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JAMES WATT
James Watt was a Scottish mechanical engineer, inventor, and chemist. The improvements he made to the Newcomen machine gave rise to what is known as the steam engine, which would be essential in the development of the first Industrial Revolution, both in the United Kingdom and in the rest of the world. -
JOHN BOYD DUNLOP
John Boyd Dunlop was a Scottish veterinarian who reinvented the tube tire. He founded the company that bears his last name, currently Dunlop Tyres. He was born on a farm in Dreghorn, North Ayrshire, and qualified as a vet at Edinburgh Veterinary College at just 19 years old. -
JAMES DEWAR
James Dewar was a Scottish physicist and chemist. Professor at the University of Cambridge, he is known both for being the inventor of the insulating tank that bears his name, the Dewar glass, and for his studies of gases at low temperatures, being the first to obtain liquid hydrogen in 1898, and solid hydrogen. in 1899. In 1905 he discovered that cold coal could produce a vacuum, a technique that was very useful for experimentation in atomic physics -
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
Graham Bell is known for being the inventor of the first patented telephone, however he also worked in the field of sound and in the development of systems that were suitable for the deaf, as well as being one of the founders of the National Geographic Society. -
ALEXANDER FLEMING /PENICILLIN
Alexander Fleming was a British doctor and scientist famous for being the discoverer of penicillin, by casually observing its antibiotic effects on a bacterial culture, it was obtained from the fungus Penicillium notatum. Fleming trained at the University of London, where he would later be a professor and researcher in bacteriology. -
JOHN LOGIE BAIRD
John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator. He is recognized as the inventor of electromechanical television and on January 26, 1926, he made the world's first demonstration of the television system. -
WILLIAM RAMSAY/ NOBLE GASES
Sir William Ramsay has justifiably been described as 'the greatest chemical discoverer of his time'. His discovery of five of the six inert or noble gases - argon, helium, krypton, neon and xenon - brought him international recognition and in 1904 he become the first Briton to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry