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Scottish inventor Alexander Bain worked on chemical mechanical fax type devices and in 1846 was able to reproduce graphic signs in laboratory experiments.
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* 1888 – John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer and inventor ( d. 1946 )
* 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting ( d. 1839 )
Sir David Brewster ( 11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868 ) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal.
* 1840 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor ( d. 1921 )
* 1736 – James Watt, Scottish inventor ( d. 1819 )
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.
Coined in 1817 by Scottish inventor Sir David Brewster, " kaleidoscope " is derived from the Ancient Greek καλός ( kalos ), " beautiful, beauty ", εἶδος ( eidos ), " that which is seen: form, shape " and σκοπέω ( skopeō ), " to look to, to examine ", hence " observer of beautiful forms.
Using a Nipkow disk, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird succeeded in demonstrating the transmission of moving silhouette images in London in 1925, and of moving, monochromatic images in 1926.
In 1843 Scottish inventor Alexander Bain invented a device that could be considered the first facsimile machine.
* James Watt, Scottish scientist and inventor
** John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor ( d. 1946 )
* December 5 – Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, inventor of radar ( b. 1892 )
* January 13 – John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor ( b. 1726 )
* January 2 – Alexander Bain, Scottish inventor ( b. 1811 )
Dickson, Scottish inventor ( d. 1935 )
* April 13 – Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, British ( Scottish ) inventor of radar ( d. 1973 )
* August 21 – William Murdoch, Scottish inventor ( d. 1839 )
* November 15 – William Murdoch, Scottish inventor ( b. 1754 )
** Robert Stirling, Scottish clergyman and inventor ( b. 1790 )
* August 25 – James Watt, Scottish inventor ( b. 1736 )
* September 28 – William Kennedy Dickson, Scottish inventor ( b. 1860 )
* September 8 – James Bowman Lindsay, a Scottish inventor ( d. 1862 )
* January 19 – James Watt, Scottish inventor ( d. 1819 )
It was named after the large Scottish sword by its inventor, Norman A. MacLeod.
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 )
* 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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