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Charles Macintosh FRS (29 December 1766 – 25 July 1843) was a Scottish chemist and the inventor of the modern waterproof raincoat. [1] The Mackintosh raincoat (the variant spelling is now standard) is named after him.
The Mackintosh raincoat (abbreviated as mac) is a form of waterproof raincoat, first sold in 1824, made of rubberised fabric. [2] The Mackintosh is named after its Scottish inventor Charles Macintosh, although many writers added a letter k. The variant spelling of "Mackintosh" is now standard. [3]
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 ...
Scottish inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques either partially or entirely invented, innovated, or discovered by a person born in or descended from Scotland. In some cases, an invention's Scottishness is determined by the fact that it came into existence in Scotland (e.g., animal cloning ), by non-Scots working in the ...
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 McIntosh (1892–1970 ...
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 ...
Charles Macintosh (1766–1843), Scotland – waterproof raincoat, life vest; Theodore Maiman (1927–2007), U.S. – Laser, see also Gordon Gould; Ahmed Majan (born 1963), UAE – instrumented racehorse saddle and others; Aleksandr Makarov (born 1966), Russia/Germany – Orbitrap mass spectrometer
Engineers during World War Two test a model of a Halifax bomber in a wind tunnel, an invention that dates back to 1871.. The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including the predecessor states before the Treaty of Union in 1707, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.