Let's face it, the Scots built everything of note in the world although I will give the Chinese credit for the Great Wall and the Egyptians half the credit for the pyramids. But lest we Scots and Scots descendants become too vain about building the modern world, we should also remember the great Tay Bridge Disaster, which event would have been an unredeemed and unmitigated disaster indeed but for the epic poem of the same name by William McGonnigal....