I read in the local newspaper today that in a poll by the Scottish Tourist Board, the majority of Americans see Scotland as a backward country without Microwave ovens or Internet connection and the only Scot that they could name apart from Robert Burns and William Wallace was Sean Connery. Sad, especially when we gave them their biggest recreational invention - the television.
We also gave the world - Anaesthetics, Artificial Diamonds, Pneumatic Tyres, Fax Machines, the first cloned mammal (Dolly), Hypodermic syringes, Mackintosh Raincoats, Macadamised roads, Penicillin, Paraffin, Radar Defense System, Refrigerators, The Steam Engine, The telephone, Thermos bottles, The telegraph, and Whisky to name but a few as I checked all these out on the Internet.
Oh - and we also invented the Microwave
