Scotland

[mrangry]

Because the United Kingdom is THIS country. But don't you worry Mr Angry, I would be voting to dump Scotland. (Actually, if I could I'd be voting to tow it out into the Atlantic and sink it.

That's enough Jock-baiting for now. I shall now withdraw from this thread.

Why stop now as your posts were getting entertaining?

 

[Jcorstorphine]

Bell went to America to "invent" the telephone. Baird came to England to "invent" the television. Reith can to England to found the BBC. I can't think of any Scottish inventors, businessmen or sportsmen who have reached their achievements solely in Scotland (though there may be some). Generally they needed the support of England or some other country to make it work.

And you wonder why we want to get away from this type of English Nationalist clap trap, have a look at some of the guys below.

Road transport innovations[edit]
• Macadamised roads (the basis for, but not specifically, tarmac): John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836)[3]
• The pedal bicycle: Attributed to both Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813–1878)[2] and Thomas McCall (1834–1904)
• The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson and John Boyd Dunlop (1822–1873) [10]
• The overhead valve engine: David Dunbar Buick (1854–1929) [11]
Civil engineering innovations[edit]
• Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874)[12]
• The Falkirk wheel: Initial designs by Nicoll Russell Studios, Architects and engineers Binnie Black and Veatch (Opened 2002) [13]
• The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781–1832) [14][15]
• The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797–1840) [16]
• Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757–1834) [17]
• Dock design improvements: John Rennie (1761–1821) [18]
• Crane design improvements: James Bremner (1784–1856) [19]
Aviation innovations[edit]
• Aircraft design: Frank Barnwell (1910) Establishing the fundamentals of aircraft design at the University of Glasgow.[20]
Power innovations[edit]
• Condensing steam engine improvements: James Watt (1736–1819)[1]
• Thermodynamic cycle: William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872)[21]
• Coal-gas lighting: William Murdoch (1754–1839) [22]
• The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790–1878) [23]
• Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849–1936) [24]
• The Clerk cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clerk (1854–1932) [25]
• The wave-powered electricity generator: by South African Engineer Stephen Salter in 1977 [26]
• The Pelamis Wave Energy Converter ("red sea snake" wave energy device): Richard Yemm, 1998 [27]
Shipbuilding innovations[edit]
• Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767–1830) [28]
• The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874) [29]
• The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803–1882)[citation needed]
• Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832–1913)[30]
• John Elder & Charles Randolph (Marine Compound expansion engine)[30]
Military innovations[edit]
• Lieutenant-General Sir David Henderson two areas:
o Field intelligence. Argued for the establishment of the Intelligence Corps. Wrote Field Intelligence: Its Principles and Practice (1904) and Reconnaissance (1907) on the tactical intelligence of modern warfare during World War I.[31]
o Royal Air Force. Considered instrumental in the foundation of the British Royal Air Force.[32]
• United States Navy. Created largely by John Paul Jones, who was born in Kirkcudbrightshire.
• Special forces: Founded by Sir David Stirling and other Scottish Royal Marines, the SAS was created in World War Two in the North Africa campaign to go behind enemy lines to destroy and disrupt the enemy. Since then it as been regarded as the most famous and influential special forces that has inspired other countries to form their own special forces too.
Heavy industry innovations[edit]
• Coal mining extraction in the sea on an artificial island by Sir George Bruce of Carnock (1575). Regarded as one of the industrial wonders of the late medieval period.[33]
• Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772–1847) [34]
• Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783–1865) [35]
• The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792–1865) [36]
• The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808–1890) [37]
• Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812–1889) [38]
• Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831–1881) [39]
• The Fairlie, a narrow gauge, double-bogie railway engine: Robert Francis Fairlie (1831–1885)[40]
• Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel (1889) [41]
Agricultural innovations[edit]
• Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719–1811) [42]
• Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hew Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700–1753) [43]
• The Scotch plough: James Anderson of Hermiston (1739–1808) [44]
• Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789–1850) [45]
• The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799–1869) [46]
• The Fresno scraper: James Porteous (1848–1922) [47]
• The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979 [48]
Communication innovations[edit]
• Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690–1749) [49]
• The British Broadcasting Corporation BBC: John Reith, 1st Baron Reith (1922) its founder, first general manager and Director-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation[50]
• Roller printing: Thomas Bell (patented 1783) [51]
• The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782–1853) [52]
• Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827–1915) [53]
• Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831–1899) [54]
• The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922)[4]
• The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871–1957) [55]
• The first working television, and colour television; John Logie Baird (1888–1946)[5][6]
• Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973)[8]
• The underlying principles of Radio - James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) [56]
• The automated teller machine and Personal Identification Number system - James Goodfellow (born 1937) [57]
• The Waverley pen nib innovations thereof: Duncan Cameron (1850) The popular "Waverley" was unique in design with a narrow waist and an upturned tip designed to made the ink flow more smoothly on the paper.[58]
Publishing firsts[edit]
• The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1768–81) [59]
• The first English textbook on surgery(1597) [60]
• The first modern pharmacopaedia, William Cullen (1776). The book became 'Europe’s principal text on the classification and treatment of disease'. His ideas survive in the terms nervous energy and neuroses (a word that Cullen coined).[61]
• The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK [62]
• The first eBook from a UK administration (March 2012). Scottish Government publishes 'Your Scotland, Your Referendum'.[63][citation needed]
• The educational foundation of Ophthalmology: Stewart Duke-Elder in his ground breaking work including ‘Textbook of Ophthalmology and fifteen volumes of System of Ophthalmology’[64]
Culture and the Arts[edit]
• Scottish National Portrait Gallery, designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson (1889): the world’s first purpose-built portrait gallery.[65]
Fictional Characters[edit]
• Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie, born in Kirriemuir, Angus
• Long John Silver and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
• John Bull: by John Arbuthnot although seen as a national personification of the United Kingdom in general, and England in particular,[66] the character of John Bull was invented by Arbuthnot in 1712[67]
Scientific innovations[edit]
• Logarithms: John Napier (1550–1617)[68]
• Modern Economics founded by Adam Smith (1776) 'The father of modern economics' [69] with the publication of The Wealth of Nations.[70][71]
• Modern Sociology: Adam Ferguson (1767) ‘The Father of Modern Sociology’ with his work An Essay on the History of Civil Society[72]
• Hypnotism: James Braid (1795–1860) the Father of Hypnotherapy[73]
• Tropical medicine: Sir Patrick Manson known as the father of Tropical Medicine[74]
• Modern Geology: James Hutton ‘The Founder of Modern Geology’ [75][76][77]
• The theory of Uniformitarianism: James Hutton (1788): a fundamental principle of Geology the features of the geologic time takes millions of years.[78]
• The theory of electromagnetism: James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) [79]
• The discovery of the Composition of Saturn’s Rings James Clerk Maxwell (1859): determined the rings of Saturn were composed of numerous small particles, all independently orbiting the planet. At the time it was generally thought the rings were solid. The Maxwell Ringlet and Maxwell Gap were named in his honor.[80]
• The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution by James Clerk Maxwell (1860): the basis of the kinetic theory of gases, that speeds of molecules in a gas will change at different temperatures. The original theory first hypothesised by Maxwell and confirmed later in conjunction with Ludwig Boltzmann.[81]
• Popularising the decimal point: John Napier (1550–1617)[82]
• The first theory of the Higgs boson by Anglo-Scot[83] Peter Higgs particle-physics theorist at the University of Edinburgh (1964) [84]
• The Gregorian telescope: James Gregory (1638–1675) [85]
• The discovery of Proxima Centauri, the closest known star to the Sun, by Robert Innes (1861–1933) [86]
• One of the earliest measurements of distance to the Alpha Centauri star system, the closest such system outside of the Solar System, by Thomas Henderson (1798–1844) [87]
• The discovery of Centaurus A, a well–known starburst galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus, by James Dunlop (1793–1848) [88]
• The discovery of the Horsehead Nebula in the constellation of Orion, by Williamina Fleming (1857–1911) [89]
• The world's first oil refinery and a process of extracting paraffin from coal laying the foundations for the modern oil industry: James Young (1811–1883)[90]
• The identification of the minerals yttrialite, thorogummite, aguilarite and nivenite: by William Niven (1889) [91]
• The concept of latent heat: Joseph Black (1728–1799) [92]
• Discovering the properties of Carbon dioxide: Joseph Black (1728–1799)
• The concept of Heat capacity: Joseph Black (1728–1799)
• The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766–1832) [93]
• Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Brown (1773–1858) [94]
• Incandescent light bulb: James Bowman Lindsay (1799-1862)[95]
• Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805–1869) [96]
• The kelvin SI unit of temperature: William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824–1907) [97]
• Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838–1922) [98]
• Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843–1930) [99]
• The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852–1916) [100]
• The cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869–1959) [101][102]
• The discovery of the Wave of Translation, leading to the modern general theory of solitons by John Scott Russell (1808-1882) [103]
• Statistical graphics: William Playfair founder of the first statistical line charts, bar charts, and pie charts in (1786) and (1801) known as a scientific ‘milestone’ in statistical graphs and data visualization[104][105]
• The Arithmetic mean density of the Earth: Nevil Maskelyne conducted the Schiehallion experiment conducted at the Scottish mountain of Schiehallion, Perthshire 1774[106]
• The first isolation of methylated sugars, trimethyl and tetramethyl glucose: James Irvine[107][108]
• Discovery of the Japp–Klingemann reaction: to synthesize hydrazones from β-keto-acids (or β-keto-esters) and aryl diazonium salts 1887[109]
• Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880–1971) [110]
• Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955 [111]
• The first cloned mammal (Dolly the Sheep): Was conducted in The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996 [112]
• The seismometer innovations thereof: James David Forbes [113]
• Metaflex fabric innovations thereof: University of St. Andrews (2010) application of the first manufacturing fabrics that manipulate light in bending it around a subject. Before this such light manipulating atoms were fixed on flat hard surfaces. The team at St Andrews are the first to develop the concept to fabric.[114]
• Tractor beam innovations thereof: St. Andrews University (2013) the world's first to succeed in creating a functioning Tractor beam that pulls objects on a microscopic level[115][116]
• Macaulayite: Dr. Jeff Wilson of the Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen.[117]
• Dscovery of Catacol whitebeam by Scottish Natural Heritage and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (1990s): a rare tree endemic and unique to the Isle of Arran in south west Scotland. The trees were confirmed as a distinct species by DNA testing.[118]

And of course Lord Kelvin and James Clark Maxwell.

 

[cavitation]

Well, I will be voting NO so that following the defeat of the SNP YES vote, the SNP will loose most of their seats in the next election and Scotland will return lots of Labour politicians which should put an end to this present bunch of "Old Etonians" in Westminster and hopefully annoy most of TORY England. Scotland will have the last laugh

 

[awol]

Then there was William Paterson who started the Bank of England, without which the southern colonies would still be trading chickens and beans.

Perhaps if Trapezeartist could see a "Yes" vote as an opportunity for England to grow away from the Scottish domination of its political, economic, and cultural life to stand on its own feet for a change he would be happier, though there is some doubt that their society has reached that level of maturity.

Then, of course, to return it to themes nautical, there was Charlie Barr who won the America's cup three times.

 

[Resolution]

Why stop now as your posts were getting entertaining?

I hope that you have seen that you have made the front page of the (English edition) The Times today: "Keep calm: heart attack risk soars for Mr Angry". Clearly our little discussions here on YBW are being monitored by the traditional media.

 

[Dave-Shafa]

Major General Sir Hector Archibald MacDonald, KCB, DSO (4 March 1853 – 25 March 1903), also known as Fighting Mac, was a distinguished Victorian soldier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_MacDonald

Dingwall in Ross-shire has a HUGE monument to him.

Rumours began circulating that he was having a sexual relationship with the two teenage sons of a Burgher named De Saram, and that he was patronising a "dubious club" attended by British and Sinhalese youths. Matters came to a crisis when a tea-planter informed Ridgeway that he had surprised Sir Hector in a railway carriage with four Sinhalese boys; further allegations followed from other prominent members of the colonial establishment, with the threat of even more to come, involving up to seventy witnesses. Ridgeway advised MacDonald to return to London,

In London MacDonald "was probably told by the king that the best thing he could do was to shoot himself".

Just your typical scottish heroine.

 

[mrangry]

I hope that you have seen that you have made the front page of the (English edition) The Times today: "Keep calm: heart attack risk soars for Mr Angry". Clearly our little discussions here on YBW are being monitored by the traditional media.

Nice find!

 

[awol]

You should be ashamed of yourself! If your aim was to "jock-bait", then you have succeeded and in the process removed any humour replacing it with "spite and jealousy" not so different from those who hounded the man. If you had bothered to read the rest of the Wiki article you might also have found that he was the victim of the colonial "establishment" and had been exonerated by a Government commission which ....

.......unanimously and unmistakably find absolutely no reason or crime whatsoever which would create feelings such as would determine suicide, in preference to conviction of any crime affecting the moral and irreproachable character of so brave, so fearless, so glorious and unparalleled a hero: and we firmly believe the cause which gave rise to the inhuman and cruel suggestions of crime were prompted through vulgar feelings of spite and jealousy in his rising to such a high rank of distinction in the British Army: and, while we have taken the most reliable and trustworthy evidence from every accessible and conceivable source, have without hesitation come to the conclusion that there is not visible the slightest particle of truth in foundation of any crime, and we find the late Sir Hector MacDonald has been cruelly assassinated by vile and slandering tongues. While honourably acquitting the late Sir Hector MacDonald of any charge whatsoever, we cannot but deplore the sad circumstances of the case that have fallen so disastrously on one whom we have found innocent of any crime attributed to him.

"

Major General Sir Hector Archibald MacDonald, KCB, DSO (4 March 1853 – 25 March 1903), also known as Fighting Mac, was a distinguished Victorian soldier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_MacDonald

Dingwall in Ross-shire has a HUGE monument to him.

Rumours began circulating that he was having a sexual relationship with the two teenage sons of a Burgher named De Saram, and that he was patronising a "dubious club" attended by British and Sinhalese youths. Matters came to a crisis when a tea-planter informed Ridgeway that he had surprised Sir Hector in a railway carriage with four Sinhalese boys; further allegations followed from other prominent members of the colonial establishment, with the threat of even more to come, involving up to seventy witnesses. Ridgeway advised MacDonald to return to London,

In London MacDonald "was probably told by the king that the best thing he could do was to shoot himself".

Just your typical scottish heroine.

 

[Euphonyx]

And you wonder why we want to get away from this type of English Nationalist clap trap, have a look at some of the guys below.

Road transport innovations[edit]
• Macadamised roads (the basis for, but not specifically, tarmac): John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836)[3]
• The pedal bicycle: Attributed to both Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813–1878)[2] and Thomas McCall (1834–1904)
• The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson and John Boyd Dunlop (1822–1873) [10]
• The overhead valve engine: David Dunbar Buick (1854–1929) [11]
Civil engineering innovations[edit]
• Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874)[12]
• The Falkirk wheel: Initial designs by Nicoll Russell Studios, Architects and engineers Binnie Black and Veatch (Opened 2002) [13]
• The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781–1832) [14][15]
• The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797–1840) [16]
• Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757–1834) [17]
• Dock design improvements: John Rennie (1761–1821) [18]
• Crane design improvements: James Bremner (1784–1856) [19]
Aviation innovations[edit]
• Aircraft design: Frank Barnwell (1910) Establishing the fundamentals of aircraft design at the University of Glasgow.[20]
Power innovations[edit]
• Condensing steam engine improvements: James Watt (1736–1819)[1]
• Thermodynamic cycle: William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872)[21]
• Coal-gas lighting: William Murdoch (1754–1839) [22]
• The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790–1878) [23]
• Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849–1936) [24]
• The Clerk cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clerk (1854–1932) [25]
• The wave-powered electricity generator: by South African Engineer Stephen Salter in 1977 [26]
• The Pelamis Wave Energy Converter ("red sea snake" wave energy device): Richard Yemm, 1998 [27]
Shipbuilding innovations[edit]
• Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767–1830) [28]
• The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874) [29]
• The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803–1882)[citation needed]
• Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832–1913)[30]
• John Elder & Charles Randolph (Marine Compound expansion engine)[30]
Military innovations[edit]
• Lieutenant-General Sir David Henderson two areas:
o Field intelligence. Argued for the establishment of the Intelligence Corps. Wrote Field Intelligence: Its Principles and Practice (1904) and Reconnaissance (1907) on the tactical intelligence of modern warfare during World War I.[31]
o Royal Air Force. Considered instrumental in the foundation of the British Royal Air Force.[32]
• United States Navy. Created largely by John Paul Jones, who was born in Kirkcudbrightshire.
• Special forces: Founded by Sir David Stirling and other Scottish Royal Marines, the SAS was created in World War Two in the North Africa campaign to go behind enemy lines to destroy and disrupt the enemy. Since then it as been regarded as the most famous and influential special forces that has inspired other countries to form their own special forces too.
Heavy industry innovations[edit]
• Coal mining extraction in the sea on an artificial island by Sir George Bruce of Carnock (1575). Regarded as one of the industrial wonders of the late medieval period.[33]
• Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772–1847) [34]
• Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783–1865) [35]
• The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792–1865) [36]
• The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808–1890) [37]
• Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812–1889) [38]
• Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831–1881) [39]
• The Fairlie, a narrow gauge, double-bogie railway engine: Robert Francis Fairlie (1831–1885)[40]
• Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel (1889) [41]
Agricultural innovations[edit]
• Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719–1811) [42]
• Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hew Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700–1753) [43]
• The Scotch plough: James Anderson of Hermiston (1739–1808) [44]
• Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789–1850) [45]
• The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799–1869) [46]
• The Fresno scraper: James Porteous (1848–1922) [47]
• The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979 [48]
Communication innovations[edit]
• Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690–1749) [49]
• The British Broadcasting Corporation BBC: John Reith, 1st Baron Reith (1922) its founder, first general manager and Director-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation[50]
• Roller printing: Thomas Bell (patented 1783) [51]
• The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782–1853) [52]
• Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827–1915) [53]
• Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831–1899) [54]
• The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922)[4]
• The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871–1957) [55]
• The first working television, and colour television; John Logie Baird (1888–1946)[5][6]
• Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973)[8]
• The underlying principles of Radio - James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) [56]
• The automated teller machine and Personal Identification Number system - James Goodfellow (born 1937) [57]
• The Waverley pen nib innovations thereof: Duncan Cameron (1850) The popular "Waverley" was unique in design with a narrow waist and an upturned tip designed to made the ink flow more smoothly on the paper.[58]
Publishing firsts[edit]
• The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1768–81) [59]
• The first English textbook on surgery(1597) [60]
• The first modern pharmacopaedia, William Cullen (1776). The book became 'Europe’s principal text on the classification and treatment of disease'. His ideas survive in the terms nervous energy and neuroses (a word that Cullen coined).[61]
• The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK [62]
• The first eBook from a UK administration (March 2012). Scottish Government publishes 'Your Scotland, Your Referendum'.[63][citation needed]
• The educational foundation of Ophthalmology: Stewart Duke-Elder in his ground breaking work including ‘Textbook of Ophthalmology and fifteen volumes of System of Ophthalmology’[64]
Culture and the Arts[edit]
• Scottish National Portrait Gallery, designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson (1889): the world’s first purpose-built portrait gallery.[65]
Fictional Characters[edit]
• Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie, born in Kirriemuir, Angus
• Long John Silver and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
• John Bull: by John Arbuthnot although seen as a national personification of the United Kingdom in general, and England in particular,[66] the character of John Bull was invented by Arbuthnot in 1712[67]
Scientific innovations[edit]
• Logarithms: John Napier (1550–1617)[68]
• Modern Economics founded by Adam Smith (1776) 'The father of modern economics' [69] with the publication of The Wealth of Nations.[70][71]
• Modern Sociology: Adam Ferguson (1767) ‘The Father of Modern Sociology’ with his work An Essay on the History of Civil Society[72]
• Hypnotism: James Braid (1795–1860) the Father of Hypnotherapy[73]
• Tropical medicine: Sir Patrick Manson known as the father of Tropical Medicine[74]
• Modern Geology: James Hutton ‘The Founder of Modern Geology’ [75][76][77]
• The theory of Uniformitarianism: James Hutton (1788): a fundamental principle of Geology the features of the geologic time takes millions of years.[78]
• The theory of electromagnetism: James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) [79]
• The discovery of the Composition of Saturn’s Rings James Clerk Maxwell (1859): determined the rings of Saturn were composed of numerous small particles, all independently orbiting the planet. At the time it was generally thought the rings were solid. The Maxwell Ringlet and Maxwell Gap were named in his honor.[80]
• The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution by James Clerk Maxwell (1860): the basis of the kinetic theory of gases, that speeds of molecules in a gas will change at different temperatures. The original theory first hypothesised by Maxwell and confirmed later in conjunction with Ludwig Boltzmann.[81]
• Popularising the decimal point: John Napier (1550–1617)[82]
• The first theory of the Higgs boson by Anglo-Scot[83] Peter Higgs particle-physics theorist at the University of Edinburgh (1964) [84]
• The Gregorian telescope: James Gregory (1638–1675) [85]
• The discovery of Proxima Centauri, the closest known star to the Sun, by Robert Innes (1861–1933) [86]
• One of the earliest measurements of distance to the Alpha Centauri star system, the closest such system outside of the Solar System, by Thomas Henderson (1798–1844) [87]
• The discovery of Centaurus A, a well–known starburst galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus, by James Dunlop (1793–1848) [88]
• The discovery of the Horsehead Nebula in the constellation of Orion, by Williamina Fleming (1857–1911) [89]
• The world's first oil refinery and a process of extracting paraffin from coal laying the foundations for the modern oil industry: James Young (1811–1883)[90]
• The identification of the minerals yttrialite, thorogummite, aguilarite and nivenite: by William Niven (1889) [91]
• The concept of latent heat: Joseph Black (1728–1799) [92]
• Discovering the properties of Carbon dioxide: Joseph Black (1728–1799)
• The concept of Heat capacity: Joseph Black (1728–1799)
• The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766–1832) [93]
• Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Brown (1773–1858) [94]
• Incandescent light bulb: James Bowman Lindsay (1799-1862)[95]
• Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805–1869) [96]
• The kelvin SI unit of temperature: William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824–1907) [97]
• Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838–1922) [98]
• Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843–1930) [99]
• The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852–1916) [100]
• The cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869–1959) [101][102]
• The discovery of the Wave of Translation, leading to the modern general theory of solitons by John Scott Russell (1808-1882) [103]
• Statistical graphics: William Playfair founder of the first statistical line charts, bar charts, and pie charts in (1786) and (1801) known as a scientific ‘milestone’ in statistical graphs and data visualization[104][105]
• The Arithmetic mean density of the Earth: Nevil Maskelyne conducted the Schiehallion experiment conducted at the Scottish mountain of Schiehallion, Perthshire 1774[106]
• The first isolation of methylated sugars, trimethyl and tetramethyl glucose: James Irvine[107][108]
• Discovery of the Japp–Klingemann reaction: to synthesize hydrazones from β-keto-acids (or β-keto-esters) and aryl diazonium salts 1887[109]
• Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880–1971) [110]
• Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955 [111]
• The first cloned mammal (Dolly the Sheep): Was conducted in The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996 [112]
• The seismometer innovations thereof: James David Forbes [113]
• Metaflex fabric innovations thereof: University of St. Andrews (2010) application of the first manufacturing fabrics that manipulate light in bending it around a subject. Before this such light manipulating atoms were fixed on flat hard surfaces. The team at St Andrews are the first to develop the concept to fabric.[114]
• Tractor beam innovations thereof: St. Andrews University (2013) the world's first to succeed in creating a functioning Tractor beam that pulls objects on a microscopic level[115][116]
• Macaulayite: Dr. Jeff Wilson of the Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen.[117]
• Dscovery of Catacol whitebeam by Scottish Natural Heritage and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (1990s): a rare tree endemic and unique to the Isle of Arran in south west Scotland. The trees were confirmed as a distinct species by DNA testing.[118]

And of course Lord Kelvin and James Clark Maxwell.

You forgot Robert Stevenson et al. without the help of whom English erections could not be persuaded to stay up

 

[Dave-Shafa]

You forgot Robert Stevenson et al. without the help of whom English erections could not be persuaded to stay up

Viagra discovered by a scottish lady.

 

[Euphonyx]

Viagra discovered by a scottish lady.

... as a means of preventing older gents from rolling out of bed in the night...

 

[NorthRising]

Because the United Kingdom is THIS country. But don't you worry Mr Angry, I would be voting to dump Scotland. (Actually, if I could I'd be voting to tow it out into the Atlantic and sink it.

That's enough Jock-baiting for now. I shall now withdraw from this thread.

Racist

 

[rogerthebodger]

Racist

Haw can he be a Racist as the English and Scots are the same race. What you are talking about is Xenophobia, the irrational fear of foreign people, places or objects.

 

[ianj99]

Haw can he be a Racist as the English and Scots are the same race. What you are talking about is Xenophobia, the irrational fear of foreign people, places or objects.

How dare you sir?
The Scots have far more Norse & Gael blood in them than the English, who have too much French blood in them for my liking. (speaking as an Anglo Scots cross breed)

 

[rogerthebodger]

How dare you sir?
The Scots have far more Norse & Gael blood in them than the English, who have too much French blood in them for my liking. (speaking as an Anglo Scots cross breed)

I am also an Anglo Scot cross breed Dad from Glasgow, Mum from Lancashire and I was born in the As-hole of the world Birmingham.

 

[Dave-Shafa]

Go back to your own country.

 

[Halo]

Well, I will be voting NO so that following the defeat of the SNP YES vote, the SNP will loose most of their seats in the next election and Scotland will return lots of Labour politicians which should put an end to this present bunch of "Old Etonians" in Westminster and hopefully annoy most of TORY England. Scotland will have the last laugh

There is a lot in this point.
Personally I am sure Cameron and the Tories really want Scotland to leave so that they can rule the rump of the UK for a very long time. Thier pronouncements only serve to wind the Scots up and make them more likely to vote yes. As a Yorkshireman I am grateful that the union serves to give some balance to Tory policies and the constant diversion of resources and investment to the already overheated economy of the South East of England.
Our countries have been married for 200 years and a divorce will be messy and very expensive all round.
The only people who will really benefit from a separation are the politicians and top civil servants.
Business which creates real wealth would certainly be harmed by any divisions in the UK market, infrastructure and currency

 

[FishyInverness]

I am also an Anglo Scot cross bread Dad from Glasgow, Mum from Lancashire and I was born in the As-hole of the world Birmingham.

And to make matters worse, you're part bakery product as well!!!!

 

[Swanrad2]

Scots invented the telephone, the television, John Reith was Scottish, gas gets pumped ashore here, we export electricity 'cos we have an excess. What makes you think we would have a problem?
Thank you for your concern.

All sitting down inventions - pattern?

 

[Swanrad2]

Bell went to America to "invent" the telephone. Baird came to England to "invent" the television. Reith can to England to found the BBC. I can't think of any Scottish inventors, businessmen or sportsmen who have reached their achievements solely in Scotland (though there may be some). Generally they needed the support of England or some other country to make it work.

PS. I think the GBR curling team was 100% Scottish. That will be a terrible loss to the United Kingdom.

Also look what happens to your football league when we 'leave you in charge'...