Agriculture
- Improved seed drill - Jethro Tull
- Steam-driven ploughing engine - John Fowler
- Pioneer of selective breeding and artificial selection - Robert Bakewell
- Superphosphate or chemical fertilizer - John Bennet Lawes
- Pioneer of the development in dairy farming systems - Rex Paterson
- The first commercially successful light farm tractor - Dan Albone
- Water desalination process - Sir Francis Bacon
- Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719–1811)
- Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hew Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700–1753)
- The Scotch Plough: James Anderson of Hermiston (1739–1808)
- Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789–1850)
- The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799–1869)
- The Fresno Scraper: James Porteous (1848–1922)
- The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979
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