<DIV><DIV>What would the world be like without the phone, the fax, or television? How would it have developed without steam power or the oil industry? Could we survive without penicillin or antiseptic surgery? From Napier's bones to Dolly the sheep, <I>Scottish Firsts</I> marks the amazing achievements of a small country whose influence has helped shape the modern world. It tells the stories of Scotland's heroes, famous and unsung, from William Murdoch, inventor of gas lighting, to Ian Donald, whose prototype of the pregnancy scanner included a contraceptive sheath. Here, too, is everything from sports firsts to the world's most extreme environments where Scots have left their mark.</DIV></DIV>