When was the Scottish-born scientist died after whose invention "Kōbushō" had started an effort to make telephone receivers?
Oki Kibatarō Oki Kibatarō (沖 牙太郎 , 1848–1906) was an engineer formerly employed at a Japanese Ministry of Industry ("Kōbushō") factory. In 1877, only a year after Alexander Graham Bell's invention, "Kōbushō" had started an effort to make telephone receivers by reverse engineering and Oki was in the team that came up with the first prototype.
Andrew Thomas Gage Andrew Thomas Gage (14 December 1871 – 21 January 1945) was a Scottish Botanist and Surgeon in the Indian Medical Service. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and died in Strathpeffer, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland.