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Alexander Graham Bell / Scientists and Inventors
Invented the telephone and promoted communication for the disadvantaged.
Charles Macintosh / Scientists and Inventors
Invented the waterproof coat which now bears his name.
Dr John Hope / Scientists and Inventors
Responsible for the introduction of rhubarb to Scotland.
James Beaumont Neilson / Scientists and Inventors
Perfected a method for more efficient smelting of iron.
James Gregory / Scientists and Inventors
A talented mathematician and pioneer of calculus
James Watt / Scientists and Inventors
Invented the efficient steam engine which fuelled the Industrial Revolution.
John Boyd Dunlop / Scientists and Inventors
Re-invented the pneumatic tyre and founded the Dunlop Rubber Company.
John Logie Baird / Scientists and Inventors
Pioneer developer of television and other optical equipment.
Sir David Brewster / Scientists and Inventors
Inventor of the kaleidoscope and other studies in optics especially polarisation.
Sir James Dewar / Scientists and Inventors
Produced the Dewar flask, an early Thermos bottle, and cordite, an explosive.
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt / Scientists and Inventors
Developed radar and the cathode-ray direction finder.
John Anderson / Scientists and Inventors
The father of the Anderson Air-Raid Shelter.
Sir Charles Thomson Rees Wilson / Scientists and Inventors
Invented the Cloud Chamber, allowing further nuclear particle research.
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