i watched a show about Philadelphia last night

saveuplife

South of Seattle wrote:

Scotch? Butterscotch? Braveheart? . . . that's about it

But then again, Philly is famous for Cheez Whiz

Scotch is just whiskey made in Scotland. That's like saying Philly is famous for Yuengling.

Philly is famous for being the birthplace of the U.S. and its' indepence. There's more U.S. history in that city than anywhere in the U.S.

Scotland is famous for being a country, with a bunch of nobs, next to two very cool countries (England and Ireland) with a bunch of cool people.

Flagg

You sure the show wasn't about Camden, right next door to Philly? Now THAT is a shithole.

I've only been to Philly once and from what I saw, it was OK, outside of the crackheads sleeping outside the hotel lobby.

Jearlpam0925

Seriously. Not a good way to get across to the the PJ fans from Philly. I'm not really going to get into this because I could go non-stop on this matter. So to sum it up real quick would be our city's motto - Don't like it? Then don't come, and if you're here, get the fuck out.

Dunkman, you seem like an alright dude so I'll let it slide.

If you ever do end up making your way to Philly though, let me know. I'll show you around. I love showing people see how awesome the 215 is(proving them wrong).

dunkman

saveuplife wrote:

Dude, btw you live in Scotland.

Sherlock? is that you?

Have ever actually seen a girl that doesn't look like a foot?

yes

Also, what is your country know for besides ugly girls and guys who wear dresses?

Road Transport Innovations

* A gas mask: James Gregory (1638-1675)
* A steam car (steam engine): William Murdoch (1754-1839) [1]
* Macadam roads: John Loudon MacAdam (1756-1836) [1]
* Driving on the left: Determined by a Scottish-inspired Act of Parliament in 1772
* The pedal bicycle: Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813-1878) [2]
* The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson and John Boyd Dunlop (1822-1873) [3]
* The overhead valve engine: David Dunbar Buick (1854-1929)
* The speedometer: Sir Keith Elphinstone (1864-1944)
* The motor lorry: John Yule in 1870
* The steam tricycle: Andrew Lawson in 1895

[edit] Civil Engineering Innovations

[edit] Bridges

* Bridge design: Sir William Arrol (1838-1913), Thomas Telford (1757-1834) & John Rennie (1761-1821)
* Suspension bridge improvements: Sir Samuel Brown (1776-1852)
* Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)

[edit] Canals & Docks

* Falkirk Wheel: ??? (Opened 2002)
* Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757-1834)
* Dock design: John Rennie (1761-1821)
* The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781-1832)
* Crane design: James Bremner (1784-1856)

[edit] Lighthouses

* Lighthouse design: Robert Stevenson (1772-1850)
* The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797-1840)

[edit] Power Innovations

* Condensing steam engine & improvements: James Watt (1736-1819)
* Coal-gas lighting: William Murdock (1754-1839)
* The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790-1878)
* Electro-magnetic innovations: James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79)
* Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849-1936)
* The Clark cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clark (1854-1932)
* Wireless transformer improvements: Sir James Swinburne (1858-1958)
* Cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles T. R. Wilson (1869-1959)
* Wave-powered electricity generator:By South African Engineer Stephen Salter in 1977

[edit] Shipbuilding Innovations

* The steamship paddle wheel: Patrick Miller (1731-1815)
* The steam boat: William Symington (1763-1831)
* Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767-1830)
* The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)
* The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803-1882)
* Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832-1913)

[edit] Heavy Industry Innovations

* The carronade cannon: Robert Melville (1723-1809)
* Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772-1847)
* Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783-1865)
* The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792-1865)
* The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808-1890)
* Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812-1889)
* Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831-1881)
* The Fairlie, a narrow gauge, double-bogey railway engine: Robert Francis Fairlie (1831-1885)
* Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel

[edit] Agricultural Innovations

* Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719-1811)
* Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hugh Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700-1753)
* The Scotch Plough: James Anderson of Hermiston (1739-1808)
* Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789-1850)
* The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799-1869)
* The Fresno Scraper: James Porteous (1848-1922)
* The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979

[edit] Communication Innovations

* Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690-1749)
* The balloon post: John Anderson (1726-1796)
* The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782-1853)
* The post office
* The mail-van service
* Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915)
* Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831-1899)
* The telephone:(disputed) Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
* The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871-1957)
* The television: John Logie Baird (1888-1946)
* Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973)
* Fax Machine - Alexander Bain
* Radio (underlying principles) - James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)

[edit] Some Scottish publishing firsts:

* The first book translated from English into a foreign language
* The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1768-81)
* The first English textbook on surgery (1597)
* The first modern pharmacopaedia, the Materia Medica Catalogue (1776)
* The first textbook on Newtonian science
* The first colour newspaper advertisement
* The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK

[edit] Scientific innovations

* Logarithms: John Napier (1550-1617)
* The theory of electromagnetism: James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
* Popularising the decimal point: John Napier (1550-1617)
* The Gregorian telescope: James Gregory (1638-1675)
* The concept of latent heat: Joseph Black (1728-1799)
* The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766-1832)
* Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Brown (1773-1858)
* Hypnosis: James Braid (1795-1860)
* Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805-1869)
* The kelvin SI unit of temperature: William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
* Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838-1922)
* Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843-1930)
* The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916)
* The Cloud chamber: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959)
* Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880-1971)
* The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910-1987)
* Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955
* The MRI body scanner: John Mallard in 1980
* The first cloned mammal (Dolly the Sheep): The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996
* Seismometer - James David Forbes
* Chloroform Pioneer - Sir James Y Simpson (1811-1870)

[edit] Sports innovations

Main article: Sport in Scotland

Scots have been instrumental in the invention and early development of several sports:

* several modern athletics events, notably the shot put and the hammer throw, derive from Highland Games events

* Curling
* Cycling, invention of the pedal-cycle
* Golf (see Golf in Scotland)
* Mountaineering
* Shinty
* Basketball (see James Naismith)

[edit] Medical Innovations

* Devising the cure for scurvy: James Lind (1716-1794)
* Discovering quinine as the cure for malaria: George Cleghorn (1716-1794)
* Pioneering the use of surgical anaesthesia with Chloroform: Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870)
* The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817-1884)
* Pioneering the use of antiseptics: Joseph Lister (1827-1912)
* Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932)
* Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855-1931)
* Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865-1926)
* Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876-1935) with others
* Penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)
* Discovering an effective tuberculosis treatment: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s
* Primary creator of the artificial kidney (Professor Kenneth Lowe - Later Queen's physician in Scotland)
* Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964
* Glasgow Coma Scale: Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett (1974)

[edit] Household Innovations

* The Dewar Flask: Sir James Dewar (1847-1932)
* The piano with footpedals: John Broadwood (1732-1812)
* The waterproof macintosh: Charles Macintosh (1766-1843)
* The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781-1868)
* The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801-1845)
* The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaac Holden (1807-1897){
* Paraffin: James Young (1811-1883)
* The fountain pen: Robert Thomson (1822-1873)
* Cotton-reel thread: J & J Clark of Paisley
* Lime Cordial: Lachlan Rose in 1867
* Bovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874
* The life ring, or personal flotation device: Captain Ward in 1854
* Electric clock - Alexander Bain

[edit] Weapons Innovations

* The Ferguson rifle: Patrick Ferguson in 1770 or 1776
* The Lee bolt system as used in the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield series rifles: James Paris Lee
* The Ghillie suit

[edit] Economics Innovations

Adam Smith; Smith was born in 1723, hailing from Kirkcaldy, a Scottish town north of Edinburgh; the 18th century Scot considered to be the father of modern economics; Smith's ``An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which argued that minimal government interference in commerce would promote human welfare and alleviate poverty, was published in 1776. He is the first Scotsman to appear on the central bank's currency in England, replacing Elgar's image in the next few years on as many as 1 billion notes.

[edit] Miscellaneous innovations

* The digestive biscuit, invented by McVitie's in Edinburgh in 1892 by Alexander Grant.
* Boys' Brigade
* Bank of England
* Bank of Scotland
* Bank of France
* Colour photography: the first known permanent colour photograph was taken by James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
* The Comb - Aberdeen
* The Keyring - Aberdeen
* Robinson Crusoe - influenced by the real-life Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway




is there a law i dont know of where i cant say that an area of Philadelphia looked like a fucking shithole?

comebackwoman

South of Seattle wrote:

Scotch? Butterscotch? Braveheart? . . . that's about it

But then again, Philly is famous for Cheez Whiz

and pretzels
and cream cheese
and....um that's all I got

eyedclaar

GraySaturday wrote:

All my friends in school think I'm a bad ass because I'm from Philly..

I'm actually from the very wealthy suburbs, but if people don't fuck with me because they think I'm gansta, then so be it!

Yes, you look like quite the gangsta.

Rygar

dunkman wrote:

Ewan MacGregor.

Cool!

dunkman

saveuplife wrote:

Scotch is just whiskey made in Scotland. That's like saying Philly is famous for Yuengling.

Philly is famous for being the birthplace of the U.S. and its' indepence. There's more U.S. history in that city than anywhere in the U.S.

Scotland is famous for being a country, with a bunch of nobs, next to two very cool countries (England and Ireland) with a bunch of cool people.

relax man... i said an area of Philly looked really shit on TV... :rolleyes:

i didnt say ALL of Philadelphia looked bad... dont shoot me.

comebackwoman

saveuplife wrote:

Dude, btw you live in Scotland. Have ever actually seen a girl that doesn't look like a foot? Also, what is your country know for besides ugly girls and guys who wear dresses?

I don't know about the women...but don't knock the kilts...nothing wrong with easy access :cool:

eyedclaar

dunkman wrote:

Sherlock? is that you?



yes



Road Transport Innovations

* A gas mask: James Gregory (1638-1675)
* A steam car (steam engine): William Murdoch (1754-1839) [1]
* Macadam roads: John Loudon MacAdam (1756-1836) [1]
* Driving on the left: Determined by a Scottish-inspired Act of Parliament in 1772
* The pedal bicycle: Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813-1878) [2]
* The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson and John Boyd Dunlop (1822-1873) [3]
* The overhead valve engine: David Dunbar Buick (1854-1929)
* The speedometer: Sir Keith Elphinstone (1864-1944)
* The motor lorry: John Yule in 1870
* The steam tricycle: Andrew Lawson in 1895

[edit] Civil Engineering Innovations

[edit] Bridges

* Bridge design: Sir William Arrol (1838-1913), Thomas Telford (1757-1834) & John Rennie (1761-1821)
* Suspension bridge improvements: Sir Samuel Brown (1776-1852)
* Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)

[edit] Canals & Docks

* Falkirk Wheel: ??? (Opened 2002)
* Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757-1834)
* Dock design: John Rennie (1761-1821)
* The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781-1832)
* Crane design: James Bremner (1784-1856)

[edit] Lighthouses

* Lighthouse design: Robert Stevenson (1772-1850)
* The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797-1840)

[edit] Power Innovations

* Condensing steam engine & improvements: James Watt (1736-1819)
* Coal-gas lighting: William Murdock (1754-1839)
* The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790-1878)
* Electro-magnetic innovations: James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79)
* Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849-1936)
* The Clark cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clark (1854-1932)
* Wireless transformer improvements: Sir James Swinburne (1858-1958)
* Cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles T. R. Wilson (1869-1959)
* Wave-powered electricity generator:By South African Engineer Stephen Salter in 1977

[edit] Shipbuilding Innovations

* The steamship paddle wheel: Patrick Miller (1731-1815)
* The steam boat: William Symington (1763-1831)
* Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767-1830)
* The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)
* The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803-1882)
* Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832-1913)

[edit] Heavy Industry Innovations

* The carronade cannon: Robert Melville (1723-1809)
* Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772-1847)
* Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783-1865)
* The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792-1865)
* The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808-1890)
* Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812-1889)
* Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831-1881)
* The Fairlie, a narrow gauge, double-bogey railway engine: Robert Francis Fairlie (1831-1885)
* Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel

[edit] Agricultural Innovations

* Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719-1811)
* Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hugh Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700-1753)
* The Scotch Plough: James Anderson of Hermiston (1739-1808)
* Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789-1850)
* The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799-1869)
* The Fresno Scraper: James Porteous (1848-1922)
* The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979

[edit] Communication Innovations

* Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690-1749)
* The balloon post: John Anderson (1726-1796)
* The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782-1853)
* The post office
* The mail-van service
* Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915)
* Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831-1899)
* The telephone:(disputed) Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
* The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871-1957)
* The television: John Logie Baird (1888-1946)
* Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973)
* Fax Machine - Alexander Bain
* Radio (underlying principles) - James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)

[edit] Some Scottish publishing firsts:

* The first book translated from English into a foreign language
* The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1768-81)
* The first English textbook on surgery (1597)
* The first modern pharmacopaedia, the Materia Medica Catalogue (1776)
* The first textbook on Newtonian science
* The first colour newspaper advertisement
* The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK

[edit] Scientific innovations

* Logarithms: John Napier (1550-1617)
* The theory of electromagnetism: James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
* Popularising the decimal point: John Napier (1550-1617)
* The Gregorian telescope: James Gregory (1638-1675)
* The concept of latent heat: Joseph Black (1728-1799)
* The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766-1832)
* Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Brown (1773-1858)
* Hypnosis: James Braid (1795-1860)
* Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805-1869)
* The kelvin SI unit of temperature: William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
* Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838-1922)
* Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843-1930)
* The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916)
* The Cloud chamber: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959)
* Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880-1971)
* The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910-1987)
* Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955
* The MRI body scanner: John Mallard in 1980
* The first cloned mammal (Dolly the Sheep): The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996
* Seismometer - James David Forbes
* Chloroform Pioneer - Sir James Y Simpson (1811-1870)

[edit] Sports innovations

Main article: Sport in Scotland

Scots have been instrumental in the invention and early development of several sports:

* several modern athletics events, notably the shot put and the hammer throw, derive from Highland Games events

* Curling
* Cycling, invention of the pedal-cycle
* Golf (see Golf in Scotland)
* Mountaineering
* Shinty
* Basketball (see James Naismith)

[edit] Medical Innovations

* Devising the cure for scurvy: James Lind (1716-1794)
* Discovering quinine as the cure for malaria: George Cleghorn (1716-1794)
* Pioneering the use of surgical anaesthesia with Chloroform: Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870)
* The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817-1884)
* Pioneering the use of antiseptics: Joseph Lister (1827-1912)
* Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932)
* Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855-1931)
* Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865-1926)
* Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876-1935) with others
* Penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)
* Discovering an effective tuberculosis treatment: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s
* Primary creator of the artificial kidney (Professor Kenneth Lowe - Later Queen's physician in Scotland)
* Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964
* Glasgow Coma Scale: Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett (1974)

[edit] Household Innovations

* The Dewar Flask: Sir James Dewar (1847-1932)
* The piano with footpedals: John Broadwood (1732-1812)
* The waterproof macintosh: Charles Macintosh (1766-1843)
* The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781-1868)
* The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801-1845)
* The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaac Holden (1807-1897){
* Paraffin: James Young (1811-1883)
* The fountain pen: Robert Thomson (1822-1873)
* Cotton-reel thread: J & J Clark of Paisley
* Lime Cordial: Lachlan Rose in 1867
* Bovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874
* The life ring, or personal flotation device: Captain Ward in 1854
* Electric clock - Alexander Bain

[edit] Weapons Innovations

* The Ferguson rifle: Patrick Ferguson in 1770 or 1776
* The Lee bolt system as used in the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield series rifles: James Paris Lee
* The Ghillie suit

[edit] Economics Innovations

Adam Smith; Smith was born in 1723, hailing from Kirkcaldy, a Scottish town north of Edinburgh; the 18th century Scot considered to be the father of modern economics; Smith's ``An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which argued that minimal government interference in commerce would promote human welfare and alleviate poverty, was published in 1776. He is the first Scotsman to appear on the central bank's currency in England, replacing Elgar's image in the next few years on as many as 1 billion notes.

[edit] Miscellaneous innovations

* The digestive biscuit, invented by McVitie's in Edinburgh in 1892 by Alexander Grant.
* Boys' Brigade
* Bank of England
* Bank of Scotland
* Bank of France
* Colour photography: the first known permanent colour photograph was taken by James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
* The Comb - Aberdeen
* The Keyring - Aberdeen
* Robinson Crusoe - influenced by the real-life Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway




is there a law i dont know of where i cant say that an area of Philadelphia looked like a fucking shithole?

And I didn't see one mention of AC/DC here anywhere. Scotland's greatest contribution to the world.


*Now is when someone will tell me they're Australian.

Heineken Helen

Chime wrote:

He did clarify and say not all of it

the funny thing is I bet there are parts of Glasgow just as bad

I was only in Philly for a day but there was SUCH a fantastic vibe to that city I wanted to stay longer.... I definitely want to go back. It was gorgeous.

chime

I see they fell into your trap Dunk and gave you an excuse to post 'The List' again

PureandEasy

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

Seriously. Not a good way to get across to the the PJ fans from Philly. I'm not really going to get into this because I could go non-stop on this matter. So to sum it up real quick would be our city's motto - Don't like it? Then don't come, and if you're here, get the fuck out.

Dunkman, you seem like an alright dude so I'll let it slide.

If you ever do end up making your way to Philly though, let me know. I'll show you around. I love showing people see how awesome the 215 is(proving them wrong).

Yeah that's just it, I don't have a problem with Dunkman, I just hate threads like this because they inevitably turn ugly.

And I do love this city.

eyedclaar

PureandEasy wrote:

Yeah that's just it, I don't have a problem with Dunkman, I just hate threads like this because they inevitably turn ugly.

And I do love this city.

You know that crazy Scot just likes poking Americans because of the predictability of their reactions? Everytime Dunk says something you don't like, just respond with:


///kilts///

petrocs

dunkman wrote:

US champions dude... the rest of the world doesnt give a fuck.

nope...WORLD...thats what it says on the trophy

saveuplife

dunkman wrote:

Sherlock? is that you?



yes



Road Transport Innovations

* A gas mask: James Gregory (1638-1675)
* A steam car (steam engine): William Murdoch (1754-1839) [1]
* Macadam roads: John Loudon MacAdam (1756-1836) [1]
* Driving on the left: Determined by a Scottish-inspired Act of Parliament in 1772
* The pedal bicycle: Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813-1878) [2]
* The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson and John Boyd Dunlop (1822-1873) [3]
* The overhead valve engine: David Dunbar Buick (1854-1929)
* The speedometer: Sir Keith Elphinstone (1864-1944)
* The motor lorry: John Yule in 1870
* The steam tricycle: Andrew Lawson in 1895

[edit] Civil Engineering Innovations

[edit] Bridges

* Bridge design: Sir William Arrol (1838-1913), Thomas Telford (1757-1834) & John Rennie (1761-1821)
* Suspension bridge improvements: Sir Samuel Brown (1776-1852)
* Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)

[edit] Canals & Docks

* Falkirk Wheel: ??? (Opened 2002)
* Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757-1834)
* Dock design: John Rennie (1761-1821)
* The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781-1832)
* Crane design: James Bremner (1784-1856)

[edit] Lighthouses

* Lighthouse design: Robert Stevenson (1772-1850)
* The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797-1840)

[edit] Power Innovations

* Condensing steam engine & improvements: James Watt (1736-1819)
* Coal-gas lighting: William Murdock (1754-1839)
* The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790-1878)
* Electro-magnetic innovations: James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79)
* Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849-1936)
* The Clark cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clark (1854-1932)
* Wireless transformer improvements: Sir James Swinburne (1858-1958)
* Cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles T. R. Wilson (1869-1959)
* Wave-powered electricity generator:By South African Engineer Stephen Salter in 1977

[edit] Shipbuilding Innovations

* The steamship paddle wheel: Patrick Miller (1731-1815)
* The steam boat: William Symington (1763-1831)
* Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767-1830)
* The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)
* The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803-1882)
* Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832-1913)

[edit] Heavy Industry Innovations

* The carronade cannon: Robert Melville (1723-1809)
* Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772-1847)
* Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783-1865)
* The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792-1865)
* The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808-1890)
* Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812-1889)
* Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831-1881)
* The Fairlie, a narrow gauge, double-bogey railway engine: Robert Francis Fairlie (1831-1885)
* Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel

[edit] Agricultural Innovations

* Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719-1811)
* Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hugh Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700-1753)
* The Scotch Plough: James Anderson of Hermiston (1739-1808)
* Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789-1850)
* The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799-1869)
* The Fresno Scraper: James Porteous (1848-1922)
* The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979

[edit] Communication Innovations

* Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690-1749)
* The balloon post: John Anderson (1726-1796)
* The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782-1853)
* The post office
* The mail-van service
* Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915)
* Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831-1899)
* The telephone:(disputed) Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
* The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871-1957)
* The television: John Logie Baird (1888-1946)
* Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973)
* Fax Machine - Alexander Bain
* Radio (underlying principles) - James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)

[edit] Some Scottish publishing firsts:

* The first book translated from English into a foreign language
* The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1768-81)
* The first English textbook on surgery (1597)
* The first modern pharmacopaedia, the Materia Medica Catalogue (1776)
* The first textbook on Newtonian science
* The first colour newspaper advertisement
* The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK

[edit] Scientific innovations

* Logarithms: John Napier (1550-1617)
* The theory of electromagnetism: James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
* Popularising the decimal point: John Napier (1550-1617)
* The Gregorian telescope: James Gregory (1638-1675)
* The concept of latent heat: Joseph Black (1728-1799)
* The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766-1832)
* Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Brown (1773-1858)
* Hypnosis: James Braid (1795-1860)
* Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805-1869)
* The kelvin SI unit of temperature: William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
* Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838-1922)
* Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843-1930)
* The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916)
* The Cloud chamber: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959)
* Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880-1971)
* The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910-1987)
* Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955
* The MRI body scanner: John Mallard in 1980
* The first cloned mammal (Dolly the Sheep): The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996
* Seismometer - James David Forbes
* Chloroform Pioneer - Sir James Y Simpson (1811-1870)

[edit] Sports innovations

Main article: Sport in Scotland

Scots have been instrumental in the invention and early development of several sports:

* several modern athletics events, notably the shot put and the hammer throw, derive from Highland Games events

* Curling
* Cycling, invention of the pedal-cycle
* Golf (see Golf in Scotland)
* Mountaineering
* Shinty
* Basketball (see James Naismith)

[edit] Medical Innovations

* Devising the cure for scurvy: James Lind (1716-1794)
* Discovering quinine as the cure for malaria: George Cleghorn (1716-1794)
* Pioneering the use of surgical anaesthesia with Chloroform: Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870)
* The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817-1884)
* Pioneering the use of antiseptics: Joseph Lister (1827-1912)
* Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932)
* Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855-1931)
* Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865-1926)
* Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876-1935) with others
* Penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)
* Discovering an effective tuberculosis treatment: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s
* Primary creator of the artificial kidney (Professor Kenneth Lowe - Later Queen's physician in Scotland)
* Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964
* Glasgow Coma Scale: Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett (1974)

[edit] Household Innovations

* The Dewar Flask: Sir James Dewar (1847-1932)
* The piano with footpedals: John Broadwood (1732-1812)
* The waterproof macintosh: Charles Macintosh (1766-1843)
* The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781-1868)
* The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801-1845)
* The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaac Holden (1807-1897){
* Paraffin: James Young (1811-1883)
* The fountain pen: Robert Thomson (1822-1873)
* Cotton-reel thread: J & J Clark of Paisley
* Lime Cordial: Lachlan Rose in 1867
* Bovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874
* The life ring, or personal flotation device: Captain Ward in 1854
* Electric clock - Alexander Bain

[edit] Weapons Innovations

* The Ferguson rifle: Patrick Ferguson in 1770 or 1776
* The Lee bolt system as used in the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield series rifles: James Paris Lee
* The Ghillie suit

[edit] Economics Innovations

Adam Smith; Smith was born in 1723, hailing from Kirkcaldy, a Scottish town north of Edinburgh; the 18th century Scot considered to be the father of modern economics; Smith's ``An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which argued that minimal government interference in commerce would promote human welfare and alleviate poverty, was published in 1776. He is the first Scotsman to appear on the central bank's currency in England, replacing Elgar's image in the next few years on as many as 1 billion notes.

[edit] Miscellaneous innovations

* The digestive biscuit, invented by McVitie's in Edinburgh in 1892 by Alexander Grant.
* Boys' Brigade
* Bank of England
* Bank of Scotland
* Bank of France
* Colour photography: the first known permanent colour photograph was taken by James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
* The Comb - Aberdeen
* The Keyring - Aberdeen
* Robinson Crusoe - influenced by the real-life Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway




is there a law i dont know of where i cant say that an area of Philadelphia looked like a fucking shithole?

If there was a list for Philly it would be much longer than that. And I can sum Philly up pretty well in one sentence: the birthplace of the West.

Where's the entries for ugliest women in the world and kilts? I hate to break it to you, but that's really all your country's known for. Oh that, and decent golf. That's it. Your country doesn't even make good beer--atleast relative to Ireland and England.

dunkman

saveuplife wrote:

If there was a list for Philly it would be much longer than that.

no it wouldnt.


i ignored the rest of your post as it was pretty infantile.. did you even read the list.. bad beer and ugly women? thats the best you've got?

dunkman

Chime wrote:

I see they fell into your trap Dunk and gave you an excuse to post 'The List' again

aye.. i should have that link as my homepage i reckon

alphawolf

of all the major cities in the east, Philadelphia is my favorite. TONS of history and cool architecture. sure there are crack heads there, but there are crackheads in ALL the major US cities. DC and B-More are just as sketchy in my opinion. id rather be in Philly alone if i had a choice.

pjhawks

petrocs wrote:

nope...WORLD...thats what it says on the trophy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKSYf48ulIY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1UCVhC7feY&feature=related

am I loser for tearing up watching those again?