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Scottish engineer Alexander Wilson founded the company in Dusian Road, Vauxhall, London in 1857.
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* 1757 – Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer ( d. 1834 )
* 1888 – John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer and inventor ( d. 1946 )
* 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting ( d. 1839 )
The Scottish civil engineer Thomas Telford developed the initial plans for the canal and travelled to Sweden in 1810 to oversee some of the early work on the route.
The term was adopted in the late 18th century by Scottish engineer James Watt to compare the output of steam engines with the power of draft horses.
* 1820 – William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish engineer and physicist ( d. 1872 )
James Watt, FRS, FRSE ( 19 January 173625 August 1819 ) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.
The sugar mill was built under the direction of a Scottish engineer who accompanied Audubon on an excursion in the region.
It was invented by the Scottish engineer William Murdoch in the 19th century and was later developed by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company.
* 1756 – John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer and road builder ( d. 1836 )
* William Fairbairn, a Scottish engineer associated with water wheels and the Britannia tubular bridge but above all with a scientific approach to engineering.
* May 27 – Sir William Stanier, English steam locomotive engineer ( London, Midland and Scottish Railway ) ( d. 1965 )
* December 5 – Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, inventor of radar ( b. 1892 )
* July 12 – Robert Stevenson, Scottish lighthouse engineer ( b. 1772 )
* September 2 – Thomas Telford, Scottish engineer ( b. 1757 )
* November 27 – Andrew Meikle, Scottish engineer ( b. 1719 )
John Logie Baird ( 13 August 188814 June 1946 ) was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and also the world's first fully electronic colour television tube.
Technical difficulties with the system prevented its further development, but some of the original phonodiscs have been preserved, and have since been restored by Donald McLean, a Scottish electrical engineer.
Thomas Telford FRS, FRSE ( 1757 – 1834 ) was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder.
The thrashing machine, or, in modern spelling, threshing machine ( or simply thresher ), was a machine first invented by Scottish mechanical engineer Andrew Meikle for use in agriculture.
The son of a Scottish engineer, Alexander Clark.
William Murdoch ( sometimes spelled Murdock ) ( 21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839 ) was a Scottish engineer and long-term inventor.
His wife Margot Wells was also a Scottish 100 / 100 hurdles champion, and they are now based in Guildford, Surrey where she is a fitness consultant, and Allan is a systems engineer.
Roddenberry asked which he preferred, and Doohan replied " Well, if you want an engineer, he better be a Scotsman because, in my experience, all the world's best engineers have been Scottish ".
The first commercial two-stroke engine involving in-cylinder compression is attributed to Scottish engineer Dugald Clerk, who in 1881 patented his design, his engine having a separate charging cylinder.
Scottish and Alexander
* 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1955 )
* 2000 – Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish jurist ( b. 1924 )
The Scottish forces reached the south coast of England at the port of Dover where in September 1216, Alexander paid homage to the pretender Prince Louis of France for his lands in England, chosen by the barons to replace King John.
At the marriage of Alexander to Margaret of England in 1251, Henry III of England seized the opportunity to demand from his son-in-law homage for the Scottish kingdom, but Alexander did not comply.
In 1284, Alexander invested the title of Lord of the Isles in the head of the Macdonald family, Angus Macdonald, and over the next two centuries the Macdonald lords operated as if they were kings in their own right, frequently opposing the Scottish monarch.
Alexander Anderson ( c. 1592, Aberdeen – c. 1620, Paris ) was a Scottish mathematician.
* 1840 – Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish pharmacist and businessman, founded Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club ( d. 1900 )
Alexander Selkirk ( 1676 – 13 December 1721 ) was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway after being marooned on an uninhabited island.
Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS ( Eng ) ( 6 August 188111 March 1955 ) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.
In Aberdeen, Scotland, the shipbuilders Alexander Hall and Sons developed the " Aberdeen " clipper bow in the late 1830s: the first was the Scottish Maid launched in 1839.
The author based part of his narrative on the story of the Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years stranded on the island of Juan Fernandez.
* 1609 – Alexander Hume, Scottish poet
* 1721 – Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor and castaway ( b. 1676 )
Scottish inventor Alexander Bain worked on chemical mechanical fax type devices and in 1846 was able to reproduce graphic signs in laboratory experiments.
* 1926 – Sir Alexander Gibson, Scottish conductor ( d. 1995 )
* 1722 – Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader ( d. 1805 )
* 1830 – The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
* 1925 – Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer ( d. 1984 )
* 1997 – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate ( b. 1907 )
* 1562 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet ( d. 1601 )
* 1978 – Neil Alexander, Scottish footballer
* 1924 – Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Scottish jurist ( d. 2000 )
The discovery of penicillin is attributed to Scottish scientist and Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming in 1928.
Two Scottish printers, Alexander and John Donaldson, began publishing an unlicensed edition, and Becket successfully obtained an injunction to stop them.
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