Top 20 Scottish inventions 21 items ranked
Great inventions by Scottish inventors
Rated
0 points - posted 4 months ago by
kris in category
People .
Click on up and down arrows to affect item's ranking
1.
Whisky
2.
Penicillin
Discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928 - thinking about it, I’ve got my priorities wrong by putting this one second to television!
3.
xbox360
4.
Television
Invented by John Logie Baird in 1922 - hard to imagine life without it!
5.
Microwave Oven
6.
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
7.
Antisepsis
Joseph Lister
8.
Anaesthetics
First used by Edinburgh Physician James Simpson in the mid 19th Century
9.
Pneumatic Tyres
Invented in 1888 by John Boyd Dunlop
10.
Macadamised Roads
John Loudon McAdam
11.
Quinine
George Cleghorn
12.
The Steam Engine
James Watt
13.
Refrigirators
Invented in 1851 by James Harrison, a Scot who emigrated to Australia
14.
Breech-loading Rifle
Patrick Ferguson
15.
Hollow-pipe Drainage
Sir Hugh Dalrymple
16.
Mackintosh Raincoats
17.
Percussion Powder
Alexander Forsyth
18.
Tubular Steel
Sir William Fairbairn
19.
Radar Defense System
Sir Robert Watson-Watt
20.
Golf
21.
.Fax Machine
ShareRanks is about ranking things that are top, most, greatest, or even worst in all categories.
Use arrows to rank one item in Top 20 Scottish inventions vs another.
Add your own top list of things
Top 10 Top 20 Scottish inventions are especially marked