List of Scots - Engineers and Inventors

Engineers and Inventors

Further information: Scottish 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
  • 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
  • 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

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    In America, the geography is sublime, but the men are not: the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)