EACPT Congress of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and TherapeuticsEdinburgh, Scotland 12 - 15th July 2009

Trivia

Scottish Inventions

Adhesive Postage Stamps - Scot James Chalmers 
Anaesthetics - James Simpson
Buicks - David Dunbar Buick (died 1929)
Chemical Bonds, Colloid Chemistry - Thomas Graham (1805 - 1869)
Penicillin (1928) - Sir Alexander Fleming
The Decimal Point, Logarithms (1615) - John Napier
Encyclopedia Britannica
Fax Machines (early 19 th Century) - A Blacksmith from Dumfries
First Cloned Mammal 'Dolly' The Sheep - (Edinburgh 1997)
Golf (15th Century) - Edinburgh
Ivanhoe, Waverley, etc..... - Sir Walter Scott
Hypodermic Syringes, Kelvin Scale - William Thompson
Marmalade - Dundee Businessman
Mackintosh Raincoats - Scottish Highlands
Macadamized Roads (Tarmac) - John Loudon McAdam
Microwave Ovens (1940s)
Quinine - George Cleghorn (1716 - 1794)
Pneumatic Tyres (1888) John Boyd Dunlop
Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
Radar - Sir Robert Watson-Watt
Paleobiology (1815), Polarization (1828) - William Nicol
Cure for Scurvy - anon Edinburgh Man
Halloween - Scottish Tradition on All Hallow'e Eve
Refrigerators (1876) - James Harrison
Iron Bridges - Thomas Telford
Steam Engine - James Watt
Telephone (1876) - Alexander Graham Bell
Thermos Flask - Sir James Dewar
Television (1922) - John Logie Baird
Sulphuric Acid - John Roebuck
Cure for Insomnia (1998) - Dr Christine Carmichael
Paraffin - James Young
Shelock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Treasure Island, Jekyll and Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Auld Lang Syne - Robert Burns
Dandy, Beano, Children's Comics etc - D.C. Thompsons
Whisky