‘Scotland may be the most important country on the planet. Who knew the Scots were this impressive?’
Two American podcasters have been left stunned after discovering how many things the Scots have invented, declaring that Scotland “may be the most important country on the planet”.
It’s well known that Scotland boasts it’s fair share of notable inventors, with Alexander Graham Bell inventing the first working telephone and Alexander Fleming changing modern day medicine after discovering penicillin.
However, the Scots invented a whole series of other groundbreaking inventions too, much to the Americans’ surprise as they questioned: “Who knew the Scots were this impressive?”
Podcast hosts Brian Conz and Zach Misischia run their show ‘The Makeshift Project’ which is popular in the US. The pair recently posted a video on Tiktok of their conversation about Scottish inventions which has now gone viral online.
Captioning the video ‘Scotland: Why This Small Country Matters To The World’, Conz begins by listing 16 groundbreaking inventions we couldn’t live without today which all originated from Scotland.
In a bid to convince co-host Misischia, he says: “Scotland may be the most important country on the planet. I’m going to list 16 things that that country invented and you’re going to tell me, are they the most important country or not?”
He begins: “They invented penicillin. That’s the most important medicine ever created. They invented the telephone”, as his friend butts in and asks: “I thought Alexander Graham Bell did that.” Conz replies: “He’s from Scotland!”
He continues: “They invented the television. This is insane, did you know this about Scotland? They invented the lightbulb.”
Misischia contests this by asking: “I thought it was Edison?” However, it was actually Scottish inventor James Bowman Lindsay who built an early constant electric incandescent light prototype in 1835 decades before Thomas Edison created the modern day lightbulb.
Conz returns to his list: “They also invented the raincoat and it’s a good invention. This one way is way more important, they invented the MRI scanner. They also invented the refrigerator.
“They invented the colour photograph. They invented contact lenses and they’ve invented the flushing toilet.”
In amazement, he adds: “They invented the steam engine. They invented the fingerprint classification. They did all this. Who knew that Scots were this impressive?
“They invented the ATM. Thank god for that or we would be in trouble in the casino. They invented the encyclopedia and this one might be the most important, they invented the kaleidoscope.”
He finishes off by listing one of Scotland’s most proud inventions: “And this one I think is gonna sell you, they invented the game of golf.”
The podcasters were left visibly stunned by how many great things have come from Scotland as they included a lengthy caption explaining Scottish history, inventions, culture, science and modern global roles.
Proud Scots rushed to the comments and in true Scottish fashion, pointed out all the great inventions they’d missed including venoms and square sausages.
One replied: “Thank you Scotland. You deserve to be an independent country.” Another joked: “And just imagine what we could have done if we’d been sober!”
A third offered another Scottish invention: “Football was also invented in Scotland. A Scottish man introduced football to Argentina and Brazil.”
The listed Scottish inventions and their inventors
- Discovery of penicillin – Alexander Fleming
- The telephone – Alexander Graham Bell
- The television – John Logie Baird
- The lightbulb – James Bowman Lindsay
- The raincoat – Charles Macintosh
- The refrigerator – William Cullen
- Colour photographs – James Clerk Maxwell and photographer Thomas Sutton
- First disposable contact lenses – Ron Hamilton
- Flushing toilet – Alexander Cumming
- Steam engine – James Watt
- Fingerprint classification – Henry Faulds
- ATM – James Goodfellow and John Shepherd-Barron
- Encyclopædia Britannica – Colin Macfarquhar, Andrew Bell, and William Smellie
- Kaleidoscope – Sir David Brewster
- Golf – evolved in Scotland during the Middle Ages




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