Household Innovations
- The Television John Logie Baird (1923)
- The Refrigerator: William Cullen (1748)
- The Flush toilet: Alexander Cummings (1775)
- The Dewar Flask: Sir James Dewar (1847–1932)
- The first distiller to triple distill Irish whiskey:John Jameson (Whisky distiller)
- The piano footpedal: John Broadwood (1732–1812)
- The first automated can-filing machine John West (1809–1888)
- The waterproof macintosh: Charles Macintosh (1766–1843)
- The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781–1868)
- Keiller's marmalade Janet Keiller (1797) - The first recipe of rind suspended marmalade or Dundee marmalade produced in Dundee.
- The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801–1845)
- The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaac Holden (1807–1897)
- The self filling pen: Robert Thomson (1822–1873)
- Cotton-reel thread: J & J Clark of Paisley
- Lime Cordial: Peter Burnett in 1867
- Bovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874
- Electric clock: Alexander Bain (1840)
- Chemical Telegraph (Automatic Telegraphy) Alexander Bain (1846) In England Bain's telegraph was used on the wires of the Electric Telegraph Company to a limited extent, and in 1850 it was used in America.
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