Which nation has most shaped the modern world?

Whose modern world?

50p ew China
50p ew India please

The USA. The 20C was the American century, For every invention or famous person in the rest of the world multiply by a 1000 for the US.

USA is just an English experiment that got a little out of hand.

What the US achieved in only 1 or 2 hundred years was almost like a miracle.
The greatest country in the history of the world and may never happen again.

You are a slave to the USA propaganda machine.

Well, in modern times, global communication is critical for some many different reasons, written and spoken word - the world communicates with each other mostly in English, from politics to trade deals to sport. Online, the world communicates with each other thanks to an an Englishman who invented the web. Historically, the British empire has shaped the way most of the world lives today. So whatever influence America has, it stems from the use of the English language and from the way Britain helped shape them.

It is there to be seen by anyone not bigoted or blind. To have brought people from every part of the world build a nation so inventive and powerful and successful...these things are not guaranteed, they are difficult and in science the arts culture, music, medicine, engineering, technology, cinema etc etc.Every aspect of modern life is American.

Steve Wozniak in silicon valley alone did more to produce the modern world than everyone else. The web was an invention of the US military.
The English language has become all powerful because of American business, films and music.

The internet was invented by the US military not the world wide web.
Music and TV is a big LOL, they don't dominate music and TV they saturate it, quality comes from Britain and bands like the Beatles and the Stones have never been replicated in America. I would hazard a guess the spread of the British empire probably is equal to the success (mass production) of their music and films in the widespread use of the English language, as well as British influence in the world of music and TV.

What about sport.  Britain formalised the rules/invented most of the great world sports.

lfc do you get all teary eyed watching films like Rocky and Top Gun?

The web was based on a mathematical formula, the technology was already invented and any no. of formula could have been used. As you know Berners Lee made it free to use...this was because if it had not been a different system would have been used, he couldn't charge for it..if he could he would have been the richest man in history.

Buy the way there would never have been a Beatles or Stones if America had not invented rock and roll..and indeed the electric guitar.

The web was based on a mathematical formula, the technology was already invented and any no. of formula could have been used. As you know Berners Lee made it free to use...this was because if it had not been a different system would have been used, he couldn't charge for it..if he could he would have been the richest man in history.


And who invented the modern programmable computer for the American to have developed the internet....an Englishman


Buy the way there would never have been a Beatles or Stones if America had not invented rock and roll..and indeed the electric guitar.

Every artist and musician is influenced from a previous generation, the songwriting was British.

Look, perhaps the most important invention was I think by an Englishman...the transistor. This could be claimed to be the basis for all our modern tech.  The British have been unbelievably inventive....that goes without saying, however we are becoming so charmless in shouting it.

in terms of actual countries (post westphalia) russia would be a candidate as it was the active conduit for socialism which in turn killed 100 million, wiped out entire cultures, brought about the second world war and the nuclear arms race, supported countless regimes bringing whole regions into conflict (including africa, mid east, south america etc), and even deeply effected western countries with political correctness to cultural marxism.

Overall though (geographical area or culture) it would probably be israel which produced the judeo christian tradition which went on to be the basis of most western traditions (including eventually that of the US) but obviously also the concepts of equality, individual rights, property rights, proportional law and so on.

The US was a success for technical and geographical reasons, it adapted and reinvented a society but it's cultures and systems were largely imported.

Candidates like china, india etc all made contributions but were dead ends, remaining feudal states without  evolutionary steps forward such as individual rights.

The greeks are the other contenders with democracy, philosophy, drama etc but also hit a dead end which implies crucial elements were missing.

The most logical way to work it out is to subtract a country from history and see what the world would be like without it.

Good post polybot.

err...Israel only got independence after WW2


What USA has achieved in the last 200 years is unrivalled

Ford with the motorcar
Microsoft, Google, Apple etc with technology

Not to mention aircraft, space ships or medicine

The industrial revolution began in Britain. Industry changed the world, for better or for worse.

Cannot be argued we do punch well above our weight in the UK.

Lot of things to be proud of - also quite a few to hang our heads over.

Edward Jenner, from Gloucestershire, invented the vaccination to combat smallpox in the 18th century. Vaccinations have gone on to save millions of lives throughout the world.

Just one example of European enlightenment.

But I suppose you have to give the yanks some credit - They did invent the hot dog, (I think)

The thing is poly, is that most inventions are actually not inventions but discoveries, and most discoveries are off of the back of already works in progress, evolution, advancements. And if truth be known, if one country didn't invent/discover one thing or another, then some other country would have. Britain does seem to have had a lot of great minds though.

Mouldova

please, please do not attribute apple with any game-changing breakthroughs in shaping the modern world.

even the comparison to ford's mass production of the motor car are way off the mark.

in terms of quality of life, the three major contributors are electricity, antibiotics and vaccinations.

Sir Winston Churchill once said that ‘Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.’

Switzerland
a good number of scientific Nobel laureates for a small population

Jews are 23% on Nobel winners from 0.2% of the world population.

what an interesting thread.

Which nation has most shaped the modern world? not how many nobel winners

23% from 0.2% Jewish
??% from 20% Moslem???

Jews make up 0.2% of the worlds population?!

That Can't be right surely?

11/800 apparently.  1.4% from 20%. 

Didn't expect that to be so easy to find.

1 for Physics
1 for Chemistry
2 for Literature

and

7 for Peace 

that read like a cmat post.

scots 0.009 %

+ 9  nobel wins . Sir William Ramsay - Chemistry, 1904
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson - Physics, 1927
John J.R. MacLeod - Medicine, 1928
Arthur Henderson - Peace, 1934
Sir Alexander Fleming - Medicine, 1945
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr - Peace, 1949
A.R. Todd, Baron Todd of Trumpington - Chemistry, 1957
Sir James Black - Medicine, 1988
Sir James Alexander Mirrlees - Economics, 1996 so at 0.009 not bad

kincsem
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Jews are 23% on Nobel winners from 0.2% of the world population.

I think there is a practise or philosophy within Judaism, where two or more people argue and debate the meaning of something. The idea is to broaden the mind by examining the meaning of something by approaching the subject from many different angles. But I can’t remember its name.

Let's not look backwards gentlemen. Surely the crucial question is which nation will most shape the modern world during the course of the next 100 years? It certainly won't be Britain.

is that not easy. s

for all of us that bet past form give a clue

I'll tell you what my little Scotch egg. You give me a clue what you're on about and I'll reciprocate.

it probably wont be any country EO.

the major breakthroughs will come from AI.

Can't ignore the Scots here, but,it has to be the USA,standout scientific and space programmes for instance,only Russia and China can get close. UK well down the line here,way behind France,Japan,India,Iran and North Korea. :)

USA the clear chit-chat winner here.

It's hard to name anything they are really bad at. The USA is even good at things you wouldn't expect like growing rice, cycling, and jazz literature.

has to be the uk

led the way in the industrial revolution which shaped the whole world we live in today.

Thomas Newcomen - invented the steam engine 1712 (English)

James Hargreaves - invented the spinning jenny 1764 (English)

James Watt - improves the steam engine (enabling power, trains etc) (Scottish)

Alexander graham bell - patents the telephone 1876 and work with optical telecommunications (Scottish)

John Logie Baird - invented the television (prob the most hours worldwide spent for leisure time)

Previously William Caxton invented the first printing press (1476) bringing reading/books etc to the masses and therefore increasing the spread of ideas and education.

Other notable scientists- Darwin, Davy, Faraday, Fleming, Kelvin, Jenner, Newton, Frank Whittle, and many more.

On top of this some of the worlds largest sports attracting billions of viewers stem from the uk, Football, Golf, Cricket, Baseball, Rugby, Badminton, Snooker, Tennis, Darts, and many more.

clue is in the the timing.
england achieved jack sh!t before hellenic-judeo-christian tradition introduced by rome
scotland achieved jack sh!t before hellenic-judeo-christian tradition introduced by england
usa ditto
significant modification was possibly the protestant ethic, but this was not solely british, and you could argue its ultimate value.

I think there is a practise or philosophy within Judaism, where two or more people argue and debate the meaning of something. The idea is to broaden the mind by examining the meaning of something by approaching the subject from many different angles. But I can’t remember its name.

not sure either mac, Mamet discusses something similar though in the first few minutes of this clip, good interview I thought.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTGJHl4xicA
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scotland - tv.phone,discovery of electro magnetic spectrum - even the first indoor toilet.

so you can watch tv, answer the phone and take a dump all at the same time without passing through the porcelain in a phased state(electro magnetism stops matter merging you dummies).

America gets my vote ....
completely de-stabilised the Middle East - most aggresive Country on the Planet !
Loves to start wars.

rockinron a living sample of why greece failed

Macadamised roads (the basis for, but not specifically, tarmac): John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836)[3]
    The pedal bicycle: Attributed to both Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813–1878)[2] and Thomas McCall (1834–1904)
    The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson and John Boyd Dunlop (1822–1873)[10]
    The overhead valve engine: David Dunbar Buick (1854–1929)[11]

Civil engineering innovations

    Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874)[12]
    The Falkirk wheel: Initial designs by Nicoll Russell Studios, Architects and engineers Binnie Black and Veatch (Opened 2002)[13]
    The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781–1832)[14][15]
    The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797–1840)[16]
    Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757–1834)[17]
    Dock design improvements: John Rennie (1761–1821)[18]
    Crane design improvements: James Bremner (1784–1856)[19]

Aviation innovations

    Aircraft design: Frank Barnwell (1910) Establishing the fundamentals of aircraft design at the University of Glasgow.[20]

Power innovations

    Condensing steam engine improvements: James Watt (1736–1819)[1]
    Thermodynamic cycle: William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872)[21]
    Coal-gas lighting: William Murdoch (1754–1839)[22]
    The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790–1878)[23]
    Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849–1936)[24]
    The Clerk cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clerk (1854–1932)[25]
    The wave-powered electricity generator: by South African Engineer Stephen Salter in 1977[26]
    The Pelamis Wave Energy Converter ("red sea snake" wave energy device): Richard Yemm, 1998[27]

Shipbuilding innovations

    Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767–1830)[28]
    The first iron–hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874)[29]
    The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803–1882)[citation needed]
    Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832–1913)[30]
    John Elder & Charles Randolph (Marine Compound expansion engine)[30]

Military innovations

    Lieutenant-General Sir David Henderson two areas:
        Field intelligence. Argued for the establishment of the Intelligence Corps. Wrote Field Intelligence: Its Principles and Practice (1904) and Reconnaissance (1907) on the tactical intelligence of modern warfare during World War I.[31]
    Special forces: Founded by Sir David Stirling, the SAS was created in World War II in the North Africa campaign to go behind enemy lines to destroy and disrupt the enemy. Since then it as been regarded as the most famous and influential special forces that has inspired other countries to form their own special forces too.

Heavy industry innovations

    Coal mining extraction in the sea on an artificial island by Sir George Bruce of Carnock (1575). Regarded as one of the industrial wonders of the late medieval period.[32]
    Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772–1847)[33]
    Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783–1865)[34]
    The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792–1865)[35]
    The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808–1890)[36]
    Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812–1889)[37]
    Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831–1881)[38]
    The Fairlie, a narrow gauge, double-bogie railway engine: Robert Francis Fairlie (1831–1885)[39]
    Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel (1889)[40]

Agricultural innovations

    Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719–1811)[41]
    Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hew Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700–1753)[42]
    The Scotch plough: James Anderson of Hermiston (1739–1808)[43]
    Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789–1850)[44]
    The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799–1869)[45]
    The Fresno scraper: James Porteous (1848–1922)[46]
    The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979[47]

Communication innovations

    Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690–1749)[48]
    The British Broadcasting Corporation BBC: John Reith, 1st Baron Reith (1922) its founder, first general manager and Director-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation[49]
    Roller printing: Thomas Bell (patented 1783)[50]
    The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782–1853)[51]
    Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827–1915)[52]
    Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831–1899)[53]
    The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922)[4]
    The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871–1957)[54]
    The first working television, and colour television; John Logie Baird (1888–1946)[5][6]
    Radar:A significant contributor to Radar Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973)Alongside Englishman Henry Tizard among others[8]
    The underlying principles of Radio - James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)[55]
    The automated teller machine and Personal Identification Number system - James Goodfellow (born 1937)[56]
    The Waverley pen nib innovations thereof: Duncan Cameron (1850) The popular "Waverley" was unique in design with a narrow waist and an upturned tip designed to made the ink flow more smoothly on the paper.[57]

Publishing firsts

    The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1768–81)[58]
    The first English textbook on surgery(1597)[59]
    The first modern pharmacopaedia, William Cullen (1776). The book became 'Europe's principal text on the classification and treatment of disease'. His ideas survive in the terms nervous energy and neuroses (a word that Cullen coined).[60]
    The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK[61]
    The first eBook from a UK administration (March 2012). Scottish Government publishes 'Your Scotland, Your Referendum'.[62][citation needed]
    The educational foundation of Ophthalmology: Stewart Duke-Elder in his ground breaking work including ‘Textbook of Ophthalmology and fifteen volumes of System of Ophthalmology’[63]

Culture and the Arts

    Scottish National Portrait Gallery, designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson (1889): the world's first purpose-built portrait gallery.[64]

Fictional characters

    Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie, born in Kirriemuir, Angus
    Long John Silver and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
    John Bull: by John Arbuthnot although seen as a national personification of the United Kingdom in general, and England in particular,[65] the character of John Bull was invented by Arbuthnot in 1712[66]

Scientific innovations

    Logarithms: John Napier (1550–1617)[67]
    Modern Economics founded by Adam Smith (1776) 'The father of modern economics'[68] with the publication of The Wealth of Nations.[69][70]
    Modern Sociology: Adam Ferguson (1767) ‘The Father of Modern Sociology’ with his work An Essay on the History of Civil Society[71]
    Hypnotism: James Braid (1795–1860) the Father of Hypnotherapy[72]
    Tropical medicine: Sir Patrick Manson known as the father of Tropical Medicine[73]
    Modern Geology: James Hutton ‘The Founder of Modern Geology’[74][75][76]
    The theory of Uniformitarianism: James Hutton (1788): a fundamental principle of Geology the features of the geologic time takes millions of years.[77]
    The theory of electromagnetism: James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)[78]
    The discovery of the Composition of Saturn's Rings James Clerk Maxwell (1859): determined the rings of Saturn were composed of numerous small particles, all independently orbiting the planet. At the time it was generally thought the rings were solid. The Maxwell Ringlet and Maxwell Gap were named in his honor.[79]
    The Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution by James Clerk Maxwell (1860): the basis of the kinetic theory of gases, that speeds of molecules in a gas will change at different temperatures. The original theory first hypothesised by Maxwell and confirmed later in conjunction with Ludwig Boltzmann.[80]
    Popularising the decimal point: John Napier (1550–1617)[81]
    The first theory of the Higgs boson by Anglo-Scot[82] Peter Higgs particle-physics theorist at the University of Edinburgh (1964)[83]
    The Gregorian telescope: James Gregory (1638–1675)[84]
    The discovery of Proxima Centauri, the closest known star to the Sun, by Robert Innes (1861–1933)[85]
    One of the earliest measurements of distance to the Alpha Centauri star system, the closest such system outside of the Solar System, by Thomas Henderson (1798–1844)[86]
    The discovery of Centaurus A, a well–known starburst galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus, by James Dunlop (1793–1848)[87]
    The discovery of the Horsehead Nebula in the constellation of Orion, by Williamina Fleming (1857–1911)[88]
    The world's first oil refinery and a process of extracting paraffin from coal laying the foundations for the modern oil industry: James Young (1811–1883)[89]
    The identification of the minerals yttrialite, thorogummite, aguilarite and nivenite: by William Niven (1889)[90]
    The concept of latent heat: Joseph Black (1728–1799)[91]
    Discovering the properties of Carbon dioxide: Joseph Black (1728–1799)
    The concept of Heat capacity: Joseph Black (1728–1799)
    The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766–1832)[92]
    Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Brown (1773–1858)[93]
    Incandescent light bulb: James Bowman Lindsay (1799-1862)[94]
    Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805–1869)[95]
    The kelvin SI unit of temperature: William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824–1907)[96]
    Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838–1922)[97]
    Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843–1930)[98]
    The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852–1916)[99]
    The cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869–1959)[100][101]
    The discovery of the Wave of Translation, leading to the modern general theory of solitons by John Scott Russell (1808-1882)[102]
    Statistical graphics: William Playfair founder of the first statistical line charts, bar charts, and pie charts in (1786) and (1801) known as a scientific ‘milestone’ in statistical graphs and data visualization[103][104]
    The Arithmetic mean density of the Earth: Nevil Maskelyne conducted the Schiehallion experiment conducted at the Scottish mountain of Schiehallion, Perthshire 1774[105]
    The first isolation of methylated sugars, trimethyl and tetramethyl glucose: James Irvine[106][107]
    Discovery of the Japp–Klingemann reaction: to synthesize hydrazones from β-keto-acids (or β-keto-esters) and aryl diazonium salts 1887[108]
    Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880–1971)[109]
    Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955[110]
    The first cloned mammal (Dolly the Sheep): Was conducted in The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996[111]
    The seismometer innovations thereof: James David Forbes[112]
    Metaflex fabric innovations thereof: University of St. Andrews (2010) application of the first manufacturing fabrics that manipulate light in bending it around a subject. Before this such light manipulating atoms were fixed on flat hard surfaces. The team at St Andrews are the first to develop the concept to fabric.[113]
    Tractor beam innovations thereof: St. Andrews University (2013) the world's first to succeed in creating a functioning Tractor beam that pulls objects on a microscopic level[114][115]
    Macaulayite: Dr. Jeff Wilson of the Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen.[116]
    Dscovery of Catacol whitebeam by Scottish Natural Heritage and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (1990s): a rare tree endemic and unique to the Isle of Arran in south west Scotland. The trees were confirmed as a distinct species by DNA testing.[117]

Sports innovations
Main article: Sport in Scotland

Scots have been instrumental in the invention and early development of several sports:

    Australian rules football Scots were prominent with many innovations in the early evolution of the game, including the establishment of the Essendon Football Club by the McCracken family from Ayrshire[118][119][120][121][122]
    several modern athletics events, i.e. shot put[123] and the hammer throw,[123] derive from Highland Games and earlier 12th century Scotland[123]
    Curling[124]
    Gaelic handball The modern game of handball is first recorded in Scotland in 1427, when King James I an ardent handball player had his men block up a cellar window in his palace courtyard that was interfering with his game.[125]
    Cycling, invention of the pedal-cycle[126]
    Golf (see Golf in Scotland)
    Ice Hockey, invented by the Scots regiments in Atlantic Canada by playing Shinty on frozen lakes.
    Shinty The history of Shinty as a non-standardised sport pre-dates Scotland the Nation. The rules were standardised in the 19th century by Archibald Chisholm[127]
    Rugby sevens: Ned Haig and David Sanderson (1883)[128]
    The Dugout was invented by Aberdeen FC Coach Donald Colmanin the 1920s

Medical innovations

    Pioneering the use of surgical anaesthesia with Chloroform: Sir James Young Simpson (1811–1870)[129]
    The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817–1884)[130]
    Transplant rejection: Professor Thomas Gibson (1940s) the first medical doctor to understand the relationship between donor graft tissue and host tissue rejection and tissue transplantation by his work on aviation burns victims during World War II.[131]
    The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910–1987)[132]
    The MRI body scanner: John Mallard and James Huchinson from (1974–1980)[133]
    Discovery of hypnotism (November 1841): James Braid (1795–1860)[134]
    Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Ronald Ross (1857–1932)[135]
    Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855–1931)[136]
    Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865–1926)[137]
    Discovery of Staphylococcus: Sir Alexander Ogston (1880)[138]
    Discovering the Human papillomavirus vaccine Ian Frazer (2006): the second cancer preventing vaccine, and the world's first vaccine designed to prevent a cancer[139]
    Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876–1935) with others[9] The discovery led him to be awarded the 1923 Nobel prize in Medicine.[140]
    Penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955)[7]
    General anaesthetic - Pioneered by Scotsman James Young Simpson and Englishman John Snow[141]
    The establishment of standardized Ophthalmology University College London: Stewart Duke-Elder a pioneering Ophthalmologist[63]
    The first hospital Radiation therapy unit John Macintyre (1902): to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of injuries and illness at Glasgow Royal Infirmary[142]
    Pioneering of X-ray cinematography by John Macintyre (1896): the first moving real time X-ray image and the first KUB X-ray diagnostic image of a kidney stone in situ[142][143][144]
    The Haldane effect a property of hemoglobin first described by John Scott Haldane (1907)[145]
    Oxygen Therapy John Scott Haldane (1922): with the publication of ‘The Theraputic Administration of Oxygen Therapy’ beginning the modern era of Oxygen therapy[146]
    Ambulight PDT: light-emitting sticking plaster used in photodynamic therapy (PDT) for treating non-melanoma skin cancer. Developed by Ambicare Dundee's Ninewells Hospital and St Andrews University. (2010)[147]
    Discovering an effective tuberculosis treatment: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s[148]
    Primary creator of the artificial kidney (Professor Kenneth Lowe - Later Queen's physician in Scotland)[149]
    Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964[150] The discovery revolutionized the medical management of angina[151] and is considered to be one of the most important contributions to clinical medicine and pharmacology of the 20th century.[152] In 1988 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
    Developing modern asthma therapy based both on bronchodilation (salbutamol) and anti-inflammatory steroids (beclomethasone dipropionate) : Sir David Jack in 1972
    Glasgow coma scale: Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett (1974)[153]
    Glasgow Outcome Scale Bryan J. Jennett & Sir Michael Bond (1975): is a scale so that patients with brain injuries, such as cerebral traumas[154]
    Glasgow Anxiety Scale J.Mindham and C.A Espie (2003)[155]
    Glasgow Depression Scale Fiona Cuthill (2003): the first accurate self-report scale to measure the levels of depression in people with learning disabilities[156]
    EKG [Electrocardiography]: Alexander Muirhead (1911)[157]
    The first Decompression tables John Scott Haldane (1908): to calculate the safe return of deep-sea divers to surface atmospheric pressure[158]
    Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS): Strathclyde University (2014) A laser and nanoparticle test to detect Meningitis or multiple pathogenic agents at the same time.[159]

Household innovations

    The television: John Logie Baird (1923)
    The refrigerator: William Cullen (1748)[160]
    The first electric bread toaster: Alan MacMasters (1893)
    The flush toilet: Alexander Cumming (1775)[161]
    The vacuum flask: Sir James Dewar (1847–1932)[162]
    The first distiller to triple distill Irish whiskey:[163]John Jameson (Whisky distiller)
    The piano footpedal: John Broadwood (1732–1812)[164]
    The first automated can-filling machine John West (1809–1888)[165]
    The waterproof macintosh: Charles Macintosh (1766–1843)[166]
    The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781–1868)[167]
    Keiller's marmalade Janet Keiller (1797) - The first recipe of rind suspended marmalade or Dundee marmalade produced in Dundee.
    The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801–1845)[168]
    The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaac Holden (1807–1897)[169]
    The self filling pen: Robert Thomson (1822–1873)[170]
    Cotton-reel thread: J & J Clark of Paisley[171]
    Lime cordial: Lauchlan Rose in 1867
    Bovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874[172]
    The electric clock: Alexander Bain (1840)[173]
    Chemical Telegraph (Automatic Telegraphy) Alexander Bain (1846) In England Bain's telegraph was used on the wires of the Electric Telegraph Company to a limited extent, and in 1850 it was used in America.[174]

Weapons innovations

    The carronade cannon: Robert Melville (1723–1809)[175]
    The Ferguson rifle: Patrick Ferguson in 1770 or 1776[176]
    The Lee bolt system as used in the Lee–Metford and Lee–Enfield series rifles: James Paris Lee[177]
    The Ghillie suit[178]
    The percussion cap: invented by Scottish Presbyterian clergyman Alexander Forsyth[179]

Miscellaneous innovations

    Boys' Brigade[180]
    Bank of England devised by William Paterson
    Bank of France devised by John Law
    The industrialisation and modernisation of Japan by Thomas Blake Glover[181]
    Kirin Brewing Company founded by Thomas Blake Glover[181]
    Colour photography: the first known permanent colour photograph was taken by James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)[182]
    Safetray invented by Alison Grieve
    Buick Motor Company by David Dunbar Buick[183]
    New York Herald newspaper by James Gordon Bennett, Sr.[183]
    Pinkerton National Detective Agency by Allan Pinkerton[183]
    Forbes magazine by B. C. Forbes[183]
    The Calendar[184]
    The establishment of modern Indian educational institutions: Alexander Duff the establishment of mass Hindu education thereof[185]
    The establishment of a standardized botanical institute: Isaac Bayley Balfour major reform, development of botanical science, the concept of garden infrastructure therein improving scientific facilities[186]
    London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: founded by Sir Patrick Manson in 1899[73]

If the Scots hadn't invented all of the above what would life be like today?

Somebody else would have discovered them soon enough.

Yeah where would we be without:-

The piano footpedal: John Broadwood (1732–1812)[164]

or

Bovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874[172]

England can claim to have produced the 2 greatest geniuses in history, Isaac Newton and Shakespeare...Shakespeare not only the greatest writer and someone who understood what it means to be human.....

But, and this is the thing, he may actually have been more human than anyone alive today.

Doesn't matter who invented it or designed it, most of the hard graft building it would have been by the Irish. Across the UK and the USA.

Think this man on his own has done more for mankind than most countries, arguably the greatest genius ever to have lived, but harshly treated by the scientific world who preferred lesser men such as Einstein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

Britain - the home of the industrial revolution.

I agree macarony........and could have done so so much more......

...if it wasn't for the despicable treatment he had at the hands of the American banker/ industrialist....

...sickening......the world could have been so different.........financial gain ruled over scientific idealism....

..set a precedent as well........the good old usa been meddling at the detriment of worldwide progress in so many areas....

...perpetuating undemocratic and sickening dictators and the suppression of life changing technological innovation to name but two...

...oh and the implementation of financial facism through the manipulation of the world financial system through dollar hegemony....with the help of the Saudis.   ..which will shortly come to an end thankfuly........

...that's a third.

^^^ can`t make sense of any of any of that cob....s.

.....if you can't make sense of it.......how do you know it is cob....s???!!!!

sorry that did make me laugh.

Did you know that Tesla became addicted to gambling...he squished his toes 100 times each night saying that it stimulated his brain cells.

Tesla was asocial and prone to exclude himself with his work...very wise.

zorrostrikes
scotland - tv.phone,discovery of electro magnetic spectrum - even the first indoor toilet.

Failing to make it outside in time is not an invention.

the nature and causes of the wealth of nations .adam smith born kirkcaldy 1723  old scots

Atom Burns...246 posts since Sept 2002

Another cracking offering

The Faroe Islands... if it wasn't for their unstinting devotion to duty the world would be overrun by whales...

... and we would all be speaking whale and listening to whale music... no more Shakespeare or Beethoven

... and we would all be speaking whale and listening to whale music... no more Shakespeare or Beethoven



..which I am sure would be far more eloquent than some of the drivel posted on here.

thanks to an an Englishman who invented the web

Which would have been pointless if not for the Scotsman who invented the telephone.

James Clerk Maxwell, born Edinburgh 1831.

   
Albert Einstein said: "The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field."
Einstein also said: "Since Maxwell's time, physical reality has been thought of as represented by continuous fields, and not capable of any mechanical interpretation.  This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton"

Ivan Tolstoy, in his biography of Maxwell, wrote: “Maxwell's importance in the history of scientific thought is comparable to Einstein’s (whom he inspired) and to Newton’s (whose influence he curtailed)”

I'd rank Galileo ahead of Einstein and Newton

lfc1971
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What the US achieved in only 1 or 2 hundred years was almost like a miracle.
The greatest country in the history of the world and may never happen again.


It's a pity the model republic decayed so quickly. Built on slavery, ethnic cleansing and genocide, the USA has, in the last century alone, usurped umpteen democratically elected governments in S America and beyond and supported some of the most brutal and odious fascist regimes on the face of the earth, in order to "protect American interests". In the "greatest country in the history of the world", police can shoot and kill black people with apparent impunity, and mass gun killings are hardly newsworthy any more.

Oh, and if they're so clever, why don't they have a National Health Service?

Is this the sign of a civilised society?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33059012

MacD'S must take some credit

don't know if posted yet

Alias

I am afraid the Scots were a largely barbaric nation until civilized (up to a point) by the British Empire. These were the views in the works of Dutch, French and German authors.

Nicolaus Gundling thought that the strange appearance and cannibalism of the Scottish people made them akin to the savages of Madagascar.Even as late as the mid 18th Century German authors likened the Scottish to the tribes of the South Seas.

The many achievements of the Scots have been largely because of there relationship to England,all their inventors and engineers and writers are indebted to the union with England and the Empire...nothing precedes this....and quite possibly nothing will follow it.

If you want to compare ethnic cleansing look at the fate of the original Scots, the Picts who were conquered by the first invaders on their shores the Irish Celts.

All this appreciation of Scots occurred after joining the Union.

The modern world is such an appalling place I'm not sure any nation would be rushing to claim credit for 'shaping' it.

Tanzania or Ethiopia, though they weren't known as Tanzania and Ethiopia at the time.

Oh do shut up.

agree the uk.

selling those arms to countries rife with terrorists

Aug 9, 2015 -- 6:18PM, Vubiant wrote:

The modern world is such an appalling place I'm not sure any nation would be rushing to claim credit for 'shaping' it.

Very true ......

The Frankfurt School? .... mission more or less completed

centuries after the Scots invented the game of football in the Borders town of Jedburgh, a Dark Ages game played with the heads of slain enemies