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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.
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* 1757 – Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer ( d. 1834 )
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To prevent civil war the Scottish magnates asked Edward I of England to arbitrate, for which he extracted legal recognition that the realm of Scotland was held as a feudal dependency to the throne of England before choosing John Balliol, the man with the strongest claim, who became king in 1292.
The eventual Reformation of the Scottish Church followed a brief civil war in 1559 – 60, in which English intervention on the Protestant side was decisive.
By the 18th century, the Kirk of Scotland no longer recognized marriages formed by mutual consent and subsequent sexual intercourse, even though the Scottish civil authorities did.
He soon acquired reputation by a number of publications on the civil and Scottish law, and was one of the leaders of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Scottish civil law calls real property " heritable property ", and in French-based law, it is called immobilier.
With Scotland threatening to descend into civil war, King Edward was invited in by the Scottish nobility to arbitrate.
Thomas Telford FRS, FRSE ( 1757 – 1834 ) was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder.
Category: Scottish civil engineers
In 1639, in response to Charles ' attempts to reform the Scottish Church, civil war broke out between the King's forces and the Presbyterian Covenanters.
In Scotland, these types of cases are heard in the Court of the Lord Lyon, which is a standing civil and criminal court, with its own Procurator Fiscal ( Public Prosecutor ) under the Scottish legal system.
In civil cases, the House of Lords could hear appeals from the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland and the Scottish Court of Session.
As part of the broader political conflict in the British Isles brought on by religious war, The Killing Time was characterized by a Scottish civil war between Presbyterian dissenters ( Covenanters ) and Charles II's and James VII's episcopal Anglican church policy.
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John Rennie ( 7 June 1761 – 4 October 1821 ) was a Scottish civil engineer who designed many bridges, canals, and docks.
Category: Scottish civil engineers
* Manor, a parish in Scottish Borders, a civil parish and barony near Peebles, Scotland
Her mother was Scottish, and her civil engineer father, Alfred Lane, was a Yorkshireman.
Work was slowed by high costs and civil unrest in the early 14th century, when Scottish raiders repeatedly plundered the north of England.
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Scottish tawse ( usually two or three leather thongs without a separate handle ); cat o ' nine tails: naval thick-rope knotted-end scourge, the army and civil prison versions usually are leather.
* George Buchanan ( engineer born 1790 ) ( 1790 – 1852 ), Scottish civil engineer and land surveyor
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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 )
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.
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.
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