Scottish Architects - Engineers and Inventors

Engineers and Inventors

• Sir William Arrol (1839–1913), bridge builder
• Alexander Bain (1818–1903), fax machine
• John Logie Baird (1888–1946), television
• Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), telephone, National Geographic, Hydrofoil
• Henry Bell (1767–1830), ran Europe's first commercially successful steamboat
• George Bennie (1891–1957), The Bennie Railplane
• Sir James Black (1924–2010), Beta-blockers
• Robert Blair (1748–1828), The aplanatic telescope
• James Braid (1795–1860), hypnosis
• David Brewster (1781–1868), Lenticular stereoscope
• James Chalmers (1782–1853), adhesive postage stamp
• Sir Dugald Clark (aka Clerk), (1854–1932), first two stroke cycle engine (the Clark cycle)
• Gerald Eric Connor (Electronic Engineer) (Born 1962)
• Robert Davidson (1804–1894), first electric locomotive
• James Dewar (1842–1923), inventor of the Thermos flask and co-developer of cordite
• William Dickson (1860–1935), motion picture camera and the world's first film
• John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921), the modern rubber tyre
• Patrick Ferguson (1744–1780), The Ferguson rifle
• Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), isolated Penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum
• James Gregory (1638–1675), The Gregorian telescope
• James Harrison (1816–1893), pioneer in mechanical refrigeration
• James Bowman Lindsay (1799–1862), inventor of the constant electric light bulb
• Charles Macintosh (1766–1843), patented waterproofing
• Alan MacMasters (1865–1927), inventor of the toaster
• Kirkpatrick MacMillan (1813–1878), bicycle
• John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836), modern road construction
• Sir Robert McAlpine (Concrete Bob), (1847–1934), road builder
• Patrick Miller (1730–1815), steamboat pioneer
• William Murdoch (1754–1839), pioneer of gas lighting
• John Napier (1550–1617), Logarithm
• James Nasmyth (1808–1890), Steam Hammer
• William Paterson (1658–1719), The Bank of England
• William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872), developed a complete theory of the steam engine and indeed of all heat engines
• John Rennie the Elder (1761–1821), engineer, designer of the "new" 19th Century London Bridge
• Robert Stirling Newall (1812–1889), engineer, improved wire rope and submarine cable laying.
• John Shepherd-Barron (1925–2010), inventor of the Automatic Teller Machine
• Charles Spalding, (1738–1783) Edinburgh confectioner and improver of the diving bell
• William Symington (1764–1831), engineer, built the first practical steam boat
• Thomas Telford (1757–1834) architect, civil engineer, bridge designer
• Robert William Thomson (1822–1873)
• Sir Robert Watson-Watt (1893–1973), Developed Radar
• James Watt (1736–1819), engineer, significantly improved the steam engine
• James Young (1811–1883), Invented a way of extracting paraffin oil
• James Young Simpson (1811–1870), introduced chloroform into surgery
• Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald, (1749–1831) made many general useful inventions, particularly in the navy
• Sir Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775–1860), designed many inventions to do with naval technology as well as steam engines