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Born December 28, 1769 • Scotland
Died June 11, 1843 (aged 73) • Scotland
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
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Portrait of Alexander Graham Bell with white hair and beard, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking directly at the camera.
Alexander Graham Bell
British-American inventor
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish instrument maker and inventor
Watson-Watt, Sir Robert
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
British physicist
McAdam, engraving by Charles Turner
John Loudon McAdam
British inventor
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Robert Stirling
Scottish inventor
Gill, Sir David
Sir David Gill
Scottish astronomer
William Murdock, bust by an unknown artist; in the Science Museum, London
William Murdock
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Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet
British physicist
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William Symington
British engineer
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Patrick Ferguson
Scottish soldier and inventor
threshing machine
Andrew Meikle
Scottish inventor
Television pioneer
John Logie Baird
Scottish engineer
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James Beaumont Neilson
Scottish inventor
Sir Dugald Clerk
Sir Dugald Clerk
Scottish engineer
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John Elder
British engineer
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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
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Barthélemy Thimonnier
French inventor