Scot’s Innovations 3

Agricultural

Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) &
Andrew Meikle (1719-1811)

Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hugh Dalrymple, Lord Drummore
(1700-1753)

The Scotch Plough: James Anderson of Hermiston (1739-1808)

Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789-1850)

The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799-1869)

The Fresno Scraper: James Porteous (1848-1922)

The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979

Communications

Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690-1749)

The balloon post: John Anderson (1726-1796)

The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers
(1782-1853)

The post office

The mail-van service

Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915)

Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb
(1831-1899)

The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

The television: John Logie Baird (1888-1946)

Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973)

Publishing

The first book translated from English into a foreign language

The first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1768-81)

The first English textbook on surgery (1597)

The first modern pharmacopoeia, the Materia Medical Catalogue
(1776)

The first textbook on Newtonian science

The first colour newspaper advertisement

The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK