Weapons Innovations
- The carronade cannon: Robert Melville (1723–1809)
- The Ferguson rifle: Patrick Ferguson in 1770 or 1776
- The Lee bolt system as used in the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield series rifles: James Paris Lee
- The Ghillie suit
- The percussion cap: invented by Scottish Presbyterian clergyman Alexander Forsyth
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