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Great Scottish inventions and discoveries: a concise guide : a selection of Scottish inventions and discoveries made over a period stretching back to the fifteenth century, John Geddes, Northern Books, 1994; Scottish Inventors, Alistair Fyfe, HarperCollins, 1999, ISBN 0-00-472326-0, ISBN 978-0-00-472326-6
20th-century Scottish inventors (22 P) 21st-century Scottish inventors (3 P) B. Alexander Graham Bell (1 C, 69 P) M. James Clerk Maxwell (3 C, 24 P, 1 F)
(Scottish-born Australian) William McNab: 1844–1889 botanist physician William MacGillivray: 1796–1852 naturalist Sheila Scott Macintyre: 1910–1960 mathematician Colin Maclaurin: 1698–1746 mathematician Maclaurin series developer Anna MacGillivray Macleod: 1917–2004 botanist, biochemist, professor of brewing John Macleod: 1876–1935
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 February 2025. Scottish inventor, known for first demonstrating television (1888–1946) John Logie Baird FRSE Baird in 1917 Born (1888-08-13) 13 August 1888 Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland Died 14 June 1946 (1946-06-14) (aged 57) Bexhill, Sussex, England Resting place Baird family grave in ...
(Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, by Francis Chantrey) James Watt FRS FRSE (/ w ɒ t /; 30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) [a] was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great ...
Scottish inventors (5 C, 120 P) M. Scottish musical instruments (2 C, 18 P) S. Sirens (28 P) Sports originating in Scotland (1 C, 20 P) Steam hammers (2 P) W. Whisky ...
Public Domain. Henry Ford is known for many things — the most prominent being mass-manufactured cars and paying workers respectable wages. But his first automobile, made in 1896, was powered by ...
Robert Stirling (25 October 1790 – 6 June 1878) was a Scottish clergyman and engineer. He invented the Stirling engine and was inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame in 2014. Early life