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Macintosh was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of George Macintosh and Mary Moore, and was first employed as a clerk.Charles devoted his spare time to science, particularly chemistry, and before he was 20 resigned his clerkship to study under Joseph Black at the University of Edinburgh, [2] and to take up the manufacture of chemicals.
A gentleman's Macintosh, from an 1893 catalogue. It has been claimed that the material was invented by the surgeon James Syme, but then copied and patented by Charles Macintosh; [4] Syme's method of creating the solvent from coal tar was published in Thomson's Annals of Philosophy in 1818; [5] this paper also describes the dissolution of natural rubber in naphtha.
In 1949, Macintosh published a case report describing the novel use of a gum elastic urinary catheter as an endotracheal tube introducer to facilitate difficult tracheal intubation. [151] Inspired by Macintosh's report, P. Hex Venn (who was at that time the anesthetic advisor to the British firm Eschmann Bros. & Walsh, Ltd.) set about ...
The computer age can be split into two eras: before 1984 and after. That was the year Apple released the Macintosh computer.Before the Macintosh, which was the first affordable computer ever to ...
One of the first modern waterproof raincoats was created following the patent by Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh in 1824 of new tarpaulin fabric, described by him as "India rubber cloth," and made by sandwiching a core of rubber softened by naphtha between two pieces of fabric.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928), Scottish architect and artist; Charles Macintosh (1766–1843), Scottish chemist and inventor; Charles Macintosh (composer and naturalist) (1839–1922), Scottish composer and naturalist; Charles Macintosh (rugby union) (1869–1918), New Zealand rugby player and politician
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7 June 1868 – 10 December 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. His artistic approach had much in common ...
An original Macintosh with hardware. During the early design and development phase of the original Macintosh, Wozniak had a heavy influence over the project along with Jef Raskin, who conceived the computer. Later named the "Macintosh 128k", it would become the first mass-market personal computer featuring an integral graphical user interface ...