Famous Scottish Victorians By Emily Smith

Alexander Graham Bell 1.Alexander Graham Bell is famous because he invented the first telephone. 2.The first thing that was said through the telephone was “come here I want to see you” 3.He was born on the 3rd of March 1847 in Edinburgh. 4.He died on the 2nd of August 1922. 5.He died at the age of 75.

Robert Louis Stevenson 1.He was born 13th of November 1850. 2.He wrote The Bottle Imp, The Body Snatcher, Markheim , Olalla and even more. 3. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. 4.He died on the 3rd of December 1894.

John Logie Baird 1.John Logie Baird FRSE was a Scottish engineer, innovator, one of the inventors of the mechanical television, demonstrating the first working television system on 26 January 1926. 2.He was born on the 14th of August 1888. 3. He produced televised objects in outline in 1924, transmitted recognizable human faces in 1925 and demonstrated the televising of moving objects in 1926 at the Royal Institution in London. The BBC used his televising technique to broadcast from 1929 to 1837. 4.He died on the 14th of June 1946.

James Watt 1.James Watt, (born January 19, 1736, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland—died August 25, 1819, Heathfield Hall, near Birmingham, Warwick, England), Scottish instrument maker and inventor whose steam engine contributed substantially to the Industrial Revolution. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1785.

Edmund Cartwright 1.Edmund Cartwright FSA was an English inventor. He graduated from Oxford University very early and went on to invent the power loom. 2.Born, 24th April 1743,Died 30th October 1823.