1614 → Today
The Timeline
Four hundred years of Scottish ingenuity, scrollable end-to-end.
1614
Logarithms
John Napier
1694
Bank of England
William Paterson
1755
Refrigeration
William Cullen
1768
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Colin Macfarquhar & Andrew Bell
1769
Watt Steam Engine
James Watt
1775
Flush Toilet / S-bend
Alexander Cumming
1776
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
1778
The Carronade
Carron Ironworks
1780s
Chainsaw
John Aitken & James Jeffray
1783
Grand Piano Foot-pedal
John Broadwood
1786
Threshing Machine
Andrew Meikle
1812
Europe's First Passenger Steamboat (Comet)
Henry Bell
1816
Kaleidoscope
Sir David Brewster
1816
Stirling Engine
Robert Stirling
1820
Macadamised Roads
John Loudon McAdam
1823
Mackintosh Raincoat
Charles Macintosh
1832
Saline Drips
Thomas Latta
1839
Pedal Bicycle
Kirkpatrick Macmillan
1840
First Electric Clock
Alexander Bain
1846
Bain's Chemical Telegraph
Alexander Bain
1847
Anaesthesia / Chloroform
James Young Simpson
1851
First Oil Refinery
James Young
1861
First Permanent Colour Photograph
James Clerk Maxwell
1865
Maxwell's Equations
James Clerk Maxwell
1867
Antiseptic Surgery
Joseph Lister
1876
The Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
1879
Universal Standard Time
Sandford Fleming
1880
Fingerprint Identification
Henry Faulds
1888
Pneumatic Tyre
John Boyd Dunlop
1891
Kinetoscope
W. K. L. Dickson
1900
Teleprinter
Frederick G. Creed
1922
The BBC
John Reith
1925
Television
John Logie Baird
1928
Penicillin
Alexander Fleming
1935
Radar
Robert Watson-Watt
1956
Ultrasound
Ian Donald
1964
Beta-Blockers
Sir James Black
1966
ATM and PIN
James Goodfellow
1974
Glasgow Coma Scale
Graham Teasdale & Bryan Jennett
1974
Salter's Duck
Stephen Salter
1980
MRI Scanner
John Mallard & James Hutchison
1996
Dolly the Sheep
Ian Wilmut & Keith Campbell
2021
Orbital O2 Tidal Turbine
Orbital Marine Power