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  • black and white portrait photograph of a person. They are wearing a suit with a bow tie, and they have a long, full beard.

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    Alexander Bain

    Inventor of the fax machine and electric clock

  • Black and white photograph of a person seated behind a microphone and a bank of light bulbs. They are holding a ventriloquist

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    John Logie Baird

    Inventive engineer who was the first person to demonstrate a working television live

  • 18th Century cartographic map of the Orkney Isles by Murdoch Mackenzie. Includes inscription: "To the Right Honourable Early of Horton, this map of Orkneyis humbly dedicated by his Lordship

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    Murdoch Mackenzie

    Cartographer and hydrographer, whose maritime maps of the Orkney islands are still in use

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