Engineers and Inventors
Further information: Scottish inventors- Sir William Arrol (1839–1913), bridge builder
- Alexander Bain (1818–1903), fax machine
- John Logie Baird (1888–1946), television
- Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), telephone, National Geographic, Hydrofoil
- Henry Bell (1767–1830), ran Europe's first commercially successful steamboat
- George Bennie (1891–1957), The Bennie Railplane
- Sir James Black (1924–2010), Beta-blockers
- Robert Blair (1748–1828), The aplanatic telescope
- James Braid (1795–1860), hypnosis
- David Brewster (1781–1868), Lenticular stereoscope
- James Chalmers (1782–1853), adhesive postage stamp
- Sir Dugald Clark (aka Clerk), (1854–1932), first two stroke cycle engine (the Clark cycle)
- Gerald Eric Connor (Electronic Engineer) (Born 1962)
- Robert Davidson (1804–1894), first electric locomotive
- James Dewar (1842–1923), inventor of the Thermos flask and co-developer of cordite
- William Dickson (1860–1935), motion picture camera and the world's first film
- John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921), the modern rubber tyre
- Patrick Ferguson (1744–1780), The Ferguson rifle
- Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), isolated Penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum
- James Gregory (1638–1675), The Gregorian telescope
- James Harrison (1816–1893), pioneer in mechanical refrigeration
- James Bowman Lindsay (1799–1862), inventor of the constant electric light bulb
- Charles Macintosh (1766–1843), patented waterproofing
- Kirkpatrick MacMillan (1813–1878), bicycle
- John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836), modern road construction
- Sir Robert McAlpine (Concrete Bob), (1847–1934), road builder
- Patrick Miller (1730–1815), steamboat pioneer
- William Murdoch (1754–1839), pioneer of gas lighting
- John Napier (1550–1617), Logarithm
- James Nasmyth (1808–1890), Steam Hammer
- William Paterson (1658–1719), The Bank of England
- William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872), developed a complete theory of the steam engine and indeed of all heat engines
- John Rennie the Elder (1761–1821), engineer, designer of the "new" 19th Century London Bridge
- Robert Stirling Newall (1812–1889), engineer, improved wire rope and submarine cable laying.
- John Shepherd-Barron (1925–2010), inventor of the Automatic Teller Machine
- William Symington (1764–1831), engineer, built the first practical steam boat
- Thomas Telford (1757–1834) architect, civil engineer, bridge designer
- Robert William Thomson (1822–1873)
- Sir Robert Watson-Watt (1893–1973), Developed Radar
- James Watt (1736–1819), engineer, significantly improved the steam engine
- James Young (1811–1883), Invented a way of extracting paraffin oil
- James Young Simpson (1811–1870), introduced chloroform into surgery
- Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald, (1749–1831) made many general useful inventions, particularly in the navy
- Sir Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775–1860), designed many inventions to do with naval technology as well as steam engines
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“A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.”
—Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (b. 1929)