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.

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