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Item Details
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SCOTTISH INVENTORS
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| By: |
Gary Smailes |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£3.47 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0857900811 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780857900814 |
| Publisher: |
BIRLINN GENERAL |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2011 |
| Pages: |
128 |
| Description: |
Gary Smailes introduces 32 Scottish inventors and their brilliant and ingenius inventions and discusses their attempts to put Scotland on the map. |
| Synopsis: |
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. 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!) |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Birlinn eBooks |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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