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From steam power to penicillin — Scotland's ideas changed everything.
Watt Steam Engine
James Watt · 1769
The separate condenser that powered the Industrial Revolution and reshaped global trade.
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell · 1876
The invention that compressed distance and made the modern conversation possible.
Television
John Logie Baird · 1926
The first public demonstration of true television, broadcast from a London attic.
Penicillin
Alexander Fleming · 1928
An accidental discovery that gave humanity its first true antibiotic.
MRI Scanner
John Mallard & team · 1980
The world's first clinically useful full-body MRI scanner, built in Aberdeen.
Anaesthesia
James Young Simpson · 1847
Chloroform — the discovery that ended the agony of surgery.
Macadamised Roads
John Loudon McAdam · 1820
The road surface that paved the modern world — quite literally.
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