Scot’s Innovations 2

Power

Condensing steam engine & improvements: James Watt (1736-1819)

Coal-gas lighting: William Murdock (1754-1839)

The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790-1878)

Electro-magnetic innovations: James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79)

Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849-1936)

The Clark cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clark (1854-1932)

Wireless transformer improvements: Sir James Swinburne
(1858-1958)

Cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles T.R. Wilson
(1869-1959)

Wave-powered electricity generator: Stephen Salter in 1977

Shipbuilding Innovations

The steamship paddle wheel: Patrick Miller (1731-1815)

The steam boat: William Symington (1763-1831)

Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767-1830)

The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn
(1789-1874)

The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803-1882)

Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832-1913)

Heavy Industry Innovations

The carronade cannon: Robert Melville (1723-1809)

Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772-1847)

Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon
(1783-1865)

The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792-1865)

The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808-1890)

Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812-1889)

Steam engine improvements: William McNaught (1831-1881)

The Fairlie, a narrow gauge, double-bogey railway engine: Robert
Francis Fairlie (1831-1885)