Quote Originally Posted by Phil View Post
... speaking on the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland
Afraid I can't give you that one . It was a guy called Meucci.

There are plenty of other Scots in the history of the sciences, William Thomson, (Lord Kelvin), Alexander Wilson (Wilson cloud chamber), Robert Brown (of Brownian motion fame ) to name but a few.

The use of asepsis in medicine was pioneered by Lister in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary (although Lister was English) and Ian Donald is credited as the originator of diagnostic ultrasound, again here in Glasgow. Glasgow Royal Infirmary is both a beautiful building and awe-inspiring due to the amount of pioneering in medicine that took place within it's walls.

And don't forget there would be rich people milling about everywhere, getting in everyone else's way, if the Scots hadn't invented golf!