1. Television 2. Telephone 3. Fax 4. Pneumatic Tyres 5. Road Surfacing (Tarmac) 6. Radio 7. First edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica (hard copy wikipaedia) 8. The post office 9. The sticky postage stamp 10.Logarithms (basis of all advanced maths) 11. Hypnosis (for stubborn sheep) 12. First cloned animal (a sheep, unsurprisingly) 13. The SI unit of temperature 14. The decimal point 15. Bicycles 16. Hypodermic syringe 17. Antibiotics (later stolen by Australia, similar to Crowded House and Russell Crowe) 18. Discovering insulin 19. Cures for malaria, scurby and typhoid 20. Antiseptic practices 21. Lawnmowers (as sheep substitutes) 22. Steam engines (thus ushering in the industrial age) 23. Modern economics 24. Banks of England and France 25. Sheep shagging (sorry New Zealand, we were there first) 26. Bovril (thus stolen as vegemite by Australia, still foul)
On a per capita basis, Scotland's innovations cannot be beaten. We also like to get drunk, wear skirts and misbehave. But so do most of the judiciary.
