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| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Maybe if you're talking purely about engineering achievements. If you want to talk about foundational science, then France and Germany are up there for sure. |
Au contraire mon amie.
Are logarithms not a foundation of science? How when you don't have a calculator are you going to multiply large numbers. I.e. do any calculations involving space or basically anything else useful?
If you are going to know anything about space aren't the unified electro-magnetic equations of Maxwell, a precursor to Einstein laws of the psychical world (EDIT: and Radio) important?
If you are going to talk of economics (political as well as financial), Adam Smith was the father of it.
Where was Darwin taught about evolution? To later go on to develop the theory of natural selection?
Read up on the Scottish Enlightenment you will be very surprised, the list I put up above is nothing compared to all the other inventions/theories that have been generated here.
EDIT:
Just remembered the guy who invented the Electric Clock was from this town. The creator of the Boy's Brigade, the world's first uniformed youth organisation, precursor to the Boy Scouts (Baden Powell actually was one) was from 20 miles away. And The guy who created Keiths Beer (thank us Canadians) was 10 miles away.... This is the far far north, there are probably under 20,000 people in all the places these people were born in. And there is a claim for the first ever fax machine too (need to check that).
EDIT2: And the biggest empire in the history of the world was the British Empire (partly Scottish), not the Roman or Mongol. And to bust another myth, it was a King of Scotland who became the King of England... not the other way round. 
EDIT3: In current terms, a Scottish company (RBS) does more trade in America alone than McDonalds does in the whole world. And it is bigger than Sony and Apple combined. And HSBC was stared by a Scot too, the 3rd largest company in the world...according to Forbes magazine...also stared by a Scot. And that's without even mentioning Andrew Carnegie....
EDIT4: Look back to the start of the US and see how many Scots were involved...read up on the Declaration of Arbroath.
Not bad for a country of 5 million eh? Really could go on and on... but I'm fairly sure I'm boring the tits off you.
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Last edited by Dervish on Mar-03-2008 at 23:54
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