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Born June 22, 1792 • Scotland
Died January 18, 1865 (aged 72) • Scotland
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
American inventor
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish inventor
Watson-Watt, Sir Robert
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
British physicist
McAdam, engraving by Charles Turner
John Loudon McAdam
British inventor
Robert Stirling
Scottish inventor
Alexander John Forsyth
British inventor
Gill, Sir David
Sir David Gill
Scottish astronomer
William Murdock, bust by an unknown artist; in the Science Museum, London
William Murdock
Scottish inventor
Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet
British physicist
William Symington
British engineer
Patrick Ferguson
Scottish soldier and inventor
threshing machine
Andrew Meikle
Scottish inventor
Sir Dugald Clerk
Sir Dugald Clerk
Scottish engineer
John Elder
British engineer
Baird, John Logie
John Logie Baird
British inventor
John Boyd Dunlop
British veterinary surgeon
Stevenson, Robert: lighthouse on the Isle of May
Robert Stevenson
British engineer
Henry Bell, detail of an oil painting by James Tannock, 1840; in the Science Museum, London
Henry Bell
Scottish engineer
Alexander Stanley Elmore
English metallurgist