ticut. The production
of the telephone as a practical and now universally employed method of
"annihilating time and space" in the articulate intercourse of the
human race will forever be associated with the name of Alexander
Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh in 1847. By its means he has promoted
commerce, created new industries, and has bridged continents, all the
result of "sheer hard thinking aided by unbounded genius." To Dr.
Graham Bell we are also indebted for the photophone, for the inductoin
balance, the telephone probe, and the gramophone. During the war he
designed a "submarine chaser" capable of traveling under water at a
speed of over seventy miles an hour, and he has made important
experiments in the field of aeronautics and in other arts and
sciences. The mother of Thomas Alva Edison (b. 1847), it may here be
mentioned, was of Scottish parentage (Elliott). The originator of the
duplex system in the manufacture of railroad tickets was William
Harrison Campbell (1846-1906), of Scottish parentage. William Malcolm
(1823-90), also of Scottish parentage, was the inventor of telescopic
sights, an invention adopted by all civilized governments. His
attainments were better known and appreciated in Europe than in his
own country. Daniel McFarlan Moore, electrician and inventor, of
Ulster Scot descent, was inventor of the Moore electric light. James
Peckover, born in England of Scottish and English ancestry, invented
the saw for cutting stone and a machine for cutting mouldings in
marble and granite. Rear-Admiral George W. Baird (b. 1843), naval
engineer, invented the distiller for making fresh water from sea
water, and patented many other inventions in connection with machinery
and ship ventilation. James Bennett Forsyth (b. 1850), of Scottish
parentage, took out more than fifty patents on machinery and
manufacturing processes connected with rubber and fire-hose. John
Charles Barclay, telegraph manager, descendant of John Barclay who
emigrated from Scotland in 1684, patented the printing telegraph
"said to be the most important invention in the telegraph world since
Edison introduced the quadruplex system." Alexander Winton, born in
Grangemouth in 1860, inventor and manufacturer, successfully developed
a number of improvements in steam engines for ocean going vessels,
founded the Winton Motor Carriage Company in 1897, and patented a
number of inventions in connection with automobile mechanism. The
works of the company a