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Bike | Kirkpatrick Macmillan(1812-1878)
According to research by his relative James Johnston in the 1890s, Macmillan was the first to invent the pedal bicycle.12 Johnston, a corn merchant and tricyclist, had a firm goal, in his own words "to demonstrate that to my native country of Dumfries belongs the honor of being the birthplace of the invention of the bicycle." -
Telephone | Alexandre Graham Bell(1847-1922)
Answer. Alexander Graham Bell is credited with being the inventor of the telephone since his patent and demonstrations for an apparatus designed for “transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically… causing electrical undulations” were successful. First Bell Telephone, June 1875. -
Television | John Logie Baird(1888-1946)
John Logie Baird (1888-1946) was a Scottish electrical engineer, who managed to develop the world's first live television transmission system, publicly presented on January 26, 1926 at a session of the Royal Institution, the most traditional entity UK scientist. -
Penicillin | Sir Alexander Fleming(1881-1955)
Fleming grew the mold in a pure culture and found that it produced a substance that killed various disease-causing bacteria. He identified the mold as belonging to the genus Penicillium and, after some months of calling it "mold juice", on March 7, 1929 he named the substance penicillin.