Post by Maggie on Apr 3, 2004 14:56:15 GMT -2
John Logie Baird, invented the Television
John Napier, invented logarithms and the decimal notation
Kirkpatrick Macmillan, invented the bicycle
John Paul Jones, founded the American Navy
Alexander Fleming, discovered Penicillin
William Paterson, founded the Bank of England
Alexander Graham Bell, invented the telephone
John Chalmers, invented the adhesive postage stamp
John Boyd Dunlop, invented the car tyre
Captain Patrick Ferguson, invented the breech loading rifle
Major General Lachlan Macquarie, known as the 'Father of Australia'
Sir John Alexander Macdonald, was the first Prime Minister of Canada under confederation
Robert Stirling, invented the Stirling engine in 1850. Stirling engines are being studied at NASA for use in powering space vehicles with solar energy!
John Napier, invented logarithms and the decimal notation
Kirkpatrick Macmillan, invented the bicycle
John Paul Jones, founded the American Navy
Alexander Fleming, discovered Penicillin
William Paterson, founded the Bank of England
Alexander Graham Bell, invented the telephone
John Chalmers, invented the adhesive postage stamp
John Boyd Dunlop, invented the car tyre
Captain Patrick Ferguson, invented the breech loading rifle
Major General Lachlan Macquarie, known as the 'Father of Australia'
Sir John Alexander Macdonald, was the first Prime Minister of Canada under confederation
Robert Stirling, invented the Stirling engine in 1850. Stirling engines are being studied at NASA for use in powering space vehicles with solar energy!