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Scottish National Museum, Edinburgh
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Adam Smith statue on Edinburgh's Royal Mile - November, 2016
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James Clerk Maxwell in Edinburgh, Scotland. Famous 19th century Physicist who pioneered electromagnetism - which paved the way for radio communication. He was on a par with Einstein and Isaac Newton. Maxwell was born a few blocks away.
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Description of James Clerk Maxwell statue, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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David Hume statue, Edinburgh, Scotland, November, 2016. Influential 18th-century philosopher who wrote 'A Treatise of Human Nature' in 1739.
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Scottish National Museum, Edinburgh. Beginning of exhibit highlighting Scotland's talents. Also very impressive for a country of just 2-3 million at the time of these achievements. Click on each subsequent picture to enlarge and read the text.
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Scottish National Museum, Edinburgh. Alexander Graham Bell - inventor of the telephone and born in Edinburgh. He deserves a spot in a museum for that little innovation.
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Alexander Graham Bell
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John Logie Baird - inventor of the television. Scottish National Museum, Edinburgh.
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Lord Kelvin (William Thomson), Scottish National Museum, Edinburgh. Known for creating an absolute temperature scale (the Kelvin scale), thermodynamics, and the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable.
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Robert Burns in the Scottish National Museum, Edinburgh. The 'National Poet of Scotland'.
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Thomas Telford, Scottish National Museum, Edinburgh. He created a wide array of bridges, canals, tunnels, and highways.
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James Watt, Scottish National Museum, Edinburgh. Inventor of the steam engine, which propelled Britain into the Industrial Revolution. The unit of power - 'Watt' - is named after him.
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James Watt Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow (Scotland). The inventor of the steam engine.
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Maxwell plaque at his birthplace, which I visited in Edinburgh, Scotland
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Tour of James Clerk Maxwell's Edinburgh, Scotland home, via the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation
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Looking out the living room window of James Clerk Maxwell's house in Edinburgh, Scotland
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Description of James Clerk Maxwell, displayed inside his Edinburgh, Scotland home.
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James Clerk Maxwell's childhood home in Edinburgh, Scotland. Click the text to magnify the text.
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Maxwell's electromagnetic theory, on display in his Edinburgh, Scotland home that I visited. Click the photo to expand the text.
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Maxwell's color discoveries in Edinburgh, Scotland. Click the photo to expand the text.
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Maxwell's Equations on display in Edinburgh, Scotland
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A geometrical proof worked out by Scientist James Clerk Maxwell at age 14. The original work on display in his birthplace home in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Birthplace of James Clerk Maxwell (far left home) on India Place in Edinburgh, Scotland. Gold plaque to the right of the front door.
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Scottish-American (from Grangemouth, Scotland) auto/bicycle maker Alexander Winton on display at the Crawford Auto-Aviation Musuem in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Scottish-American (from Grangemouth, Scotland) auto/bicycle maker Alexander Winton on display at the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum in Cleveland, Ohio