St Kilda Mailboat West Highland Museum By the late 1890s, a unique system of mail dispatch had developed on the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda. Letters were enclosed in a waterproof receptacle, usually a sheep’s bladder, attached to a homemade buoy, and...
Morse Code KeyGrantown Museum Morse Code is a well-known method of communication and often associated with World War Two. However, even until the 1970s, this was actually the military’s main form of communication. Radio telegraphists would be the first in any...
Mechanised Seed SowerGrantown Museum Portable, hand-operated machines like this one were developed the mid-1800s to help farmers sow their crops. The device was carried under one arm and secured across the body with a shoulder strap. The canvas bag was filled with...
Lawnmower Brora Heritage Centre This is a hand-driven, self-propelled lawn mower – no electricity required! In 1830, English engineer Edwin Beard Budding created the world’s first lawn mower. The large wheel of the machine drove the smaller wheel at the front which...
Milk CartonGrantown Museum Auchernack Farm is located near Grantown-on-Spey and has been run by the Smith family since 1936. For many years it operated as a dairy farm and supplied local shops with milk in its own branded packaging. Today there are only around ten...
