not pronounced like Leith. Beith is more like breathe without the r.
Pretty much everything.
The average Englishman in the home he calls his castle, slips into his national costume ~ a shabby raincoat ~ patented by chemist Charles Macintosh from Glasgow, Scotland.
En route to his office he strides along the English lane, surfaced by John Macadam of Ayr, Scotland.
He drives an English car fitted with tyres invented by John Boyd Dunlop of Dreghorn, Scotland.
At the office he receives the mail bearing adhesive stamps invented by John Chalmers of Dundee, Scotland.
During the day he uses the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicycle invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Blacksmith of Dumfries, Scotland.
He watches the news on T.V., an invention of John Logie Baird of Helensburgh, Scotland and hears an item about the U.S. Navy, founded by John Paul Jones of Kirkbean, Scotland.
He has by now been reminded too much of Scotland and in desperation he picks up the Bible, only to find that the first man mentioned in the good book is a Scot ~ King James VI ~ who authorised its translation.
Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots.
He could take to drink but the Scots make the best in the world.
He could take a rifle and end it all but the breech~loading rifle was invented by Captain Patrick Ferguson of Pitfours, Scotland.
If he escaped death, he could find himself on an operating table injected with penicillin, discovered by Alexander Fleming of Darvel, Scotland, and given an anaesthetic, discovered by Sir James Young Simpson of Bathgate, Scotland.
Out of the anaesthetic he would find no comfort in learning that he was as safe as the Bank of England, founded by William Paterson of Dumfries, Scotland.
Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a transfusion of guid Scottish blood which would entitle him to ask
"WHA'S LIKE US"