Bullseye                                                                    March 2005                           

  For those of you who solved last month’s crossword puzzle about Scottish innovations and inventions, here’s another with some lesser known though certainly no less important inventions.  Look for an article in next month’s Bullseye about Scottish Inventions and how the Scots changed the world.  

Across

1.        John Roebuck invented the lead chamber process for the distillation of sulfuric ____.

6.       Joseph Lister found carbolic acid to be this, thus changing forever the way operating rooms functioned.

9.       An Edinburgh man was the first to publish the idea that consuming fruit would cure or prevent this disease, a plague found particularly on board sailing ships.

11.   Mackintosh’s raincoat would be harder to store without a Scottish company’s production of this invention.

12.   William Nicol used two Nicol prisms to discover the ______ of light, finding that when rotated 90 degrees, one ray of light would cut off the other.

13.   This scale of temperature was named after Lord _____, a professor at Glasgow University and a specialist in the field of thermodynamics.

14.   The first breech-loading one of these was invented by Patrick Ferguson.

 

 Down

1.        First used by James Simpson, an Edinburgh physician, to help alleviate the pain of childbirth

2.        Scottish physician, Alexander Wood, with Charles Pravay, a French physician are credited with this invention making Sir Alexander Fleming’s penicillin injectable (two words)

3.        Hand husking grain was replaced with this mechanical _______ machine, invented by Andrew Meikle in 1784.

4.        Joseph Black was regarded as the “Father of Quantitative _____.”

6.       Scotsman William Symington was the first man to propel a boat using this.

7.       A Dundee importer found himself with a shipload of oranges too bitter to sell so turned them into this popular orange preserve.

9.       James Young, a chemist, was the first to market this as a lighting and heating oil.

11.   This automobile line is named after David ______, a Scot who is credited with discovering a method to bond enamel to cast iron and with patenting a carburetor.

 

Update on the Bull Pen:

If you have been reading your newsletters, you already know about the newly organized Bull Pen.  This is an exciting way to meet and know more about TCA members from all around the world.  You will soon be receiving a registration card to become a founding member of the Bull Pen.  Don’t miss this opportunity.  Watch for your registration card and be sure to fill it out and return it.

 

   
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