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Great Scottish Discoveries and Inventions
Great Scottish Discoveries and Inventions Author:Bill Fletcher The contribution of Scottish scientists to modern everyday life is astonishing for a small country. Professor Fletcher looks at some of the men who have changed the world with their discoveries and inventions and explains exactly what it was they did. They include: Watt (steam engine), Murdoch (gas lighting). Macadam (road making), Young (the ... more »first oil man), Lord Kelvin (transatlantic cable), Bell (telephone), Baird (television), Watson Watt (radar), Simpson (chloroform) and Fleming (penicillin).« less