[modeleng] scottish inventions

Hi
and thanks for your comment not bad for such a small country it would be 
even more sad without the inventions please refer to the history of steam 
and you will find read below  and this has never been disputed  just as well 
we had radar don't you think

The Steam Engine
Invented by James Watt, instrumental in powering the Industrial Revolution 
in the Eighteenth Century. His engine was not mobile, but was fixed in 
position. Soon it was being built and used in mining, to pull coal carts up 
to the pithead. Mine manager, John Blenkinsop, put one of these steam 
boilers on wheels so that it could carry the coal further. This came to the 
attention of George Stephenson who was also a mining engineer. Stephenson 
took the idea a stage further with his invention of the steam locomotive.

Kenny
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ian ridley" <ridleyian@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 12:17 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: it's a bit quiet here...


>
> It's very sad that a country's entire inventions catalogue can be fitted
> ontoone page!
>
> P.S. the steam engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen, an Englishman from
> Dartmouth.
>
> Regards to all
>
> Ian
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From:  "kenny" <kenny.macdougall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> To:  <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject:  [modeleng] Re: it's a bit quiet here...
> Date:  Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:19:37 +0100
>>   .
>>Wha's Like Us - Damn Few And They're A' Deid
>>
>>The average Englishman, in the home he calls his castle, slips into his
>>national costume, a shabby raincoat, patented by chemist Charles Macintosh
>>from Glasgow, Scotland. En route to his office he strides along the 
>>English
>>lane, surfaced by John Macadam of Ayr, Scotland.
>>
>>He drives an English car fitted with tyres invented by John Boyd Dunlop of
>>Dreghorn, Scotland, arrives at the station and boards a train, the
>>forerunner of which was a steam engine, invented by James Watt of 
>>Greenock,
>>Scotland. He then pours himself a cup of coffee from a thermos flask, the
>>latter invented by Dewar, a Scotsman from Kincardine-on-Forth.
>>
>>At the office he receives the mail bearing adhesive stamps invented by
> James
>>Chalmers of Dundee, Scotland.
>>
>>During the day he uses the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell,
> born
>>in Edinburgh, Scotland.
>>
>>At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicycle invented by
>>Kirkpatrick Macmillan, blacksmith of Dumfries, Scotland.
>>
>>He watches the news on his television, an invention of John Logie Baird of
>>Helensburgh, Scotland, and hears an item about the U.S. Navy, founded by
>>John Paul Jones of Kirkbean, Scotland.
>>
>>He has by now been reminded too much of Scotland and in desperation he
> picks
>>up the Bible only to find that the first man mentioned in the good book is
> a
>>Scot, King James VI, who authorised its translation.
>>
>>Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots.
>>
>>He could take to drink, but the Scots make the best in the world.
>>
>>He could take a rifle and end it all but the breech-loading rifle was
>>invented by Captain Patrick of Pitfours, Scotland.
>>
>>If he escapes death, he might then find himself on an operating table
>>injected with penicillin, which was discovered by Alexander Fleming of
>>Darvel, Scotland, and given an anaesthetic, which was discovered by Sir
>>James Young Simpson of Bathgate, Scotland.
>>
>>Out of the anaesthetic, he would find no comfort in learning he was as 
>>safe
>>as the Bank of England founded by William Paterson of Dumfries, Scotland.
>>
>>Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a transfusion of guid
>>Scottish blood which would entitle him to ask "Wha's Like Us".
>>  ALSO HAVE A WEE LOOK  HERE
>>http://www.magicdragon.com/Wallace/thingscot.html
>>KENNY
>>SKYE
>>
>>
>>
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