🇮🇪 Irish inventions and discoveries.. 🕈

**~~Root~~** · 10-04-2018, 04:34 PM

Pre-history

Ogham alphabet.
Iomániocht (Scuaib/Camán/Ioman) - precursors to modern Hurling

14th century

Caid (precursor to modern Gaelic football).
Whiskey

17th century

Irish road bowling.
1661: Modern Chemistry founded by Robert Boyle with the publication of The Sceptical Chymist.
1662: Boyle's law discovered by Robert Boyle.
1680s: Invention of Drinking chocolate - Hans Sloane

18th century

1730: The concept of an entrepreneur - Richard Cantillon.

19th century

1805: Beaufort scale created by Francis Beaufort.
1809: Milk of Magnesia discovered by James Murray.
1813: Clanny safety lamp created by William Reid Clanny.
1820: 30 January, Edward Bransfield discovered the Antarctic Continent (mainland, islands were discovered earlier).
1821: The development of "Extra Stout" beer by The Second Arthur Guinness and others.
1831: Column still design enhanced and patented by Aeneas Coffey.
1832: The Kyanizing process for preserving wood, created by John Howard Kyan.
1834: The game of Croquet.
1836: Induction coil created by Nicholas Callan.
1843: Quaternion (a mathematical entity) first described by Sir William Rowan Hamilton.
1844: Hollow needle in syringe created by Francis Rynd.
1846: Seismology founded by Robert Mallet, who used dynamite explosions to measure the speed of elastic waves in surface rocks - pioneering and coining the word 'seismology'.
1848: Kelvin scale created by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin.
1851: Binaural stethoscope created by Arthur Leared.
1856: Icosian calculus discovered by Sir William Rowan Hamilton.
1859: Greenhouse Effect theory proven by John Tyndall.
1865: The first Transatlantic telegraph cable pioneered by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin on Valentia Island.
1866: The Standard drop method of hanging developed by Dr Samuel Haughton.
1874:
- Electron introduced as a concept by George Johnstone Stoney.
- Brennan torpedo created by Louis Brennan.
1879: The rules of Hurling first standardized with the foundation of the Irish Hurling Union.
1880: Boycott triggered by Charles Boycott over a dispute with the Irish Land League.
1884: Steam Turbine: Compound Steam Turbine developed by Anglo-Irish engineer Charles Algernon Parsons.
1885: The Cream Cracker was invented by Joseph Haughton in his home in Dublin and first manufactured by William Jacob in his bakery in Dublin.
1888: Gregg Shorthand created by John Robert Gregg.
1894: Joly colour screen created by John Joly.
1891: Tattoo machine created by Samuel O'Reilly.
1897: Modern submarine design created by John Philip Holland.
Saccharimeter created by Rev John Jellet from Cashel, County Tipperary (1817–1888).

20th century

1901: Reflector sight created by Howard Grubb.
1914: Radiotherapy developed by John Joly.
1928: Three point linkage, patented by Harry Ferguson.
1930: Nickel-zinc battery created by James J. Drumm.
1930s: The first disintegration of an atomic nucleus by artificially accelerated protons (splitting the atom) discovered by Ernest Walton et al.
1946: Ejection seat - first live test of a reliable, successful modern ejection seat developed by James Martin
1950: Joseph 'Spud' Murphy and his employee Seamus Burke produced the world's first seasoned chips: Cheese & Onion and Salt & Vinegar. Companies worldwide sought to buy the rights to Tayto's technique.
1954: Clofazimine first synthesized by a medical research team led by Cork man Vincent Barry at Trinity College, Dublin.
1965: Portable defibrillator created by Frank Pantridge.
1967: Pulsar discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
1970s: Positive end-expiratory pressure technique for treatment of pulmonary contusion - developed by staff at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.

**Polish phenotypes** · 10-04-2018, 04:42 PM

Most recently, the capital allowances for intangible assets ("CAIA") BEPS tool (also called the Green Jersey, Double Irish, famously called "leprechaun economics" by Paul Krugman).

The Irish are great.