Raincoat
Anyone familiar with the climate of Scotland should not be surprised that the modern raincoat is a Scottish invention. The inventor Charles Macintosh was born in Glasgow; even today a raincoat is still called in English 'a mackintosh' (with k) or also called 'a mac' for short. Charles grew up in his father's dyestuff factory, who made a fortune towards the end of the eighteenth century with the purple-red dye orseille. This was obtained from certain lichens from the Scottish highlands, supplemented with ammonia. The Macintoshes purified that ammonia from human urine.