Scotland gave the world roads, bicycles, tyres, tubular steel, canals, docks, cranes, aircraft design, electrical theory, indoor lighting, steam engine, dynamos, atomic measurement, wave power, iron ships, steam boats, propellers, military intelligence, coal mining at sea, cast steel, steel wire, blast furnaces, cordite, drains, mechanical treshing and reaping, time, printing, postage stamps, light signalling, telephones, teleprinting, television, radio, radar, the encyclopedia, modern pathology, modern surgery, decimal point, hynotism, transplant surgery, Kelvin, fingerprinting, nutrition, MRI, cloning, earthquake detection, stealth suits, synthetic blood, anathesia, hypodermics, vaccine for typhoid, malaria, artificial kidneys, EKG's, beta-blockers, refrigartors, toilets, vacum flask, Boys Brigade, waterproof clothes, kaliedoscopes, lawnmowers, matches, pens, thread, flavoured water/soda/juice, Bovril, electric clocks, the carronade, the modern breechloading rifle, the bolt action rifle, the steps of the Harrier Jump Jet, the stealth suit, more reliable firing mechanisms, colour photography, the Banking system, the modern legal system, liquid soap & trousers.
Probably missed a few.
"the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell?s discovery of the laws of electrodynamics" ?Richard Feynman
The fauna of Edinburghs coast line also distracted a certain Mr Darwin to prove god wrong.