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August 9 in Scottish History

On 9th of August 1757 the famous engineer, Thomas Telford, was born in rural Dumfriesshire. Telford went on to build many important works of engineering across Britain including the Menai Suspension Bridge and the Caledonian Canal. He was also responsible for the building of much of the road network in the Highlands, earning himself the nickname "The Colossus of Roads."

On 9th of August 1913 Professor James Gordon, the Scottish industrial chemist and engineer, was born. Gordon was a pioneer of materials science, which sought to explain the gap between chemistry and structural mechanics. In 1968, he published his findings in the ground-breaking 'The New Science of Strong Materials'.