Heavy Industry Innovations
- Coal mining extraction in the sea on an artificial island by Sir George Bruce of Carnock (1575). Regarded as one of the industrial wonders of the late medieval period.
- Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772–1847)
- Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783–1865)
- The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792–1865)
- The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808–1890)
- Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812–1889)
- Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831–1881)
- The Fairlie, a narrow gauge, double-bogie railway engine: Robert Francis Fairlie (1831–1885)
- Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel (1889)
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