Scottish Inventions - Communication Innovations

Communication Innovations

• Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690–1749)
• Roller printing: Thomas Bell (patented 1783)
• The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782–1853)
• Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827–1915)
• Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831–1899)
• The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922)
• The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871–1957)
• The first working television, and colour television; John Logie Baird (1888–1946)
• Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973)
• The underlying principles of Radio - James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)
• The automated teller machine and Personal Identification Number system - James Goodfellow (born 1937)