If it has long been assumed that a specific person from another country invented something, one of the main goals of China and Britain is to find an inventor who invented did something minor before that. In the end, everything was invented in China or Britain.
How funny is it that the debate between Ireland and Scotland over who "invented" whisk(e)y is all over nothing. Historical records show the Italians were doing it 200 years before it ever showed up in Ireland or Scotland. Italy really was the cultural centre of the world for a while there. Are there any really old whisky distilleries still operating in Italy? Or did they abandon it in favour of grappa?
China may have invented a grain spirit but it was not whiskey….Whiskey was was invented in Ireland which then made its way to Scotland. In Irish it is Uisce Beatha (Water of life) and when Uisce is pronounced hyphenetically it became whiskey…..when it was brought to america
'Insulin'? Nope, sorry, but wrong QI. Insulin was invented by Canadian scientists Banting and Best at University of Toronto in 1921. So much for the infallibility of their fact checkers
the reason why we invented the steam hammer was in case our bosses started being nobbeads, then we feed them to the great mighty steam hammer of the workshop as an offering to the gods of mechanical genius.
John James Rickard Macleod, a U of T prof from Cluny, Scotland, shared the 1923 Nobel Prize with Banting as a co-discoverer of insulin. According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, he had a more active role in the discovery than has been acknowledged since. But I too am furious on behalf of Dr. Banting and Canada!
Dr Banting? The guy of Scottish heritage? Like immediate heritage. As in, probably of parents who helped to kill your indigenous population, “creating” modern Canada type person? Grow tf up. Scottish people, or people of descent, invented the modern world…& the part of Canada that still pisses off the French, which is always a plus.
The history of kilts overlap between Ireland and Scotland. It's a bit of an in-between regarding which country they originated. Whisky is also an iffy one. It's not Roman (or Chinese) exactly, it's the distilling methods thag were brought over and introduced. It's also argued which country "invented" whisky between Scotland and Ireland. Ireland has the earliest mention of it HOWEVER the earliest mention between each country is within a couple decades and neither specifies when batches started. So it's easiest to say Scotland invented Whisky and Ireland Whiskey due to Roman methods that were introduced
