20 Incredible Inventions You Didn't Know Were Scottish

14. Colour Photography

We're all used to taking high quality digital photographs on our mobile phones today, with the luxury of seeing them instantaneously on a screen, but back in the day photography was a far more long-winded process. From the daguerreotype to black and white film stock then the colour revolution, when people could see images more naturally than ever before, photographers the world over owe a debt of thanks to legendary physicist James Clerk Maxwell, who discovered the three colour method still used today.

13. Hallowe'en

Hallowe'en is just around the corner, the time of year when kids get dressed up in costumes based on movies they're far too young to see and knock on random strangers' houses asking them for a treat in return for not egging their windows (or worse). The event might be popular throughout the Western world but it originated in Scotland, deriving from the term All Hallows' Eve. Indeed, were it not for mass Scottish immigration into the United States it probably wouldn't be anywhere near as popular as it is today.