A look at some of the great Scots and their world-famous inventions and discoveries.
James Clerk Maxwell is responsible for many of things that dominate the modern world.
The major scientific invention of television by John Logie Baird in 1925.
How Britain’s political system encouraged freedom to try scientific and business ideas.
A short account of the workings of John Logie Baird's mechanical television.
Sir Alexander Fleming on how he discovered the world's first antibiotic, penicillin.
Neil Oliver describes the risks John Muir took exploring waterfalls in Yosemite.
2 of Thomas Telford’s design achievements - Menai Bridge and Pontcysyllte aqueduct.
Robert Watson Watt proposes his idea of how to detect enemies.
A short clip about how James Watt improved the steam engine
The major scientific invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.
Edinburgh palaeontologists find 170 million year old sauropod trackway on Skye Β© Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ WW
