Iván Szabό, drawing by Elena Romero-Passerin D’Entreves after a self-portrait of the photographer Iván Szabό, born in 1822, was from Marosvásárhely, present-day Târgu Mureş, a city in Transylvania, which was then part of Hungary but nowadays belongs to Romania. Not much is known about Szabό, and indeed we can only assume of his early life that he enjoyed a …
Saba Douglas-Hamilton is a Kenyan wildlife conservationist, television presenter, and documentary film producer. She was born to an English zoologist father and an Italian-Kenyan conservationist mother. She first attended school in Kenya, then United World College of the Atlantic in Wales, before coming to the University of St Andrews. She graduated in 1993 with a Master of …
Kosacki was an officer in the Polish Army in World War Two and is notably remembered as an engineer and inventor. He invented the first man-portable mine detector during his stay in St Andrews, with the Ardgowan Hotel as army headquarters and West Sands as a test site. Prior to World War Two, he had …
Founding father of the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin, was deeply interested in the world around him and excelled in numerous fields. He was many things in his lifetime: a printer, a postmaster, an ambassador, an author, a scientist, a philosopher, a writer, a statesman and, above all, an inventor. His contributions to the …
