http://www.llm-guide.com/board/7498 en Re: Re: British Pubs - LLM GUIDE Discussion Board Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:35:00 +0200 http://www.llm-guide.com/board/7498/last#7498 haha. Was looking through old posts and found this one.. Thought it worth reviving so here's a list of other famous things invented (or founded) by Scots: adhesive postage stamps | anaesthetics | antisepsis | artificial diamonds | reaping machine | Bank of England | latent heat | Brownian movement | Buicks | chemical bonds | penicillin | the decimal point | documentary films | Encyclopedia Britannica | engineering sciences | fax machines | first cloned mammal | flailing machines | geosciences | golf | historical novels | hypodermic syringes | Kelvin scale | percussion powder | logarithms | Maxwell's equations | marmalade | mackintosh raincoats | macadamized roads | microwave ovens | colloid chemistry | breech-loading rifle | tubular steel | quinine | Sociology | pneumatic tyres | pink bathtubs | hollow pipe drainage | Peter Pan | radar | paleobiology | polarization | cure for scurvy | King Arthur | Halloween | refrigerators | Neptune | bakelite | iron bridges | solitons | the steam engine | telephones | thermos flasks/dewars | the telegraph | television | the stereotype | sulphuric acid | the steam-hammer | cure for insomnia | paraffin | Sherlock Holmes | Toad of Toad Hall | Long John Silver | Jekyll and Hyde | Auld Lang Syne | US Navy | Chilean Navy | Economics | Cloud Chamber | AND Whisky