that Scotland's array of scientists, inventors, mathematicians, and financiers is almost astounding in scope? To name a few:
 

 John Logie Baird--invented television
 Sir Alexander Fleming-discovered penicillin
 Sir James Young Simpson-discovered chloroform
 Sir Alexander Watson Watt-invented radio-location
 Joseph Black-discovered magnesia
 Joseph Black-presented theory of latent-heat
 John Loudon MacAdam-invented water-proof road-surfacing (macadam)
 Sir John Leslie-produced the first artificial ice
 James Young-produced paraffin oil from coal
 John Paul Jones-developed the U.S. Navy
 John Law-founded the Bank of France
 William Paterson- -founded the Bank of England
 Rev. Patrick Bell invented the first practical reaping machine
 John Small-invented the swing plough
 Allan Ramsay-established the first circulating library
 Thomas Nelson-invented the first rotary stem press
 B. Dunlop-invented the first pneumatic tyre
 Charles Mackintosh-developed water-proof fabries
 James Bowman Lindsay-first lighted his home with electricity in 1834
 Leo Scott-invented the phonautograph (fore-runner of gramophone)
 Joseph Wilson Swan-patented the first carbon incandescent lamp
 Alexander Graham Bell-invented the telephone
 John Napier-developed the theory of logarithms
 James Watt-invented the first practical steam engine
 William Murdoch-developed lighting from coal gas
 Andrew Carnegie-U.S. Steel magnate-financier-philanthropist
 Gavin Dalziel-invented the bicycle

 that Andrew Carnegie, as an American millionaire, purchased and presented to his Scottish "home-town," Dunfermline, the lovely "Pittencrieff Glen" for a public park, simply because he, as a wee Scottish laddie, had been forbidden to play there when it was a private property?