Science & Innovation

He was born on the 13th August, 1888 born at The Lodge, 121 West Argyle Street, Helensburgh. At the age of 11 he attended Larchfield (now part of Lomond School).

Baird demonstrated a keen interest in science and technology from an early age. Whilst at school he designed a remote control for a camera, installed electricity in The Lodge and also built a glider. He also created a telephone network with his friends. One of whom, Jack Buchanan , become a star of stage and screen and a financial backer of Baird’s pioneering television development.

Henry Bell was born at Torphichen, Linlithgowshire on 7th April 1767 and was the fifth son of Patrick Bell and Margaret Easton, members of a well known family of millwrights, builders and engineers.

Carslaw was born 12 Feb 1870 in Helensburgh, son of the Rev. William Henderson Carslaw, Free Church minister, and his wife Elizabeth, née Lockhead , and was educated at Glasgow University and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He also studied in Rome, at Palermo and Gottingen. After taking his M.A in Glasgow in 1891 he became a scholar of Emmanuel College and Fourth Wrangler in 1894. He was appointed Lecturer of Mathematics at Glasgow University in 1896, and was elected a Fellow of Emmanuel College in 1899. In 1903 he became Professor of Mathematics in the University of Sydney and held the chair until 1935. He married in 1907 Ethel Maude, daughter of Sir William J Clarke, Bt, of Rupertswood, Victoria. She died within a year of their marriage.

James Frazer was born in Glasgow on January 1st 1854, as the eldest of four children of Daniel K. Frazer, a pharmacist, and Katherine (Brown) Frazer. He was educated at Larchfield Academy, Helensburgh, and University of Glasgow and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a classics fellow from 1871 until his death.

William Herbert Guthrie-Smith was born William Herbert Smith in Helensburgh, on 13 March 1862. He was the eldest child of John Guthrie Smith, a wealthy insurance broker, and Anne Penelope Campbell Dennistoun. After private tutoring and an English preparatory school, he attended Rugby School. He showed early interest in the natural world.