Leeds is almost in Scotland, isn't it?

[Diver]

Not really because I then did a post grad in aberdeen and the minute I went down south for my first contract they buggered off to Ireland - taking all my stuff with them too.

[TykeMerc]

Not really because I then did a post grad in aberdeen and the minute I went down south for my first contract they buggered off to Ireland - taking all my stuff with them too.

There's a definite trend materialising here.

[Sausage Surprise]

We invented the thing, now we should be pleased to have "a realistic possibility of it coming to Scotland"?

Those Tories do make me laugh

George Stephenson wasn't a sweaty as far as I know.

[TheBigYinJames]

George Stephenson wasn't a sweaty as far as I know.

Watt, i think you'll find.

[Sausage Surprise]

Watt, i think you'll find.

George Stephenson, british railway engineer who invented the first workable steam railway locomotive, was born at Wylam near Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1781, the son of a colliery fireman.

[TheBigYinJames]

George Stephenson, british railway engineer who invented the first workable steam railway locomotive, was born at Wylam near Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1781, the son of a colliery fireman.

That's like saying Microsoft invented the internet because they designed an operating system that allowed you to use it.

Without a steam engine, you had no steam engine locomotive. Stephenson came up with a working design of that engine that llowed a certain performance. He was an engineer, taking the invention to practical limits, not the inventor of it.

[ratewhore]

That's like saying Microsoft invented the internet because they designed an operating system that allowed you to use it.

Without a steam engine, you had no steam engine locomotive. Stephenson came up with a working design of that engine that llowed a certain performance. He was an engineer, taking the invention to practical limits, not the inventor of it.

er, how far do you want to take that? What about the inventor of the wheel...

[expat]

That's like saying Microsoft invented the internet

Didn't they? I'm sure I heard Mr Gates say something like that.....

[bogeyman]

George Stephenson, british railway engineer who invented the first workable steam railway locomotive, was born at Wylam near Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1781, the son of a colliery fireman.

Dick Trevithick invented the steam locomotive, in 1802 in South Wales for the Pennydarren Iron Co. He was a Cornishman.

[Bob Dalek]

That's like saying Microsoft invented the internet because they designed an operating system that allowed you to use it.

Without a steam engine, you had no steam engine locomotive. Stephenson came up with a working design of that engine that llowed a certain performance. He was an engineer, taking the invention to practical limits, not the inventor of it.

Sorry, it was Richard Trevithick, from the distinctly non-Scottish Cornwall.

[edit] Damn you, bogeyman! Damn you!!!