Originally Posted by
Besoeker
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I'll tell you why I'm proud to be a Scot. Not that I harbour the slightest expectation that it will make you change your tune.
Scotland has a tiny population, a bit over 5m compared to USA with over 300m or the world's 7,000m. So, less than 0.1% of the total. An almost insignificant proportion.
Yet, look at we have given the world.
James Watt, engineer, after the unit of power for your bulbs, electric kettle, power station etc.
Alexander Graham Bell - inventor of the telephone. The Bell Telephone Company still exists.
John Logie Baird - Inventor of television.
Sir Robert Watson-Watt - considered to be the inventor of RADAR
Alexander Fleming - discovered penicillin
James Clerk Maxwell - physicist who unified electricity, magnetism, and light in a single theory. The importance of this cannot be overstated.
James Barrie - creator of Peter Pan.
John Napier - inventor of logarithms.
I could go on.....