Favorite Scottish Engineering Feats?

[Nick the DSM]

Okay . . . go ahead and explain it for those who haven't heard the story.

Two Scots fighting over a penny.

[JSFMACLJR]

Of course the "patron saint" of civil engineers is my great-great grandfather Sir Sandford Fleming, from Kirkcaldy in Fifeshire. His contibutions were many: the Prime Meridian, 24 hour clock, standard time, the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Pacific Cable, iron bridges, lift locks--to name just some of his contributions.