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Midges don't affect me for some reason anymore used to but not now. I used to take folks for walks from ma ma & pa's guest house the tourist would be eaten alive I did even get a bite...
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What did they invent? You are kidding?Originally posted by Troll
TV, Telephone, Penicillin, RADAR, lots of things...
Hell, even the Bank of England and the American Navy were founded by the Scots...Comment
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Your Plan B (subject to a nominal yearly fee to me for suggesting it) should be to offer yourself to medical science & investigate exactly why that should be. Distill & bottle the essence & a global marketing campaign to follow upOriginally posted by scooterscotMidges don't affect me for some reason anymore used to but not now. I used to take folks for walks from ma ma & pa's guest house the tourist would be eaten alive I did even get a bite...
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mmmm they'll probably learn it was the 20 year old malt secreting from every orifice, the little bugers can get only so close before they're overcome and piss drunk.Originally posted by Troll"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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Telephone: Antonio Meucci - ItaliaOriginally posted by angusglover
TV : proper TV - not your clanger version, Karl Braun - German
RADAR: Heinrich Hertz German
HTH
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Hell too? I might have known...Originally posted by angusglover
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EH?Originally posted by TrollTelephone: Antonio Meucci - Italia
TV : proper TV - not your clanger version, Karl Braun - German
RADAR: Heinrich Hertz German
HTH
Antonio Meucci - He demonstrated his invention in 1860 and had a description of it published in New York’s Italian language newspaper but was unable to raise sufficient funds to pay his way through the patent application. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patented the electro-magnetic transmission of vocal sound by undulatory electric current. He may have been credited by the Italians but this was not actually what we call the telephone.
Karl Braun - Invented the oscilloscope, not TV...very different.
Heinrich Hertz - he was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic radiation by building an apparatus to produce and detect UHF radio waves. Not quite RADAR though is it....
Physicist, Sir Robert Watson-Watt, was the mind behind the radar network on the coast of England that detected incoming German aircraft in World War II. He had worked on the radio detection of thunderstorms (hazardous to aviators) during World War I. In 1935 he proposed a method for locating aircraft by a radio-pulse technique. The radar system was invaluable to the defense of Britain during the Battle of Britain in 1940. It operated day and night over a range of 40 miles, giving the Royal Air Force information about the height and bearing of German planes.Comment
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RADAR: Heinrich Hertz German AR$£Originally posted by TrollTelephone: Antonio Meucci - Italia
TV : proper TV - not your clanger version, Karl Braun - German
RADAR: Heinrich Hertz German
HTH
I've studied RADAR fundamentals, if a german did invent they might not have lost the battles they had in the northern alantic that gave the Navy a distinct advantage. Proved useless for the buggers on the look out in Peral Harbour though, they thought it was a flock of seagulls.
RADAR has to be the most Brittish invention of them all Troll because the discovery of the magnetron made it happen, before that RADAR was not really a useful tool in warfare."Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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Don't forget James Watt with his steam engine still in use today in every power plant in the land
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I posted this link somewhere else on the forum but please do have a wee look;
http://www.magicdragon.com/Wallace/thingscot.html
Having seen a bit of the world I'd rather live in Scotland than many other places I've been, especially England. Had great times there, the natives were mostly friendly but a bit up their own arses.Comment
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