U can thank Scottish inventors for inventing the modern world with the telephone ;) Oh, and radar too :)
After the telephone, next 700 most important inventions and patents were the works of Nikola Tesla the Serbian genious - most technofriendly man in history. He transformed America, from a mostly agricultural to an industrial state.
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was the genius who lit the world, whose discoveries in the field of alternating polyphase current electricity advanced the United States and the rest of the world into the modern industrial era.
Nikola Tesla had 700 patents in the US and Europe. Tesla's discoveries include the Tesla Coil, fluorescent light, wireless transmission of electrical energy, radio, remote control, discovery of cosmic radio waves and use of ionosphere for scientific purposes.
Above: Tesla's Alternating Current is lighting the entire globe and providing electricity for industry and progress.
Above: Tesla Monument at Goat Island, Niagara Falls, New York. Gift of Yugoslavia to the United States, 1976.
Nikola Tesla designed the first hydro-electric power plant in Niagara Falls. This was the final victory of Tesla's Alternating Current over Edison's Direct Current.
To conclude: Scots started the first industrial revolution, Serbs the second industrial revolution. :)
