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Scottish Firsts: A Celebration of Innovation and Achievement - Softcover

Wills, Elspeth

 
9781840186116: Scottish Firsts: A Celebration of Innovation and Achievement
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1840186119 ISBN 13: 9781840186116
Verlag: Mainstream Publishing, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

What would the world be like without the phone, the fax, or television? How would it have developed without steam power or the oil industry? Could we survive without penicillin or antiseptic surgery? From Napier’s bones to Dolly the sheep, Scottish Firsts marks the amazing achievements of a small country whose influence has helped shape the modern world. It tells the stories of Scotland’s heroes, famous and unsung, from William Murdoch, inventor of gas lighting, to Ian Donald, whose prototype of the pregnancy scanner included a contraceptive sheath. Here, too, is everything from sports firsts to the world’s most extreme environments where Scots have left their mark.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

A graduate of St Andrews University in modern history, Elspeth Wills spent her career in research and information, running her own business for 12 years before becoming a freelance exhibition developer, scriptwriter and author. She has always been fascinated by the inventiveness of her fellow Scots, both famous and obscure.

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Verlag
Mainstream Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1840186119
ISBN 13 
9781840186116
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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