⚜Scottish Inventions

Scotland's Greatest Export

The People Who Changed the World

Industrialists, explorers, founders — the Scots who exported ingenuity abroad.

Migration routes from Scotland to Canada, USA, Australia, Japan and beyond.

Andrew Carnegie

1835–1919

Steel industrialist & philanthropist (USA).

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David Dunbar Buick

1854–1929

Founder of Buick Motors (USA).

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Allan Pinkerton

1819–1884

Detective agency founder (USA).

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Alexander Graham Bell

1847–1922

Telephone (Canada/USA).

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Portrait of John Muir

John Muir

1838–1914

Father of the American national parks.

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Portrait of John Witherspoon

John Witherspoon

1723–1794

Signer of the Declaration of Independence.

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Portrait of Sir Alexander Mackenzie

Sir Alexander Mackenzie

1764–1820

Mapped much of Canada.

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Robert Dunsmuir

1825–1889

British Columbia coal industrialist.

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Portrait of Lachlan Macquarie

Lachlan Macquarie

1762–1824

Father of Australia.

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John Boyd Dunlop

1840–1921

Pneumatic tyre (Ireland).

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Portrait of Thomas Blake Glover

Thomas Blake Glover

1838–1911

Industrialist who helped modernise Japan.

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James McGill

1744–1813

Founder of McGill University.

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Alexander Mitchell

1817–1887

Industrialist and US railroad magnate.

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Donald Smith (Lord Strathcona)

1820–1914

Drove the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

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