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Top 20 Scottish inventions 22 items ranked

Great inventions by Scottish inventors

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Discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928 - thinking about it, I’ve got my priorities wrong by putting this one second to television!
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Invented by John Logie Baird in 1922 - hard to imagine life without it!
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Joseph Lister
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First used by Edinburgh Physician James Simpson in the mid 19th Century
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Invented in 1888 by John Boyd Dunlop
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John Loudon McAdam
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George Cleghorn
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James Watt
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Patrick Ferguson
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how could we live without one
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Sir Hugh Dalrymple
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Invented in 1851 by James Harrison, a Scot who emigrated to Australia
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Alexander Forsyth
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Sir William Fairbairn
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Sir Robert Watson-Watt
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