20 Incredible Inventions You Didn't Know Were Scottish

10. Criminal Fingerprinting

Henry Faulds is one of the more unlikely candidates for pioneering inventions on this list €“ he spent much of his life as a missionary in Japan preaching religion to the locals. Bizarrely, he went on to invent the fingerprinting technique used to this day to fight crime. He even invited Charles Darwin to help him with his work but he declined €“ perhaps he was too busy working on a revolutionary new theory of his own.

9. Cloning

A few years back, Dolly the Sheep became the first woolly animal to become a household name, after becoming the first cloned mammal in human history. The incredible research took place at the Rothlin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, which has since relocated to the Veterinary Campus at the University of Edinburgh.