Re: Scotland and Wales
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Originally Posted by simesb
(Post 2132754)
I'll bite.
Scotland is great, but it's the Scots that make it. They're superb wherever they go. That is why the British Empire was built on the back of Scotsmen and Scottish inventions (Television, pneumatic tyre, tarmac, the list goes on and on)
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Television - suggest you google for Paul Nipkow, who invented the whole television process before Baird was born. The 'Nipkow Disc' was the key to Baird's work. Nipkow doesn't sound like a very Scottish name to me.
Pneumatic tyres - Dunlop's pneumatic tyre patent was declared invalid because a man called Thompson declared prior art. In other words, Dunlop didn't invent the pneumatic tyre, someone beat him to it.
Tarmac - Macadam developed a method of sizing stone to use for road building, but the act of adding tar to the stones to bind them together and make the road harder wearing was invented by an American. So Tarmac is an American invention, not Scottish?
All these marvellous (non-Scottish) inventions were patented long after Britain had built an Empire
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Originally Posted by simesb
(Post 2132754)
England became part of the Scottish Crown, but their jealousy never stopped :p
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