John Muir was one of the earliest advocates of ... geology at the University of Wisconsin and had a natural flair for inventions. In 1867, after recovering from a factory accident that left ...

He is currently at work on a book manuscript focused on John Muir, the famed nineteenth-century American conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club, and Muir's influence on conceptions of the ...

A look at some of the great Scots and their world-famous inventions and discoveries. The legacy of James Clerk Maxwell — Scotland's Einstein: James Clerk Maxwell - The Man Who Changed the World ...

John Muir took it upon himself to impress his fellow ... Intent on becoming an inventor, he was temporarily blinded by an industrial accident in 1867. Nearly losing his vision became a ...

Before coming to SCU, Laura was a post doctoral scholar for the John Muir Institute of the Environment at University of California, Davis where she used multi-dimensional models to examine the San ...

John Mauchly and Pres first met in 1942 ... (Universal Automatic Computer); incorporating his delay line memory invention in ...

Robert Muir (1758-1788) was a Kilmarnock wine merchant who became a friend of Burns in 1786. He subscribed for 72 copies of the Kilmarnock edition, and 40 copies of the first Edinburgh edition.

Max Muir is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Establish, a PR and authority agency for companies that need to launch their brand and online presence. His primary expertise is in helping seven- to ...

He was the patriarch in one of the first sitcoms with an all-Black cast and an enslaved African in the American South in a ...

The John Muir Trust is one of Scotland’s biggest land management charities. A damning report written by a former senior member of staff at a conservation charity makes claims as to why the 40 ...