William Fothergill Cooke (Inventors)

was English inventor who worked with Charles Wheatstone in developing electric telegraphy. William Fothergill Cooke, a British electrical engineer, was born on May 4, 1806, in Ealing, Middlesex, England. He became interested in electrical telegraphy when he was a child. His interest may have resulted from watching his father and Francis Ronalds transmitting messages from the coach house to the tool shed at the end of the garden when he was a boy. After eight years of military service with the East India Company, William Fothergill Cooke left to study anatomy at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

James Watt (Inventors)

He was born in Greenock, Scotland on 18 January 1736. Initially Watt worked as a maker of mathematical instruments, but later found himself working with steam engines. James Watt was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer and chemist. He is famous for developing a separate condensing chamber for the steam engine. 

Alexander Graham Bell (Inventors)

(1847-1922) Scottish inventor, most notably credited with inventing the modern telephone. Alexander was brought up in Edinburgh Scotland. From an early age he had an inquisitive mind and became fascinated with acoustics and voice patterns. This interest in acoustics and communication was partly inspired by his mother's growing deafness.

John Logie Baird (Inventors)

(1888-1946) born in Scotland he was the inventor of television. Baird began his research into the problems of televising moving objects at the age of 18. In 1926 he televised objects in outline, using a flying spot of light to scan a cathode ray tube. He demonstarted the first transatlantic television broadcast in 1928.

Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee (Inventors)

(born 8 June 1955) is often seen as the father / inventor of the internet. It was Tim berners Lee who established the first successful connection between an http client and server via the internet.  Tim Berners-Lee's parents, both mathematicians, were employed together on the team that built the Manchester Mark 1, one of the earliest computers. They taught their son to use mathematics everywhere, even at the dinner table. Berners-Lee attended Sheen Mount Primary School, before moving on to study his O-Levels and A-Levels at Emanuel School in Battersea, where a computer centre is dedicated in his name.

Charles Macintosh

Macintosh Born in 29 December 1766, Glasgow, Scotland. Macintosh first began to work as a clerk with a Glasgow merchant. By age 19, he instead pursued his interest in chemistry and science derived from his father, George Macintosh who was a well-known and inventive dyer. Charles was prepared with university studies at Glasgow and as a student of Joseph Black at Edinburgh. By the time he was twenty, Charles had opened a plant in Glasgow to produce sal ammoniac (ammonium chloride) and Prussian blue dye. He also introduced the manufacture of lead and aluminum acetates to Britain, and developed new processes to dye cloth.

Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (c. 1398 – February 3, 1468) (English pronunciation: /jəʊˌhanəs ˈguːtənbɛː(r)k/ yoh-han-uhss goo-tuhn-bairk) was a blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced the printing press. His usage of movable type printing started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important event of the modern period. It played a key role in the development of the Renaissance, Reformation and the Scientific Revolution and laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses.