20 Incredible Inventions You Didn't Know Were Scottish
6. Bovril
Love it or hate it, bovril beef extract in its various guises is here to stay. Its inventor, John Lawson Johnston, might well be the only man in history who is both loved and hated in equal measure, but since in his lifetime his discovery earned him the Order of the French Red Cross not to mention a couple of million pounds for his troubles it's highly unlikely he'd care one way or another how his strange-tasting spread has gone down in history.
5. Toasters
A few slices of toast in the morning is enough to set up millions of people for the day. Ironically, the inventor of the toaster, Scotsman Alan MacMasters, hardly made a penny from his invention the real profits went to American Charles Strite, who modified it by adding the automatic pop-up feature we're all familiar with. To make matters far worse for MacMasters, he died on Christmas Day.