
Tag: Glasgow


The thread about Alexander Bain, and why his name should be every bit as well known as those of Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell and John Logie Baird

The thread about the Clyde Shipping Company, who plied the Irish Sea for 130 years, serving people and cattle alike

The thread about the Scottish industrialist, the sleepy Ayrshire village, the Spanish aristocrat and groundbreaking work on rotary-winged flight

The thread about the word “Jakey”; how Prohibition-era American slang was imported into an interwar Glasgow suffering an epidemic of meths drinking
