FAMOUS SCOTTISH INVENTORS AND DISCOVERS

Famous

scottish inventors and discoveres

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ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Was born in Edinburgh in 1847.He invented the telephone in 1876. He also invented the first metal detector, the audiometer (used to measure hearing acuity), the induction balance (used to locate metallic objects on the human body) and techniques to teach deaf people to speak. Alexander Graham Bell died of complications from diabetes on August 2, 1922.

first metal

detector

audiometer

induction balance

teach

deaf people to speak

SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING

1881 - 1955He was born in Fleming was really untidy, because of that, he descovered peniciling accidentally. Studied medicine in London university, then he had a departament in Due to the war, he was desesperate to find a way to kill the bacteria. Medial assistent in the I World War. Fleming descovered lysozyme too. Died because a heart attack in 1955.

Ayshire.

university,

Sanit Mary's school.

Nobel Price of Medicine.

lysozyme

JAMES WATT

He was born in 1736 in Greenock (Scotland) but he moved to glasgow when he was eigtheen.He was a mechanical engineer, inventor and chemist. creates a new machine that used 75% less fuel than the olders.

Industrial revolution

In honor him, we call the unit measuring of electrical power a WATT. He finally died (1819) in Birmingham, England.

JOHN LOGIE BAIRD

He was born on 14 of August in 1888 and he became famous because he invented the world's first working television system, including the first color television. His studies at Glasgow were interrupted by the First World War. When the war ended, Baird devoted himself to the creation of a television and it was on January 26, 1926 that he gave the first demonstration of real television in front of 50 scientists in an attic in central London. Baird died on June 14, 1946 from brain problems.

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