Sir William Arrol constructed the Forth Rail Bridge
Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design 2016
Our Country has been inventing and discovering things for hundreds of years. We have some wonderful Architecture. So it is going to be a wonderful chance for our country to show the world how forward thinking we have become.
We are a small country but the list is long of our world famous inventors.
Our Country has been inventing and discovering things for hundreds of years. We have some wonderful Architecture. So it is going to be a wonderful chance for our country to show the world how forward thinking we have become.
We are a small country but the list is long of our world famous inventors.
Kelpies sculptures
The 300 tonne, 98ft tall horse head sculptures were created by Andy Scott -- Helix Park, Falkirk. See more of Andy`s work http://www.scottsculptures.co.uk/sculptures/
Museum of Modern. Art
- 2016 – Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design
- 2017 – Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology
- 2018 – Year of Young People
The tallest Cinema in the world
My list of Scottish inventors
Adhesive postage stamps James Chalmers.
Anaesthetics James Simpson
Antisepsis Joseph Lister
Pneumatic Tyres John Boyd Dunlop
Geosciences James Hutton
Iron Bridges Thomas Telford
The Kelvin scale of temperature Lord Kelvin (William Thomson),
Percussion Powder Alexander Forsyth
Logarithms John Napier
Macadamised roadsJohn Loudon McAdam
Penicillin Sir Alexander Fleming
Paraffin James Young
Radar Defense System Physicist, Sir Robert Watson-Watt
Refrigerators -James Harrison
The Steam Engine Invented by James Watt
The Steam-hammer James Nasmyth
The telephone Alexander Graham Bell
Thermos bottles Sir James Dewar
The telegraph The Scots Magazine
Television John Logie Baird
Tubular steel Sir William Fairbairn
Adhesive postage stamps James Chalmers.
Anaesthetics James Simpson
Antisepsis Joseph Lister
Pneumatic Tyres John Boyd Dunlop
Geosciences James Hutton
Iron Bridges Thomas Telford
The Kelvin scale of temperature Lord Kelvin (William Thomson),
Percussion Powder Alexander Forsyth
Logarithms John Napier
Macadamised roadsJohn Loudon McAdam
Penicillin Sir Alexander Fleming
Paraffin James Young
Radar Defense System Physicist, Sir Robert Watson-Watt
Refrigerators -James Harrison
The Steam Engine Invented by James Watt
The Steam-hammer James Nasmyth
The telephone Alexander Graham Bell
Thermos bottles Sir James Dewar
The telegraph The Scots Magazine
Television John Logie Baird
Tubular steel Sir William Fairbairn
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7 June 1868 – 10 December 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, and artist. He designed many Art Nouveau buildings. He was born in Glasgow.
New Edinburgh Trams.
Scottish Parliament
Glasgow`s Squiggly bridge
New Glasgow has risen from the days of an old smoky industrial city.
Coming to Dundee in the near future.
The Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design 2016 will celebrate Scotland’s past achievements , culture and design and our World class designs of today. Hope you can spot and enjoy something special.
The old and the new