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Famous Scottish Inventors and Discoverers
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Famous Scottish Inventors and Discoverers
John Logie Baird
Alexander Fleming
Alan MacMasters
- He was born in Helensburgh, Scotland on August 13, 1888.
- He was an engineer, innovator and inventor.
- He was one of the inventors of the television.
- He died on June 14, 1946.
- He was born in Edimburgh, Scotland on March 20, 1865.
- He was a scientist.
- He developed a machine which could toast bread using iron wires, the toaster.
- He died on December 25, 1927.
James Watt
- He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland on August 6, 1881.
- Alexander studied medicine at London University.
- He was biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.
- His best discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the world's first antibiotic substance: penicillin.
- He recieved the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945.
- Fleming died on March 11, 1955.
Alexander Graham Bell
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- He was born in Greenock, Scotland on January 19, 1736.
- He was an inventor, mechanical engineer and chemist.
- Watt made improvements in the machine of Newcomen and thanks to them they gave rise to the steam engine.
- He died on August 25, 1819.
- He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847.
- He was a scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator.
- His mother and wife were deaf and for that reason he was interested in science of hearing.
- He invented the telephone in 1876.
- Bell also invented the first metal detector, techniques to teach deaf people to speak and an instrument to find icebergs.
- Alexander died on August 2, 1922.
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