Scottish Inventors

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For a small country, Scotland has produced a huge number of people whose brilliance and ingenuity have literally changed the world

• Scottish Inventors available on September 09 2018 from VitalSource for itemprop="offers" target="_external" title="" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">4.99
  
• ISBN bar code 9780857900814 ξ1 registered February 26 2016
  
• Product category is Book

• Sku # 9780857900814
  

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. 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!)

^ Scottish Inventors VitalSource. ISBN 9780857900814 (revised Sep 2018)