More Inventions

Dolly the Sheep

OK, we recognize that this blog post is similar to the previous one. However, that is because Scotland has had an abundance of inventions. Beyond the telephone (mentioned in the previous post), Scotland lays claim to Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal (which we see whenever we visit the National Museum of Scotland).

Scotland also is credited with the adhesive postage stamp (invented by James Chalmers), the pedal bicycle (thank you, Kirkpatrick Macmillan), cash machines (John Shepherd-Barron), and the theory of electromagnetic radiation (James Maxwell). Mike, as an engineer, especially likes Maxwell. The list of Scottish inventions does go on, at length. This explains why, back in the day, Edinburgh was referred to as the "Athens of the North."