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Logarithms |John Napier (1550-1617)
John Napier of Merchiston, also called Johannes Neper or Nepair, was a Scottish mathematician and inventor, best known for being the first to define logarithms. It also made common the use of the decimal point in arithmetic operations. -
The refrigerator| William Cullen| (1710-1790)
William Cullen (Hamilton, Lanarkshire, April 15, 1710 - Edinburgh, February 5, 1790) was a Scottish physician and chemist. He coined the word neurosis, a term he first used in 1769. -
Steam Engine | James Watt (1736-1819)
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.
He invented the steam engine. -
Vacuum flask | Sir James Dewar(1842-1923)
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. -
Graphophone | Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922)
Alexander Graham Bell fue un científico, inventor, logopeda británico, naturalizado estadounidense. Contribuyó al desarrollo de las telecomunicaciones.
He invent the Graphophone. -
Television | John Logie Baird (1888-1946)
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. -
Penicilinum | Sir. Alexandre Flaming (1881-1955)
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.