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Scottish Inventors by Gary Smailes; Scoular Anderson is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Scottish Inventors about?

For a small country, Scotland has produced a huge number of people whose brilliance and ingenuity have literally changed the world. In this amusing and informative book, aimed at children from 9-12, Gary Smailes tells the stories of 32 famous (and not so famous!) men and women, and their often bizarre inventions, who have put Scotland on the map. This collection includes: James Watt, Henry Bell, Thomas Telford, John Loudon McAdam (Transport); Alexander Graham Bell, John Logie Baird (Communications); Robert Stevenson, Thomas Stevenson (Lighthouses); Barbara Gilmour, Alexander Grant (Food); Robert Melville, Patrick Ferguson (Warfare); James Douglas (Crime); James Baird, James Young Simpson (Medicine); Charles Mackintosh (Raincoats!)

Author

Gary Smailes; Scoular Anderson

Publisher

Birlinn Publishers

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780857900814

Subjects

Fiction, Technology, Memoir