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.
James Chalmers (inventor) James Chalmers (February 2, 1782, Arbroath – August 26, 1853, Dundee) was a Scotsman (buried on 1 September 1853 in plot 526 Dundee Howff) who it was claimed, by his son, was the inventor of the adhesive postage stamps.