Scotland has long punched above its weight when it comes to inventions - from TV and telephones to Grand Theft Auto and deep fried Mars Bars.
It’s then a surprise to find that some things that seem intrinsically Scottish were actually invented elsewhere - haggis was first cooked up by the Romans and Vikings, the bagpipes are thought to have originated in ancient Egypt, and even the modern kilt was designed by 18th-century industrialist English Thomas Rawlinson.
Thankfully, many of the things we associate with Scotland were indeed invented here - although some have a more complicated origin story than we may realise.
We asked the readers of The Scotsman for their favourite Scottish inventions and hundreds had their say.
Here are the 13 most mentioned.
13. Cash machine
No matter what you call it - cash machine, ATM, or hole in the wall - it was two Scottish engineers who saw to it that we could access our cash without a bank teller. James Goodfellow patented the first automated cash machine with a PIN number in 1966, with John Shepherd-Barron installing the world's first public machine at a Barclays Bank branch in London just a year later. | Canva/Getty Images