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	Scottish Enlightenment in 18 and 19 centruries
		Scottish physicians, engineers and inventors led the world.
		The Enlightenment spanned about a century, from after Culloden until Queen Victoria discovered Scotland in the mid-19th century and herds of nobility stampeded north to smother the piercing blasts of innovation with cosy convention.
		David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Carlyle were but a few of the great names that contributed to the Enlightenment.
	www.goscotland.info /sections?Section_Id=4&Page_Id=34 (294 words)

	Scotland: Gateway to Scotland
		Scotland has given rise to many more famous people, notable in the arts, literature, the sciences and as inventors, philosophers, architects and so on, than would be expected for a country of such modest size and population.
		The defeat of Edward II at Bannockburn in 1314 was a great victory, reflected in the songs and spirit of Scottish nationalism until present times.
		A new Scottish Parliament was elected in 1999, following devolution of powers from the United Kingdom Parliament in London.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /home/scotland/scotland.html (1630 words)

	Scotland: Famous People
		Scotland has given rise to many more famous people, notable in the arts, literature, the sciences and as inventors, philosophers, architects and so on than would be expected for a country of such modest size and population.
		One of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century Scottish literary renaissance.
		Perhaps his best known work described his journey with Dr. Samuel Johnson to the Scottish Highlands and Islands.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /home/scotland/greatscots.html#beaton (6448 words)

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		Scottish chemist who laid the foundations of physical chemistry (the branch of chemistry concerned with changes in energy during a chemical transformation) by his work on the diffusion of gases and liquids.
		Scottish chemist and physicist who invented the vacuum flask (Thermos) 1872 during his research into the properties of matter at extremely low temperatures.
		Scottish engineer who developed the steam engine in the 1760s, making Thomas Newcomen's engine vastly more efficient by cooling the used steam in a condenser separate from the main cylinder.
	members.aol.com /alibenson/page2.htm (6448 words)

	Athena Review: Guide to Archaeology on the Internet
		Scientists, Inventors and Explorers links to many relevant websites, from the Edmonton Green Library, in a town near London.
		Listings with images by chronological period, from the collection at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
		Friends of America's Past Dedicated to promoting and advancing the rights of scientists and the public to learn about America's past.
	www.athenapub.com /inet/guide2.htm (6448 words)

	Scientists/Inventors in Electricity
		Below is an indexed list of websites with biographies of inventors and scientists who worked with electricity.
		This is a supplemental webpage for a 42eXplore project on Electricity.
		University of Campinas, Brazil, (2) Alessandro Volta from Who's Who in the World of Corrosion, (3) Alessandro Volta at Catholic Encyclopedia, (4) Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta: A Pioneer in Electrochemistry, (5) Volta at Bioanalytical Systems, Inc., (6) Volta, Alessandro, Count from Encarta
	www.42explore.com /electric2.htm (6448 words)

	Bright sparks get innovation awards from Alasdair Morrison
		Awards are presented in five categories: Established Companies; Inventors and Small Firms; Academic and Medical spin-outs; Young Innovators, and the overall Scottish Innovator of the Year.
		The annual John Logie Baird Awards are organised by Scottish Innovation with sponsorship from the Scottish Executive and Scottish Enterprise.
		The awards are given to the best proposals to commercially exploit a new innovation or idea and thus create new Scottish jobs.
	www.scotland.gov.uk /news/1999/11/se1256.asp (416 words)

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		The first pneumatic rubber tyre was patented in 1845 by the Scottish engineer Robert William Thomson, but it was Scottish inventor John Boyd Dunlop who independently reinvented pneumatic tyres for use with bicycles 1888–89.
		Scottish inventor who founded the rubber company that bears his name.
		Thomson's invention had gone practically unnoticed, whereas Dunlop's arrived at a crucial time in the development of transport, and with the rubber industry well established.
	members.aol.com /alibenson/page2.htm (3033 words)

	Black Invention Myths
		Early versions were constructed by the Scottish chemist John Stenhouse in 1854 and the physicist John Tyndall in the 1870s, among many other inventors prior to World War I. See The Invention of the Gas Mask.
		Perhaps you've heard the claims: Were it not for the genius and energy of African-American inventors, we might find ourselves in a world without traffic lights, peanut butter, blood banks, light bulb filaments, and a vast number of other things we now take for granted but could hardly imagine life without.
		John Stevens constructed a boat with twin steam-powered propellers in 1804 in the first known application of a screw propeller for marine propulsion.
	www33.brinkster.com /iiiii/inventions (5604 words)

	Scotland
		Nevertheless, the Picts have retained a strong grip on the imagination of succeeding generations, albeit the fact that even the Scots themselves didn't know their opponent's name; the Gaels simply refered to them as "An Cruithain", Scottish for "the painted ones, the ones who tattoo themselves"...
		A small land and thinly populated, her skeptical and occasionaly dour children are legendary the world over as soldiers, merchants, doctors, explorers, engineers, and inventors; any trade, in fact, that requires considerable self-discipline combined with a flare of creativity.
		In 1514 Archibald married the Scottish Queen Dowager, Margaret Tudor, and was responsible for the imprisonment of the young James V, during which he virtually ruled Scotland.
	www.hostkingdom.net /scot.html (5604 words)

	Scotland: Gateway to Scotland
		Scotland has given rise to many more famous people, notable in the arts, literature, the sciences and as inventors, philosophers, architects and so on, than would be expected for a country of such modest size and population.
		A Secretary of State for Scotland remains part of the UK Cabinet, and is supported by the Scotland Office (previously the Scottish Office) based in Glasgow, with offices in Edinburgh and London.
		The Scottish Government is led by a First Minister.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /home/scotland/scotland.html (1630 words)

	Scotland: Gateway to Scotland
		Scotland has given rise to many more famous people, notable in the arts, literature, the sciences and as inventors, philosophers, architects and so on, than would be expected for a country of such modest size and population.
		The Scottish Government is led by a First Minister.
		A Secretary of State for Scotland remains part of the UK Cabinet, and is supported by the Scotland Office (previously the Scottish Office) based in Glasgow, with offices in Edinburgh and London.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /home/scotland/scotland.html (1630 words)

	Scotland: Gateway to Scotland
		Scotland has given rise to many more famous people, notable in the arts, literature, the sciences and as inventors, philosophers, architects and so on, than would be expected for a country of such modest size and population.
		Scotland is one of four constituent nations which form the United Kingdom (the other three are England, Wales and Northern Ireland).
		A Secretary of State for Scotland remains part of the UK Cabinet, and is supported by the Scotland Office (previously the Scottish Office) based in Glasgow, with offices in Edinburgh and London.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /home/scotland/scotland.html (1630 words)

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		The first pneumatic rubber tyre was patented in 1845 by the Scottish engineer Robert William Thomson, but it was Scottish inventor John Boyd Dunlop who independently reinvented pneumatic tyres for use with bicycles 1888–89.
		Certain uranium minerals were known to produce an unidentified inert gas on heating, and Ramsay obtained sufficient of the gas to send a sample to English scientist William Crookes for spectrographic analysis.
		The same year he developed commercially practical pneumatic tyres, first patented by Robert William Thomson in 1845 for bicycles and cars.
	members.aol.com /alibenson/page2.htm (3033 words)

	Scotland: Gateway to Scotland
		Scotland has given rise to many more famous people, notable in the arts, literature, the sciences and as inventors, philosophers, architects and so on, than would be expected for a country of such modest size and population.
		A Secretary of State for Scotland remains part of the UK Cabinet, and is supported by the Scotland Office (previously the Scottish Office) based in Glasgow, with offices in Edinburgh and London.
		The Scottish Government is led by a First Minister.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /home/scotland/scotland.html (3033 words)

	Napier, John -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Napier also spelled Neper Scottish mathematician and theological writer who originated the concept of logarithms as a mathematical device to aid in calculations.
		Contains discussions of John Napier, the abacus, and the slide rule and descriptions of numerous mechanical calculators, including early machines and their inventors, such as the Stepped Reckoner from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the Arithmometer from Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar, and the pin-wheel type, invented by Willgodt T.Odhner in 1878.
		Calculating devices took a different turn when John Napier, a Scottish mathematician, published his discovery of logarithms in 1614.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9054813?tocId=9054813 (3033 words)

	Saferidge - Awards
		The John Logie Baird Awards were established by Scottish Innovation in 1989 to support Scotland's inventors and innovators.
		The Scottish Design Awards were launched by The Drum in 1998 and are Scotlandâs premiere annual design event.
		They are established as the Awards for the industry and endorsed by the DTI following the Latham, Egan and M4I agendas.
	www.saferidge.com /page5.html (175 words)

	Terra Incognita Links
		One such example is the fax machine, the prototype for which was patented by the Scottish inventor Alexander Bain in 1843.
		Inventors Museum — Contains information about actual inventors and their inventions.
		Inventor Richard Pearse of New Zealand flew months before the American Wright brothers in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
	www.nagssociety.com /links/links.htm (14092 words)

	who invented the fax machine
		Scottish inventor Alexander Bain is often credited with the first fax patent in 1843.
		In 1843, the fax machine was invented by Alexander Bain, a Scottish mechanic.
		Fascinating facts about the invention of the Fax Machine by inventors Alexander Bain, Elisha Gray, Arthur Korn, and Edouard Belin.
	www.fax-machine.fax-1.com /faxmachine/17/who-invented-the-fax-machine.html (355 words)

	Saferidge - Awards
		The John Logie Baird Awards were established by Scottish Innovation in 1989 to support Scotland's inventors and innovators.
		The Scottish Design Awards were launched by The Drum in 1998 and are Scotland’s premiere annual design event.
		They are established as the Awards for the industry and endorsed by the DTI following the Latham, Egan and M4I agendas.
	www.saferidge.com /page5.html (176 words)

	Saferidge - Awards
		The John Logie Baird Awards were established by Scottish Innovation in 1989 to support Scotland's inventors and innovators.
		The Scottish Design Awards were launched by The Drum in 1998 and are Scotland’s premiere annual design event.
		They are established as the Awards for the industry and endorsed by the DTI following the Latham, Egan and M4I agendas.
	www.saferidge.com /page5.html (176 words)

	Scotland: Gateway to Scotland
		Scotland has given rise to many more famous people, notable in the arts, literature, the sciences and as inventors, philosophers, architects and so on, than would be expected for a country of such modest size and population.
		A Secretary of State for Scotland remains part of the UK Cabinet, and is supported by the Scotland Office (previously the Scottish Office) based in Glasgow, with offices in Edinburgh and London.
		The Scottish Government is led by a First Minister.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /home/scotland/scotland.html (1630 words)

	John Napier -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Contains discussions of John Napier, the abacus, and the slide rule and descriptions of numerous mechanical calculators, including early machines and their inventors, such as the Stepped Reckoner from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the Arithmometer from Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar, and the pin-wheel type, invented by Willgodt T.Odhner in 1878.
		Napier also spelled Neper Scottish mathematician and theological writer who originated the concept of logarithms as a mathematical device to aid in calculations.
		Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon John Boyd Dunlop was born in Dreghorn, near Irvine.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?eu=56187 (733 words)

	Napier, John -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Contains discussions of John Napier, the abacus, and the slide rule and descriptions of numerous mechanical calculators, including early machines and their inventors, such as the Stepped Reckoner from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the Arithmometer from Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar, and the pin-wheel type, invented by Willgodt T.Odhner in 1878.
		Napier also spelled Neper Scottish mathematician and theological writer who originated the concept of logarithms as a mathematical device to aid in calculations.
		Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon John Boyd Dunlop was born in Dreghorn, near Irvine.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9054813?tocId=9054813 (733 words)

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		The first pneumatic rubber tyre was patented in 1845 by the Scottish engineer Robert William Thomson, but it was Scottish inventor John Boyd Dunlop who independently reinvented pneumatic tyres for use with bicycles 1888–89.
		Thomson's invention had gone practically unnoticed, whereas Dunlop's arrived at a crucial time in the development of transport, and with the rubber industry well established.
		In 1925 he gave the first public demonstration of television and in 1926 pioneered fibre optics, radar (in advance of Robert Watson-Watt), and 'noctovision', a system for seeing at night by using infrared rays.
	members.aol.com /alibenson/page2.htm (3033 words)

	A Biographical Dictionary of ... Freethinkers
		Daughter of a Scottish freethinker, she adopted his views and wrote a defense of the Epicurean philosophy in her teens.
		He was not only a distinguished German physicist and one of the most famous inventors on the staff at the Zeiss optical works at Jena but a notable social reformer, By a generous scheme of profit-sharing he virtually handed over the great Zeiss enterprise to the workers.
		His wife, though she was not a freethinker, and his employees carried on the work while he was in jail.
	www.infidels.org /library/historical/joseph_mccabe/dictionary.html (19428 words)

	Scotland: Famous People
		Scotland has given rise to many more famous people, notable in the arts, literature, the sciences and as inventors, philosophers, architects and so on than would be expected for a country of such modest size and population.
		She threw a stool at the Bishop in St. Giles in protest at the introduction of the much resented English prayerbook, which was regarded as Roman Catholic by Scottish Presbyterians.
		Became Professor of History and English Literature in Toronto in 1853 and President of that University from 1881.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /home/scotland/greatscots.html (6448 words)

	Scotland: Gateway to Scotland
		A Secretary of State for Scotland remains part of the UK Cabinet, and is supported by the Scotland Office (previously the Scottish Office) based in Glasgow, with offices in Edinburgh and London.
		Scotland has given rise to many more famous people, notable in the arts, literature, the sciences and as inventors, philosophers, architects and so on, than would be expected for a country of such modest size and population.
		Scotland was a wealthy country through until the beginning of the 14th Century, when Edward I of England (known as the "Hammer of the Scots") was determined to incorporate Scotland into the English crown.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /home/scotland/scotland.html (6448 words)

	Otis Elevator Inventor Resources
		Graham Bell is born (Scottish-American inventor of the telephone).
		Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Hardcover; Otis Elevator Co Black Inventors
		Elisha Graves Otis dramatically demonstrates his in New York by cutting the elevator's cables as it ascends a 300 Coca-Cola from the original inventor and made the softdrink
	www.inventionsparkinglot.com /otiselevatorinventor (6448 words)

	The Invention of the Steam Engine
		The steam engine was developed over a period of about a hundred years by three British inventors.
		This all changed in 1763, when James Watt, a Scottish engineer, set out to improve upon Newcomen's design.
		The first crude steam powered machine was built by Thomas Savery, of England, in 1698.
	www.his.com /~pshapiro/steam.engines.html (501 words)

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