Scottish Inventions - Household Innovations

Household Innovations

• The television John Logie Baird (1923)
• The British Broadcasting Corporation BBC: John Reith, 1st Baron Reith (1922) its founder, first general manager and Director-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation
• The refrigerator: William Cullen (1748)
• The first electric bread toaster: Alan MacMasters (1893)
• 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: Lauchlan Rose in 1867
• Bovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874
• The 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.