Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish fiddle music, over Kincardine Bridge on visit to Kincardine On Forth on the north shore of the Firth of Forth in Fife. Kincardine Bridge is a road bridge crossing the Firth of Forth from Kincardine on Forth in Fife to the Falkirk council area of Scotland. The bridge was constructed between 1932 and 1936, designed by Donald Watson. It was the first road crossing of the River Forth downstream of Stirling, completed nearly thirty years before the Forth Road Bridge, which stands fifteen miles to the South East. The bridge was constructed with a swinging central section which remained in use until 1988, that would allow larger ships to sail upstream to the small port at Alloa. The bridge is part of the A985 road, formerly A876, and carries a single lane in each direction. Perth, Perthshire is 35 miles from Kincardine Bridge.
Kincardine, Scottish Gaelic: Cinn Chàrdainn, or Kincardine on Forth is a small town given the status of a burgh of barony in 1663. It was at one time a reasonably prosperous minor port. The name Kincardine, recorded in 1540 as Kincarne, may be of either Pictish or Gaelic origin. The second element is Pictish carden, conceivably loaned into Gaelic, meaning woodland or perhaps enclosure, encampment. The first element is the Gaelic ceann, meaning head end. The original form may have been Pencarden.
Sir James Dewar was born on 20 September 1842 n Kincardine-on-Forth. He was a Scottish chemist and physicist. He is probably best known today for his invention of the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases. He was also particularly interested in atomic and molecular spectroscopy, working in these fields for more than 25 years. The the youngest of six boys of Thomas Dewar, a vintner, and his wife, Ann Eadie. James was educated at Kincardine Parish School and then Dollar Academy. He lost his parents when he was 15, soon after leaving the Academy, but was still able to attend University of Edinburgh. In 1875, Dewar was elected Jacksonian professor of natural experimental philosophy at the University of Cambridge, in England, becoming a fellow of Peterhouse. With professor J. G. McKendrick, of Glasgow, he investigated the physiological action of light and examined the changes that take place in the electrical condition of the retina under its influence. With professor G. D. Liveing, one of his colleagues at Cambridge, he began in 1878 a long series of spectroscopic observations, the later of which were devoted to the spectroscopic examination of various gaseous elements separated from atmospheric air by the aid of low temperatures; he was joined by professor J. A. Fleming, of University College London, in the investigation of the electrical behaviour of substances cooled to very low temperatures. He married Helen Rose Banks in 1871. They had no children. Helen was sister-in-law to both Charles Dickson, Lord Dickson and James Douglas Hamilton Dickson. He died on 27 March 1923,.
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