[modeleng] Re: scottish inventions

Well, it's not quiet any longer!  LOL!  Go to it,
lads, and we Yanks will quietly observe from the
sidelines, an' w'en ye've settled back doon, we'll
'ave a go at some model engineering, w'ot?

Al Messer

--- kenny <kenny.macdougall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
>
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> > From:  "kenny" <kenny.macdougall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reply-To:  modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 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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