founded Bell Labs). As well as his telephone, probably all readers will have benefited from the work of John Logie Baird (TV), Watt (steam engine), Dunlop (pneumatic tyre), McAdam (tarmac roads), Kirkpatrick Macmillan (bicycle), Napier (logarithms), Fleming (penicillin), Maxwell (his equations) and others too numerous to mention. Of course jingoistic nationalism