Scot’s Innovations

Scottish inventions and innovations

 

Welcome to our Scottish Inventors section. Scot’s are
famous the world over for our ingenuity and
inventiveness. Unsurprisingly then this section is the largest on the site as Scot’s basically invented the modern world we now live in.
for example no TV, no phone = No Internet.

Scot’s have made an global impact on Engineering, Medicine, Agriculture and now in fields like
Genetics and modern Telecommunication innovations.

This is why we Scot’s often say “Wha’s like us” ?

Gas powered items

Gas Mask : James Gregory (1638-1675)

A steam car (steam engine): William Murdoch (1754-1839)

Roads and Transport

Macadam roads: John Loudon Macadam (1756-1836)

Driving on the left: Determined by a Scottish-inspired Act of
Parliament in 1772

The pedal bicycle: Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813-1878)

The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson and John Boyd Dunlop
(1822-1873)

The overhead valve engine: David Dunbar Buick (1854-1929)

The speedometer: Sir Keith Elphinstone (1864-1944)

The motor lorry: John Yule in 1870

The steam tricycle: Andrew Lawson in 1895

Civil Engineering

Bridge design: Sir William Arrol (1838-1913), Thomas Telford
(1757-1834) & John Rennie (1761-1821)

Suspension bridge improvements: Sir Samuel Brown (1776-1852)

Tubular Steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)

Canals & Docks

Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757-1834)

Dock design: John Rennie (1761-1821)

The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781-1832)

Crane design: James Bremner (1784-1856)

Lighthouse design: Robert Stevenson (1772-1850)

The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797-1840)